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Unknown (00:00):
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic
man stronger,
faster, stop whining.
It, oh yeah, you're gonna cry,Kitty baby. It's going
Eric Readinger (00:35):
to be mental sweat equity podcast with just
me,
Eric, hang on a second. I'm anidiot, and I'm back. I was on a
real, like,
actual, long
pause. I just had to start alittle time thinking, Oh my God,
if you're watching, I'm reallyhot right now because I'm
wearing this unicorn blanketslash vest thing,
(00:59):
which was supposed to be a giftto law's daughter.
Many and my daughter had givenshe got a bunch of her hand me
down stuff together, put inbags, and this was separate, so
I wore it outside to see if manywanted it, and she didn't even
bother getting it out of thecar. First of all, come inside.
(01:21):
Trip came right in. Said, Hi, Igo up to the the window, and
immediately she's less like,what? And I'm like, do you like
my outfit now?
Okay,
don't you see it's a unicorn.You're not a unicorn. I Oh,
(01:43):
okay, so you don't want it? No.And then she's figured out a way
to roll the window up real slow.So then I wore, I was like,
Fine, I'm keeping it. And as I'mwearing, I'm like, it's actually
pretty dope. It's hot. Why am Iwear this out? I mean, why not?
It seems cool. And as I'mwalking inside my house, I got
(02:04):
this thing on, and I was like,well, she doesn't want it. I was
like, Yeah, I'm gonna just takeit inside. Well, I'll take it. I
was like, well, I'll take it.I'm gonna wear it on podcast.
And then we were fighting overit for three seconds, and now
I have to wear it because I said
it would anyway. Anyways, a lotgoing on, big things going on,
(02:28):
scary things going on. If you'rewatching the news, North Korea
is gonna send troops to Ukraine.That's cool.
How's that not terrible?
Like, that's one thing. And thenapparently the Supreme Court
(02:50):
just said that the President cando whatever they
want, which is just almost asterrible. I want to talk about
all the details of it, becauseit's really depressing.
If you're watching, you also seethat I'm sitting in a nice,
comfy chair. What were we doing,sitting in those bar stools old
time like fucking assholes. Thisis way better. I'm chilling
(03:14):
right now. Oh man, I could gofor hours sitting up business so
serious does help me payattention. But if it's me
talking, I don't have to payattention. Yeah, I mentioned the
news because, you know, Istarted getting back into this
(03:39):
solo podcast thing, talking alot about UFOs and saying, Hey,
things seem bad everywhere.Maybe we should use this
otherworldly interference as asign to get our together.
You know, because it's, it'sscary, man, and I'm not one to
(04:05):
sound the alarm bells ever.Like,
last person to sound the alarmbells, I am, like, looking at
the guy who's supposed to soundthem and being like, Hey, you
got your finger over that thing?Are you ready? Like, just be
ready. Because, oh, my God, diedso hot microphone,
(04:34):
yeah. So
when it comes to the UFOs, I'vesaid this before. There's so
much shit that comes out everysingle day, one way or another.
This is fake. That's real. Thisis fake,
dude. It's if a disinformation
campaign is what they arelooking to accomplish. I mean,
(04:56):
fucking mission accomplished.Well. Those people don't care.
They are all just like
nobody cares
or not real. Oh, okay. Well,again,
like I've said in the past,let's pretend all of its humans,
(05:20):
because I actually listened tosome guy who was a DARPA
researcher of some kind, and hewas adamant that at least when
it comes to the balls of lightin the sky, like they can do
that, okay, they can put voicesinto people's heads, apparently,
(05:42):
since, like, the 60s, Manchuriancandidates, that I could do
that, no problem.
Okay, I guess,
I guess it's real. I you know,it's my point being like, it
gets to a point where I'm justlike,
I What do we do with this? Whatis what's real, what's fake?
(06:11):
This shimmer.
I've said it before. You know,no, these solid objects are
actually solid, and they'removing and there's vibrational
frequencies that are resonatingto make everything stay
together. Also, I can't provethat everybody in my life is a
robot that just Powers On When Iwalk in the room, or that
(06:37):
yesterday was my first day oflife, and everything before that
was implanted memories. I can'tprove it, you know, you get real
philosophical with it, and youcan't prove shit. Nothing's
wrong, you know, except onething, and that's love. I
Unknown (07:02):
whether
Eric Readinger (07:04):
you know, you can believe things that you feel
all you want besides that, butlike you know, like the love I
have for my kids transcends allthe things so like, it's really
(07:25):
the only truth we have, the onlything that we can point to and
be like, okay, that gives thisthing shape, that gives it
direction, gives it meaning. II, you know, at least within
(07:46):
yourself, because the flip sideof that is just how you treat
other people. How do they dothey feel that love? Is that
coming out? You know?
So big picture? Yeah, we got tolevel up.
(08:09):
I had planned
with this
to sort of take a step back andlook at or at least tell the
story of
sort of
a huge thing that happened to me
years ago that,
(08:33):
you know, I think, in one way oranother, most people would
benefit from the experience. Andit was something that really,
you know, was like the only trueturning point in my life in
terms of, like,
(08:53):
how I saw the world. This
thing that happened to mehappened right here, actually,
almost exactly where I'msitting. Oddly enough, I was in
this room two of my closestfriends, friend of the program,
JP, labadiem, paniak picturesand AJ Gonzalez, also known as
(09:18):
DJ garbage pussy from garbagegarage. You know, we're real
close. So like we had eaten wehad eaten mushrooms, magic
mushrooms, not crazy amount,nothing
otherworldly. That would
(09:41):
point to a definite reason as towhy it happened this time and no
other time. But, you know, JPand I especially are very close
mentally, you know, we share andwhatnot, but that night, you
know, we had just, I. Gotten inhere and just were like, for
(10:03):
whatever reason, at one point,you know, the right music came
on. We all had our eyes closed.We all sort of, we're looking
inward
to whatever, um, uh, side sidenote.
(10:26):
This was coming at a time when Ihad just learned about uh,
Gnosticism, and it kind of blewmy mind. Quick review,
Gnosticism, similar to the wordagnosticism, but without the A
so the opposite, I guess, at thetime, I had learned about this
(10:48):
idea, and the idea being the wayI understood it at the time that
what if the God that everybodyworships in me, in
this world, is
the opposite. What if the devilwas the good guy? What if? And
it like, not saying I believethat, or I believe one thing or
(11:12):
another, but the way it it linedup with just man, there's a lot
of fighting over religion, youknow, like that. Really, what
God wanted. God that loveseverybody wants that, you know?
So when you think about that,like, that sort of thing, like,
really was like, whoa. Like,that kind of blew my mind. So
anyways, back to the mushrooms.We're in this room, and we had
(11:37):
some music playing. It was Yahooking without a crown. I'll never
forget it, obviously. And had myeyes closed, and there's just a
weird sort of vibrational thingthat starts happening. And it's
just like I'm sitting here withmy eyes closed, thinking like
(12:01):
there's something else here,saying, Do you want to go? Do
you want to go with me?Remember, eyes closed, complete
darkness, aside from the insane,indescribable light colors that
I could say and I'm sittingthere and, okay, let's give it a
(12:24):
shot. Let's go. It's like, Areyou sure? Uh huh. Let's do it.
And then
Unknown (12:31):
with
Eric Readinger (12:32):
perfect timing with the song, somehow, pew, I'm
on this crazy blue electrichighway that looked like, I
don't know it looked like I wasinside
cell, like a plant
cell or something. And snap afinger, I'm just I'm in outer
(12:55):
space. I don't fucking know itwas devoid of color. It was
dark, I guess, besides the giantburning ball of what looked like
molten lava just sort ofchilling there.
Okay, so I'm there, and for somereason, I know that there's two
(13:21):
other things there with me,
and for another stupid reason, Isat there and said, Give me the
light. Never said those wordsbefore in my life, never thought
those words, but I just met you,two otherworldly beings. Give it
(13:41):
to me, and I remember therebeing, like, hesitation, not for
me, like on the other sidethere's hesitation, like, Are
you sure? Yeah, yeah. So thisgiant molten rock thing, and has
this like looks like a pipe comeout of it and go right into
(14:04):
quote, unquote me,
and I'm receiving the light.What that means. But it was a
feeling like I've never feltbefore, and
I can remember specifically, itfeeling like, Is this too much?
(14:32):
And the other things that werethere asking each other, are we
sure about this? I even thinkabout this. You sure about that?
Should do it take two, but I'mnot gonna You sure about that?
Yeah, I'm sure about it. So Iwas getting the light. I don't
(14:54):
know why, what? Why? I don'tknow. I. I do. I remember this
feeling of like, sort of pityfrom these other things, as it
felt like I was being cookedfrom the inside. The only
(15:17):
description I can give issimilar to like in The Green
Mile when they don't wet thesponge on the guy's end, he just
frying. That's what I was like.I mean, okay, you know. And I
don't recall if it,
(15:37):
it just sort of stopped
in the middle of it, I guess.And or it took as much as it
could, and then I was back backhere, right where I'm sitting
now,
just left to deal with that.
Okay, now I know we can leaveour bodies, did it? Now, this is
(16:10):
obvious for anybody who's eversmoked DMT, because that's like
a non negotiable situation, butthis, this mushroom thing, was
very it felt negotiated almost.I don't know how to put it, but,
yeah, that fucking reallychanged my life. I can't I came
(16:37):
out of that just, you know, it'svery, it's a trope that, you
know, we're all one, and I, youknow, but I just really started
to feel the thing, weight is theright word. But like, I just, I
was definitely more empathetic.I was definitely feeling more
(17:03):
inclined to
spread love,
to use whatever talents I mighthave to do that.
But yeah, it was,
it wasn't this religiousexperience. It was very like, it
(17:29):
was like going and getting mylittle changed or something, or
getting something you know,wasn't like you're going to go
out and you're going to helppoor people. Now say nothing to
me about what I should be doing,
you know, but
I kind of got the idea. Fun sidenote, this was after I had
(17:54):
dropped a knife on my butt yearsago, and I had an achy foot for
years after that, after drivingand things, and that night I was
like, anything's possible. Andthat night I was like, I'm gonna
go inside my brain. I'm gonnatravel down and I'm gonna heal
my foot from the inside. And Idid that, and my foot doesn't
(18:18):
hurt ever now. Years ago, thishappened over 10 years ago. I
think
close. So I
guess I tell you that justbecause maybe, like, that's sort
of like helping prove what I'msaying. All doesn't matter. It
(18:38):
doesn't matter what happened tome? It matters. What comes of
it? You know, drink break. It'sour dog on this long bomb.
(19:05):
A cost over a lot of things, onebecause it's fucking hot, but
also just because I do kind ofwant to just get to like,
something positive we can all bedoing here, because it wasn't
just me who also had a lifechanging experience. JP, did as
(19:26):
well. AJ doesn't even talk aboutso much, but, JP, you know he he
was probably further along theroad than I was already, but,
like, it definitely changed whohe was for the better.
Definitely changed me, who I wasfor the better. But it did end
(19:51):
up causing, you know, somehardships just because there's
no way around seeing peopledifferently, you know, so.
What's important or havingwhat's important realign for
you. So, you know, it's nobody'sfault or whatever, it just
happens. But yes, let's get backto the number one thing that
(20:17):
came out of my experience wasjust like, man, what can I do
realistically that won't, youknow, kill me, that won't put me
bankrupt, that won't, you know,be a huge pain in the ass. And
it was these bags for homelesspeople. These ones are, like,
(20:41):
Deluxe ones that I probably wentover the top because very
generous. Those have MREs inthem, which are nice because,
you know, people don't have ameans to cook. They can just
like that. Let's go deodorantand toothpaste and toothbrushes
and look, I got a whole thingup. I'm like, Yeah,
(21:09):
but let's, let's do stuff likethat.
Let's level up one little thingat a time. This is what I'm
saying. We little step it'sFlorida for most of us. Doesn't
matter if it's summer, it's arainy season. And JP and I were
(21:34):
talking about like, oh, well,can we put in these things that
might be a little bit useful,that, you know, food can get
spoiled or lost or eaten byanimals or bears. But we were
thinking like, get some. There'scheap ponchos on Amazon that you
(21:56):
can get who doesn't like havinga poncho on the car. That's
something that will benefit you.And if you see somebody out, it
might be sunny, doesn't matter.Be like, Hey, I know it's sunny
outside, but take this forlater. They might like that even
more, because, think about it,they're not out, you know, doing
(22:19):
their thing in the rain, maybethey can't, I'm not trying to,
like, say that's what the pointincrease their hours of work.
But, yeah, my whole, my wholething, you know, everybody love.
(22:44):
Everybody has a has a, anorigin. It has reason.
You know, um,
(23:06):
we have to do
stuff. We got we got to dobetter. This is how I end up
doing it every I'm just gonna dobetter. Oh, my God. What could
we do? Because I I reallybelieve, on an individual basis,
(23:27):
if every single person in theworld looked at the positive,
looked at things in a lovingway, didn't take things
personal, you know, fall to fiveagreements.
If that was true, we
(23:49):
would have nothing to worryabout. Don't got change anybody
should change yourself. That'swhat I feel anybody, any adult,
that's what your mission in lifeis. You have one life to change.
You're up because we are on thisearth at such a weird time. Man,
(24:14):
think that's a coincidence. Youthink it's, you know, maybe you
remember a past life. You thinkit's a coincidence that we're
all here right now. I know thatsounds stupid. Hey, I know a lot
(24:34):
of this shit sounds stupid. Iknow I it's, it's all I got.
It's the truth. It's how I ithappened to me.
I hope that truth is somethingthat you can take. Is like, Hey,
(24:56):
I mean, I'm not saying this. Orpeople are gonna eat our faces.
I'm just saying hey, like
everybody needs to chill thefuck out. Like there's a lot of
fucking aggression, so muchanger. Nobody knows what to do
with it. It's it's a terriblycyclical and spiraling
(25:21):
situation, the anger, becauseit's like you see somebody else,
but they get to be angry. Whatthe fuck you know? But it works
the other way too. Like, justtake a minute step back.
(25:42):
There's a fun homeworkassignment, because when I say
what it's like, but when ithappens, you'll understand go
outside and stare at the sky for20 seconds.
Not you don't have to justlooking at clouds or whatever.
(26:05):
Standing actually helps, likejust to kind of get an idea of
what I'm saying, because 20seconds of just staring at the
sky in in 2024 you feel sofucking stupid just admiring
beautiful, good. There mighteven be a rainbow in the sky 20
(26:26):
seconds. Like, what is thisguy's problem?
Unknown (26:28):
What does he see?
Eric Readinger (26:31):
Like? Do it? Go outside, stare at Sky for 20
seconds, and you'll be likethis, and you'll always be like
Eric goes right. Oh my god, thepoint is, man,
you we got to recognize thatthis isn't, this isn't the end.
(26:56):
This isn't, uh, this isn'twinner take all. This is a
carryover run differential comesinto play here.
(27:22):
Wow, out. Get yourself someponchos. Get yourself some
memories. If you're feelinggenerous, get bottles of water.
Do something. You know what?Free Pass to post it on social
media. Too fine. Tag me,nothing. Just fucking do it like
(27:46):
encourage other people to do it.
Let's make it cool,
because to bring it all backaround, it's so
gross.
The issues that we're the nationis facing in terms of money and
shit. When you look at theDepartment of Defense failing
six audits in a row, billionsupon billions, maybe a trillion
(28:10):
dollars, missing, people can'tpay their bills. It's not even
like we're spending it on bombsand we're complaining about we
don't even fucking know where itis. Like, oh no, we spent lots
on bombs too. But also we don'tknow where the other parts of it
is, What? What? So with UFOslike there's absolutely money
(28:43):
going towards that. There arepeople hungry when there is
plenty to go around foreverybody, and some assholes
think they're more important orbetter than other people. And
yay. I mean, it's gonna comeback on you one way or another.
(29:08):
Man like, trust me, they toldme, not really. I say they I'm
talking about the things inouter space or wherever the fuck
it was. Again, I don't know.
Doesn't matter. Let's all dobetter. Let's
all go love each other. Youknow, Eric, everybody
Unknown (29:26):
love everybody.
Eric Readinger (29:29):
Okay, I kind of said that one to myself, but I
do. I love every single one ofyou. I might not like all of
you, but I love every single oneof you.
Unknown (29:59):
Oh boy oh.
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic
man stronger,
faster, stop whining.
It, oh yeah, you're gonna cry,Kitty baby. It's going
Eric Readinger (00:35):
to be mental sweat equity podcast with just
me,
Eric, hang on a second. I'm anidiot, and I'm back. I was on a
real, like,
actual, long
pause. I just had to start alittle time thinking, Oh my God,
if you're watching, I'm reallyhot right now because I'm
wearing this unicorn blanketslash vest thing,
(00:59):
which was supposed to be a giftto law's daughter.
Many and my daughter had givenshe got a bunch of her hand me
down stuff together, put inbags, and this was separate, so
I wore it outside to see if manywanted it, and she didn't even
bother getting it out of thecar. First of all, come inside.
(01:21):
Trip came right in. Said, Hi, Igo up to the the window, and
immediately she's less like,what? And I'm like, do you like
my outfit now?
Okay,
don't you see it's a unicorn.You're not a unicorn. I Oh,
(01:43):
okay, so you don't want it? No.And then she's figured out a way
to roll the window up real slow.So then I wore, I was like,
Fine, I'm keeping it. And as I'mwearing, I'm like, it's actually
pretty dope. It's hot. Why am Iwear this out? I mean, why not?
It seems cool. And as I'mwalking inside my house, I got
(02:04):
this thing on, and I was like,well, she doesn't want it. I was
like, Yeah, I'm gonna just takeit inside. Well, I'll take it. I
was like, well, I'll take it.I'm gonna wear it on podcast.
And then we were fighting overit for three seconds, and now
I have to wear it because I said
it would anyway. Anyways, a lotgoing on, big things going on,
(02:28):
scary things going on. If you'rewatching the news, North Korea
is gonna send troops to Ukraine.That's cool.
How's that not terrible?
Like, that's one thing. And thenapparently the Supreme Court
(02:50):
just said that the President cando whatever they
want, which is just almost asterrible. I want to talk about
all the details of it, becauseit's really depressing.
If you're watching, you also seethat I'm sitting in a nice,
comfy chair. What were we doing,sitting in those bar stools old
time like fucking assholes. Thisis way better. I'm chilling
(03:14):
right now. Oh man, I could gofor hours sitting up business so
serious does help me payattention. But if it's me
talking, I don't have to payattention. Yeah, I mentioned the
news because, you know, Istarted getting back into this
(03:39):
solo podcast thing, talking alot about UFOs and saying, Hey,
things seem bad everywhere.Maybe we should use this
otherworldly interference as asign to get our together.
You know, because it's, it'sscary, man, and I'm not one to
(04:05):
sound the alarm bells ever.Like,
last person to sound the alarmbells, I am, like, looking at
the guy who's supposed to soundthem and being like, Hey, you
got your finger over that thing?Are you ready? Like, just be
ready. Because, oh, my God, diedso hot microphone,
(04:34):
yeah. So
when it comes to the UFOs, I'vesaid this before. There's so
much shit that comes out everysingle day, one way or another.
This is fake. That's real. Thisis fake,
dude. It's if a disinformation
campaign is what they arelooking to accomplish. I mean,
(04:56):
fucking mission accomplished.Well. Those people don't care.
They are all just like
nobody cares
or not real. Oh, okay. Well,again,
like I've said in the past,let's pretend all of its humans,
(05:20):
because I actually listened tosome guy who was a DARPA
researcher of some kind, and hewas adamant that at least when
it comes to the balls of lightin the sky, like they can do
that, okay, they can put voicesinto people's heads, apparently,
(05:42):
since, like, the 60s, Manchuriancandidates, that I could do
that, no problem.
Okay, I guess,
I guess it's real. I you know,it's my point being like, it
gets to a point where I'm justlike,
I What do we do with this? Whatis what's real, what's fake?
(06:11):
This shimmer.
I've said it before. You know,no, these solid objects are
actually solid, and they'removing and there's vibrational
frequencies that are resonatingto make everything stay
together. Also, I can't provethat everybody in my life is a
robot that just Powers On When Iwalk in the room, or that
(06:37):
yesterday was my first day oflife, and everything before that
was implanted memories. I can'tprove it, you know, you get real
philosophical with it, and youcan't prove shit. Nothing's
wrong, you know, except onething, and that's love. I
Unknown (07:02):
whether
Eric Readinger (07:04):
you know, you can believe things that you feel
all you want besides that, butlike you know, like the love I
have for my kids transcends allthe things so like, it's really
(07:25):
the only truth we have, the onlything that we can point to and
be like, okay, that gives thisthing shape, that gives it
direction, gives it meaning. II, you know, at least within
(07:46):
yourself, because the flip sideof that is just how you treat
other people. How do they dothey feel that love? Is that
coming out? You know?
So big picture? Yeah, we got tolevel up.
(08:09):
I had planned
with this
to sort of take a step back andlook at or at least tell the
story of
sort of
a huge thing that happened to me
years ago that,
(08:33):
you know, I think, in one way oranother, most people would
benefit from the experience. Andit was something that really,
you know, was like the only trueturning point in my life in
terms of, like,
(08:53):
how I saw the world. This
thing that happened to mehappened right here, actually,
almost exactly where I'msitting. Oddly enough, I was in
this room two of my closestfriends, friend of the program,
JP, labadiem, paniak picturesand AJ Gonzalez, also known as
(09:18):
DJ garbage pussy from garbagegarage. You know, we're real
close. So like we had eaten wehad eaten mushrooms, magic
mushrooms, not crazy amount,nothing
otherworldly. That would
(09:41):
point to a definite reason as towhy it happened this time and no
other time. But, you know, JPand I especially are very close
mentally, you know, we share andwhatnot, but that night, you
know, we had just, I. Gotten inhere and just were like, for
(10:03):
whatever reason, at one point,you know, the right music came
on. We all had our eyes closed.We all sort of, we're looking
inward
to whatever, um, uh, side sidenote.
(10:26):
This was coming at a time when Ihad just learned about uh,
Gnosticism, and it kind of blewmy mind. Quick review,
Gnosticism, similar to the wordagnosticism, but without the A
so the opposite, I guess, at thetime, I had learned about this
(10:48):
idea, and the idea being the wayI understood it at the time that
what if the God that everybodyworships in me, in
this world, is
the opposite. What if the devilwas the good guy? What if? And
it like, not saying I believethat, or I believe one thing or
(11:12):
another, but the way it it linedup with just man, there's a lot
of fighting over religion, youknow, like that. Really, what
God wanted. God that loveseverybody wants that, you know?
So when you think about that,like, that sort of thing, like,
really was like, whoa. Like,that kind of blew my mind. So
anyways, back to the mushrooms.We're in this room, and we had
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some music playing. It was Yahooking without a crown. I'll never
forget it, obviously. And had myeyes closed, and there's just a
weird sort of vibrational thingthat starts happening. And it's
just like I'm sitting here withmy eyes closed, thinking like
(12:01):
there's something else here,saying, Do you want to go? Do
you want to go with me?Remember, eyes closed, complete
darkness, aside from the insane,indescribable light colors that
I could say and I'm sittingthere and, okay, let's give it a
(12:24):
shot. Let's go. It's like, Areyou sure? Uh huh. Let's do it.
And then
Unknown (12:31):
with
Eric Readinger (12:32):
perfect timing with the song, somehow, pew, I'm
on this crazy blue electrichighway that looked like, I
don't know it looked like I wasinside
cell, like a plant
cell or something. And snap afinger, I'm just I'm in outer
(12:55):
space. I don't fucking know itwas devoid of color. It was
dark, I guess, besides the giantburning ball of what looked like
molten lava just sort ofchilling there.
Okay, so I'm there, and for somereason, I know that there's two
(13:21):
other things there with me,
and for another stupid reason, Isat there and said, Give me the
light. Never said those wordsbefore in my life, never thought
those words, but I just met you,two otherworldly beings. Give it
(13:41):
to me, and I remember therebeing, like, hesitation, not for
me, like on the other sidethere's hesitation, like, Are
you sure? Yeah, yeah. So thisgiant molten rock thing, and has
this like looks like a pipe comeout of it and go right into
(14:04):
quote, unquote me,
and I'm receiving the light.What that means. But it was a
feeling like I've never feltbefore, and
I can remember specifically, itfeeling like, Is this too much?
(14:32):
And the other things that werethere asking each other, are we
sure about this? I even thinkabout this. You sure about that?
Should do it take two, but I'mnot gonna You sure about that?
Yeah, I'm sure about it. So Iwas getting the light. I don't
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know why, what? Why? I don'tknow. I. I do. I remember this
feeling of like, sort of pityfrom these other things, as it
felt like I was being cookedfrom the inside. The only
(15:17):
description I can give issimilar to like in The Green
Mile when they don't wet thesponge on the guy's end, he just
frying. That's what I was like.I mean, okay, you know. And I
don't recall if it,
(15:37):
it just sort of stopped
in the middle of it, I guess.And or it took as much as it
could, and then I was back backhere, right where I'm sitting
now,
just left to deal with that.
Okay, now I know we can leaveour bodies, did it? Now, this is
(16:10):
obvious for anybody who's eversmoked DMT, because that's like
a non negotiable situation, butthis, this mushroom thing, was
very it felt negotiated almost.I don't know how to put it, but,
yeah, that fucking reallychanged my life. I can't I came
(16:37):
out of that just, you know, it'svery, it's a trope that, you
know, we're all one, and I, youknow, but I just really started
to feel the thing, weight is theright word. But like, I just, I
was definitely more empathetic.I was definitely feeling more
(17:03):
inclined to
spread love,
to use whatever talents I mighthave to do that.
But yeah, it was,
it wasn't this religiousexperience. It was very like, it
(17:29):
was like going and getting mylittle changed or something, or
getting something you know,wasn't like you're going to go
out and you're going to helppoor people. Now say nothing to
me about what I should be doing,
you know, but
I kind of got the idea. Fun sidenote, this was after I had
(17:54):
dropped a knife on my butt yearsago, and I had an achy foot for
years after that, after drivingand things, and that night I was
like, anything's possible. Andthat night I was like, I'm gonna
go inside my brain. I'm gonnatravel down and I'm gonna heal
my foot from the inside. And Idid that, and my foot doesn't
(18:18):
hurt ever now. Years ago, thishappened over 10 years ago. I
think
close. So I
guess I tell you that justbecause maybe, like, that's sort
of like helping prove what I'msaying. All doesn't matter. It
(18:38):
doesn't matter what happened tome? It matters. What comes of
it? You know, drink break. It'sour dog on this long bomb.
(19:05):
A cost over a lot of things, onebecause it's fucking hot, but
also just because I do kind ofwant to just get to like,
something positive we can all bedoing here, because it wasn't
just me who also had a lifechanging experience. JP, did as
(19:26):
well. AJ doesn't even talk aboutso much, but, JP, you know he he
was probably further along theroad than I was already, but,
like, it definitely changed whohe was for the better.
Definitely changed me, who I wasfor the better. But it did end
(19:51):
up causing, you know, somehardships just because there's
no way around seeing peopledifferently, you know, so.
What's important or havingwhat's important realign for
you. So, you know, it's nobody'sfault or whatever, it just
happens. But yes, let's get backto the number one thing that
(20:17):
came out of my experience wasjust like, man, what can I do
realistically that won't, youknow, kill me, that won't put me
bankrupt, that won't, you know,be a huge pain in the ass. And
it was these bags for homelesspeople. These ones are, like,
(20:41):
Deluxe ones that I probably wentover the top because very
generous. Those have MREs inthem, which are nice because,
you know, people don't have ameans to cook. They can just
like that. Let's go deodorantand toothpaste and toothbrushes
and look, I got a whole thingup. I'm like, Yeah,
(21:09):
but let's, let's do stuff likethat.
Let's level up one little thingat a time. This is what I'm
saying. We little step it'sFlorida for most of us. Doesn't
matter if it's summer, it's arainy season. And JP and I were
(21:34):
talking about like, oh, well,can we put in these things that
might be a little bit useful,that, you know, food can get
spoiled or lost or eaten byanimals or bears. But we were
thinking like, get some. There'scheap ponchos on Amazon that you
(21:56):
can get who doesn't like havinga poncho on the car. That's
something that will benefit you.And if you see somebody out, it
might be sunny, doesn't matter.Be like, Hey, I know it's sunny
outside, but take this forlater. They might like that even
more, because, think about it,they're not out, you know, doing
(22:19):
their thing in the rain, maybethey can't, I'm not trying to,
like, say that's what the pointincrease their hours of work.
But, yeah, my whole, my wholething, you know, everybody love.
(22:44):
Everybody has a has a, anorigin. It has reason.
You know, um,
(23:06):
we have to do
stuff. We got we got to dobetter. This is how I end up
doing it every I'm just gonna dobetter. Oh, my God. What could
we do? Because I I reallybelieve, on an individual basis,
(23:27):
if every single person in theworld looked at the positive,
looked at things in a lovingway, didn't take things
personal, you know, fall to fiveagreements.
If that was true, we
(23:49):
would have nothing to worryabout. Don't got change anybody
should change yourself. That'swhat I feel anybody, any adult,
that's what your mission in lifeis. You have one life to change.
You're up because we are on thisearth at such a weird time. Man,
(24:14):
think that's a coincidence. Youthink it's, you know, maybe you
remember a past life. You thinkit's a coincidence that we're
all here right now. I know thatsounds stupid. Hey, I know a lot
(24:34):
of this shit sounds stupid. Iknow I it's, it's all I got.
It's the truth. It's how I ithappened to me.
I hope that truth is somethingthat you can take. Is like, Hey,
(24:56):
I mean, I'm not saying this. Orpeople are gonna eat our faces.
I'm just saying hey, like
everybody needs to chill thefuck out. Like there's a lot of
fucking aggression, so muchanger. Nobody knows what to do
with it. It's it's a terriblycyclical and spiraling
(25:21):
situation, the anger, becauseit's like you see somebody else,
but they get to be angry. Whatthe fuck you know? But it works
the other way too. Like, justtake a minute step back.
(25:42):
There's a fun homeworkassignment, because when I say
what it's like, but when ithappens, you'll understand go
outside and stare at the sky for20 seconds.
Not you don't have to justlooking at clouds or whatever.
(26:05):
Standing actually helps, likejust to kind of get an idea of
what I'm saying, because 20seconds of just staring at the
sky in in 2024 you feel sofucking stupid just admiring
beautiful, good. There mighteven be a rainbow in the sky 20
(26:26):
seconds. Like, what is thisguy's problem?
Unknown (26:28):
What does he see?
Eric Readinger (26:31):
Like? Do it? Go outside, stare at Sky for 20
seconds, and you'll be likethis, and you'll always be like
Eric goes right. Oh my god, thepoint is, man,
you we got to recognize thatthis isn't, this isn't the end.
(26:56):
This isn't, uh, this isn'twinner take all. This is a
carryover run differential comesinto play here.
(27:22):
Wow, out. Get yourself someponchos. Get yourself some
memories. If you're feelinggenerous, get bottles of water.
Do something. You know what?Free Pass to post it on social
media. Too fine. Tag me,nothing. Just fucking do it like
(27:46):
encourage other people to do it.
Let's make it cool,
because to bring it all backaround, it's so
gross.
The issues that we're the nationis facing in terms of money and
shit. When you look at theDepartment of Defense failing
six audits in a row, billionsupon billions, maybe a trillion
(28:10):
dollars, missing, people can'tpay their bills. It's not even
like we're spending it on bombsand we're complaining about we
don't even fucking know where itis. Like, oh no, we spent lots
on bombs too. But also we don'tknow where the other parts of it
is, What? What? So with UFOslike there's absolutely money
(28:43):
going towards that. There arepeople hungry when there is
plenty to go around foreverybody, and some assholes
think they're more important orbetter than other people. And
yay. I mean, it's gonna comeback on you one way or another.
(29:08):
Man like, trust me, they toldme, not really. I say they I'm
talking about the things inouter space or wherever the fuck
it was. Again, I don't know.
Doesn't matter. Let's all dobetter. Let's
all go love each other. Youknow, Eric, everybody
Unknown (29:26):
love everybody.
Eric Readinger (29:29):
Okay, I kind of said that one to myself, but I
do. I love every single one ofyou. I might not like all of
you, but I love every single oneof you.
Unknown (29:59):
Oh boy oh.
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