March 1, 2024 • 31 mins
Hey Truth-Seekers and Vibes-Catchers, it's Brad and Dylan taking you on a wild ride through the tangled web of sports myths and life's quirks! Ever been coached with well-meaning but misguided tips? We're swinging for the fences as we debunk common sports advice that's tripping up young athletes. Picture this: your little leaguer's coach yelling "Keep that back elbow up!" – we'll tell you why that's not always a home run. And for the golfers out there, we're putting the brakes on the "slow your swing" mantra. So, buckle up for a hilarious journey that's as much about busting myths as it is about cracking jokes.
Navigating the seas of self-reflection, we drop anchor at a cozy cove of hot takes and ponder whether we're all just dodging our own issues by playing 'fixer' in someone else's story. We wade into the philosophical waters of reincarnation, the holiness of cows, and the saga of Annie the cat – a feisty ball of fur that's stolen our hearts. Our banter bounces from the profound to the playful, inviting you to reflect on your own life while we challenge each other's perspectives – all without losing our sense of humor.
Finally, we explore the enigmatic shores of aphantasia and the complexities of mental imagery – or the lack thereof. Have you ever considered how a blood transfusion might change the way you see the world? Or why some people can't picture a face in their mind's eye? We dive into these mind-bending topics, discuss our own experiences with dreams and internal dialogue, and marvel at the artistic prowess of sketch artists. As we wrap this episode, we leave you with a heartfelt reminder to focus on the positives and appreciate life's rich tapestry, all while sharing a laugh and bidding you a cheery farewell. Now, go seize the day and join us for a session that promises to enlighten and entertain!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On a desolate, frozen tundra, surrounded by mindless,
brain numbing cold takes.
Two bros trek through thenothingness to bring hope to a
new generation.
You are about to experiencebrad and dylan's hot takes.
Here we go again.
Again we're going.
(00:20):
Let's do it, do it good, lickthis.
This is like my neck, every myback.
Why you have to ruin everyLiterally first 30 seconds,
sorry, every time.
How else are you supposed tointro?
Well, you got a warm-up first.
We already, we just, we justdid an hour and 15 minutes warm
(00:43):
up.
Yeah, but you got to do theneck in the back first.
I like what you did there.
I like what you did there.
You silly bitch, that branch,just go for it.
Brad child, mm-hmm, that, that,what, what that?
Welcome To another episode,veronica Vaughn.
Sorry that, veronica Vaughn, Idon't know what that means.
(01:05):
That's Billy manager.
Oh, throw me that koozie please.
Or that, um, how hard, as hardas a baseball you want to talk
about?
What?
About a softball?
You want to talk about elbows?
Yeah, all right.
What am I supposed to remindyou about again?
(01:26):
Yeah, I don't worry about it.
Okay, never mind, it's notimportant, it's just my mental
health.
Um, don't slip into depressionjust because you're being
contemplative.
This is a reminder for you toremind me of tonight.
Yeah, yeah, echo chambers We'vetalked about this before.
No, just don't like, slip intothe deep dark holes, um, double
entendre, like a manage d'etreur, no, okay.
(01:51):
Have you ever been driving downthe street and seen, saw, uh,
seen, seen, see, saw, yep,something that makes you want to
scream at the person doing it?
Yes, because, hot, take quittelling your motherfucking
(02:12):
little leaguers To raise theirback elbow when they're swinging
a baseball bat.
Do you want to get in thefundamentals?
Don't do it, okay, just don'tdo it, okay.
I apologize for Whoever wasdoing this, but I was driving to
basketball practice and a Verylovely person was with what I'm
assuming was his daughter,daughter and friend or something
(02:35):
, mm-hmm, and all I saw was himsticking his elbow up, showing
her like, cranking it, pointingto god, yeah, and nothing like
pulling that right shoulder downand just swinging for the gods.
And I just wanted to be likethat's not important.
It's not important, mm-hmm.
And I actually, um, when doingwinter Clinics or even in my own
(03:00):
teams, yeah, especially whenthey're young, like because
seven, six, seven, eight yearold, okay, parents love to tell
you this put your elbow up.
You gotta, you gotta, put yourelbow up.
You're not gonna hit the ball.
You gotta put your elbow up.
Do we have to put our elbow up?
No, okay, no, elbows, no, no,you know they're
misunderstanding what needs tohappen.
Okay, I wish we had cameras forthis episode, but we don't.
(03:23):
So imagine, those are expensive.
So imagine you're holding a batOkay, okay, venmo brad, if you
guys want cameras, yeah, do that.
Okay.
And uh, let's say you'reholding the bat directly in
front of your chest, mid chest,uh-huh, right, okay, now, noted,
your elbows are down.
Okay, got it.
You've just missed the last 20Balls that your dad threw to you
(03:46):
.
Mm-hmm.
Because you're starting from themiddle of your chest and
instead of saying what needs tohappen, which is your hands need
to go back by your ear so thatyou can start the swing with,
the cue became elbow up, yes,but your hands can still be
there with your elbow up,correct.
(04:06):
So what happens is, all ofthese kids have their hands in
front of their chest, so it's,it's just a bad cue.
But the other thing is like, assoon as you start to, so if I,
if I In mid chest, my hands arehere, all right, and then all
they tell me is to put my elbowup.
Now I'm in a worse spot.
Okay, then I was before, even.
Yeah, you're cocked.
Now, if my hands are in frontof my chest mid, my elbows are
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pointing down.
Okay, and you say, put yourhands back by your back, ear,
right, so your hands are goingto lift up a little bit and
they're going to twist towardsthe backside.
Okay, my elbow does come up alittle bit, but is it up higher
relative to where it started,with my hands here?
So my hands are here, my elbowsare, you know, there.
Now my hands are way up here.
My elbows are in the samepositions as they were.
(04:53):
Is it higher?
Yeah, because my hands arehigher.
Yeah, right, yeah, but it's notelevated.
Like, even with my hand.
Become a sports podcast.
I don't know.
I don't know, I wasn't preparedfor this.
This became a don't tell peoplebad advice podcast.
We've we've addressed this,though.
(05:13):
People have this need to becorrect and Know everything, and
so they just whatever they'veheard, they just spouse it.
But that is like I don't knowwhy that one sticks, because
Everybody's, everyone hears it,everybody says it.
It's just that thing.
I don't know if I can think ofanother Like youth sports
(05:35):
related thing that is as bad asthat.
I Hear this thing all the timein golf that drives me nuts
which is you got it.
You got a.
Slow your swing down.
And it's like, cool, you do.
But then, until you get, I didto golf development and you just
see everyone's like, yeah, wegot to pick that speed up
because the ball is gonna gofarther.
You're like, oh, so maybe,instead of saying swing down,
(05:57):
which really again does nothing,it's like, hey, you've got to
get your, you got to get youralignment Dialed in.
You've got a and it's, yes,speed we need, we need to slow
down for the ability for us tofigure out timing.
You got timing.
Yes, everything I was movingsink, and so let's not just use
the blanket cue slow down, let'stalk about your timing, yes,
(06:19):
but it's easier just to say slowyour swing down, yeah, because
we actually don't know whatwe're talking about and so we're
just gonna give you a cuebecause we need to be teachers.
But I just I don't understandit because there's not any good
outcomes to it.
Like Because I watched thatgirl and she had her elbow
pointing at the sky andcontinued to not hit the ball.
(06:40):
It's like that's not the fix,because it's not the problem
You're.
You're throwing out solutionsthat aren't actual solutions.
Condra's my crazy.
Not like couples therapy.
No, okay, never mind, I haven'tdone that yet.
Hot take Whoa what that's good?
(07:00):
I don't know, are you justthrow out?
I just say hot take when Idon't know what to say.
Have you guys ever tried?
I don't know.
I was trying to think ofsomething funny.
I failed douchebag.
Well, I was always that.
Hmm, so you, you came to me andyou said you know what, dylan,
we're a little negative.
(07:21):
Maybe hot takes can be positivetoo.
No, no, that's not what I said,that's not what.
Okay, no, you reiterate it.
Yeah, I said Dylan, you fuckingasshole.
I'm tired of you shitting oneverybody all the time.
Yes, sorry, everyone, and it'stime that I apologize.
My fucking nobody.
Positive.
Shining light to this.
Okay, and just lift everyone up.
(07:43):
Be the ray, be the ray.
To my sugar.
I was gonna say Charles.
Oh, well, sugar is more loving.
What?
Yeah, diabetes, cancer.
No, give me some sugar, poursome sugar on me.
I'm still not sure what thoselyrics are.
You're glazed down it Me.
Okay, this, this took a divefast.
(08:05):
Yeah, my Positive hot take isthat you are capable of so much
more than you give yourselfcredit.
For.
What do you mean?
Who you just said you as ablanket.
I don't.
Yes, you, yeah, that's giving alot of people credit.
I do, hot take, I do.
That's not true, listen.
No, that's Hi, that's theantithesis and what she's like.
(08:31):
This is about everything thatwe just talked about before.
That I know.
No, I think it is and I Thinkit's.
I think it's mostly true.
I never say a hundred percenttrue, I think it's mostly true.
Yeah, don't speak in absolutes.
Mmm, yeah, okay, this isturning into a philosophy
podcast.
(08:51):
No, mm-hmm.
No, no, well, you did it.
How did I do that?
You're the one talking about.
I don't know what's true andnot true, what's absolute?
I didn't say what I just said.
Don't speak in absolutes.
Well, don't tell me what to do.
How about that Hot take?
Don't tell me what to do.
(09:11):
Like that, you're the annoyinglittle kid.
Yeah, you're just like thatlittle shit that just sometimes
always there ready to answercoach's question and be a shed.
But I, I do have a A hot take.
Hot take, do tell.
Brad has a problem with seeingthe upside to everybody.
(09:34):
Ah, are you a saver?
I'm a fixer.
Yeah, you're a fixer.
Yeah, I'm a fixer.
Yeah, why, why do you do that?
Um, is it because you want to?
You want to be able, you don'twant to address the own under
your own underlying issues andit's easier for you to project
those.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
What are we talking about rightnow?
(09:55):
I'm just saying Are youprojecting this on me, exactly?
Okay, uh, yeah, maybe it wasbecause I was.
I was in the past, past livesbroken, like you reincarnated
into the current broken versionand you had previous broken
version.
Maybe there's going to besubsequent broken versions.
Is that multiverse?
Or is that your incarnation?
Maybe it's?
(10:16):
Hmm, it's not reincarnation,because you can't go back in the
same body, right, I don't know.
Reincarnation is like soulsgoing into.
Yeah, you just knew spaces.
You reincarnate.
Huh, yeah, until you're a cow,and then you're happy.
Oh, that's the ultimate man,the cow Until, isn't that Hindu?
That's what they don't eat, Ithought, like cow is the most
(10:39):
sacred.
Oh, you're right, according tothem.
I'm going with.
I mean, we just like all thoseShinto gods we just learned
about.
I'm going with.
Holy shit, I'm going to go downa rabbit hole and Shinto gods,
by the way, I'm going to go with.
Sorry, shinto deities.
Annie Is the epitome Of thereincarnated good life.
(11:01):
Oh my God.
From the streets to what shehas now.
From the streets, dude, she,she, she was.
I picked her up at the no killshells.
They're hardcore.
They said she was barely alivewhen they got her on the
alleyway.
Just, she was out there, justshe was meandering needles in
her veins.
I think so.
It's like she got a nasty,nasty meth habit when she was
(11:23):
two or three weeks old and thenyou got any rock, rock up
blowing for some rock.
That's how I like to imagine my, for me, for me, crack.
This isn't the life you deserve.
Come on, get it together.
I think one of my favoritestories about Annie is when we
got her Front's the clock.
She has her back.
So don't everyone get on.
(11:44):
There's a hard or do, or do youknow why?
Because we don't get emails andI would like to get some.
There's a hardcore Populationof people that things decline is
unethical.
Anyway, well, pull yourfingernails out.
How about that?
I wish Gross.
No, you don't so terrible,whatever man.
So she got her front taken outand you know everyone's like.
(12:06):
Well, she's going to be reallytired and all these things.
And I go to pick her up and like, dude, we've had to.
We've had to put Annie downmultiple times.
I'm like that's one, that's thewrong term.
Don't say you put my cat down.
We tried to kill her.
We tried to kill her.
She's coming back and she'slike she's a fucking shit, oh
God.
She won't quit Crawl Likethey're like out of surgery,
(12:30):
coming out of anesthesia.
She won't quit crawling aroundher cage.
She's crawling like I when Iwent in.
She's on the side, she's clawson the wall of this metal cage
and she's defying gravity byjust looking at me and they're
like, yeah, because she's nevergoing to heal, because she just
won't, so like we've had tosedate her.
You walk in the bed office.
It looks like 28 days later,yeah, she is just blood.
(12:53):
She is the just.
No, I'm good, I'm going to keepdoing this.
She's a wild one man.
She's a wildly coyote.
We had a crazy one as well.
But yeah, cats man, he's stillkicking it.
So he's living his best life.
He's doing whatever the fuck hewants to Gotham.
Yeah, he's a good dude.
Yeah, everybody thinks so.
(13:14):
He's a guy Like he is just this.
Oh, who's the kid that died inthe bus in Alaska?
The what's the name of thatmovie?
He goes into Alaska, into the,into the wilderness, into the
wild, into the wild.
(13:34):
Hmm, that book?
Yeah, the third year boss,simon birch, crack our book.
He's.
Yeah, gotham is like that.
You know where he likes to.
He likes to stop and and meetPeople and and befriend them and
and he's very nice and cordialand tells you a nice story.
And then he's like, fuck thisplace, I'm on in the next wild
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one and then and then maybe younever see him again and you just
wonder what he's up to, hmm,hmm.
Speaking of Miss Ogie, we'regonna cross Paul night episodes
here.
My hot take, finding yourself,is not just getting on an
airplane and going to a coolcountry and walking around for a
month or so and being like I'mfinding myself.
(14:17):
It's like, mmm, I Mean there'ssome cool experiences.
No doubt you're learning, butyou're not really growing.
I know you're.
You're learning cultures andother things, but is it
necessarily hard waking up at ahostel and going and having two
dollar beers at 11 o'clock inthe morning?
And I'm not shitting ontraveling because I love to
travel, but I think you need tohave a modicum of responsibility
(14:39):
in your life.
Finding yourself, hmm, I don'tknow.
I've written about this beforeIn terms of like, why do you
have to get away to findyourself?
Yeah, that's, I think, probablywhere I'm at is I don't.
You don't think that's a yourunning away.
You can, you like, findyourself and we're going away.
(15:00):
Do you find me?
Obviously there's decompression, there is so, but where's that
balance?
So, in terms of trulychallenging yourself, mm-hmm,
you are sometimes taking awaythe safety nets of Society in
your, in your everyday life, andsometimes just all the bullshit
that surrounds you and, yeah,trying to put yourself into
(15:23):
Maybe a hard situation, maybejust a lonely situation.
So you have to deal withyourself only, so you're
removing distractions from yourlife, which is not traveling,
anything that's actuallyhappening.
I think it can happen for somepeople, some people, yeah, but
if you're going to like all theparty hostels and you're on the
beach and you're going all likethe moon parties, yeah, that
might be more drug related,which can also be a way of
(15:45):
finding yourself.
The thing that always really IInterest me and I wish they
would do studies on it, maybethey have, and I just haven't
read them Is how everyone, jesusis always in jail.
You know like people alwaysfind them there.
Yeah, wow, I never thoughtabout that one.
Why is he there so much?
(16:05):
Hmm, hmm, yeah, like, how comehe's not like Home Depot?
It's carpet?
Maybe they got more fiddles injail?
No, what, that's the devil, notthe same?
No, it's not the same.
I'm just asking man, jesus, itwas Johnny, not Jesus Remember
(16:25):
you?
Sure, oh sure I Would.
I would remember.
Okay, I remember those.
Jesus went down to Georgia andit's not.
That sounds like an awesomesong.
Hey, somebody, somebody, dothat.
Volver, volver, l Ray greatsongs I remember in the early
days of your mom's house podcast, and they have what can only be
(16:50):
considered an army of listeners, even when it was on the
smaller side.
Yeah, because they're insane.
They are in the most fun way.
Yeah, tom, christian, but theyhave.
They always had just Talentedpeople that listen, and so they
would.
They would get these songsconstantly where they would take
soundbites and clips or theyWould remake something and then
(17:11):
they would send them to them andthey're just like.
These are fucking amazing.
And it happened just week afterweek after week.
So if somebody can you know,let's just say, three years from
now, when we have somebody thatis a Talented musical listener,
hmm, please make.
Haze's went down to Georgia andjust remake that for me and do
(17:31):
your best.
Jesus went down to Jorge.
Yeah, wait, either one eitheryou pick, you pick, you pick
both will be good.
Oh, all right, I think so.
Wait, so that wasn't positive.
Not finding yourself.
Finding yourself?
Yeah, okay, you got positiveone?
(17:51):
No, nothing.
Do you think good people stillexist to find good?
Oh, that's the problem.
Right, there's an existentialcrisis out there about morality.
I Mean, if we really want to godown this we can talk about it
is moral in the moment.
What is moral in the momentexactly?
(18:13):
Remember when we used to killpeople in the gladiator
Gladiatorinas and we was likethis is cool and fun and ethical
, and now it's like, oh my god,that's terrible.
Yeah, it was cool at one point.
Yeah, I mean, some people stilldo that and they just get paid
for it.
So, michael Vick, no, oh, thatwas a dog ring.
That was a dog ring.
Yeah, which is also way fair.
I mean, they moved kids andlockers.
(18:35):
Yeah, that was a weird timewhen everyone was starting to
talk about that trafficking.
Hot, take hi you.
You cannot trust the tiktok.
You got bamboozled by tiktokthe other day.
It happens all time.
You were like oh, russia saidthat the Alaska sale yeah, I did
(18:56):
, verified false.
Yep, I didn't say those.
So how do you come out withthis?
Oh, hi, mighty take, I don'tchose tiktok and that's like you
got bamboozled the other day.
Yeah, I didn't look into it.
What, oh my god, what is thispodcast about?
Doing your research?
When's the bullshit meter gooff?
(19:17):
Where's the flag?
But I got to do all theresearch.
I just did research.
That one thing.
That's what's being responsible.
It's all it is about.
But you did it, you did it forme, I did, I looked it up and I
verified it false and I didn't.
And you get a bad informationto our listeners.
What happens if they know it?
And because we talked about it,why was it?
They turn the podcast offbefore what you said it and then
(19:38):
click stop.
Yeah, that's really gonna hurt,really gonna hurt them.
I think in the Putin doesn'tlike everyone probably makes.
You're like this big pro BidenManchurian candidate Trumper.
We don't even know what you are.
That's the.
That's the confusing part.
I don't like it.
Are we sure?
(19:59):
Are we sure, that's what peoplethink.
I don't know.
I still look at the buzz sproutI.
I look at the buzz sprout statsand I'm like, nope, not true,
not true, not true I I.
There's no way that many peopleokay.
So I saw this video and then mybuddy also sent it to me, which
leads me to believe that he alsothinks it's true.
(20:21):
And it was about a Containership investment, right.
So they're like what?
Hmm, what's the investment?
Look like if we want to try totry to international court on
water.
No, not, we're not talking.
What are we talking about?
Piracy, murder, you're talkingabout sex ring.
No, oh, no, no, no, we'reshipping, we're shipping goods.
Shipping goods, actual goods,not children, not people, okay,
(20:44):
moving on.
And so they say, okay, how muchmoney can you make from owning a
shipping vessel,transcontinental, right, and
they.
And then they go through this.
Is this one of those financebro things?
Words, like I think it was, butit was like incognito, because
there wasn't a bro on it, it wasjust the ship.
All you got to do get a loanfor a billion dollars, yeah.
(21:04):
Get a boat, yeah, and then youcan make a billion dollars, yeah
, it's like what?
That's what it was.
That's what it was.
And Wow, they don't give youany context, they just give you
numbers.
So then it's like it's it's wetalked about this before the
misinformation.
It's like misinformation isworse than disinformation.
Guess what, if you're amillionaire, you're dead broke.
(21:25):
I did, I think that was myfavorite.
I did comment on that video andsay, if I'm broke, then if I'm
actually broke, then what am I?
If I have a million dollars,I'm broke, but if I'm actually
broke, then what am I?
Yeah, fuck, a millionaire.
Is this Opposite?
The clickbaits got anunbelievable.
(21:46):
I love it.
So the ship you buy the ship for$200 million it's.
They went like with the biggest, like what's one of the biggest
, so I go big or go home and itholds 20,000 containers or
something along those lines, andif you fill each container,
it's worth this much money,right.
And so they go through all themath and and they leave out like
(22:06):
, okay, well, it's only 80%filled, because that's
reasonable, and all this.
So they say on your first tripacross the ocean, not only do
you pay for the ship, but youmake like $200 million on top of
that.
And your first thought is justlike why wouldn't everyone own a
container ship, mm-hmm.
And then maybe that's.
(22:28):
And then later I saw a mafia orwhat they call it mafia run.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like theflat boats and peaky blinders,
yeah.
And so then a guy came out, didthe rebuttal and that's not
actually how that works.
How's it work that?
It works when you use realnumbers and not just made up
numbers.
So it was basically a financebro thing.
(22:50):
So it's, the finance bros willbe like you have a million
dollars, right, and then how doyou, how do you capitalize, use
that as toilet paper, go to thebank, get a billion dollars.
You find you find a friendMm-hmm that will just trade you
ten million dollars for it.
Mm-hmm, that's it.
That's that easy.
(23:10):
I don't know why you guys areso dumb.
Figure it out.
I feel like you finance broedme.
You were like yeah, man, we justneed a podcast rig Bullshit.
I wanted to do it on the phone.
Yeah, this voice wasn't goingon the phone.
Yeah, I was like phone a friend.
Yeah, we can do this.
I have this nifty memo likevoice memo thing on my phone.
(23:31):
You can just do that.
Yeah, we just do that.
But now when we get a newlistener, they're like hey, you
sound really good.
I don't like any stuff you talkabout, but, yeah, I think we're
missing the mark on ouraudience.
Audio quality is good, audio isgreat.
I mean, that's really whatwe're going for at the end of
(23:51):
the day.
I think really we're in thewrong country.
Where should we mark it too?
Russia, ukraine?
What are those Scandinaviancountries?
I like that, norway, or likethe.
Where are they?
Eastern Germany countries?
(24:12):
Was that like Latvia?
Those kind of places, grandBudapest Hotel Some of those
places are really neat.
Let's go to Croatia.
I think Croatia is nice.
They've got nice water features.
Yeah, yeah, they got nice beach.
Oh, okay, I don't really likethe beach.
(24:34):
What?
Nothing.
Oh, you're a mountain guy.
I mean I like the beach, it'sfine.
I mean you're dainty.
You don't even do well inaltitude.
I can't.
I can't do altitude or bigwaves Fragile, you're just a
sub-part human, it's fine.
(24:56):
I got somebody else's blood inme, though.
What?
Yeah, mine Blood transfusion,oh, yeah, everything about that.
I mean I gave somebody blood,so they have somebody else in me
.
They have my blood type now andpart of you lives in somebody
else.
Yeah, that's the weird part Isthey have my blood type now.
(25:20):
I think they pick up some other.
Do you think they made me abetter person?
No, do you think I got theblood of a better person?
That's why I'm a better personthan I was.
Can you agree that I'm a betterperson than I was?
Timeline in context, timelinein examples.
So we're on two plus years oftransfusion.
Yeah, new blood, yeah, also I'mgoing to bring it up here,
(25:47):
because we need to do thissometime where we go into
psychedelics and near-deathexperiences.
That's an interesting thing tome.
But post Joe Rogan, jesus Christ, post-psychedelic,
post-posteroids, post-secondsurgery, after coming out of
just immense pain, and I wasconscious, lucid, and every time
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I would blink or shut my eyes,I would see vivid portraits of
not nice faces.
Like what were you trying toconfront?
What was going on?
I don't know.
Yes, you do.
No, I don't Just think about it.
I think I Initially I thoughtmaybe I dipped my toe into hell
(26:35):
for a second.
Do you think you'd go to hell?
Um, yummy, no more deities,we're moving on.
But now, actually, on the wayover here, I was thinking what
if it was the blood that I gotthat made me see the faces?
It's your vampire.
No, you count Chocula.
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One, two.
Oh, that's count, not Chocula.
Oh, sesame Street Mmm, yeah,that's count the count.
I like Sesame Street, but maybe, yeah, maybe, like my body was
either absorbing it or trying torefuse it.
It's probably a combination ofbowls.
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So that's interesting, that'sall that's it.
I don't know.
I thought it was interesting.
Sure, do you do that Like, canyou close your eyes and see
something vividly?
Yeah, I don't do it very often.
Somebody we were talking about,who was talking about this,
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there's five levels.
There's five levels ofimagination or like vividness,
and you can.
I don't know the guy.
I was who he, it's five, thehighest Five being like you can
see super vivid items.
It's like I can see extremedetail, but when I think about
people, I don't see faces.
Okay, I can do everything, butfaces I can have.
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That's what's weird.
Like, if I close my eyes rightnow and try to Like you're
sitting in front of me and I tryto envision your face, yeah, it
doesn't register.
And the weird thing about thiswas like I was looking at
portraits of people, like that'show clear it was, and every
time I would blink it was adifferent one.
Yeah, and when I realized thatI was doing it, I would start
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trying to like blink faster tosee if it would stop happening.
And then they just kept showingup and I was like I'm dead, I'm
dying, what is it?
I'm trying to, yes, but Ididn't, or did I?
Did I die?
And I just I'm a new, betterversion.
You didn't die, you don't knowthat.
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I said do You're right here?
Am I that?
Aphantasia, what it's like whenyou can't see images in your
mind.
That's hard to go.
So there's five levels and it'sso.
This is when you can't see.
Yeah, well, there's levels toit.
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Aphantasia, yeah, okay, wait,is this like when people don't
have internal dialogue?
I think it's the visual versionof it.
Okay, interesting, I might havea little bit of this.
No image, yeah, no image at all.
I only know Dim and vague image.
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Modern, realistic, of vivid,realistic, of reasonably vivid,
perfectly realistic, as vivid,as real, seeing.
I think probably artistsprobably fall into that fifth
category.
It's a supposition I can make.
Yeah, but you do have dreamsevery once in a while.
That was Intense.
You have that Of dreams, do youdream?
Yeah, hard Weird, didn't needthat detail.
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No, they're just super, superintense.
Oh, got it.
No, fair, but friend orrelative.
Scenario one.
The first section asked theparticipants to think of some
friend or relative.
No can do, scored one off.
Oh for the quit.
Yeah, yeah, think of that.
I probably fall on the higherlevel of that, like if I I would
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say faces are the hardest.
Faces are the hardest.
But I think it's because I'mlike visualizing so much and
it's like that's the leastimportant detail.
But also, isn't that crazy thatthey can still do sketch
artists?
Some people can, yeah.
Other times you have you catchthe villain and then you go back
to the sketch artist and you'relike, hey, that's a glass,
(30:40):
that's just a water glass.
That doesn't look anything likehim.
That's a fucking egg withglasses on Whoopsie, this was
the wrong version of Clue.
Yeah.
Then you end up with the or.
They describe the perfectperson, but it's not.
It's not the villain.
No, this is it.
This guy looks exactly like thesketch.
Yeah, but that's the wrong guy.
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Got the sketch right.
Got the sketch right.
That's a problem.
New boots, same villain.
Yeah, I'm a little bit of agoofing God, all right.
Well, I'm a lot of positivity.
This was rough.
I'm going to have to do betterat it.
Yeah, do we though?
Yeah, I'm going to look for thegood and what?
(31:24):
Whom Things, the world, theitems.
Why, huh?
Why would we?
Because you have to nurture thethings that you want to see
more of.
Right, okay, right, I guess Imean yeah, okay, let's go with
that.
Okay, wait, you're still here,it's over.
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Go home Now, right.
On a desolate, frozen tundra, surrounded by mindless,
brain numbing cold takes.
Two bros trek through thenothingness to bring hope to a
new generation.
You are about to experiencebrad and dylan's hot takes.
Here we go again.
Again we're going.
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Let's do it, do it good, lickthis.
This is like my neck, every myback.
Why you have to ruin everyLiterally first 30 seconds,
sorry, every time.
How else are you supposed tointro?
Well, you got a warm-up first.
We already, we just, we justdid an hour and 15 minutes warm
(00:43):
up.
Yeah, but you got to do theneck in the back first.
I like what you did there.
I like what you did there.
You silly bitch, that branch,just go for it.
Brad child, mm-hmm, that, that,what, what that?
Welcome To another episode,veronica Vaughn.
Sorry that, veronica Vaughn, Idon't know what that means.
(01:05):
That's Billy manager.
Oh, throw me that koozie please.
Or that, um, how hard, as hardas a baseball you want to talk
about?
What?
About a softball?
You want to talk about elbows?
Yeah, all right.
What am I supposed to remindyou about again?
(01:26):
Yeah, I don't worry about it.
Okay, never mind, it's notimportant, it's just my mental
health.
Um, don't slip into depressionjust because you're being
contemplative.
This is a reminder for you toremind me of tonight.
Yeah, yeah, echo chambers We'vetalked about this before.
No, just don't like, slip intothe deep dark holes, um, double
entendre, like a manage d'etreur, no, okay.
(01:51):
Have you ever been driving downthe street and seen, saw, uh,
seen, seen, see, saw, yep,something that makes you want to
scream at the person doing it?
Yes, because, hot, take quittelling your motherfucking
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little leaguers To raise theirback elbow when they're swinging
a baseball bat.
Do you want to get in thefundamentals?
Don't do it, okay, just don'tdo it, okay.
I apologize for Whoever wasdoing this, but I was driving to
basketball practice and a Verylovely person was with what I'm
assuming was his daughter,daughter and friend or something
(02:35):
, mm-hmm, and all I saw was himsticking his elbow up, showing
her like, cranking it, pointingto god, yeah, and nothing like
pulling that right shoulder downand just swinging for the gods.
And I just wanted to be likethat's not important.
It's not important, mm-hmm.
And I actually, um, when doingwinter Clinics or even in my own
(03:00):
teams, yeah, especially whenthey're young, like because
seven, six, seven, eight yearold, okay, parents love to tell
you this put your elbow up.
You gotta, you gotta, put yourelbow up.
You're not gonna hit the ball.
You gotta put your elbow up.
Do we have to put our elbow up?
No, okay, no, elbows, no, no,you know they're
misunderstanding what needs tohappen.
Okay, I wish we had cameras forthis episode, but we don't.
(03:23):
So imagine, those are expensive.
So imagine you're holding a batOkay, okay, venmo brad, if you
guys want cameras, yeah, do that.
Okay.
And uh, let's say you'reholding the bat directly in
front of your chest, mid chest,uh-huh, right, okay, now, noted,
your elbows are down.
Okay, got it.
You've just missed the last 20Balls that your dad threw to you
(03:46):
.
Mm-hmm.
Because you're starting from themiddle of your chest and
instead of saying what needs tohappen, which is your hands need
to go back by your ear so thatyou can start the swing with,
the cue became elbow up, yes,but your hands can still be
there with your elbow up,correct.
(04:06):
So what happens is, all ofthese kids have their hands in
front of their chest, so it's,it's just a bad cue.
But the other thing is like, assoon as you start to, so if I,
if I In mid chest, my hands arehere, all right, and then all
they tell me is to put my elbowup.
Now I'm in a worse spot.
Okay, then I was before, even.
Yeah, you're cocked.
Now, if my hands are in frontof my chest mid, my elbows are
(04:30):
pointing down.
Okay, and you say, put yourhands back by your back, ear,
right, so your hands are goingto lift up a little bit and
they're going to twist towardsthe backside.
Okay, my elbow does come up alittle bit, but is it up higher
relative to where it started,with my hands here?
So my hands are here, my elbowsare, you know, there.
Now my hands are way up here.
My elbows are in the samepositions as they were.
(04:53):
Is it higher?
Yeah, because my hands arehigher.
Yeah, right, yeah, but it's notelevated.
Like, even with my hand.
Become a sports podcast.
I don't know.
I don't know, I wasn't preparedfor this.
This became a don't tell peoplebad advice podcast.
We've we've addressed this,though.
(05:13):
People have this need to becorrect and Know everything, and
so they just whatever they'veheard, they just spouse it.
But that is like I don't knowwhy that one sticks, because
Everybody's, everyone hears it,everybody says it.
It's just that thing.
I don't know if I can think ofanother Like youth sports
(05:35):
related thing that is as bad asthat.
I Hear this thing all the timein golf that drives me nuts
which is you got it.
You got a.
Slow your swing down.
And it's like, cool, you do.
But then, until you get, I didto golf development and you just
see everyone's like, yeah, wegot to pick that speed up
because the ball is gonna gofarther.
You're like, oh, so maybe,instead of saying swing down,
(05:57):
which really again does nothing,it's like, hey, you've got to
get your, you got to get youralignment Dialed in.
You've got a and it's, yes,speed we need, we need to slow
down for the ability for us tofigure out timing.
You got timing.
Yes, everything I was movingsink, and so let's not just use
the blanket cue slow down, let'stalk about your timing, yes,
(06:19):
but it's easier just to say slowyour swing down, yeah, because
we actually don't know whatwe're talking about and so we're
just gonna give you a cuebecause we need to be teachers.
But I just I don't understandit because there's not any good
outcomes to it.
Like Because I watched thatgirl and she had her elbow
pointing at the sky andcontinued to not hit the ball.
(06:40):
It's like that's not the fix,because it's not the problem
You're.
You're throwing out solutionsthat aren't actual solutions.
Condra's my crazy.
Not like couples therapy.
No, okay, never mind, I haven'tdone that yet.
Hot take Whoa what that's good?
(07:00):
I don't know, are you justthrow out?
I just say hot take when Idon't know what to say.
Have you guys ever tried?
I don't know.
I was trying to think ofsomething funny.
I failed douchebag.
Well, I was always that.
Hmm, so you, you came to me andyou said you know what, dylan,
we're a little negative.
(07:21):
Maybe hot takes can be positivetoo.
No, no, that's not what I said,that's not what.
Okay, no, you reiterate it.
Yeah, I said Dylan, you fuckingasshole.
I'm tired of you shitting oneverybody all the time.
Yes, sorry, everyone, and it'stime that I apologize.
My fucking nobody.
Positive.
Shining light to this.
Okay, and just lift everyone up.
(07:43):
Be the ray, be the ray.
To my sugar.
I was gonna say Charles.
Oh, well, sugar is more loving.
What?
Yeah, diabetes, cancer.
No, give me some sugar, poursome sugar on me.
I'm still not sure what thoselyrics are.
You're glazed down it Me.
Okay, this, this took a divefast.
(08:05):
Yeah, my Positive hot take isthat you are capable of so much
more than you give yourselfcredit.
For.
What do you mean?
Who you just said you as ablanket.
I don't.
Yes, you, yeah, that's giving alot of people credit.
I do, hot take, I do.
That's not true, listen.
No, that's Hi, that's theantithesis and what she's like.
(08:31):
This is about everything thatwe just talked about before.
That I know.
No, I think it is and I Thinkit's.
I think it's mostly true.
I never say a hundred percenttrue, I think it's mostly true.
Yeah, don't speak in absolutes.
Mmm, yeah, okay, this isturning into a philosophy
podcast.
(08:51):
No, mm-hmm.
No, no, well, you did it.
How did I do that?
You're the one talking about.
I don't know what's true andnot true, what's absolute?
I didn't say what I just said.
Don't speak in absolutes.
Well, don't tell me what to do.
How about that Hot take?
Don't tell me what to do.
(09:11):
Like that, you're the annoyinglittle kid.
Yeah, you're just like thatlittle shit that just sometimes
always there ready to answercoach's question and be a shed.
But I, I do have a A hot take.
Hot take, do tell.
Brad has a problem with seeingthe upside to everybody.
(09:34):
Ah, are you a saver?
I'm a fixer.
Yeah, you're a fixer.
Yeah, I'm a fixer.
Yeah, why, why do you do that?
Um, is it because you want to?
You want to be able, you don'twant to address the own under
your own underlying issues andit's easier for you to project
those.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
What are we talking about rightnow?
(09:55):
I'm just saying Are youprojecting this on me, exactly?
Okay, uh, yeah, maybe it wasbecause I was.
I was in the past, past livesbroken, like you reincarnated
into the current broken versionand you had previous broken
version.
Maybe there's going to besubsequent broken versions.
Is that multiverse?
Or is that your incarnation?
Maybe it's?
(10:16):
Hmm, it's not reincarnation,because you can't go back in the
same body, right, I don't know.
Reincarnation is like soulsgoing into.
Yeah, you just knew spaces.
You reincarnate.
Huh, yeah, until you're a cow,and then you're happy.
Oh, that's the ultimate man,the cow Until, isn't that Hindu?
That's what they don't eat, Ithought, like cow is the most
(10:39):
sacred.
Oh, you're right, according tothem.
I'm going with.
I mean, we just like all thoseShinto gods we just learned
about.
I'm going with.
Holy shit, I'm going to go downa rabbit hole and Shinto gods,
by the way, I'm going to go with.
Sorry, shinto deities.
Annie Is the epitome Of thereincarnated good life.
(11:01):
Oh my God.
From the streets to what shehas now.
From the streets, dude, she,she, she was.
I picked her up at the no killshells.
They're hardcore.
They said she was barely alivewhen they got her on the
alleyway.
Just, she was out there, justshe was meandering needles in
her veins.
I think so.
It's like she got a nasty,nasty meth habit when she was
(11:23):
two or three weeks old and thenyou got any rock, rock up
blowing for some rock.
That's how I like to imagine my, for me, for me, crack.
This isn't the life you deserve.
Come on, get it together.
I think one of my favoritestories about Annie is when we
got her Front's the clock.
She has her back.
So don't everyone get on.
(11:44):
There's a hard or do, or do youknow why?
Because we don't get emails andI would like to get some.
There's a hardcore Populationof people that things decline is
unethical.
Anyway, well, pull yourfingernails out.
How about that?
I wish Gross.
No, you don't so terrible,whatever man.
So she got her front taken outand you know everyone's like.
(12:06):
Well, she's going to be reallytired and all these things.
And I go to pick her up and like, dude, we've had to.
We've had to put Annie downmultiple times.
I'm like that's one, that's thewrong term.
Don't say you put my cat down.
We tried to kill her.
We tried to kill her.
She's coming back and she'slike she's a fucking shit, oh
God.
She won't quit Crawl Likethey're like out of surgery,
(12:30):
coming out of anesthesia.
She won't quit crawling aroundher cage.
She's crawling like I when Iwent in.
She's on the side, she's clawson the wall of this metal cage
and she's defying gravity byjust looking at me and they're
like, yeah, because she's nevergoing to heal, because she just
won't, so like we've had tosedate her.
You walk in the bed office.
It looks like 28 days later,yeah, she is just blood.
(12:53):
She is the just.
No, I'm good, I'm going to keepdoing this.
She's a wild one man.
She's a wildly coyote.
We had a crazy one as well.
But yeah, cats man, he's stillkicking it.
So he's living his best life.
He's doing whatever the fuck hewants to Gotham.
Yeah, he's a good dude.
Yeah, everybody thinks so.
(13:14):
He's a guy Like he is just this.
Oh, who's the kid that died inthe bus in Alaska?
The what's the name of thatmovie?
He goes into Alaska, into the,into the wilderness, into the
wild, into the wild.
(13:34):
Hmm, that book?
Yeah, the third year boss,simon birch, crack our book.
He's.
Yeah, gotham is like that.
You know where he likes to.
He likes to stop and and meetPeople and and befriend them and
and he's very nice and cordialand tells you a nice story.
And then he's like, fuck thisplace, I'm on in the next wild
(13:55):
one and then and then maybe younever see him again and you just
wonder what he's up to, hmm,hmm.
Speaking of Miss Ogie, we'regonna cross Paul night episodes
here.
My hot take, finding yourself,is not just getting on an
airplane and going to a coolcountry and walking around for a
month or so and being like I'mfinding myself.
(14:17):
It's like, mmm, I Mean there'ssome cool experiences.
No doubt you're learning, butyou're not really growing.
I know you're.
You're learning cultures andother things, but is it
necessarily hard waking up at ahostel and going and having two
dollar beers at 11 o'clock inthe morning?
And I'm not shitting ontraveling because I love to
travel, but I think you need tohave a modicum of responsibility
(14:39):
in your life.
Finding yourself, hmm, I don'tknow.
I've written about this beforeIn terms of like, why do you
have to get away to findyourself?
Yeah, that's, I think, probablywhere I'm at is I don't.
You don't think that's a yourunning away.
You can, you like, findyourself and we're going away.
(15:00):
Do you find me?
Obviously there's decompression, there is so, but where's that
balance?
So, in terms of trulychallenging yourself, mm-hmm,
you are sometimes taking awaythe safety nets of Society in
your, in your everyday life, andsometimes just all the bullshit
that surrounds you and, yeah,trying to put yourself into
(15:23):
Maybe a hard situation, maybejust a lonely situation.
So you have to deal withyourself only, so you're
removing distractions from yourlife, which is not traveling,
anything that's actuallyhappening.
I think it can happen for somepeople, some people, yeah, but
if you're going to like all theparty hostels and you're on the
beach and you're going all likethe moon parties, yeah, that
might be more drug related,which can also be a way of
(15:45):
finding yourself.
The thing that always really IInterest me and I wish they
would do studies on it, maybethey have, and I just haven't
read them Is how everyone, jesusis always in jail.
You know like people alwaysfind them there.
Yeah, wow, I never thoughtabout that one.
Why is he there so much?
(16:05):
Hmm, hmm, yeah, like, how comehe's not like Home Depot?
It's carpet?
Maybe they got more fiddles injail?
No, what, that's the devil, notthe same?
No, it's not the same.
I'm just asking man, jesus, itwas Johnny, not Jesus Remember
(16:25):
you?
Sure, oh sure I Would.
I would remember.
Okay, I remember those.
Jesus went down to Georgia andit's not.
That sounds like an awesomesong.
Hey, somebody, somebody, dothat.
Volver, volver, l Ray greatsongs I remember in the early
days of your mom's house podcast, and they have what can only be
(16:50):
considered an army of listeners, even when it was on the
smaller side.
Yeah, because they're insane.
They are in the most fun way.
Yeah, tom, christian, but theyhave.
They always had just Talentedpeople that listen, and so they
would.
They would get these songsconstantly where they would take
soundbites and clips or theyWould remake something and then
(17:11):
they would send them to them andthey're just like.
These are fucking amazing.
And it happened just week afterweek after week.
So if somebody can you know,let's just say, three years from
now, when we have somebody thatis a Talented musical listener,
hmm, please make.
Haze's went down to Georgia andjust remake that for me and do
(17:31):
your best.
Jesus went down to Jorge.
Yeah, wait, either one eitheryou pick, you pick, you pick
both will be good.
Oh, all right, I think so.
Wait, so that wasn't positive.
Not finding yourself.
Finding yourself?
Yeah, okay, you got positiveone?
(17:51):
No, nothing.
Do you think good people stillexist to find good?
Oh, that's the problem.
Right, there's an existentialcrisis out there about morality.
I Mean, if we really want to godown this we can talk about it
is moral in the moment.
What is moral in the momentexactly?
(18:13):
Remember when we used to killpeople in the gladiator
Gladiatorinas and we was likethis is cool and fun and ethical
, and now it's like, oh my god,that's terrible.
Yeah, it was cool at one point.
Yeah, I mean, some people stilldo that and they just get paid
for it.
So, michael Vick, no, oh, thatwas a dog ring.
That was a dog ring.
Yeah, which is also way fair.
I mean, they moved kids andlockers.
(18:35):
Yeah, that was a weird timewhen everyone was starting to
talk about that trafficking.
Hot, take hi you.
You cannot trust the tiktok.
You got bamboozled by tiktokthe other day.
It happens all time.
You were like oh, russia saidthat the Alaska sale yeah, I did
(18:56):
, verified false.
Yep, I didn't say those.
So how do you come out withthis?
Oh, hi, mighty take, I don'tchose tiktok and that's like you
got bamboozled the other day.
Yeah, I didn't look into it.
What, oh my god, what is thispodcast about?
Doing your research?
When's the bullshit meter gooff?
(19:17):
Where's the flag?
But I got to do all theresearch.
I just did research.
That one thing.
That's what's being responsible.
It's all it is about.
But you did it, you did it forme, I did, I looked it up and I
verified it false and I didn't.
And you get a bad informationto our listeners.
What happens if they know it?
And because we talked about it,why was it?
They turn the podcast offbefore what you said it and then
(19:38):
click stop.
Yeah, that's really gonna hurt,really gonna hurt them.
I think in the Putin doesn'tlike everyone probably makes.
You're like this big pro BidenManchurian candidate Trumper.
We don't even know what you are.
That's the.
That's the confusing part.
I don't like it.
Are we sure?
(19:59):
Are we sure, that's what peoplethink.
I don't know.
I still look at the buzz sproutI.
I look at the buzz sprout statsand I'm like, nope, not true,
not true, not true I I.
There's no way that many peopleokay.
So I saw this video and then mybuddy also sent it to me, which
leads me to believe that he alsothinks it's true.
(20:21):
And it was about a Containership investment, right.
So they're like what?
Hmm, what's the investment?
Look like if we want to try totry to international court on
water.
No, not, we're not talking.
What are we talking about?
Piracy, murder, you're talkingabout sex ring.
No, oh, no, no, no, we'reshipping, we're shipping goods.
Shipping goods, actual goods,not children, not people, okay,
(20:44):
moving on.
And so they say, okay, how muchmoney can you make from owning a
shipping vessel,transcontinental, right, and
they.
And then they go through this.
Is this one of those financebro things?
Words, like I think it was, butit was like incognito, because
there wasn't a bro on it, it wasjust the ship.
All you got to do get a loanfor a billion dollars, yeah.
(21:04):
Get a boat, yeah, and then youcan make a billion dollars, yeah
, it's like what?
That's what it was.
That's what it was.
And Wow, they don't give youany context, they just give you
numbers.
So then it's like it's it's wetalked about this before the
misinformation.
It's like misinformation isworse than disinformation.
Guess what, if you're amillionaire, you're dead broke.
(21:25):
I did, I think that was myfavorite.
I did comment on that video andsay, if I'm broke, then if I'm
actually broke, then what am I?
If I have a million dollars,I'm broke, but if I'm actually
broke, then what am I?
Yeah, fuck, a millionaire.
Is this Opposite?
The clickbaits got anunbelievable.
(21:46):
I love it.
So the ship you buy the ship for$200 million it's.
They went like with the biggest, like what's one of the biggest
, so I go big or go home and itholds 20,000 containers or
something along those lines, andif you fill each container,
it's worth this much money,right.
And so they go through all themath and and they leave out like
(22:06):
, okay, well, it's only 80%filled, because that's
reasonable, and all this.
So they say on your first tripacross the ocean, not only do
you pay for the ship, but youmake like $200 million on top of
that.
And your first thought is justlike why wouldn't everyone own a
container ship, mm-hmm.
And then maybe that's.
(22:28):
And then later I saw a mafia orwhat they call it mafia run.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like theflat boats and peaky blinders,
yeah.
And so then a guy came out, didthe rebuttal and that's not
actually how that works.
How's it work that?
It works when you use realnumbers and not just made up
numbers.
So it was basically a financebro thing.
(22:50):
So it's, the finance bros willbe like you have a million
dollars, right, and then how doyou, how do you capitalize, use
that as toilet paper, go to thebank, get a billion dollars.
You find you find a friendMm-hmm that will just trade you
ten million dollars for it.
Mm-hmm, that's it.
That's that easy.
(23:10):
I don't know why you guys areso dumb.
Figure it out.
I feel like you finance broedme.
You were like yeah, man, we justneed a podcast rig Bullshit.
I wanted to do it on the phone.
Yeah, this voice wasn't goingon the phone.
Yeah, I was like phone a friend.
Yeah, we can do this.
I have this nifty memo likevoice memo thing on my phone.
(23:31):
You can just do that.
Yeah, we just do that.
But now when we get a newlistener, they're like hey, you
sound really good.
I don't like any stuff you talkabout, but, yeah, I think we're
missing the mark on ouraudience.
Audio quality is good, audio isgreat.
I mean, that's really whatwe're going for at the end of
(23:51):
the day.
I think really we're in thewrong country.
Where should we mark it too?
Russia, ukraine?
What are those Scandinaviancountries?
I like that, norway, or likethe.
Where are they?
Eastern Germany countries?
(24:12):
Was that like Latvia?
Those kind of places, grandBudapest Hotel Some of those
places are really neat.
Let's go to Croatia.
I think Croatia is nice.
They've got nice water features.
Yeah, yeah, they got nice beach.
Oh, okay, I don't really likethe beach.
(24:34):
What?
Nothing.
Oh, you're a mountain guy.
I mean I like the beach, it'sfine.
I mean you're dainty.
You don't even do well inaltitude.
I can't.
I can't do altitude or bigwaves Fragile, you're just a
sub-part human, it's fine.
(24:56):
I got somebody else's blood inme, though.
What?
Yeah, mine Blood transfusion,oh, yeah, everything about that.
I mean I gave somebody blood,so they have somebody else in me
.
They have my blood type now andpart of you lives in somebody
else.
Yeah, that's the weird part Isthey have my blood type now.
(25:20):
I think they pick up some other.
Do you think they made me abetter person?
No, do you think I got theblood of a better person?
That's why I'm a better personthan I was.
Can you agree that I'm a betterperson than I was?
Timeline in context, timelinein examples.
So we're on two plus years oftransfusion.
Yeah, new blood, yeah, also I'mgoing to bring it up here,
(25:47):
because we need to do thissometime where we go into
psychedelics and near-deathexperiences.
That's an interesting thing tome.
But post Joe Rogan, jesus Christ, post-psychedelic,
post-posteroids, post-secondsurgery, after coming out of
just immense pain, and I wasconscious, lucid, and every time
(26:12):
I would blink or shut my eyes,I would see vivid portraits of
not nice faces.
Like what were you trying toconfront?
What was going on?
I don't know.
Yes, you do.
No, I don't Just think about it.
I think I Initially I thoughtmaybe I dipped my toe into hell
(26:35):
for a second.
Do you think you'd go to hell?
Um, yummy, no more deities,we're moving on.
But now, actually, on the wayover here, I was thinking what
if it was the blood that I gotthat made me see the faces?
It's your vampire.
No, you count Chocula.
(26:56):
One, two.
Oh, that's count, not Chocula.
Oh, sesame Street Mmm, yeah,that's count the count.
I like Sesame Street, but maybe, yeah, maybe, like my body was
either absorbing it or trying torefuse it.
It's probably a combination ofbowls.
(27:18):
So that's interesting, that'sall that's it.
I don't know.
I thought it was interesting.
Sure, do you do that Like, canyou close your eyes and see
something vividly?
Yeah, I don't do it very often.
Somebody we were talking about,who was talking about this,
(27:38):
there's five levels.
There's five levels ofimagination or like vividness,
and you can.
I don't know the guy.
I was who he, it's five, thehighest Five being like you can
see super vivid items.
It's like I can see extremedetail, but when I think about
people, I don't see faces.
Okay, I can do everything, butfaces I can have.
(27:59):
That's what's weird.
Like, if I close my eyes rightnow and try to Like you're
sitting in front of me and I tryto envision your face, yeah, it
doesn't register.
And the weird thing about thiswas like I was looking at
portraits of people, like that'show clear it was, and every
time I would blink it was adifferent one.
Yeah, and when I realized thatI was doing it, I would start
(28:21):
trying to like blink faster tosee if it would stop happening.
And then they just kept showingup and I was like I'm dead, I'm
dying, what is it?
I'm trying to, yes, but Ididn't, or did I?
Did I die?
And I just I'm a new, betterversion.
You didn't die, you don't knowthat.
(28:44):
I said do You're right here?
Am I that?
Aphantasia, what it's like whenyou can't see images in your
mind.
That's hard to go.
So there's five levels and it'sso.
This is when you can't see.
Yeah, well, there's levels toit.
(29:07):
Aphantasia, yeah, okay, wait,is this like when people don't
have internal dialogue?
I think it's the visual versionof it.
Okay, interesting, I might havea little bit of this.
No image, yeah, no image at all.
I only know Dim and vague image.
(29:29):
Modern, realistic, of vivid,realistic, of reasonably vivid,
perfectly realistic, as vivid,as real, seeing.
I think probably artistsprobably fall into that fifth
category.
It's a supposition I can make.
Yeah, but you do have dreamsevery once in a while.
That was Intense.
You have that Of dreams, do youdream?
Yeah, hard Weird, didn't needthat detail.
(29:53):
No, they're just super, superintense.
Oh, got it.
No, fair, but friend orrelative.
Scenario one.
The first section asked theparticipants to think of some
friend or relative.
No can do, scored one off.
Oh for the quit.
Yeah, yeah, think of that.
I probably fall on the higherlevel of that, like if I I would
(30:18):
say faces are the hardest.
Faces are the hardest.
But I think it's because I'mlike visualizing so much and
it's like that's the leastimportant detail.
But also, isn't that crazy thatthey can still do sketch
artists?
Some people can, yeah.
Other times you have you catchthe villain and then you go back
to the sketch artist and you'relike, hey, that's a glass,
(30:40):
that's just a water glass.
That doesn't look anything likehim.
That's a fucking egg withglasses on Whoopsie, this was
the wrong version of Clue.
Yeah.
Then you end up with the or.
They describe the perfectperson, but it's not.
It's not the villain.
No, this is it.
This guy looks exactly like thesketch.
Yeah, but that's the wrong guy.
(31:01):
Got the sketch right.
Got the sketch right.
That's a problem.
New boots, same villain.
Yeah, I'm a little bit of agoofing God, all right.
Well, I'm a lot of positivity.
This was rough.
I'm going to have to do betterat it.
Yeah, do we though?
Yeah, I'm going to look for thegood and what?
(31:24):
Whom Things, the world, theitems.
Why, huh?
Why would we?
Because you have to nurture thethings that you want to see
more of.
Right, okay, right, I guess Imean yeah, okay, let's go with
that.
Okay, wait, you're still here,it's over.
(31:48):
Go home Now, right.
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