February 1, 2024 • 54 mins
Season 3 : Episode IV
- Streamed Live in front of an International audience on Monday, April 30th, 2018 Featuring Ben Pink Special appearance by Steve Vai
- The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Host Jeff Dodge will bring some of the world’s greatest musical talent, local writers & artists, producers & programmers and just plain old regular folk to our planet Earth’s attention. Also with topical sketches, stand-up comedy and live music.
- 00:01 'Young David Crosby Standing At The Crossroads with Steve Vai'
- 02:51 "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (written by Jim McGuinn and Chris Hillman - 1966)
- 07:24 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES - AUDIO
- 15:49 Featured Guest - Ben Pink Portal Arts Collective https://www.facebook.com/portalartscollective/ Portland Love Show 2018 https://portlandloveshow.com/
- 37:53 "Wish You Were Here" (written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters - 1975)
- 50:23 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (Written by Solomon Linda, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss, & Albert Stanton - 1939)
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Piano solo
Piano solo
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Piano solo
Piano solo
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And listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to play
And your hands are right
And your pants too tight
It's gonna be alright
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It's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
You are waiting there
It's a plastic whale
And in a week or two
Will you make the choice?
Because you're taking the plow
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It's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down
Sell your soul to the company
You are waiting there
It's a plastic whale
And in a week or two
Will you make the choice?
Because you're taking the plow
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And in a week or two
Will you make the choice?
Because you're taking the plow
La la la la la la la
You're a crazy crowd
You're insane
Honey, baby, the problem's been played
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You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
You're a rock'n'roll star
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We are 27 years away
From the planet low and so far away
If you really don't want to stay
We'll let you float off in the Milky Way
As we're a passive revolution band
We're the kind of really understaffed
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And the truth of our mission
Is to peel off those officials
Join up as a revolution band
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Well, beside this war we just can't stay
It's gotta go the hell away
Well, I tried to get me some peace today
But the future seems so far away
We're a passive revolution band
We're the kind of really understaffed
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And the truth of our mission
Is to peel off those officials
Join up as a revolution band
Join up as a revolution band
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150 bucks, in a day 150 bucks
Great, great
I can't believe it
But we're the kind of really understaffed
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Okay, and we're back. Oh, yeah. I guess there's some technical problems. They may have not
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been hearing that. So, Ben, in the interest of expediency, we're just going to kind of
walk through that whole thing again. So let's, why don't you step out and we'll introduce
you. Okay, so I'll come back out, and then I'll come back in, I'll do the trick. And
then we'll talk about tape school and the whole thing. I think we can, we're going to
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cut, David, we're going to cut the tape. Okay, okay. That was just, we weren't even talking,
that was just mime stuff. So we're going to go back. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we have
a guest for us today in on the show. The one, the only. Yes, he's here with us today live,
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Ben Pink. Yeah. All right. Yeah, great to see you. Great to see you. Oh, great to see you.
Thank you so much for joining us. How are you today, Ben? I'm just doing, I'm just fabulous.
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I'm just, I'm just doing great right now. How are you doing? I've got this weird feeling
of deja vu, but it feels good. Well, you know, it's, hey, that's me up there. It's, it's,
it's so wonderful of you to join us in the studio today. We had a nice dress rehearsal
run. The audience at home probably saw some of that, but what they didn't get to see or
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what they saw but didn't hear was about your fabulous magic trick. Well, do we, do we want
to do it again for them? Just a quick summation, sum up. Let's show them that and then we're
going to show them the magic behind the magic trick. Okay. So let me, let me hold your mic
for you. Parental warning, young kids, I'm okay. This is okay. You can talk about it
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in counseling in 20 years. You're going to be okay. Okay. Check it out. I've got this
thumb here. I've got this hand here. No holes, no secrets. Thumbs firmly attached, but, want
to give it a little, yeah, does it feel like a real thumb? Seems good. Seems good. That's
a real thumb, but with the power of magic, somebody gone. Holy, holy, holy. That's right.
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And Holly, holy hail. Do we want to, do we want to see it again? Give us one more, one
more. I missed it. Here we go. Thumb, thumb off. It's off. It's off. It's off. And then
into the air. And then there it is out of the frame. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I, I, that's
amazing. Thank you, Ben. Oh, you're beautiful. Beautiful. Um, I, I hope that didn't frighten
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anyone too much at the homestead there, but, uh, you know, children, you can now return.
Um, we're, there might be a couple F bombs that we dropped, but we're done scaring you
with magic tricks. Um, so Ben, uh, how do you do that magic trick? Ooh, I mean, I don't
want to do like a David Copperfield and expose anything, but it's going to take a, you know,
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honestly, have you been to Tibet? I, I once went there for a, a gaff tape seminar. Yeah.
You know, they have those, um, monks, Tibetan monks, the gaff tape monks, and they say, oh,
is that the throat singing? You have to do that a bunch. Yes. Um, to prime your thumb.
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Okay. Okay. I was actually spent the past two hours before I came over here chanting.
And um, I mean, I guess that kind of puts it at a reach for most people cause who has
the time, who has the time? Um, but you know, I don't get to be on TV often. So, well, I,
I, we're, we're technically not on TV. We're on the internet. I see you on TV. I mean,
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that is a TV up there. That's a monitor. Okay. I don't get to be on monitors very often.
Yes. You're always behind the scenes. So I've been, I've been chanting and I've been, um,
stretching and doing a lot of yoga. I, I did, these are basketball injuries. I don't know
if you can get that David, but these are, these are fingers that used to be straight.
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Oh, that's terrible. I, I, it is, can you still do that kind of a trick with, with a
jagged finger like that? No, you can't actually, if you, if you mess up your pinky, you're
not going to be able to take off your thumb either. It's kind of a systemic thing. It's
the holistic system that we're talking about. You try to, if you break your pinky, your
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thumb is going to compensate by being connected. There's that weird, it's the hip bone, Illuminati
thing, ear bone, knee bone thing. Um, so I don't know if I explained that. I mean, I
mean, I don't want to get all fussy about it. I'm not that insulted, but you know, you're
basically taking my magic trick and making it into something that just anybody can do
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at home. And it's just really not, I mean, you can't, I'm not better than you. I'm just
another person. No one's saying that. I'm just saying though, that you're going to have
to do work. It's like you playing the guitar. I was, I have a question actually Ben real
quick. Aren't you worried you're going to get kicked out of the guild for revealing
some of your secrets? Oh, I haven't actually shared anything. You see it's, this is another
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layer of, this is another layer. Yes. That's an illusion unto itself. There are many veils
that must be lifted and parted and some of them have to be, you have to take the thumb
tack out and actually take the veil down and roll it up and launder it before you can get
to them. That totally makes sense. You are speaking some intense stuff. Oh yeah. Now
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we mentioned in the part that got the audio fell out on us, but you were trained in the
CIA to handle this kind of tactics. It was the IAC. The IAC. Which was actually a front
for the CIA. Okay. The C stands for, that's something to do with the finger magic? The
C stands for gaff tape in Russian. Okay. It's not really a C, it's whatever that letter
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is called in Russian. I don't remember what that's called. It's not this guy. It's not
that. It might be her though. Oh. She was actually my professor. Oh really? Yeah. She
said shut up Ben. This was actually a photo taken from class where I was like, I had a
question but they don't like it when you ask questions in the IAC. Both time. Yeah. So.
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Oh boy. It was tough. It's got to be tough. It was tough. It's that back when it was called
Lennon Grad or is it St. Petersburg? It was Lennon, I guess I'm technically a Lennon Grad.
Okay. Since I went and graduated when it was St. Petersburg. And that reminds me, I got
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to pay another bill here, but I wanted to ask you a very important question. When we
get back, how do I know you? Oh. You ever feel like this is your life? Ouch. Cars are
running into you, are running you off the road. You're going to need the best insurance available.
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Talk to Ted. Come on by at Captain Ted's. We'll talk premiums, deductibles, all that
insurance talk. Then we'll get you on a low monthly payment to keep you on the road. Just
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dial a bunch of fives and a three and a four. 1-800-555-5534. We'll get you back on the
road and help you stay there. Oh. So I'm pretty sure the sound's working, but let's
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uh, oh this commercial has another minute, so just hang on. What's that? Oh, we're live,
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oh my goodness, we're live. We've been live, man. Oh, I didn't, we're live. Uh oh, where
did we go? East. Hey! Something's getting weird. Okay, we're back. You're not getting
the connection there, are you David? Come back. There it is, there it is. It's the thing
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on there, the tape, it gets really loose. It's all crazy BNC stuff. It's because you didn't
go to school for this, man. That's where you really. Well, we're lacking a lot of tape,
I know this. It's the wrong kinds of tape. So the important question I had to ask you
Ben was, um, you're uh, are you one of these uh, the millennials? I mean, I'm gonna break
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your heart right now, but. I'm just not. If you want, I can play with my phone while we're
talking though. I can do a simulation of millennialism. Well yeah, that'd be good, that'd be good.
So um, this kind of reminds me of when I was working with high school kids in the 90s there.
So how are you doing today, Ben? Yeah. Cool man, I uh, I heard you were uh, wanted to
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um, like uh, go see a show or something. There's a really cool band, I'm playing with them,
you wanna see them? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah. Are you like, standing in the front
row with your hands in your pocket? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Okay, okay, okay. So uh, this
is one of the things I've been noticing. They use, hey, hey, put your phone down. Huh? Come
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back. I mean, I'm just trying to. I want Gen X back. Okay. So are you on the cusp of X,
like Rich, or are you getting pushed further in? I don't know, I don't know. I'm a 76er,
so I don't know if that, I don't know where that puts me. Yeah, we're in there, those
bicentennial kids, yeah, we're right. I got the special quarter, you know. You know what I'm
talking about, that special quarter. Oh yeah, I got like a million of them. The silver dollar too.
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Yeah. That makes you feel really good. Yeah, yeah. There's two dollar bills too, man. I've got
several of those. Really got the entire signing of the Declaration of Independence on there.
Hot. It's hot. Yeah. I have 13 copies of Songs in the Key of Life. Nice. But no copies of
Frampton Comes Alive. Huh, that's weird. Well, that kind of reminds me of this really cool band
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that was happening back then called Kiss. Did you guys ever listen to Kiss? The Gene Simmons guy,
the bass player. Yeah. He's a nice man. Well, he's on NPR a lot, I guess. He's a little liberal
for my taste. Yeah. Does Terry Gross have a thing? I heard there was something going on. It seems
like they have a thing. Yeah. Really? I mean, it just sounds like it. So if I'm a millennial,
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I'm gonna look that up. She sort of sounds more flirty than usual, and he sure is. He's got that
tongue. Well, I wonder if being a Gen Xer, because I'm deeply, I'm 70, I'm in the middle of it,
although they keep moving me closer to a boomer, I know. No. Yeah. That's messed up, man. That's
messed up. But I think we have, for some reason, Gen X, the thumbs. As you get older, it's really
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hard to use the phones, because it's all, it's like this very agile thumb. It's called arthritis.
Well, it could be, but I mean, you know, I like go to make a text message, right? And then, you
know, that's, it's a fucking H. Do you find that, Siri doesn't understand you too? Yeah. Like,
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you're not speaking whatever form of gibberish is needed to be heard by the machine? Siri, uh,
uh, Coqdila. Oh, I forgot my C3PO is on. Okay, that was C3PO. I have, you can get a certain app
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that the C3PO and R2D2, their technology can now be downloaded into your phone. That's awesome.
Because they as well were 1976 technology. You know, that's what happens in the military industrial
complex. The Star Wars end up producing technology that even you can use later. It's like,
it's like canned food, man. All this technology and they didn't even have like a,
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one hundredth of it. And they got those guys on the moon. It's crazy, man. Wild stuff. It's crazy.
And you can buy our moon, moon landing conspiracy. The musical is available also on Amazon,
headed by Jeff Bezos, a wonderful man. Is that fire behind me? Okay. Let's take a break. We'll
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be right back after this quick message.
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Oh, and we're back. We're back. Ben Pink in the studio, visiting the Peasant Revolution Band
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Variety Hour. So Ben, I was, I heard there's this other thing, us Gen Xers with thumbs, having
issues with texting and not understanding that. I have to admit, I met my lovely wife, Jamila,
so long ago that the internet barely existed. I don't think it did exist, actually. Right.
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Maybe there was AOL or something, I think was all we had. And, but we met and we got involved,
you know, really hot and heavy. And I guess I don't need to go in that part, but we did it the
old fashioned way. There's all these people that date now that, I think they, notes here. I think,
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yeah, there it is. Online dating. What is this online dating people speak of? Yeah, man. I was
just telling you. I missed it. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, I didn't know a
thing about it when I started my last relationship 10 years ago. Okay. So you're kind of in this.
Online dating was just like match.com and that's if you were a busy executive and you were looking
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to get married to somebody. Match.com. Okay. Well, there's all this other stuff now, right? I mean,
there's- So when, when now match was the original or? I think so, something like that. And it was
for business people? It was for busy people who were looking for their spouse. Busy people.
Busy-ness. Yeah. Busy-ness. So you didn't have to be in business per se, you just had to be busy.
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Yeah. Engaged in busy-ness. Yeah. Busy getting your food stamps. No, I mean, maybe more busy.
Well, maybe. I don't know. I don't, I'm not sure. I don't, I didn't, like I said, this is,
this wasn't a thing people, normal people did. Now there's this whole thing where
there's this thing called Tinder. Tinder. There's Grindr. Okay. Now what is Tinder? There's
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Okay Cupid. Okay. There's Bubble. Okay. There's Bubble Gum. Bubble Gum. There's Bubble Gum Light.
Holy cow. There's Twinder. There's Tlyndr. There's Tlyndr. I don't even know Tinder.
There's Tlyndr with a Tly. Tlyndr. Is that- It's a Northern European thing. Is that kind of the
throat singing thing again? It's for Finland. Finnish people. Finnish throat singing.
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The Sami people, I think, use this. There's reindeer involved. I'm not really sure. Wow.
So- But I can tell you about the fuse that I've used, which has been a whole,
it's in a brave new world for me, honestly. Okay. So what was your first online dating experience
like, if you don't mind? You know, it's funny because I wasn't really trying to date. I was
just trying to figure out like how do single people meet now. Because, you know, before when
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you'd sit in a bar or- Right. On a park bench. Right. You would roll up your cigarette. Or you'd
sit in a bathroom stall. Right. Or at a coffee shop or at the library. The stall with the little
foot things. Or at the bus stop. You'd sit at all these places. And then at some point, somebody
would, you could talk to them. But now, since we have these phones, you sit at anywhere and you
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just look in your phone. So basically like Tinder and OkCupid and all these ways are ways to get at
people through their phone. Right? Like they might be sitting there with you, looking at their phone,
on Tinder. And you're sitting five feet away, looking at them on Tinder. And you have this
mediated interaction through the phone now instead of talking. So if I was dating and I can't use my
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thumbs very well on this, I would be- It's okay because you swipe. Oh, you- You could swipe.
Okay. Tinder is just pictures mainly and then there's some words, but most people don't look
at those. They just swipe. Are you saying these dating apps is kind of a yes-no thing? It's a very-
It's- I think of it, I didn't know anything about it, but I've realized that it's kind of,
it feels like people shopping. Wow. Wow. Like a big vending machine of people. You've got this
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illusion of choice. Right? That just sounds like good old standardized testing to me,
which I was terrible at. The SAT killed me. I hated true-false. And then the blue books
unleashed me. Oh my God. All of a sudden, my grades improved because I was able to bullshit.
Yeah, man. How can you possibly date if it's a very binary swiping app? Well, honestly, my whole
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approach has been to not date. Okay. Okay. Yeah, because since I just, you know,
like I feel like there are all these people that are kind of just running around and they've got
the Olympic level skill at this, whereas like, yes, 10 years I wasn't doing any of this. So I'm
more just like, I'm like a baby. But if they- Crawling around the floor and people are hurtling
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over me. Yes. Yeah. So I don't want to participate in the hurdles. Instead, I want to be able to be
a baby. So I haven't been dating on these apps. I've just been, I've been trying to make friends.
Like, genuinely. My question would be if these people are so skilled at this dating thing, why
are they still single? Wow. Geez, I don't- I mean, it just- This is a modern day Cohen. You know.
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Isn't it? I don't know. It just kind of makes me lonely. Does it make you wish that somebody was there?
I have a friend who is doing a lot of internet dating. Yeah. And what she would do, she came up here from LA.
She liked Portland. And she would just get these guys to take her out to all these fancy restaurants.
Oh. And then some stuff would happen. Would- You just say it's transactional in nature?
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I sure read that way. You know, when you're in the- when you're that person, it probably doesn't
seem that way. Right. Was that like the Craigslist thing? No, that was on Tinder. The Craigslist personal?
Yeah. Tinder is really a lot about meeting and like having sex maybe. So Tinder is just the straight
shot, the sex one. But you know- I can tell you even the more respectable ones though, there's always
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that thing where you just end up making out with somebody when neither of you actually want to.
That hasn't happened to me at all. Really? No, I haven't made out with anybody.
Is Myspace one of these dating apps? Myspace? No, but Instagram is. But Myspace sure worked in the same way.
With Tom? There's a Tom guy on him? Yeah, Tom would set you up with people. Right. That's right.
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Tom, would Tom take you out to dinner before he set you up or was it just like a straight up
pimping you out? He would just basically pimp you out. So he could see like into your eyes and see
really where you were at. Yeah. I have to say, Ben- I say, Ben, you just got to keep it up. You got to
keep trying. Yeah. You got to wish for somebody. I mean, you know, I've got to level with you. I'm
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not even really trying to make out. I know it's- so you have to try to not- you have to try not to.
You know what it is? You know what it is? I feel like I'm a lost soul just kind of swimming around
in something. That reminds me of something. Have you thought about volunteering?
You know what I've thought about is trying to figure out like on the SAT
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the difference between heaven and hell. Oh man. Yeah, it's one of those swipe left for heaven,
swipe right for hell.
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I believe, I believe you were here
I feel like I'm swimming in a fishbowl year after year
Running over the same old ground when I was there
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I feel like I'm swimming in sevenımıats
And I wonder if it's you
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Seven miats
I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man
Hey, it's Coach Larry, host of the Weekday Morning Sports Talk Radio Show. Six hours, 6am to noon every weekday Monday through Friday.
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I'm talking sports, nobody else in this town can do it. Nobody has the guts. I'm getting the glory because I'm talking sports.
I was trying to figure out, hey, if people are sitting around watching the Pezarene Revolution Band for an hour, I'm sure some of those people are sports fans.
We're going to love the show because I can't overemphasize it enough. We talk sports, nothing, nothing else. Who else is talking about the basketball playoffs?
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The NFL Draft, all of the sports right now. We talk about the sports teams that you love. In fact, you turn it on, you go, I can't believe they're talking about exactly what I want to hear about.
We're back, we are back. Wow, that was fun. That made me wish about a bunch of things. But Ben, we have some serious business to take care of.
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You are here to plug us something here. You got us the Portal Arts Collective. I'm fascinated. What is that?
My dear friend Richard Colley, you've seen his work if you live here in Portland and you like it. He's a found object sculptor, but he can use stuff and make it awesome.
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He has a lot of recycled metals and other materials. He did the new Teote up on Alberta. All the metal work there. He and his partner Gustav.
He did the old Teote. He's done the crazy fence at Eastburn. All this crazy metal. This is all Richard's stuff. He's also been heavily involved with the warehouse called Manifestation.
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It's a big creative space. Anyway, you know how it is when you're an artist and you're trying to get paid. It's just hard.
I've never been paid for my art. That's why my art is available on Amazon Prime for cheap. It's an add-on item.
Or Pinterest. I'm thinking about going to a Pinterest site. That stuff is usually free. Oh, is that that? I keep doing that.
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That's what we do. We give it away. We give it away for free. I was thinking about this term the other day. Commercial art. Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
If you've got the commercials and then you've got the art, can they really go together? That's a great question.
Reese's peanut butter. It's like, oh! It's like Manhattan in the 50s. You've got ads on your show, man.
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This 1890s Robert Barron had peanut butter. The two of them built this great taste with TV. We all gotta eat.
So listen, the Portal Arts Collective, more seriously, it's a brand new arts nonprofit. What they're focusing on is reuse of recyclable and just straight up trash materials.
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And they're doing all these projects. So all of their art is involved with reusable parts.
Yeah, primarily either recycled plastic. They're pelletizing plastic and reforming it into new plastic. They use a lot of recycled steel, a lot of recycled wood. It's pretty badass.
And that is the shapes I've seen there. The burn side with the buildings that used to exist. Is that the same guys?
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It's like that bridgehead there. There's like a giant metal... That's someone else. That's from New York, I think. It's some other town person.
It's like they're there and then they're gone. I think that that thing is really... Maybe that's one of those...
You remember when they were building the South Waterfront and then the economy crashed and they couldn't finish any of those buildings? Right.
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Except for Greg Oden lived there. But I think it's the same type of thing where they were maybe building something there that wasn't art and then they ran out of money.
And then they're like, it's art. I don't know. But this is not them, Ben. This is the Portal Arts Collective.
I'm going to share a link on the syndicated version of this. Yeah, I will get you a link. Get me a link. We will put that in the info section of the finalized...
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Look for their work. There's going to be a polar bear sculpture made out of recycled plastic at this year's Oregon Country Fair and also at the Winter Light Festival.
Polar bear at the Country Fair. And Ben, do you have any links that we should attach? Is there any...
I will be doing the Portland Love Show again next year. That's a show that I did for six years and then I moved away.
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And we just brought back last year the Ford Building and we'll be doing it again next year.
I was reading a little bit about that. What is the Portland Love Show?
You know how February and Valentine's Day is like just really a stab in the heart to pretty much anyone who actually cares about love.
I mean it's just like this... maybe not for you. I know it's your favorite holiday. No, no. It brings...
It's your favorite holiday. You know, Jameel and I kind of try and spend February very... it's tough.
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Yeah, it's a commercial holiday. It's a butter time. And if you're alone, I mean, god damn it, you may as well just go kill yourself.
Well, if you're in our routine and if you aren't alone and it's like the bad time of the year financially and you're reminded of that by all these teens and red bulls.
You're reminded of your poverty because they're like buy a diamond for Jeff.
If you not love her, you can get her a ten million dollar diamond or you don't love her.
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So the love show is kind of a counterweight to that. I can't use credit anymore. So love...
It's all about love like heartbreak. It's about loving your dog. It's about loving doing web TV. It's about loving your mustache.
It's about loving your mom. It's about self love as opposed to this whole thing.
So what are some of these exhibits like then?
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This past year we had over 200 artists, each one with one piece each.
We hung it salon style. You can go to PortlandLoveShow.com and you can see some of the work.
And there should be some event photos up there too.
We had a nonprofit partner with Transition Projects. We collected hygiene products and new socks and underwear to give to people who are living on the street right now.
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We always try to do something. We've partnered with Oregon Food Bank in the past.
So the artists get a little something but most of it is actually driven as a nonprofit fundraiser?
No. If you buy art, the artist gets most of the money.
But a little portion does go...
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Nope. If you buy art, the artist is going to get the money. We're also going to use some of it to produce the show.
Because it's that whole self love thing. And the whole artists need to get paid thing.
You probably know organizing a big event.
Well I'm just thinking of...
But we did collect items. We always have a nonprofit partner that we sponsor and work with.
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Bringing visibility to what they're doing and also collecting the items that they need and trying to connect people with them and raising awareness for them.
You know what it's like actually?
What?
It's like the nonprofit is a sleeping lion. Right?
Alright. Right.
And it's just they're sleeping. No one knows about it.
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And the love show basically tries to bring attention to that sleeping lion by raising a voice and singing the praises of that sleeping lion.
Metaphorically.
The art...the love show?
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The love show. It's a wonderful thing.
And it's probably especially wonderful for sleeping lions.
But speaking of sleeping lions, this lion of a mayor we have...actually I'm thinking of the old mayor.
This current mayor, I ain't too bad. But I've been hearing from some friends he ain't too good either.
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Oh, my lovely wife Jamila is here.
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Okay, and we're back. Oh, yeah. I guess there's some technical problems. They may have not
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been hearing that. So, Ben, in the interest of expediency, we're just going to kind of
walk through that whole thing again. So let's, why don't you step out and we'll introduce
you. Okay, so I'll come back out, and then I'll come back in, I'll do the trick. And
then we'll talk about tape school and the whole thing. I think we can, we're going to
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cut, David, we're going to cut the tape. Okay, okay. That was just, we weren't even talking,
that was just mime stuff. So we're going to go back. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we have
a guest for us today in on the show. The one, the only. Yes, he's here with us today live,
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Ben Pink. Yeah. All right. Yeah, great to see you. Great to see you. Oh, great to see you.
Thank you so much for joining us. How are you today, Ben? I'm just doing, I'm just fabulous.
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I'm just, I'm just doing great right now. How are you doing? I've got this weird feeling
of deja vu, but it feels good. Well, you know, it's, hey, that's me up there. It's, it's,
it's so wonderful of you to join us in the studio today. We had a nice dress rehearsal
run. The audience at home probably saw some of that, but what they didn't get to see or
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what they saw but didn't hear was about your fabulous magic trick. Well, do we, do we want
to do it again for them? Just a quick summation, sum up. Let's show them that and then we're
going to show them the magic behind the magic trick. Okay. So let me, let me hold your mic
for you. Parental warning, young kids, I'm okay. This is okay. You can talk about it
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in counseling in 20 years. You're going to be okay. Okay. Check it out. I've got this
thumb here. I've got this hand here. No holes, no secrets. Thumbs firmly attached, but, want
to give it a little, yeah, does it feel like a real thumb? Seems good. Seems good. That's
a real thumb, but with the power of magic, somebody gone. Holy, holy, holy. That's right.
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And Holly, holy hail. Do we want to, do we want to see it again? Give us one more, one
more. I missed it. Here we go. Thumb, thumb off. It's off. It's off. It's off. And then
into the air. And then there it is out of the frame. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I, I, that's
amazing. Thank you, Ben. Oh, you're beautiful. Beautiful. Um, I, I hope that didn't frighten
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anyone too much at the homestead there, but, uh, you know, children, you can now return.
Um, we're, there might be a couple F bombs that we dropped, but we're done scaring you
with magic tricks. Um, so Ben, uh, how do you do that magic trick? Ooh, I mean, I don't
want to do like a David Copperfield and expose anything, but it's going to take a, you know,
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honestly, have you been to Tibet? I, I once went there for a, a gaff tape seminar. Yeah.
You know, they have those, um, monks, Tibetan monks, the gaff tape monks, and they say, oh,
is that the throat singing? You have to do that a bunch. Yes. Um, to prime your thumb.
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Okay. Okay. I was actually spent the past two hours before I came over here chanting.
And um, I mean, I guess that kind of puts it at a reach for most people cause who has
the time, who has the time? Um, but you know, I don't get to be on TV often. So, well, I,
I, we're, we're technically not on TV. We're on the internet. I see you on TV. I mean,
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that is a TV up there. That's a monitor. Okay. I don't get to be on monitors very often.
Yes. You're always behind the scenes. So I've been, I've been chanting and I've been, um,
stretching and doing a lot of yoga. I, I did, these are basketball injuries. I don't know
if you can get that David, but these are, these are fingers that used to be straight.
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Oh, that's terrible. I, I, it is, can you still do that kind of a trick with, with a
jagged finger like that? No, you can't actually, if you, if you mess up your pinky, you're
not going to be able to take off your thumb either. It's kind of a systemic thing. It's
the holistic system that we're talking about. You try to, if you break your pinky, your
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thumb is going to compensate by being connected. There's that weird, it's the hip bone, Illuminati
thing, ear bone, knee bone thing. Um, so I don't know if I explained that. I mean, I
mean, I don't want to get all fussy about it. I'm not that insulted, but you know, you're
basically taking my magic trick and making it into something that just anybody can do
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at home. And it's just really not, I mean, you can't, I'm not better than you. I'm just
another person. No one's saying that. I'm just saying though, that you're going to have
to do work. It's like you playing the guitar. I was, I have a question actually Ben real
quick. Aren't you worried you're going to get kicked out of the guild for revealing
some of your secrets? Oh, I haven't actually shared anything. You see it's, this is another
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layer of, this is another layer. Yes. That's an illusion unto itself. There are many veils
that must be lifted and parted and some of them have to be, you have to take the thumb
tack out and actually take the veil down and roll it up and launder it before you can get
to them. That totally makes sense. You are speaking some intense stuff. Oh yeah. Now
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we mentioned in the part that got the audio fell out on us, but you were trained in the
CIA to handle this kind of tactics. It was the IAC. The IAC. Which was actually a front
for the CIA. Okay. The C stands for, that's something to do with the finger magic? The
C stands for gaff tape in Russian. Okay. It's not really a C, it's whatever that letter
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is called in Russian. I don't remember what that's called. It's not this guy. It's not
that. It might be her though. Oh. She was actually my professor. Oh really? Yeah. She
said shut up Ben. This was actually a photo taken from class where I was like, I had a
question but they don't like it when you ask questions in the IAC. Both time. Yeah. So.
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Oh boy. It was tough. It's got to be tough. It was tough. It's that back when it was called
Lennon Grad or is it St. Petersburg? It was Lennon, I guess I'm technically a Lennon Grad.
Okay. Since I went and graduated when it was St. Petersburg. And that reminds me, I got
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to pay another bill here, but I wanted to ask you a very important question. When we
get back, how do I know you? Oh. You ever feel like this is your life? Ouch. Cars are
running into you, are running you off the road. You're going to need the best insurance available.
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dial a bunch of fives and a three and a four. 1-800-555-5534. We'll get you back on the
road and help you stay there. Oh. So I'm pretty sure the sound's working, but let's
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uh, oh this commercial has another minute, so just hang on. What's that? Oh, we're live,
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oh my goodness, we're live. We've been live, man. Oh, I didn't, we're live. Uh oh, where
did we go? East. Hey! Something's getting weird. Okay, we're back. You're not getting
the connection there, are you David? Come back. There it is, there it is. It's the thing
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on there, the tape, it gets really loose. It's all crazy BNC stuff. It's because you didn't
go to school for this, man. That's where you really. Well, we're lacking a lot of tape,
I know this. It's the wrong kinds of tape. So the important question I had to ask you
Ben was, um, you're uh, are you one of these uh, the millennials? I mean, I'm gonna break
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your heart right now, but. I'm just not. If you want, I can play with my phone while we're
talking though. I can do a simulation of millennialism. Well yeah, that'd be good, that'd be good.
So um, this kind of reminds me of when I was working with high school kids in the 90s there.
So how are you doing today, Ben? Yeah. Cool man, I uh, I heard you were uh, wanted to
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um, like uh, go see a show or something. There's a really cool band, I'm playing with them,
you wanna see them? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah. Are you like, standing in the front
row with your hands in your pocket? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Okay, okay, okay. So uh, this
is one of the things I've been noticing. They use, hey, hey, put your phone down. Huh? Come
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back. I mean, I'm just trying to. I want Gen X back. Okay. So are you on the cusp of X,
like Rich, or are you getting pushed further in? I don't know, I don't know. I'm a 76er,
so I don't know if that, I don't know where that puts me. Yeah, we're in there, those
bicentennial kids, yeah, we're right. I got the special quarter, you know. You know what I'm
talking about, that special quarter. Oh yeah, I got like a million of them. The silver dollar too.
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Yeah. That makes you feel really good. Yeah, yeah. There's two dollar bills too, man. I've got
several of those. Really got the entire signing of the Declaration of Independence on there.
Hot. It's hot. Yeah. I have 13 copies of Songs in the Key of Life. Nice. But no copies of
Frampton Comes Alive. Huh, that's weird. Well, that kind of reminds me of this really cool band
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that was happening back then called Kiss. Did you guys ever listen to Kiss? The Gene Simmons guy,
the bass player. Yeah. He's a nice man. Well, he's on NPR a lot, I guess. He's a little liberal
for my taste. Yeah. Does Terry Gross have a thing? I heard there was something going on. It seems
like they have a thing. Yeah. Really? I mean, it just sounds like it. So if I'm a millennial,
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I'm gonna look that up. She sort of sounds more flirty than usual, and he sure is. He's got that
tongue. Well, I wonder if being a Gen Xer, because I'm deeply, I'm 70, I'm in the middle of it,
although they keep moving me closer to a boomer, I know. No. Yeah. That's messed up, man. That's
messed up. But I think we have, for some reason, Gen X, the thumbs. As you get older, it's really
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hard to use the phones, because it's all, it's like this very agile thumb. It's called arthritis.
Well, it could be, but I mean, you know, I like go to make a text message, right? And then, you
know, that's, it's a fucking H. Do you find that, Siri doesn't understand you too? Yeah. Like,
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you're not speaking whatever form of gibberish is needed to be heard by the machine? Siri, uh,
uh, Coqdila. Oh, I forgot my C3PO is on. Okay, that was C3PO. I have, you can get a certain app
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that the C3PO and R2D2, their technology can now be downloaded into your phone. That's awesome.
Because they as well were 1976 technology. You know, that's what happens in the military industrial
complex. The Star Wars end up producing technology that even you can use later. It's like,
it's like canned food, man. All this technology and they didn't even have like a,
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one hundredth of it. And they got those guys on the moon. It's crazy, man. Wild stuff. It's crazy.
And you can buy our moon, moon landing conspiracy. The musical is available also on Amazon,
headed by Jeff Bezos, a wonderful man. Is that fire behind me? Okay. Let's take a break. We'll
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Variety Hour. So Ben, I was, I heard there's this other thing, us Gen Xers with thumbs, having
issues with texting and not understanding that. I have to admit, I met my lovely wife, Jamila,
so long ago that the internet barely existed. I don't think it did exist, actually. Right.
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Maybe there was AOL or something, I think was all we had. And, but we met and we got involved,
you know, really hot and heavy. And I guess I don't need to go in that part, but we did it the
old fashioned way. There's all these people that date now that, I think they, notes here. I think,
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yeah, there it is. Online dating. What is this online dating people speak of? Yeah, man. I was
just telling you. I missed it. I don't know what you're talking about. You know, I didn't know a
thing about it when I started my last relationship 10 years ago. Okay. So you're kind of in this.
Online dating was just like match.com and that's if you were a busy executive and you were looking
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to get married to somebody. Match.com. Okay. Well, there's all this other stuff now, right? I mean,
there's- So when, when now match was the original or? I think so, something like that. And it was
for business people? It was for busy people who were looking for their spouse. Busy people.
Busy-ness. Yeah. Busy-ness. So you didn't have to be in business per se, you just had to be busy.
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Yeah. Engaged in busy-ness. Yeah. Busy getting your food stamps. No, I mean, maybe more busy.
Well, maybe. I don't know. I don't, I'm not sure. I don't, I didn't, like I said, this is,
this wasn't a thing people, normal people did. Now there's this whole thing where
there's this thing called Tinder. Tinder. There's Grindr. Okay. Now what is Tinder? There's
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Okay Cupid. Okay. There's Bubble. Okay. There's Bubble Gum. Bubble Gum. There's Bubble Gum Light.
Holy cow. There's Twinder. There's Tlyndr. There's Tlyndr. I don't even know Tinder.
There's Tlyndr with a Tly. Tlyndr. Is that- It's a Northern European thing. Is that kind of the
throat singing thing again? It's for Finland. Finnish people. Finnish throat singing.
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The Sami people, I think, use this. There's reindeer involved. I'm not really sure. Wow.
So- But I can tell you about the fuse that I've used, which has been a whole,
it's in a brave new world for me, honestly. Okay. So what was your first online dating experience
like, if you don't mind? You know, it's funny because I wasn't really trying to date. I was
just trying to figure out like how do single people meet now. Because, you know, before when
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you'd sit in a bar or- Right. On a park bench. Right. You would roll up your cigarette. Or you'd
sit in a bathroom stall. Right. Or at a coffee shop or at the library. The stall with the little
foot things. Or at the bus stop. You'd sit at all these places. And then at some point, somebody
would, you could talk to them. But now, since we have these phones, you sit at anywhere and you
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just look in your phone. So basically like Tinder and OkCupid and all these ways are ways to get at
people through their phone. Right? Like they might be sitting there with you, looking at their phone,
on Tinder. And you're sitting five feet away, looking at them on Tinder. And you have this
mediated interaction through the phone now instead of talking. So if I was dating and I can't use my
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thumbs very well on this, I would be- It's okay because you swipe. Oh, you- You could swipe.
Okay. Tinder is just pictures mainly and then there's some words, but most people don't look
at those. They just swipe. Are you saying these dating apps is kind of a yes-no thing? It's a very-
It's- I think of it, I didn't know anything about it, but I've realized that it's kind of,
it feels like people shopping. Wow. Wow. Like a big vending machine of people. You've got this
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illusion of choice. Right? That just sounds like good old standardized testing to me,
which I was terrible at. The SAT killed me. I hated true-false. And then the blue books
unleashed me. Oh my God. All of a sudden, my grades improved because I was able to bullshit.
Yeah, man. How can you possibly date if it's a very binary swiping app? Well, honestly, my whole
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approach has been to not date. Okay. Okay. Yeah, because since I just, you know,
like I feel like there are all these people that are kind of just running around and they've got
the Olympic level skill at this, whereas like, yes, 10 years I wasn't doing any of this. So I'm
more just like, I'm like a baby. But if they- Crawling around the floor and people are hurtling
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over me. Yes. Yeah. So I don't want to participate in the hurdles. Instead, I want to be able to be
a baby. So I haven't been dating on these apps. I've just been, I've been trying to make friends.
Like, genuinely. My question would be if these people are so skilled at this dating thing, why
are they still single? Wow. Geez, I don't- I mean, it just- This is a modern day Cohen. You know.
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Isn't it? I don't know. It just kind of makes me lonely. Does it make you wish that somebody was there?
I have a friend who is doing a lot of internet dating. Yeah. And what she would do, she came up here from LA.
She liked Portland. And she would just get these guys to take her out to all these fancy restaurants.
Oh. And then some stuff would happen. Would- You just say it's transactional in nature?
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I sure read that way. You know, when you're in the- when you're that person, it probably doesn't
seem that way. Right. Was that like the Craigslist thing? No, that was on Tinder. The Craigslist personal?
Yeah. Tinder is really a lot about meeting and like having sex maybe. So Tinder is just the straight
shot, the sex one. But you know- I can tell you even the more respectable ones though, there's always
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that thing where you just end up making out with somebody when neither of you actually want to.
That hasn't happened to me at all. Really? No, I haven't made out with anybody.
Is Myspace one of these dating apps? Myspace? No, but Instagram is. But Myspace sure worked in the same way.
With Tom? There's a Tom guy on him? Yeah, Tom would set you up with people. Right. That's right.
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Tom, would Tom take you out to dinner before he set you up or was it just like a straight up
pimping you out? He would just basically pimp you out. So he could see like into your eyes and see
really where you were at. Yeah. I have to say, Ben- I say, Ben, you just got to keep it up. You got to
keep trying. Yeah. You got to wish for somebody. I mean, you know, I've got to level with you. I'm
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not even really trying to make out. I know it's- so you have to try to not- you have to try not to.
You know what it is? You know what it is? I feel like I'm a lost soul just kind of swimming around
in something. That reminds me of something. Have you thought about volunteering?
You know what I've thought about is trying to figure out like on the SAT
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the difference between heaven and hell. Oh man. Yeah, it's one of those swipe left for heaven,
swipe right for hell.
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Running over the same old ground when I was there
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I'm talking sports, nobody else in this town can do it. Nobody has the guts. I'm getting the glory because I'm talking sports.
I was trying to figure out, hey, if people are sitting around watching the Pezarene Revolution Band for an hour, I'm sure some of those people are sports fans.
We're going to love the show because I can't overemphasize it enough. We talk sports, nothing, nothing else. Who else is talking about the basketball playoffs?
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The NFL Draft, all of the sports right now. We talk about the sports teams that you love. In fact, you turn it on, you go, I can't believe they're talking about exactly what I want to hear about.
We're back, we are back. Wow, that was fun. That made me wish about a bunch of things. But Ben, we have some serious business to take care of.
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You are here to plug us something here. You got us the Portal Arts Collective. I'm fascinated. What is that?
My dear friend Richard Colley, you've seen his work if you live here in Portland and you like it. He's a found object sculptor, but he can use stuff and make it awesome.
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He has a lot of recycled metals and other materials. He did the new Teote up on Alberta. All the metal work there. He and his partner Gustav.
He did the old Teote. He's done the crazy fence at Eastburn. All this crazy metal. This is all Richard's stuff. He's also been heavily involved with the warehouse called Manifestation.
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It's a big creative space. Anyway, you know how it is when you're an artist and you're trying to get paid. It's just hard.
I've never been paid for my art. That's why my art is available on Amazon Prime for cheap. It's an add-on item.
Or Pinterest. I'm thinking about going to a Pinterest site. That stuff is usually free. Oh, is that that? I keep doing that.
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That's what we do. We give it away. We give it away for free. I was thinking about this term the other day. Commercial art. Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?
If you've got the commercials and then you've got the art, can they really go together? That's a great question.
Reese's peanut butter. It's like, oh! It's like Manhattan in the 50s. You've got ads on your show, man.
(44:56):
This 1890s Robert Barron had peanut butter. The two of them built this great taste with TV. We all gotta eat.
So listen, the Portal Arts Collective, more seriously, it's a brand new arts nonprofit. What they're focusing on is reuse of recyclable and just straight up trash materials.
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And they're doing all these projects. So all of their art is involved with reusable parts.
Yeah, primarily either recycled plastic. They're pelletizing plastic and reforming it into new plastic. They use a lot of recycled steel, a lot of recycled wood. It's pretty badass.
And that is the shapes I've seen there. The burn side with the buildings that used to exist. Is that the same guys?
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It's like that bridgehead there. There's like a giant metal... That's someone else. That's from New York, I think. It's some other town person.
It's like they're there and then they're gone. I think that that thing is really... Maybe that's one of those...
You remember when they were building the South Waterfront and then the economy crashed and they couldn't finish any of those buildings? Right.
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Except for Greg Oden lived there. But I think it's the same type of thing where they were maybe building something there that wasn't art and then they ran out of money.
And then they're like, it's art. I don't know. But this is not them, Ben. This is the Portal Arts Collective.
I'm going to share a link on the syndicated version of this. Yeah, I will get you a link. Get me a link. We will put that in the info section of the finalized...
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Look for their work. There's going to be a polar bear sculpture made out of recycled plastic at this year's Oregon Country Fair and also at the Winter Light Festival.
Polar bear at the Country Fair. And Ben, do you have any links that we should attach? Is there any...
I will be doing the Portland Love Show again next year. That's a show that I did for six years and then I moved away.
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And we just brought back last year the Ford Building and we'll be doing it again next year.
I was reading a little bit about that. What is the Portland Love Show?
You know how February and Valentine's Day is like just really a stab in the heart to pretty much anyone who actually cares about love.
I mean it's just like this... maybe not for you. I know it's your favorite holiday. No, no. It brings...
It's your favorite holiday. You know, Jameel and I kind of try and spend February very... it's tough.
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Yeah, it's a commercial holiday. It's a butter time. And if you're alone, I mean, god damn it, you may as well just go kill yourself.
Well, if you're in our routine and if you aren't alone and it's like the bad time of the year financially and you're reminded of that by all these teens and red bulls.
You're reminded of your poverty because they're like buy a diamond for Jeff.
If you not love her, you can get her a ten million dollar diamond or you don't love her.
(47:38):
So the love show is kind of a counterweight to that. I can't use credit anymore. So love...
It's all about love like heartbreak. It's about loving your dog. It's about loving doing web TV. It's about loving your mustache.
It's about loving your mom. It's about self love as opposed to this whole thing.
So what are some of these exhibits like then?
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This past year we had over 200 artists, each one with one piece each.
We hung it salon style. You can go to PortlandLoveShow.com and you can see some of the work.
And there should be some event photos up there too.
We had a nonprofit partner with Transition Projects. We collected hygiene products and new socks and underwear to give to people who are living on the street right now.
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We always try to do something. We've partnered with Oregon Food Bank in the past.
So the artists get a little something but most of it is actually driven as a nonprofit fundraiser?
No. If you buy art, the artist gets most of the money.
But a little portion does go...
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Nope. If you buy art, the artist is going to get the money. We're also going to use some of it to produce the show.
Because it's that whole self love thing. And the whole artists need to get paid thing.
You probably know organizing a big event.
Well I'm just thinking of...
But we did collect items. We always have a nonprofit partner that we sponsor and work with.
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Bringing visibility to what they're doing and also collecting the items that they need and trying to connect people with them and raising awareness for them.
You know what it's like actually?
What?
It's like the nonprofit is a sleeping lion. Right?
Alright. Right.
And it's just they're sleeping. No one knows about it.
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And the love show basically tries to bring attention to that sleeping lion by raising a voice and singing the praises of that sleeping lion.
Metaphorically.
The art...the love show?
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Yeah.
The love show. It's a wonderful thing.
And it's probably especially wonderful for sleeping lions.
But speaking of sleeping lions, this lion of a mayor we have...actually I'm thinking of the old mayor.
This current mayor, I ain't too bad. But I've been hearing from some friends he ain't too good either.
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Some people are like, whoa.
Oh, my lovely wife Jamila is here.
Oh, hi honey. What's going on?
Say goodnight, Jo.
Goodnight, Jo.
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