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October 13, 2024 14 mins
I’m back baby! Season seven of Dr ice cream is here. Today I’m getting into the biggest topic of all. What is the meaning of life? Also, I talk about some music I’ve been making, how to get into your villain era and did I get Oasis tickets?

Thank you to Beyoncé for letting me record today’s episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Doctor ice Cream, the philosophical series coming to
you live from the Doctor ice Cream studios in my house.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I had no idea how.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
To begin this episode that will do Hello, Hello, and
welcome back to you. I think this is season seven
of Doctor ice Cream. This is the philosophical season where
we are going to get into the deepest I was
gonna say darkest, the deepest and darkest topics available to mankind,

(00:35):
starting with the big one. What is the meaning of life?
And why are we all here?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Question mark? Oh my gosh. The reason I just said
question mark.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Is because I'm so used to doing voice to text
and I just realized this isn't voice to text. This
is a podcast, So I don't need to put the
punctuation in full stop. I just need to do that. Okay,
what is the meaning of life? Question mark? The big
question mark? Well, I just got an extremely exciting delivery

(01:09):
of some new shoes. About ten minutes ago, there was
a knock on my door. I don't know why I'm
explaining the process of ordering things online to you. Do
you know?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Do you know how it works? Guys?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
You order something online and it turns off to your door,
and sometimes they knock, and sometimes they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sometimes they just leave the little slip.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
And take off into the wilderness, never to be seen again.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
But this lovely lady.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Knocked on my door and delivered me two pairs of
Colorado boots, and they are absolutely gorgeous. I have been
eating new boots for weeks and weeks now and after
to say I have manifested just the most perfect pair. Yes,
they're not quite right for spring, which I think is
why I got such an absolute bargain on them. I've
got two pairs, one brown, one black. They were only

(01:58):
forty dollars each month, down from like two hundred and fifty.
And I think it's because, like I said, it's a spring,
they're out of season. But the season in my heart
is to always wear boots. I absolutely love boots, and
all mine were either worn down to the ground.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's not the right setting for shoes.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I had worn the soles off all my boots because
I wear them so often, or they were too high
and they can't drive them. So I've been needing some
for so long. They here, and to say they are
the meaning of my life is maybe a little bit
of a stretch, but they are the meaning of my
life today.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
And guys, that is the secret to life.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
There is no meaning, There is absolutely nothing. There is
nothing beyond whatever random shit is happening to you right now.
That's it, there's no more. I was watching this video
the other day that said, you know, the last time

(03:00):
someone thinks about you is when you will absolutely no
longer exist in the universe. And that is going to
happen way, way, way quicker than we think. So that
could be like next generation for me. I don't have
any little mini ice creams. What a way to refer

(03:22):
to my hypothetical non children as little ice creams. I
don't have little ice creams running around.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I have nephew.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So there will be a generation that still will think
of me now and then. But that's actually for most people. Basically,
in two or throw generations, no one will ever think
of you ever again. You will cease to be in
the memory of anyone in the universe. Of course, you
will readincarnate, but put that aside. Think about who you
currently are. You are not going to exist for very
long at all, and that's even if you're famous. A

(03:53):
lot of people in the comments of this video were like,
but what if what if I'm Beyonce, like, wake up,
you're not beyond one.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Thank you to Beyonce.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I just want to say thank you Beyonce for let
me record this podcast. Anyway back to the topic, You're
not Beyonce. You're not gonna be remembered like Beyonce. And
also even she is going to evaporate in a few
generations time, and and other people are like, but what
about the kings and queens? Kings and queens get remembered again,

(04:22):
You're not a king. Someone was one highly marked up,
ticked liked comment was what about the that was was
sorry The comment was name one king of Sweden from
eight hundred years ago, and everyone was like, I don't know.
I think the point being is you could probably look
them up, so they haven't reached the stage where they

(04:46):
would never be thought of again. But even that time
is coming very soon. And even if you are famous,
even if you're Elvis, even if you're a famous philosopher,
even if you're Beyonce, thank you Beyonce. In you know,
even a couple of thound years you're gone. Jesus will
one day don't strike me down. God, But even Jesus
one day will not be remembered. That's because eventually everyone

(05:09):
will be wiped off the planet and the universe will implode.
So the meaning of life is just the boots that
you're enjoying right now.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
So another topic for today's episode is that Oasis Australian
tickets pre sale.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
The fan pre sale was today at twelve and.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
You'll be thinking, Crystal Gallagher aka doctor ice Cream, aka
Australia's biggest Oasis fan, surely you nab some tickets. Well, guys,
I'm gonna tell you I did not. I am not
sitting here with the golden ticket, with a little hot
Oasis ticket.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
In my hand. No, I am not.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm sitting here o ass less, absolutely ass less, in
my live.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
At studio studio here. I have no ticket.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And that is because I waited forty minutes in the
queue for the Oasis tickets, forty minutes as the four
and the zero, there was twenty thousand people ahead of me,
even though I logged in right at twelve.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
There was twenty thousand people ahead of me still, and.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I waited the way that I was eating my little
chicken sandwich, having my coffee, keeping an eye on it
and Eventually I was allowed to purchase tickets, and the
prices were astronomical. Even I, I reckon a lot of
people couldn't have justified the price. General admission was seven
hundred and eight hundred dollars. The really really bad tickets

(06:37):
were still three to four hundred dollars. I couldn't justify it,
not with the cost of living, not with Christmas coming up,
that is my nephew's Christmas present.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Money couldn't do it. I don't love Oasis that much.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I loved them like one hundred and fifty dollars, maybe
two hundred enough. Even the two hundred dollar sticks were
no longer available by the time I got there, And
you know what, just closing the window it just took
always stress away, and I was very happy and comfortable
with that decision. Yes, it's a little sad to miss out,
but I've seen them before. I have seen Oasis. I've
seen Oasis as a band once, and I've seen Nold

(07:11):
Gallagher twice, and I would almost I would almost count
the Nol Gallagher gigs as Oasis because he only sang
Oasis songs. So this was like two thousand and five,
two thousand and six, he hadn't even had a solid
career yet. He was just doing Oasis songs, so I
would sort of count and Noel was like two meters
away from me. I went to see him perform at
that I can't even remember what it was called now,

(07:33):
I remember the panel slash Robe used to do that.
It was it was on channel Channel like eight thirty
at night and it was acoustic sessions. I went for
like an hour and an hour and a half and
there was a live audience. Was what was that even called? Anyway,
I want tickets to go and see that. Noel was
literally in front of me. It was such a bizarre,
real experience to actually just have him sit directly in

(07:56):
front of me for an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Singing Oasis songs.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
It was very bizarre and it was amazing, and I
honestly feel like I've had I've had my Oasis experience,
even though it was twenty years ago. I don't know,
I don't I can't justify the four hundred seven hundred
dollars eight hundred dollars price tag. I might try again
in the general sale to see if I can nab
a cheapie, but you know, sometimes the meaning of life

(08:24):
is just to let things go, just saying no, what
this is not worth? The stress doesn't matter. Nothing exists
October twenty twenty five doesn't even exist, Like it might
not even arrive. I might not even be, you know,
in Melbourne. I might be in a different to mention
by then. You know, I really cannot be thinking that

(08:44):
far forward. Speaking of music, I have actually been spending
the last thirteen days recording a little album. One of
the creators I follow on to TikTok is doing something
called the Villain Challenge, where you were supposed to channel
your inner creative villain to do a project that you,

(09:09):
as yourself could not do. So you need to get
into the mindset of like a villain, a villain character,
because if you were truly being a villain, you wouldn't
let like little insecurities and little doubt stop you.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like a villain wouldn't think, oh, I can't do it.
I can't write an album. I can't do it, do
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Like if it would be like air fa, I'm actually
just gonna do it, And who cares?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Who cares? Who likes it? Who cares if it's even good?
Who cares? If anyone wants this.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Nobody wants this, who cares?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So I did it.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
It is called The Last Days of My Home Planet,
and it's completed. There are twelve tracks on it. They
are recorded, they are uploaded.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Are they good? Well, that's open to interpretation. Art is
very subjective.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
But what I can say is I wrote, and I'm
using quotation marks, open quotes, wrote close quotes. I wrote
these songs by freestyling on my old organ and just
recording that straight into my iPhone. And the results are
exactly what you would expect from what I just said.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
But I've done it. It's done. There is there's twelve
songs up. It's the Last Days of My Home Planet.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
I also did the paint of the artwork for each
song individually, so that was part of it, and it
was a lot of fun. By the end of it,
I got to the stage where every single thing I
was recording was starting to sound very similar, as in,
like I was the last four or five songs and
they're almost just the same song to be honest. And

(11:09):
then I thought, you know what, I need to actually
look up something about music theory, Like I know the
I know only the very very bare bones.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
So this is how I basically go about it.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I do just feel it from my background as a
music lover.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I just I do. I will give myself this.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I do instinctively know how to craft a song, and
that is just from listening to music obsessively for forty years.
I used to write little songs when I was a
very young child. I used to get my cassette player
out and just rewind parts of songs in the early nineties,
just to figure out how like the chorus and the
verse and everything was constructed. I used to write this.

(11:50):
I used to copy the songs out. So I will
say I do have some sort of instinct to do it.
I'm not saying I'm good at it. That's not what
I'm saying. Like what I'm actually trying to get it
is that I've got absolutely no training. I've never been
torn instrument. I don't really know an instrument. I just
go off vibes. I do know they're very very very

(12:10):
very very very basics of chords and notes and keys
and things like that. But even then I would really
struggle to explain it to anyone else or to even
recreate what I've done.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
But I know they're very, very basics.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Anyway, I got to the end of this little project experiment.
All I don't like using the term little, but I've
done that I probably don't like fifty times. Anyway, I
got to the end of this project and I thought,
you know what I'm gonna I think it's time of
my I should actually like give myself some lessons at
least on the keyboard. And so I did look up
some YouTube tutorials. I've been listening to podcasts about it.

(12:48):
I've watched a few different videos and done a few
different little lessons on the keyboard on the organ, and guys,
do you know what the most.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Annoying thing is.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
The annoying thing is that everything I was intuitively doing
actually is it. Like I thought there was gonna be
some big revelation that I didn't know about. This is
what chords are. Yeah, just what I was making up
were chords, and what I was doing just is what
you would do when you would make a song. So

(13:20):
it's kind of a bit frustrating and annoying because I
was like, oh, I thought I was going to learn
something new. I thought I was gonna have some sort
of revelation, But it hasn't really been that. But what
I will say is I have learned something. It's not
gonna say I've learned nothing from doing these little lessons
and just learning a.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Little bit more.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I've actually, I actually feel like I've really improved my
craft in the last couple of weeks, just from doing
it every day, just from recording a song every day,
from doing a little bit of lessons, thinking about it,
trying to construct something.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
And I am just doing it. I am just doing
it for fun.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I would probably never let anyone besides like my absolute
bestie ever listen to these but it has been a
lot of fun to do this project. And that's gotta

(14:19):
be the meaning of life. If you take nothing else
from this podcast, it is that you've just got to
do what you want to do. Okay, don't let anyone
stop you, be a villain, have fun, buy some new boots,
say goodbye to Oasis, and afford your own path. Thank

(14:43):
you for listening to The Doctor ice Cream Podcast. Until
next time, make sure that you are always chasing your
dreams and eating plenty of ice cream along the way.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I'll see you next time.
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