John; August 12, 2021

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:07.429 Oh Hey, don't worry about me, I'll be fine. So what's up? 2 00:00:07.469 --> 00:00:14.310 It's Thursday, the twelve Sahi T so happy it's Thursday. I was 3 00:00:14.429 --> 00:00:18.750 reading an article, not the first I've read, where I've heard this statement, 4 00:00:18.949 --> 00:00:24.100 something like I don't know, something is different this time, as if 5 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:28.140 you know societies, like, Oh my God, something huge is happening. 6 00:00:28.379 --> 00:00:36.369 What is it? Such a mystery? Whoa what is it break? Why? 7 00:00:36.609 --> 00:00:39.729 Why do you think that? What does your ego make you think that? 8 00:00:39.850 --> 00:00:43.009 Oh my God, this is like more trying times than we've ever been 9 00:00:43.130 --> 00:00:48.090 through in the history of earth. You know what it is? There's one 10 00:00:48.170 --> 00:00:53.320 thing that's different, the Internet. That's what's different. You see things happening 11 00:00:53.960 --> 00:01:00.159 immediately and humans are affected with memisis all we do is mimic shit and try 12 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.790 to copy what we see. But with the fucking Internet, you see it 13 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:07.510 so fast, there's no filters, there's no guard rails. You think he 14 00:01:07.549 --> 00:01:11.230 got to follow every trend and chase every little thing. It's driving you crazy, 15 00:01:11.069 --> 00:01:17.150 especially when the Internet gets infected with negative news and, you know, 16 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:21.420 distrust in the power structure and things like that. Well, and here's what 17 00:01:21.459 --> 00:01:26.579 drives me crazy about that, that term it's something's different this time then when 18 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:30.459 we were you here the last time, some crazy shit was going on. 19 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:34.370 The last time, I mean when I was a teenager. Fuck, the 20 00:01:34.409 --> 00:01:38.689 president got shot. As that happened in a while? has there been a 21 00:01:38.769 --> 00:01:44.609 political assassination of any kind? No, we were at a Cold War with 22 00:01:44.769 --> 00:01:49.000 the USS are. Russia was the whole continent, like all of the states, 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:56.640 and Russia was the USS are, and they had their fucking intercontinental ballistic 24 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:02.590 missiles pointed at us. This sounds like some nineteen six s bullshit, but 25 00:02:02.870 --> 00:02:07.709 in the S, you know, back to the future, ghostbusters, all 26 00:02:07.750 --> 00:02:12.550 that stuff, we still had air raid sirens and air raid drills at school 27 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:16.699 because we were almost at a nuclear war with Russia. And who was the 28 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:21.780 president? Reagan, and then someone shot him. But you know what, 29 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:25.340 because news was slower, we didn't have the Internet. As kids were like 30 00:02:25.419 --> 00:02:29.340 us, someone shot the president, as he did. No, okay, 31 00:02:29.419 --> 00:02:31.009 cool, fuck that Guy Anyway, and we just got on with it. 32 00:02:31.210 --> 00:02:35.889 We didn't dwell, we would get up the next morning and smoke some pot 33 00:02:35.930 --> 00:02:38.729 and hop on our skateboards and go to school be done with it. We 34 00:02:38.770 --> 00:02:43.689 wouldn't be arguing about like did you get your Shotsnu fuck it. We always 35 00:02:43.689 --> 00:02:46.560 got our shots back in the day. Auntie vaxers weren't a thing. Why? 36 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:51.520 Because they didn't have the Internet to spread their not sense. That's why 37 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:58.120 the idea of dining in a nuclear war was so entrenched in our psyche that 38 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.349 one time, when I took acid with my buddies, I thought we were 39 00:03:02.389 --> 00:03:07.870 about to die. Literally, I literally thought that. I mean, obviously 40 00:03:07.870 --> 00:03:12.979 I was tripping on acid, so it wasn't happening. But what had happened 41 00:03:13.099 --> 00:03:16.180 was we had we were up in Sacramento and we used to like to hang 42 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:20.659 out on the river and there was a this one bridge that crossed over the 43 00:03:20.699 --> 00:03:25.379 river, fair oaks bridge, and that particular night we could see really far, 44 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:30.250 like all the way to the bay area. Almost was, I don't 45 00:03:30.289 --> 00:03:34.449 know, twenty thirty miles, it seemed like we could see. Well. 46 00:03:34.569 --> 00:03:40.210 Sacramento was also home to many air force spaces. Well, under the influence 47 00:03:40.289 --> 00:03:49.360 of acid, simultaneously I saw a full moon rise above alone cloud over the 48 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:57.469 bay area and I saw strato fortress, is gigantic nuclear bomber that would fly 49 00:03:57.509 --> 00:04:01.509 out of Sacramento, flying at midnight and is super late at night. We're 50 00:04:01.590 --> 00:04:04.870 tripping on acid, like a Friday or Saturday night, and effectively, I 51 00:04:05.030 --> 00:04:10.060 thought I just saw that full moon rising over that solo cloud. I thought 52 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:14.659 that was a nuclear explosion and that we were about to feel the force of 53 00:04:14.699 --> 00:04:17.860 the nuclear blasts. I just stood on that bridge and clung to the fence. 54 00:04:17.899 --> 00:04:20.819 I could hardly even speak, you know. I was like having a 55 00:04:20.939 --> 00:04:25.970 panic attack or something. And you know my friends, they weren't quite tripping 56 00:04:25.970 --> 00:04:28.250 as hard as I was. So they're like do what the fuck, come 57 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:31.370 on, and I like Whoa. So at that moment I thought we were 58 00:04:31.449 --> 00:04:36.089 dead and the cops had seen our car parked on the Upper Bank of one 59 00:04:36.129 --> 00:04:40.720 side of the river, where we weren't supposed to park, apparently, and 60 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.240 they thought that, by yelling on their bowl horns, that we were just 61 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:46.680 going to come out like fuck, that we're high, we're fucking frying on 62 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:51.600 acid. So we're like ducked under the underside of the bridge and we're not 63 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:56.470 coming out to the cops on the other side of the river. Just for 64 00:04:56.589 --> 00:04:59.790 what? So we get in trouble, get a ticket, maybe possibly taken 65 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:04.149 to jail or something. We were seventeen, maybe sixteen. I don't think 66 00:05:04.149 --> 00:05:09.019 we would have gone to jail. But anyway, we thought we were well 67 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:11.339 shit. We hung out there long enough. I guess they thought they would 68 00:05:11.339 --> 00:05:15.220 fuck with us and called in the helicopter. So then there's like a sheriff 69 00:05:15.339 --> 00:05:20.300 helicopter flying right above the bridge, shining his bright ass Vietnam kind of little 70 00:05:20.379 --> 00:05:27.050 spotlight from his helicopter down through the planks in the bridge and we're swearing like 71 00:05:27.129 --> 00:05:29.370 Oh fuck, don't let the light hitch, you don't let them. We're 72 00:05:29.410 --> 00:05:34.490 just his fucking helicopter super loud into their reverberating off the river and the pilings 73 00:05:34.529 --> 00:05:40.360 of the bridge. And after about seemed like three hours they finally left. 74 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:45.160 They think it was maybe twenty minutes, but time stretches when you're on acid. 75 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.550 Long and short of it. My point is that's how entrenched we were 76 00:05:49.670 --> 00:05:55.870 in the idea of dying in a war like with another country. It was 77 00:05:55.910 --> 00:06:00.589 just part of our existence. So the idea that some fucking goofball, you 78 00:06:00.670 --> 00:06:05.620 know conspiracy theorists, are going to like overtake a building, we're like yeah, 79 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:09.740 big deal, just whatever water can in them. That's what they do. 80 00:06:10.100 --> 00:06:14.100 Water cannons, you know, bayonets. They used to shoot people back 81 00:06:14.139 --> 00:06:17.060 in the day. Straight up, look up Kent State. That was a 82 00:06:17.180 --> 00:06:21.170 thing, you know, where the fucking Army National Guard just open fired on 83 00:06:21.250 --> 00:06:26.730 some kids protesting on the lawn and literally murdered a bunch of kids. Well, 84 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:29.569 they did that in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if they did 85 00:06:29.610 --> 00:06:33.160 it again. It's my point being the things are not like, Oh my 86 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.759 God, this is different this time. Yes, in the sense that we 87 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:42.519 have the Internet, but people that were old enough to experience some shit way 88 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.319 back in the day will you were younger back then, so you experienced it 89 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.829 different anyway. So there's no comparison for anybody on this planet to say, 90 00:06:48.870 --> 00:06:51.949 yeah, it's different this time, so just shut up, it's not different. 91 00:06:53.550 --> 00:06:56.629 Things are going to be fine. Just got to wear goddamn mask. 92 00:06:56.910 --> 00:07:01.980 It's a big fucking deal. Nobody ever protested wearing shoes or pants the mask. 93 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:04.620 Why? Just wear masks, even if you don't want to get a 94 00:07:04.660 --> 00:07:11.379 shot. Wear mask. Don't be a Dick. Oh. So here's the 95 00:07:11.459 --> 00:07:15.730 thing. So you know emo Joe, the logo for Emo Dojo, like 96 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:19.050 the Guinyang logo I made. Well, I turned it into an NFT. 97 00:07:20.250 --> 00:07:24.449 Yeah, it's kind of complex process. It's just a whole weird thing. 98 00:07:24.490 --> 00:07:29.250 You have to basically get some ethereum, so you have to start out like 99 00:07:29.290 --> 00:07:33.920 a coin base account and they'd get a coin base wallets and then loads some 100 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:41.199 etherory and coin, and then you have to put some etherium into one of 101 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:46.110 the NFT platforms, kind of like opensee or lazycom whatever. I used open 102 00:07:46.230 --> 00:07:51.949 see and then puts. Just started a gallery of all a bunch of emo 103 00:07:53.029 --> 00:07:56.430 Joe kind of characters that have drawn over the past couple of years since we've 104 00:07:56.470 --> 00:08:01.459 done the podcast. So that's kind of cool and well, I did it 105 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:03.899 kind of because there's some every once in a while find my shit on like 106 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:09.339 Amazon or Ebay where people have just taken my logoing or printing stupid things with 107 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:15.129 it. I doubt they make much money, but it's the principle of the 108 00:08:15.170 --> 00:08:18.649 matter. They suggest ask or acknowledge the fact that they stole it or something. 109 00:08:20.209 --> 00:08:24.170 But in the world of the future, emo Dojo and the emo Joe 110 00:08:24.290 --> 00:08:28.959 Logo isn't nft. So lock it down that way. By the time you 111 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.679 hear this, twitter made a of let me back on twitter. They might 112 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.039 have my suspension may have ended. So yeah, I can get your messages 113 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.789 and comment and Shit like that. But Anyway, I learned about the twitter 114 00:08:43.870 --> 00:08:48.590 algorithms and yeah, I don't I don't even know why bother with twitter. 115 00:08:48.830 --> 00:08:54.750 However, I do see people from the old days on twitter now and then, 116 00:08:54.830 --> 00:08:58.019 like Moody Spice. Just a shout out to Moody Spice. It's good 117 00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:01.419 to see you out there. I'm glad you're doing okay. I hope everyone 118 00:09:01.460 --> 00:09:05.779 else is fine too, and I also hope, from my old friend Anica, 119 00:09:05.019 --> 00:09:09.570 that that black cat we had rescued, maxine waters, the little kittie 120 00:09:09.649 --> 00:09:15.009 that we rescued from the freezing under the house, got retested. Now she's 121 00:09:15.049 --> 00:09:16.370 a grown up. Obviously, the year and a half or two you later, 122 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:24.600 whatever, she does not have feeline five immunavirus whatever. So that's great. 123 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:31.519 So good news generally all around. My fucking shingles healed up and I'm 124 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.919 starting to gain use of my left shoulder more and more each day. I'm 125 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.909 starting to feel like myself and getting back to the typical ups and downs of 126 00:09:39.070 --> 00:09:43.909 just, you know, having a mood disorder me. So I've been practicing 127 00:09:45.029 --> 00:09:50.230 gratitude, lots of it, and always try to look at things opposite, 128 00:09:50.269 --> 00:09:52.659 like if I'm feeling down or whatever, just try to have an opposite day 129 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:58.259 and look at everything from a different vantage point and even to the extent of 130 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:01.100 like doing things differently, like driving a different way to work or trying to 131 00:10:01.139 --> 00:10:05.620 brush my teeth with my left hand, things like that. Whatever it takes 132 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:09.929 to try to look at things from a different perspective. Instead of feeling gloomy 133 00:10:09.970 --> 00:10:13.649 and like I don't fit in, I just try to make a list of 134 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:18.730 the things I'm thankful for, and the list keeps getting longer. You are 135 00:10:18.809 --> 00:10:26.039 probably on that list, so thank you for being here. So, that 136 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:33.519 said, going to do a Friday night show tomorrow with my buddy g shock 137 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.830 in the bay area. They're getting hit hard by the covid again, lockdowns 138 00:10:37.870 --> 00:10:41.190 and all that bullshit and proof of vaccines and everything. It's really stressing a 139 00:10:41.190 --> 00:10:45.990 lot of people out and the Division that causes. So anyway, hopefully that 140 00:10:46.309 --> 00:10:50.299 episode will go on as planned. Just wanted to listen to some Friday new 141 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:54.340 music tomorrow and see if there's any cool rock songs that just came out that 142 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:58.620 we might be interested in. Right cool, all right, that's all I 143 00:10:58.659 --> 00:11:03.740 got for tonight. For Thursday, the twelve of August. This is day 144 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:09.610 twelve of my August daily episode challenge. I'm johnny emotions. Thanks for joining 145 00:11:09.690 --> 00:11:22.440 me at the Emodojo and now back to the wall.