John; August 3, 2021

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.480 And we're back. I like it that way. Just quick and easy. 2 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:11.390 How are you? Who Are you? Introduce yourself, don't be rude. 3 00:00:12.390 --> 00:00:17.589 So today is by the way. Welcome to emdojoe. I am John and 4 00:00:17.910 --> 00:00:22.379 this is my podcast. So today's August third. I was at the doctor's 5 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:25.820 office all day, first time patient, kind of situation in a new hospital 6 00:00:25.859 --> 00:00:32.460 area. So what's cool is this is like Indian medicine. I have the 7 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:37.049 good fortune to be a native American and I live in a part of the 8 00:00:37.090 --> 00:00:42.369 country now where they actually have tribes and services for native Americans, because we're 9 00:00:42.409 --> 00:00:48.609 surrounded by actual reservations in tribal territory. They serve anybody, but if you're 10 00:00:48.810 --> 00:00:52.079 Indian, you get to go to the head of the line. It's like 11 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.840 magic, and it's all free. Too much. So went there because, 12 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:00.039 I think I told you the other day, I got the shingles, which 13 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:06.510 sucks ass. Get your shingles vaccination to hopefully prevent that from happening. Long 14 00:01:06.549 --> 00:01:10.109 and short of it basically gives you a horrible attack of your nerves, so 15 00:01:10.189 --> 00:01:14.109 much that actually comes out as a rash. But meanwhile your nerves are under 16 00:01:14.109 --> 00:01:18.109 attack and my shoulders all fucked up right now because of that. Anyway, 17 00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:25.219 this doctor gave me like some steroid cream and some neurontin for my nerve stuff. 18 00:01:25.780 --> 00:01:29.140 Yeah, and I got some sleep something else. Can't remember the name, 19 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:33.129 but it was heavy, dude. You like a tranquilizer. And how 20 00:01:33.489 --> 00:01:37.010 Man I took that when I got home last night and man, I slept 21 00:01:37.170 --> 00:01:40.849 and I slept. It was pretty wild. Anyway, I feel much better 22 00:01:40.930 --> 00:01:46.930 in this place. Also has a gym, three dentists, some behavioral therapist, 23 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.439 oncologist, optimologist, all the all the things, you know, like 24 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.799 a hospital campus. Would have so really impressed. It's only about fifteen, 25 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.590 ten, maybe fifteen, minutes from a housetops and love it. Close enough 26 00:02:00.590 --> 00:02:04.829 to be handy and far enough to be out of mind and out of sight 27 00:02:04.909 --> 00:02:07.390 when I don't need it, because if I'm not sick, I don't want 28 00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:10.150 to see a hospital and when I am I wanted to be close. So 29 00:02:10.270 --> 00:02:15.270 yeah, a big shout out to the all the staff over there at the 30 00:02:15.780 --> 00:02:20.180 Indian clinic. Love it. Thank you very kind. I felt much better 31 00:02:20.219 --> 00:02:22.620 when I left. You know, it's a trip when you say Indian, 32 00:02:22.699 --> 00:02:25.979 because I look as white as anything right and there's some people in there with 33 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:30.050 long, like black hair and braids straight up like a stereotypical Indian you might 34 00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:34.969 see in a movie, like an old western movie or something, and everybody 35 00:02:35.009 --> 00:02:38.610 in between. Right. I'm like wow, so this is more like cultural 36 00:02:38.650 --> 00:02:43.810 role. And I thought about it like Jewish and Israeli's, you know, 37 00:02:44.009 --> 00:02:47.120 Jewish people versus Israeli's, or Hebrew I should say, or all of the 38 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:52.520 three, you know. So that always like because I had friends and my 39 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.479 ex wife was Jewish and stuff like that, but I never could understand like 40 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.629 you guys also. So Hebrew or you just convert to Judaism, and now 41 00:03:00.669 --> 00:03:06.150 you Jews, which you can't convert to Hebrewism. And like, I'm an 42 00:03:06.229 --> 00:03:09.990 Indian, I can't convert to not Indian, I don't know, but I 43 00:03:10.069 --> 00:03:14.139 can become a Christian or Jew or, you know, Muslim. All that 44 00:03:15.300 --> 00:03:21.340 very confusing sometimes. But what's not confusing is the idea of culture. I 45 00:03:21.460 --> 00:03:25.139 start to think about a passage in a book I recently read from. You've 46 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:30.129 all no Ha Ari, I think his name is. Yeah, you've all 47 00:03:30.210 --> 00:03:35.969 Harari, twenty one lessons for the twenty one century. So in this book 48 00:03:36.090 --> 00:03:43.199 he proposes the idea that nowadays we have a bigger problem with culturalism in that 49 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.960 racism, you know, the idea that there is a superior race. That 50 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:53.240 has been disproven by science. It hasn't disproven why Kenyans and Ethiopians always win 51 00:03:53.560 --> 00:04:00.789 the Olympic track events. But I digress. I'll just say it takes a 52 00:04:00.909 --> 00:04:08.069 prototype to create a stereotype. All right. Anyway, back to the culturalism. 53 00:04:08.270 --> 00:04:12.860 The culture is. I'm not culture role ISM. Culture is MM. 54 00:04:13.659 --> 00:04:16.819 The idea is now that, since we've disproven racism to be a stupid idea, 55 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:21.819 we've evolved, especially with the help of the Internet and social media. 56 00:04:21.899 --> 00:04:28.250 We've turned into a bunch of culturist, and a culturist is a person who 57 00:04:28.490 --> 00:04:30.649 obviously think about it, think about what their culture is, and you could 58 00:04:30.769 --> 00:04:35.529 pick anybody's culture out. So I'm thinking like rednet culture. In particular, 59 00:04:35.730 --> 00:04:41.319 the people I typically would think of as racist are really culturist, because I 60 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:46.920 know many of them who've adopted black friends who had their same culture and viewpoint, 61 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:51.639 guns, hunting, swear words the old days, all that stuff right, 62 00:04:53.029 --> 00:04:58.430 and when they bring like an African American into their culture now they kind 63 00:04:58.430 --> 00:05:00.149 of get points and they're able to say to others, no, I'm not 64 00:05:00.230 --> 00:05:04.230 racist. I got a friend as black, my best friends black, so 65 00:05:04.589 --> 00:05:08.699 all that might be true. Maybe he's not a racist. Maybe doesn't like 66 00:05:09.259 --> 00:05:12.899 other black people just like the same way he doesn't like other white people or 67 00:05:12.939 --> 00:05:16.339 other Chinese people who aren't into his backwoods culture. Do you see what I 68 00:05:16.420 --> 00:05:20.100 mean? So what I'm saying is the culture, regardless of if you're into 69 00:05:20.379 --> 00:05:27.410 the Trans community or if you're a bricklayer or you're backwoods hill billy or whatever, 70 00:05:28.129 --> 00:05:30.449 you have a certain culture of your basically life on certain models. Right, 71 00:05:30.689 --> 00:05:34.689 and of course, out of defense, you come to argue that your 72 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:39.439 model, your perspective, is the best way. It takes a lot of 73 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.720 self work to understand that your way might not be the best way. And 74 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.360 then you add the Internet into the mix, right, so people can discover 75 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:54.230 and change their own personal culture in the blink of an eye. And and 76 00:05:54.350 --> 00:05:58.069 the reason people want to belong to a culture is so that they can look 77 00:05:58.069 --> 00:06:02.750 down at others and find fault in others and cancel others. So they find 78 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:10.100 their tribe, their new little culturist situation. They reflect the get into that 79 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:14.139 memeissis, you know, where you just you want things, just because you 80 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:17.850 see other people having them, well, if you see other people enjoying solidarity 81 00:06:18.209 --> 00:06:24.850 and community because they say nasty things about other classes of people, well, 82 00:06:24.970 --> 00:06:27.329 you're going to start saying those things too, because you want to belong to 83 00:06:27.490 --> 00:06:30.490 a group and they'll otherwise look and feel like you. So Hey, I 84 00:06:30.529 --> 00:06:33.639 might as well extend myself and say Nasty Shit to other people. And that's 85 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:39.920 what cultures do, and the cultures can be anybody. Like the critic culture, 86 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.759 you know, who criticize everything. There's the Comedians, there's that's a 87 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.829 culture of comics. You know. There's musician culture, there's tattooist culture, 88 00:06:47.990 --> 00:06:51.790 there's biker culture, jock culture. I mean just go down the list right 89 00:06:53.310 --> 00:06:56.389 and really we all want the same thing. We want food on her table, 90 00:06:57.029 --> 00:07:00.660 shelter, liberty. HMM. Yeah, beyond that it's an individual thing. 91 00:07:00.779 --> 00:07:04.060 But it's it a trip that we're all fighting over the same shit, 92 00:07:04.699 --> 00:07:09.379 or is it not a trip that is the same shit? Is Limited resources 93 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:13.779 as a limited food or something? No, there's plenty of food in America. 94 00:07:14.579 --> 00:07:19.050 So why are we fighting over scarcity issues when we have plenty of stuff 95 00:07:19.050 --> 00:07:24.649 here? There's plenty of stuff. Did you know they're vacant homes for everyone 96 00:07:24.769 --> 00:07:29.209 homeless person in America. We don't have a housing crisis, we have agreed 97 00:07:29.410 --> 00:07:34.240 crisis. And again that's one culture. The rich landowners who own multiple properties 98 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.920 versus the rensers. Again see culture versus culture, and it's not. It 99 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.629 could be black renters and black landowners, or vice versa. Could be Chinese 100 00:07:44.709 --> 00:07:47.350 residents or white residents or landowners, or vice versa. Could be any mixture 101 00:07:47.389 --> 00:07:51.110 of anything, but you see what I'm saying. The culture is landlords versus 102 00:07:51.230 --> 00:07:55.870 renters in this scenario, but you could point out that in any scenario. 103 00:07:55.910 --> 00:08:00.180 That's what's driving me nuts because it just moves too fast. I try to 104 00:08:00.220 --> 00:08:03.740 be kind and accept anybody's culture. Tell me once, I'll try to lock 105 00:08:03.779 --> 00:08:05.420 it down, remember it. I might need a second reminder. Cool, 106 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:09.379 but if you're going to go swap cultures three weeks from now for weeks from 107 00:08:09.379 --> 00:08:13.410 now and then change your mind next year, I'm not obligated to keep up 108 00:08:13.449 --> 00:08:16.410 with that. That's on you. If you want to keep changing your cultures 109 00:08:16.449 --> 00:08:20.290 and expect people to catch up, nope, we're not doing that. Likewise, 110 00:08:20.329 --> 00:08:24.689 if you join some kind of culture and you just get too extreme, 111 00:08:26.129 --> 00:08:28.519 to demanding, too weird, to judge you of others. Yeah, nobody's 112 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.440 going to follow that either. No normal minded person's going to jump into your 113 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:37.000 little culture. So just pick a culture that's chill, a normal person kind 114 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.429 of thing, and stop hating on other cultures just because they're different, because 115 00:08:41.470 --> 00:08:43.789 that shit changes from day to day, from month to month. The Internet 116 00:08:43.870 --> 00:08:48.710 mixed culture change so fast and allows anybody to jump from culture to culture that 117 00:08:48.750 --> 00:08:52.309 there's no possible way people are going to be able to keep up. So 118 00:08:52.389 --> 00:08:56.539 we just got a chill the fuck out. That's a good segue. So 119 00:08:56.860 --> 00:09:00.820 to chill out. I was just checking out some new shows on and I 120 00:09:00.940 --> 00:09:05.379 found something really cool you might like. It's called Rhadi's and it's on Hulu. 121 00:09:05.899 --> 00:09:07.899 So look for Hulu if you got it. They usually have a free 122 00:09:07.940 --> 00:09:13.570 trial subscription or whatever. But it is a miniseries, a document, a 123 00:09:13.649 --> 00:09:18.250 Docu series. I mean, let regulars here, it's a series on Hulu. 124 00:09:18.769 --> 00:09:22.970 Anyhow. It's written and directed by a camera and crow who also did 125 00:09:24.090 --> 00:09:28.960 almost famous. So basically it's like a series of almost famous. It's about 126 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.639 Rhodi's, those Roadi's. It's got a great cast, lots of recognizable faces 127 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.600 in there, lots of great acting chops and just the backstage, in the 128 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.470 behind the scenes of the concert industry. I really enjoy that a lot. 129 00:09:41.230 --> 00:09:46.389 Here's a quick side story about Cameron Crow. Okay, I was working at 130 00:09:46.710 --> 00:09:50.629 Bill Graham presents and I went down we had a giant cage vault and though 131 00:09:50.710 --> 00:09:54.860 in the warehouse, like an Indiana Jones looking warehouse with just all the rock 132 00:09:54.019 --> 00:10:01.379 memorabilia from the late S S S and all that stuff, and I was 133 00:10:01.419 --> 00:10:03.379 just poking around it there on lunch break once and I found a box with 134 00:10:03.460 --> 00:10:09.210 some letters in it. One of the letters was from a young reporter named 135 00:10:09.250 --> 00:10:15.210 Cameron Crow to Bill Graham asking if he could get some free backstage passes to 136 00:10:15.250 --> 00:10:20.129 the sex pistols show at winterland. And I'm like, this is a fucking 137 00:10:20.370 --> 00:10:24.360 epic note right here. This shouldn't be down here in the box. Can 138 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:26.720 you imagine that? So Cameron Crow did all kinds of stuff. He's superfamous 139 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.120 rider and director and whatnot, all about rock and roll, those kind of 140 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.240 shows, and at the time nobody knew that. But to have found this 141 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.549 letter where he was talking to bill another icon, another hero of mine, 142 00:10:39.590 --> 00:10:43.470 Bill Graham, about tickets to the fucking sex pistol show, which turned out 143 00:10:43.470 --> 00:10:46.750 to be the sex pistols last show ever. Anyway, ever since I saw 144 00:10:46.870 --> 00:10:52.539 that letter, and I've been a fan of Bigger Fan of Cameron Crows, 145 00:10:52.580 --> 00:10:54.019 I guess. I mean knowing that he was a young reporter trying to get 146 00:10:54.019 --> 00:10:58.620 into the sex pistols through Bill Graham. Yep, points for me on that. 147 00:11:00.700 --> 00:11:01.899 So when I saw this show I decided to give it a shot and 148 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:05.730 so far watched the first episode. It's great. Some of the shows nowadays 149 00:11:07.129 --> 00:11:09.769 get good, but like after the third episode, and sometimes they don't have 150 00:11:09.850 --> 00:11:15.090 the patients to get that long into a series. This one, Rhody's on 151 00:11:15.210 --> 00:11:18.919 Hulu. Yep, I jumped right in. Is Right there. First episode 152 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.039 really cool. I'm down. I'm going to go watch the second one after 153 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.360 I edit this podcast. So that's all I got. October. Three in 154 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:30.759 the CAN. Talk to you again tomorrow. The's October or fuck up. 155 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.590 It's the MED's. Right, it's the MED's. That's UCK. August. 156 00:11:33.830 --> 00:11:37.389 Third in the can and I'll see you tomorrow. August. Fourth over now 157 00:11:43.990 --> 00:11:45.990 and now back to the wall.