John Emotions talks with Christian Lovrecich at PixlFeed Radio

WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:09.310 Hey, what's up? It's johnny emotions. This is a Saturday, November 2 00:00:09.349 --> 00:00:16.829 twenty one the daily emotions podcast. So I was actually feeling a little better 3 00:00:16.910 --> 00:00:21.460 than the past couple of days. Maybe I attribute that to more sleep. 4 00:00:22.579 --> 00:00:26.620 I did these I did this thing the past two days which reminded me of 5 00:00:26.780 --> 00:00:30.980 being a kid when I used to fake being sick. Well, obviously I'm 6 00:00:30.980 --> 00:00:35.500 not a kid now and I'm not faking anything. I just similar circumstance, 7 00:00:35.659 --> 00:00:43.009 because nobody's home and the place to myself for a while and I don't really 8 00:00:43.049 --> 00:00:47.570 know too many people around at all and everything's taken care of, so I'm 9 00:00:47.570 --> 00:00:50.679 just kind of chilling in the house and can do what I want. Anyway. 10 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:54.679 What it is because I get up in the morning like regular time, 11 00:00:54.759 --> 00:01:00.719 about seven, and I get up and, you know, do whatever morning 12 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:04.870 routine a little bit, maybe play some video game, take a big Fat 13 00:01:04.989 --> 00:01:10.349 Bong, rip, watch the view, make sure I'm caught up on the 14 00:01:10.390 --> 00:01:17.590 days going on through the perspective of those women, and then it go back 15 00:01:17.670 --> 00:01:26.299 to sleep. Go back to sleep about nine thirty, ten o'clock and sleep 16 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:30.500 for like another hour and then I get up and start my day like thirty 17 00:01:30.659 --> 00:01:34.650 of course I work until like en. It's eleven now and I'm still putting 18 00:01:34.810 --> 00:01:38.890 podcast together. Anyway, it's worked for me. I liked it because it 19 00:01:38.010 --> 00:01:42.769 makes me feel like I'm getting away with something. I don't have any responsibilities 20 00:01:42.849 --> 00:01:47.439 this weekend. I don't have anybody to answer to. The'll have a partner 21 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.799 or anything like that, so it's kind of Nice, kind of dig it. 22 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.159 Yeah, get up regular time, fuck around for like two hours, 23 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:57.879 go back to bed for like an hour and a half and then get up 24 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:05.750 and try again. Yeah, it's good. Also, I tried the tdcs 25 00:02:05.870 --> 00:02:10.550 machine, the transcranial direct current stimulation. I'm I can't go say hey, 26 00:02:10.710 --> 00:02:14.469 fucking worked. I don't know. It's pretty easy to set up, though. 27 00:02:14.509 --> 00:02:19.780 I've is a comfortable band goes a couple inches above your eyebrows, straps 28 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:23.580 across your forehead left to right there and you kind of Hook it behind the 29 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:27.500 hook of your head in the back. Make sure it's snug. It's got 30 00:02:27.539 --> 00:02:31.530 some little what do you call those cotton pads or something? You got to 31 00:02:31.569 --> 00:02:36.770 get wet with some saline solution and Tuck him in there. Sounds grosser than 32 00:02:36.849 --> 00:02:40.370 it is. It's actually pretty clean, sterile, simple and they don't feel 33 00:02:40.370 --> 00:02:45.159 wet when they're on your head. They just conduct the electricity into your brain. 34 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.719 So I did it twice so far. We'll see when you keep doing 35 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.240 it all month long, see how I feel, see if it either makes 36 00:02:53.240 --> 00:03:00.430 me less depressed or less less a dhd, in other words more focused. 37 00:03:00.030 --> 00:03:05.750 So I'll be happy with either of those results. Part of their marketing says 38 00:03:05.750 --> 00:03:08.789 it's good for it could help make a normal people, like healthy people, 39 00:03:08.789 --> 00:03:14.900 as they say, more focused and more creative. I don't I don't know 40 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:17.860 that that's true. That's probably why they're having a hard time marketing it. 41 00:03:19.699 --> 00:03:22.099 I'm plenty creative. That was I don't really need it for that. I 42 00:03:22.219 --> 00:03:27.569 do need it to contain my fucking distractions and hyperactivity. That would be lovely. 43 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:30.770 Anyhow, I did not. I have a kind of a loose concept. 44 00:03:30.810 --> 00:03:36.330 I was going to talk about today about safety nets and the importance of 45 00:03:36.409 --> 00:03:40.599 US having our own safety net. So I'll talk about that tomorrow on Sunday, 46 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:44.879 if I don't come up with something else to talk about. But I 47 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:50.280 was on a show about two weeks ago with Christian gentleman who runs a show 48 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:55.750 called Pixel feed media. I'm sorry, Pixel Feed Radio and we had a 49 00:03:55.830 --> 00:04:00.030 good talk, so it's going to drop in a little bit of that interview 50 00:04:00.469 --> 00:04:03.349 for this particular show. Now, if you want to hear the rest or 51 00:04:03.509 --> 00:04:08.590 see us talk it out, I will put the link down below in the 52 00:04:08.710 --> 00:04:14.780 podcast notes here, because this actually exists as a youtube video, so check 53 00:04:14.819 --> 00:04:21.500 it out. This is me speaking with Christian from Pixel Feed Radio and you 54 00:04:21.620 --> 00:04:24.769 know, that's all I got for today. I'll fade it out at the 55 00:04:24.810 --> 00:04:28.930 end and back to the wall. I'll talk to you tomorrow. See You. 56 00:04:29.449 --> 00:04:33.129 I would get diagnosed with one thing after another and they didn't quite stick, 57 00:04:33.129 --> 00:04:38.329 they didn't fit. But I knew the power of labels and also knew 58 00:04:38.329 --> 00:04:42.319 the power of negative labels, like the stigma involved with mental anything right, 59 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.600 right, in fact, a lot of people think of mental illness as mental 60 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.079 health. You'll say, oh, the poor guys suffering from mental health, 61 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.839 like no, no, that's the good part. So I mean even the 62 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:56.350 branding and that whole world that turned out was really messed up. podcasting came 63 00:04:56.389 --> 00:05:01.350 around and I needed an outlet from like my creativity, because I was working 64 00:05:01.389 --> 00:05:05.550 at a tech company very sales oriented, just driven, driven, driven to 65 00:05:05.670 --> 00:05:12.139 make sales, and I needed, hmm, something to practice my branding on. 66 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:15.779 Some like let me create a character, because of the stigma with mental 67 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:19.660 illness. I'm like, I need a character. I can't go I don't 68 00:05:19.699 --> 00:05:24.089 want to promote as me. I needed some kind of Avatar. So I 69 00:05:24.250 --> 00:05:29.329 created I get talking so fast I forget to breathe. It's all right, 70 00:05:29.410 --> 00:05:34.759 man. I created a little red marketing article, of course, day before 71 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:40.600 I launched the first podcast. It said audiences identify with logos that have a 72 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:45.439 face, right, like Wendy's and KFC and all this other stuff. I'm 73 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:49.509 like, Huh, I was going to have a podcast about bipolar disorder with 74 00:05:49.629 --> 00:05:53.389 like a half of a brain that was colorful and half that was gray. 75 00:05:54.149 --> 00:05:58.389 Look Cool, people like O. it's a cool t shirt that. That's 76 00:05:58.470 --> 00:06:02.509 fucking cliche. I'm sorry, that's that's a right. So now I'm an. 77 00:06:02.550 --> 00:06:06.019 I whipped up something like remember that happy face? Way Back in the 78 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:09.420 day when I was a kid? There's a yellow happy face. Have a 79 00:06:09.459 --> 00:06:12.379 nice day. I know exactly we're talking about. Yeah, that's pretty cool, 80 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:15.100 and I was a fan of Yin Yang and now the huge fan of 81 00:06:15.220 --> 00:06:19.769 South Park, especially those little goth kids, the guy. I love the 82 00:06:19.810 --> 00:06:25.050 Golf Kids Bend my ferric actor. So there's the littlest Goth Kid. Yes, 83 00:06:25.410 --> 00:06:28.370 I can see it now. I can totally see it anyway. So 84 00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:32.160 you'll notice every time you see the logo, what people look up the artwork 85 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.480 for the show, you'll see that that's emo Joe. Yeah, and his 86 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.720 hair is always parted on the left. It always comes down to the left 87 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:45.680 eye. So that was basically me squishing Yin Yang, the happy face and 88 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.310 the South Park creature all into one. I love it. I'm such a 89 00:06:48.389 --> 00:06:55.149 conform with I don't conform to things, love them so and then what happens? 90 00:06:55.230 --> 00:06:58.829 They're right. What happens there is now, once you have and this 91 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:01.779 works for any project, and I got this from playing in bands, when 92 00:07:01.779 --> 00:07:03.980 you're when I was a kid, right, is that you have to have 93 00:07:04.100 --> 00:07:06.980 like some kind of flag to march behind. So if you want to people 94 00:07:08.019 --> 00:07:11.339 to get behind your thing, you need some kind of icon, some kind 95 00:07:11.339 --> 00:07:14.740 of logo. That's like Whoa I would wear that a t shirt. So 96 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:18.129 that's where the whole that icon and branding came from. Well, over time 97 00:07:18.930 --> 00:07:24.769 I realized that I wasn't bipolar like. Well, Shit hadn't I got us. 98 00:07:25.089 --> 00:07:29.209 I gotta podcast and people are like looking up to me and thanking me 99 00:07:29.329 --> 00:07:32.199 for helping me with their problems. Not a doctor, just to sufferer, 100 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:34.879 right, and I'm like, well, Shit, I gotta get out of 101 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:39.519 this. How do I detangle this? And I was chatting on a group, 102 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:44.470 in fact, shameless plug for pod decks. You have seen these things, 103 00:07:44.550 --> 00:07:46.829 pod decks. Now, I'm not that looks cool. What is it? 104 00:07:46.230 --> 00:07:50.069 Well, this one is called the interview deck. I'm not paid for 105 00:07:50.110 --> 00:07:53.790 them. I bought these myself, but the Guy Travis, who makes these, 106 00:07:54.069 --> 00:07:58.860 UH HUH, here pulling up pod decks, all these questions, right. 107 00:08:00.379 --> 00:08:03.819 What weird food combinations do you really enjoy? So, I mean you 108 00:08:03.980 --> 00:08:07.620 fucking a podcast there, just like all these questions. You can pop up 109 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:09.540 there. That's cool, man. Yeah, it's a good idea. You 110 00:08:09.620 --> 00:08:13.129 can markt that for sure. I can market the hell out of it. 111 00:08:13.889 --> 00:08:16.569 He does, Dude. He's got a new APP, the whole thing. 112 00:08:16.610 --> 00:08:20.810 Anyway, we were chatting on one of Travis's youtube shows and he said, 113 00:08:22.129 --> 00:08:24.610 let me slow you down for a second. All, let me, let 114 00:08:24.649 --> 00:08:28.680 me really a back at so podcasting. Why podcasting? Like did you grew 115 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.960 up listen to a lot of radio, like talk radio, because love to 116 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.320 talk radio. As a kid I listen you all across the sports, political 117 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.789 talk, whatever was politics back in the day, political radio on the am 118 00:08:41.149 --> 00:08:45.029 car radio when I would ride around with my parents. They've covered both sides, 119 00:08:45.070 --> 00:08:46.429 so it wasn't really acrimonious. You didn't have to pick a team to 120 00:08:46.509 --> 00:08:52.070 listen to. It's just fascinating, like politics and mayors and governors and stuff 121 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:54.950 like that. Wow, fascinating. So I listened to that. But what 122 00:08:54.029 --> 00:08:58.259 I really liked a lot were some of the early drivetime morning Dj's that had 123 00:08:58.299 --> 00:09:01.179 all the sounds and the stories and the did all the different voices. Well, 124 00:09:01.259 --> 00:09:03.940 I told this story before, the reason why I love, you know, 125 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:07.139 podcasting. Well, now podcasting and radio, it's like I grew up 126 00:09:07.139 --> 00:09:09.490 when I moved to the states, I grew up listening to Howur starn. 127 00:09:09.610 --> 00:09:15.009 That was a shit. I mean yeah, Howard so and then my hero, 128 00:09:15.210 --> 00:09:16.409 and I've always like, how do we form back at how do we 129 00:09:16.529 --> 00:09:22.169 like make our own version of of Howard Stern show? Like it's always been 130 00:09:22.210 --> 00:09:26.200 a dream, like how do you be so good at interviewing and being so 131 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.159 naturally curious and then build a team of like six or seven or eight rotating 132 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.200 people, like basically that's his band. Oh Yeah, absolute, I mean 133 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.149 robin and Baba Booie friend and Alin. That's his band, absolutely same for 134 00:09:39.230 --> 00:09:41.789 so long. And they do the stick, you know, they come up 135 00:09:41.789 --> 00:09:45.230 with bits, they throw with bad ones, keep the good ones and again, 136 00:09:45.309 --> 00:09:46.470 like a band, you keep the good songs and you just don't play 137 00:09:46.509 --> 00:09:50.149 the bad ones much anymore. So for sure. And I've just liked the 138 00:09:50.230 --> 00:09:54.019 bombastics out of hey, you listen to drive time radio? That like the 139 00:09:54.059 --> 00:09:58.580 thing kids nowadays think is fucking stupid and creasy. I always hate it that. 140 00:09:58.700 --> 00:10:01.139 I always hate it that. And that's what I think. Like all 141 00:10:01.179 --> 00:10:05.139 the talks, all the talk shows that I listened to was just normal people, 142 00:10:05.139 --> 00:10:07.769 I want to say normally, just talk normal they and try the hard 143 00:10:07.769 --> 00:10:11.450 DJ voice. That it. You know that we have a yeah, I 144 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:15.889 love Howard skewered that in the movie. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. 145 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:18.570 But so I was like, is that the real voice? Like, 146 00:10:18.649 --> 00:10:22.000 what are those people like anyway? So I got into radio in, fortunately, 147 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.360 can conquered California, kind of a bay area city. They have a 148 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.039 radio station that still exists at the local high school. It's got its own 149 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.470 transmitter broadcast about, Jeez, thirty miles in any direction, maybe almost fifty 150 00:10:35.549 --> 00:10:39.870 miles in one direction, and your kids, you're like sixteen years old and 151 00:10:39.950 --> 00:10:45.470 you have access to a real radio station. That's first play. You know, 152 00:10:45.549 --> 00:10:48.590 we have said all. You said the bay area. Yeah, so 153 00:10:48.750 --> 00:10:50.620 what year was this? This when I did this, was in the late 154 00:10:52.059 --> 00:10:56.019 S. oh dude, you were like at the Mecca of my dream years 155 00:10:56.100 --> 00:11:00.419 and where I want to be. That's when fucking thrash metal was coming up. 156 00:11:00.700 --> 00:11:03.649 Yeah, I got slayer, megadeth. Like, if I could have 157 00:11:05.250 --> 00:11:09.769 a time machine and say where do you want to go? I'm sure people 158 00:11:09.769 --> 00:11:13.370 will like to see historical shit. I'm sure people I'll be like I want 159 00:11:13.409 --> 00:11:16.809 to be. I like one of the first Metaka shows at the I'd even 160 00:11:16.889 --> 00:11:20.639 remember the name of the stone Berkeley. The keystone Berkeley was a little bad. 161 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.440 Yes, right, yeah, we would see. This would be like 162 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.639 them and the Ruffians and this band Raven from even. I've seen the pictures 163 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.389 and that Shit just look insane. Like I said, the Talka fifteen times, 164 00:11:33.509 --> 00:11:35.669 but it's not the same when it was coming up, you know, 165 00:11:35.830 --> 00:11:39.950 and they were all kids and man, when you matters, do the size, 166 00:11:39.950 --> 00:11:45.029 because this place was not much bigger than auto repair garage, let's call 167 00:11:45.029 --> 00:11:48.059 it, right set up from music, but so we saw them. Exodus 168 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:50.899 was big back in the day. Right. THELARE would come up from La 169 00:11:52.139 --> 00:11:54.460 a lot and playing those clubs. Yeah, a buddy of mine have a 170 00:11:54.620 --> 00:11:58.179 had a podcast called thrashbacks where all we did was wreck reminisce about old thrash 171 00:11:58.179 --> 00:12:01.009 shows. But I could going up all day long night. Yeah, I 172 00:12:01.090 --> 00:12:03.049 mean, and that was part of the thing. That's what got us into 173 00:12:03.049 --> 00:12:09.370 it, because the local independent record stores would send over the latest independent thrash 174 00:12:09.409 --> 00:12:11.809 music from England to play on the radio station I worked at. That's all. 175 00:12:11.889 --> 00:12:15.529 We had, kind of like a little funnel and since I was kind 176 00:12:15.529 --> 00:12:18.480 of a feral kid anyway, I would always hop on the subway and head 177 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.279 over to the city on the weekends to see shows. That's awesome. That's 178 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.919 yeah, so radio and that was the whole thing, and I just had 179 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:30.710 a passion for playing music and microphones and gear and just obviously talking, yeah, 180 00:12:31.590 --> 00:12:35.909 a lot. So that's that's how the podcasting came around. And working 181 00:12:35.110 --> 00:12:37.750 for the tech company I needed to outlet some I'm like, what am I 182 00:12:37.789 --> 00:12:41.909 gonna do? I'm like I'm having mental health issues here. I'm alone in 183 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:46.059 La. I'm working for a software company that ultimately got trump elected. So 184 00:12:46.100 --> 00:12:50.259 I have always conflicts in my head. I'm like, Cheez, let's start 185 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:56.620 podcast. Got The podcast going up. Till recently just kind of been off 186 00:12:56.659 --> 00:13:01.049 and on, but then I got inspired by that pod dext dude, Travis 187 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:05.330 really helpful, and also, oh where we met on Pottit dotnet. Right. 188 00:13:05.889 --> 00:13:15.320 So simultaneously saw something from Travis and then brant at Pottit had a contest 189 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.120 and I won like a rock star, account for life and like that's what 190 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.039 I'm like. Tell a cool so I'm like, well, Shit, if 191 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:26.309 that's there's no other message for me to get my shit together than those two 192 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:31.750 things happening in the same week. Were the message. All right, what 193 00:13:31.870 --> 00:13:35.029 do I do? So I stole the icon, the Little Yin Yang thing 194 00:13:35.710 --> 00:13:39.789 from the old bipolars style show, because I like that little Hicon, and 195 00:13:39.909 --> 00:13:43.620 then I combined it with traviss recommendation, like what's core Sol John Emo. 196 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:48.259 I'll tell you why not in the second but I like the term emo and 197 00:13:48.460 --> 00:13:52.299 like Dojo, where we practice our emotions. Like then I just went off 198 00:13:52.340 --> 00:13:56.289 on a tangent like instead of martial arts, let's do emotional arts, and 199 00:13:56.769 --> 00:14:01.690 came up with the belt system based on various things on emotions I've read over 200 00:14:01.730 --> 00:14:03.769 the years. Yeah, I love the belt system. That's why I caught 201 00:14:03.809 --> 00:14:09.850 my eye right away. But let's talk about how you dig into the you 202 00:14:09.929 --> 00:14:11.320 know, the emotions side of things, because I think, you know, 203 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:18.679 talk about it on here before. It's you know, mental health and anxiety 204 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:20.480 and stuff like that. I think I had younger generations are suffering more and 205 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.279 more about it because of everything around those, like social media and all that 206 00:14:24.389 --> 00:14:26.909 stuff. So I think you're doing a fantastic thing and your podcast keeps growing 207 00:14:26.950 --> 00:14:31.230 and growing, obviously. So when we talk about a little bit about that, 208 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:33.830 of why you have experience since you started it and how you brought it, 209 00:14:35.029 --> 00:14:37.470 you know, to everyone, open it up to everyone out there. 210 00:14:37.509 --> 00:14:41.659 Yeah, well, one of my brain is functions, let's call it. 211 00:14:41.779 --> 00:14:46.860 Has Been A dhd, heavy on the hyperactivity part. So I'm always like 212 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:48.139 and now back to the wall.