This season is rough/ Customized care will improve/ Opening new minds

WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:14.910 I welcome back to Emo Dojo. It's Saturday, November twenty eight. How 2 00:00:15.029 --> 00:00:20.190 are you? It's great to have you here and it's great to be here. 3 00:00:20.589 --> 00:00:26.100 Like just in general, feeling better than I did yesterday. So I 4 00:00:26.179 --> 00:00:31.100 had a little interaction my mom, at turned out, called me on the 5 00:00:31.219 --> 00:00:34.979 telephone after I'd gone to bed the other night, after I had completed the 6 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:39.609 podcast. I was talking about being all lonely on Thanksgiving and she said she 7 00:00:39.729 --> 00:00:44.770 hadn't got my video and chalked it up to technical difficulty. So that felt 8 00:00:44.850 --> 00:00:51.799 better hearing from her and just chat chatting with her a bit on Messenger and 9 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.119 of course I heard from my one of my son's, which is always great 10 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.079 because he's the quiet one and when he replies that's saying a lot. So 11 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.909 I did hear from some people on Thanksgiving and then yesterday we talked a lot 12 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:12.430 about the lifted, the get liftedcom, the neurostimulation device. So today I 13 00:01:12.629 --> 00:01:19.900 was a yeah to generally feeling better, until I got I don't really do 14 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:23.700 facebook, so a lot of times people try to contact me through there and 15 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:29.219 ends up being days or weeks until I reply. I got like thirty friends 16 00:01:29.299 --> 00:01:33.810 maybe tops, and I saw a message today from one of my really close 17 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:36.730 friends. Like when I was kicked out of my house, there's been like 18 00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:42.609 two families that took me in. Rai's family, Ray Lavoue, he's my 19 00:01:42.849 --> 00:01:49.079 music director, he's responsible for the theme music. You hear. His family 20 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.079 took me in and then when I wore his mom out, I moved to 21 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:59.760 Sacramento and was ultimately taken in by a kind family called the grahams. Well, 22 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.829 that was so they're those people are like brothers and sisters. To meet 23 00:02:04.870 --> 00:02:10.349 the Grahams and in fact my buddy Steve, he met his wife and I 24 00:02:10.389 --> 00:02:15.669 think they were married at like seventeen, seventeen, eighteen, and they're still 25 00:02:15.740 --> 00:02:20.219 married today. So That's how long I've known them, since they were dating. 26 00:02:20.659 --> 00:02:24.379 Like we used to go visit let's call her d. So we go 27 00:02:24.460 --> 00:02:29.500 down and visit the in this tiny little town called Galt. We drive all 28 00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:32.849 the way from Zacramento down to Galt and I can't remember how my buddy, 29 00:02:32.930 --> 00:02:38.569 my brother Steve, originally met. Maybe on a school trip or, I 30 00:02:38.650 --> 00:02:43.370 don't know, a football game somehow, because back in the day, unless 31 00:02:43.370 --> 00:02:46.759 you knew somebody in that town, there was really no way to meet another 32 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.039 person. That was definitely no internet, no email, no social media for 33 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:58.000 sure. So it was saying a lot for them to have found each other 34 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.990 and to have stuck together this long. Anyway, she posted this morning that 35 00:03:02.150 --> 00:03:07.270 she was in the hospital and that the whole family had caught covid and she 36 00:03:07.469 --> 00:03:13.020 was on oxygen. So I would really upset by that, as you tend 37 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:15.620 to be right. And of course she's like the angel that we all knew. 38 00:03:15.699 --> 00:03:20.699 She's like most like my sister of anybody I know, like when I 39 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:24.580 would fall out and just be near homeless, she would take me in. 40 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:29.210 She wouldn't have to convince Steve do but she would be the one to volunteer 41 00:03:29.289 --> 00:03:32.009 to like Steve was my mic of my brother, and we never had to 42 00:03:32.610 --> 00:03:37.370 he didn't have to convince us to accept d into the group of guys. 43 00:03:37.770 --> 00:03:39.849 She was one of us. So if I've ever one of us was out 44 00:03:39.889 --> 00:03:43.879 and out, down and out, D was there to say, Hey, 45 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.919 come on, we got space, will help you out all that. So 46 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:53.759 it seems especially unjust that she would get sick enough to need oxygen in a 47 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.949 hospital. Anyway, wherever you are on this planet, if you could steer 48 00:03:59.189 --> 00:04:04.590 some of your positive vibes toward the Sacramento California area whenever you get a chance 49 00:04:05.110 --> 00:04:10.819 and think about just think D in your head. All right, thank you. 50 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:15.220 And sometimes you get in that space where you don't talk to your friends 51 00:04:15.259 --> 00:04:18.980 or family for months or years. Right, just the way life happens, 52 00:04:18.980 --> 00:04:23.459 especially when you have a mental illness, as you tend to crawl into your 53 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:28.610 own world and stay there so you don't spread your toxic energy to other people. 54 00:04:29.689 --> 00:04:31.610 So I was like, Geez, I have I want to hear from 55 00:04:31.610 --> 00:04:35.850 these people. I want to talk to my friends again. Anyway, I 56 00:04:36.009 --> 00:04:42.480 had planned to make Chili today and so I'm like, well, fuck it, 57 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.920 I'm going to hook up the facebook live but the camera on a stand 58 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.720 and just go chop the vegetables to make the Chili. So I started to 59 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:56.750 make the Chili and guess who pops up watching my live stream of chopping vegetables 60 00:04:56.790 --> 00:05:00.709 and peppers? It's D so it kind of warmed my heart quite a bit. 61 00:05:00.750 --> 00:05:05.829 And then my brother Steve popped into so they apparently communicating through messenger or 62 00:05:05.870 --> 00:05:11.060 whatnot. One sick in bed, one sick in the hospital. So I 63 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:13.420 wish you guys the best of luck. I don't think you've listened to this 64 00:05:13.540 --> 00:05:17.220 podcast, but I'm trying to spread good vibes good energy to you and I 65 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:23.730 hope you're better quickly. So it was anyway between me and you. I 66 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:27.689 thought it was awesome kind of synchronicity that they would just pop up, probably 67 00:05:27.730 --> 00:05:30.089 bored in bed, honestly, because they're they're otherwise healthy, and I think 68 00:05:30.129 --> 00:05:36.399 the oxygen is supplemental and not healthy. Healthy. They're healthy humans generally speaking, 69 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.879 aside from the COVID that they're suffering through. So I think they're like 70 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.480 sick people in bed, the traditional sick person in bed, and I thought 71 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.829 it was cool that they were able to watch me make some chilly and you 72 00:05:49.910 --> 00:05:53.790 know, the little things mean a lot both to me and maybe to them. 73 00:05:54.550 --> 00:05:58.550 So my point being, Hey, if you're thinking of just doing something 74 00:05:58.629 --> 00:06:02.470 random, putting together some Lego, making Chili, playing with the puzzle or 75 00:06:02.509 --> 00:06:05.819 doing a board game, maybe stick a camera on that and show it to 76 00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:11.420 your social streams. Maybe some old friends might pop in and say hi. 77 00:06:12.779 --> 00:06:19.490 So tomorrow I'm going to interview a cancer survivor and that won't be part of 78 00:06:19.569 --> 00:06:23.689 this actual show feed. I'll put that on a different show feed. I'm 79 00:06:23.689 --> 00:06:29.889 working on collecting interviews for that's going to be interesting. But the developer of 80 00:06:30.009 --> 00:06:34.399 the lifted neurostimulation device, he emailed me back. His name's can, by 81 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:39.480 the way, but I'm going to make some time for can and see what's 82 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.360 up. I have questions about his device and he probably just wants to have, 83 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.759 you know, a conversation about how I want to use it or whatever. 84 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.589 Now I just I'm curious and he's probably equally curious. I was doing 85 00:06:48.670 --> 00:06:55.029 my due diligence because invariably after we talk there's no reason why he should not 86 00:06:55.550 --> 00:06:59.110 come on this show, like I'm sure you guys want to hear from them, 87 00:06:59.629 --> 00:07:03.060 especially by the time I finished wearing it for several days see if it's 88 00:07:03.139 --> 00:07:10.459 helpful at all for depression or Adhd. So we'll see anyway, if he 89 00:07:10.579 --> 00:07:12.860 comes on. I was thinking, I Geez, I got to like actually 90 00:07:12.899 --> 00:07:15.889 look into this whole thing, and the best way to do that is just 91 00:07:16.009 --> 00:07:20.009 typing the thing you're talking about and then the word scam. So I went 92 00:07:20.089 --> 00:07:27.569 and looked up neuro stimulation scam. Now there's not a scamital. Apparently there's 93 00:07:27.569 --> 00:07:30.399 one device on scam detector or scam report and it looks like it's just a 94 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:36.439 shady company making a crappy version of a device. I mean, don't order 95 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:42.439 a device from the fucking website that has no address or no phone number and 96 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.029 stick gets electrodes on your head. Will Duh. Anybody can make electures. 97 00:07:46.069 --> 00:07:49.629 You can go hook car batteries your head. Don't do that. Don't buy 98 00:07:49.670 --> 00:07:54.709 a junky thing from a company that's not known. Yeah, because there are 99 00:07:54.750 --> 00:08:00.779 scammy companies for sure, but generally speaking neurostimulation not a scam. I couldn't 100 00:08:00.779 --> 00:08:03.579 find anything on the Internet that said anything about it being a scam at all, 101 00:08:05.740 --> 00:08:09.060 which is cool. Plenty of places, in my estimation, are just 102 00:08:09.220 --> 00:08:13.410 marketing them poorly. They're using words that they that they can't back up, 103 00:08:13.689 --> 00:08:18.410 and that's never a good thing. I think a lot of them are fearful 104 00:08:18.529 --> 00:08:22.730 of going straight to the mental health market because it seems so limiting, because 105 00:08:22.730 --> 00:08:26.279 a lot of people with mental health problems don't speak up about them and the 106 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:31.679 general stigma against mental illnesses. But I did find some research I definitely want 107 00:08:31.679 --> 00:08:37.960 to talk to Ken about. Mostly revolves around the locations being stimulated. One 108 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:43.549 concern I read about in the in scientific paper that made sense to me was 109 00:08:45.870 --> 00:08:48.269 what happens if you reverse the Poles. What happens? So, for example, 110 00:08:48.309 --> 00:08:52.590 so you have a symmetrical device, and this device is fairly symmetrical, 111 00:08:52.029 --> 00:08:54.669 you could easily flip it upside down in the button would be on the other 112 00:08:54.710 --> 00:08:58.419 side if you weren't following directions. My point is, though, what if 113 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:01.899 you did that? Is there any damage? I don't think there's damage. 114 00:09:03.259 --> 00:09:07.419 Will it affect your brain differently? possibly. Here's the interesting thing. There 115 00:09:07.580 --> 00:09:15.169 is no indication or proof or research how this kind of neurostimulation affects lefthanded people 116 00:09:15.289 --> 00:09:18.769 differently from righthanded people. And before you go thinking left brain, right brain, 117 00:09:20.250 --> 00:09:24.279 hold it, hold it. The most recent research basically says the left 118 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.440 brain, right brain, creative versus analytical or whatever. That's all bullshit. 119 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.799 Not all bullshit, but at such an oversimplification of the way things work as 120 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:41.110 to be inaccurate. The brain operates not in single notes at a time or 121 00:09:41.190 --> 00:09:45.870 single hemispheres. There's multiple parts of the brain and they talk to each other 122 00:09:45.950 --> 00:09:50.950 simultaneously, more like chords of music, multiple to multiple notes. Multiple nodes 123 00:09:50.990 --> 00:09:58.460 of your brain communicate with each other simultaneously, depending on the activity but there 124 00:09:58.580 --> 00:10:01.820 is a difference in the brains between lefthanded and righthanded people. That's not to 125 00:10:01.899 --> 00:10:05.700 say I mean I'm not even sure I believe in the rhetoric that lefthanded people 126 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:09.250 are more creative and righthanded people are more analytical. I don't. I don't 127 00:10:09.289 --> 00:10:13.769 think that's accurate. Honestly, I think it's been disproven by now. But 128 00:10:13.889 --> 00:10:18.090 there's clearly a difference, even a physiological difference, in lefthand and right hand. 129 00:10:18.330 --> 00:10:24.679 For example, I was born lefthanded. In the kindergarten and first grade 130 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.080 when they taught me to write, they continually moved the Pencil back to my 131 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.320 right hand, at one point even rubber banding the Pencil to my right hand 132 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.509 so that I just couldn't move it back over to my left hand to right. 133 00:10:37.710 --> 00:10:41.549 Even to this day I formed my letters in a strange way, typically 134 00:10:41.549 --> 00:10:46.669 from the bottom up with my right hand. Anyway, not a big deal, 135 00:10:46.590 --> 00:10:54.620 except for sports mechanics. For example, I bat and golf, hockey, 136 00:10:54.899 --> 00:11:01.259 things like that standing righthanded, but my swing sucks. I have no 137 00:11:01.340 --> 00:11:05.929 natural body mechanical swing in that direction. When I try it from the left 138 00:11:05.970 --> 00:11:11.330 hand I feel so awkward I don't. There might be a correct body mechanics 139 00:11:11.370 --> 00:11:16.409 happening there lefthanded wise, but I can't find it where. I really noticed 140 00:11:16.450 --> 00:11:20.360 it, though, is shooting long guns. My eyes do not line up. 141 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.799 If I try to aim righthanded, just doesn't work. I see two 142 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:31.600 visions. If I hold the rifle on my left side up against my left 143 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.509 shoulder, everything lines up perfectly. So that tells me there is something physiological, 144 00:11:35.549 --> 00:11:39.990 at least with the vision in the vision is closely associated with the brain. 145 00:11:39.830 --> 00:11:46.259 So I'm I'm still curious about the effects of a neurostimulation device on righthanded 146 00:11:46.659 --> 00:11:52.139 versus lefthanded people, because as a drummer, I would really like to continue 147 00:11:52.179 --> 00:12:00.379 to bolster my lefthandedness. As a drummer I've always been kind of ambidextrous, 148 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:03.450 like the things. I can play righthanded, I can play lefthanded, I 149 00:12:03.529 --> 00:12:07.570 can sit down at a righthanded kit and play it lefthanded and sit at a 150 00:12:07.570 --> 00:12:11.610 lefthanded kit and play it righthanded. You get the idea. My fourway independence 151 00:12:11.970 --> 00:12:16.039 sucks. If you're a drummer you know what I'm talking about. But I 152 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.679 can do things symmetrically left and right, which is kind of cool when you 153 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.799 putting on a show. Anyway, all that aside, I want to enhance 154 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:30.350 the ambidextrousness and to the extent that that might be possible with neurostimulation. I 155 00:12:30.509 --> 00:12:33.429 want to know, for example, the great buddy rich, one of the 156 00:12:33.470 --> 00:12:37.230 best drummers that has ever lived, never shook people's hands with the right hand. 157 00:12:37.389 --> 00:12:41.230 He insisted on shaking with the left. He wanted to build lefthand dominance 158 00:12:43.149 --> 00:12:48.179 to outweigh, or at least balance out his natural right hand dominance. So, 159 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:52.059 by the same token, I'm really curious, with neurostimulation, if we 160 00:12:52.179 --> 00:12:56.340 could change the polls back and forth or if you could just order a lefthanded 161 00:12:56.379 --> 00:13:00.649 or righthanded model. That's what I'm getting at. That seems like it might 162 00:13:00.690 --> 00:13:03.009 be beyond what we're able to do, but I think it might be a 163 00:13:03.090 --> 00:13:07.049 good step in the right direction. The one thing I wanted to bring up 164 00:13:07.049 --> 00:13:13.519 especially about neurostimulation and the parts of your brain it stimulates, about like cannabis 165 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:20.039 and also pharmaceutical drugs, since each of our brains is so vastly different. 166 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:26.480 I think the Holy Grail for all of these treatments to what ails us is 167 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:31.429 customization and frankly, I think we'll get there in ten years on all of 168 00:13:31.549 --> 00:13:39.149 these things, on cannabis, on electro stimulation, eurostimulation and on pharmaceuticals. 169 00:13:39.549 --> 00:13:43.700 The thing is right now none of them are customized enough to truly help people 170 00:13:45.940 --> 00:13:50.340 enough for everyone to say Whoa, that's the thing. So clearly, overnoming 171 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:58.169 yourself with pharmaceuticals or cannabis or Zapping your brain maybe not enough, because you 172 00:13:58.250 --> 00:14:01.169 know there's a level of safety and unless it's customized, you kind of have 173 00:14:01.289 --> 00:14:05.169 to turn that level down to the lowest combat denominator so nobody will get hurt. 174 00:14:05.769 --> 00:14:09.120 But I think some people with thicker skulls, literally thicker skulls, might 175 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:15.679 need more different brain parts might need deeper stimulation and different voltages and things like 176 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.720 that. So until we can start customizing these devices or the nature of cannabis, 177 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.990 I know about cannabis because I work in a cannabis processing lab and the 178 00:14:26.629 --> 00:14:33.750 newest marketing craze and cannabis is instead of calling it out by Indicut or sativa, 179 00:14:35.389 --> 00:14:37.710 they're starting to call it out by what they think. It makes you 180 00:14:37.789 --> 00:14:43.580 feel like relax, focused, calm. That sort of thing. The problem 181 00:14:43.620 --> 00:14:48.659 there is again it's kind of bullshit marketing, because until these drugs are finely 182 00:14:48.779 --> 00:14:54.129 tuned and customized per the individual, there's no way those terms are going to 183 00:14:54.210 --> 00:14:58.529 be accurate. So, similar to the drugs that the pharmacies give you every 184 00:14:58.529 --> 00:15:01.370 day, you know they're not helping all that you need, but in the 185 00:15:01.490 --> 00:15:07.049 future they might, and in the future neurostimulation will do the same thing. 186 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:13.000 So it really comes back down to like who owns electricity? electricities cheap? 187 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.519 You could. You could get a neurostimulation device and live off the grid and 188 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:22.350 power the thing was solar energy and clear your mind completely. This is these 189 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:26.389 are the things I think about, especially if your device, say five, 190 00:15:26.470 --> 00:15:31.549 six, seven years from now, has been custom tuned to your brain and 191 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:37.019 can be software updated based on its feedback every three or four months, checks 192 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:39.980 in on your brain sees what you need. People think this is scary and 193 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:45.100 that's because we live in kind of the Beta technology times right now. I 194 00:15:45.299 --> 00:15:48.580 definitely have faith in technology, but I definitely believe we live in the shittiest 195 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:54.649 era of technology ever. We are completely a Beta society. We're being tested 196 00:15:54.769 --> 00:15:58.929 on day and day out. Things don't work, things break. Things are 197 00:15:58.970 --> 00:16:03.370 complicated. It's elibance of bullshit. In the future this will all be flawless 198 00:16:03.769 --> 00:16:08.519 and technology will have proven to be a huge benefit to society, especially with 199 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:15.080 regards to health. So we're basically waiting for government approval of these devices in 200 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.110 the medical field and for science to advance to the point where we have nanotechnology 201 00:16:19.990 --> 00:16:26.309 that the can pin point different areas to research and what things we can apply 202 00:16:26.750 --> 00:16:30.389 to those areas of the brain, especially with regards to mental health, longevity, 203 00:16:30.870 --> 00:16:37.259 dementia problems, things like Epilepsi. Seize your disorders, brain injury, 204 00:16:37.379 --> 00:16:41.179 trauma, anxiety, depression, the whole thing. There will be cures for 205 00:16:41.259 --> 00:16:47.100 all this by twenty forty. We just need to hang in there and test 206 00:16:47.210 --> 00:16:49.889 the things like help out the companies that are at least trying. So I 207 00:16:51.009 --> 00:16:55.610 look forward to talking with can add lifted and I'm going to go put my 208 00:16:55.769 --> 00:16:59.769 device on right now and go watch a Tom Hanks World War Two movie. 209 00:17:00.730 --> 00:17:03.359 So, yeah, it sounds like a nice evening right. My Chili's done 210 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:07.400 cooking. Maybe have a bowl of chilli. A bowl of Chili and again 211 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:14.480 I send out my love to the grams of Sacramento. Get well soon. 212 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.509 Look forward to seeing you in person in two thousand and twenty one chowel. 213 00:17:25.430 --> 00:17:26.390 And now back to the wall.