Those calcium waves/ Wake the sleepy astrocytes/ Refresh perspective

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.869 Yo, what's up? Hi, I'm John Emotions. Welcome to Emo dojoe. 2 00:00:12.189 --> 00:00:14.910 So when I was starting to sit down, or stand up, as 3 00:00:14.949 --> 00:00:20.789 it is, at my desk here, and record this, I remembered last 4 00:00:20.789 --> 00:00:25.100 episode I said I wasn't going to record, quote unquote, mental health type 5 00:00:25.260 --> 00:00:32.100 episodes. I want to clarify that, like this whole thing is about mental 6 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:37.329 fitness. What I meant by that was I'm not going to whine and Moan 7 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:40.689 and Groan about my own life. That's what I meant, because there are 8 00:00:41.090 --> 00:00:47.049 plenty of mental health podcast with people quote unquote, sharing their story. That 9 00:00:47.170 --> 00:00:52.640 just comes off as depressed people whining. So there's plenty of those elsewhere to 10 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.079 choose from them. So I'm not going to do that kind of show here. 11 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.240 I'm just primarily going to focus on the things that I've learned or research 12 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.469 that have helped get me out of the funk and also the progress on the 13 00:01:04.549 --> 00:01:11.109 Emo Dojo in real life, which is going to be like a drum circle 14 00:01:11.269 --> 00:01:18.069 mental health studio. It's the best way I can describe it in five words 15 00:01:18.069 --> 00:01:22.659 or so. And on that end, I found out it's only about like 16 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:26.260 seven hundred bucks to start a nonprofit and that's pretty much all inclusive. Like 17 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:32.379 you gotta Pay Some state fees and some federal fees and, you know, 18 00:01:32.379 --> 00:01:36.250 a couple various things, file forms and things like that. But when you're 19 00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:40.489 all done, thank you can have a nonprofit for about seven hundred bucks. 20 00:01:41.329 --> 00:01:48.319 At this point it would probably be quicker and easier for me to save my 21 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:53.840 own seven hundred dollars then to spend the time and effort to start a campaign 22 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.920 to raise seven hundred dollars. So I guess on this part I'm on my 23 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.430 own, but I do need help on the next part for emo Doo Joe, 24 00:02:01.469 --> 00:02:08.229 and that is if you have any current contacts at music instrument companies. 25 00:02:08.430 --> 00:02:12.669 And it doesn't really matter what kind of instrument they manufacture, because a lot 26 00:02:12.710 --> 00:02:15.780 of those folks, a lot of those guys and gals know each other, 27 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:21.340 be or even change jobs from company to company because they know how to sell 28 00:02:21.539 --> 00:02:25.300 or, you know, distribute instruments. So if you know anybody that works 29 00:02:25.340 --> 00:02:29.780 at an instrument company, let me know who they are and I will follow 30 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:34.250 it myself and I'll figure out how to network that. As part of the 31 00:02:34.370 --> 00:02:38.569 big cost is going to be the drums, the drums themselves right so I 32 00:02:38.689 --> 00:02:45.240 can probably find a place that would give me a few months rent up front 33 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.960 for free. I have much of the sign making equipment for the front of 34 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.120 the storefront and that sort of thing. Probably need to raise a couple grand 35 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:57.599 for a sign, a proper sign on the outside of a building, and 36 00:02:58.710 --> 00:03:00.590 then the construction on the inside is going to be quite a bit. That's 37 00:03:00.590 --> 00:03:05.189 probably the next biggest chunk, or the biggest, along with the drums. 38 00:03:05.229 --> 00:03:07.389 Anyway, those steps are a little bit further down the road. So I'm 39 00:03:07.389 --> 00:03:14.180 just going to focus on coming up with about seven hundred dollars us to start 40 00:03:14.219 --> 00:03:24.460 a nonprofit for EMO Dojo and we'll keep you posted on that. So anyway, 41 00:03:24.539 --> 00:03:28.689 sorry for the long intro there, but the rest of this episode I'm 42 00:03:28.729 --> 00:03:34.169 going to talk about the mind blowing things I've discovered this week about calcium waves, 43 00:03:34.210 --> 00:03:39.810 astro sites and the way our brains work. So stick around for that 44 00:03:40.129 --> 00:03:45.439 and at the very end I'll have my weekly media round up. I'll talk 45 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.000 about a couple of the things I've seen on the various streaming services let you 46 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.080 know if they're worth watching or if I like them or not, and see 47 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:59.229 so you can save some time or definitely invest some time. That's all ahead. 48 00:03:59.789 --> 00:04:10.139 On emo Dojo. Stay tuned. All right. So you've got the 49 00:04:10.219 --> 00:04:14.099 update on the real life Emo Dojo out of the way. This next thing 50 00:04:14.219 --> 00:04:16.860 is going to blow your mind. Well, hopefully you're smart, you listen, 51 00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:21.620 You keep up. In fact, once I put all of this together, 52 00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:27.329 I started to think, man, half of you guys, half of 53 00:04:27.410 --> 00:04:30.529 you like you, and you, and you, way back over there. 54 00:04:30.649 --> 00:04:34.009 I see you. You probably know this stuff, the I'm about to tell 55 00:04:34.050 --> 00:04:38.329 you, and you just didn't tell me for some reason. You just watching 56 00:04:38.410 --> 00:04:42.120 me flounder and learn it for myself anyway. You know, when you learn 57 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.360 things for yourself or learn them the hard way, you remember them better, 58 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.870 you kind of feel them. So you know the transcranial direct current stimulation headband 59 00:04:51.910 --> 00:04:59.189 I've been wearing, the lifted headband from get liftedcom. Not a sponsored by 60 00:04:59.269 --> 00:05:01.550 them or anything. It's it works so well I think you should check it 61 00:05:01.589 --> 00:05:04.670 out, and you might as well go look at it now while I'm talking 62 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:12.339 about the thing right get lifted lft idcom. Get liftedcom. Like I said, 63 00:05:12.339 --> 00:05:15.060 I'm not a sponsor. I think it just works and it'll make more 64 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:18.459 sense when you hear about the rest of the things I'm going to tell you. 65 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:24.970 Okay, so it was really driving me crazy whether or not the lifted 66 00:05:25.370 --> 00:05:29.769 transcranial device thing worked. It seemed like it did. I'm like, what 67 00:05:29.889 --> 00:05:32.009 the fuck is going on? Like, how come I feel better, like 68 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:36.920 better in the not like a manic sense. When you have bipolar sometimes you 69 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.680 get this weird, uplifty, flighty feeling where you want to spend all the 70 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.879 money in your bank account and just do stupid shit. It's not like that, 71 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.160 not at all like that. I know that feeling and anytime I get 72 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.269 in a good mood I I'm fearful of that feeling coming on. But I 73 00:05:51.350 --> 00:05:56.230 don't feel it at all. This is a way different, feeling like I 74 00:05:56.350 --> 00:06:00.269 haven't felt in many years. In fact, I haven't felt this feeling in 75 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:02.310 so many years I think the last time I felt like this, I probably 76 00:06:02.310 --> 00:06:05.740 felt different anyway because I was, you know, ten years younger than I 77 00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:11.379 am now, and since I could not really attribute it to anyone thing, 78 00:06:11.500 --> 00:06:14.740 there was plenty of drama in my life, you know, much of itself 79 00:06:14.819 --> 00:06:19.689 inflicted, and lots of just stuff happening, like stressful things, life changes, 80 00:06:20.730 --> 00:06:26.930 household changes, we moved, new job, new job, new job, 81 00:06:26.930 --> 00:06:30.410 a couple new jobs. It's been pretty wild. So all of the 82 00:06:30.490 --> 00:06:34.000 things that stress people out, on top of the pandemic and whatnot, I've 83 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.720 experienced all that. But normally none of those things are going to help me 84 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.879 feel better. Those things would all help me just they would just crush me, 85 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.199 and so I'm kind of a skeptic anyway. So I really want to 86 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.430 know what the fuck is this thing really work? If so, everybody needs 87 00:06:48.470 --> 00:06:51.509 to fucking know about this technology. Is it old as it knew? What? 88 00:06:51.589 --> 00:06:55.990 Look, what's really going on? So I started poking around right because 89 00:06:56.029 --> 00:07:00.550 I keep I save a lot of articles on flipboard. was a cool APP 90 00:07:00.589 --> 00:07:04.180 called flip board have been using for years and I think if you go to 91 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:09.860 Johnny Emotionscom, there's a tab up on top of that says something like research. 92 00:07:10.259 --> 00:07:13.620 Go there and they're just a shit ton of articles all about emotions in 93 00:07:13.699 --> 00:07:15.970 brain research and things like that. So I go through this stuff daily, 94 00:07:16.089 --> 00:07:21.769 like several articles, and I'm always trying to sew together bits and pieces of 95 00:07:21.810 --> 00:07:27.730 different articles and connect dots that I haven't seen yet spoken in public, but 96 00:07:27.810 --> 00:07:30.639 I get the feeling that the things I'm going to connect the dots on now 97 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.959 are already known and, like I said, you probably knew this and just 98 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:40.560 wanted to hear me say it myself. I'm trying to synthesize all of my 99 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.389 thoughts that I've read in the past few days so that I can say that 100 00:07:45.069 --> 00:07:49.949 in a way that makes sense, without so much scientific jargon, and also 101 00:07:50.230 --> 00:07:54.709 knowing that we can't see each other, so I have to kind of explain 102 00:07:54.750 --> 00:08:01.980 it in words that you will understand. So my research all ends up pointing 103 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:07.899 at these things called Astro sites. Now I will spell that so that my 104 00:08:07.180 --> 00:08:15.329 transcription service can at least help you a little bit. Astro sites are not 105 00:08:15.529 --> 00:08:18.769 something you'll see in star wars, although the word astro is named because of 106 00:08:18.850 --> 00:08:24.009 the way these brain structures look. They look like little starbursts, so they 107 00:08:24.089 --> 00:08:33.039 called astrocites, a stro O, C Y T es, astro sites and 108 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.960 those of the Little Star shaped ends. They're that send off the communication to 109 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.909 each other that help your brain function. Up till up several years ago, 110 00:08:41.830 --> 00:08:48.710 they were thought to just provide the primary kind of primitive functioning, the breathing, 111 00:08:48.870 --> 00:08:54.870 just to keeping everything going. But of course sciences determining more and more 112 00:08:54.950 --> 00:08:58.659 that we are fully integrated creatures and all of our systems really work together, 113 00:08:58.419 --> 00:09:07.299 including our astrocites. So if you look up the term astrocites, you'll see 114 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:13.610 it in various independent studies where they've seen that it's affecting things like Alzheimer's, 115 00:09:13.610 --> 00:09:22.690 schizophrenia, depression, adhd, all of my favorite things. Right. So 116 00:09:22.929 --> 00:09:28.200 I'm like wow, what's really going on there? All right, so here's 117 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.240 what happens in all of these situations, and they've done studies in mice that 118 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:41.269 kind of validate this concept, is that our astrocites are just not working properly. 119 00:09:41.070 --> 00:09:45.789 They're not necessarily defective. They could be defective with might just be asleep, 120 00:09:45.830 --> 00:09:48.389 as a good way to say, or something. They just need some 121 00:09:48.830 --> 00:09:52.820 either perking up or we need new ones. So here's something that can actually 122 00:09:52.899 --> 00:09:58.259 perk them up. transcranial direct current stimulation. What do you know about that? 123 00:09:58.580 --> 00:10:01.980 So, okay, here's what we have to do, a little visualization, 124 00:10:03.059 --> 00:10:05.940 imagining kind of thing, and I'll stick with me. I'll try to 125 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:09.850 do my best. Like I said, I have a fantasia and I can't 126 00:10:09.850 --> 00:10:11.850 actually see anything when I close my eyes, but I'll I'll do my best 127 00:10:11.889 --> 00:10:16.970 to describe this. So inside of the star shaped, microscopic, almost nano 128 00:10:18.090 --> 00:10:22.480 size, star shape thing is made up of cells. I mean, technically 129 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.240 the called nonnurroglial cells, but doesn't really matter. That's too Geeky. Let's 130 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.360 just call them cells. Now Imagine, if you will, the cells like 131 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:35.279 a real round thing. And now imagine looking at that round thing. Imagine 132 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:39.830 dividing it up into five parts. Just imagine lines going across it. So 133 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:46.509 what happens with an oscillation is you can affect the first part of the cell. 134 00:10:48.350 --> 00:10:52.179 That's great, okay, doesn't really do much. If you can repeat 135 00:10:52.220 --> 00:10:56.460 the Oscillation, well, now you've created a wave. It will trigger from 136 00:10:56.500 --> 00:11:00.059 the first to the second, third, four fifth part of that cell. 137 00:11:00.940 --> 00:11:05.409 Now we've got a little cell vibrating in unison with itself so far. However, 138 00:11:05.529 --> 00:11:09.409 whatever causing that cell to change, obviously is going to cause all of 139 00:11:09.490 --> 00:11:13.570 the cells around it to do the same thing. So, in the case 140 00:11:13.649 --> 00:11:20.399 of transcranial direct current stimulation, it's electricity evenly oscillating those cells. In the 141 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.120 case of this headband, right there on your frontal lobe. Okay, so 142 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:28.559 a way to differentiate an oscillation from a wave in the sense that we're talking 143 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.789 about here imagine you have a bucket of water and just to drop a dropper, 144 00:11:33.870 --> 00:11:39.789 say dead center right above the bucket. You drop drop a water into 145 00:11:39.830 --> 00:11:43.870 the bucket and it creates a ring, a little wave, ring out to 146 00:11:43.950 --> 00:11:48.019 the edge of the bucket, it bounces back in towards the center, goes 147 00:11:48.259 --> 00:11:52.980 bloop and then it kind of repeats that back and forth. So in this 148 00:11:52.139 --> 00:11:58.779 context that would be one oscillation. Well, if you continue dropping the drops 149 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:03.250 into that same bucket while it still oscillating from the previous drop, you then 150 00:12:03.370 --> 00:12:09.929 create overlapping waves and those can be really interruptive, let's say, or disruptive. 151 00:12:09.490 --> 00:12:13.250 There are lots of videos on the Internet where you can see where small 152 00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:20.200 amounts of wind hit and improperly engineered bridge and even though the winds were small, 153 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:26.799 it starts to create this mechanical resonance where the it just the vibrations of 154 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.389 the bridge just keep amplifying on themselves until the bridge collapses. It's just hanging 155 00:12:31.429 --> 00:12:35.669 there with roadway hanging from cables. It's crazy, but it does show the 156 00:12:35.750 --> 00:12:41.509 power of waves. So in the case of our astro sites, we've now 157 00:12:41.669 --> 00:12:48.100 got this electricity in there causing oscillations that turn into waves. On a cellular 158 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:52.139 level. That cause all of the cells in that area to then perpetuate these 159 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:56.419 waves, not just in the region that you're using the electricity on, but 160 00:12:56.539 --> 00:13:01.529 they apparently, according to this research, perpetuate throughout the whole brain. So 161 00:13:01.690 --> 00:13:05.529 in a way, wherever you drop the transcranial stimulator, it is like dropping 162 00:13:05.570 --> 00:13:09.929 a drip of water into the bucket of your brain. I guess it will 163 00:13:11.009 --> 00:13:16.559 resonate throughout your brain and back and forth. I'm sure you understanding the technology 164 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.200 and you can probably tell that it's not so much technology. It's really analog. 165 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.000 It's really just I mean, electricity is provable and seeable and all of 166 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.110 that stuff, so it's not even the highest tech thing. Is here our 167 00:13:30.190 --> 00:13:33.789 ability to finally see it in action. Other than that, using an electrical 168 00:13:33.830 --> 00:13:39.429 current to stimulate an electrical thing like a brain is not rocket science at all. 169 00:13:39.470 --> 00:13:41.860 We've known how to do that for a while. We finally known what 170 00:13:41.019 --> 00:13:46.779 the specific mechanism is and it's those calcium waves. Calcium waves? What? 171 00:13:48.899 --> 00:13:54.059 Here's the crazy part, right. So your astrocytes, through the electrical stimulation, 172 00:13:54.100 --> 00:13:58.769 start creating these calcium waves. The called calcium waves because calcium is one 173 00:13:58.769 --> 00:14:03.970 of the primary ingredients in the let's call it the fluid that your brain uses 174 00:14:05.210 --> 00:14:07.330 up there to communicate everything through. And a good way to think of it 175 00:14:07.529 --> 00:14:13.559 is these waves are now able to wash across the sands of the beaches of 176 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:18.000 your mind. So all of those tire tracks from those past parties and the 177 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:26.509 fucking bonfire pit, sewage dump pipe coming out people's foot brands and Sandcal hustles 178 00:14:26.509 --> 00:14:30.750 dug on your beach, all those memories and all that stuff. Well, 179 00:14:31.629 --> 00:14:35.309 if you think about that every night when you go to sleep or, in 180 00:14:35.389 --> 00:14:41.379 the case of calcium waves here, through electrical stimulation or even meditation, what 181 00:14:41.539 --> 00:14:45.340 they're doing. It's kind of a great metaphor for washing over all of those 182 00:14:45.379 --> 00:14:48.659 things. So then you can reset and choose which memories you want to kind 183 00:14:48.700 --> 00:14:54.129 of put on top of there. It sounds unbelievable and SCI FI. I'm 184 00:14:54.169 --> 00:14:56.570 a skeptic and I might not even be describing it in an effective way, 185 00:14:58.409 --> 00:15:03.090 but I'm pretty sure this shit works. So here's here's some more ideas I'm 186 00:15:03.129 --> 00:15:09.679 thinking about. But just to recap, what causes, or seems to be 187 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:18.159 causing, depression and affects schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, adhd is damaged or inactive astro 188 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.710 sites. So you got to repair your astro sites. Here's where I get 189 00:15:22.710 --> 00:15:26.789 to throw in my little bit of conspiracy and controversy. Not on purpose, 190 00:15:26.870 --> 00:15:31.470 but it's a valid point. I saw again the shark tank with this lifted 191 00:15:31.549 --> 00:15:37.019 ID thing in it right and I saw how they shit on the creators. 192 00:15:37.419 --> 00:15:41.220 And then I realize why, because I just before I came on the air 193 00:15:41.379 --> 00:15:45.139 today, I did a little research. So it turns out Mark Cuban, 194 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:50.970 chief Shitter and charge, has a big investment in drugs, their generic drugs, 195 00:15:52.009 --> 00:15:56.970 and most of them are set to cure noble things like hook worm and 196 00:15:58.090 --> 00:16:00.289 such, but there's a list of a hundred that I don't know. So 197 00:16:00.409 --> 00:16:06.120 I'm sure somewhere in that hundred list of drugs, somewhere in that list of 198 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:11.480 a hundred drugs that Mark Cuban wants to make generic and profit from, I'm 199 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.320 sure there are some mental health drugs in there. So it's a bit disingenuous 200 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.389 in hindsight to see that he's shitting on it such a simple and cheap way 201 00:16:21.470 --> 00:16:23.549 to do the same thing that his drugs would do. Even those drugs are 202 00:16:23.549 --> 00:16:27.909 cheaper than the existing drugs they're still drugs and you don't need them if something 203 00:16:27.950 --> 00:16:34.419 else, much more primitive and simple and cheap works. So the primary goal 204 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:38.899 of any of these things, any of these solutions to depression, involves repairing 205 00:16:40.019 --> 00:16:42.860 your astro sites. Are you going to repair it with drugs or you want 206 00:16:42.860 --> 00:16:48.049 to try to repair it with electricity? It sounds scary, but it's fucking 207 00:16:48.129 --> 00:16:52.649 not scary at all. For example, this lifted one. On a scale 208 00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:57.409 of say zero to twenty. The government will allow devices to go up to 209 00:16:57.529 --> 00:17:02.759 twenty. Well, this one maxes out at twelve, so you don't don't 210 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.160 have to worry about it. Like it doesn't go to the Max. It's 211 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.559 just enough to get, I hate to say, a consumer into it, 212 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.880 but it's safe for everybody. Is a way I was that's probably they made 213 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.279 it a twelve out of twenty. I would like personally to get my hands 214 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.670 on a twenty because I think I could take the irritation and I would like 215 00:17:18.710 --> 00:17:23.230 to see what more or stimulation can do. That said, you know this 216 00:17:23.509 --> 00:17:27.269 lifted one is safe. I don't know about the others or how much voltage 217 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:30.220 they got or what the deal is. I'm not an electrician. Okay, 218 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:34.980 so here's the part where I was connecting the dots again. That kind of 219 00:17:36.140 --> 00:17:38.500 blew me away. I'm like, Oh, fucking Duh. Right, I 220 00:17:38.619 --> 00:17:45.289 know friends who are into Kundalini and I raveda things like that, and they're 221 00:17:45.329 --> 00:17:48.369 both talking about meditating in the third eye and whatnot. Some people I know 222 00:17:48.450 --> 00:17:55.009 into the Kundalini world are onto this kick that the government puts fluoride in the 223 00:17:55.130 --> 00:18:00.480 water and that Shit Ruins our third eye. It calcifies it or some shit. 224 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.480 anyways, they use the term calcification of the third eye pretty frequently. 225 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:10.599 Just Google that. Calcification of the third eye, calcified third eye, you 226 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.630 know, look up that kind of stuff. Well, one of the MANTRAS 227 00:18:12.670 --> 00:18:18.430 I used to listen to would have you ah like that. It was all 228 00:18:18.509 --> 00:18:25.069 meditation, basically. But you say that as loud as you can, you 229 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:26.940 know, yell at and I think you can't really yell that the tone Ah, 230 00:18:27.339 --> 00:18:32.220 but you can be very intentional about it. It's where it starts to 231 00:18:32.259 --> 00:18:36.059 vibrate your whole cage, right in your head. Well, the thought in 232 00:18:36.099 --> 00:18:38.660 there is you supposed to close your eyes while you're doing the odd meditation and 233 00:18:38.779 --> 00:18:45.730 kind of like vision from fucking superhero movies, that guy with that diamond in 234 00:18:45.809 --> 00:18:49.490 his head. You're supposed to kind of envision a bright light rushing out of 235 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:55.369 your forehead and while you're doing the ad meditation. Well, in hindsight, 236 00:18:55.450 --> 00:19:00.359 what you're really doing is you're trying to fest just through noise, through audio, 237 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.799 the power of sound vibrations. It sounds like the way that that all 238 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:12.549 meditation works is because the vibration stimulates the astrocytes in the same way that electricity 239 00:19:12.670 --> 00:19:18.309 does. So in my mind, now, before you jump to the drugs, 240 00:19:18.349 --> 00:19:23.109 at least try Kondalini, try just sitting in a room quietly, with 241 00:19:23.190 --> 00:19:27.099 nobody around to listen, going and imagining a fucking bright light coming out of 242 00:19:27.140 --> 00:19:32.140 the middle of your forehead. Try that. That's not very powerful to me. 243 00:19:32.619 --> 00:19:37.299 That's just just weak. fucking plug me in, put this thing on 244 00:19:37.420 --> 00:19:40.690 my head and Zap me with some electricity. fucking a. It worked, 245 00:19:41.130 --> 00:19:44.049 it works, it's working. I don't know how to state it. I'm 246 00:19:44.049 --> 00:19:47.170 not going to keep dwelling on it over and again. I just wanted to 247 00:19:47.210 --> 00:19:51.410 share with you that. But I found out about Goddamn astrocites and calcium waves. 248 00:19:51.450 --> 00:19:55.960 All right, so if you think Kondalini and flushing out the flooride of 249 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:00.160 your third eye or whatever. Through all meditation works. Highly suggest trying a 250 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:07.079 transcranial direct stimulation device. The only one I've used is the lifted one. 251 00:20:07.470 --> 00:20:08.950 You know, pig one. Try One. Just read the ratings, make 252 00:20:08.950 --> 00:20:15.589 sure you're not getting a cheap one that doesn't have any anybody responsible for it, 253 00:20:15.710 --> 00:20:18.430 but you can't sue if the fries your brain. Now, I'm just 254 00:20:18.470 --> 00:20:21.069 kidding. There aren't anything like that, but I think there are some that 255 00:20:21.109 --> 00:20:25.259 are little Lucy Goosey with the voltage that might prick your skin a little bit, 256 00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:29.819 and I think those come from overseas. Not to diminish that, there's 257 00:20:29.819 --> 00:20:33.660 just different standards, you know. So in this case I'm just saying buy 258 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:37.970 one from a company that you can sue like whatever. That's not going to 259 00:20:38.049 --> 00:20:41.849 happen if you buy one from somebody in America because, like I said, 260 00:20:41.369 --> 00:20:48.130 they keep the transcranial stimulation devices governor down to a rate lower than the government 261 00:20:48.170 --> 00:20:52.839 allows. So it's already safe by twenty thirty percent right. Yeah, and 262 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.400 if those don't work, sure, try the drugs. Why not? Like 263 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:02.359 I'm not against drugs, I'm just I'm into efficiency and one thing that humans 264 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:07.309 have that we can be efficient about is our money. So if, instead 265 00:21:07.349 --> 00:21:12.630 of spending money on expensive drugs that are, you know, nominally working, 266 00:21:12.869 --> 00:21:15.509 they might make you feel better. The might be a placebo effect, who 267 00:21:15.509 --> 00:21:19.940 knows. But I know that this works in ways that no medicine has ever 268 00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:23.380 worked, and I have a long list of meds I've tried for both depression, 269 00:21:23.819 --> 00:21:30.339 Adhd and bipolar. Magical Cure? Nah, it's not magic, it's 270 00:21:30.339 --> 00:21:34.450 just science, Scientific Cure. Sure, if you want to call it that. 271 00:21:34.490 --> 00:21:37.329 As a cure, I don't know. Am I was a trying to 272 00:21:37.650 --> 00:21:41.730 was it a disease? He's ever, is overthinking and being sad and showing 273 00:21:41.769 --> 00:21:45.650 your emotions a disease that needs to be cured? Or is are they just 274 00:21:45.769 --> 00:21:49.839 feelings that could be better off if they were controlled through the use of signs 275 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.240 like electricity, something so simple? It's been around for a hundred years. 276 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:02.269 So anyway, that vision reference reminds me we should move on. Getting long 277 00:22:02.309 --> 00:22:04.670 in the tooth there, but I just want to so if you checked out 278 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:10.630 one division. If you have not, this is a good weekend to finally 279 00:22:10.750 --> 00:22:15.099 start. So I got the Disney plus trial like seven dollars for a month 280 00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:19.460 because I wanted to watch Pixar's soul. That was good. I like that. 281 00:22:19.579 --> 00:22:22.619 off seeing that twice, I think I got it, and then I 282 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:27.460 started poking around and watching the other things on there, including catching up on 283 00:22:27.539 --> 00:22:33.210 all the mandalorians. That was good. I like that. I'm not super 284 00:22:33.329 --> 00:22:36.289 like, Whooa, did you see the Mandalorian? I'm like, I liked 285 00:22:36.289 --> 00:22:40.410 it. Got It and one division, though. So here's the fucking thing 286 00:22:40.529 --> 00:22:44.089 that, okay, just drives me crazy when they do this, and they 287 00:22:44.170 --> 00:22:47.039 do it on many like they do it on Netflix, sometimes they do it 288 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.160 on Amazon, is they'll start a series so slowly that you got to really 289 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.680 commit to like at least three episodes before you even know if you going to 290 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.910 like it or not. And the kind of did this with Wan Division. 291 00:23:00.309 --> 00:23:03.630 They almost, I think, really killed it for a lot of viewers because 292 00:23:03.710 --> 00:23:10.069 the entire first episode is in black and white. As each episode unfolds, 293 00:23:10.109 --> 00:23:12.940 you start to get it and by the fifth one you like yes, pretty 294 00:23:12.940 --> 00:23:18.140 fucking genius. I kind of like it. So I would, for seven 295 00:23:18.180 --> 00:23:25.740 dollars for a month, definitely get Disney plus, watch yourself soul and check 296 00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:30.250 out one division. Now, now that it's up to episode five, if 297 00:23:30.289 --> 00:23:34.490 finally is cool, but knowing that episodes one, two and three are like, 298 00:23:36.049 --> 00:23:41.240 uh, what's I guess. Yeah, it was tough. It's tough 299 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.200 for me to get into even three. All right, then, over on 300 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:52.240 Apple Plus Apple TV, whatever apple TV plus the one you get for free 301 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:56.390 when you get like a new iphone, whatever that one is. There's a 302 00:23:56.470 --> 00:24:03.750 new movie called Palmer, starting Justin Timber Lake, and pretty good it is. 303 00:24:03.990 --> 00:24:07.990 Here's the story. It's the basic story of x con runs into awkward 304 00:24:07.990 --> 00:24:15.779 situation, meets Awkward Kid and they both learned from each other for the better. 305 00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:22.619 It's a heartwarming tail of struggle and overcoming. Yeah, it's okay. 306 00:24:22.619 --> 00:24:25.730 I mean you've seen the story before. What stood out, though, here 307 00:24:26.690 --> 00:24:32.849 is how well Justin Timber Lake played in x Con. I. I've known 308 00:24:32.890 --> 00:24:37.769 plenty of x cons and he nailed the silent I don't trust you vibe, 309 00:24:37.210 --> 00:24:42.680 but he did not have a lot of dialog and most of it was kind 310 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:48.119 of Sullen. You didn't say much. There's not a lot to give away 311 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.480 either way. We kind of imagine how these movies go, but Heah, 312 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.470 yeah, need kind of nailed the x Con vibe. Kudos to that dude. 313 00:24:56.390 --> 00:25:00.549 He did not break out in song a at all. Ever. Great. 314 00:25:02.630 --> 00:25:06.710 And then the last thing that stood out to me that I watched this 315 00:25:06.789 --> 00:25:11.019 past week two things, kind of on HBO Max. The first one is 316 00:25:11.099 --> 00:25:18.460 a new crime drama called the little things with Denzel Washington, Jared Letto, 317 00:25:21.529 --> 00:25:25.369 MMM, I don't want to fuck his name up, Robbi Molick, it's 318 00:25:25.369 --> 00:25:34.170 Mr robot that guy. So Denzel and Freddie Mercury play cops, pure fiction 319 00:25:34.250 --> 00:25:37.839 story. It's not based on anything real, which is cool because then they 320 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.839 can cann i. just do whatever they want with the story. And Jared 321 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.240 letto plays the creepy, greasy bad guy. So that's all you need to 322 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:49.750 know really. And then it's kind of typical crime drama. The the question 323 00:25:49.869 --> 00:25:52.710 at the end is, you know, when you catch the person that we 324 00:25:52.789 --> 00:25:56.309 all knows the killer and is admitted to being the killer, but you don't 325 00:25:56.349 --> 00:26:00.549 think he's going to be served justice, what you do the do you become 326 00:26:00.589 --> 00:26:04.059 a killer yourself to take the killer out and then become that which you hunted, 327 00:26:04.099 --> 00:26:10.940 or do you bring him in and turn them into the hands of justice? 328 00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:14.299 So I mean that's the ending of so many movies all the way back 329 00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:18.730 to cowboy movies. Right. So this one just the that kind of movie, 330 00:26:18.849 --> 00:26:25.329 with Denzel and Jared Letto and Rommy as the decorations on the structure. 331 00:26:26.329 --> 00:26:27.609 Not Bad and worth, you know, ninety minutes of your time. If 332 00:26:27.650 --> 00:26:33.319 you're into crime dramas, I guess. I guess it's much better when all 333 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.400 of the actors can act. There is good actors can, you know, 334 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:41.279 do wonders with crappy lines or no lines at all, you know, just 335 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.319 acting in silence. So yeah, those are three interesting things. Check it 336 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:52.589 out. So, finally, I wanted to mention this clubhouse thing. Man, 337 00:26:52.630 --> 00:26:55.230 I'm not going to start promoting it yet, but when it's on all 338 00:26:55.309 --> 00:26:57.630 of the platforms you're going to dig it. If people are just going to 339 00:26:57.670 --> 00:27:03.299 go ape shit about it. It's a lot like live line or those chatln 340 00:27:03.339 --> 00:27:06.579 the s they had chat lines where you call up on your regular house line 341 00:27:06.619 --> 00:27:10.619 phone and you somehow get, you know, plugged into a hot line where 342 00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:14.700 you could hear everybody chatting at the same time, like literally talking. Sounds 343 00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:18.369 like a shit show right. Well, clubhouse fixed a few of those problems 344 00:27:18.890 --> 00:27:22.769 in that in this case you have to push a little button and raise your 345 00:27:22.769 --> 00:27:26.410 hand to speak, and the people moderating the conversation and let people up to 346 00:27:26.529 --> 00:27:30.839 speak in an orderly fashion. And if you don't want to speak, don't 347 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.599 raise your hand. You can sit in the audience forever and listen to the 348 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.200 whole thing, which I love. I am a fly on the wall and 349 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:42.960 I love listening way more than I love speaking. So I just consume knowledge 350 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.670 all the time and it's funny because the more you listen, the more you 351 00:27:45.789 --> 00:27:49.269 realize, wow, I got a relief. fucking get it right before I 352 00:27:49.349 --> 00:27:53.309 say something. Anyway, I think that comes from just being a shy person. 353 00:27:55.269 --> 00:28:00.859 Yep, I'm a shy person. So when clubhouse comes to android will 354 00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:06.420 get way more involved because we can literally have like like groups like we have 355 00:28:06.619 --> 00:28:11.380 in used to have it depression, bipolar support lines, DBSA groups where anybody 356 00:28:11.420 --> 00:28:15.369 that's feeling like sharing sits in a circle. Will in this case we could 357 00:28:15.369 --> 00:28:18.849 sit in a clubhouse room. Everyone who wants to talk. Raise your hand, 358 00:28:19.289 --> 00:28:23.049 you can share, get replies on your share like people could literally support 359 00:28:23.130 --> 00:28:29.680 you in real time from all around the world and empathize with you. Man, 360 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:33.440 if you've never been to a support group for emotional disorders. They're pretty 361 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:42.069 awesome and most of them are attended by and run by patients or sufferers or 362 00:28:42.150 --> 00:28:47.029 whatever. No doctors. But the structure is really simple. There's like some 363 00:28:47.150 --> 00:28:51.509 moderators that are, you know, experienced moderators, very cool with people and 364 00:28:52.710 --> 00:28:57.980 you know they know how to diffuse harsh situations, let's say. But the 365 00:28:59.099 --> 00:29:02.660 clubhouse environment would be perfect for that, because that you get ten people in 366 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:07.460 a room and then you know five people want to share and everybody looks how 367 00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:08.980 it works, as normally somebody will share, like I had a hard week, 368 00:29:10.009 --> 00:29:12.970 my boss really didn't like my work and then I got home and my 369 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:17.170 partner was mad at me for something I didn't even think I did. And 370 00:29:18.170 --> 00:29:21.809 when you say these things out loud at first, gets them off your chest. 371 00:29:22.730 --> 00:29:25.680 When you hear other people reply and say, Oh my God, that 372 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:29.359 exact same thing happened to me and here's how it made me feel and here's 373 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.400 how I resolved it. When you hear three or four people say that, 374 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.680 you really start to feel uplifted and it almost feels like a spiritual church like 375 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:42.509 experience. So I credit the DBSA meetings in person for saving my life a 376 00:29:42.670 --> 00:29:48.630 couple times when I was really, really down, feeling suicidal, and if 377 00:29:48.750 --> 00:29:51.190 it was a shorter walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, I would have went 378 00:29:51.309 --> 00:29:55.019 there first. But you know, dbs a meeting was in between my apartment 379 00:29:55.059 --> 00:30:00.140 and the bridge, so I dbsa saved my life and now I will always 380 00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:03.460 remember the format of those kind of meetings, those groups where you can just 381 00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:07.890 share in a private situation and with the clubhouse APP you know, the moderators 382 00:30:07.930 --> 00:30:12.049 can kick out people who are being an assholes. That was always kind of 383 00:30:12.130 --> 00:30:19.609 tricky in a real life meeting seeing it happen, and no, it was 384 00:30:19.730 --> 00:30:25.759 not me. So we'll do that as well, because I think that's a 385 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:30.440 great platform for Emo Dojo where we can just thrive and help each other, 386 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:34.710 you know, share feelings and show each other how to let it out. 387 00:30:36.109 --> 00:30:40.509 Like there's no right way to share your feelings, but there's a good way 388 00:30:40.549 --> 00:30:44.390 to open up and let whatever those feelings are come out and just get them 389 00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:48.670 out of your heart and your soul and let them dissipate into the universe while 390 00:30:48.710 --> 00:30:53.619 getting like support from other people. Holy Shit, why didn't you say I've 391 00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:59.059 been talking for like forty minutes. I appreciate your time. Thanks for sticking 392 00:30:59.099 --> 00:31:07.930 around and I'll keep you posted on this. transcranial direct current stimulation. I'm 393 00:31:07.970 --> 00:31:11.730 serious. If you have depression that you haven't been able to shake or adhd 394 00:31:11.890 --> 00:31:18.519 problems that cause you to be agitated because you can't focus, I will vouch 395 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.240 for those for as long as you've been listening to me. No Bullshit. 396 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.920 I would say this one works for me for sure. I can't say it 397 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:33.309 would work for you or whatever, but try that fucking brains aber. Serious. 398 00:31:33.549 --> 00:31:37.549 The most recent studies show it works on rats. worked on rats and 399 00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:41.990 also they just the one. The one story that brought this to mind most 400 00:31:42.069 --> 00:31:47.539 recently was, I think yesterday, with they showed that corpses dead people. 401 00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:52.500 They studied dead people's brains and depressed people compared to healthy people. Depressed people 402 00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:59.980 had fewer astrocites. So since dead people that were depressed had fewer astrocites and 403 00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:07.650 we can increase our astrosites and their effectiveness through electricity, we could not end 404 00:32:07.690 --> 00:32:10.650 up dead, especially because a lot of those people in that steady were dead 405 00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:16.960 by suicide. So all of that research aside, it's relatively cheap to try. 406 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.559 Yeah, man, let's get out of here. Speaking of rats in 407 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:28.680 a cage. Here's a great song from the s that will probably muted on 408 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:34.269 some platforms, but anyway, on this platform you can enjoy it. Take 409 00:32:34.309 --> 00:32:39.750 care. Just ding a case. Despite all my rage, I am still 410 00:32:40.069 --> 00:32:51.779 just rady a case. Someone say what is loud. Despite all my rage, 411 00:32:51.900 --> 00:33:10.769 I'm still just the ready enough. And now back to the wall.