im depressed

worked hard the last few days on this podcast

and the thing is i know what im in for. im trying to make something out of

not nothing, but im upset that my interviews with relative unknowns are not popular.

i am having intelligent, interesting chats with normal people and

every week im surprised a thunderstorm of traffic doesn’t come racing to it.

for years ive studied this.

for years i was successful at this.

even at the academy when i presented normal people, bright as they were,

to the madding crowds it was met with yawns.

i am so idealistic its gonna kill me.

i want people to see the absolute beauty in these people.

love your neighbor.

today i got super depressed about global warming of all things.

i kept thinking, the worlds gonna end bc people just cant stop voting for republicans

or fucking people who vote for republicans.

both are unhelpful.

but then my brain would say, no no, the world will be fine

the people will die, the world will keep spinning and become healthier

the minute the last human has coughed themselves to death.

that minute.

ive talked to people who are buddhists pretty much.

theyd say just let it be

relieve yourselves of your attachments

who cares if the people die?

we have had plenty of chances to support more AOCs and defeat more GOPs

but this crowd just couldn’t

these fuckers couldnt be bothered with a vaccine for the plague!

so if anything this podcast is what i hope the aliens find

so they know not all of us

were terrible

if i had my way

id release 5 episodes of hear in LA next week

we have more than that many in the can and i just listened to one of them today

and it is soooooooo goooood

is this why i dont have children?

i would have just loved the newest one and forgotten about the rest?

the one coming out today is with alex dionne who i went to ucsb with

who is a real estate person now in a very fancy part of LA

so she has sold a house that cost over $5 million.

you get $100k commission for that

her answers were so good but because im an idiot i didnt know how to mic the convo

therefore theres echos every where in the thing

like so much it sounds like we are in a church inside a cave inside my skull

i wonder if people will ignore it

im such a weirdo about sound quality now

im terrified people will stop listening due to technical issues

anyways shes great and, heres the people off the top of my head coming up next

sass, a dude who the cops targeted, a woman who used to work for shonda, a dude who the sheriff of LA hates the most, a great photographer, a woman who knows everything about transportation, and a guy who played bass in bob dylans band

i want them all out right now

the world needs to hear all of this it’s so good – but i only do 2 a week

that means half of that you wont hear until next month

i may have to convince jordan that we need to do a menage a trois weekend and bust with three on the same week… or even three in the same day omg omg

have i told you i am loving the pax vape?

its the pax era – $50 for the pen

and $40-$50 for the cartridges that get you high

i can sleep, i can eat, i can concentrate, i can write

and it gets you high.

im glad i went through all the nonsense with the oils and tinctures and edibles first

because its nice to know those things dont work for me

and this does

it does de-motivate me, which is weird bc i dont smoke it that much

3-4 puffs max a day

usually late at night

but it carries over

if i ever do get a little fu-money i would like to go to vegas and see if i can get a 12 hour sleep

thats the only place i can

isnt that weird?

i think it’s bc my mind is vegas inside

and ive had soooo many good times there

so many

nearly died once but that was my own fault

so yes my mind is at pure rest there.

one of my very first busblog posts was about meeting ashley there

 

i like secret weapons

money mark and mario c were the secret weapons of the Beastie Boys post Pauls Boutique

the boys (and their lawyers) didnt want to pay out the exorbitant fees required when using samples

so they had to pick up their own instruments and play.

the boys were good, but could use help

mario c was a great producer and percussionist and he knew money mark who played keyboards

the other day i interviewed Mark and he was so cool, so chill, so open to talking about anything

it was a delight

then i had him sign one of my Beastie Boys posters and he was gracious about that too.

she said, wanna go to the club?

i said of course i want to go to the club

where else would i want to be than a place that plays

terrible music

super loudly

and charges me soooo much money to get drunk

she asked are you being sarcastic?

i said with you baby id go anywhere

i have the perfect outfit

a polo shirt, jeans

and a half gallon of drakkar noir

she said, because it sounds like yr being sarcastic

and i really wanna dance

i love to dance

i said i love to dance too

but i like to spontaneously dance

i once dated a girl who said she didnt like sex on a bed

she liked it to be spontaneous and unusual

i feel the same way about dancing

she said i dont wanna hear about your old girlfriends.

i said, whoops sorry.

im just old.

ive got stories

she said well i want to dance

and you want to dance

but you want to do it spontaneously, how do we make that work?

i said fine lets go to a club

she was all, really?

i was like sure, whats the worst that could happen?

i wish i could tell you how happy i am

we are so ahead of schedule on hear in LA

it is the perfect time to update the website.

and

the interviews ive done that are in the can

the ones ive done that havent been edited yet

and the ones ive got lined up

are sooooooooo goooooooood

today and yesterday i did two hour interviews

i told jordan, just turn them into MP3s and i’ll time code the easy cuts out of there

but theres 90 minutes each of quality content so the rest will be hard

solid people. all of them. LA is the best.

which is to say, it’s as good as your favorite place.

i like social media experiments

my Hear in LA youtube page only has 15 subscribers

who knows when i will really do hear in LA videos, but i wanted a place to store things unique to the podcast.

i also am a fan of public domain things.

for example this little interstitial for concessions is something they play before every screening of a film at the Vista, my local cinema

so i put it on the Hear in LA page, tagged it properly, described it using the correct SEO terms

and son of a biscuit, it’s got over 5,000 views.

which is more than how many people listened to the podcast about the Vista manager, sadly, even though it was incredible and he’s such a beloved man.

which makes me think i need to shoot little videos of these people

put those bad boys on the YouTube channel and see what happens

because im sorry, Victor’s origin story is way more interesting than this little song.

such a good day

even though the hear in LA interviews are only scheduled for an hour

they can end up 2-3 hours, easy.

these people are great, first of all,

and who doesn’t like talking about themselves?

today i got to talk to someone who worked at Bad Robot, the company that made Lost

and the newer Star Trek and Mission Impossible movies.

he was also very knowledgeable about sports and music so it was hard to keep it under an hour and a half.

got home and had a great convo with my neighbor and his girlfriend

im trying to help them save their rock club

which seems like a long shot.

but you know what?

i fucking love long shots.

did some beekeeping

didnt expect it, but i was interviewing a great guy who told me about the 100k bees in his backyard

then he said, ive got a suit, lets go

i was all no no, thats perfectly ok.

but he insisted and im glad he did because

everyone should experience it.

they buzz around you and call you the n word

but if you just chill out they will realize its useless

afterwards i got kfc and couldnt believe how cool that was.