Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh - Quarantine WILL Drive You Insane (And How You Can Stop It)

Episode Date: March 29, 2020

What up people, Schulz here with Mark Gagnon, and we're talking JAMES DOLAN getting the 'Rona, why celebs are saying they have, how to not go crazy during quarantine, and more... Pour a cup, Pull up, and INDULGE.

What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Quarantine Chronicles. Hello everybody at home. Hope you're settling in to your quarantine. Hope you're sheltered. Hope you're doing whatever the fuck you want to do with all your free time. It is free time. Matter of fact, you're getting paid for your time now.

Government handing out checks. It's not even free time. You're working from home. You're doing nothing from home life is good put your cups up let's take a sip together before we start this off because guys guys we have some great news some exciting news let's take a sip first i'm sipping on agua just because it's a global pandemic doesn't mean there isn't a tiny bit of positivity in it okay doesn't mean there isn't a little light at the end of the tunnel doesn't mean good things cannot come out of the darkness we have some lovely lovely news matter of fact it's so important this news mark i'm gonna ask you to just pause the audio slightly everybody say what up to mark everybody that's marky gagnon mark gagnon on

instagram okay um let's let's pause for a second and let's rejoice because finally finally we know the corona virus is bougie right we know the coronavirus is bougie, right? We know the coronavirus is a little bottle rat just trying to hang out with famous people. Coronavirus is kind of like a paparazzi in a way, right? Because you don't really want anything to do with regular folk, you know, just famous people and Italians. And, you know, the name paparazzi or the word paparazzi is an Italian word so I get it I think that what's happening with this corona is it's finally realized its power and sometimes even a villain uses its power for good you know you ever watched like one of those Marvel movies

right where Magneto's doing horrible shit the entire time and he wants to you know end the world or at least end humanity and then he goes goes, wait a minute. Actually, in order for us all to survive, in order for us all to thrive, I have to use my powers for good in this moment. And finally, the coronavirus has reached that level of maturity where it goes with great power comes great responsibility. I got to start picking off people that need to be picked off, that need to be humbled, okay? And you know who it targeted? James Dolan. Jimmy D, okay?

Jimmy D, the owner of the Knicks got coronavirus and he's old and he likes to smoke, okay? He's in a jazz band. You, he's in a jazz band. You can't be in a jazz band without smoking. We got a shot, baby. Now, I'm not wishing death on nobody, okay? I can't even say that with a straight face. If for whatever reason James Dolan happened to pass, that would be sad.

He's got family that cares about him. He's got 19-year-old girls that can no longer hang out around tables at One Oak and Avenue, so they rely on this man for their survival during this global pandemic. $1,200 from the government isn't going to cut it. It's not, okay? These girls

need to be fed. They need new purses, okay? They need to pay rent for that apartment they share with 12 other girls that want to be models in New York City. You know the hustle, James. He's out there. He's got it. It's a positive case. And there's a chance that he

could sell the Knicks. I don't know how coronavirus is going to pull this off, but maybe, just maybe, the coronavirus can humble James Dolan enough where he realizes, he realizes the pain and suffering inside himself. And he goes, wait a minute. This pain and suffering I've experienced, have I been bestowing this upon New Yorkers for decades?

Have I been making it hard for them to breathe? Have I been making them cough up a lung have I been making Knicks fans need ventilators for decades am I the coronavirus yes James yes you are it's been far too long so maybe in this moment of extreme humility where you've been tapped the grim reaper of diseases and maybe not at all we'll get to that later has tapped you on the shoulder sickle in hand and said james you have a decision to make i may liberate you of this disease, but you need to liberate New Yorkers of the disease that you are hosting, owning, and dictating what type of seasons we will have for our future. I want a glorious future for you, James Dolan. I want a glorious future for us as well. And I believe it's time for you to part ways with that virus and for us

to part ways with our virus. Okay. Go be the jazz musician you were destined to be. You cannot be a billionaire jazz musician. It does not work out that way. Okay. You need to be poor. You need to be suffering. You need to be having the blues. Holy shit. Is that why you contracted it? suffering. You need to be having the blues. Holy shit. Is that why you contracted it? Is that why? Did you contract the coronavirus on purpose because you needed something to write jazz music about? Did you need some blues, James? Is that what this whole thing has come down to? Well, if you need some blues, I can tell you a quick way to get it. Stop owning the Knicks and just become a regular fan. Because the blues will ensue. So please do the right thing.

That's right. Do the right thing. Do the right thing, Spike. That's for you. Do the right thing, James. And get rid of that team. Put your focus on your health. Not only your physical health, but the health of that team. Put your focus on your health. Not only your physical health,

but the health of this organization. Now let's get this show fucking started, everybody. I came through hot. I came through riled up. I mean, that's the opening. Hey, bro, we here. We're not playing the games. I had a day off.

Mark, I had a day off. I had time to think. I had time to sit in quarantine. You know what I realized? I realized that we didn't go through quarantine like all of you at home. We've been coming to work every single day, working 10, 12 hours a day at the studio, grinding. We weren't experiencing the quarantine.

And how the fuck could I talk about it? How could I give you guys advice if I wasn't going through what you guys were going through? That pain, that suffering, that boredom. And you know what I realized after my one day of quarantine y'all need to shut the fuck up that shit was amazing okay i had an amazing day with my girlfriend she baked oatmeal chocolate chip cherry dried cherry cookies i had it with some ice cream in the middle ate four meals watch ozarks the outsiders did some scientific research about how i was right about light some of you were in the comments saying that i sound like an absolute idiot and

i get it i was maybe wrong about certain things but i was right about light you can't capture light what the fuck do you think solar power is? Okay. Now maybe you're not capturing light in its essence. Maybe the light isn't in there like a light bulb, but the energy is in there. And from that energy, you can light something up. How the fuck do you think someone thought of solar power? It's probably the exact same thing. I was thinking, why can't we capture this light? Boom, light is captured. Put it on your roof. Electricity bill paid for by the sun.

Okay? Sometimes you got to think outside the box. There was another part of that sentence, but I didn't get there. I'll be honest. I ran out of energy for that sentence. That's a fact. Here's the reality. I was right about the solar power.

Did I sound like an idiot doing it? 100%. I don't give a fuck. What was I wrong about? The air thing. I admit I was wrong about the air thing. I sounded absolutely retarded. I was looking back to it, but I didn't understand you could compress air.

How the fuck can you compress air? How can you put more air in air? Okay? You can't put more orange juice in orange juice. Right? You got a set amount of orange juice, and don't say, well, from concentrate, yeah, I understand, but that's missing some water and shit.

You can't put more orange juice in orange juice. How the fuck are you going to put more air in air? Turns out, air ain't like orange juice. I learned that yesterday. Sometimes you got to ask questions. Sometimes you got to get to the bottom of things. That's what we're doing. That's what we're doing with this goddamn show.

I got to the bottom of this celebrity shit. I understand why celebrities all got coronavirus and nobody else does. I figured this shit out. Y'all want to know mark you want to know yeah why are celebrities getting coronavirus they're just trying to quarantine and not have their fucking poor family come over that's all it is think about it if you know the quarantine is coming right you're prince albert what the fuck is the Prince of Prince Charles? Prince Albert's when you pierce your teeth.

Yeah, if you got a Prince Albert, you got other problems, bro. I need more space. I need a little more space. In these jeans. Okay. No, if you're some prince, you're Idris Elba, right, you're some rich Hollywood celebrity, you own the Knicks, okay, everybody and their mother, your cousins, your uncles, everybody is like, yo, if we got to be quarantined, we got to lock down, let's just call up Uncle Dolan, let's just call up Uncle Idris, right, let's just call up every Hollywood celebrity that says they

got it, let's call them up and Hollywood celebrity that says they got it let's call them up and let's quarantine with them because they got a fucking mansion they got a full pantry be honest in times of quarantine you're going to the full pantry guy if you have a full pantry that's whose house I'm going to be at Whitney Cummings I'm gonna be at Whitney's house if I have to lock down somewhere it's gonna be a be at Whitney's. Do you remember Whitney's Pantry? Yeah. It was a room. A room with just snacks.

I want to be in a room with just snacks. How much dried mango can you fit? A lot. And it's not enough. Okay? It's not enough. I risked my life going to Whole Foods last night for a dried mango. I took the motorcycle there.

Real, real I Am legend shit motorcycle it's an electric bike but in these times of pandemic it really doesn't matter okay it's dark out motherfuckers don't know they just see me zooming point is point is i'm zooming bro i'm not vroom. Vrooming would be the actual motorcycling. But zoom. That's the sound. God, it's such a pussy ass sound that thing makes. Sometimes I just want to growl when I'm at the light next to somebody so they don't just think I'm a mmm.

Bro, you got to get a Bluetooth speaker. Yes. That's genius. You get a Bluetooth speaker of the growl sound. Oh, that's genius you get a bluetooth speaker of the growl sound oh that's great point being if you got money and you got a nice place you don't want your whole fucking family coming to you to suck off your teeth during the pandemic so you go hey i got it i got it all of them go oh shit i can't be around that motherfucker he's sick he got the coronavirus we gotta stay

home so we don't stay and spread it and then you call them like yo i'm doing the best i can i'm gonna go mail you some dried mangoes some coconut flakes or whatever the fuck yeah you think tom hanks is trying to spend coronavirus with chet son me don't want no time with chet me don't want to spend the time with chet me want to spend some time with rita me wants a dagger reader real talk bro you think they want to be quarantined with jet thinking of new tattoos to put his chest out of here come on tom how you're to order no Red Stripe for the quarantine. You're going to order no beef pate, no roti, no oxtail for the quarantine. Quarantine.

Quarantine? Quarantine. Sounds like a name of something. Yeah, I know. Right? Who's quarantine? Quarantine. Get back to your room.

Quarantine. Stop playingantine, get back to your room. Quarantine. Stop playing tetherball, Quarantine. Back to your room. Point is, we're on to celebs. And you know what? I don't blame you, bro. I really don't blame you. You don't need 100 fucking family members at your house during this shit.

Take some time off. I get it. But here's the question that got me thinking. I'm starting to get conspiratorial, Mark, and if I get too crazy, you stop me. Yeah, I'm going to pull you back. Pull me back if I get too crazy. By the way, I just asked the most conspiratorial person I know

to pull me back when I get too conspiratorial, so we're not going nowhere. Okay, we're just going to start scratching the surface. Mark's going to give me the look like, yeah, I think you're on to it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, if I tap into it, Mark, you got to unleash the beast. All right.

Here's what I'm thinking, and this might sound crazy. Roll with me on this. Just roll with me on this. Just roll with me on this. That's all I'm saying. I have a theory. I, hmm, coronavirus might not be as bad as everybody is saying it is now

keep with me stay with me here listen it might but it might not but there's no way for us to tell why because the majority of us can't get tested right now the only people that are getting tested are

the people showing extreme symptoms, not little symptoms, extreme symptoms, right? So the only people getting tested are extreme symptoms. Those people either end up dying or they end up not with it. Or some have it and they end up recovering, right? But we're just talking about the extreme symptoms, okay? Because there's so few tests out there that are available. That doesn't mean that you and I don't have it. Mark could have it. I could have it. You watching have it. I could have it.

You watching at home, you could have it. Okay? But we'll never know because we don't have extreme enough symptoms to be tested. Right? Now, if there was only a group of people that didn't have extreme symptoms at all

that could still get tested for whatever reason, we could look at them and see how deadly the virus is. Truly. Oh yeah. Blue checks. Oh yeah. Famous people. You don't find it curious that literally every single famous person that has this virus has said, I'm not really showing any symptoms. I'm pretty good. You don't find that a little weird that every famous person that has it is okay? No ventilator. No hospital. Just chilling.

Idris Elba with his beautiful ass girlfriend. Just chilling. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, chilling. Lembach, cooling By the beach side Right, literally everybody Chilling, nobody affected Nobody on a ventilator, nobody fucked up

And those are the only people In society that don't show Symptoms that are that bad, James Dolan literally said I don't really have any symptoms, I've just tested positive for it. That leads me to believe that way more of us have it already. It could be that you, me, Mark, whoever else has the virus already. Okay. We will never know because we'll never get tested because we're not famous enough or violently sick enough. So therefore, this virus that we think if we get it, it's going to send us to the hospital, it isn't the case. Potentially, it isn't the case at all. Matter of fact, we could already have it and it just doesn't have that strong enough effect on us and the majority of people.

Therefore, we'll never know and we're good. So are we shutting down the entire global economy for something that we already have? Is the curve already flattened? I don't know. But then you can spread them more. Go. Keep talking. So if you have symptoms.

Talk me back. So if you don't have symptoms but you have it, you are the greatest risk factor to be spreading it. Oh, Mark, thank you for pointing that out. So now you're saying that we could spread the virus to those people that are susceptible. Right. You're the most dangerous if you have it and have no symptoms. And I'm out there in the world. And we do know that it is dangerous to a certain subset, a certain group subset of society.

It is factually dangerous to them. It is killing some people. Yes? Boomers. The boomers. Yeah. We should call them the kaboomers because they're out of here. No, but it is.

And not only just boomers. My mom thinks she had it. My brother thinks she had it. My brother thinks she had it. And they recovered. So there are tons of boomers that are getting and recovering. It's not like they act like it was a death sentence. It was like, hey, are you 75 years old or 80? You get it, you're dead.

Not the case, right? So it's a specific group of people. Maybe boomers that also have certain ailments, right, maybe boomers that have smoked their entire lives, maybe boomers that have, you know, fucking some shitty, some lung disease or whatever, some heart disease, whatever it is, some respiratory illness, maybe those are the people that risk, and I do understand if I'm not showing any symptoms and I'm dapping up some boomer that works at Walmart, maybe I could give it to him and then maybe he dies, I get that and we need to be careful about that. That being said, if the whole idea of this is to eventually have the whole population get it, the herd immunity, that's what we're doing. Flatten the curve doesn't mean we get rid of it.

Flatten the curve means we just all get it slowly, correct? Correct. So if we all get it slowly, those motherfuckers are going to get it anyway. Now, I understand all of you watching right now are going, right now we're just trying to slow it so we have enough hospital beds for these people. 100%, I get it. I'm all about slowing it. But I do feel we've sensationalized it a bit to the point where people are afraid to even fucking look at each other. Have you noticed this?

I saw the first confrontation the first six foot confrontation talk to me so it's outside whole foods there's a whole line spanning around the block and this girl turns around to these two uh hispanic ladies behind her yeah you tell me this is good she goes guys can we just do six feet? And the woman literally goes, ah, see, meet her, meet her, and does six feet. Walk six feet to her? And shows her, yeah, we're six feet. So she walked within the six feet? Yeah.

So this stupid bitch online actually made that woman come close to her. Yeah. I mean, granted, she was using her tiny Puerto Rican feet to walk, but she showed, she's like, look, six feet. Puerto Ricans, y'all do have the cutest feet. I'm not going to lie. Of any group of people, the most cute, adorable little feet. It's like what Asians have always wanted by binding them.

Like Puerto Ricans just have naturally. Six foot three inch Puerto Rican gun size eight shoe. Let's be honest, okay? Bro, i might be puerto rican bro son you might it's impossible in new york to get air force one size nine size nine air force one's gone yo yeah it's a it's a different thing there's something that i've noticed out there like i think that the coronavirus is turning us all into school shooters and i don't mean like we're actually going to shoot up a school,

but we're experiencing what a school shooter archetype goes through. Which is what? Which is loneliness around people. That is the most severe form of loneliness. I asked Mark yesterday, I go, Mark, do you miss doing stand-up? Mark said, yes, I miss it. But what did you say? I don't remember.

You said, I miss it, but it makes it easier that nobody else is doing it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're not talking about those stupid fucking live shows with no audience. Stop it. So listen to Tim Dillon and his point of view on all that immediately. He's absolutely right. Now, we're talking about when other people aren't doing the thing that you're not doing, it feels okay.

For example, if we know on Christmas nobody else is working, we feel fine not working, right? If we know nobody else is going to the gym, we feel fine not going to the gym, right? But this is what happens and this would have been created. The school shooter goes to school every single day, right? He's alone. He's lonely. He has no friends, but he sees everyone else with friends. He sees everyone else socially interacting. He sees everyone else have people. He doesn't. He is relatively, extremely lonely because of that, right? And that is painful every single day. That's what the virus is causing us to do, is completely break all human connection,

right? You walk around, you go to fucking Whole Foods, go to the grocery. People don't even look at each other. My girl pointed out an interesting thing. She smiled at this cashier at Whole Foods and like thanked her and said like some kind of joke. And the cashier didn't notice that my girl was smiling. Why? Because she's wearing a mask. We're covering up our facial movements, right?

The nuances, the little things that help us connect, a nod, a smile, right? You can't blow someone a kiss. I don't know when you would really do that anymore. It's the fucking 50s. You can't catcall anymore. So it's harder to catcall. Bro, we need to do that sketch. Catcall during the coronavirus, six feet away. six feet away hey ma come here but not too close

but right but like literally the little things that you would do busting a joke with somebody you're not doing it people don't want any interaction bumping into someone you kind of knew right now you don't ever stop someone you kind of knew and have a little talk. You're like, I just got to go home. I got to get out of this supermarket. Any social interaction you have on the street, first of all, there's almost none of them because almost nobody's on the street. But when you are, you're ignoring these people. You're isolating. You want nothing to fucking do with them. It's really like stripping us of our humanity. It's stripping us of our connectivity. It's nice going out in

the world and seeing people go through something you're going through. Sometimes it's nice just knowing someone is exhausted like you are. Like you ever just see something happen and then you look to someone else to see if they also saw it and share a moment. You see a fat person fall and you're like, and you look and someone else is going, and you had a nice moment where there was connectivity. There's none of that. We're ignoring each other completely. You feel fucking alone. And the difference between alone and lonely is how you feel inside. Some people are okay being alone, right? Those people are alone. The people who are not okay being alone and now they're forced to be alone. They're lonely. And that's when shit gets dark. That's when shit gets a little creepy, man, because you're forced to deal with who you are.

Right? A lot of people out there going, I'm bored. I'm bored right now. I'm bored. Duval said this brilliantly. He's like, you've always been bored. You just didn't realize it. You've been distracting yourself. You've been keeping yourself busy to avoid your boredom, a lot of people just can't sit with themselves, a lot of people can't sit down, relax, and enjoy a day, it's difficult, we're actually not built for that, we're built to be out there, do shit, move, constantly move, move, move, there's been entire cultures that are wrapped around the idea of not doing, right, yoga, the idea of not doing, right? Yoga, just breathe.

Why don't you not do some shit? Stop desiring, stop wanting, right? It's a very difficult thing for us all to go through. And the fact that we all have to go through it without each other makes it that much more difficult. We've ripped any kind of community apart. We know that people are there, but they're not, right? Real life has become social media. You see the people around, but you're not touching them.

You see the people and what they're doing, but you're not there for what they're doing, right? It's very rare. Why do you think Instagram Live has become so popular now? Instagram Live has always been around, but why is it so popular now? It's a rare. Why do you think Instagram Live has become so popular now? Instagram Live has always been around, but why is it so popular now? It's a shared experience. People are craving shared experiences.

If I can't be with you physically, I can experience something with you in the moment live. I'll smile when you're smiling. I'll sing when you're singing. I'll laugh when you're laughing. That'll sing when you're singing. I'll laugh when you're laughing. That's the closest thing people can come to, to that connectivity that we fucking crave. That's why live is exploding.

You don't have to watch something live. You can watch it later. You can watch it when it's a post. But we desire live. Matter of fact, we should do this live. What do you think about that, Mark? Yeah, like on YouTube? Yeah, let's do this YouTube live. Yeah, we got to do that for the next one. Yeah, we'll do this live. What do you think about that, Mark? Yeah, like on YouTube? Yeah, let's do this YouTube live.

Yeah, we got to do that for the next one. Yeah, we'll do this next YouTube live. We'll post when we're going to put it up or when we'll go live. But still, it's like we're craving that fucking connectivity in whatever way and shape and form that we can. We need it. You know, it's a crazy shift. Live is literally in the name. Yeah.

To be alive. To be alive. Yeah. Yeah. It's fucking, yeah, man, it's a fascinating thing to see. Like, you get to be exposed. It's a really cool time because I think if you make it through this time, you learn a lot about yourself, what you need to survive,

and what you need to fill yourself emotionally. Like, how much you relied on distraction and how much you didn't. How much you need to fill yourself emotionally. Like how much you relied on distraction and how much you didn't. How much you enjoy being with yourself and how much you don't. And what you can change about yourself to or shift around to get some sort of calm during that time. Like right now you might realize, oh shit, I'm kind of an anxious person. I just never realized that because I was always doing things, right, so instead of being afraid of all these things you're going to find out about yourself, let that be your challenge during quarantine, let that be your workout, remember before when we can go to the gym, we're like, you know what, I want to be able to

bench press my weight, bench press your weight emotionally, how do you get to a point where you could just be still, what do you need to do to do that, you need to change your diet, you need to exercise a little bit more, and let's be honest, exercising at home fucking sucks, it sucks, I know we like to act like we can get the same thing, we can't, it fucking sucks, okay, I've been trying to do it, I just said fuck it, we went to the gym in my girl's building. We don't care. Put on some fucking plastic gloves, hit that treadmill, wiped it down with Lysol like some hypochondriac.

This is the first time in my life I've ever wiped down gym equipment. I know Equinox and Crunch has been telling me to do that shit for years. I never did. I thought it was suckers that did that shit. And I feel even more so that now. But I got to do it. So I don't get this Rona. I'm not going to get this Rona, man. Do you think that you were distracting yourself before? A hundred percent.

What have you learned about you? I've learned two things. I've learned one, I do distract myself. I distract myself with work. And I think I'm one of the lucky people that have like found healthy things to distract myself with. with work and I think I'm one of the lucky people that have like found healthy things to distract myself with you know um I've learned the value of exercise but I already knew that but I already knew that but another thing that I learned that was really comforting yesterday is like and this is also like for example when I me and my girl spent the spent the day like yesterday and it was fucking dope and uh I'm not saying this now because we got in a fight a few days ago and I'm trying to like be good. I'm just being honest. I sound like a little bitch, but I

don't care. But it was a really nice day and we got to love on each other for like a whole day. And I realized that's what we were missing. You know, we've been in the studio fucking 10 hours a day, every single day. We didn't, we didn't take a single day off, every single day, and while I would go home, and we'd spend time together, it wasn't the amount of time we needed, given the circumstances, and I know what happens is, if I'm not loved on, I don't love on more, because I don't feel confident enough to love extra, so I pull back, right, and then I'm sure my girl, when she's not feeling loved on, instead of loving more, she probably pulls back, now we're both here, we both need more love, and we're further away from the loving, right, we just had a day to like

love on each other, and it was like, all of a sudden, the confidence just kind of flowed back into the relationship, it was great, it was really nice, now, granted, I'm sure a lot of you guys have been stuck in a house with your significant other for fucking two weeks, you're about to rip each other's head off, so you might have an opposite scenario to that, you might need the space, right, but for me, it was a really interesting thing that was, that I learned about a relationship, is that we actually thrive with time together, we're actually better if we're investing enough time together, and when we're not, there's an insecurity, right? Because we're not filling each other up the way we're used to filling each other up.

It was a really cool thing to think. What about you, man? What did you learn? Hmm. Learn about myself? I don't really know. I mean, I still keep myself busy because anytime I have a lot of stuff to do, that's when I always have the desire, the compulsion to want to distract stuff to do. Yeah. That's when I always have the desire, the compulsion to want to distract myself with something.

Yeah. So I just have a note where I put all the things that I want to do. Yeah. When I have shit to do. Yeah. And then now whenever I have free time, I just go to the note and I'm like, oh yeah,

I did want to do that. But what about having free time and just doing nothing in that free time? Oh yeah. I like that. And so you can do that quite easily. You can just do nothing in that free time. Oh, yeah. I like that. And so you can do that quite easily? You can just do nothing? Yeah. Eh.

You don't need to achieve something or finish a task or constantly be... I mean, I guess I do in the nothingness. Like, I like, I don't know, read something or like... You're always consuming, I've noticed about you. Kind of, yeah. You're either reading something or listening to a podcast or you're constantly filling yourself. And it's really interesting to watch because you're so filled with information.

Remember I asked you either yesterday or a couple of days ago, a couple of days ago about what is your information. You have a really interesting information cycle, like how you find out about something. That thought was really cool and because i was curious how do you consume all this where i've noticed that like i'll consume shit that is not beneficial because it's just a form of distraction like i could use that consumption time to learn, but I'm actually trying to not consume.

Anything. Like when I'm scrolling on Twitter and Instagram, I'm not doing it for like research purposes. I'm not really learning anything. I'm testing the waters about like what the feeling is of the time a bit, but I'm not getting better at anything. Right. You know? And I often think like, why don't I use that time? Why don't I put pressure on myself?

Instead of scrolling on Instagram and Twitter, like, why am I not reading an audio, listening to an audio book or, like, reading something else? Do that. But maybe my time needs, maybe my brain needs a certain amount of time to just mindlessly distract itself. Maybe if I'm on all the time, I'm less. I think mindless distraction isn't bad. That's why I'm, like, an advocate for, like, reality TV. Okay. And stuff like that like go on i think there are certain times where it's good just to consume garbage because i just think it like occupies your brain with nothing and it's able to like gives it a

break yeah kind of let you meditate in like uh like a contrived way you gotta put your brain on neutral and i think that those types of shows or that type of distraction, every once in a while you're just like, okay, let me just fucking, let me just tune out for a bit but still keep you going. Like I feel like almost sometimes your brain is kind of like one of those cars where like you can't turn it off because you won't get it back on again. You know, like a car with like some shitty engine or whatever where it's just like, yeah, just leave that motherfucker on. Or like, you know what it is?

It's like a car in Edmonton, Canada in the winter where you leave it on during the night because if you turn it off, it'll actually freeze. Like maybe your brain is that. Maybe you need – like even when you're meditating, you're not really shutting your brain down. You're not turning it off. You're putting it in the most neutral state. Stuff comes in, stuff comes out. It's not really processing, but it's not off. Maybe it doesn't ever go off.

Think about it. When you sleep, your brain activity goes up. Wait, is it really? Yeah. I think your neural frequency goes down, but like your brain is still processing. But the actual synapses are firing. That's like rapid eye movement. Like your eyes are like looking around.

Like your brain doesn't ever stop. So why? We shouldn't stop it. We shouldn't be trying to stop it. We should just be trying to park it, put that bitch in neutral in whatever way works for you. Now, if it's in neutral for too long, probably bad. Probably needs to exercise,

just like we do. Probably needs to go through the motions, but yeah, we'll figure out that fucking brain diet. I know we had a couple Corona hacks that I want to give you guys because what time are we at? Because I want to do,

I want to make sure we're staying on time. I think we're almost at 30. Almost at 30 30 i think pretty much at 30 now we got a couple corona hacks and then we're gonna get out of here but uh let's scroll up just because there's a couple might have been one more thing i want to get to uh maybe down down down down down down down down uh okay actually fuck it let's go to the Corona Hacks so I got sent this article from my man Tal Tal's been hooking me up with a lot of cool resources especially for this podcast right now this show whatever this is but if we scroll down so basically there's a bunch of streaming services that are giving away their services for free for like next month or two months and I think it's kind of dope if you want to utilize any of these go for it uh scroll

up just a little bit more just okay so uh if you're trying to read books uh scribed s-c-r-i-b-d it's an e-book audiobook subscription service offering free 30-day trial give you access more than a million titles go get that amazon kindle Kindle has unlimited shit for two months, free subscription, stream movies and television for free, you go to Shudder, basically a streaming site dedicated to like thriller type stuff, also movies anywhere, another thing, NFL, you want to watch some football, I don't know why you would want to watch games, they've already happened, but fucking go for it, they got an NFL game pass, they're extending their complimentary access, they should, because there's nothing to watch on it, but

whatever. This is an interesting thing. Download Google Chrome extension Netflix party. And basically it allows you to watch movies with a group of people simultaneously. And gets back to what we were talking about, how we want to experience things together. That's a pretty cool idea. I like that. Also Sling TV offering free access to select on-demand movies, television shows, ABC News Live. Go check that out. Also, if you want to listen to music, New York City-based Metropolitan Opera launched Nightly Met Opera Streams. So they're doing that. There's been a lot of musicians doing live streams on their Instagram lives of them actually playing their concerts was kind of cool because you could you know get involved in something that's

happening in the moment with these other people and again we want that connectivity we want those things are happening a lot we're gonna put the link to this maybe in the bio or what's the name of the article so we can what's it a running A Running Guide to Services, Now Free or Discounted in Response to Coronavirus. And it is from what periodical? It's a Wirecutter. So if you just look at the Wirecutter article about Running Guide to Services, et cetera, we'll probably put it in the link. Go check that out.

There's going to be a bunch more free shit out there. Time to distract you. This is the time to do it. There's another one that I use. Go. It's a lot of people don't have TV. Yeah. So you're able to watch TV on your computer for free and it's completely legal. And what is it? So basically Stanford does a research project where they want to observe people's consumption habits. Okay. So basically, I don't know how they chalked up the contract, but if you go to puffer.stanford.edu, put in your email or whatever, you can access all basic cable.

Get out of here. And it's all high-res. How long have you been doing this? For a while. That's how I watched The Bachelor, bro. Thanks for sharing with me now fucking dick you just thought to share this with us i mean my fault i thought i feared you had tv that's been another episode of whatever this is called uh go check that out

man thrive during this time enjoy it uh if you get the rona you get the rona you will uh beat it i pray that you will beat it and hopefully you don't pass it on to too many people i like the music coming back on and we're here and this has been another one uh thank you guys for listening thank you guys for spreading the word i'm glad you're fucking with it and we're gonna go live probably uh tomorrow we'll post the time that we do it. Peace, love.