Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy.
How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. This week, I felt like we needed to talk about you and me. We need to approach the world with not just an open mind, but with an idea of who we are. We need to know what we want from the world and from each other. So I talk about principles, morality, and just go off the rails, probably. It’s what happens when you have lofty ideas, but not necessarily the vocabulary to put those ideas out there. So I hope I made sense, I hope you enjoy, and I hope you share with a friend!
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Intro Music By: Kevin McLeod – Acid Jazz
FIRST!!!!!
Ok, so I guess I have A LOT to say so in order to make it short I’m going to tell you how I feel, I feel mad!!!!
How do I feel mad? Well, I’m mad in 2 ways. 1. I’m mad in the sense of the word mentally insane. I am going stir crazy!!! I am tired of hearing about the Corona(even though on Easter I did get the vaccine, I’m tired of all the racial fighting, I’m tired of the constant fear & dread that’s constantly being shoved down everyone’s throat because of the “mainstream” & social media. I am mad with insanity of being cooped up so much, not being able to shake someone’s hand….or able to hug someone, or even being able to cry on someone’s shoulder as the embrace me. I am going mentally mad & mentally insane.
I’m also just MAD as in angry….and the social instabilities & quarantine isn’t helping matters much. In many ways, I feel like the character Howard Beale from the 1976 movie called Network.
If you haven’t seen Network, I would highly advise you watching it because it parallels the mindset of the world today. In it, the main character goes insane because of all the mad, insane, & constant depressing news that is constantly thrown at everyone. As a news broadcaster he goes on the air & says this:
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job, the dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the streets, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there’s no end to it. We know the air’s unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat and we sit and watch our tvs while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We all know things are bad. Worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything’s going crazy. So we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house and slowly the world we live in gets smaller and all we ask is, please, at least leave us alone in our own living rooms. Let me have my toaster and TV and my hairdryer and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything, just leave us alone. Well, I’m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. (He gets up from his desk and walks to the front of the set.)
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your congressmen. Because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is, first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, goddammit. My life has value!!!! So I want you to get up right now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell, ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more.’
Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick out your head and yell. And keep yelling. First you’ve got to get mad. When you’re mad enough we’ll figure out what to do. Stick your head out and yell, ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’ ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’ ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’
I’ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman — I want to hear you now — go to your windows — yell out so they can hear you — yell and don’t stop yelling — so the whole world can hear you — above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.
Yell, yell, and then we’ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more. I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this any more. I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.’
If anything, just watch the movie Network for that speech & that speech alone. Let it sink down into your inner core, let it drive you, make it your destiny to know that things should be better to be MAD AS HELL AND NOT TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6
https://www.dailyactor.com/monologues/network-howard-mad-as-hell-play-version/
The best way I can describe of how I feel about everything is from the speech from the movie 1976 movie Network:
“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job, the dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the streets, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do and there’s no end to it. We know the air’s unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat and we sit and watch our teevees while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We all know things are bad. Worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything’s going crazy. So we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house and slowly the world we live in gets smaller and all we ask is, please, at least leave us alone in our own living rooms. Let me have my toaster and TV and my hairdryer and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything, just leave us alone. Well, I’m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. (He gets up from his desk and walks to the front of the set.)
I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your congressmen. Because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is, first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.’ So I want you to get up right now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell, ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more.’
Get up from your chairs. Go to the window. Open it. Stick out your head and yell. And keep yelling. First you’ve got to get mad. When you’re mad enough we’ll figure out what to do. Stick your head out and yell, ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’ ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’ ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.’
I’ve had it with the foreclosures and the oil crisis and the unemployment and the corruption of finance and the inertia of politics and the right to be alive and the right to be angry. I want to hear the little man and woman — I want to hear you now — go to your windows — yell out so they can hear you — yell and don’t stop yelling — so the whole world can hear you — above the chaos and degradation the apathy and white noise.
They’re yelling in Chicago. Yell, yell, and then we’ll work out what to do about terrorism and the oil crisis. Stick your head out of the window and shout it with me: ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more. I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this any more. I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.’”
https://www.dailyactor.com/monologues/network-howard-mad-as-hell-play-version/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Plion, perhaps the most amount of such type of music in any time since the renaissance. It may not come in the form of symphonic renditions, but it is there. And one need not be sitting shoulder to shoulder with others to enjoy that music; no need to go into a cramp music hall. Not that one can’t. Now with the season changing, there will be outdoor concerts where one can listen to these pieces of music performed live. Perhaps some place to go in the future?
In a recent podcast I heard, the podcaster said that the enemy of growth and improvement is comfort, and repetition of activities which give one comfort. Rate of change and all that. But bodies at rest will remain at rest.
By putting out these podcast, you increase the possibility that your existence will be known and remembers long past you are conscious and your heart is beating. I am reminded of a writing of a rifleman in the early 1800s, whose writings are the basis of the Sharpe series of books and later television shows. Through their nearly singular writings, we know how the lives of those who shared the same job during that era was lived. Perhaps your podcast will become a primary source of oral history of persons living where you live, living your economic situation, and persons who share the same racial or ethnic background?
What do you remember about Huell Howser? The LtCdr I mentioned is better known by his podcast handle Jocko. What are your thoughts on 1LT Bryan Suits?
Are there recipies/foodies which evoke memories about family, friends, or dearly departed loved ones? What foods, who, why?
Anthony thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Francis, thanks for another podcast.
Argg!
Half of my notes about the show have deleted themselves! I had written stuff about health, about being proactive in seeking out medical issues while they are small before they become so big to drastically change ones life. I had written stuff about classical music, half of what has been saved, and smooshed down to the non word plion. What is plion? Nonsense in regards to this context. I had written about a late 2000s conspiracy about legislation which ultimately passed which we had written off as crazy, which some can argue is bearing fruit and coming into fruition due to the pandemic. I can attempt to rewrite them, but like many things, flashes of though once happened, rarely come to existence in the same way twice.
Sigh.
Thank you cyber nymphs for deletion of things.
Argg.
The conspiracy is that through ultimately passed legislation government will through healthcare be able to control every aspect of our life. While that did not come into fruition then, it can be argued that the pandemic regulations and laws it is occurring now. In the Canadian Province of Ontario, law enforcement are now empowered to ensure that pandemic regulations are obeyed, can stop anyone to ask where they are going, and why they are outside of their home. Pandemic regulations over the past year have told us who can leave their home, who can be around who, how close we can be around others, what we must wear, etc. etc. etc. A few are arguing these pandemic regulations should continue in some form until some unknown point in the future, perhaps never.
It is said that the light at the end of the tunnel is coming into view. I once hiked through a mile long tunnel lit with nothing more than my headlamp, so I get being in a long dark tunnel with no apparent end in sight. But is that light one is walking to the daylight, or a train coming towards you?
Flowers are the standard birthday items for women.
Today, I went to the beach front with my children. I
found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell
to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside
and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back!
LoL I know this is completely off topic but I had to tell someone!