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Nothing wrong with the pussy. All right, welcome back to episode two of Something Wrong with the Podcast. It's Julian. Welcome back. Before we go anywhere, call this number, 877-557-SWWP to get in contact with me, your intrusive thought therapist. Now, guys, as I was setting up today, I was listening to a posthumous album from one of my favorite artists. If you know me, you know how much I love this artist. It's Mac Miller's Balloon Arism. Now, when the project came out, I had tweeted this. Any day is a good one when we have a reason to come together and celebrate Mac. I remember combing through old SoundCloud links trying to piece together this album when it leaked. Most likely recorded at Rick Rubin's Shangri La, Balloonerism is birthed from my favorite era of Mac Faces 2014. It's psychological dark and jazzy jam sessions, eerie thoughts fumbling over low tempo drums. Happy Balloon Day now. I love watching the crowd swell of support on the timeline. Anytime Mac is brought up or trending or more music from him is becoming into the space. It is amazing how timeless and ageless his music is. This sounded like it could have dropped 20 years ago in 2014 when it was recorded, or even 50 years from now. He has a special way of, of using lyrics and sounds that sound futuristic and ageless. He does not like rapping about a very specific like phone or product that dates the song, which I think is a very technical skill that a lot of rappers, a lot of great rappers use. I also have here, I bought this a couple of years ago after his passing. The. It's called the Book of Mac. It's to my knowledge, the only book that his parents supported. His mother's a photographer. I believe this is a photo of hers that she took. It's really cool. It's a lot of anecdotes and personal stories of people that were friends of Mac, collaborated with him and we're just, you know, in and out of his life at different parts of his career. And it covers a lot of that faces Balloon era, which I speak highly about, unfortunately. I believe that's when Mac was at his low. But to me, that is, you know, you know, to the tortured poet, the time in which he was putting out his best sounding music. And coming off the heels of Mac in launching my show, I had a great sense of overwhelming support and a newer. A newer appreciation and sense of community. So I wrote a letter again and today's letter goes out to the good in people positivity usually is reserved for our family and those we care about. However, in entertainment, more specifically the podverse, people look for good and are often mired in pain. Since I launched this show, I felt a great strength of community. I've received emails from people wanting to help lend a hand with the show, offering their professional services free of charge. I've jumped in a couple of Twitter spaces hosted by my guy Danny from the Stop, another hard working creator. In those spaces I've gotten a lot of constructive criticism and learned about new tools I plan on implementing, such as Livestream Services OBUS Project in Riverside. Although I will say the negativity is intoxicating, my Twitter feed is a doom scroll of people getting shot, knocked out, electrocuted or flattened by a power hydraulic. I don't follow any of those pages, and yet that content still finds a way When I was younger, ISIS beheading videos swept the dark web. I spent hours dodging viruses, combing through sites to witness the realities of war. As an adult, I've spent time examining what it is that makes us want to watch the bad. Why do we slow down when we see a car crash on the highway? Why do we yearn for the knockout punch? Perhaps it's because people were in constant need to remind ourselves that it could always be worse. That in a corner of the world there's someone enduring a level of pain you may potentially experience. But for now, you're in the clear. After announcing this podcast, I was immediately overcome with emotions. I cried in this room, actually, after seeing the support, because the entire time I thought I was alone. I was in a really dark place but felt obligated to build something, something nobody could take from me. I didn't want my negative experiences to chip away at the good I see in people. Don't let your losses make you calloused. Tap into your community. If you need a hand, don't be afraid to ask. And if you can lend one, let people know you're available. All right? Speaking of needing a hand and letting people know you're available. As I'm spreading and pushing all this positivity, the reality is we are heading into a very dark four year period. The inauguration happened last week on Martin Luther King Day. Unfortunately. He would have loved that, and I'm very solemn about what we have in storage for the next four years. There are a lot of topics I want to cover, so let's get into it. It seems at this point there are three guarantees in life, death, taxes, and the Kansas City Chiefs making it to another Super Bowl. Yes, guys. The fifth appearance in six years and they've officially crossed into the. No one likes them. It's a dynasty. There's a delicate balance between. We're rooting for you on your upward trajectory. We'll love you for a little bit of your success. But when you hit that ultra echelon that so few, that rare air that so few people accomplish, you're public enemy number one. The Chiefs are so unlikable that Philly, who is unquestionably the worst fan base in sports across the board, the country, is uniting at least for one weekend to root for them against the Swifty army, the Mahomes brigade, all of the Chiefs nation, all that stuff. Everyone wants that to crumble and everyone wants to see the Chiefs lose. Let's talk about the games themselves. Yesterday, the Philly was unstoppable on the run. Saquon got his shit off. I love that because every time he does that, it's just a bigger middle finger to the Giants and how big of a mess up. And you know, the more egg gets thrown on their face. And then you look at the other game, say what you want about the calls, the controversy, the fourth and one where Josh Allen got stuffed. One, the one judge called it a first down. They were. The other judge said he was short. They called it short. There was a lot of things point the fingers at the refs, I get it. But in close games throughout the season, it seems like the Chiefs always find a way to win. So with that, if Philly can run the ball successfully like they did yesterday, then I will take them because Saquon is unstoppable. Once he gets that much space, once he has time to cook, it's over. But if the Chiefs can contain the run and it becomes a game of passing and a game of, you know, strategy, really throwing, it's hard to root against. It's not hard to root against. It's hard to not take Mahomes in that situation. So I think we're set up for a very, very telling Super Bowl. Obviously, I haven't spoken since SZA was added to the super bowl halftime show. I did actually touch briefly on this in the YouTube live stream that I did. Thank you everybody that came out. But during that stream, I basically said, you know, obviously Kendrick could do this alone. He has the hits, he has the catalog. That's not the issue. I think this is beautiful because this is another example of, you know, regardless of their situation, the TDE PG language, there's still some. There's still symbiotic in the sense that their lives will always be tied together and they are rooting for each other and the successes that come along with that. And a lot of that is going to be shared success. So it's awesome that Kendrick and SZA are going on tour, and I think it's amazing that Kendrick's going to have SZA come out at the Super Bowl. Do I think it's going to become a SZA show? No, I think they'll do maybe one or two songs together and she might get, you know, the time to do a solo song while Kendrick gets his breath for the scene of to break up his act. But it's beautiful. I think it's nice that they're in TDE and PG Langer in this space where they're obviously mega stars, both of them, and I think it's beautiful that they still find time to collaborate and work together. Speaking of collaborating and work together, that was the community being the theme of my letter earlier, I wanted to address the spaces that Joe hosted through this past weekend. On Sunday, the one that I jumped into as a listener and because I saw my name in the header and Joe and everyone in there were talking about me. And then Joe invited me to speak. And Joe, it was our first time ever speaking. Joe asked me some good questions and we had a very peaceful conversation. Other people joined in, felt the need to provide pushback. It wasn't argumentative. I listened, as did Joe. I provided reasoning for why, you know, I may have moved differently in the past. And we went on. I didn't think anything of it. The person, the gentleman that was critiquing me and my decision to be in the space was pretty passionate about it, but I respect his opinion. And then that was it. I went about watching the playoff games and my night went on, but I woke up and saw that I guess the spaces had continued throughout the day and into the night. And I saw, you know, the clips on Twitter, the YouTube think pieces that are going out, and I couldn't, like, quantify why this was such a big deal. So then I. I spent this morning having my coffee and writing and just thinking about why was this such a big deal? That Joe asked me like three or four questions, none of which had to do with the podcast, really. And we had a great conversation and I was stuck on it. And I was reading comments and I was reading the reaction videos to watching the reaction videos and seeing, like, all these theories and conspiracies and the rhetoric being created, the new rhetoric being created about me. And I was fascinated by how people got to this point. And I just, to me, I think it's more simple than people are making it out to be like. For me, you can choose not to like the decision has someone has made in their personal life, but understand the impact that they have in a work environment. So let's bring this to outside of the podverse. Let's scale up here. We're coming off the heels of one of the most polarizing elections in American history. Obviously, if Trump's involved, you know it's going to be since every time he's involved, it's always a disaster. But at the same time, amidst all the mudslinging, name calling, millions, hundreds of millions of dollars being spent smearing their opponent's name. What did Trump say Kamala stands for? They them. I stand for you. All of that aside, we see a Jimmy Carter's funeral. And again, weeks later at the inauguration, Obama and Trump reading over the program, you know, laughing, giggling, allegedly they were scheduling a meeting time to meet and speak about Trump's plan in office. And I can't help but look at that and be like, that's what this is supposed to be like. Not just, again, not just the pod world human existence is supposed to be. That is that no matter what's going on or no matter how things are being portrayed, there's still a relationship that can develop and a respect that can be had because the common goal is the same in politics. The common goal is how do we better the country, regardless of our differences. The mission is to make this country prosper so you can be across the table from your enemy.