#HMB 238 - You Got No Soul, Brother...

This one stings a little more. Anthony Bourdain was a guy I watched for many years as I lived vicariously though him as he ate and drank his way through the world. I appreciated his perceived toughness but openness to new experiences and cultures and was grateful I got to at least witness them through the box in my living room. I hope to have a fraction of the experiences he got to have in his life one day. He ended his life last week in a hotel room in France. Strung himself up with a bathrobe belt. What a waste...

I'm sympathetic to mental illness. I was medicated pretty heavily from 6 years old to 16. When I was a boy I tried to do the same thing with a belt, luckily I was a kid and didn't understand the process to succeed in the mission. I've had very close family members take a whole bottle of their medication and thankfully didn't succeed. I'm sure many of us have the same stories. Something is very wrong with our culture. Suicide is up 30 percent since 1999, according to the CDC. Even people who appear to have it all are susceptible. There's always been some romanticism to the act itself. Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson come to mind off hand. The drive to want to be in control so much that even controlling when and where you leave the planet becomes a paramount in life. It's really the only thing we could control in life if you think about it; no other outside variables. We're just here for such a short time. Can't we grit through 80 years or so? We have forever for the converse...

I don't know, I'm sympathetic to it though. If you don't want to live anymore, why should you have to? It's a shame for the people who loved you and many of them won't be the same because of the act for the rest of their lives. Many taut the trope that we need to spend more on mental healthcare in America. They seem to be ignorant to the fact that people on psychiatric medication is alarming in this country with side-effects including, ironically,  "suicide". I'm definitely not one of those people who hates corporations as much as I probably should but Big Pharma appears to be one of the more nefarious business' out there. Between creating a opioid epidemic and potentially creating drugs that lead to suicide that 1 in 6 American's are on, it may be time to start pointing fingers at the elephant in the room... 

Anyhoo, this week on the podcast I got stood up again by a guest so I'm all by my lonesome talking Wyoming banning Rap after Kanye West's ranch listening party, Hurricane Maria death numbers become a point of contention in the Florida Senate race between Bill Nelson & Rick Scott and Miss America pageant ditches the swimsuits and becomes a "competition". Let me know what you think in the comments below or leave a voice or text message at (813) 693-2124. Check out the pod, here: 

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#HMB 232 - Nerdy Tech Alert with Joe Davison (@joeygigglepants)

Kanye West, can you believe it?  He's a traitor to many of you now.  Most of you hate his guts now.  He's a pariah, or an Uncle Tom or even privileged.  His crime of course was saying that he liked the president.  No, not the president of Syria or North Korea or anything but the president of America- our president.  This, of course is a sin.  Many on the left side of the political spectrum view it as a sin because politics has become a religion for them.  There is something in human nature that needs a higher power, something to believe it.  They've shunned God and replaced it with the State.  People on the right typically have their Jesus, so they don't have room for another deity in their heart.  Make fun of them all you want, because it's fun, but it's way less detrimental than people who worship the State, because the State is real.  I see this weird hypocrisy everywhere.  The orange Cheeto we have as president now is a racist, sexist, everyhing-ist and they are literally begging to disarm the populace.  They can't seem to fathom how that may be an issue against their main narrative.  My friends walk around with Obama earnings, even now, and lament about the good ol' days with their good pal Barry in office.  He's the dad they always wanted because either their dad sucks or went and got a pack of smokes 25 years ago and never came back home.  Is there anything more off-putting than liking the president?  Maybe wearing a new leather jacket but that's about it.  Did you like your principal too back in high school?  Yuck.  I like that Kanye West came out for Trump because it's sending these dorks into a god dang tizzy.  He's such a big star, probably the most famous person in the world (aside from Trump) and he totally bitch-slapped these parishioners with a few tweets.  He's Martin Luther nailing the reformation directly to these plebes heads and they scorn him for it.  Can you imagine having to apologize for saying something like, "Black people don't have to be democrats."  Well, Chance The Rapper had to earlier this week.  The civil war is here, it's being fought online and those of us who stand up for individuality, free speech and free thought just got a new General.  May he lead us to salvation and vanquish our enemies...although, he will probably end up in the loony-bin.

Anyhoo, local filmmaker and actor Joe Davison stopped by this week.  He played the "Nerdy Tech" on Stranger Things 2 and has done a plethora of independent movies.  He stopped by to talk about some new upcoming movies that are going into production this summer, a new board game he invented and the Jolt Production School he's apart of happening this May.  Check out the pod:

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