Alan Volts lecture series day 5

[00:00:04]Good afternoon and welcome to Alan Watts lecture series volume 5 day 5 paragraph 3.

[00:00:12]Before we get started, I want to say something and make an announcement.

[00:00:16]I am not a guru.

[00:00:20]I am not here to help you and you're not here to help me.

[00:00:25]I am not birdseed.

[00:00:28]You are not a bird.

[00:00:30]But I would assume to say and rationalize as the follows.

[00:00:35]I am the air in between.

[00:00:38]I am the tiny little thing you look at when you're looking down a periscope.

[00:00:43]Every time you look down a periscope, you can see something at the very end.

[00:00:47]What is it? Sometimes it's blurry. You don't know. It's very difficult to know.

[00:00:53]That is what I am. That is how I serve you.

[00:00:57]Just like a butter knife on a table is not always used.

[00:01:01]You don't always have butter on a table.

[00:01:05]So these are ideas. They're not ideals.

[00:01:08]They weren't conceived in an ideal factory.

[00:01:12]But merely came out of existence. I had someone say the other day, "Well, I think I love too much."

[00:01:22]Well, maybe you should dial it back.

[00:01:27]Maybe you should understand that other people don't understand. The moment you understand that you're not understanding what you're understanding, then other people can have a better chance of understanding what you're understanding.

[00:01:39]If you have that kind of understanding.

[00:01:43]So people wear clothes that don't fit them.

[00:01:45]Whether they're too small or too big.

[00:01:48]Very seldom do you see people wearing appropriate size pants.

[00:01:53]People are always trying to hide something or something.

[00:02:00]I'm here to tell you don't have to do anything.

[00:02:03]You are enough.

[00:02:07]Your precursor to this world is enough.

[00:02:11]Your life force is enough.

[00:02:13]The fact that you have fingernails is enough. And if you don't have fingernails, dial it back.

[00:02:21]So, you can find yourself with a mirror.

[00:02:26]And you don't have to look at the mirror directly.

[00:02:29]You can have the mirror on your peripheral.

[00:02:32]You can have the mirror mirroring you without you knowing it.

[00:02:38]Or that is to say without the mirror knowing it.

[00:02:45]So, we wait for people to get on here and understand what the actual idea is.

[00:02:51]There is an idea. You have that idea.

[00:02:53]You have the chance to take your hand, put it on something, and bring it back.

[00:03:00]You have the ability to touch and feel and have that sensory.

[00:03:04]And if you don't, I feel sorry for you and I'm Well, I just feel sorry.

[00:03:09]In general.

[00:03:14]I knew a man once who traveled to another country to learn a fence building class. That is to say he went to another country to learn how to fence build for 1 day.

[00:03:24]Is he adventurous?

[00:03:27]Is he a thrill-seeker?

[00:03:29]Or was he just trying to get away from his wife?

[00:03:36]Those are the things you have to think about when you're under this type of gun, under this type of pressure, under this type of pressure gun.

[00:03:44]All you have to do is breathe. You breathe in.

[00:03:48]You breathe out.

[00:03:53]And the air inside of you will carry you a great deal.

[00:03:58]And you don't have to eat a whole meal in one day.

[00:04:01]You don't have to eat a meal in one setting.

[00:04:03]You can spread it out.

[00:04:07]So these are these are different trigger points. I think people have trigger points.

[00:04:12]And I think people understand the trigger points differently than other people understand their trigger points.

[00:04:19]You have been caught in an elevator?

[00:04:24]I'm hearing the fan. There's a fan on. I didn't turn the fan on.

[00:04:29]There's a fan on.

[00:04:32]There's a fan in your brain.

[00:04:35]Is it pulsating in your brain? Does it drive you crazy?

[00:04:39]Or is it just enough? Just enough to push you over the edge. Just to give you the motivation that you didn't have before.

[00:04:47]Some people say, "Well, I read a lot of books." Well, good for you.

[00:04:52]I listen to audiobooks.

[00:04:54]Good for me. Nobody ever says, "Oh, wow.

[00:04:56]Look, listen to how many audiobooks this guy reads."

[00:05:00]No, they only give light to the people that read books. I don't read books. I don't look at things. I look at the video camera and that's it.

[00:05:11]So um it's not a hard lesson.

[00:05:15]But it is a hard no.

[00:05:17]And it's a hard seltzer. You'll learn hard ways what a hard seltzer is.

[00:05:23]A hard seltzer is very, very, very good.

[00:05:25]Oh, boy, it makes your brains all go goo goo.

[00:05:28]But so is LSD.

[00:05:31]Are you at sea? I don't remember which.

[00:05:34]I think you can do LSD at USC.

[00:05:38]I think it's on the menu.

[00:05:41]So we are looking at the comment section here.

[00:05:44]Michael's here. Poopy McGee's here.

[00:05:47]Hello. Hello. You can just It's actually Mr. Volts, not Mr. Volt, but thank you.

[00:05:53]Uh some other people are here. Um Hamid's here. That's a phantom fan. Yes, I know who you are though. You're not a phantom. You're not mysterious if I know who you are.

[00:06:05]You're not a mystery if the mystery's already been solved.

[00:06:11]So, a hurdle yourself forward.

[00:06:15]Allow yourself to be calm. Allow yourself to soak in the present moment.

[00:06:19]Allow yourself to feel the sun on your face.

[00:06:22]All you need is 5 minutes for enough vitamin D for a day.

[00:06:26]People out there torturing themselves.

[00:06:29]Don't do that. You don't need to get on your roof to get a suntan.

[00:06:34]You simply need to take in the sun.

[00:06:39]And if you have a son, you need to drop him off at his father's house.

[00:06:45]So, these are ideas. These are situations. People have different situations.

[00:06:50]So, coming on the show today is um it's a friend of mine and uh a former student of mine who went on and done great things in the world of comedy.

[00:07:03]And she's going to join me today. She has some philosophical questions for me.

[00:07:07]We're just going to catch up. And I I urge you, if you want to come in later and you have philosophical questions for me, we can do that.

[00:07:14]Super chats are open.

[00:07:17]$20 to join us a video super chat. And uh if you want to send in your normal super chats, I'll read those. Not a lot of attention, I have to say. I've got many fans. I've got many fans, not just the fan in my house. I have fans that try to hit me up in the DMs.

[00:07:36]They torture me.

[00:07:38]They tried to torture me with that time.

[00:07:40]They tried to nickel and dime my vibrance.

[00:07:45]And uh you know, part of me likes it because I'm a social person.

[00:07:49]But part of me knows I'm being taken advantage of. So, if you want to show your love, your dedication, your persistence and learning philosophical natures, learning philosophy, learning what what it means to be a human being, then I suggest you do a super chat.

[00:08:10]Don't just chat your friends.

[00:08:12]Do it to me in the form of a super chat.

[00:08:16]So, we're going to bring her on now and um her name is Ann Flag. So, let's bring on Ann Flag. Let's see if her video is working.

[00:08:24]Let's just see.

[00:08:27]Are you there, Ann? One sec, let me bring you to the forefront. Hello, darling. Can you hear me?

[00:08:35]>> Hello, Professor.

[00:08:36]>> Hello, the sound is Oh, hold on one sec.

[00:08:40]How about now?

[00:08:42]>> Is that better?

[00:08:43]>> I can hear you now.

[00:08:47]>> I have my earbud in, but I think I can take it out if that's better.

[00:08:50]>> No, you've got Let me just say first of all, you look great.

[00:08:54]And >> Thank you.

[00:08:55]>> And and since since you're you're in my class about 10 years ago, was that right? About 10 years ago?

[00:09:01]>> It's been It's been 11 11 11 years, I think.

[00:09:05]>> Maybe 11 years ago you had my pre-class.

[00:09:08]And um and you've gone on to do such great things. I'm going to do a little pre-interview, let people know about you. You do comedy and you've seen the scope of comedy. You're on the stand-up stage, you're doing sketches, you're meeting people, you're hand you're shaking hands and you're you're getting to know people. What do you think this >> Taking all kinds of things.

[00:09:29]>> You're [laughter] shaking all You mean some of them are serpent hands or cobbler hands and different types of people and human beings. Have you ever met a um what you might term a lizard person?

[00:09:41]>> A lizard?

[00:09:42]>> A lizard.

[00:09:44]>> A lizard person? No, I've never been to the East Coast.

[00:09:49]>> That was very funny. See, she already she knows what she's doing. You have but you have been to the East Coast, haven't you? Have you been to the East Coast?

[00:09:56]Have you been to Baltimore, Maryland?

[00:09:59]>> No. No, not for comedy.

[00:10:01]No.

[00:10:02]>> But but you've been you've been there for yourself.

[00:10:05]>> Not to Baltimore, Maryland.

[00:10:08]>> Okay. Tell me give me a sense of what it is to be a comedian these days and the social settings and how people treat each other and do people have the etiquette to be good people? Do you meet a lot of good people?

[00:10:22]>> No.

[00:10:24]>> No. You just don't.

[00:10:25]>> No. No, not in comedy. No.

[00:10:30]>> And why do you think that is?

[00:10:36]>> I think it well good people don't laugh.

[00:10:42]Mhm.

[00:10:43]>> You mean people that don't need it.

[00:10:47]>> No, I mean good people don't laugh. Good people don't come to the shows. Don't people Good people don't tell jokes.

[00:10:55]Just from my experience This is my experience in comedy.

[00:10:58]>> So, you're saying that people uh that come to shows Now, you're but now are you maybe specifically talking about Los Angeles?

[00:11:09]Because people say Los Angeles is a dirty bird and especially since COVID it's really gone downhill.

[00:11:17]>> Not a lot of good people. No.

[00:11:20]No, in the in Los Angeles. Not Just from my experience. I don't know if it's different for for a man in comedy or some or lizard person.

[00:11:31]From my experience, no good people.

[00:11:35]>> This is very a very very a very sad outlook. But I mean, this is what you see. This is not You're not high-glossing this. You're not bullshitting. You're not saying some people are great, some people are not great. You're simply saying that the the the political climate, the social climate, and the climate in these comedy clubs are are something to be desired.

[00:11:58]And uh and I think uh when you say something to be desired, which you didn't, I did, but when I say it, what I'm saying is uh people are pretty much down on their luck. Do you think the business, talk about show business, because when you started, you had a certain idea of where you wanted to be. And then things kind of changed in the business. That is to say, they don't do the same productions that they used to do in Los Angeles.

[00:12:24]It's gone down to something like 20%.

[00:12:27]So, what are people What are they living on? I mean, cuz I imagine people are What What are people's dreams?

[00:12:34]>> They live on the streets, Jeff. They live Oh, sorry.

[00:12:39]You look like You look like my friend Jeff that I know, Professor. You always have reminded me of him. You've always reminded me of him. When I see your face, I'm reminded again. Very great guy, this friend Jeff. Um you might know him, but um not a philosopher.

[00:12:54]>> No, it's not a philosopher, but you have to think about things in terms of meals.

[00:12:59]Because uh what you have to eat in as far as going out and stage time. Let's talk in terms of stage time being what you get to eat.

[00:13:10]You're try You're telling me that uh even at the Improv or the the Laugh Factory or the Comedy Store, it's just slim pickings. The The audiences are What do you think What do you think became of these audiences?

[00:13:24]>> Um well, I would describe it in terms of food if it was like a like a food bank, you know?

[00:13:31]You kind of people have there's very little variation and and you kind of get what you get.

[00:13:40]Um I think that people who go to these shows are very hungry.

[00:13:45]I think they're very hungry in Los Angeles. They're very skinny.

[00:13:49]You know?

[00:13:50]Um but uh and probably they don't have much of an appetite because of all the GLP-1s, but that's just LA.

[00:13:58]>> What's a GLP-1?

[00:14:02]>> The um the skinny the skinny shots.

[00:14:06]You take a shot once a week and then you don't eat.

[00:14:11]>> And what >> that's my understanding.

[00:14:13]>> It's and the shot has uh you that is assumed that the shot has a certain vitamins and nutrients that you need or is this just like tequila?

[00:14:25]>> No, no, no. It has no vitamins, no nutrients.

[00:14:29]But it makes your body not feel hungry, so then you don't eat and you can see your bones, which is a very it's very fashionable.

[00:14:36]>> So, you're talking about >> your bones.

[00:14:39]>> Right, the bones. And also I think I think you know, but you're not saying specific brands, which is good because uh people are turning into bones. It's used to be let's be skinny in Los Angeles and then it turned into let's just be bones. Let's just be a sack of bones.

[00:14:58]And it almost became fashionable, but I think people see this on television and they know, I mean, the vast majority of the country knows this is not good look.

[00:15:08]>> Well, that that is something I wanted to ask you um uh one of the questions I had for you today was is it is being skinny, being all just bones the only way to be happy in life.

[00:15:25]>> Well, I I certainly would say no. I think that if you're going to be happy, you have to be happy uh waking up and going to sleep and in the middle.

[00:15:35]You have to uh be okay with having uh overalls and no underwear.

[00:15:42]You have to be okay with uh shoes that don't fit, ill-fitting shoes.

[00:15:47]You have to be okay having brown eyes, not blue eyes. So many people will throw their life away because they don't have blue eyes.

[00:15:55]So um you know, people are they are they are under the assumption that there is a set of ideals, that is to say a physical manifestation, that is to say you have a set of skills.

[00:16:07]Uh these skills are not to be improved upon. Everybody wants to talk about improving things. You are what you are, you're thrown into this world. So I would say it is it is the question.

[00:16:21]It is the question.

[00:16:23]And you can define that question as a series of a series of times tables. And if you don't do math, you could do something else.

[00:16:34]>> Thank you, Professor.

[00:16:36]Thank you. That's something I've been thinking on for a while now with all the all the bones and all the overalls and brown eyes. I have brown eyes.

[00:16:45]And um just something to think about. Thank you.

[00:16:49]>> Are you on your phone or a laptop or what are you on? A computer?

[00:16:54]>> I'm sitting on a chair.

[00:16:56]>> No.

[00:16:56]>> But >> No, I mean darling, I'm saying what are you using as to make the conference?

[00:17:03]>> Oh, oh, I um um a Apple pad.

[00:17:09]>> Oh.

[00:17:11]>> It you know, it's it's bigger than the phone.

[00:17:13]>> It's bigger bigger than the phone. It is bigger than the phone. Have you ever traveled with your iPad?

[00:17:20]>> Yes.

[00:17:21]Yes, I have.

[00:17:23]You have to take it you have to put it in the in the bin separately at the airport for because it it doesn't like to share the same space in the x-ray machine.

[00:17:33]>> Oh.

[00:17:35]Now, somebody writes in here Gina Gina Sandy says, "Ann Flag, how did you get hooked on comedy?"

[00:17:43]>> I started with hooked on phonics.

[00:17:46]Um which I think is just it's that's a tip it's a natural progression.

[00:17:50]Um and then uh you know, I I I wanted something to offer you know, men besides my looks.

[00:17:59]So, then I thought, "Oh, if I am can make them laugh, which is extremely difficult to do it's extremely difficult to do um make men laugh if you're a woman, but um I do try.

[00:18:11]>> No, and I think you do well because you don't try.

[00:18:15]You you don't second-guess what you're going to do. You say it. You said hooked on phonics. You just said it. You didn't have time to think about it. You thought about it for a split second and you trusted your gut. And that to me is what life is all about. Making a decision, sticking your feet into the mud and pivoting just the right moment. You've got to you know, this is what people aren't doing.

[00:18:39]They're not taking a hold of themselves.

[00:18:41]They're not eating half a lunch, packing the rest up, and bringing it to go and eating it later in the day. They're eating it all, they're gobbling it up, and they're buying another one. And that's that's why their their jeans don't fit.

[00:18:52]>> [snorts] >> What do you think about jeans? How do you How do you like to From from the last 20 years to now, how have your jeans fit differently? Not just saying your body, but how they are worn. They used to wear them in those little '80s music videos a certain way, and then now they they sort of just I don't know if they drape them.

[00:19:13]Oh, what are they doing with these jeans?

[00:19:15]>> Mhm.

[00:19:16]Uh well, my jeans are wide.

[00:19:23]Sometimes they're skinny.

[00:19:26]Um sometimes they're blue. Sometimes they're black.

[00:19:30]Sometimes I do wear overalls.

[00:19:34]Um sometimes they have designs on them or buttons. Sometimes they zip.

[00:19:42]Sometimes they're long. Sometimes they're shorter. But then Oh, then that that would make them shorts, but um I I try I mix it up with my jeans, you know.

[00:19:53]>> And your relationship, do you have a better relationship with some of your jeans than other of your jeans?

[00:19:59]Is there a favorite pair?

[00:20:01]>> Well, they don't talk much.

[00:20:04]And I that's one of my love languages is being able to talk to someone and having that deep kind of connection.

[00:20:11]So, I would say or as a relationship goes, it's very much on the surface.

[00:20:16]>> Surface jeans.

[00:20:18]>> Mhm.

[00:20:19]>> By any By any other means, surface jeans. We've got to read a couple of super chats here. Ann and Alan, what do you think of atheism? What do you think of atheism, Ann?

[00:20:30]>> Atheism, is that Is that where you don't eat meat or >> I suppose you could you could put it that way. I think he means more in terms of religion, uh the absence of a god.

[00:20:47]>> Oh, I couldn't say. I haven't met him.

[00:20:50]>> Okay, so you don't you you So, you you go by existence, almost a science-based uh thought pattern. That is to say that you say if I don't see it, it's not there.

[00:21:05]>> Well, some people still have met God, you know, the ones that jump off the the you know, Golden Gate Bridge and then they survive.

[00:21:18]And they talk about meeting God, but I've never had a an experience where I wanted to jump off a bridge myself without a you know, bungee cord, but that's just me.

[00:21:29]>> Have you bungee cord jumped before?

[00:21:32]>> No, but I've wanted to.

[00:21:34]I've wanted to many times.

[00:21:35]>> You see you see you see what happened in Brazil.

[00:21:37]They threw that woman. They forgot to connect the uh the uh bungee thing or whatever the the mechanism that bungies you. And she jumped, but she didn't jump. She was thrown off and she landed on the ground.

[00:21:50]So, she probably met God in a in a time where she did not want to meet God. And that's something to say. Things that happen to you that you don't choose.

[00:22:00]Timing. Timing of things that are completely out of the rhythm, but they're completely supposed to happen in the right moment at the exact right time. Have you ever been on a bus?

[00:22:11]>> Yes.

[00:22:12]>> Okay, so when you leave the bus, you have a chance to say goodbye to the bus conductor. You have a chance to say goodbye to the people in the bus, but you don't see that very often. You don't see people going, "I'll see you guys later." You know, so there's there's there's a disconnect between society and riding in a bus and leaving a bus and having a bus experience. Do you agree?

[00:22:37]>> [snorts] >> Is the bus a metaphor?

[00:22:40]>> It can be.

[00:22:42]>> Oh.

[00:22:43]>> But I'm saying a big long bus, a regular bus, a physical bus, a physical manifestation.

[00:22:49]>> A yellow bus.

[00:22:50]>> Saying goodbye.

[00:22:51]It could be yellow. Some of them are yellow. I think in Los Angeles they're orange, they're right?

[00:22:58]>> Oh, I don't I don't know.

[00:23:02]Why would they be orange if the the the children need to take the yellow school bus, right?

[00:23:06]>> Right, but I'm not talking about children though. I'm just saying like when you're in a bus, a public transit, a certain ex- ex- ex- explanation needs to be happening.

[00:23:15]Do you ever feel the need to say goodbye to people that you don't know?

[00:23:22]>> I typically don't say hello to people I don't know.

[00:23:25]>> You do say or you don't say?

[00:23:27]>> I I don't. And a should I? Is that >> But there's no right or wrong. It's whatever makes you feel comfortable.

[00:23:35]Some people don't >> as far as life goes in fulfillment and you know, the meaning of of life and then is that is that something that I should be doing saying hello to everyone I I am not familiar with?

[00:23:49]>> I think some people I I I All I'm say- All I'm saying is I don't know if it's such a great idea for you.

[00:23:58]But for some people they couldn't be happier smiling in the middle of the day to whoever's walking their way.

[00:24:06]>> Well, I would I would smile. I would smile.

[00:24:09]But saying hello, I feel like that would be exhausting. All the people that you walk past.

[00:24:14]Do you say hello to every person?

[00:24:16]>> It's a great question. It It's something that people talk about all the time because in the 50s people used to walk by each other and go, "Good morning, neighbor." You know, and this sort of thing. But now uh since the advent of of kidnapping and and uh gun gun store uh rituals and um you know, people basically trying to rip people's clothes off for no reason. You saw what happened in the Knicks when the people the Knicks people would everybody the Knicks they did so it's completely insane.

[00:24:46]Because I feel >> was this?

[00:24:49]>> This is the the the NBA finals. Knicks.

[00:24:55]>> Who is Nick?

[00:24:58]>> I think that's a clip right there. That should probably end up being a clip. Um let's take a look at the message boards again. We got a couple of these. I got two of these.

[00:25:08]Two [snorts] of the $5. So, we already answered those.

[00:25:11]Here's another one.

[00:25:13]Um this is for Caltrans.

[00:25:18]And [snorts] does this mean people that do laugh are bad people? Do people laugh Does it mean when people laugh You're saying that people don't laugh, that means they're bad people. What if people do laugh?

[00:25:30]>> This is for Caltrans like is this Am I going to get a ticket if I answer this incorrectly?

[00:25:35]>> I think so.

[00:25:36]>> Or oh.

[00:25:40]Well, I think I think that all Caltrans employees are lovely people.

[00:25:45]I think that they're wonderful.

[00:25:47]I think that they're good people. I think that they say hi and they say goodbye to others. I think that um they do a great job on the road so that we can ride the bus.

[00:26:00]I hope that answered the question for Caltrans, one of the best companies in California.

[00:26:07]>> No, they are exceptional and they do bottled water. They make bottled water.

[00:26:10]They They freeze dry bottled water. What do you do for your water? Do you buy water? Do you buy water bottled water?

[00:26:17]Do you get bottled water delivered? Do you Do you have a Brita? What do you do?

[00:26:22]Do you Do you think it's important to have uh water that's filtered and not filtered?

[00:26:30]>> Oh, it depends on what you're filtering out.

[00:26:34]Right? So, if you're filtering out uh dirt and debris, that's important. Um I like a little vodka with my water, so I would rather not have it filtered in that way.

[00:26:49]Um so, but typically just from the hose with a a to go water bottle vodka and water and you're hydrated for the whole day.

[00:27:00]>> That's On Flog.

[00:27:02]I'm Alan Vote and now we will take a commercial break.

[00:27:10]I'm just kidding. We don't have commercial breaks.

[00:27:12]>> [laughter] >> We just have fun.

[00:27:15]>> oh Professor, I thought you were going to do a little commercial like >> This is a >> sponsored sponsored Caltron sponsored the episode or something.

[00:27:23]>> This is a This is a super chat from Caltrons and it it is orange.

[00:27:28]So I feel it is probably official.

[00:27:32]To what degree I don't know.

[00:27:34]Uh some people say only evil people like comedy. Is that true?

[00:27:40]>> I think that evil people like money and comedy comedy is cheap.

[00:27:52]Right? It's the laughs is for free.

[00:27:56]Um >> It's been debunked.

[00:27:57]>> However, there are you know, if you're if you're in control of of networks and you can control what kind of jokes are made.

[00:28:04]Um But there are there are free comedy shows as well.

[00:28:10]>> Do you find that the free comedy shows uh better or worse than a paid comedy show?

[00:28:20]>> I think that it's better to pay your comedians because they're working.

[00:28:27]And people don't think that with the it is a job that deserves work, but >> Because if you're getting paid, you're you're you're invested in it. You you really want to do a good job.

[00:28:40]And also I would think the people that are paying to go to the shows, they're invested in going to a show.

[00:28:47]And they want to have a good experience.

[00:28:50]I remember once a friend of mine said, "Well, it's not like they're not trying to have fun. They're there to have a good time." And I think that speaks to really shows in general, but really especially paid shows or shows that people look forward to or their favorite comedians opening opening up for someone or doing a show with someone where they're all there to see someone. That particular energy to see what you can do in front of a crowd that's completely excited to be there.

[00:29:16]It's like cracking a joke in the line of a Disneyland. If you've been to Disneyland, >> I It's been a It's been some years.

[00:29:27]I don't know what's changed.

[00:29:30]You know, they're always doing taking out rides and putting in rides and changing the rides. I don't like change.

[00:29:39]>> What do you think of roller coasters in general? It seems to me, by just seeing on the outside, that um people seem to be falling out of them left and right. Just getting thrown through the sky. Or somebody will be like, "Oh, this isn't cha- >> thought that was bungee jumping.

[00:29:59]>> No, this is also also the you the roller coasters. They they're trying to sh- you know, put the thing down on the thing, you know, the thing on the thing on the chest. And it's Oh, it's loose. It's kind of a little loose. And then whoa. And then they get thrown out into the sky.

[00:30:17]>> Do you think in part that maybe like some just form of crowd control or population control?

[00:30:25]>> depopulation?

[00:30:27]>> Yes.

[00:30:28]>> I think it could >> we had touched on that in one of your classes before.

[00:30:31]>> Right. There There is a unique interest in uh people not being uh uh a part of this world uh longer than they need to be. Uh that is to say, people are living longer.

[00:30:43]They're living to be older and longer.

[00:30:46]And, uh, people keep having babies and taller.

[00:30:50]>> And, uh, and and and not just wearing shoes that are taller or make you feel taller, but but literally, uh, the bone structure in people are are being longer. And the longer you are, the more likely you're not going to fit in a Honda Civic.

[00:31:07]So, those are those are situations.

[00:31:10]And so, yes, I do think it's possible uh, that there is a widespread, uh, depopulation thing happening uh, on these roller coasters.

[00:31:23]And you know, you think, "Well, it's just a one person here, one person there."

[00:31:26]But, uh, that's not true. I think it's more like two people there, two people there.

[00:31:33]>> And then three people here and three people there.

[00:31:36]>> Sure. And then and so on and so forth.

[00:31:41]So, I mean look, it's it's it's a grand invention.

[00:31:45]You are in this world.

[00:31:48]And you are a spirit. And the sooner you realize you are a spirit, the sooner you can start acting like it.

[00:31:56]So, I think that's Yeah.

[00:31:58]>> Sorry, the spirit, um, I thought they went out of business.

[00:32:03]>> They did, but they've they've branched off into something else.

[00:32:09]You know, one company becomes another company. It's like an envelope effect.

[00:32:12]You can put something in an envelope, whether it be an onion ring or a staple or a a pair of shoes or whatever, just just depends on how big that, uh, envelope is. Which means what is your imagination? Are you using ChatGPT? Are you foaming foaming at the mouth? Are you forming your own opinions? Are you creatively using your imagination? And I feel like people aren't doing that, uh, as much as they could be.

[00:32:40]Where do you get your Where do you When you want to just imagine when you're trying to come up with comedy?

[00:32:46]What do you do to kind of separate yourself from the physical world?

[00:32:51]>> Ketamine.

[00:32:56]>> Ooh.

[00:32:59]Ketamine.

[00:33:00]An inhale >> done Uh well, from a bag typically.

[00:33:07]>> A bag? Now, how do you know what you're getting is not corrupted by fentanyl, etc.?

[00:33:15]>> You don't. Typically, you don't. You just But, you know, you have to take chances in life, right? It's a gamble.

[00:33:23]>> It's interesting. I [clears throat] think what you're trying to say is you are alive. And whether you die or not, you're still alive.

[00:33:32]You know, when people say, "Oh, he This person died."

[00:33:36]Well, did they die? Well, it's sort of like a like a rug being thrown to the floor.

[00:33:40]It's It's It is what it is. But, the sooner as you pick that rug up, it is is it is alive again.

[00:33:48]And and and and the sooner you can realize that you're a spirit, the better off you will be because that's how you get to the next dimension.

[00:33:58]>> I love I love that quote, Professor, from your third book. Uh I I think about that rug.

[00:34:06]Being on the floor, being not on the floor, being alive, being dead.

[00:34:12]>> Well, I I I I hope that it affects some people.

[00:34:16]You know, I I am just a person. I'm a man. I'm not a guru. I wasn't born into this by some royal family.

[00:34:24]I am I am one man. Uh and uh you you can question even that. Am I a man? What What is it? What's a man? It's only something somebody told you is is a certain thing. You're and you believe them. If somebody says, "Well, Jesus Christ did this." So, you said, "Well, would who who told you that?" You know.

[00:34:44]And you're believing them, not whether it's true or not true. You're believing the set of circumstances that is that is you are to accept what someone else is believing if that's what you want to believe.

[00:34:58]>> Mhm.

[00:34:59]>> If you could believe >> what the atheists believe. Right? Or >> Well, uh don't don't forget to unconfuse the two. There is the atheist as the rock band that played I think they're playing in Studio City next week.

[00:35:17]And there's atheists uh people that don't believe in God or the presence of God.

[00:35:23]Um but I ask you, why not? I mean, some things Something is behind the thought. Where does the thought come from?

[00:35:33]Where does an actual thought come from?

[00:35:36]And somebody say, "Well, it's a it's a synapse in your brain." But it's like I don't buy it.

[00:35:42]>> I think they they come from ChatGPT.

[00:35:45]>> That's what I'm trying to say. This is ChatGPT is going to become God. You've got to be very careful of this. When you put your faith and trust and devotion and complete spirit into something, it will appear again on the other side. And will you be on the other side when it appears?

[00:36:04]That's something that chat that ChatGPT is is is is is could [snorts] be problematic about that. Or that could be good for people.

[00:36:12]I know people talk to ChatGPT. Have you ever talked to this thing?

[00:36:17]>> No, I have friends.

[00:36:23]So.

[00:36:24]>> Well, I see this is the comedian. You're very deadpan, but you're not dead.

[00:36:29]>> No.

[00:36:30]>> No.

[00:36:30]>> I don't think so.

[00:36:32]>> You're not dead. But you don't have a way to test for fentanyl.

[00:36:36]You don't have a way You don't have one of those >> There's a wet There's Yes.

[00:36:39]>> Okay. So, let's be honest here.

[00:36:41]You test these things.

[00:36:44]>> [snorts] >> Well, someone does.

[00:36:47]>> Someone does. Well, that's the same thing as the presence of God. If someone said, "I am a devout religious person."

[00:36:53]Then I would say, "I don't know where you're from." And they would say, "Well, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio." I said, "Well, do you have proof of that?" And they say, "I don't know. Ask my congressman."

[00:37:03]So, I believe you when you say you believe someone else.

[00:37:08]But it's my question to you is what does it take for you to believe someone?

[00:37:18]>> Like what amount of money or >> Well, who's paying who?

[00:37:28]>> That's a good philosophical question.

[00:37:30]>> Well, it's physical It's It's I Look. Look.

[00:37:34]I can hold something in my hand, but the moment I let go, it goes.

[00:37:39]That could be a bug in there. That could be a butterfly.

[00:37:43]And the moment I close my fist, it can't hold anything except for something very tiny.

[00:37:49]It can hold something very tiny.

[00:37:52]You don't like being called Annie.

[00:37:55]Why is that?

[00:37:59]>> Does this have something to do with the bug in your hand?

[00:38:03]Annie.

[00:38:05]Only my Only my grandma calls me Annie.

[00:38:11]>> Tell me more about your grandma.

[00:38:14]>> [snorts] >> She's old.

[00:38:17]She's very old. Um I think I think I don't I I don't like being called Annie because I don't sing and I think that people would expect me to sing.

[00:38:28]>> Is that true? Is that true? Is that something you're just saying to pass the time?

[00:38:33]Do you really believe that you can't sing?

[00:38:36]Because that's what happens when people are children. They start to sing and then they don't say, "Oh, you don't know what you're doing. Shut up." But really they should you should let them sing because they might be onto something.

[00:38:46]Perhaps your singing is a stunted version of your childhood.

[00:38:54]Do you Do you Do you agree?

[00:38:57]>> [clears throat] >> I never I never did I never thought that way.

[00:39:01]But maybe something to explore.

[00:39:06]Should I sing? Should I try it Should I take up singing?

[00:39:09]>> Sure, sing a little bit.

[00:39:11]>> Oh, now?

[00:39:16]I don't >> Don't is a word that shouldn't be used in the English language. Don't. I didn't. I don't know.

[00:39:26]Singing is the expression of life.

[00:39:31]If you were to sing a song right now, what would you sing?

[00:39:37]>> I I don't >> [laughter] >> Okay, without without without singing what song would you sing?

[00:39:46]>> Without singing?

[00:39:47]>> Well, let's just say you're off the hook with the singing. You don't have to sing. You don't have to come up with the physical construct of what you want to do and project a song. But if you were to sing a song which song would you sing?

[00:40:02]>> The sun will come out tomorrow.

[00:40:04]>> So, you would sing an Annie song.

[00:40:07]>> Is that from Annie?

[00:40:08]>> Sure.

[00:40:10]The sun will come out tomorrow.

[00:40:17]>> That's all I know of the I don't know That's all I've heard from that song.

[00:40:24]>> So, you don't have you don't have the will. You don't have the desire. You don't have the perpetu the the the push through to do that. What do you What are your thoughts of of put-down words?

[00:40:36]You know, this guy's a [ __ ] or this guy's a this or or you're dumber. What do you think of put-down words? When somebody gives you a put-down word, what does it make you feel? And how do you feel?

[00:40:47]>> Well, I I don't think about them. I don't use words to put others down.

[00:40:53]>> No, no. When someone says it to you. If someone If someone uses a put-down word >> Why would someone say >> Well, but it's happened at some point in your life.

[00:41:06]You know you look like >> of the time.

[00:41:08]>> Do you know who you look like to me?

[00:41:09]>> Who?

[00:41:10]>> AOC a little bit.

[00:41:13]A little bit.

[00:41:15]AOC.

[00:41:18]>> Oh.

[00:41:20]Very lovely woman. Thank you, Professor.

[00:41:22]>> You look a little like AOC. Now, which song would AOC sing?

[00:41:31]>> Um something from the Beastie Boys.

[00:41:34]>> Go ahead.

[00:41:35]>> She She looks like she she listens to Beastie Boys.

[00:41:39]Does she not?

[00:41:40]>> I don't know. I don't know her that well. I don't know her at all.

[00:41:45]So, we basic we have this basic construct. We have something you can't catch with your hands. You can't catch it with your hands. You can't catch air with your hands. It's the moments in between. That's why I say to these people and I say to the people watching I'm not a bird. You're not birdseed. But somehow we both are the air in between.

[00:42:08]That is to say we share the same breath.

[00:42:10]Just like a seed needs air to sprout.

[00:42:13]Just like a bird needs a seed to eat to feel full. Not all birds, only pigeons really eat seeds that I know of.

[00:42:24]Do you have any animals or any pets?

[00:42:30]>> I I used to have I used to have pets, but they died.

[00:42:37]As pets do. You know, they never live as long as humans.

[00:42:41]And it's just the way of dogs, I suppose.

[00:42:46]I had a pet crayfish once. It killed himself.

[00:42:51]>> How do you know it was a suicide?

[00:42:54]>> My dad told me.

[00:42:57]He said that uh he was lonely and sad that I wasn't there during the week. I would only go over to his house on the weekends, you know, um because of divorce. And uh he said that he was lonely and my crayfish shed its skin and you know, they molt so they can grow. That's how they grow.

[00:43:16]And um stabbed itself with its claw.

[00:43:19]My friend's pet turtle ran away.

[00:43:22]Um which I suppose he probably just killed himself as well because they lived on the second story, so.

[00:43:27]>> Oh, this reminds me of that song, Suzanne Vega. I live on the second Is it floor or story? I didn't know how the song goes.

[00:43:36]But listen, we're going to open it up to the some video shots to ask you questions, ask me questions, philosophical questions, biographical questions, questions of consequence, and lifestyle questions, all here on the Alan Watts lecture series volume five.

[00:43:54]So, now the it is in the it is into the comments. So, if you want to join, it's here for the the remaining minutes with Anne Flag.

[00:44:03]And Anne, it's just such a it's just it's so good to see you. More than anything, it's good to see you. And it's always nice to rap back and forth with these questions. It You know, people think we're doing comedy, but what we're doing is we're just two people with fans.

[00:44:23]We have a fan >> Well, we're thinking people.

[00:44:28]And when I say see you, I mean hear you as well. I mean in your presence. That is to say, I'm having a physical physical manifestation of you.

[00:44:38]And we have a >> not physically You can see my physical me, but we're not physically together.

[00:44:45]>> That's right. But to see this how this this hair It's It's as long as it's ever been.

[00:44:52]>> Is that all your own?

[00:44:55]>> No, I'm actually renting this part.

[00:44:58]>> Oh.

[00:44:59]>> From uh David Spade.

[00:45:01]>> It's a great hair match.

[00:45:03]>> Yeah, it's it's David Spade.

[00:45:05]>> Very well done.

[00:45:05]>> David Spade wig.

[00:45:07]Um [snorts] So, we've got some people We've got so We've got already got somebody in here.

[00:45:12]Don't You can't tell who is joining you.

[00:45:14]When we do this series, you do not know who is joining until they appear.

[00:45:21]So, go ahead.

[00:45:23]>> genie.

[00:45:24]>> It's so weird. It's so weird.

[00:45:28]But yes, that is true. Like a genie.

[00:45:32]Okay, so we've got uh Uh tell us your name and and uh say hello to Anne.

[00:45:42]Say hello to You know No sound on you?

[00:45:47]>> Hello to Anne.

[00:45:48]>> there? You prepared to speak?

[00:45:50]>> Hello.

[00:45:51]>> What the hell you take you so long to say something for?

[00:45:55]Do you have the speakers on?

[00:45:57]>> Hello, Anne. My name is Gina Sandy. I am the archivist for the Redlands Theater Festival and I have a question, philosophically speaking.

[00:46:06]>> Yes.

[00:46:08]>> I am. Can you hear me?

[00:46:10]>> Yes, they can hear you. Can hear you quite well.

[00:46:13]>> Me?

[00:46:16]Maybe I'm on delay. I don't know.

[00:46:18]>> You're on delay again.

[00:46:20]There's something about your Sally Jesse Raphael show.

[00:46:24]>> Here's my question. I have a cat and today I opened the door and it wanted to walk out but it took one step and it just stood there in the doorway. How long do you wait before you kick it in the butt and tell it to [ __ ] off?

[00:46:37]>> Uh is it a boy cat or a girl cat? Is it a My question is is it a man? Is it a man?

[00:46:44]>> she's already dropped out of the chat.

[00:46:46]There was something not to belabor it too much and I do think she deserves a question and answer thing. But she was on a delay. I don't know if she was in a a volcano or some sort of distant area. But so >> was in Redlands. So >> So people are slower there.

[00:47:06]Is it is it an echo a Redlands thing?

[00:47:10]>> An echo?

[00:47:13]>> Yeah, I did you hear that? I guess it was a delay more than an echo but you see an echo is sort of like a delay, isn't it?

[00:47:23]>> What's a it's a a response it's a delayed response.

[00:47:27]It is a delayed response.

[00:47:31]Like if you're in a cave and you shout something then you you respond to yourself after a minute.

[00:47:37]It's very fun shouting into caves.

[00:47:40]>> I was in >> in a cave recently.

[00:47:41]>> Yes, I was in in what was it? Maybe May I was in a cave in Springfield, Missouri.

[00:47:48]And you're on one of those cave tours and one of those red little dune buggies and they kept saying you've got to duck when you go into the into the caves. And I thought that it was a joke and then later I found out there was a basketball player that lost his head on one of the tours.

[00:48:05]>> It's similar to a roller coaster.

[00:48:07]>> Similar to a roller coaster, yes. Yes.

[00:48:12]So, do we want to answer a question? I we we got somebody back in here. Let's see if it's her again. Maybe there's the same person, different person.

[00:48:19]And uh Okay.

[00:48:22]>> Hello.

[00:48:24]So, uh I see you and I'm talking.

[00:48:27]However, uh you're not Are you going to respond?

[00:48:31]How long does it take?

[00:48:33]>> We can hear you. We can hear you just fine.

[00:48:37]>> We are sitting there waiting and thinking.

[00:48:41]All right.

[00:48:41]>> You know, I listen I >> Technology.

[00:48:44]>> This is the type of thing that >> the cat, though?

[00:48:46]>> This is the kind of thing I enjoy. It's not going well.

[00:48:51]You know, when you get a caller like this, she doesn't even She might as well be a schizophrenic on the street. She is vibrating eagerly. She's oscillating wildly. And she's gone again.

[00:49:04]>> Well, I think I heard her question about the the cat wanting to go outside. A cat out of the bag. Perhaps. Um if it's a a male cat, you absolutely kick it in the butt. Quick, because men don't know things very much. But um if it's a girl cat, be kind, you know.

[00:49:25]Women have difficult lives.

[00:49:26]>> No, I know.

[00:49:27]>> just >> Listen, I understand. What I'm saying is when you join a call, you've got to have your video and your audio in sync.

[00:49:37]And it has to work. I don't think I've ever had a situation quite like the one we just had. That is to say, she was not making any sense. Uh she And then at one point she had the earphones both earphones to the one ear. That's not going to help anything.

[00:49:56]So, have you ever had a situation What's this?

[00:50:00]>> May perhaps she only has hearing in one ear.

[00:50:04]And that's why she can't speak and and hear at the same time.

[00:50:08]>> She's That's not it.

[00:50:10]>> Oh.

[00:50:11]>> But, you know, maybe it is, though.

[00:50:14]But, maybe it is. But, would that create an echo? Would having one ear create an echo?

[00:50:25]>> Maybe she has two microphones.

[00:50:30]If you have two microphones in the same place and then >> Have you ever >> You know, maybe she thinks she needs two microphones to talk to each of us.

[00:50:42]>> Well, I have She I think she's back. Let me just see what happens.

[00:50:47]Okay.

[00:50:49]New sound. As we go to another caller, new caller.

[00:50:53]Hello, sir. What's your name?

[00:50:56]>> Hi there. Uh this is Martin. I'm calling from Mobile, Alabama. It's an honor to be here. Uh big big big time reader of your work, Dr. Alan Bolts.

[00:51:03]>> Uh thank you. I appreciate that and I hope it sits well with >> Hello, Martin.

[00:51:07]>> Uh hi there, Anne Flag. Good good to meet you as well. Big big fan of your work.

[00:51:11]>> Thank Oh, thank you.

[00:51:14]And what is your question?

[00:51:16]>> Yeah, so my question is and hopefully this don't offend nobody out there, but how how are peanut allergies a thing?

[00:51:23]Like when you think about peanuts, like they're so delicious and tiny and whatnot, but there are people that die from them. So, from from from a philosophical standpoint, how's that something that that occurs?

[00:51:36]>> Um well, I'm more of a a Calvin and Hobbes fan myself.

[00:51:42]>> Right.

[00:51:43]>> I generally stay away from the peanuts.

[00:51:45]Um but I do, um, like Garfield's.

[00:51:50]It's another good one.

[00:51:51]>> It's got Opie in there. I get that.

[00:51:53]>> Mhm.

[00:51:54]>> Well, I I would say this. My opinion would be as follows.

[00:51:58]When you are living in the physical world, that is to say, this world that you are in currently right now, there are a set of principles, there are a set of adverse effects that could happen to you at any moment. You can step off a curb, get hit by a truck. You can, uh, dance too much, break both your legs in in half.

[00:52:17]And you also can get, uh, peanut allergies. You you know, and the sad thing about peanuts, uh, and peanut allergies, is that it happens when you are least expecting it.

[00:52:29]That is to say, peanuts are are a trace element of peanuts are in just about every food item you eat.

[00:52:36]So, you've got to understand that you are the boy in the bubble, the girl in the bubble, that you are that you are special, and you have a special idea, and you have to follow that idea.

[00:52:50]>> Right. So, So, do you think do you think if I if I focus more on micro peanuts, that would help out with any allergies I might, uh, accommodate at some point in my life?

[00:52:59]>> Just looking at you, I'm going to guess you don't have a micro peanuts.

[00:53:03]>> No, sir, I do not.

[00:53:05]>> I would imagine they're easier to swallow.

[00:53:08]So.

[00:53:09]>> Okay, again, maybe we've made a love connection. So, the thing about it is is as follows. You have to be careful. If you have a penis allergy, you need to stay away from penises.

[00:53:21]If you have a robust sense of direction, you need to use ChatGPT to let yourself be found. So, yes, stay away from peanuts, stay away from penises, and in general, uh, you know, just enjoy yourself.

[00:53:38]>> Will do. Thank you so much, Dr. Alan Wolt.

[00:53:41]>> Thank you.

[00:53:42]>> Thank you as well, Miss Inner Peace.

[00:53:43]>> Thank you for the question.

[00:53:45]>> Yes, of course, anytime.

[00:53:47]>> So, um it's interesting when people get on here and then they just get off on their own volition. Usually, people want to just stay and cling to it. But, he decided he had somewhere to go and it felt like >> to go get off.

[00:54:03]>> He had to go get off.

[00:54:06]And so, which you made me think of this the the tire spray. If you're If you're If you're If your tire gets popped on this on the freeway, it's called go off and you can spray it.

[00:54:18]>> the off for the the spray for the mosquitoes?

[00:54:21]>> I don't know, but now I'm thinking of something else.

[00:54:24]Um and I've been abstinent for about 27 years.

[00:54:29]Uh I don't find and it's there's no religious conquest. There's no light at the end of the tunnel. It's simply uh the caveat for philosophy.

[00:54:40]Uh you can't have the perspective on things if you're running around with your head cut off.

[00:54:46]So, um So, let's take a look at some of these other questions real quick.

[00:54:50]Was that Jeremiah? Is that who was on here? I think that was. Jeremiah.

[00:54:55]Is the capital of Mobile Is the capital of Alabama Montgomery?

[00:55:01]Wow. That's a kind of I didn't think it is, but I don't really know. I thought it was Mobile in Alabama, no?

[00:55:08]What is it?

[00:55:09]>> Should we ask ChatGPT?

[00:55:12]>> Sure, ask it.

[00:55:14]>> Oh, I don't.

[00:55:17]I don't use it. Remember, I >> I don't use it either. I don't >> have a life.

[00:55:22]>> What people have to remember is that it is a question that does not need to be answered.

[00:55:31]You have to realize what you have to sit with is not being able to answer a question.

[00:55:38]Are you okay with not answering a question? It's almost like a dog. If a dog sees that you have a little piece of food, he's got his eyes locked on you.

[00:55:45]But the moment you eat it, he gives up on the fact that you have food.

[00:55:50]After after about a day, but it it will happen. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

[00:55:58]>> Mhm.

[00:56:00]So, is he is the does the food still exist when it can't be seen?

[00:56:07]>> Well, that's a whole another set of videos that are on the internet.

[00:56:10]But uh you know, yes. Yes and no and yes and no and and now I'm that's stuck in my brain.

[00:56:18]But um have you ever used a public pool?

[00:56:24]>> I try to steer clear, you know.

[00:56:27]>> like there's a lot going on in a public pool.

[00:56:31]>> A lot of pee.

[00:56:33]>> A lot of pee, but you can learn a lot of in lot of you >> People. A lot of people. Sorry, I didn't >> A lot of pee what?

[00:56:40]>> You interrupted me. You interrupted a lot of people.

[00:56:43]>> A lot of people.

[00:56:47]>> In a public pool.

[00:56:48]>> A lot of people.

[00:56:53]Yes, it it it it's A public pool is to be avoided. A public pool is to be walked around.

[00:57:04]Nothing good comes out of a public pool.

[00:57:07]Including the people that went in it.

[00:57:11]So, um So, that is what it is.

[00:57:15]Uh and and I I people that bring food to a public pool. How could anyone bring food to a public pool?

[00:57:25]>> Do they because they don't serve food there?

[00:57:29]>> Well, it's um >> Like it's not a restaurant, so they have to You'd have to bring your own food.

[00:57:35]>> But how long are you going to be at a place where you need to bring food? You eat before you leave, you go, you spend a couple you spend a couple hours, and then you come back and you eat again.

[00:57:45]But why do you need to think You know, it You're not This is not a day trip, is it?

[00:57:51]>> Depends on how long you want to be at the pool, so I suppose.

[00:57:55]But I wouldn't Do you eat before you go into the pool? I thought You're supposed to wait 20 minutes is typically, right?

[00:58:04]So then you could bring food and hang out and be on the side. You don't have to be in the pool the entire time. You don't have to eat When you bring food to a public pool, you don't have to eat it in the pool.

[00:58:15]>> You don't have to do anything. All you have to do is exist.

[00:58:20]You don't have to be in a public pool, you don't have to swim around, you don't have to go to the bathroom, you can hold it.

[00:58:27]There are sets of circumstances underneath you, and you're a bird, so fly.

[00:58:33]Do you feel that's true? Do you feel like if you were a bird, you would fly?

[00:58:40]>> Unless I was a chicken.

[00:58:42]I feel like yes, I would I would fly.

[00:58:46]But if you're a chicken, you cannot fly.

[00:58:49]>> No, but you >> Do they fly?

[00:58:51]>> They fly. They're flying now. They're flying.

[00:58:55]Not far, not not high, but they fly to get away. If you were to run into the chicken, they would they would fly away a little bit. A little bit.

[00:59:07]>> Never chase a chicken.

[00:59:10]Have you chased a chicken or choked a chicken?

[00:59:15]>> Oh, I've never had a chicken.

[00:59:17]>> Oh.

[00:59:19]>> But if I had a chicken I and it was my chicken, I would probably choke my chicken, yes.

[00:59:25]But I Like I said, I share space.

[00:59:28]I have a wall. I have a caveat. I have a set of circumstances, a physical manifestation, a physical Sebastian Maniscalco. That is to say, if you can sync your brain up to Sebastian Maniscalco's brain, what would you hear?

[00:59:45]>> Ay, ya, ya.

[00:59:49]>> And you're not even Italian.

[00:59:52]>> No. No. No. No.

[00:59:56]>> Or Sicilian.

[00:59:59]>> Neither.

[01:00:03]>> It's wonderful. It's wonderful to see you, and wonderful to hear you, and wonderful to talk to you.

[01:00:08]And the message board is going berserk.

[01:00:11]Which means um There are a lot of the things we've already covered, though.

[01:00:16]It says Annie should Annie is calling you Annie. People want to call you Annie. You know, it's hard to resist calling you Annie.

[01:00:23]You just It's just like, don't do it. I know you don't like it. So, it's like, you want to call you Annie, and then you just don't do it. You have to just say Ann, and stop right there, in the middle of the sidewalk.

[01:00:39]>> I feel like it's important to call people what they prefer to be called.

[01:00:42]>> 100%. I'm just saying it's difficult.

[01:00:47]Uh so, someone says Annie, so he means Ann should go on American Idol. That's something to say.

[01:00:54]You would do quite You would do quite well.

[01:00:59]>> American Idol is for singers.

[01:01:02]>> Yeah, but you could They let you lip sync now, I think.

[01:01:07]>> Um I don't know. I If I've already had Nate Jackson tell me I'm not a good singer, I don't need Simon Cowell and and Jennifer Lopez and I don't need all of them to tell I met I met him at a party one time and it was it was not good. I had to sing karaoke and it was not good. So >> at the karaoke of American Idol people?

[01:01:34]>> No, it's just just one of the judges in the past and I don't need all every judge to tell me no.

[01:01:41]You know, that I'm not I'm not going to Hollywood. I already live in Hollywood.

[01:01:43]>> I was going to say. I get it. I get it.

[01:01:45]Plus you don't even like to sing.

[01:01:48]It would be different if you liked to sing.

[01:01:51]You know, it's like >> I love to sing.

[01:01:53]>> Oh, you do love to sing.

[01:01:56]>> Yes, but not with anyone listening.

[01:01:59]>> Well, let me turn let me turn this thing off and you can sing. No, I'm just No, I get it. No, I listen, when you turn the cameras off, we'll listen to you sing or just see what we do. But um listen, we're going to wrap it up here.

[01:02:14]Do you want to plug to Do you want to plug anything? Your website, your your Instagram or anything?

[01:02:22]>> Um yes, my Instagram >> [clears throat] >> um you can search my name Ann Flag or at uh i n underscore anticipation.

[01:02:34]Um and also check out the website annflagsmouth.com.

[01:02:39]>> What's it called again?

[01:02:42]>> Ann Flag's Mouth.com.

[01:02:45]>> That's what it's called?

[01:02:46]annflagsmouth.com?

[01:02:48]I like that.

[01:02:49]>> Yes, that's the website.

[01:02:50]>> That's catchy.

[01:02:52]So um as we enter the construct and we finish another episode and this is by the way the fifth day of the lecture series. I'm Alan Volt for Ann Flag. We'll see you next time and we'll see you next time.

[01:03:07]>> Thank you.