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The Return of Lucky Yates

Published Mar 30, 2022, 4:00 PM

In today's grab-bag interview, the guys catch up with actor, comedian and returning guest Lucky Yates. Tune in as they explore conspiracies, catch up on the pandemic, and pose questions from the audience. 

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A production of My Heart Radio, Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my name is they call me Ben. We were joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission controlled decade in spirit. Most importantly, you are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Hold the phone. This is a very special episode for us. You guys, I am looking not at a computer screen of not looking at like a screaming pet somewhere in someone's zoom background. You're looking at our dead eyed stairs. Yeah, I'm looking at your Kirsten Dunce dead. I staring and I love it. I love it. I would cast you an interview with a vampire Blues like. We're in person, you guys, We're in person, and we're going, uh in a totally different direction. We've been uh, we've had our heads down in the trenches, as they would say, working on a ton of other stuff. You know, we have that book coming out, all that stuff, and we wanted to get back with our roots. We wanted to relax and just have an in person conversation. I know it sounds old to say that, it sounds pre pandemic, but just like sit down with each other as buddies. We just returned from Austin and we got to do this in person a little bit at weird places like the Museum of the Weird. Yeah, literally weird place and just hang and uh. We decided we're not going to do it alone though. This time we got somebody here with us. That's right. We received an email from a dear, dear friend of ours who said, uh, you know, after the damaging time they had appearing on our show a few years ago, they've recovered fully and are returning again with us today. Fellow conspiracy realist, you know him, you love him, the man, the myth, the legend. Mr Lucky Yates, what's up, babies? Serious point? You just did that. We're going to get my reputation back, do you guys destroyed it last time? Dodo theory, So the Dodos are still alive out there. I like the Dodo cryptid. I still think about that. What about the Puffin? You know, the Puffin is sort of like the modern Dodo. No, not at all. The pigeon is the modern friend. The pigeon is the heart. Take another hot take your Dodo lore. Right, what do you guys think about that? Cereal puffins? So you had it, it's pretty good, So puffin cereal, puffin cereal? But healthy Captain crunch? Thank you? You know what. It doesn't cut up the roof of your mouth with the same level of you know what satisfaction than Captain crunch. Yeahs are weak? How else does it delivers? Are strong? Wait? Hold on, let's talk about this. Was there a conspiracy to cut all of our mouths up with various serials when we were like, you know, a little bit younger in the eighties nineties. I always heard the conspiracy that MSG creates magical flavor by making tiny cuts in your mouth. Not true, Yeah, it's not true, but I definitely have heard that repeated, Like people repeat things like that with utter confidence and by thousand cuts. Okay, yeah, you know what you're coming up with movie titles at this point. This is we and I love them. We've got to see this. This conversation is going to go in a lot of directions. Uh, Like, since we last spoke Lucky so much ship happened? Oh my god, UFOs are real. One cares. Yeah, things got bad enough in the world that world governments finally said, you know what, fine, get high you know. Yeah, yeah, there're a whole pandemic that a lot of people just didn't believe in. This isn't happening. It's not really happening. What did you do? Where have your adventures lead you? How did you survive the pandemic? Since we spoke, when did we When did we last get together? On my god, I don't know how. There's this T shirt that I'm wearing. It's older than three years old. I would like to point out, gentlemen, that this T shirt is been in constant rotation. It's never been taken out. It's I mean, it's been worn consistently proudly. Oh gosh, so Lucky Lucky has our. It's the first shirt that we ever produced. It's like the worst font, but it looks it's a very close driven design. Yeah, nothing but type. We had some white and red letters, and the red letters from more than three feet away. You do not know what they say? Okay, So what I'm what I'm hearing is we owe you another not at all, okay, sir, I mean I will take one. If you've been coming, they're coming baby. So uh so we what have I How did I survive the pandemic? Oh? My god? Where to we begin? Well? I started streaming as soon as as soon as everything shut down, I clicked on Instagram Live and every night for nine months I streamed something weird I started. I started a religion based on the Dodos that we talked about on my last episodes. Right, I created a whole mythology about the Dodos. Well, you can't call it a myth if it's a religion. We very much uh own up to the fact that it is a myth. I like the transparency of your cult. I also don't ask for money from anybody, so it's like a real deal. But if they happen to shower you with it, you know so, I mean, but it would never be asked for. I would not. You know, I don't even know where they would put it because I'm not setting up any kind of venom on the plate. Man, here's the deal. Okay, So, gladys, the Holy Dodo was the Savior is our is our savior figure? Do you want the mythology right now. I haven't had to do this speech since let's see October of nine. Okay, let's see, as you may or may not know, fellas, Dodos were a divine species here on the earth. Uh. The other divine species, of course were the unicorns, uh, and the wizards and the elves that you know what. The narwhals are always asked for. But there the jury is still out on them. We don't know enough about them yet. The t rex Is, of course, were though the t rexes were a divine species. Okay. So the Dodos were living in their little hidden island paradise of Mauritius, just love and life. They lived there with the unicorns before they left, and everybody was just a beautiful, beautiful place. And they would sit in their bubbling pools of sparkling water all night long, smoking bowls of the elven pipe weed and de gussing life in all of its majesty. And then one day a ship rolled up onto shore, and the Dodos were like, what the fund is that thing? And then all these men started climbing off of the ship, and they were like, what are those things? And then the men started just murdering everything on the island, and so the Dodos were like, well, fuck this, those guys are a bunch of assholes. We're going back to the Undying Lands with the wizards and the elves and the t rex is and the unicorns, and uh, we're just gonna piece out from this place because we don't like there, and if they found us here on our little hidden, sacred island, then they're all over this Globe's were out except for Gladys. Gladys said, you know what, fellow Dodo kind, I have faith that mankind can get it shipped together and stop being a bunch of assholes. So I'm gonna stick around see if I can guide them in the right to action. So they said good luck, they pushed off on their long boats. Off they went to the Undying Lands. Gladys stayed behind for one and twenty years trying to work with the men, and she saw no signs that they would ever get their ship together and stop being a bunch of assholes. So she pieced out, and as she was pushing off shore on her magical long boat, she turned back to man and she said, Okay, mankind, if you ever can get your ship together and stop being a bunch of assholes. I'll come back. Not only will I come back, I'll bring all the Dodos back with me. And you don't even know the cool ship we can do. You just started murdering and eating us. Not only will I bring the Dodos back, I'll bring the unicorns. What about the t rex is though? Not only will I bring the nicorns mother rexes. So praise gladys mankind. Stop being a bunch of assholes so we can get the Dodos and the unicorns and the motherfucking t Rex. Dodos and unicorncing relatively docile, but like a bunch of t rex is rolling. I mean, that seems danger it seems like a recipe for disaster. I'm sorry to questions. I think history, if history has proved anything, you give man six months and we'll be riding those t rex all over town like that Joe Dino writer. It's gonna be just like Chris Pratt Jurassic World movies. You know what's fascinating about this? First off, that's a wild ride, and thank you. But what's fascinating is you have great timing here to tell us the story. The synchronicity is fascinating to us because just this week we looked into something called de extinction. It's a real thing that's happening. Like the idea like, hey, let's just fun around and bring back man. Yeah, let's see what that happens. What's what happens or the thighla scene or whatever. And Dodos are actually really good candidate for this because they went extinct so recently. Yeah, and there's you know, the pigeons are like distant relatives of them, and so there's I think enough swimming around in there that you can really start kick starting at all. What did the term dodo become like a term of abuse. You know, you call somebody a dodo that means they're a dumb dumb because men thought they were stupid birds because they had no natural enemies, and they were just naturally trusting and they were kind of goofy. They were like a groundbird and big and they walked kind of goofy, uh, and they were just completely trusted men. They were to walk right up to them and then they would kill them and eat them. And people knew how bad people were like they were they were very well, you could say about humans in generals, they tend to be self aware as groups like nobody. Nobody is saying, I think that we're doing totally good things. So what what what makes what makes penguins a more successful species? In the dodo? They still similarly swimming fen they can dart around underwater. True Dodos couldn't do that ship No dondos. No, they had little, tiny wings. They were on the ground, big eggs, targets, big eggs for Yeah, the dogs and the pigs that mankind brought to the island, it just took care of that. Those ground nests flag eggs real quick. They went fast, they did. Yeah. The ones who died, now most of them got on the long boats and piece the hell out. So what are you gonna I was just wondering, like, I wonder what Gladys thinks about right now, as we're entering back into I don't know, perhaps of World War how she feel about mankind? Right? I think she realizes that one in twenty years slash two hundred and twenty years, it really makes no difference. Mankind cannot get it shipped together with just a bunch of murder apes. What are you gonna do about it. We love killing so it feels like you've really, uh, you've really dug deep into this philosophy over the Over the pandemic, I had weekly every Sunday night, I did a service. There were regular worshippers that would show up every week. And at one point I thought, oh my God, is this legit? Like could I go tax free? I think I have it because I am a Universal Life Church minister. I'm not. I'm not faking it. So I'm I I had a real ministry going on. Uh, And I'm like, I think there's still people that throw praise gladdys around as their bless you type thing. What's the barrier to entry though? For getting incorporated in that way and then being tax free? I know Scientology kind of had to fight for it a bit, you know, but what what's the true barrier to entry to prove that you are worthy? Universal Life Church has it all worked out, and I think you just have to have an ongoing service where there is a regular audience coming. I don't that because of the pandemic, and that's what we I sort of stumbled on while I was doing it. I was like, wait, this is kind of where everything is headed anyway, and so many churches are have been on TV all along. Oh my god, am I creating a thing? Wait a minute? And then I but when I stopped, I stopped. My dog, My sixteen year old dog really started falling apart. Yeah, I get old, Abe Jackson, and uh so I and I hit a wall man because I was doing something every night online and uh so I hit a while Abe went down. Then you died right before Christmas. And then I just like didn't go back to the thing. Uh And so, yeah, I don't know. I don't I could kick start that thing anytime. I still know the myth clearly, YA can. Just that's pretty much as I said. I think it would be fascinating for us on this show to have to have a fly in the wall perspective of someone who has actually managed to like go tax free with a philosophy or religion that they discovered. The other cool thing is where I live. I am an old I live in an old warehouse that was converted to loss back in and when they set up all the by laws, there was nothing in the neighborhood in Atlanta. Didn't realize it was going to be the Atlanta of right now, and I can run a business out of it. I can live in my place. I can run a business out of my place. I can live in it and run a business out of my place. I am allowed to do all that. So I could technically turn my place into a sanctuary or whatever. That's awesome, I should do it. Is it accessible to the belt Line though we're on the belt right above me and and Rafi you can go get your slice of pizza pot and while you can get a slice up at Glide, which is on premises. Okay, so it's a So we're looking at a sanctuary that is walkable that also has food, right, Uh, And I think would it would this be the first church on the belt Line. I don't know. Oh man, you might have a thing because if that's something, lean into that, you know, I'm totally I'm just gonna set up a little booth life advice. Well you like a banana stand kind of situation, and like, uh, speaking of confessions and questions, this is something we we thought would this interesting. Uh went on Twitter earlier just last night and then asked if there were any weird questions people wanted to ask. Lucky, So we've got a couple. Um first, I guess we'll start with with this. Uh this, this is gonna be the hard hitting journalism. I can't wait strap the fucking so so. Stock X says, I want to ask him more about Archer, but quote, I remember he wasn't so thrilled about the show, which is not the sense I got. Yeah, that kind of blew me away, completely untrue. I don't know who said that, stock X. I love Archer. Yeah, huge fan of the show that I happened to be on. Yeah, I know, it's like you're such a huge fans double yeah. It's it's like the best of everything show and it's still amazing. Like we're recording I'm recording an episode on Monday, and this gripped is hilarious. Like the the writers we've got going now are clearly big fans of the show, and so everybody is just at their bunkers, most them, all the characters. It's so much fun. That's got to be fun to have a show that's been long running like that and having new writers come in that kind of like came up watching the show come on and get energized everything right like it was. They were all written for nine and a half season by Adam Reid, and he was just like, oh my god, I'm so like these people arguing in my head. I'm so tired of it. I just can't do it. And so you know it, dude, we can use them other writers. And he finally just had to say, Okay, take my baby and write and they were amazing. The scripts are amazing. That's wonderful, man, because like this is I know we I don't think we talked too much about it in the last the last time and came on air, uh and I was I was also surprised by that question because every time we've had the conversation you've said the same thing. You've been like, I love the show so much that I'm on it, you know what I mean, which is the ultimate fandom. So we've cleared that up well. And if I may address stock X directly with this horrible accusation, it's really not here's what I think is going to happen. And one of one of the things that uh, one of the I'm gonna say downside, even though it's not really it's easily handled, but uh my, when I was streaming every night for nine months, literally a little community formed around the regulars. They started their own little discord. Two of them are dating now. Like, it's crazy that the like little group of friends that grew out of this thing, right, But they also sort of became a little territorial when it came to the chat feed, right, and I was doing shows, right, it wasn't just me sitting in front of a camera like I. It was always a fully formed, not fully formed idea, just an idea that I was like locked into and it was like this hour is going to be this, and sometimes leaning into puppetry, and there are different themes for every night. But if anybody, you know, a lot of people would just drop in and just start throwing archer questions around, which you know is naturally a natural if you know, somebody on a show you like is doing a live in Instagram and you're gonna click over and you're just gonna start throwing your con questions. And I would always say, hey, this is I'm actually doing this thing. This isn't a con but you know, so I'm just not doing archer questions. Well, my wonderful, amazing, supportive little group really sort of took it on themselves to become the police of the crowd to stop them from tipping my cart or doing I don't know what they're you know, their their intentions were good. The execution not so much. You know, we we get that. Um. We actually had a so I'm not gonna name names, but a local curmudgeon le uh, comedic personality uh posts some hot takes on the Here's where it gets crazy Facebook group. Um, when Ben proudly announced them so that I want you to know book that's coming up, just kind of an assholy congratulations, huge accomplishment, very exciting, but yeah, you know, and it was a very assholy dismissive take on conspiracy shows writ large, right, which is this obviously this is not what the show is. The show is. We always say a critical thinking approach to conspiracy as we look at all sides, we have conversations, we get where we get organically, we're not trying to tell anybody to believe of this dude that we had never listened to the show. And then our lovely group just kind of dog piled on the man um. And to be fair, I kind of think he had it coming because he was it was an ill informed thing to say he wasn't reading the room at all, and that's what you get. Uh yeah, and that's so like I'm sure stock X probably jumped on a thing, said something and I might have said, hey, that's not what this is, or the rest of the group just like raw and then he thought, look you two George for stock X now and and you know, uh, I think it's clear that Stoke is a huge fan of yours. Definitely listening to the show. But we told you, we warned you it was hard hitting journalism, and I take all questions. I'm I'm afraid of nothing. Oh man, there's so much more to talk about here with Lucky. We're gonna go to a quick sponsor break and then we back with more and we're back. Well, I actually have a question for at least a topic of conversation, and it's just something that I don't think we've spoken about at length. You mentioned a radio station that you had interactions with and I think worked with Georgia six. It was really uh well yeah, in the I Heart Radio slash I Heart Media family. Yes, formally what did they used to be Clear Channel, Yes, but ninety six Rock was the quintessential station for me. That one was a big part of my life too, But like Rock was huge world. I wonder what it was like working in a radio station at that time, like what what's our state ranges? It was turn of the century, early two thousands, early two thousands, because I was doing the Lucky Eight's talk show at Dad's garage, and uh, there was a piece written about me and it was like in the Sunday a j C. And then Larry Wax from the Regular Guys read it, and then they brought me in on that show and we had a really good time, and so they would just keep bringing me back, and then eventually I would just start going in in the mornings because I could get up and it was right the street, and so I just like hanging around because I could jump on air a lot. And then they just started letting me screen phone calls, and then then I was sort of working. I was always just gigging, right, Like I was the free money moron for ninety six Rock for a while. I dressed up in a superhero fit and I was supposed to run around and give people money. But then we realized just what a horrible idea that was, Like there's a man in tights with a lot of cash and here's where he's gonna be, and we're like, let's not do that. So I ran around with the corporate credit card and I would like run into Walmart or pizza joints or just wherever we would run in me and whoever my handler was, and I would just like, oh, pay for that, madam, I'm the free money more on from Rock and I would pay for their thing, you know, their cart full of groceries. It's amazing. In my hometown, it was rock related one less. I don't know. It was a golden time though, Like in the nineties and early odds without you know that, you would just you go to the radio station, win some contest and you'd get like a thousand notched CDs, you know, oh yeah, going into the prize room. I was always getting up the promo guy like, hey man, can I go in there? Like I had my first iPod from there. For anyone that has a notched CD s where like they literally had like a groove cut in the side with like a fucking like soaw blade or something. It was so you knew they were not for recently, guess you go to CD warehouse, what did you see? Tons of CD Warehouse didn't know about those notches. Wow, well, is there anything else just from that time or from radio or just anything that would would be that you might consider stuff they didn't want you to know at the time like that. Oh, I imagine, not completely not not at a heart facility of course, it was like it was lazy sales people. And you know, I mean it was still like they were running on the nineteen eighties program still right, uh. And so it was it was just like the brower your brow year. They were the bigger brora, the higher up the ladder they were, uh. And it was just a lot of people scrambling to to be the new hot shot. But it was also the like prerecorded like there wasn't nobody was doing live radio except in the mornings. Like the Regular Guys Show was a live show. Uh. W all the A M stuff, W G, S T and all that that was live radio. But all the like cool music stations they were just like they would go in there and they would record their little intros and all that kind of stuff and do their whole show. It would take them like an hour to do a four hour show and then they would go and you know, off the rotation was all predetermined. They would I mean, they had the like, here's the songs you're introducing, here, the commercials you're doing, here's the thing, and they would just go in and record all their crap for the day, and then the computers would play it later on. Okay, so they're like, and that was spoon Man by Sound Garden. We'll be right back fifteen. Wait, we'll be right back here. You're on the bus. Yeah, yeah, And on the bus they all had weed names. I'm dank when my buddies was dank, and none of them smoked weed Eithermings. I feel like that's an ethical quandary. I know the FCC won't get at you about that, but I feel like, if you're running a show that is heavily implying that you were so into weed that your street name is dank, you should at least be doing in edible or something. Again, this is like two thousand, two thousand one didn't exist. There was though, yeah it's somebody your weird uncle was cooking brownies, you know, and it was just like, oh my god. I now we'd take for granted, like how many flavors and potencies and exactly what type for what personality available. Let's talk a little bit about that because it's my favorite subject. Yeah, you've been a you know, you and I have known each other for a number of years, and now we all have known each other for a number of years. Um. Probably the only person at our company who's known you longer is the legendary infamous Jonathan Strickland. You mean, the quiz master. Yeah, we got we got some questions actually from him. Yeah, lurks, he is a lurker. Lucky's first question actually before he started rolling, was is he going to be coming through? So I don't know what's going on with you guys. It will save that for later in the show. But or is there You're in the right place. So this is, um, this is a question. I established this background only to say that, Um, for the entire time that we've known each other, you have been a vocal proponent for Advocate. Yes. Yeah, yeah, it really is a life changing plant for me. Uh yeah, it it puts me in the groove that I could never find my entire life, and it would always just cause you know, panic and anxiety and everything, and we just goes like here, you can you can be right here and this is the good place, and I'm just like, oh, everything is completely manageable. It doesn't turn you instantly into a rapist and murderer. No, nor does it turn me into a lazy bones. I've never been more productive. Again, A strain for every mood, for every personality side, there's some that make you a little more like to do. I'm gonna get things done to make you up down on the couch we call in the in the couch, right, But now you can get like hybrid combinations of all of that stuff, you know. So this is where if only we're legal here in this state. Right, So this is one of the get there one of the questions I have for you. Yeah, we are in the US seeing kind of a paradigm shift, a sea change. But I know this is something you take really seriously. So in your opinion, what tipped the scale? Like for a long time, people like uh, groups like normal We're saying like, hey, listen to science is here. It's alcohol is way more. Let's talk about like nineties and two thousands, like during my the weed festivals like four tests and stuff like that. We're tiny, little hilarious hippie you know, they would have a stage and there would be like, you know, maybe a hundred people hanging around and all that kind of stuff. Just nothing. So yeah, are you asking me what tipped the scales towards towards the move on bread adoption. Yeah, like on a state level, to move towards first, I would say medicinal marijuana usage, and then decriminalization and then outright just legal mean, I suppose it's a bit of getting a half a century away from the Nixon ray, the Nixon message. He's the one that started the war on drugs uh and made weed I think a class one uh, and then it was backed up by the Reagans in the eighties. I think maybe just enough time away and a an odd uh phenomenon of it seems an entire generation of kids that have either or both anxiety and a d h D really weird. I don't know what's going on. Like I am an a d h D anxiety ritten kid, and I'm a gen xer. But man, you get into the like the generations after me, your millennials, youre gen z ears. It's nothing, but that's like it's the entire I think it's just, hey, man, we got to control this, and you know, adults like me or are like weed has always been great, and so now we're of age to be in charge of things and we're going to try to knock it finally knock it into the thing. And then I don't know what was the first state that that broke Colorado? Was it Colorado both medicinally and I think they were the first to go through go to decriminalization like they were the California too. I think when they made the medical cards so easy to get in California and it really was two hundred bucks and then you could go to a dispensary and just the proof is always in the pudding and in the banks where you like, look at all the money we're making. And also nobody is causing crimes because of this. But but they have much more of an appreciation for reggae. Those albums are solid like high hey man, all music is a one quick thing. There's an interesting law Ben and Matt and I were just talking about in New York. Um, you know, it's been decriminalized for a while, it's been outright legalized, and now the way is being paid for like brick and mortar, you know, shops, but I don't know if this is anywhere else in the country, but their law is kind of giving priority to folks with former marijuana convictions for being first in line to get the licenses to open, which is amazing. I think it's amazing. There's, of course, you know, people that are saying it's racist, you know, against white people, which is not a thing, but just stupid. It's very stupid, it's very shortsighted. It's just you know, again, wanted to create out of nothing. It's also a nation of selfish babies. A million person Yeah, but I just think it's a neat precedent to sets, you know, because so many people's lives were ruined by having a dimebag of We're gonna give you guys the first opportunity to turn this into a business. Sorry, we fucked you over so bad. You guys are first in line. If you want to make some money off of this new situation, then here is your license, which I think is um surprisingly inspiring. The least the system is literally the least, very least. So I've got to throw this in because we are going to get some emails. Let me help everybody out. If you are halfway through the email. Don't worry, you can put it in drafts. We've got the facts. California was the first state, like you said, to legalize medicinal cannabis, and that was in nineteen nineties six. Recreational cannabis comes from Colorado and Washington the same same time, and they made a ton of money in the schools, infrast, things that no one else will pay for. Gosh, sorry, I just had a thought here, guys. It was a very black mirror thought as you're describing that in New York, and I was just imagining a version of the future where murder homicide becomes illegal because they're just too many humans not enough resources. It's decriminalized. They make it, they make it a business. They give they give like serial killers and other mass murderers first choice for creating a business. And that's really good. Yeah, that's a cool twist on this idea. I like that. There is an amazing comic book series called Red Room Guy named Ed Piscor in Pittsburgh and it is Yeah, it's people who are like doing grizzly grizzly murders on the dark web for like bitcoin. It is it's you know, gruesome gruesome, deliciously gruesome comic book. And then of course there's that subplot in The Sandman with the serial killer convention, one of my favorites, and that's sort of like, Yeah, I like the idea of this, this demystifying or sort of making things like Grizzly Murder sort of boring and procedural. I think that's the thing that's interesting that we've gotta. Like. I don't know if you're going to get to it, so I'm gonna push you into doing this. Word on the street, is you have I've made the move from comic and graphic novel fan to comic graphic novel creator's true Lester of the Lesser Gods is the name of my comic book myself. Uh. And Eric Powell, who is uh he runs Albatross Funny Books. Uh. He his work is The Goon if you're aware of the Eric and draws in that book. Uh. And he does hill Billy and he's got a whole big batch of titles. He just had an ed Geen graphic novel that came out last year, but it's called did you Hear what Eddie Gene Did? And as far as I am concerned the quintessential telling of that story. It is gorgeous. Um. And we snuck Lester out into the world that he was getting all this big buzz about the Eddie Gene book and we just snuck a little one off to it's Lester's origin story and then we're picking it back up. He's got an anthology book coming out called Albatross Funny Book and uh, it's going to be a running story in there. Wow, Wester. So where can I find it right now? At your local comic bookshop or go die. I'm assuming Albatross Funny Books dot com. I don't know. I don't do the business part. That's all Eric's biz. Just google it. Uh Lesser Lesser Gods. So it's a post apocalyptic fantasy. Uh it's it takes place that Satan causes uh an immediate very Uh Thunder the Barbarian inspired. I don't know if you know that Thunder the Barbarian inspired where things just change immediately, like there's magic and there's all like's not the one with the blobby guy, those are that's the herculoid Barbarian. In the same it's Thunder a Princess Ariel and globe mock who is there Chewbacca, So that it's just so interesting to me because as a kid watching those, I was obsessed with the backstory and they never really bother to explain it. That's what the one off is his Lester story. It turns out that the apocalypse happens, and then Lester finds out that he's the bastard son of odin Uh and so he's a god. He's a demigod, and he can sort of claim the earth in the name of good and defeat evil. And if he does, if he defeats all evil, he'll get to live in the basement of Valhalla, which is what he is. And he's a thirty six year old like larp nerd the basement, so it's everything he's ever wanted. He's never really fit into the real world. But when the apocalypse happens, he finds out he's a god and he's ready to rock. But is it is it like a full in law suite or like what is the basement actually an unfinished Yeah, the wood paneling and you know, just an afghan on an already couch. Yeah, one of those what are those lazy boy recliners that seems timeless. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of like some duct tape catching up a rip. It's except it will be a Nordic beer or whatever. So that that's out now, I have that on my list. I wanted to check it out as well. I didn't know I should have brought some in. I didn't even think. I thought, well, I thought you was you were talking about a friend's comic book. I didn't know that you actually wrote it. Yeah, I'm writing it. Well, So the first issue. Eric, myself and a guy named Matt Cushing wrote the first one, and uh, we were once upon a very long time ago. It was. It was developed as a TV pitch because we had a development deal with Turner for just a couple of years, and then it just that once that delapsed, it became ours again. And then we decided to do it as a comic and it was Eric and My book from the get go. We brought in some others folks to get us going on the book, and then now it's just Eric and I. Again. That's cool, man, So I'm glad it's continuing. And yeah, it's great because I just sit around and write these goofy stories and then send them to Eric, You're involved with so much story makes in a comic book. I think it's time for a Jonathan question. This might be the last segment. Guys, this might be. It can't be, I think so, right, aren't we running on it's a podcast, Yeah we can do. What are you talking about? What do you have somewhere to be? Man? I didn't want to waste your time, waste my time? Do you know what I would be doing? Otherwise? I would be doing exactly this, except there wouldn't be three people around me. I would just be sitting here smoking and talking. Not that I'm smoking. So that's what I would be doing at home. Yeah, so here we ignore that smell. So Jonathan Strickland, friend of the show, you know him? You know him? He says, yes, he has feel certain kinds of ways about him. Right, right, right, he says. Ask Lucky about the time he had Alton Brown and the chief Medical Examiner for the State of Georgia on stage at the same time parentheses. This was following the infamous tri State crematory case. Yeah, that was back in the Lucky Talk show. Uh Dr Chris Sperry. He was my most regular guest. The chief medical Examiner of the State of Georgia, and he would always bring in uh. After things went through the court system in the trial happened all the evidence, they would either destroy it, but sometimes Chris would grab some nuggets and say, I'm going to keep this and put it in my office. And so he brought in things like a bong made out of a humans go, a mummified hand and wrist, a skull with a big hole in it, ship like that. It was awesome, and so he Alton Brown. That was Alton's first time on the show. I'm pretty sure when he doubled up with Sperry and Uh. I just remember the two of them before the show, sitting backstage talking about where the best burger in town was, and it was like, here's a guy that handles nothing but dead people talking to the dead animal guy, and who cooks them? What was the consensus for the best And this was early Yeah, I was before a lot of like the boutique burger. Yeah yeah, there, We've been overrun by good burgers since then. Vortex still in the top I would say, in the top three for sure. I mean when when they had those zucchini chip things like that, was that was peak Vortex for me. I think they took them away, maybe they brought them back. Also, still think they've they've done a good job of cultivating the sense of mystery by like not letting under twenty one people in at all, under twenty one people, you know, children. But it's a restaurant. But it's like, you know, a bar, but every other restaurant in town also is a bar. What makes them special because they do, Yeah, they want the bar to be more important than the restaurant, and yet it's it's and it's you know, they got you know, girls with their titties hanging out all over there, you know, hanging on the walls, and you know, they got like centerfolds from old man back in the day, they used to have in the afternoon shift, they used to have the titty races and yeah, back you know, in between sort of lunch and dinner when it was just dead. But they were just the bar flies, the wait staff, somebody behind the bar column and the wait staff would rip off their shirts run around the restaurant. Wow, was a golden time old Atlanta. Yeah, if anyone does at the Vortex like it's it's a fixture in little five points in Atlanta, the Laughing Skull, the Laughing Skull logo. You would absolutely relations one one on Peach Street and they've got a great little comedy club on next there. Used to do shows at the Yeah, I did my talk show in the Laughing Skull Lounge, and I used to em see the Dames of Flame burlesque show in there. Yeah yeah, yeah. Oh guys, hold on, let's pump our brakes, take a quick ad break, and then come back for more of this. Okay, we got back. We all went through a lot during the ad break, but we're still friends, so let's get back into it. So we've talked about a couple of things. We've gone a couple of different directions. I've got to tell you what was going on with Matt all in myself during the pandemic. We kept the show going. We were on. We were in each other's uh we're in each other's zoom calls. Oh yeah, we got in each other's business because we were the people we talked to the most for like two years and uh we uh it was funny because I I don't know about you guys, but I had to turn a room in my place away from being a bedroom and into being kind of a studio. And so I have a giant fricking plastic skeleton that lives there now, which I've I've grown accustomed to, but one of those big home depot twelve foot ones. Not yet, not yet because of because of the it's the ceiling is stopping meant ones. This is like a medical uh you know, yeah, it's Skully, it's a bas Scot. But um, so we all we all had these changes and we ended up going on a couple of adventures too. Man. We went to Nashville, right, went to Nashville, We went to We just got back from Austin south By Southwest have you ever been. I think we had a good time, but I think a lot. Sure, it's a lot. It seems like it's too much. Well, we weren't even involved in the actual, you know, official events, but our company rented this gorgeous boutique hotel called the Saint Cecilia, which is like kind of storied and it's sort of off the beaten path, and it was all just populated by like CEOs and cmos and CFOs all the those and um it was a closed event, so it was like you know a lot of people that were actually staying there, and it felt like this kind of weird respite from all the craziness of like the drag, the main drag, but we got to schmooze it up with some very powerful human beings by a lot of them. And uh performance by the band A j R. They were quite good. Did you guys know the food fighters recorded it did the whole thing in that where we were hanging. It's called the St. Cecilia EP and they recorded in like the bar area and the back. I believe yeah, well, I um so, I have an old tior motive bringing this up. It wasn't just like, hey, we want to tell you about our adventures. I don't believe you. You know, you to take your rut to brag. Okay, I haven't. I haven't checked with you guys on this, but we get yeah, as we get some uh, as we are traveling more, which all three of us love to do. We love to be on the road. What's the what are the odds of us getting you to do something live with us? I mean yes, one to one. Okay. We're not going to give you any details, by the way, about what this would be because we haven't checked. Well. I mean, we've got some little stuff coming, but I mean it'd be so funny. I travel, I have a truck, don't know how to drive, Okada, are you like big timing notes? Now, no, we can all drive. We know how to drive. My driver on the second attempt, okay, thank you. So a parallel parking that gets too But now I'm an expert at you gotta pull directly alongside the car in front of you and cut the wheel, get back in there and then straighten it out. I wish this was on video so you guys could see knows and like three point kids, learn about it, memorize it, learn it, live it. Live in a big city where you're driving, you're gonna need to utilize that uilize. So that would be awesome because we do have we have big things ahead, and it always seems like these conversations are things that we would we would want to keep going with. We want to go hang out, like honestly, folks, after we close the show, we might go get something to eat. I don't know where it's gonna I'm out food. Never mind what I just said about being a bit to eat after shows, that's that's sorry. To have a line, man's got to have a code. I respect that. I do think we would be remiss if we didn't end on at least a couple more questions. Let's do it alright, So only Matt has somewhere important. Yeah, it's at the Ramen shop after we wrap. So any s says, I don't any Nintendo Entertainment system. Maybe that's who it is. On Twitter, says Lions how many wins this year? Now you're a big Detroit Lions fans, Detroit Lions fans. Is she quizzing him for stats? I guess just saying, what do you think? Seven wins? Okay, I'm gonna seven wins? That a lot? It is for the Lions. Not that good historically the worst. Yeah, they're kind of towards the bottom. You were ever were forever rebuilding. That's very I just got back. Yeah, I've never been. Oh my god, it's amazing that. I'm serious. I don't know either. Grid iron football Okay, okay, there's about a grid iron just like to differentiate it from real football, which is what we call soccer. Way, just the gridiron has become Yeah, and it's because the grid once upon a time. However, the thing was laid out. I don't know where the iron part comes. Yeah, I do not. Well, we'll find out. Someone will write to us. But before we'll just lightning, quick lightning. Okay, if we get a sound effect, perfect, Oh, even better. Okay, So you're doing fully work. That's awesome. So going to a high school called Bishop Fully So, I'm very Oh you were in the ap fully program. I was all right. A man made it almost to the top of Catholicism just doing fully work. It was between you and the guys, the pope out. Okay, so Val says, does he put his uh? Does he put both socks on before his shoes or one sock of one shoe before moving to the other foot. I don't know. Okay, I don't really pay attention to know what sort of a fuge steak? I guess do you lucky? Do you have any pets anymore? He died? Jackson, good old abe Jackson R. You should see a shrine. It's glorious. Well, I've got a long haired white dog that is like one of those. It's like a gold laware yes, and it's finally allowed to wear all black. That's exactly. I went all black after Abe died, and it's not because I'm mourning. It's because I couldn't really wear black clothes for sixteen years because I was covered in Abe. Gosh, that's okay. So for me, it's socks. If I don't vacuum, Like a minute before I put my socks and shoes on, they're covered in hair. And then my shoes are covered in hair, so I have to put one. I take my socks over to where my shoes are, put one sock on while I stand on one foot, put that shoe on, and then do the other one because otherwise the whole, my whole being is in inundated. Here. Yeah, I'm glad to not have to vacuum every single day again. Did you have to have like a bespoke kind of like pet centric vacuum? Uh? You try, you know, I never really pulled the big trigger. And when uh what's named Dyson shark shark they're they're cheap and they're so good. I don't want a battery powered vacuum. They last for five minutes. I have accorded stick vacuum from sharks. Same fucking rules. You've got a landline vacuum you guys. Hey, man, I don't mind whipping that cord around. I know how to work it. Very very last question I'm gonna say into this, I probably socks first. I'm gonna say I probably most likely both socks, because you know, I don't know, really, I don't. I don't make shoe decisions until I'm about to put them on. You can see where my head is and you might want to be sucked while hanging around the house there so you can get that tom cruise going to the slides. I have learned, uh the magic. This is only recently in my life. Slippy slip shoes. I recently got some kinch your outdoors. I have just a pair of crocs, a simple pair of Camo crocs, which by the way, I got into last year, and they are so great. You're a croc master now I am. Now. I didn't think I ever would be, but fifty four year old Stoner Lucky Eight's loves and crocks. They're big with the kids man fishing crocs now with little giblets or whatever they called something like that. Gimblets, you know that they're little things you stick in the little charms and a lot of buttons and charms and they're called like giblets. It giblets. All right, well, okay, okay, so I put my socks on first, alight that uh and any s was the Lions stock X was the seven seven wins? Seven wins? Okay, very last questions. I am apologized. No, I'm not apologizing. I love I love Archer. Yes, we do too. Actually, U, it's weird because we don't often talk about it with you. That was the first time we really did. Last question, last question the show. Are you sure I believe? So? Alright, what if I have a question? Yeah, last question from us for the show for me and then hasn't asked a single question. That's not true. That's not true. But but okay, so I'm just trying to listen. Yeah, yeah, there, So I gotta get that chat feedwork since we haven't talked in years on air. Is there any conspiracy or conspiracy theory that you've been thinking about you never got back to? UFOs are real? We never Yeah, We're all like like, UFOs are goddamn here. Yes, they're back. They're checking us out. We don't know what they're doing. People from the Navy or like you know there's it's a UFO. I don't know what it is. It can't move like that if it's from this planet. It can't dive into water and keep up the same rate of speed asiness out come on man. And everybody's like, I don't like the other person, because I mean when people think about disclosure, I think they're expecting like an alien envoy to land and shake hands, the spectacles. This is underwhelming to those people, I think. But absolutely it's nothing that we haven't already all been pretty confident about whether these are extraterrestrial or that's just like secret military experiments that we're not being made aware of. Whatever. There's absolutely stuff that we don't know about. Technology wise, it exists. I have theories. Have you gone through this already, I'm assuming you have. In the document there was one point, then a couple. There's one in particular that was like, that's a weird one to just drop in there so the public. There are two versions of this document, one for Congress, which has a lot more detail than when the public can see, which is literally like two three pages, and most of it is we need more money because it's a government document. But there is that one point where they're breaking down all the stuff they think it could be. It's the usual stuff from Project Bluebook. And at the end they say there's a bunch that we don't know about, or it has technology that we do not understand. So like this science is beyond observers. Yeah, and that's you know, and for everybody who was like, well, we don't know it could be some Russian thing that there. Look at how it's going in the Ukraine. Russia, they do not technology to do this thing. I can't remember what we Russia for being. Russia is known for the savvy with technology, but also sloppy and they rush things. There's a whole community around like weird Russian synthesizers from the eighties that are like, you know, collectible but also weird and some are kind of shitty but in a fun way and the same we've talked about like the payloads potentially, and like the nuclear arsenal they have, who knows what state of repair they're in, how old they are, if they'll even fucking fire, you know. So no, I don't I mean, again, no shade on any Russian people out there. I mean the people are I'm fine with the people it's the leadership. I have a beef leadership, but hired militia. Absolutely. But I'm just saying, like, you know, they are known for being a little bit quick and loose with their tech. Yeah, they can't pull this off though, man, not without us going like oh yeah, sure, that's a bling blank blom. You know. So then why would why if indeed there are things piloted by non human intelligence ismensional yeah, right, that's one possible dimensional cross Is it a time? Yeah? Why are they? Why? What's the what's the end game? What do you think? Why would they be here? Well, it's just such are They're so quick and like they zip around and then disappear that it seems that it's either joy ride teenager, it's an alien or it's just an experimental Oh look what we can we can dip in here, zoom around. Look what I got this? Like, I don't know, I really have no idea. Maybe recon of some kind that would be great. Maybe it's like those drive through Safari preservations. Yeah, there's something like some alien hillbilly charging. This is just some car that gets to drive through the path of the the Ape run planet. There's a bunch of that run this planet? Do you want to go there? It's weird. There's a lot of pretty stuff and then the murder rapes and then they're like, uh, they're rating it on alien yelp, and they're like, I didn't see a single murder. Yeah. I think we'll go back, though, because the gift shop is dope three out of five stars. Uh went into the Do you know this place is mostly water? They didn't say that in the brochure. We have water at home, so zip around between the water and I mean it might be since there, you know, I mean, what's the deal with being able to dip into the ocean and then come back out at the same rate? Like, that's just bananas. It is really crazy unless it's some sort of Yes, Matt, I was literally doing the thing where he takes his finger and points it right at his temple to indicate an idea. I've been playing way too many science fiction video games lately and consuming way too much of this stuff. I'm imagining this guy's what if there is a they're independent or independently um evolved civilizations, they get far advanced, right, that could potentially make it sho thing Like well, then you know, there was a technologically advanced civilization here before and then it all went away. Yeah, Disney documentary film Atlantis. And also there's that weird computer thing that they don't know how they did back then. That's yeah. But but okay, so that that occurs right in various places throughout our galaxy, and when they get to us, this is really just the game mass effect. But once they get to a sufficient level, of my good friends, but when they get to a certain level, they are there's like a federation of some sort where everybody kind of agrees if we're going to, you know, make use of technology at this level, we're gonna cooperate or you know, face consequences. The way of NATO currently is in our in this planet, in this reality, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Yes, so these things that we're observing that we can't understand, that we can see are like the c i A of these various species and civilizations coming down and doing a little like rerecon and wet work and like little things that they have to do. And so they can't outwardly, uh, interact with us and change the course of history. And I bet somebody got fired for that much. They made the news for that one. Yeah, they just get into people's butts, mess with some cattle, and then they're out. Do you think we're getting like the Gomer Piles, That's what I'm saying. I don't know we're getting the A List. Yeah. Yeah, but there's like a Herbert Hoover up there, you know, scoring mercilessly in people's faces. I would like that because it would make this understandable to me. The biggest, the biggest missing pieces the why, right, And you'll see people say that it's to prevent nuclear war or something like that, and there's we'll get into it. There was that one thing where maybe they disabled a nuclear power plant or something that that's the idea. That's the baby, and I've found some interesting stuff about it. But other than that, you know, I would love it if it turned out there were some intergalactic or interdimensional bumblers who were like, uh, you know, they crashed Land and instead of saying take me to your leader, they're like, hey, we got a hot out real quick Space Invaders. It was a small, very dumb, minor nineties creature type movie. It was a comedy about these stoner aliens that crash Land on Earth and then just drink a bunch of beer and like, look at boobs and stuff. I saw in the theaters. I distinctly remembers seeing it, and I was the only one in the theater. Sounds like something that's probably on Amazon props. You gotta look spaced with an E. D. Judy Dench, Cap Blanchet. They're all unrecognizable as the leaden. They shot it on the Excalibur set in a spare weekend. Oh man, I want it all, I know, give me all of it. But here's here. I have a theory that uh mankind is that Earth is a prison planet, much like Australia, where we are the worst of the worst from some planet they just got. They dumped people you know whoever here because they're like, we gotta get rid of that. They thought, yeah, these are terrible, terrible whatever we are, so put them on that little, nice little planet that'll be able to lift SETI Alpha five City Alpha six. Do you see sit the seats. That's a little wrath of con And we think, you know, there's all this like you know, purple mountains, majesty and all this stuff. But compared to like the other planet, is this is all garbage because we don't know where the cognitive leap came from. We don't know. We're all the you know, how did we make this leap from little forest creature to this weird hairless ape. We are now what if? And these are maybe just some guards like, hey, we should good check on that prison planet. See what's going on. Oh my god, they figured out nukes. They're not as dumb as we thought, but yet dumber we thought, yeah yeah, or like oh yeah, that's going exactly as we plan. That could also be it. They just have to come by and go like, oh yeah, they're on track. They'll destroy each other in another four years. Guys, don't sweat. That's brilliant because we we really wouldn't be able to hurt anything else outside of the you know, very short range of our place, and that they might start showing up again now because we are starting to come up with plans to colonize other planets. No no, no, no, no no no, you're not allowed to get off. That one that put you on space exploration is huge. It gives us a lot of new science for people on Earth as well, Like it is a net benefit. But maybe we should fit I don't know. It's also a very human idea of imprisonment, right like, but we did it with Australia, and we do it with buildings, you know, like just lock them they are So who's to say we're not some inter intergalactic criminal species, or at the very least in time out to think about what we've done. I think we thought about it a lot, and we just keep doing it, just kept doing or even thinking about it since the ancient Greeks. Yes, lucky, we're we're a viral life form that was discovered and they isolated us here to keep us under observation. Or it's a simulation and we're all I love that because I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what if we're a simulation, or if we're all being run, if I'm just an avatar for some whatever. Because when you sit there and think you're like, well, who is it, that's thinking, Yeah, uh my dude's pretty awesome guy. He puts me in trouble sometime, but he always gets me out of it. I like, I like my controller. That's awesome. I got no problems with that one. And we are going to haul it a day for our avatars for your avatars A like fellow conspiracy realists, think us always so much for tuning in, Lucky, thank you for coming back, sirs any time. Honestly, we haven't done an in person episode. We've done ridiculous history together at the time, but I don't think the three of us have done this since the pandemic. We're in that we're in that panel moment why but we aren't, like by far the least drunk people there, and we were pretty drunk well, so I can neither confirm nor deny. But if you check out our book, you'll also learn the etymology of the statement. Confirmed or deny always be closing. Check out check out Lucky's comic Lucky Yates. Where can people learn more about you and your work? I hear your hear you're tweeting. I'm back on the twitters. You can look at me there and the instagrams. In the instagram Let's see what I look like when I'm smoking weed. Most a lot of pictures of that is that at Lucky Yates. At Lucky Yates, I'm not hiding from anybody. Have a Twitch channel which I toy with doing something with and do you game or do you use it more for the animal crossing, but I wouldn't. I could never get idea that up. Oh really, it's like I have to go every day and you know, dig up some fossils. What I'm saying, it's you. I don't want to start. I can't tell it. Just w no, no, I will go on for an hour about animal crossing. So you were wrapping it up, like wrapping up. That's that's where can people visit your island? Is that a thing? Bong Rip Bay? Alright, my guy butt munch of bong Rip Bay. You know you're My flag is a smoking pong. It's the best lester of the gods. Remember that six year old larp Nerd finds out he's the son of Odin? And is there a new season of Archer on the way or were in the middle of recording it? So I have no idea when it airs season thirteen probably the fall. I'm going to assume the falls, and I think were going to be the last season or is that? And that's always people that people. I mean, ever since we finished the you know, we had a three year contract and then they we've just gone back to like yearly renewals since then, and so everybody Jessica Walter died, right, and so everybody just sort of assumed, well, that's going to be it. But I mean where the show is still Riotus is sleep funny as as long as you and you all enjoy doing I just love putting it on. You kind of do a voice on the show. It's sort of really yeah, it's just exactly but like I love how h John Benjamin just never has to not be h John Benjaman no matter what characters playing. And he's got the starring cartoon rolls. He's got that. Yeah, what's the home movies? Yeah, yeah, but it's him with like a a stuffed up nose. Does he do a different voice coaches? Yeah, he does. One of the kids just stuffed it's just John with stuffed up what he's that guy? What are the what are the weird voices? You can do? Folks, let us know one eight three three st d w y t K. Just all you have to do is let us know if we can use your name and or message and air you can also find us on the internet. Yeah, it's true. I was just gonna yeah, yeah, Like I remember the aff I mentioned Facebook group. Here's where it gets crazy where you can also dog bile on on that guy if you wish. I'm just kidding, you can if you want. It's up to you. Who are we to say? Um And I would like to remind people to just tweet bomb my heart media and tell them demand more Lucky Aids. Yeah, the Lucky Yates call in show, the Lucky Aids Calling podcast show. O come, I want to see that in the world. You can also find a live stream Twitter as well, where we are at Conspiracy Stuff, which is what we're also at on Facebook and YouTube and on Instagram. We are at Conspiracy Stuff Show. If you wish, you can find us as individual human people. I am on Instagram exclusively at how Now Noel Brown, Benjamin Bowling about you. You can see some upcoming research. 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