Lost Xplorers

178 - Frozen Vikings Off Route 66

Over the next few days, there will be a new episode of Lost Xplorers dropping daily! A Christmas miracle! JDO got a bit behind on the uploading during finals season at school, and it is time to catch up so our official Christmas episode drops around Christmas.

It’s officially Christmas season! Cheddar biscuits. Ultimate endless shrimp. Mcnugget boxes. Gas prices. On-the-street, at-the-drive-thru-menu level economics.

The Undaunted. High lonesome cowboys wrapped in bandages into S&M. The hungry closet. Knowing vs. doing.

JDO rapping Ice Spice in front of a huge audience. Practicing performance instead of memorization. Turning your eyelids inside out.

DREAM STUDIES BREAKTHROUGH!

Daydreaming vs. night dreaming. Dream determines depth, but does not distinguish between character and setting. Liminal spaces vs. the crossroads.

Memories vs. memories of dreams. The inventory of waking life experiences that appear in dreams. Dream mandala. Watching your actions like a cat.

History as proscriptive. Families sharing their dreams. The Fremont Street Circus. Naked nuns. Giant bears and giant salmon.

JDO spins a yarn about Kris as a young child going over to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving. The friend’s mother presents a blue, cold turkey.

177 - Time Has Died

Kris and JDO record a Tascam episode! Walking and thinking. The Accelerants. Atomic age cartoon characters. Milestones vs. mileblurbs.

What has happened to the holiday season reindeer? Undercover teacher.

The Long Kiss Goodnight. JDO recounts his most recent move into an apartment. Mental illness invariably involves time distortion. Personal alignment vs. societal expectations. Blackout time. Stretched-out time. The schizophrenic is touched by God.

Physically representing how old the dinosaurs are. Charles Knight’s dino illustrations. Are dinosaurs fake? 

As above so below. Depth as a category. Time running backwards. What does it mean to declare someone The Greatest of All Time? Sharing reference points. Mr. O. The conveyor belt of consumerism running backwards.

How do people who live through their ecosystems perceive our conception of time? The attempted murder of the eternal soul. Stewardship.

A fantasy world of non-physicality. What has happened to public parks? Between the Memory Palace and the Swamp…A GARDEN.

Turning people into mermaids. Alertness and attention.

Apologies for a few moments of startling distortion in this episode. The next episode, we are back to Zoom and it sounds crisp and fresh.

176 - The Border Wants the Country

On this episode, we begin with a bullet-pointed takedown of Neil Degrasse Tyson. Then we talk scientism as an unstable foundation to build knowledge. Philosophy of science. All sciences are not created equal. The price tag of academic credentials.

Bergson’s Principle of Proving a Negative. Shutting down interesting ideas. Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The God of Evidence.

A band made of biofeedback. Human beings as stewards of reality. The miniaturization of knowledge. Hologram vs. jpeg. The bombardment of facts from a complete idiot. Science that isn’t about proving anything.

Religion as the outsourcing of validation. Kris invents a completely knew paradigm of education. This might be one of his best ideas of all time. The education of the hands. Realistic responses to AI.

South Korea, El Paso, and Taos. Borders always exist, a quantum state that wants the friction of two countries. Constructing sentences out of emojis. Our dependency on language.

It's impossible to run over a pigeon. Becoming monster hunters of dream.

175 - Teacher Talk (w/ Lisa Sezate)

On this episode of the podcast, we invite our second guest (the first being Ellen) onto the show to discuss education. Lisa Sezate is a lifelong educator working in elementary schools, and she brings a unique look into that side of education.

Kris teaches college, David teaches high school, and Lisa teaches elementary. Between the three of them, they have a wide ranging conversation about the definition of insanity, how to get kids' attention, cell phone policies, and how to explain to students when a career path might not be for them.

Great episode. Thanks to Lisa!

174 - Ceramic Monster Crisis

"Courage borne out of Curiosity"

 

New segments and lowered sumo standards. Unexamined cultural phrases. Engaging with the unknown throughout the day. Giving credence to memory. Dedicated reading rooms and responsible education. Growing up on algorithm curated feeds. Ancient character divides (Ambush vs. Surprise). A self-fulfilling mass psychosis in the form of a band that's more of an urban legend. Being the masks on the wall. The extension of interiority. Grave site obsessions. Following the orthodoxies of belief. Minority Consensus. Outsourced Beliefs vs. Integrated Religions / Profane barriers vs. Sacred Engagement. Distributable Ignorance and the shifting vectors of Progress. Irreducible emblem act-outs. Manuscripts of flesh vs. empty algorithms. Humanizing the internet (logistical organisms). The distorted mirror of our creations. "Let go" moments. Triangulating Crisis Points. Crisistianity. Drinking libraries and isolated omniscience. Being vicarized in the "Vicarious Age''. Fire in the sink solutions. Emergent archetypal heroes for Now. James Dean's preserved cool and modern cautionary tales. Fine art lawn chairs and magic scrapbooks. Stepping outside of your own language. The different humors of nap dreams. Triangulating dream-tones. Finally, we wrap up with some kitchen sink psychoanalysis.

 

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the synopsis!

173 - The Missing Empire

A little grumpy luminosity at the dermatologist. Some Lake Mead diving magic. Nominal Strangers and the Agents of Synchronicity. The Doppelzüngig. The sanctity of Good Shelter. Making sense with mondegreens and celebrating ghost stories. A billionaire manufactures thought contagion music with "Spanky Hanky". Seeding culture; paving paths. Crotch Level Wisdom (Romance & Lust). Famous Ghosts and Transparent Presence. Mutating villages in contaminated civilizations. Hideos cliches in the Impotent Empire. The ancestral / animistic voice within the monkey impulse. God as Anthill. Reconceiving where you come from. 

 

Conversational speculation or speculative conversation? In Real-Time Travel. Ancient mollusks of flowing possibility. Leveraging the "Spearthrower" and the leaping spirit-mind-rhythm. Taking "The Wheel" for granted. Rediscovering your Origin Magic within the Living Duality. Bergson's idea of "negation" and the space between the notes (foreground & background). Cow Sense Field Test. Inference & Imagination as the dark heart of humanity. Inference as the universal test of intelligence. The Depth of Ignorance vs. The Structure of Knowledge. Reclaiming negation. 

 

Then David gives us a fluid filled vore comedy with hints of Godzilla meets American Pie for the film "Big Girl Panties." Persecuting randomness and keeping records on yourself. Spending more time investigating. Making monkey bread. Being a generous spirit. David closes out with a tornado twisted metal traffic dream that becomes a thriller-revenge adventure.

 

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the summary!

172 - Counterintuitive Line Maps

On today's episode we're getting attention while gaining traction and forming a humble rapport between audiences in a dead age. Having 3500 years of material to sift through. Absorbing news tangentially. Nostalgic lyric-memory messages. Maintaining a harmonic congruence with reality. Being hyped on ambient anxiety. The perverse side of heroism. Surfing waves of momentum. The Raw (sacred) vs. The Cooked (profane). Oblique phrases from the Deep and one of Kris' darkest band contributions yet.

 

The Line as the ultimate human invention. The sequencing of Thought & Time. Spiral strategies and expanding shamanically. The importance of making multidimensional map-ceremonies. The Dark Swamp Hero. Map = Guide. The validation of rapport. The Counterintuitive. The denial of distance through engagement. Breaking the time signatures. The silence of melody; the surprise of harmony. The Human Scaffolding vs. The Jellyfish Grid. Intuition vs. Instinct. Proto Hippie Islands. The metaphysics of being in the wrong body. Entering The Illogic. The disavowed sides of history. Extended Dream-Existence. Bowling in Maya. The Profound Vacuum. Resonating with personal algorithms. Chasing Atoms. 

 

On to being skeptical towards presumed assumptions of certainty. Rediscovering fundamentals through amateur eyes. Rerouting the curious ghost hunter. We have a brief corn chip intermission. Then the dark prolapse ballad of "Slippery Chicken". Rubber room storytelling. Moving across time frames into time maps. Packaged Dimensionality vs. Kaleidoscopic Vacuums. Approximation vs. Proximity. Maple Syrup Bootleggers and Nonlinear Dingo Symbols.

171 - Memory as Hallucination

From Kris's notes:

I wonder if an analogy for what lies between the private consciousness-structuring agencies we’ve presented as the Memory Palace and the Swamp (the wilderness of All the Things Someone Doesn’t Know) can be found in the Tent Cities and Homeless Camps we see today in almost every American metropolis?

-Memory as species of Hallucination. I don’t see how this position can be entirely dismissed or circumvented.

-Rethinking Heizer’s CITY as an Inverse Memory Palace??

-Begin Xplore of the Counterintuitive…the bizarre, murky notions of Instinct, Intuition, and the perhaps oxymoronic notion of Human Nature.

170 - Elephants in Every Room

Getting in tandem with psychomagnetic rapports and poignant quietudes. A bit of Freudian-Quaalude lounge music with the band HypnoLiquid Motion. Tonal give-aways. Cleopatra Denial Syndrome vs. Resonant Harems. The admission of denial and denial as admission. Being the steward of your inverted Memory Palace. Being in charge of your psychic constructs and heralding your unknown terrain. Balancing Integration and Insinuation. The Allegory of the Theremin. Unmediated Sound Generation and the influence of the Hidden Hand. The impact and influence of our movements and our presence. The adversarial universe hunting of language, and the venn diagram of  yourself and the universe being one. 

 

Then it's onto embodied rooms and cohabitating the atmosphere. In borne constructs. The Grand Metaphysic operating in the background. Allowing a few trees into the Memory Palace and a bench in the Swamp. Touring each other's private architecture and murky inner landscapes. Untapped fluids of permeability. The malcontent of the Unmelded. The camo-ambush membrane. Allowing the 3rd Man to teach rapid fire riddles to the class. Then, David gives us a gender bending exploitation flick that takes place in Normandy during WWII called, "Motherhouse".

 

Hide and Seek as a mode of practice, self-mastery, and navigation. The value of a grumbling belly. Facing some hard work and some creative procrastination. David's inhuman ability to not feel hunger. Memory gaps of the inescapable substrata and the fantasy of controlling time. Flushing out the repressive. The Blue Begonia Diner. Prophetic nail wounds under black caps. Wrangling trauma, and the Wendigo curse of Norman, Oklahoma.

169 - Outer Mingling

This week, a review of the terrain the Lost Xplorers have crossed and the expedition ahead. Exploring the multiple angles of motifs. Hunting butterflies in strange lands. The decompositions of The Machine Elves. Taper erections. The Unspatialized vs. The Intangible. The prism of masculinity and the hidden melancholy behind behinds. The Alienated Experts. The inescapable reflection of the human shadow. Revisiting the human habitation of the oscillation between The Edge and The Heart. Being more integrated with what we know and what is known, and the variations of beetles. 

 

From there, conceptualizing individuals as civilizations and the distance between the individual and the alien. The trembling foundations of education. Methods of being congruent with culture through rites of passage. Becoming the system, inverting ego. Thinking Civilizationally vs. Socially (conspiring with civilization). Rules being rules until they're not. Motifs, memory, and personal coding. Generative Archetypal Memory Manifestation. Biochemical soul connections within the mind and the well within. Art as a function of the etheric. More glimpses into the Hidden Algorithm. 

 

Then it's on to the transparency of pornographic emblems. Being out of range for symbols. The Fixed vs. The Flow. Oblique Agility. Private mass communications vs. Public Intuitions. Discovering ourselves through each other with Reverse Platonism. David sabotages elite floating fortress bunkers with "Operation Middle Man". A sacrificial world renewal ritual. Making music without money. Optical illusions as meditation points. Conscious Bookmarking. Revisiting yourself semantically. Finally, Kris dreams of protecting his spiritual dingo familiar and the guys pitch a new venture into dream interpretation.