DLG393 Comedian Matt Ruby + Dr. Lisa get high together on air.

DLG232_PART ONE RFB Calvin WIlliams, host of Lush Vibes Radio is coming through the difficult circumstances of his last few years

PLEASE NOTE: This is PART ONE of a very intense two part session with Calvin Williams. This session with Calvin Williams, host of RFB's Lush Vibes Radio [https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/lush-vibes-radio/] is timely inspiration for all of us, because as a society, we are all dealing with health issues right now. About 5 years ago, Calvin had to deal with losing 3 close relatives in succession and how soon after that he was diagnosed with Type 1, Juvenile Diabetes which is rare for someone in their thirties. Calvin takes us through how he went through the hard years and how, just recently, he's starting to recognize himself again.

DLG232_PART TWO of a very intense session with Calvin Williams. We talk about his life following his diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes in his 30's.

PLEASE NOTE: This is PART TWO of a very intense two part session with Calvin Williams. This session with Calvin Williams, host of RFB's Lush Vibes Radio [https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/lush-vibes-radio/] is timely inspiration for all of us, because as a society, we are all dealing with health issues right now. About 5 years ago, Calvin had to deal with losing 3 close relatives in succession and how soon after that he was diagnosed with Type 1, Juvenile Diabetes which is rare for someone in their thirties. Calvin takes us through how he went through the hard years and how, just recently, he's starting to recognize himself again.

DLG393 Comedian Matt Ruby + Dr. Lisa get high together on air.

I'm a big Matt Ruby [https://www.mattrubycomedy.com/] fan and this is his third time on the show! I have to say—this was pretty funny—comedian Matt and I got high together and went some places I don't think we would have gotten to—for one thing—I said the way he described his dad was hot. I also check in with him about what Claude AI said when I asked:"What would be good advice to comedian matt ruby from a therapist?" We talk about a lot of stuff. Matt describes his parents—a free-spirited woman from Manhattan and his dad, a lawyer, a prosecutor. They were introduced by his grandma and fell in love right away, His father loved comedy which was obv a huge influence on Matt. We also go down a rabbit hole about the ego and the way ego can affect one's own creativity. There's so much in here—and SO MUCH laughing! Sponsored by KOAN pocket elixers. [https://koan.life/] More about Matt Ruby: Website: mattrubycomedy [https://www.mattrubycomedy.com/] Instagram: @mattrubycomedy [https://www.instagram.com/mattrubycomedy] Rubesletter [https://www.mattrubycomedy.com/#email-list\] Latest Special: Bolo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPEA5bfMKU] BIO: Matt Ruby is a comedian from New York City. His smart and dark brand of standup is "button-pushing" [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/arts/television/dave-chappelle-button-pushing-comedy.html] and "funny" [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/arts/television/hannibal-buress-youtube-special.html] according to the NY Times. His comedy has been filmed by Comedy Central, MTV, NBC/Seeso, and FOX. His newsletters (The Rubesletter [https://mattruby.substack.com/] and Funny How [https://funnyhow.substack.com/]) have over 17,000 subscribers combined. He also hosts the podcast Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby [http://kindofalot.com/]. His latest standup special is BOLO [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPEA5bfMKU]. Standupworld on [https://standupworld.com/standupworld-87-matt-ruby/] BOLO: “Matt’s a New York comedy beast. He’s sharp, dark, and funny. BOLO is his awesome special on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPEA5bfMKU] and it’s something truly worth checking out. It’s Matt at his best: raw, real, and ripping into life’s absurdities with a signature edge the New York Times called ‘button-pushing’ and ‘funny.’ His style’s a mix of cerebral gut-punches and pitch-black humor. We’re diving deep into how he crafted this one, what it’s like to sling jokes in today’s world, and why he’s one of the smartest voices in standup right now.” Previously: In his comedy doc/special Substance [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ak5CQSVVvI], he performs 4 sets on 4 nights (1 high, 1 drunk, 1 sober, and 1 on shrooms). His previous special, Feels Like Matt Ruby [https://youtu.be/Q0VAIjE35LA] is available on YouTube. His comedy albums (including Feels Like Matt Ruby [https://800pgr.lnk.to/RubyTW] and Hot Flashes [https://800pgr.lnk.to/MattRubyWE],) are in regular rotation on Sirius and went top 10 on the iTunes Comedy charts. He's also been featured on CNN, The Huffington Post, New York magazine, Time Out, and more.  He's a regular at the legendary Comedy Cellar and co-produces Hot Soup [https://www.comedycellar.com/line-up/] there (Tuesdays), one of NYC’s longest running independently produced comedy shows, and Good Eggs [https://www.mattrubycomedy.com/Here%20is%20the%20link%20with%20the%20code%20RAW%20applied%20for%20free%20tickets:%20https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/calendar/coupons/be4578fd41640f772db3fac4d7f5ad05bea8811e%20%20Here%20is%20the%20link%20with%20the%20code%20SCRAMBLED%20applied%20for%20$5%20tickets:%20https://newyorkcomedyclub.com/calendar/coupons/f26dfa501b44efedb6748c8bc5d2f807f9b85482] (Mondays and Wednesdays) at NY Comedy Club. He tours around the country and internationally too. Misguided Meditation is his one-man show about mindfulness, psychedelics, therapy, and death.

DLG392 Artist/Filmmaker Laura Parnes talks about her own adolescence.

Laura Parnes [https://www.lauraparnes.com/] is an extremely accomplished filmmaker and artist . (Scroll down for bio—impressive!!) One of the themes in Laura Parnes's work is female adolescence. Here's a quote from an interview with her in ⁠FEMEXFILM Archive⁠ [https://sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/femexfilmarchive/filmmaker-index/laura-parnes]: "A really big focus of the work is the romantic vision of a teen peering in on a culture that they haven’t personally participated in and how this holds potential for criticality. But, it’s really tempered by a desire to gain status, power, and agency. " Bearing that in mind, I wanted to find out about Laura's own upbringing and teen years and how that has influenced her work. It turns out there were about two years in Laura's life that were filled with older friends and drugs. After that she chose to put her energy into art, got accepted to Tyler Art School and the rest is history. Art history to be specific. Laura's work has been clearly ahead of it's time as well as an influence on the period we are living in today. Gen Z has picked up on one of her films from 2017, No Is Yes, [https://vimeo.com/80128793] depicting two teen girls with a crush on a rockstar they kill accidentally and then mutilate. Clips of it have gone viral on Tik Tok. Please check out her work, if you're not familiar, on her website [https://www.lauraparnes.com/]and Vimeo. [https://vimeo.com/user4599759] BIO:     Laura Parnes’ critically acclaimed films and installations fuse comedy with pathos to probe social and political trauma. Informed by traditions and genres in narrative film, video art and queer theater, her work blurs the lines between conventions of storytelling and experimentation. The performers in her projects are often part of a diverse community of artists and musicians, many of whom are responsible for the rich underground scene in NYC, and who have shaped and affected other mainstream art cultures. Laura Parnes has screened and exhibited her work widely in the US and internationally, including: The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; The Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece., LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain; Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY; Kusthalle Winterhur, Switzerland; Overgaden- Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN; Cinematexas, Austin, TX; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Whitney Museum of American Art (1997 Whitney Biennial), NY; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; PSI Contemporary Art Center MoMA, NY; Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, FL; and Brooklyn Museum, NY. Her solo exhibitions include Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Human Resources, LA, CA; Fitzroy Gallery, NYC, NY; LAXArt, LA, CA; Alma Enterprises, London, UK; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA; Participant Inc, NYC, NY and Deitch Projects, NYC, NY. She has had solo screenings at The MoMA, NYC, NY; The Kitchen, NYC, NY; MoMA PS1, LIC, NY; NYCATE 10-year Anniversary, presented by the School of Art Institute of Chicago and Video Data Bank, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Vtape, Toronto, Canada; and in a two-person screening at The MoMA, NYC, NY. She was presented by Participant Inc. in a two-person exhibition at No Soul for Sale at X Initiative, NYC, NY.      Parnes is a 2021 MacDowell Fellow [https://www.macdowell.org/artists/laura-parnes], a 2019 Yaddo Artist in Residence, a 2019 Wave Farm Media Arts Awardee, a 2016 Creative Capital Awardee [https://creative-capital.org/artists/laura-parnes/], a 2014 NYFA recipient, a 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow [http://www.gf.org/dev.gf.org/fellows/laura-parnes/] and has lectured as a visiting artist at numerous institutions including Harvard University, Columbia University and UCLA. She has participated in panels at Yale University, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and MoMA PS1.

DLG349 Comedian Matt Ruby comes on to discuss his substack: "Incessantly calling men toxic is a bad way to get their votes."

Comedian Matt Ruby and I agree there is a lot Non—Trump voters missed (myself included) about how society views a large group of men. It's not simple, especially since we are all in our info silos. Matt put out a great substack opinion piece [https://mattruby.substack.com/p/incessantly-calling-men-toxic-is] on this topic. Even discussing this shit nowadays is risky, but necessary for all of us to understand these issues. I was inspired to listen to this Joe Rogan episode [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4aijqcFwUkKWxlX090C41h]after our chat and it was further illuminating. We MUST UNDERSTAND the other people! Btw: Did you also know that Matt Ruby is an AWESOME COMEDIAN?? HERE'S PROOF [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPEA5bfMKU] More Matt Here: https://www.mattrubycomedy.com/ @mattrubycomedy/ The substack we discussed here: https://mattruby.substack.com/p/incessantly-calling-men-toxic-is INCESSANTLY CALLING MEN TOXIC IS A BAD WAY TO GET THEIR VOTES HOW TO WIN 'EM OVER: LESS DUNKING, MORE PERSUADING. It’s my fault. As ambassador of the elites, I take full responsibility for this defeat.First off, let’s admit it: He’s the greatest con man ever. The first time around, people might not have understood what was happening. This time, everybody knew — and they went for it anyway. When you get the marks to volunteer for the duping, you’ve achieved true con mastery. Am I mad? Nah. Frustrated, but this is just who we are. It’s the same way I feel about the rise in antisemitism. We act like something new is happening, but really we just moved the rock and are now seeing what was underneath all along. I’d rather stare it in the face than pretend it’s not there. This is who we are. (Also, let’s be real: I’m a white dude who lives in NYC so I’ll probably be insulated from the worst of it.) Plus, I kinda saw it coming… mattrubycomedy [https://instagram.com/mattrubycomedy] #mattruby #mattrubycomedian A post shared by @mattrubycomedy [https://instagram.com/mattrubycomedy] “Butts in seats” is the comedy version of elections. It’s our way of saying, “Scoreboard!” The lesson we’ve learned: You can go on Colbert 15 times and it won’t have the impact of one Rogan appearance. Especially if you wanna reach dudes. Ezra Klein explained this in the NYT: She should’ve gone on Rogan, and much else besides…But Rogan is symbolic of something bigger. There is an alienation that’s grown between young men and much of the Democratic Party. For years, there’s been no real way of talking about masculinity in liberal circles that didn’t attach the word “toxic” before it. There’s been a reveling in growing female strength and a deep critique of male culture. You can have any view you want on the merits of that, but it’s had consequences. The Republicans are the roast and the Democrats are the HR department. And America wants cruel jokes more than a DEI seminar. If any/all of this annoys you, I return to this question: Do you want to win next time or nah? Because what I’m really getting at… It’s time to realize that incessantly calling men toxic is a bad way to get their votes. The truth is men are suffering and retreating right now. Richard Reeves has been discussing this at length. Here's a taste. [https://www.theringer.com/2024/10/11/24267283/united-states-young-men-women-political-divide-richard-reeves] I worry that we’re not signaling strongly enough to young men now we need you. We in very different spaces. We the families, we the mothers, we the labor market, we the community. Not just we need people, but we need you. And absent that sense of we need you, I think we see a lot of young men retreating. #mattruby #comedy #comedian