Speaker 1: It was remember that. I, Oh, yeah, who doesn't. I
Speaker 1: guess maybe people don't. Well, first off, I remember the
Speaker 1: movie as I do not remember the movie Purple People
Speaker 1: Leader movie obviously based on the song real cheesy. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't remember very well. But it was some fifties
Speaker 1: beach town, I think, and this one alien showed up
Speaker 1: and he had a one eye, one horn, and he
Speaker 1: was purple, and he like started a whole dance craze
Speaker 1: in the town. I think I don't remember it very well. Look,
Speaker 1: it's been many years. I have forgotten so many things
Speaker 1: since I've ever seen this movie. It's amazing that I
Speaker 1: remember it exists. But I remember the image of that
Speaker 1: Purple People Leader. To me, the song is related to
Speaker 1: itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow pikini. So I'm like, there
Speaker 1: must have been a tape. There was cassette tape of
Speaker 1: like kids tunes or something. Forget it was that. It
Speaker 1: was tee boca pikini. It was on top of spaghetti.
Speaker 1: It was time me kangaroo down. Oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: that one, or I didn't make attention to the B sides. Possible, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all those old kids comedy songs, for sure. Purple people
Speaker 1: leader was on that, Well, here we are with some
Speaker 1: purple people finally, and the only people getting eaten are
Speaker 1: they're eating each other. They're eating each other. So people
Speaker 1: they're are they're eating purple people, I guess, and they're
Speaker 1: purple people eaters, which brings me to say, this episode
Speaker 1: not about cannibals. No, it's about sex and a lot
Speaker 1: of it. So heads up, hand down. But I'm excited
Speaker 1: to get to this one. This story is very very ridiculous,
Speaker 1: very wild. Yeah, kind of in line with our Oneida
Speaker 1: episode about people trying to figure out how to the
Speaker 1: best sex and the best life that they can possibly
Speaker 1: have together somehow with a lot of rules. Isn't that
Speaker 1: what we're all kind trying to do? It's very true,
Speaker 1: and so you can see why so many people through
Speaker 1: history have applied themselves very passionately to this this question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this pursuit of perfection. This topic was suggested by Sean
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Thank you, Sean, this was a great suggestion.
Speaker 1: It was nineteen sixty six and Victor Baranco was lost.
Speaker 1: He was a self made millionaire. He had a wife,
Speaker 1: he was crazy about it, had kids, everything he was
Speaker 1: supposed to want, but he still felt empty, and one
Speaker 1: day he decided to deliberately examine his life, thinking, if
Speaker 1: there are questions, then there are answers logical. If I
Speaker 1: think about it long enough, I'll solve this problem. And
Speaker 1: in a flash he realized everything was perfect. He was perfect,
Speaker 1: the universe was perfect, and he was responsible for everything
Speaker 1: that happened to him. That flash of perfection, as Victor
Speaker 1: called it, became the center of his More philosophy, and
Speaker 1: in night, he and his wife Susie established the More
Speaker 1: House Commune and Lifestyle in Lafayette, California, teaching courses on sensuality, orgasm,
Speaker 1: and more. So let's take a deeper look at the
Speaker 1: longest running, most successful free love Commune, still an operation today,
Speaker 1: as deep as you want it, baby, Oh no, let's go.
Speaker 1: Hey their French come listen. Well, Eli and Diana got
Speaker 1: some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking a romantic tips,
Speaker 1: It's just about ridiculous relationships. A lover might be any
Speaker 1: type of person at all, and abstract consent a concrete wall.
Speaker 1: But if there's a story, were the Second Glance Show,
Speaker 1: Ridiculous Rolevance the production of I Heart Radio. So Victor
Speaker 1: was born to a black father and a Jewish mother
Speaker 1: in Oakland, California. Yeah, and by the time he was
Speaker 1: a teenager, he's a pretty big hustler type of guy.
Speaker 1: In a n Rolling Stone article called Sergeant Bill co
Speaker 1: Meets the New Culture by Robin Green, he talks about
Speaker 1: how he met Susie, his wife, when he was twenty four.
Speaker 1: She was only eighteen. She was the daughter of a
Speaker 1: wealthy doctor, and her dad did not approve of Victor. Now,
Speaker 1: Victor had a lot of money, but he got it
Speaker 1: in shady ways. For example, he created a bunch of
Speaker 1: fake companies, put them in his seven year old son's name,
Speaker 1: and then bankrupted there. His son was liable for those bankruptcies,
Speaker 1: but as Victor said, quote, hey, in seven years, he'll
Speaker 1: only be fourteen, So I guess no harm, no foul
Speaker 1: to his credit order whatever. He also bragged about pushing
Speaker 1: phony watches and jewelry on people, quote like I would
Speaker 1: pretend to be a truck driver with an overload of goods.
Speaker 1: Or I had an engagement ring said, and my girl
Speaker 1: decided to marry somebody else, and I'd be crying the
Speaker 1: blues and a bar After the time when the jewelry
Speaker 1: stores were closed of course. Alright, alright, alright, so he's trying.
Speaker 1: And he also had a jewelry store himself where they
Speaker 1: would sell fake engagement rings to sailors. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: it was such an incredible hustle. We guarantee the thing
Speaker 1: was genuine. But what it was was a chip, a
Speaker 1: ten point chip in a sparkle setting, and it looked big.
Speaker 1: It was worth maybe eight dollars. I made a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but Susie's father was right. I was a bum,
Speaker 1: So I decided to go straight. Poor sailors. Haven't they
Speaker 1: been through enough? Okay? Well, and what's even sadders? He
Speaker 1: would even be like, some of these sailors had never
Speaker 1: even seen the ocean before they became sailors. So they
Speaker 1: were really small town people and they just had no idea.
Speaker 1: You know, He's like, I see the you know, the
Speaker 1: green on you kind of So Victor and Susie married
Speaker 1: in the year nineteen fifty nine, and Victor started managing
Speaker 1: a drive in movie theater. Big business for sure, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't making enough money, so he used some mafia
Speaker 1: connections to become a bookie, and he would fly people
Speaker 1: out to Vegas to gamble at some point. He also
Speaker 1: took part in a c I A sponsored LSD experiment
Speaker 1: legit MK ultraship. I guess I'm guessing he's one of
Speaker 1: the volunteers and not some of the people that were
Speaker 1: forced to take LSD. Hey man, free doses. I'm ready,
Speaker 1: sign me up, let's document this. Well, what's so funny
Speaker 1: about those experiments is that they were trying. You know,
Speaker 1: the government's like, we don't want people to have LSD.
Speaker 1: But because they did these experiments, all these guys would
Speaker 1: go volunteer and of course get a bunch of LSD
Speaker 1: and then pass it around their community. So the government,
Speaker 1: in trying to keep it from people, then gave it
Speaker 1: to the people. Come on, guys, you really really biff
Speaker 1: that one. Well. Then Victor decided to become a washing
Speaker 1: machine salesman, but he got angry at his manager for
Speaker 1: taking too big of a commission, and Victor laughs in
Speaker 1: an interview about shaking that manager so hard that he
Speaker 1: wet his pants. Shake of a violent streak. Perhaps he's like,
Speaker 1: I'll shake you harder than the washing machine. But finally
Speaker 1: Victor hit on his treasure trove real estate. He would
Speaker 1: buy a cheap rundown house and he would live in
Speaker 1: it while he fixed it up and then try and
Speaker 1: sell it for a profit. It's very I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it's a scheme, right, I mean, you're just
Speaker 1: like the scheme is just a plan. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: fair enough. It's got such a negative connotation. Somebody said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm running the scheme, I'd say, oh, no, you're right.
Speaker 1: But one of the major projects of the early nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties for Victor and Susie was trying to improve their
Speaker 1: sex life because Susie was quote frigid according to one
Speaker 1: more House convert Marco Bennetto. So they went to several
Speaker 1: doctors and psychiatrists. They also went to like free love
Speaker 1: type places to try and figure this out, figure out
Speaker 1: her frigidity, which we can only assume that's the only
Speaker 1: word we got, but we can just assume that they
Speaker 1: probably mean she wasn't sexually act like passionate. It wasn't
Speaker 1: something that was Yeah, maybe she had like a low
Speaker 1: libido or trouble orgasm e. It wasn't very interested, you know,
Speaker 1: had a like a mental block, right right, But it
Speaker 1: seems like she was maybe interested in improving that because
Speaker 1: they went to all these places, including the Sexual Freedom
Speaker 1: League in Berkeley, California in the early sixties, and of
Speaker 1: course the hippie mecca of hate, Ashbury. They all ended
Speaker 1: up there at least one. I think it's where's that
Speaker 1: Nian God hate Ashbury. They hate and hate Ashbury, hate Ashbury.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was like Greenland and Iceland love Ashbury. Yeah, hate,
Speaker 1: so the only hateful people. That's not working. Man, Let's
Speaker 1: hang on, let's rethink this scheme. I think we smoked
Speaker 1: too much weed about that when by nineteen sixty six
Speaker 1: Victor felt like he had tried everything but was still
Speaker 1: missing something. I tried everything. I got LSD from the government,
Speaker 1: I flipped the house, I got involved with the mafia.
Speaker 1: The world is cold to me now. But on the
Speaker 1: Lafayette Morehouse website, he's quoted as saying, quote, I went
Speaker 1: through all the schemes, you know, all the systems. I
Speaker 1: played with Zen Buddhism. I did psychology to the hilt,
Speaker 1: I did religion. I did making money, I did playing football,
Speaker 1: and I did being a social butterfly. I did all
Speaker 1: the things that are supposed to get you right. And
Speaker 1: after doing them all and having what society said should
Speaker 1: make you happy, which was like a good reputation in
Speaker 1: the business I was in making money, having a family
Speaker 1: that was socially acceptable in every aspect of what socially
Speaker 1: acceptable is. I didn't find it that much fun. I
Speaker 1: don't like live in in the system, man. Yeah, Man,
Speaker 1: I'd like to opt out, right, which fair enough, honestly,
Speaker 1: many of us liked opt out of this system. So
Speaker 1: one day, Susie's out of town for the weekend and
Speaker 1: he says that he laid himself down on the living
Speaker 1: room rug to try to figure this whole thing out.
Speaker 1: And they never mentioned this, but I'm pretty sure drugs
Speaker 1: are involved. Look, if it's the sixties and you laid
Speaker 1: down on a living room rug, you didn't do it sober.
Speaker 1: You had some chemicals sometime at some point. Maybe not chemicals, man,
Speaker 1: this ship is natural natural. Well, this LSD came straight
Speaker 1: from the plant, man, the plant that the government runs. Um.
Speaker 1: He figured, you know what, if I got a question,
Speaker 1: then there must be an answer, right, And all I
Speaker 1: have to do is think through it until I find
Speaker 1: an answer that seems true. And then I keep testing
Speaker 1: the answer and it keeps holding true. That's got to
Speaker 1: be it, right. I like it but I'm challenging it
Speaker 1: because I have questions to which there are no answers.
Speaker 1: Now after well, you're not on LSD, that might fair.
Speaker 1: Maybe try it on the next episode. I'll be on LSD.
Speaker 1: Oh what a time. I'm very like I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to that now. After a while of laying on the
Speaker 1: rug trip and balls, probably he found his answer, what
Speaker 1: he called his flash to perfection, that he was perfect
Speaker 1: and the world was perfect just as it was, but
Speaker 1: they're also was always room for more. Marco Beneto explains
Speaker 1: it as something of a precursor to the law of
Speaker 1: attraction from The Secret If you're remembering that, the idea
Speaker 1: was that we all can attract exactly what we want.
Speaker 1: So just put out into the universe what you want
Speaker 1: in this world and it will come to you, just
Speaker 1: because of the law of attraction. And that's all you need. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you make like a vision board and any day
Speaker 1: now you'll get it, right, Yeah, I mean, well, I
Speaker 1: we'll get too into it. But it's the very privileged
Speaker 1: mindset to be. You know, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: starving people in the world who might have a vision board,
Speaker 1: and I ain't gonna help it's full of noodles and
Speaker 1: there's no noodles. Yes, absolutely, so they're definitely yeah, not
Speaker 1: my favorite law. There's there's some power to positive thinking,
Speaker 1: but I think you have to have a base level
Speaker 1: of some sort of privilege or you know, to be
Speaker 1: in a setting where those things are afforded to you,
Speaker 1: you know, right. Yeah. But more House is a little
Speaker 1: more expansive in their definition because they don't think humans
Speaker 1: do or even should, only attract good things. Um Victor
Speaker 1: believed that quote, human beings want to experience the full
Speaker 1: range of human emotions, and that includes bad things too.
Speaker 1: All Right, we unconsciously attract good and bad experiences that
Speaker 1: can contribute to our growth and development. If everything is
Speaker 1: always good, how do you really grow? Right? How do
Speaker 1: you know everything is good if nothing's bad? Right? Marco
Speaker 1: Benetto wrote, quote, it's about taking on responsibility for the
Speaker 1: results that you generate. I personally can't or won't believe
Speaker 1: that these ideas are true in a universal way. Shit happens,
Speaker 1: cancer cells find a home, racism and genocide exist, and
Speaker 1: so on. But in the interpersonal realm, I think it
Speaker 1: is true. I believe that all my relationships happened for
Speaker 1: a reason, and maybe we're even engineered by spirit. If
Speaker 1: this is superstition, so be it. I don't mind holding
Speaker 1: superstitions that make me happier, more effective, and more loving. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that sort of addresses that a little bit. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. It's sort of what Marco is saying
Speaker 1: is like, there are starving people and they could think
Speaker 1: about food all day long. That doesn't going to make
Speaker 1: the food appear. There's there's bigger things happening in this
Speaker 1: world than just you and your personal little little things
Speaker 1: that you want. But in your personal world you certainly
Speaker 1: have more control than maybe you believe. Okay, So starting
Speaker 1: with the idea that you're already perfect and that there's
Speaker 1: room for improvement is the foundation of the Moorhouse philosophy.
Speaker 1: I get on board with half that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: already perfect, right, So now your reactions, your fears, your judgments,
Speaker 1: all of those are perfect just as they are that,
Speaker 1: which means you can relax. Man, you know, worry about
Speaker 1: all that. Your fears part of the whole cycle. Man,
Speaker 1: emphasis mine, Um, But you know what it's saying is
Speaker 1: that if you're perfect, you're not defensive. You know, you're
Speaker 1: more receptive to hearing what can be worked on, and
Speaker 1: that opens you up to more possibilities because you're not
Speaker 1: sitting in judgment of yourself. Right, And they say things like,
Speaker 1: you've never made a mistake in your life because everything
Speaker 1: you've done has made you you are and therefore and
Speaker 1: you're perfect and therefore so everything you've done is fine
Speaker 1: and good and you couldn't be better. Right. So with
Speaker 1: this idea, Victor decided to create the more philosophy and
Speaker 1: that's m O r E. And that philosophy is that
Speaker 1: quote fun is the goal, love is the way. Now,
Speaker 1: he wanted to prove that people could live in a
Speaker 1: group setting without doing anything you don't want to do, right,
Speaker 1: you could serve the world unselfishly and you could profit
Speaker 1: from it, which is what they call quote responsible hedonism.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm thinking a lot about Collette because she
Speaker 1: was a hedonist, you know, and a lot of thought
Speaker 1: of her circle. Where hedonists it's all about just pursuing
Speaker 1: fun things and everything's great but in there, but they
Speaker 1: also ignored a lot of things, whereas these guys are like,
Speaker 1: you need to involve yourself a little more in the
Speaker 1: world around. Can you help people you know. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Victor himself, he just didn't have the look.
Speaker 1: He kind of looked a little square man, you know,
Speaker 1: so he couldn't be out there starting a hedonistic love commune.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a narc total businessman looking due
Speaker 1: short hair, oh my god, get it. But fortunately he
Speaker 1: was friends with Bobby Kerr through the Sexual Freedom League.
Speaker 1: Bobby was a long haired hippie kid who was going
Speaker 1: to be perfect for bringing in recruits. According to that
Speaker 1: Sergeant Bill co Rolling Stone article, Victor offered to give
Speaker 1: Bobby anything he wanted if he would just come with
Speaker 1: him to help him establish this commune. So Bobby, here's this.
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, man, and I wanted ten dollars
Speaker 1: sports car, and guess what he got it love attraction. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Bobby told Rolling Stone quote, I didn't trust him at first.
Speaker 1: He didn't think there was anything bad about controlling people.
Speaker 1: And he told me the money was nothing but dirty
Speaker 1: green paper and not a cause for bad and he
Speaker 1: was enjoying himself. His idea was to con people into
Speaker 1: enjoying themselves too. It made sense to me. I got hooked.
Speaker 1: What's funny is that by the time he's saying that quote.
Speaker 1: He um, he himself had become the square. He had
Speaker 1: become the businessman of the group kind of, and he
Speaker 1: was in charge of a lot of real estate transactions
Speaker 1: and stuff. So he kind of became what he didn't
Speaker 1: want to become. I suppose all those hippies did my parents. Well,
Speaker 1: there's still a few of them hanging out here doing
Speaker 1: the good, doing the good work. Speaking of good work,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and hear about some good
Speaker 1: work being done by these corporate sponsors. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show, everybody now. Victor and Susie started the first
Speaker 1: more House in Oakland. I think it's a little hard
Speaker 1: to suss out, but in nineteen sixty eight they acquired
Speaker 1: the seventeen acre plot of land in Lafayette, California, where
Speaker 1: they restored this big gass house. And this is not
Speaker 1: the only more House in existence. There are still operating
Speaker 1: houses in Boston, Hawaii, and here in Atlanta, actually right
Speaker 1: here in INMND Park. But more House, none of it.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with the historically black college and
Speaker 1: university more House, which got it start as a Baptist
Speaker 1: college and would probably not appreciate the association do you
Speaker 1: think they constantly have to be like, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: not that, I don't think so, it's probably the other
Speaker 1: way around. More than likely, somebody stumbles into the More
Speaker 1: House on Waverley Way and they're like, wait on, manute.
Speaker 1: Somebody's like some high schoolers like I just applied to
Speaker 1: More House, and then we have the strangest questions. They
Speaker 1: asked me how much I'm masturbated. This is the only
Speaker 1: college where they ask for a dick measurement on the
Speaker 1: application that I've seen so far. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna head back to them and Yale, but that's for
Speaker 1: the skull and bones now. The Lafayette More House House
Speaker 1: is the most well known because that's where they established
Speaker 1: the More University. Will get to that, and the house
Speaker 1: has painted a bright electric purple. To get around the
Speaker 1: expansive acreage, residents drive purple golf cards, and if they
Speaker 1: ever want to go anywhere as a group, they use
Speaker 1: limos that they restore on the property. In nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: they showed up en masks to see The Godfather in
Speaker 1: sixteen purple Cadillac limousine. Quote. We really caused quite a
Speaker 1: stir One member told Robin Green in her nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: two Rolling Stone follow up article Beyond Shazam, and can
Speaker 1: I one day create that? Stir Can I have sixteen
Speaker 1: purple Cadillac limousines take me to a movie. Uh? It
Speaker 1: sounds like you've got to start a sex cult to
Speaker 1: do that, which I had long encouraged. I think the
Speaker 1: Fringe Festival is about two steps away. No, look, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying a nudge in either direction and you might
Speaker 1: get there. I'll bring it to the board. Yeah. Today,
Speaker 1: the Lafayette more House campus is over twenty three acres
Speaker 1: and it has a swimming pool, a boxing ring, to
Speaker 1: tennis courts, a cocktail lounge, a television studio, and a nightclub.
Speaker 1: It's like a baller location right in a big purple house.
Speaker 1: Big eggplant purple. Yeah, very bright purple. Well, eggplants pretty dark.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, No, I'm just thinking about the dick emoji.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason I'm associating it. Well, okay, So
Speaker 1: this purple apparently serves two purposes. One is that simply
Speaker 1: it's Susie Baranco's favorite color. So Victor was like, this
Speaker 1: is my lady. She loves purple. For putting it up
Speaker 1: on the house. She gets what she wants. It's your
Speaker 1: favorite color too, I do love. I were to start
Speaker 1: a sex cult, I'd have a real problem competing with
Speaker 1: these guys because I'd be like, well, my wife's favorite
Speaker 1: colors purple too, So what do I do. That's true,
Speaker 1: I'll have to find a new favorite color, I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't think we should let them push us around
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's time for us. I think
Speaker 1: we'll give purpose. Someone else has a tern with purple.
Speaker 1: I had when when we went on All State Chorus trip,
Speaker 1: right yeah. In in middle school, there was this whole thing,
Speaker 1: you know, boys and girls couldn't be in the same
Speaker 1: room together, all that stuff. So the way they set
Speaker 1: that rule was they said no purple. And I was like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are they talking about. And one of
Speaker 1: the other students, one of my classmates, explained to me,
Speaker 1: She's like, because boys are blue and girls are pink,
Speaker 1: so like blue and red is purple, so you can't mix.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's the dumbest explanation I've ever
Speaker 1: just And I'll tell you what. No purple was a
Speaker 1: solid catch phrase for a few years for its sheer stupidity.
Speaker 1: That's very dumb, extremely dumb thing. Well, we would use it,
Speaker 1: you know, in the future anytime, you know, mocking those
Speaker 1: kinds of rules. And then we would also use it
Speaker 1: for any time an obnoxiously stupid rule was set up.
Speaker 1: Would be like, oh, it's a no purple rule. Well
Speaker 1: that's useful because then you can immediately be like, I
Speaker 1: don't even even know what it is. It's dumb and
Speaker 1: I'm not paying attention to hard fast on that one. Alright,
Speaker 1: So big purple house. Susie loved purple. And the other
Speaker 1: reason that they used purple so much was because it
Speaker 1: helps people understand that they're entering a unique space when
Speaker 1: they come onto the campus. Because obviously you see this
Speaker 1: big bright purple house, purple limousines, purple cards. You know
Speaker 1: you're not in a normal setting. They're like, suspend your
Speaker 1: everyday ship, all right, we're in a purple place. And
Speaker 1: like the Wonka factory, Yes, it's exactly. Let go of
Speaker 1: everything you thought you do. Houses can be purple. Who um.
Speaker 1: They also have a sign up on campus to tell
Speaker 1: you where you are at all times, and that sign
Speaker 1: simply says here. And they also have a clock that
Speaker 1: tells you what time it is, and it simply says now.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's the most hippie ship I've heard.
Speaker 1: I have to say. The clock is legit twelve, you
Speaker 1: know number clock, but all the numbers just say now now.
Speaker 1: So I guess you can still technically, if it works,
Speaker 1: you can technically read the time. But it's still just
Speaker 1: as now everywhere. I've got an important doctor's appointment at
Speaker 1: three fifteen. What time is it? It's now? Man, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll go. I might be late or early,
Speaker 1: who knows. I'm supposed to have an interview, uh in
Speaker 1: the in the C building. Can you tell me where
Speaker 1: I am right now? Yeah? Man, you're here. This is
Speaker 1: where I'm like, hippie stuff so funny because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I see what you're doing is you're supposed to be present.
Speaker 1: So you're here and now, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: If you just show me thin about the past, you
Speaker 1: show me think about the future. This is where you are,
Speaker 1: this is what you're doing. All that's fine. It's not
Speaker 1: very practical, however, when you need to like pay bills
Speaker 1: because it be somewhere, because it does wetter well, because
Speaker 1: of all this predilection for purple, More House residents are
Speaker 1: sometimes called the purple people. They don't like it, but
Speaker 1: they are called purple to you about it. They pushed back.
Speaker 1: They're the ones who painted everything purpose I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: The house is often referred to as the Purple Palace,
Speaker 1: although some journalists in the seventies preferred to call it
Speaker 1: fuck you get it, get it. And that's because one
Speaker 1: of the major focuses of more House is just like
Speaker 1: Victor and SUSY's initial marriage project, improve your sex life.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind that at the time that the Moorhouse
Speaker 1: folks are starting this commune with all of its sexual
Speaker 1: fulfillment focus, it was considered indecent to use the word
Speaker 1: vagina in a published article. I'm sorry, I should have.
Speaker 1: We should have given a warning front. So even though
Speaker 1: this was like the free love era and everything, like,
Speaker 1: society at large was still kind of prudish when it
Speaker 1: came to talking about sex and the language they used.
Speaker 1: I will say that in like two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: I got super piste because some lady drove by a
Speaker 1: theater who that was showing the Vagina Monologue, and she
Speaker 1: wrote an entire letter about how they should change it
Speaker 1: to the who haa monologue because her little six year
Speaker 1: old said, Mommy, what's a vagina? And I was like,
Speaker 1: your six year old has one? So I don't understand
Speaker 1: why who ha is better? But you're not still asking, right,
Speaker 1: I was like, you're dumb. No purple rule, I guess
Speaker 1: just to say we haven't got much better about vaginas.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I would have. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you did this, but I would have immediately gone
Speaker 1: home and written the who ha monologues. I did not,
Speaker 1: but I should, and they'd probably be way filthier than
Speaker 1: the vagina monologue ever wanted to be. Send us your
Speaker 1: who monologues? Oh my, no video? Please? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we can all get in trouble with it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: all right. So they have a hard time talking about sex,
Speaker 1: but Victor felt that in order to have really good sex,
Speaker 1: you have to have conversations. Just true, very true, still today,
Speaker 1: still today, still hasn't changed yet. One day, well, we
Speaker 1: can stop having all these conversations about sex, I start
Speaker 1: talking about it. But he also felt that you had
Speaker 1: to be intentionally present to the sensations of sex instead
Speaker 1: of just being in your head about it. So like,
Speaker 1: say you're having sex with somebody and instead of thinking
Speaker 1: about how good it's making you feel, or how close
Speaker 1: you are to the person you're doing it with, and
Speaker 1: all that, you're thinking about maybe things you don't like
Speaker 1: about your body, or you're worried that the other person
Speaker 1: isn't having a good time or whatever. The victor that
Speaker 1: made you what he called a lazy comer comer come
Speaker 1: right because he felt like you're not you're not engaging
Speaker 1: all your senses in what you're doing. You're distracted, you're elsewhere,
Speaker 1: You're you're doing too many things at once. Right again,
Speaker 1: you're here and now that's all you're doing. Right, which
Speaker 1: when you're having sex. Yeah, I don't care where I
Speaker 1: am or what time it is. That's a great time
Speaker 1: to say what time is it? It's now, keep at it.
Speaker 1: You know why you ask me what time it is
Speaker 1: while we're having sex? Down, I feel incredibly offended. We
Speaker 1: have to have a conversation about this man real clockwatcher.
Speaker 1: But Linda Gray, who's another more House trainee, described all
Speaker 1: this as sort of what Victor was saying. She said, quote,
Speaker 1: most of our obstacles to orgasmic intensity center on our
Speaker 1: limiting preconceived notions about sex, and we carry these thoughts
Speaker 1: into bed. The training involves getting to know our physical
Speaker 1: bodies as instruments capable of exquisite music, instruments that we
Speaker 1: can play alone or with a partner at any time
Speaker 1: of our choosing technique is far outweighed by our ability
Speaker 1: to pay attention, our ability to focus on a particular
Speaker 1: stroke in a particular moment, and to approve of what's happening.
Speaker 1: And that's important. I do think that's really interesting to
Speaker 1: think about, like applying your mind very much to what
Speaker 1: you're doing, because I think a lot of sex talk
Speaker 1: is about how orgasm or feeling good before an orgasm,
Speaker 1: to the build up to climax or something is very
Speaker 1: like it cloud your brain and you know you kind
Speaker 1: of stop thinking altogether. Um, but they're feeling is that's
Speaker 1: not true? If you if you engage your brain, it'll
Speaker 1: be like ten times better for you then if you
Speaker 1: disengage your And I think that can be true, especially
Speaker 1: if you you are thinking I like this, I approve
Speaker 1: of this, I'm into it. Like that must be helpful, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say too at the end there
Speaker 1: she says, to approve of what's happening. That's that's your
Speaker 1: consent right right exactly you're talking about you should be
Speaker 1: conscious of what's going on, and you should say like this,
Speaker 1: this works, not that, Yeah, but I I approve of
Speaker 1: that works. Goodness, HERD approval, HERD approval on that. And
Speaker 1: what it presupposes is that you know what you approve
Speaker 1: of and what you like. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't know, Like they're not willing to experiment necessarily,
Speaker 1: either alone or with a partner, about what they like.
Speaker 1: And so it's like, Okay, you're supposed to figure that
Speaker 1: out and then you can tell people and then you
Speaker 1: have a great time together and who loses, you know,
Speaker 1: which I think is true definitely. So they taught courses
Speaker 1: on how to achieve this orgasmic potential, and interestingly, they
Speaker 1: feel like intercourse, like penis and vagina a sex is
Speaker 1: quote a haphazard proposition. They're like, sometimes it goes great,
Speaker 1: but not always. That's one of the more clumsy ways
Speaker 1: to have sex. I suppose it's a hit and miss way,
Speaker 1: all right. To them, mutual masturbation is the most effective
Speaker 1: way for everyone to have the best possible time together.
Speaker 1: Because with mutual masturbation, each person is fully focused on
Speaker 1: one person's enjoyment. Right, So if if you and I
Speaker 1: are having sex and you're masturbating me, you and I
Speaker 1: are both fully focused on me. My brain is engaged
Speaker 1: on how much I'm enjoying and creating it, and you're
Speaker 1: engaged on me as well, and then we vice versa.
Speaker 1: Whereas if we're having intercourse, we're both concentrating on either
Speaker 1: ourselves or the other person rather than putting all our
Speaker 1: focus on our own pleasure or your own pleasure. So
Speaker 1: they're like one orgasm at a time so that it
Speaker 1: gets so so like you get the full focus and
Speaker 1: then I get the full focus. If we're both trying
Speaker 1: to happen at the same time, there's too much distinct.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say one orgasm at a time because
Speaker 1: they want continual especially, but like exactly one person at
Speaker 1: a time, Yeah, to take turns kind of vibe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: one person at a time. You know, one person has
Speaker 1: ten orgasms, the other person as one, and you know
Speaker 1: we call it even and we call it even. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, they call it doing another person when
Speaker 1: you masturbate them. They're doing you. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: I just some way that makes more sense than what
Speaker 1: we you know, casually refer to as doing someone. It's true,
Speaker 1: you're you're really doing something right there. It makes sense.
Speaker 1: The course is about to have the perfect do so
Speaker 1: I'll do you super well, I guess, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to use this do dad. I wonder if they do
Speaker 1: employ toys. I think it's mostly about fingers, but they
Speaker 1: probably do. Do they do? Do they do? Do what
Speaker 1: they do? Do do your duty? Just don't douty, don't
Speaker 1: do while we are doing the do unless you approve.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're throwing a lot onto them at this.
Speaker 1: I don't into is brought up on their website whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I think what we need to do do right now
Speaker 1: is go to a commercial break because what's the poop
Speaker 1: jokes hit? They don't stop better, we need to stop.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, stick around and we're back. So
Speaker 1: in the class of basic sensuality, women and men are
Speaker 1: given plaster penises and vaginas to practice their techniques on.
Speaker 1: I wonder if today it's more like dildos, like you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: regular sex toys. Um, but They also are given homework,
Speaker 1: which is to go home on a bath, koda, do
Speaker 1: not disturb, sign on the door, and masterate. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: I have always been very anti homework. I know you
Speaker 1: hate it. I've only got a few waking hours at
Speaker 1: home in between school and bed uh and I and
Speaker 1: I you know, you know I benefited from doing well
Speaker 1: on tests and stuff without anyway. Point I'm making is
Speaker 1: this would have drastically changed my opinion on homework. You
Speaker 1: would have done this homework homework you just didn't even
Speaker 1: know you were a little well makes sense. I think
Speaker 1: the point is to figure out what you like, right,
Speaker 1: so you know you approve. Now, Apparently some women, including
Speaker 1: Susie Baranko, we're able to get to a point where
Speaker 1: they could come immediately at the first touch and just
Speaker 1: keep coming for hours in intense of that kind of time.
Speaker 1: If you do it's now. Man, if you devote all
Speaker 1: your life to it, then you got all the time,
Speaker 1: just like God. These people have never you know, they
Speaker 1: never watched ted Lasso. They don't time, They probably don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now would you rather come for three hours or watch
Speaker 1: ted Lasso? Can I watch two hours of ted Lasso?
Speaker 1: Had come for one hour, because sometimes out an episode
Speaker 1: of ted Lassoed end being choice I mean, Hannah, well,
Speaker 1: for real, my god, and listen to this. In ninety six,
Speaker 1: Victor Baranco actually put on the first public demonstration of
Speaker 1: this of the three hour Organs of the three hour Orgasm.
Speaker 1: This was at the Lafayette More House. A woman named
Speaker 1: Diana was in the proverbial hot scene, and since it
Speaker 1: was meant to be an educational experience, Victor put her
Speaker 1: on a gynecological table, so she had like her feet
Speaker 1: up in stirrups, not very sexy, and he wore latex
Speaker 1: gloves as he stimulated her. Apparently, um so again, it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be more of a medical you know vibes,
Speaker 1: so we're supposed to get a porno feeling out of this.
Speaker 1: Well for something that is a porno feeling, we're very true.
Speaker 1: And for three hours people watch Diana have orgasm after orgasm.
Speaker 1: They would only pause for brief cigarette breaks before getting
Speaker 1: right back to it. And I say, you know, you're
Speaker 1: in the sixties. In the seventies, there stop for cigarettes.
Speaker 1: He also had her recite nursery rhymes the whole time,
Speaker 1: and if she trailed off, he would stop until she
Speaker 1: picked it back up again. So she'd be like, get lost,
Speaker 1: you know, because she's orgasming for hours. Right, She'd be like,
Speaker 1: I'd get kind of like sucked into what was happening
Speaker 1: to me, and he would stop, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mary had a little or whatever. Little Jack Horner sat
Speaker 1: in his corner eating his Christmas high Hi. Hi, back
Speaker 1: to the story. Oh sorry, sorry, um weird. So it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like having a nursery rhyme power, you know,
Speaker 1: fucking machine or something, I guess. And the point of
Speaker 1: this was apparently to demonstrate that your brain and your
Speaker 1: memory and your motor functions and everything are all completely
Speaker 1: functional during an orgasm, and they can be used to
Speaker 1: intensify your pleasure. So again, instead of acting like a
Speaker 1: good orgasm is so consuming that like your brain disappears,
Speaker 1: you know, and you stop thinking and you stop feeling conscious,
Speaker 1: They're they're saying that your orgasms are better when your
Speaker 1: brain is engaged. As Linda Gray put it, quote, your
Speaker 1: brain is on your side, which is a nice thing
Speaker 1: to say. Not always true, depends on right. My brain
Speaker 1: has been on someone else's side at various times, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll challenge that because I just this week saw a
Speaker 1: headline pop up. I did a quick google here um
Speaker 1: and just from Medical Daily, they said there was a
Speaker 1: study that during an orgasm, the lateral orbitofrontal cortex, the
Speaker 1: brain reach behind the left eye, shuts down. During an orgasm,
Speaker 1: this region is considered to be the voice of reason
Speaker 1: and controls behavior, it says. The brain of both a
Speaker 1: man and woman is said to look much like the
Speaker 1: brain of a person taking heroin during an orgasm, according
Speaker 1: to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: then you'll see this won't be the first time you'll
Speaker 1: see some specious medical advice. This guy who laid down
Speaker 1: on a rug and thought about it for a while
Speaker 1: didn't come up with sounds scientific results. Okay, Now, you
Speaker 1: might be wondering why this woman, Diana did this public
Speaker 1: demonstration and not Victor's wife Susie, who apparently had been
Speaker 1: the main demonstrator for a number of years. But that's
Speaker 1: because in nineteen seventy six, Victor and Susie got divorced,
Speaker 1: and Susie had continued to live at Lafayette morehow but
Speaker 1: it seems like she wasn't really trying to have a
Speaker 1: sexual relationship with Victor anymore. Yeah, I don't know how.
Speaker 1: There's no information about how they grew apart, what exactly
Speaker 1: came between them, or if they just kind of felt
Speaker 1: like we got to the point where it's over now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like there's nowhere further for us to
Speaker 1: go together or what. So they had divorced, but meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Diana was in love with Victor, so she was fully
Speaker 1: ready to be a part of this. She had even
Speaker 1: gotten a friend of hers, Cindy Goin's, and her husband Anthony,
Speaker 1: to join more House. In nineteen four, Cindy apparently started
Speaker 1: taking courses because she had a yeast infection that wouldn't
Speaker 1: go away, and quote Vic thought, if your crotch was broken,
Speaker 1: there was a reason it wanted more attention paid to it,
Speaker 1: which again is the kind of medical advice you'd get
Speaker 1: from someone who decided to take smells d and lay
Speaker 1: down and think about it. Yeah, I don't know about
Speaker 1: that one. Do not try that to rid yourself the
Speaker 1: yeast ship. He basically like more orgasms for this yeast infection.
Speaker 1: So I really feel like it's counter into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she said it works She's like, I took no medicine.
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of orgasms. The yeast infection went away.
Speaker 1: But I feel like that ship clears up on its
Speaker 1: own if you let it hang out for a long time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that much about yeast infections,
Speaker 1: but maybe it works, but I ain't gonna try it
Speaker 1: when I get one, like a medicated cream, please and
Speaker 1: thank you. So. Cindy and her husband became residents of
Speaker 1: the Lafayette Morehouse, and when Vic was forty two, he
Speaker 1: had what he called a thunderbolt experience, and he fell
Speaker 1: madly in love with Cindy. He said, quote all the sudden,
Speaker 1: everything I was doing meant something. I never thought the
Speaker 1: party was going to slowly again. Nothing was dull anymore
Speaker 1: because I had this magnificent obsession. What it did was
Speaker 1: put me into my life. Somehow I used her as
Speaker 1: an excuse to pay even more attention to my own life.
Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is without giving up being interesting,
Speaker 1: if you will direct your attention towards being interested, you
Speaker 1: might stumble across your own magnificent obsession. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a tall blond, I added, isn't there
Speaker 1: because Cindy and I kind of agree with that. Actually,
Speaker 1: when when I read that, I was like, he sounds
Speaker 1: crazy a bit. But I've always thought that if you
Speaker 1: want to be an interesting person, your first task is
Speaker 1: to be interested. You have to be curious, right, because
Speaker 1: you can't get interesting if you're not interested in what's
Speaker 1: going on around you. Was I wrong that ted Lasso
Speaker 1: is a big part of this, and now be curious,
Speaker 1: not judgmental. Absolutely, So the two of them got married
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine, and Vic then had an artificial
Speaker 1: lake constructed in the shape of a heart as a
Speaker 1: tribute to Cindy. I just find that romantic that if
Speaker 1: you go to Lafayette morehow everything's purple for Susie, there's
Speaker 1: this lake for Cindy, Like you know, there's just all
Speaker 1: these little touches of Vick's true love for these these women.
Speaker 1: I think his his his real love for them was
Speaker 1: very real, for sure. So I just find that kind
Speaker 1: of cute. Okay, But back to the orgasm stuff. Who Now,
Speaker 1: they did not stop at these public demonstrations, all right,
Speaker 1: They started handing out degrees about this. Now. At first
Speaker 1: they called it the Institute of Human abilities, which kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like a professor X type of school or something.
Speaker 1: And they taught courses on basic and advanced sensuality, basic hexing,
Speaker 1: group living, basic and Advanced communication, jealousy, relationships, and something
Speaker 1: called man woman a conversation about gender. Okay, can I
Speaker 1: jump back real quick and say that I would totally
Speaker 1: ask some people to take a group living course because
Speaker 1: I have group lived a few times in my life,
Speaker 1: and we all could have used a course of course
Speaker 1: would have been And I'll tell you basic hexing is
Speaker 1: not like a wizard thing. It's like a wizard thing. No.
Speaker 1: For them. Hexing to them is basically like uh, saying
Speaker 1: mean things to you, essentially, but they're true. So it's
Speaker 1: like being bluntly honest with you about things, or with
Speaker 1: anyone about things that need that are true about you
Speaker 1: or things that need to change whatever. And so you
Speaker 1: kind of bring people down that way. It's sort of
Speaker 1: a manipulation tactic um, and then you bring them back
Speaker 1: up with blessing and you tell them nice things and
Speaker 1: you make them feel good about themselves. And so this
Speaker 1: is like the perfection thing where they tell you how
Speaker 1: perfect you are and then they tell you what you
Speaker 1: need to change. You're great. I love you, You're perfect.
Speaker 1: No change. Hey, welcome to class today. You've got a
Speaker 1: stupid face. Nobody likes you. Your voice is kind of annoying,
Speaker 1: your eyes are too far apart, and I don't like
Speaker 1: the way you smell and the way you say the
Speaker 1: letter S is just a little irritating at all times.
Speaker 1: But you make great brownies. Uh, everybody loves your elbows.
Speaker 1: And um, don't forget that one time that you, you know,
Speaker 1: pulled me away from the be getting hit by that
Speaker 1: moving car. You know, I mean, I think, so okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, Can you just tell me the second part? No,
Speaker 1: because then you won't change and improve a kid? Fix
Speaker 1: my stupid face. What's funny is there? Like? Listen um?
Speaker 1: Basic hex sing is like everyone uses hex sing. You
Speaker 1: and I do it every day, even if you don't
Speaker 1: take a course on it. We all hecks, we all
Speaker 1: bless right. And they said, we used to call it
Speaker 1: the Blessing course and nobody took it. Now that's a
Speaker 1: hex that's what they say. That's quote from our little video. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that's a hex. He wants to learn how to be
Speaker 1: nice to someone, but everybody wants to learn how I know,
Speaker 1: how to be how to heck someone, which again I
Speaker 1: kind of get. Um. Oh, they also have a course
Speaker 1: called quote Mutual Pleasurable Stimulation of the Human Nervous System Intensive,
Speaker 1: which is better known as the sixty nine course, and
Speaker 1: I think they should just call it that because I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what that means. Ritual pleasurable
Speaker 1: stimulation of the human nervous system. Oh, you're talking about
Speaker 1: the old sixty nine. I think everybody could use a
Speaker 1: course in that, because it's not something you can just
Speaker 1: naturally do. I think there's some acrobat acrobatics involves. Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, all these classes cost money, and so did
Speaker 1: living in the moor House. You paid to live there,
Speaker 1: and upon completing these courses you could start your own
Speaker 1: more House, which basically meant that Victor created a franchise
Speaker 1: of communes that Robin Green called quote so effective and
Speaker 1: profitable that people in Berkeley referred to Baranco as the
Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders of the commune scene. Yeah, yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: I got eleven herbs and spices for you. Basically, excuse me.
Speaker 1: I should also mention that you can start your own
Speaker 1: more house. But more House the collective. The bigger organization
Speaker 1: would purchase the property, so you never got to own
Speaker 1: the property. They all that money went to the larger organization.
Speaker 1: Just just throwing that in there. Before you start your
Speaker 1: own more House franchise, be aware, don't get excited. This
Speaker 1: is where many of the controversies about Lafayette more House
Speaker 1: are based, and they essentially started with Robin Green's nine
Speaker 1: seventy one Sergeant Bill co article and her follow up
Speaker 1: Beyond Shazam, both of which spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: discussing the money that the courses cost. Usually each course
Speaker 1: was about forty of dollars at the cheapest, which today,
Speaker 1: let me pull up the currency converter is about three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty dollars. And you would take like a
Speaker 1: three hour class where a teacher would demonstrate the best
Speaker 1: positions for masturbating and then assign you homework to go
Speaker 1: home and masturbate. So to Robin, it was like a
Speaker 1: real scheme. Yeah. Basically, like she's like you're kind of
Speaker 1: getting ripped off to be like told to Everyone knows
Speaker 1: how to masturbate, you know, Like she's kind of like
Speaker 1: sneering at it, and I don't need to pay anyone
Speaker 1: to tell me to go home and masturbate. I'm doing
Speaker 1: it well. So originally we were going to do this,
Speaker 1: you know, as a one part episode, but there's just
Speaker 1: so much more to talk about here because all those
Speaker 1: controversies that we were just referring to, there's so much
Speaker 1: there there is, and they barely scratched the surface. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean, we got to talk about some of the
Speaker 1: trouble that this place has gotten into. Uh maybe some
Speaker 1: potential cover ups about some nefarious possibly happenings, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's it's, you know, everything we've heard so far
Speaker 1: it sounds kind of nice. I mean mostly there's just
Speaker 1: a couple of things where I'm like, you know, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, it's I mean it is very
Speaker 1: peace and love and now and right, you know, just
Speaker 1: have better sex. What could be problem? What could be
Speaker 1: the problem with that? I mean, this guy went from
Speaker 1: conning sailors for their eight dollar diamond rings having three
Speaker 1: hour orgasms for his wife, you know. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's quite a journey, right, And that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: Like so many like sex cult type stories, it's about
Speaker 1: a guy and he gets a lot of young women.
Speaker 1: You know to have sex with him, and that's why
Speaker 1: it's really gross and exploitative. And this cult is definitely
Speaker 1: a guy, very charismatic leader, but it's all about your pleasure.
Speaker 1: It's not really about his pleasure. And I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: getting laid plenty, but you know, it seems like such
Speaker 1: a different focus um that it's like, well, that's kind
Speaker 1: of a nice change his exchange rates because he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you three hours, three hours of orgasms,
Speaker 1: now my turn, please, I'd like my ten minutes, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Well, who knows. They might have had
Speaker 1: some tan trick techniques for gentlemen as well. It's just
Speaker 1: not quite the focus of their website. It's mostly about
Speaker 1: women or using for an hour, but maybe the men
Speaker 1: also orgasm for an hour and they just don't, you know,
Speaker 1: finish until the very end, but they can feel like
Speaker 1: they're having an orgasm for a long time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's possible. I don't know. All things are
Speaker 1: possible through drugs. There was a lot of them. That
Speaker 1: was some of the Robin Green articles she mentioned talking
Speaker 1: to people who had dropped a little acid before a
Speaker 1: basic sensuality class like that, so that was the only
Speaker 1: time that anyone ever admitted that, Like, there's some drugs
Speaker 1: going on in this process, but I think you can
Speaker 1: infer some of the ways they talk having a real
Speaker 1: good time. I don't know what L s D does
Speaker 1: dear sex experience. I mean, I've never sund it myself.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Terrifying, like because if it goes the
Speaker 1: wrong way, it's like suddenly I'm having sex with Satan.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like a giant cockroach. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: that's the good thing about it. Like you drop a
Speaker 1: little acid and I see you as you really are man,
Speaker 1: and your cockroach. Well, I'm not fucking no cockroach. Like,
Speaker 1: but like sometimes I look in your r is so
Speaker 1: beautiful man and knows the right choice, and there's a
Speaker 1: little cockroach going. I knew someone would see for myself.
Speaker 1: I'm a nice I've been having an existential crisis. I
Speaker 1: just woke up like this. I just talk, Oh my gods,
Speaker 1: like a transformer situation, like a fly situation. I was thinking, Kafka,
Speaker 1: that was yeah the fly. Wait, that was was a cockroach?
Speaker 1: Oh I thought it was a fly. Okay, it's a cockroach, Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: well then I knew I gotta. I'm very well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very upsetting book. You don't need to go
Speaker 1: into Russian literature. We're having an orgasm high right now.
Speaker 1: Russian literature. Oh yeah, I know. It's a bummer to
Speaker 1: split this in the two up. I feel like season
Speaker 1: finale a ted Lasso, Everyone's just gonna be like, what
Speaker 1: happens next? Now? What? It's so weird. We got on
Speaker 1: this like our sexy episode got on this. I don't know,
Speaker 1: although I did like how Keeley when she was still
Speaker 1: dating Jamie Tart, she was like down boy, you know,
Speaker 1: it was like okay, Like damn, that's pretty hot. For
Speaker 1: as wholesome as ted Lasso is. It's a sexy show.
Speaker 1: It is, they say, they curse. It's set in England,
Speaker 1: so much more chill. Everyone is very attractive, unnecessarily so
Speaker 1: for leaving these normal lives. Real people aren't that pretty?
Speaker 1: Are they? I haven't seen a human being in four years.
Speaker 1: Do people really look like you? How are you out there?
Speaker 1: But we do, you know, yeah, we we think it's
Speaker 1: best to split it up. I just you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I just spent too long talking about my middle school
Speaker 1: chorus Experience. Damn it. I guess we've got to find
Speaker 1: some LSD for you to do. Oh yeah, for the
Speaker 1: next episode, I'll be tripping balls the whole time. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe one day we'll do an episode super high on
Speaker 1: every drug we can get our hands. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh god, it'll just be You'll just and then just
Speaker 1: hit upload. I won't even edit it. You'll just hear
Speaker 1: I'll hit record and then you'll just hear me rocking
Speaker 1: in the corner. Where am I? What's happening? My heart?
Speaker 1: I could smell my heart? Yeah? Who wants to get
Speaker 1: together and do drugs? Mr? Experience? Meanwhile I would have left,
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. Here swinging through the trees outside, singing
Speaker 1: and dancing look at some pretty light Oh man, what um,
Speaker 1: what class would you teach at the Institute of Human Abilities?
Speaker 1: Probably none of them? If I'm honest, What class would
Speaker 1: you make up for the Institute of Human Abilities? I
Speaker 1: should ask? It has to be like advanced oral calculations,
Speaker 1: you know where it sounds like a class, but it's
Speaker 1: when you get down to it, it's just like how
Speaker 1: to funk like this? Oh? You know? Because what was
Speaker 1: one the mutual pleasurable stimulation of the human nervous system. Right,
Speaker 1: it has to sound superman scientific um okay, like digital
Speaker 1: nostril exploration. It sounds like a community does community episode.
Speaker 1: So many of those funny us sounding, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: to probably be digital rectal exploration or digital exploration of
Speaker 1: the hidden human areas or something where we teach you
Speaker 1: how to finger your butt hole forbidden fruit, like the
Speaker 1: geographical exploration of the bodies, canyons, canyons of the body,
Speaker 1: and it's like how to do a rim job. That's
Speaker 1: one I'd love to hear from y'all if you have,
Speaker 1: if you have a class that you would teach at
Speaker 1: at the Institute of Human Abilities. But it has to
Speaker 1: be Yeah, you have to tell us what the government
Speaker 1: name is and then what your yes please send those
Speaker 1: well again, really excited to bring you the second half
Speaker 1: of this episode where it gets, uh, we take this
Speaker 1: really interesting, almost idyllic sounding, uh you know, sex festival
Speaker 1: going on at this place, at this purple place right
Speaker 1: in like self help improvement coach type vibe. Right, But
Speaker 1: there's a darker side. Maybe they're always is not they're
Speaker 1: always true true, there's a darker side to all of
Speaker 1: us the Dark side of the Moon. The moon is
Speaker 1: my butt. Yeah, advanced Dark Side of the Moon add awesome,
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Well, yes, stay tuned for part two,
Speaker 1: where we really dive into the controversies and side if
Speaker 1: this is a cult, because that's the big question, is
Speaker 1: this a cult? And we have the definitive answer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will make it, y'all. Please catch us next week.
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Speaker 1: and thanks again to Sean for the suggestions. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: getting two episodes out of who Knew? So thank you sir.
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