Vegan! with Hannah and Sky; special gust: Hunter Tobey

Hunter Tobey, the incredible TikTok debater came on our Vegan Morning Show with Hannah and Sky.

So stoked he came on to talk with us. 

Check it out to get a closer look.

Carnism Debunked on VOC Morning Show

I got to interview Carnism Debunked on my vegan morning show today!

WHAT EXACTLY IS A VEGAN?

People still ask me what a vegan even is. There IS a definition, and I made this video about it to make it easier for eveyone. 

HOW TO USE A HONING ROD: VEGAN KNIFE SKILLS FOR SAFETY AND KINDNESS

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🔪KNIFE HONING/SHARPENING

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I always watchin people cooking on YouTube, and I cringe because it looks like half these people are going to cut their damned fingers off. So, I got with Chef Ryan, the number one private chef in Orange County, and we're making some knife videos. 

If we an save just one vegan's finger from getting cut off, I think it'll be worth it. 

This is part one: honing. Most the time, when people cut themselves, it's because their blades aren't aligned properly, and they have to apply more pressure than they normally should, and the knife slides off the product and cuts their sensitive little digits. 

I love the idea of saving vegans from themselves. So here goes!

What are your favorite things to learn on YouTube? What vegan lessons should I make videos about?

🥬My top piece of advice for new vegans is to learn a couple go-to dishes you can always make, so you don’t feel lost. But I notice vegans online lack the knife skills to not hurt themselves. This is a collaboration with the #1 personal chef in Orange County, Chef Ryan Perez from Chefe Productions. He’s agreed to help me show beginners a few tips to keep their own blood out of their food while keeping animal blood out of it, too. Go Vegan!
🔪Most home-use knives don’t need regular sharpening. We only sharpen knives in professional kitchens once a week, but we hone knives every day. If you’re a beginner, learning how to hone your chef’s knife is a great place to start. It will keep you safe and will lengthen the life of your knife as well.

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WHY DO VEGANS HATE DOJA CAT? WHY DOES DOJA CAT HATE VEGANS?

Vegans have good reason to hate on Doja Cat, but she was the one who hated on vegans first. 

Vegans are used to getting shade from the likes of ignorant wretches, but the way she exploits animas for her personal gain is particularly perverse and should be known.

HOW TO PREVENT PANDEMICS

Why don't we do something about the next pandemic now?

WORST QUESTION FOR NEW VEGANS + ANSWERS

I've answered this question a few different ways over the years. It sure is fun being a vegan sometimes. 

I've decided to build a playlist and make some videos for "new" vegans. This should be a good time.

WHY I'M NOT EATING VEGAN AT KFC

I made a video about KFC of all things. 

It would be so cool if you'd subscribe to my YouTube channel. Show some love.

UNBOXING: DAVID BOWIE LIMITED EDITION STYLOPHONE RETRO POCKET ANALOG SYN...

David Bowie was the only person I knew about who used a Stylophone, but of course Kraftwek used one. When I saw a kid playing one on Infinity Train, I really wanted to get one. And now since I'm making music for podcasts and videos, I thought it'd be a fun way to mix things up. 

I was super stoked to unbox my new Stylophone David Bowie Limited Edition.

It’s totally worth what they’re charging, as it’s a fun, portable synthesizer.

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Was Jesus Vegan? Christ's Sacrifice vs. Vegans' Sacrifice

I'm making videos about ideas through the lens of veganim, and I'm hoping you'll like to watch them.

Darling Be Home Soon Acoustic Cover

Darling Be Home Soon by John Sebastian

Here's where I ruin that John Sebastian song everyone likes.

I think this song is usually sung much more upbeat than the words tell it to be. John Sebastian performed it on a lark at Woodstock, which I think is so cool. He just happened to be backstage and they needed an acoustic act, so he grabbed a guitar, took the scaffold, and happened to have Darling Be Home Soon in his head from his days with Lovin' Spoonful (they'd recently broken up).

He tells the whole story in this awesome book I love.

I enjoy the idea that all a person wants is to talk with his lover while she's away. I'm kind of going through this with someone right now. All I can really imagine is lying in bed and discussing and hatching adventures we can go on together.

I hope my interpretation conveys that feeling a little more than the original. 

Missing You (John Waite) Sky Jack Cover

In the 80's John Waite belted out this bad boy for one of the greatest songs of his era. It was his biggest hit, and he's still singing it. He even did a country version with Alison Krauss. Tina Turner did a version of it in the 90's that I always thought was kind of an Ike burn song. It's been covered a million times. Brooks and Dunne, Rod Stewart, and tons of others have done it. I hate pretty much all the covers, including even the Alison Krauss duet. It always sounds overly earnest or over-produced or just too loud.

I think it tracks better as a stripped down sad and quiet song. You could argue that a belting lament is always welcome on a record, but I'd say the song's too good for that.

I love how old-fashioned it is. It mentions long-distance lines, which is so funny because there's no such thing anymore. It reminds me of how hard (and expensive) it was to have a long-distance relationship back in the day when you could barely hear someone through the static of a long-distance phone call. You might as well send a telegraph to be clear. So he sends his lover's soul a telegraph! That's really funny and sappy and such a true feeling for a little pop song.

I love how he admits to lying to himself and how he confesses to his hyperbolic desperation. The confessional parts of the song are simply great because they're intimate and relate-able.

Anyway, here's my sad version of it. I'm noticing myself looking down a lot in these videos. I'm looking at the microphone. It looks like I'm reading or something, but the whole point of me doing these is to really live in the songs, so I memorize the lyrics and change them a little when I sing. I do actually care for you to know that I'm not reading these lines. 

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1

HERE'S WHERE I RUIN THE FLAMING LIPS: YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS, PT 1

I remember in 1995 the Flaming Lips were playing at the Peach Pit in Beverly Hills. At least, I remember when Beverly Hills 90210 featured the band in one of their episodes, and all the kids at Beverly High were stoked. I thought they were pretty good, and I didn't think about them much after that.

I moved to Germany when I was 19 years old in 1999.

When I was 26, a student at UC Berkeley, I hung out a lot in Oakland bars. At some point, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1 came on, and everyone was surprised I hadn't heard it. Their most successful album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots had been released in 2002. I'd missed it abroad.

I instantly fell in love with the experimental psychedelic sound and the lyrics that seem to be saying one thing but meaning something entirely different.

My friends at the time were mostly artists and poets, people who maybe often feel like they are alone without anyone looking out for them. Maybe it was just me. Either way, my circle of friends took to singing the song at the tops of our lungs any chance we could. If there was a jukebox, we chose it. If we were closing down the bar, our friends behind it put this song on and sang along.

Here's what Billboard said about the album:

"beneath the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk about gladiator-style clashes between man and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is actually a somber rumination on love and survival in an unfathomable world."

During the chorus we'd choose someone to point at and sing that they wouldn't let the robots eat us. Every time we shouted "Oh Yoshimi!" we pointed at a new person until everyone was included. The robots are everywhere. They're programmed to destroy artists and writers or people who just care about anything in the indifferent universe. Sometimes, for fleeting moments, maybe you have a few Yoshimis around you who might take their vitamins, learn karate, and keep you safe. When those people are around, sing them a song. If you can't sing, just play them this.

Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil Cover

HERE'S WHERE I RUIN THAT ROLLING STONES SONG EVERYONE LIKES

I've always thought this was a sad song. The narrator describes himself as a man of wealth and taste. Then he gets to murdering Jesus, the Czar and his ministers, little Anastasia, everyone the Nazi's killed, countless armies via kings and queens, the Kennedy's, the poets on their way to Bombay, and then he threatens the listeners if they don't show him some courtesy and sympathy or aren't polite enough.

And my favorite part of this song is that Lucifer, in the middle of the song repeats his assertion that he's a man of wealth and taste. Sure, that works with the mechanics of a song—lots of songwriters do this to tether themselves to the beginning, or they liked the line so much they stuck it in as a hook, or they were just stuck and it got them out of a hole they'd dug. But what's great here is how much we know about this narrator. Satan comes with a lot of baggage. We already think we know all there is to know. So when he repeats himself, it's as if he's trying to convince himself after the litany of crimes we know  are evil.

But the next verse, he compares cops to criminals and saints to sinners, saying he's just one side of a coin. So, might as well call him by the name Lucifer, his pre-fall name, meaning bringer of light or morning star. Mick and Keith are really outdoing themselves here. They've obviously read some Milton and had some decent education. "I'm in need of some restraint" is his explanation as to why one should use Lucifer instead of the myriad monikers associated with this character. Knowing his name controls him to some degree, but it's also his slave name. That's the name we gave him as an angel before he rebelled.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell

—Macbeth 4:3

That's one of my favorite quotes from Shakespeare, and I think the Stones are riffing it a little. Here Shakes uses his knowledge of the devil's name but doesn't say it. He acknowledges that the brightest angel named for bringing light is the one who fell from heaven. And even "though all things foul will bear the brows of grace... grace must still look so."

Lucifer has to think of himself the way he does because it helps him cope with his duty to use humans to accomplish horrible deeds. And why does he need sympathy? Because he never had a choice in the matter. God preordained all of it. The Lucifer had to fall in order to be the catalyst in the Fall of Man in order for God to give his only begotten son to humanity to sacrifice for their sin.

I remember arguing with Christians about John Milton's Paradise Lost in community college. You can't help but side with the devil. He's a tool of God for the salvation of man. His sacrifice is as important as Christ's, but he resents it. He understands his place and hates God and Man for it. What's more relate-able than that? What's more Christian than that story? Christ is worshiped for his selfless sacrifice. Doesn't Lucifer deserve at least a little sympathy for his reluctant sacrifice?

Lyric Genius has a good page about this song »

How to Join a Motorcycle Gang

This was originally featured here. If you want, you can comment and join the fun. There's much to be had. MURDERCYCLE.

Bikini Zombie Slayers

Bikini Zombie Slayers. This makes me want to buy a video game console. This game comes out this month in USA on Wii and XBox 360. I'd like to review it. Oneechanbara. I like that title. Something about sisters. I don't know what bara means. I will not look it up. Bikini Zombie Slaying Sisters. Nice.

Christian Bale Techno Remix by Mei Shi

This is my favorite vid/remix/song so far inspired by the Christian Bale freak out. The lyrics are pretty brilliant. Don't look to deep in his eyes; he might be an American Psycho.

Palin's Disgrrace

Sarah Palin and her ilk are talking a lot lately about "Real America." I find the idea behind such a term one of the most offensive that have circled openly in American politics in the last 20 years. That anyone running for office would adopt such Machiavellian tactics as dividing and conquering the country they claim to love marks a sad day for the whole of the nation. Even comedians like Jon Stewart are having a hard time being funny about such an idea. After all, it's hard to have a sense of humor when someone is questioning your national identity and patriotism.

It seems the only person really able to be funny about splitting the country is Sarah Palin herself, who visited the set of Saturday Night Live and had a good laugh last weekend. But it was less the cathartic type of laughter that accompanies good-willed humor, the kind of laughter that reminds us we're all the same, than the kind of awkward chortle that calcifies people's thoughts and hardens their hearts. "Real Americans" loved her dismissive, patronizing tone more than ever, and Americans like me (fake American?) chuckled guiltily and reluctantly gave her credit for showing her face on the show.

The two groups might seem different because they have a hard time understanding each other, but the truth is that they are more similar than either would like to believe. Every American loves this country, and every American wants what's best for it. Sometimes we laugh at ourselves and sometimes we laugh at each other, but no one should ever call into question the virtuosity or validity of another's Americanism when our motives are the same. The fact that McCain's campaign has gone down that road is disgraceful.

Jack Morgan: Piscean Age

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Red State Update

There are people out there who will vote for McCain/Palin, and that makes me sad and angry. It's just so hard to believe that such people exist. This video makes fun of them, "Red State Update," but I have this feeling that they aren't that far from the truth. I used to at least respect republicans' point of view. I used to think they were a necessary part of a nation like this one. But now I think they must all have downs. Actually that's too harsh on people with downs. Republicans must be hydrocephalic.

She thinks dinosaurs were around 4000 years ago and would ban any book that says otherwise!
People like her only want us reading one book. We'll all be reading one book, even all those ivy elites.