Big Questions No Answers

0:0:00 Introduction

0:07:00 The Big Question: Do We Seek Experiences or Do Experiences Seek Us?

0:09:00 Kyle goes for an Adventure and gets more than he bargained for

0:32:00 Do We Attract Some Experiences?

0:47:00 Traumatic Experiences

0:58:00 Dune Discussion

1:02:00 Dealing with Grief while in Lockdown

1:13:00 Kyle the Sommelier

1:30:00 Do Aliens walk among us?

1:37:00 Poison Oak

1:51:00 Memes

2:04:00 Kyle’s Closing Remarks

0:00 How not to share your weed

1:20 Big Question- Do you look at life like you’re playing a role?

8:00 The Role of Art

18:00 How do you respond to the inevitable fact that you are going to die?

30:00 Have you had any odd or recurring dreams in the recent months?

34:00 Freudian analysis of Matt’s Orgiastic dreams

43:00 Being online and getting bombarded with porn

49:00 Zoomers and meme culture

50:30 Doge for Blowj?

57:38 Matt shares a tragically comedic encounter with a man on the Santa Cruz bluffs

1:04:50 Who would you be if you became homeless?

1:11:15 Microsoft Word suppressing artistic freedom

1:17:47 What are the downstream effects of the pandemic going to be?

1:24:30 Pee Break

1:26:16 Matt turns the tables and asks me some questions about my future and my past

1:38:20 Vaccine Homoeroticism

1:42:20 The value of communication and long form conversation

1:55:25 Treeplanting 2.0

2:05 Watch HBO Max’s 123 All  Eyes on Me to see your boi Matt Kropschot in a short film

This week I sat down with my good friend Connor Freitas, Connor is one of the funniest, most light hearted and genuine people I know. He’s done it all, from working in almond orchards to lifeguarding to selling beer across the biggest little city in the US, Reno, Nevada. We talk about all kinds of things from getting COVID to experiencing head trauma to the meaning of life. I guarantee that at some point of the podcast you will either be smiling or laughing out loud. I had a great time recording this one, I hope you all enjoy!

0:0:00 Pooping, Crying, and Freezing

0:1:15 Connor Freitas intro

0:2:30 The Big Question: What’s the first thing you show an alien?

0:4:40 What’s the best part about being an adult?

0:6:05 What’s the worst part about being an adult?

0:7:05 Cooking with Freit

0:9:20 A hilarious story about Connor’s first concussion

0:21:53 Do you think you’d be a different person if you hadn’t had any concussions?

0:26:10 What’s a skill you wish you had?

0:34:40 A rundown of Reno, the butthole of the west

0:39:00 A little COVID talk

0:43:45 What was it like being sick with COVID?

0:52:40 What do you want out of life?

0:57:10 Did you ever think you were going to die when you had COVID?

1:07:57 Are you happy with who you are?

1:18:25 If you could only choose one substance to use for the rest of your life what would it be?

1:27:25 What is the meaning of life?

1:35:15 Closing Remarks

0:0:40 How old do you want to live to?

0:1:30 Bane impression

0:2:00 Shrek Impression

0:3:00 Apples or Oranges?

0:3:40 Deepak Chopra impression

0:5:00 Allan Watts Impression

0:6:55 What’s the job they would have to pay you the most to do?

0:9:30 What is happiness?

0:18:00 A quote from “A Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat”

0:21:00 Chaos looms continually beneath us

0:23:00 What’s the first thing you’d show an alien?

0:25:00 Closing

I sat down with my partner in crime, Elliott Mcbride, we decided to redux our previous podcast to give the people a real rundown of this wild profession, we aim to answer the most frequently asked questions about treeplanting. If you have no idea what this job is about, this should be a decent introduction for what to expect, and how the industry works. I hope you all enjoy.

0:1:35 What is Treeplanting? How does it work? Where does the money come from?

0:4:25 What Kind of Trees Are You Planting? Why Those Species?

0:6:00 How Is The Timber Industry Involved In Treeplanting?

0:9:00 What is the best part about treeplanting?

0:11:45 What is the worst part about treeplanting?

0:14:00 What are three characteristics that every treeplanter should aspire to have?

0:17:30 How much money can you make treeplanting?

0:19:00 Is treeplanting dangerous?

23:50 Where do you shit? where do you sleep? where do you eat?

0:30:00 What’s the treeplanters schedule like?

0:32:00 What do you do on your night off/day off?

0:34:30 Highs and lows of the job

0:45:00 What is tree price?

0:49:00 What’s the worst piece you’ve ever been on?

0:55:00 How do you get into treeplanting if you’re interested?

1:02:00 Elliott turns the tables and asks me some questions

0:0:00 Intro

0:2:00 Big Question- What are the best and worst parts about being a parent?

0:4:00 Becoming a father for the first time

0:10:50 A guilty cheeseburger

0:16:00 Comparing parenting styles across generations

0:19:00 A shift in priorities or world view?

0:29:20 Did you have a newfound respect for your own parents when you became a parent?

0:38:30 Life is a circle

0:46:00 How much do you let children know about struggles of being a parent

0:53:00 “Get in the Cupboard”

1:00:00 Trying out different accents and finding an identity

1:07 Pee Break

1:14:00 How do you solve the problem of balancing economic need with giving your children a loving childhood

1:19:00 In providing for your children in a soul-sucking job, are you setting a negative example for your them?

1:26:00 The Story of my Great Grandfather Salvador Hernandez Vila

This week I sat down with my good friend, Alex Raymond, Alex is currently working from home for a construction permitting company out of our childhood hometown of Danville, California. Our conversation centered around the role of luck in each of our lives and how we interpret its effect on who we are. We discussed the allure of golf, the impact of karma, Alex's unique slang and how that has left a footprint on the lives of the people around him. The audio quality leaves a little to be desired, but despite that I thoroughly enjoyed this week's conversation and I hope you do the same! 

0:00:00 Intro

0:01:30 The Big Question: How much of your life has been determined by luck?

0:05:00 Work yourself into luck

0:09:00 Chaos makes life meaningful

0:16:00 The allure of golf

0:21:00 Karma B***!

0:24:48 Why you so Pinnard? Raymond breaks down his own language

0:36:00 Do you think in Pictures or words?

0:45:00 The Butterfly effect of social interactions

0:50:00 I don’t have time for people who don’t know how lucky they are

0:53:50 Do you worry about the future of humanity?

1:00:00 Staying positive, focus on the things that you can control

I sat down with my friend and former teammate Raju Dhaliwal to talk our new found adulthood, Raj is currently living in our childhood home town of Danville California currently working from home for a tech start-up. Our conversation centered around the lessons of young adulthood, imposing standards on yourself vs having them imposed on you, living in a dystopian world, weaponizing identity politics and much much more. I hope you all enjoy!

0:0:00 Intro and song

0:1:30 Big Question: Adulthood: Expectations vs Reality?

0:8:30 How has your perspective of your parents changed through getting older?

0:17:00 The effect of parental standards vs self imposed standards

0:30:00 We are in the dystopia

0:32:00 Are you an optimist/pessimist or realist?

0:39:30 Bowling Alone

0:44:00 Pee Break

0:45:00 Growing up brown in a white town

0:49:30 Weaponizing Identity Politics

0:57:00 YANG GANG Democracy Dollars

1:00:00 Have you ever had a Recurring Dream?

1:05:00 Closing Remarks

0:00 Intro

0:1:10 If you could be any animal what would it be and why?

0:5:30 John Lilly’s Ketamine inspired Dolphin Experiments

0:10:20 Gaurav’s Master’s project: Impact of agricultural systems on animal movement

0:20:30 Why Should we Care?

0:25:00 What is a characteristic you look for in other people?

0:35:40 How to influence people on a mass scale?

0:43:00 Have you ever had a recurring dream?

0:49:00 Sam almost dies choking on water

0:56:00 Is there a collective consciousness guiding our dreams and realizations?

1:00:00 Understanding animals in their terms not ours

1:08:00 The power of human animal interactions

1:14:00 Closing Remarks

This Week I sat down with Valentine Roland Ssebuyungo. This is Valentine's second appearance on the podcast, he is an ambidextrous, electrical engineer, currently working with a company called Form Athletica that creates goggles using augmented reality technology for swimming. Valentine is incredibly intelligent and introspective and we had a wonderful conversation. Our talk centered around optimism vs pessimism but we covered it all, the potential alien invasions to come in the future,  the roles of signs, omens, and superstitions on our behavior, the corruptive property of power and much much more. I hope you all enjoy!

0:0:00 Intro/Fun Fact

0:3:30 Big Question, A Case For Optimism?

0:10:45 The Difference Between Realism and Pessimism

0:18:00 The 3 Body Problem and Potential Alien Invasions

0:26:00 Does Absolute Power Corrupt Absolutely?

0:37:00 Fraternities and What They Say About Group Psychology

0:45:00 The Pessimism that comes out of Anxiety and Depression

0:51:00 The Initial Conditions for Optimism

0:58:00 Coming of Age Ceremonies

1:04:50 Signs, Omens, and Superstitions

1:10:00 What If You Are The Universe?

1:15:00 Closing Remarks