Johnny Explains

Youth seems to always sit in the background of our lives even during the years that we experience it. Getting older makes it feel like youth flees out of our body during the lackluster rotting part of the other side of the bell curve that we look at through ageing eyes. Certain things come and go in our lives, but ageing and not appreciating the beauty that youth brings appears later on in life, mostly near the end. Enjoying the youth even though one only remembers youth makes life easier to understand. 

“Youth has no age.”                                                                                                                            

– Pablo Picasso

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”                                                                                                                

– Pearl S. Buck

“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”                                          

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.”                                     

- Walter Raleigh

“Youth's the season made for joys, love is then our duty.”                                

– John Gay

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.”    

– G. M. Trevelyan

“Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not to an institution.”      

 — Grace Llewellyn

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

– Anne Frank, 'Anne Frank's Tales From The Secret Annex'.

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Afghanistan has been America's 20 year war. It lasted through the lives of my friends, family, and countrymen. Watching my country fight a war that never brought an actual answer. The US said they fought terrorism, then they said they were bringing peace, and now they are saying goodbye to the middle east for now. This plan of chaos looks out of place, but after a quick review of history and geo political standings around the world, this is the standard practice of America when leaving a brown country or watching a country that resources no longer benefit them, America silently walks away in order to take further advantage at a later time.

Weed goes by many names, but they all do the same thing and that is get people high~ish. Smoking weed for me has had medical benefits (sleep/anxiety/depression/ etc.) and it has had social benefits, but it is now at a point where there is a lot of information on something that is fairly simple. I have been consuming weed for a little over a decade now at some points being deeper in weed culture, but for the most part it is now receiving this "scientific" attention to it by "weed bros" that really try to hype up a product that is becoming more and more subpar with the addition of commercialization in the industry. 

On this episode of Johnny explained I’m explaining COVID-19 and all that that I know about it, what it has done to the world, America, and our own homes. Covid19 was a lot to take in at first and now it is even more to take in with all the information that is out in the world. Not all the information that is out there is correct and that is the information that the professionals have, the none professionals are also releasing incorrect information. In the over year and a half of this pandemic some reliable information has been discovered, but there is so much disinformation out there it easily gets lost in the mix. Right now all we the information we know about the coronavirus is mixed together like a brownie that is put in the same pile of dog poop.

Comedy is something that not a lot of people experience, but definitely have a lot of opinions on, however this episode is more about my journey into comedy, the craft of comedy, and some rough comedy truths. I appreciate all forms of comedy, but this episode definitely maintains a healthy level of bias of my favorite form of comedy "Stand-Up."

Nature is wonderful and being able to be a part of it is the best thing humans have available, but we probably won't have it for long.

On my way across the country via road trip with my best friend from college and recorded an episode about friends. Friends have a lot to do with the decisions that are made in life. They always have something to say that is either helpful or entertaining, but sometimes friends have to be let go at the same time in order to continue moving on with your own life. I go through several friendships that have stood the test of time, but also some that have had to be left behind because it was a moment in life that was shared and should be appreciated for it.

Critical Race Theory has really been in the news a lot lately. In the past when people hated something that was taught in schools they would burn books in a field or start rumors about the sexuality of the author, however now with the attacks on Critical Race Theory coming from a legislative point of assault it begins a new era of not only a war on books, but on history itself.

Moving is really a mixed bag of emotions. There is a lot of good and bad that comes with a move, one of the things is packing, another thing is redecorating, and a small important detail is actually having a place to live. Throughout my adult life I have lived in several different areas in the country, but the experience of moving is usually the same, a pain the ass that starts at the heart.

Dad's are important and yesterday was fathers day so being naturally that I have a dad I know a lot about them and since I have the worlds greatest dad I know a lot about what it takes to be a good dad.