Me Clicking RECord with Dane Curley

Dane talks about the challenges of Deactivating Facebook & Deleting Twitter, this Never-ending Election Cycle, the SciFi novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, his Dangerous Ideas newsletter, and more. Brought to you by Dane's patrons on Patreon.

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Dane delivers a free-flowing reflection on Realpolitik in American Party Politics, the politicization of Social Media platforms, candidate performance in the presidential debates, peak disinformation in news media, SJW-ism, the deteriorating value of blackmail, being shadowbanned by TikTok for impersonating Trump in his comedy videos, Rudy Giuliani and the Hunter Biden "Laptop from Hell." Among other things. Enjoy!

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In October, 1973, WBAI radio in New York City aired legendary comedian George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" at around 2:00PM. A complaint was lodged by a listener, and the results of that complaint took the radio station (Pacifica Foundation) all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978. Years later in 1985, 22 individuals who called themselves the Parents Music Resource Center leveraged their disproportionate political power to challenge free enterprise in the music industry. Dane shares speeches by John Denver and Frank Zappa, and provides all the context surrounding these events, and how they lead to the present reduction of our 1st Amendment rights and greenlit situations of "limited Free Speech." His Song of the Day to Check Out is John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High."

Note: George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" are now a preserved work in the Library of Congress's National Registry, along with the rest of his fantastic 1972 album Class Clown.

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This episode shares "the essential realizations" of Carl G. Jung's Symbols of Transformation, a work that has great practical value for everyone living. He tries to answer the questions, "What did Jung think?" & "Why is it good to think it?" Dane touches upon why Jung remains counterculture, and shares the man's major Not-Freudian theories in fun ways that skirt the need for dedicated hours of study. And so, this podcast leverages more popular & digestible works such as The Portable Jung, Inner Work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse, rather than primary materials from the Collected Works of Jung, which most readers find unapproachable. (Dane's read many of those, too, but they don't make for great podcasting!) Enjoy.

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This episode focuses on music, with a documentary-like breakdown of a very famous Dire Straits song. Dane talks about how attention-to-detail is the key component of High-Fidelity (HiFi) audio recordings, and explains the difference between audiophile quality and crapola. It features the unedited lyrics of a song that aired censored (an entire verse was missing from the MTV version), and explains how/why authors/writers use authentic language in their work. Damn the censors! In the latter part of the ep, Dane explains why confidence matters and how you can develop it for yourself. Have a blast!

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Dane misses the high note on his SciFi-adjacent Song of the Day to Check Out, from a band that focuses a lot on technocratic dystopias, shares a lesson from the Yale course On Grand Strategy (that's the type of strategy you need to conquer the world), talks about Xerxes's big blunder in Ancient Greece and whether Donald Trump is a "Fox" or a "Hedgehog." With Laughs along the way! Enjoy!

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Well, you can ignore that part about "Brand Safety," because we're spending upwards of 40minutes talking about HUMAN-ANIMAL HYBRIDS. They're real, but they don't sound real! In one of the most entertaining episodes of MCREC thus far, Dane freaks out about Human-Animal Hybrids and hopes at the very least that their existence can save the Uighurs of Xinjiang, China from the Chinese Communist Party. Laugh and Learn and Laugh some more. You might want an accompanying drink for the show!

This episode features no Philosophy Reflections and no Song of the Day to Check Out. It's nevertheless, a doozy of an ep.

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Whether you refer to the indigenous peoples of the Americas as Native Americans or American Indians, they sure have taken part in some incredibly interesting moments in history. We discuss the good/evil debate, and the politicization of thoughts, surrounding Anti-Colonialism/Colonialism, learn about the Sioux Wars versus the United States in the 1800s, and discuss both over and under-romanticizations of the Aztec Empire in its bid to survive against the Spanish Empire. It's a highly thematic episode, which is unusual for Me Clicking RECord, but, well, here we are. Even the Song of the Day to Check Out is about Cortez and Montezuma. Dan Carlin, eat your heart out!

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This episode revolves around an epic Song of the Day to Check Out segment which brings listeners along for The Race for Space! It features the recitation of JFK's famous "We're Going to the MotherF-ing Moon" speech, performed in character as JFK. The 2nd half of the show features Dane's behind-the-scenes talk about Comedy-writing, and Stand Up Comedy rehearsals, how COVID-19 reveals the psychology of the "Home Field Advantage," and a few TV show recommendations you'll enjoy.

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We're joining TikTok, drinking Coca Cola, impersonating Hunter S. Thompson, re-watching Gladiator, newly-watching Trotsky, and rapping about some heavy stuff! We're even talking about "The Pornogrification of History." It's Better Than Sex! Dane also shares some fascinating facts from the lectures he's been listening to on The History of Ancient Rome in the ridiculously info-taining way that only he can.

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