If you don't know where you're going, you tend to wander to places you've been. This is not a bad thing, because the purpose of memory is to extract a lesson or an idea from the event being remembered. After this is completed, the memory fades.

The idea in hand then becomes a tool for creating your future.

Just don't waste time acquiring too many tools. Have faith in your own ability, because only a poor artist blames their tools for their shortcomings.

-Genekunedo

I learned a whole lot from this conversation. I spoke with a demi god who just wants to be treated like a regular dude. He planted the seed of love towards my ancestors, as well as towards myself. I do hope I can have another conversation with him; I'm even providing ritual sacrifices of Musubi to entice him for another visitation. 

Oh, and I do hope you enjoy the foreplay leading up to the ultimate climax at the end. Looks like we both like to tease.

We don't know if the universe began with a big bang, but consider this the 2nd big bang for my podcast. Season 1 was a pilot and had almost no direction. This is the chaotic second attempt to create the canonical universe that is Paper Street Hero.

I love that it begins with a vapor. Follow me and lets see how it ends, eh?

This season begins with an apology because "Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation" (RHCP- Californication)

I have several awesome people in my life that are well versed in Tarot and Astrology, and I've had a lot of fun conversations about their interpretations of these divinations. Though I may never fully understand and/or appreciate this art in the way they do, I will always be grateful for the time they spend with me when sharing their thoughts. This is their art, and this is one of the ways they choose to love. 

That's all it really ever comes down to: How do you love? In order to love, one must know what love is. To know love is to love oneself, firstly, because you cannot give something you do not have. When you finally discover real love, you learn that it comes from an infinite source. You know that it comes from within you; but you are not the source- you are merely a vessel by which the universe delivers love to others. 

After you learn to truly love yourself loving others becomes second nature. To those who have given much, more will be given. To those who have taken much, more will be taken away. This is the law of the universe. 

I hope that you join me in one of these quests, because things are really picking up, and I would love to see how you love.

Be safe between these conversations.

I didn't plan for this to be anticlimactic, but I've learned that my favorite stories happen when we lose (or surrender) control. It's simply an end to a season that is a prelude to what I'm meant to do.

Foreplay has it's place but I'm sure you want me to focus and really get in there. No more building things up just to get sidetracked and derailed. No more long winded artful monologues.

We're done "talking". Let's see what this baby can REALLY do.

Unbuckle your seatbelt and...

Just. Let. Go.

Trigger Warning: A lot of the content in these recordings are raw, unedited, unfiltered, and off the cuff. Some of the things we say can be misinterpreted or even misused to push an agenda. We're just some guys having honest conversation, allowing ourselves to be exposed to ideas. Some ideas are great, some require a bit of improvement, and some ideas are downright stupid. All ideas should be presented and discussed to the length they deserve to be with minimal judgement. 

Having said that, I hope you have fun listening. If you have any concerns or if you would like to present your own perspective, slide into the DMs at Paper Street Hero on Instagram @paperstreethero and we'll go from there. If one of us says something that rubs you wrong, please, for the love of Gosh and all that is holy, let me know. 

I can't promise any particular results, but I can promise that I will listen; and that's as good a place as any to begin, no?

A farewell to a good man we know as Dan. 

He loves God, his family, his country, and his right to defend all of them using iron sights and a trigger.

He'll be continuing his story in another place, so I look forward to seeing how that unfolds. For all it's toxicity, I am thankful we live in a world that has technology and social media so we can easily find the answer to, "I wonder whatever happened to that person".

I think in this one, we're visited by the E-commerce badass from Grab N Grub which is always fun.

Until next time, Dan. Safe travels and God bless. 

And if I haven't said it lately: thank you, the one reading this, for spending time with us... with me... in these sessions.

Wanderer's Journal. Captain's log. Dear Diary. We all use objects to assign thoughts to, like some sort of long term flash memory. 

What happens when those objects are lost or destroyed? What of the memories that were tied to them? 

Especially after we are gone? 

There are still places and people that you may have left impressions with, and who knows what they've said about you and who they've said it to.

This is how legends are born- and story tellers are the ones who raise the story like a child, guiding it to epically grow, sometimes evolving into a myth. Storytellers come in all forms. My favorite is the court jester. 

The fool. 

The buffoon. 

You see... a good king keeps a jester close by, because the jester is the embodiment of chaos.

This is why I always say, "I'm not Paper Street Hero; it is an ideal". I'm no hero. I'm just the fool that flavors your story with a touch of madness.

Did I ever tell you I went to school with a Princess?

Notice: This particular recording contains uncomfortable content. I try to make it palatable but consider yourself warned: There is only death beyond the play button.

Also, the audio in the beginning is a bit wack, I'll be better in the future.

If I may suggest: Prior to listening- light it up and baptize yourself in the Glory. Then you will understand the mysteries I speak. Without it, it will simply sound like noise and chaos.

Madness.

It's like gravity: All it takes is a little push. 

Skip this episode- just know that for any Dragon you will face in life, your greatest weapon against it will not be from this world and it will not be man-made. 

It will be a golden zephyr. 

It will bring what you need when you need it, but you cannot over use it or else it will lose it's potency. It has a cool down period and if you tamper with the cool down period then it breaks the game in some way.

Some people enjoy the game as it's meant to be played, some like to push the game past it's limits to see if breaking it yields a different and hopefully better experience. For me, I just enjoy the story as it's intended, coupled with a decent yet fair challenge. There is no wrong way to play a game, really, other than playing it just to finish it. Even with that, it's no so bad, you still get a great story; "Just don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

See you on the next ephemeral cloud.