The Enlightened Entourage: Tourage Episode 5 - Matt Emmons

Matt is a young up and coming artist from the Boston area. Raised on a healthy diet of horror and science fiction, Matt's work is heavily influenced by the imagery and themes present in the genres. He recently finished and released the first issue of his latest comic, Gardener, and has no plans of stopping anytime soon.

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Dope Table of Contents:

00:00:00 - Tourage Intro, Adobe After Effects by (Instagram) @ashwinb2 & @srikar_mvs

00:00:54 - Sleep Paralysis & Lucid Dreaming Discussion - Podcast Reference, "Last Podcast"

00:06:26 - Fossils accidentally discovered in South Africa are probably the oldest fungi ever found by a margin of 1.2 billion years

00:06:39 - Netflix Series Reference: Stranger Things 2 - Related to the honey fungus? A Mushroom Measuring 2.4 miles across in the Blue Mountains in Oregon is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth

00:07:19 - Person Reference: Paul Edward Stamets - Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ

00:11:16 - Correction: Hawaii has only two kinds of snakes.

00:11:57 - Pele's Curse is the belief that anything natively Hawaiian, such as sand, rock, or pumice, will effect bad luck on whoever takes it away from Hawaii.

00:13:30 - Correction: The two venomous snake species found in Connecticut (timber rattlesnake and northern copperhead) do not have wide distributions.

00:15:15 - Animal Reference: Candiru, Vandellia cirrhosa

00:18:03 - Comedian Reference: Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg - & - John Edmund Mulaney - & - Mike Birbiglia

00:19:43 - Documentary Reference: 4th installment of David Attenborough's masterful 'Africa' series he documented the transformation of the Kingfish

00:22:02 - Documentary Reference: BBC "Life" - A tiny Japanese pufferfish creates a grand sand sculpture on the featureless seabed by using his fins to dig furrows.

00:24:10 - Facebook Scandal Reference: Cambridge Analytica

00:28:15 - Film Reference: Snowden is a 2016 biographical spy thriller film.

00:32:23 - Discussing Hallucinogens - Neural Pathways Reference, https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-your-brain-on-magic-mushrooms

00:35:00 - Sensory Deprivation Tank Discussion

00:38:00 - How Matt & I Met at Mill Number 5 in Lowell, MA - http://millno5.com/ - & His Story

00:46:32 - Role Model Reference: Gary Vaynerchuk: Document the Process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99KmfaT11c

00:49:02 - Store Reference: The Million Year Picnic - https://www.themillionyearpicnic.com/ -

99 Mt Auburn St # 2, Cambridge, MA 02138

00:50:40 - Plug: San-Man Graphics, https://www.facebook.com/SanManPrintingAndDesign/

00:51:20 - Plug: Tourage Episode 3 - Brook Giday , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ey531ED9g - & - Mass Apparel, http://www.mass-apparel.com/

01:01:10 - Plug: Instagram @producingBE

01:04:40 - Children's Book Artist Reference: EB Lewis, http://eblewis.com

01:09:24 - Plug: Never Sober, http://www.neversobernyc.com/

01:12:50 - Perfectionist, Momentum & Defeatist Discussion

01:14:50 - Discussing defeat in any process

01:19:20 - Matt Discussing the Start of his Investment & Hero's Coon, https://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/

01:20:45 - Artist Plug: Matthew Woodson, http://www.ghostco.org/

01:25:15 - Make a list of all the Shit you'd have to go through and Ask yourself- Would you put up with it in order to accomplish that Goal

Apologies for the Video Focus in this Episode & Corrections to Facts!

Instagram:

Matt Emmons: @Second.at.best

Samson: @sdotsamson

Tourage - @Tourage_EE