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A Special Message for you from Co-Producer diamondseed:
It’s a part of our mandate here at Aspirin Regimen to chase away the fears and tears of the election year and it just so happens to be our first year anniversary! So in the midst of what may seem like disaster ahead you, raise a glass along with us and remember the best is yet to come. I want to give a shout out to our long time listeners, guests and contributors. Extra special thanks goes out to The Captain of this jalopy, DJ Green Arrow, who assembled this team into a smooth, funky, informative machine.
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Chase:
Hi this is Co-Producers Chase
Green Arrow: and Green Arrow
We’ve got a lot on our schedule, and we wanted to break it down for you on this special Emergency Podcast
Aspirin Regimen Podcast will be reacting to the election live, and releasing another Emergency Podcast on Nov 4.
Early on Election Day, there’s gonna be a 3 1/2 hour interview with Turntablist Disk.
As a founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Disk has been an enormously influential DJ and is credited with inventing the 2 Click Orbit, the echo fade technique and the 2 Click Flare Lazer Orbit techniques.
In addition to extensive hip hop work with the Piklz and others, Disk has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians working in other genres, including Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Zakir Hussain, Mike Patton, Norah Jones, Flavor Flav, Rancid, and Jack DeJohnette. He has been involved in over seventy recordings, and has performed in over fifteen countries.
We hope you binge-listen Aspirin Regimen while you vote. We’ll have about 8 or nine hours for you total. If you end up standing in a long long line, you’re covered.
And then after you’ve consumed, you can join us as part of the audience on a special all-day marathon Zoom call. You’ll need a ticket for this event, but it’s free. Let us know if you want one.
We have special invited guests, too.
We will keep you up to date on everything that’s happening, and give you moment-by-moment coverage of the election as only we can offer. And we will break down a lot of the issues that are at stake, in detail.
CHASE:
Aspirin Regimen will always go down the rabbit hole of creativity, but we wanted to talk about 3 paths that we are encountering today.
One path ahead of us leads to Donald Trump being elected.
There’s another path next to it that heads to a future where Joe Biden is elected President.
The third is the path we are on, and it’s influenced by the rest of rest of the world.
To say where we are, it’s important to mention that the world is complex. Our path leads us to the rabbit hole of Creativity. We hope that it’s a rabbit hole that exists in a world where Donald Trump isn’t president. We feel with the climate catastrophe as it is, human survival is at stake. The path we are on isn’t about electoral politics. We feel that creativity in and of itself is a political act, and that to define politics as about Trump and Biden diminishes creative focus. In order to buy into the overimportance of the horse race between Democrats and Republicans in the 2020 election, we’d have to internalize the propaganda that says that politics is about casting a vote every four years.
The choice is clear. We must elect Biden, as if the future of our dreams depend upon it. Our Visions of who we want to be as people and creative artists depends on us not being underwater.
We resist the idea of clarifying too much as in “it’s not about Biden, it’s just about how the future is grim under Trump”.
Aspirin Regimen’s path gets us to a rabbit hole of creativity, and if Trump is elected, we will still reach that good and true rabbit hole of creativity.
If Aspirin Regimen ends up in a rabbit hole of creativity under a Biden administration, we will still be us, and there is a greater chance that we will avoid climate catastrophe.
We don’t emphasize the logic behind our choice, although we sincerely hope Trump is defeated. By who is irrelevant in this election, and realistically it has to be Biden who will fill a seat that replaces Trump.
We can only say this because of you, the listener... and we are happy to announce that Aspirin Regimen is one year old today!
Next year, we hope to be celebrating our second birthday under a Biden administration.
But we want to emphasize, politics isn’t about this election, or any. It’s about every day work towards making the world the way you want it. We feel that to focus on elections is going to make people such as yourself, the listener, who have your own creative projects, feel as though your work isn’t good enough.
We suggest you look at your own creativity like it’s a jalopy making a cross country trip.
You’re driving a car from NY to California and you have to get there, you’re on a deadline. Well, you’d better know what to do if the jalopy breaks down when you’re in Arizona. Can you fix a flat? What if suddenly the steering wheel falls off, and you could go into the Grand Canyon?
Politics is about knowing how to change that tire in your creative process. It’s about knowing what to do when your creative spark needs jumper cables. And more importantly than what to do, who to BE when you rejuvenate yourself after getting that jalopy a tune up.
Everyone has the same God-given amount of power. It’s like a pie that is evenly divided among all humans... we all get the same size slice.
Some people use their power more effectively than others. This can be seen as a definition of politics, though the first sentence of Aristotle’s “Politics” gives a good description of what Aspirin Regimen’s politics are all about:
“As we see that every city is a society, and every society is established for some good purpose; for an apparent good is the spring of all human actions; it is evident that this is the principle upon which they are every one founded, and this is more especially true of that which has for its object the best possible, and is itself the most excellent, and comprehends all the rest.”
We want you to be able to find the seeds of your creativity within you and through your process. This will always be true, no matter if we end up with Trump or Biden. We prefer Humanity to survive, and we want your creative work to be so strong. As Aristotle says, “for an apparent good is the spring of all actions.”
Your inherent good is apparent to us, and the path we are on is gonna get us to the rabbit hole of creativity.
So let’s go forward toward Aspirin Regimen’s SECOND ANNIVERSARY!!!!
Before we say goodbye, I just want to say that the music for this episode... you know, THIS music... was produced by Mr. Funkee.
INSTAGRAM: _mrfunkee
