The Blake Cunningham Delirium
Don’t be serious, let’s gets delirious🫨
The Blake Cunningham Delirium
EP 18 SNUGGIES, SKULLS, AND STELLAR NONSENSE
Welcome to a milestone moment in the Blake Cunningham Delirium universe—our very first video episode! Filmed outdoors during that perfect sweet spot between summer and fall, this visual journey introduces a whole new dimension to the stream-of-consciousness experience you've come to expect, complete with a decorative skull backdrop and what Blake self-deprecatingly calls "an extremely flattering camera angle."
The birthday episode kicks off with Blake unwrapping his thoughts about Metroid Dread, a gift from his girlfriend that has been giving him the "heebie-jeebies" when played after dark. His musings on video game difficulty balance between Metroid's rewarding challenge and Demon's Souls' potential frustration offers gamers a relatable touchpoint. As fall approaches—Blake's favorite season for its "spookiness"—he connects these gaming experiences to the changing atmosphere around us.
Things take an existential turn when Blake contemplates an incoming asteroid, questioning the very nature of preparation when facing cosmic inevitability. "What are you preparing for exactly?" becomes a philosophical thread that weaves through discussions of Canadian wildfires, Instagram critics, and music recommendations. His passionate endorsement of Primus and The Claypool Lennon Delirium reveals the show's musical heart, while his improvised explanation of Schrödinger's cat as it relates to gambling decisions showcases the unique mental connections that make this podcast unlike any other.
Ready to experience the Blake Cunningham Delirium in all its visual glory? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see the skull decoration, the snuggie, and yes, those "grody fingernails" Blake mentions. And don't forget to check out Blake's music on all streaming platforms—as he puts it, it's "charged up to the max with all kinds of melodies, riffs, solos, and vocal harmonies."
Hello and welcome to the show, the first video episode of the Blake Cunningham Delirium. We are here outside um, outside for a good time outside, and we have a very flattering camera angle going and we got the mic covered in hair and dust and we have this skull thing behind me. Now I I'm just excited to to say see myself on this screen, because this is a big step going forward and it's really going to add a new dimension to the show and I have a lot to talk about today and I have a lot to talk about today. Actually, seeing myself makes this much worse, because I can see just the dread in my eyes. Speaking of dread, I recently it was my birthday. This is the birthday episode, happy birthday. But it's not just my birthday, it's everyone's birthday. And you get one lemon. You get a lemon for your birthday. So, oh, that's an unflattering, this is kind of a pruney Lemon Lemon. Oh, that's an unflattering, this is kind of pruney Lemon. Oh, wow, this is a game changer.
Speaker 1:So I got Metroid Dread for my birthday as a gift from my GF. Metroid oh, it's like, it's like rotting um as a gift from my GF. So, metroid Dread I it's. I know it's a little too, too. It's a few years too late, but I'm really enjoying it. Listen to the breeze. This is nice. It's nice weather right now. It's like in between summer and fall and it's going to be a good fall. Fall is my favorite season because it's spooky season, and it will be a great season to play Metroid Dread, because Metroid Dread, honestly it's kind of a spooky game. It honestly spooked me out a little bit, like, I'm not gonna lie, it kind of gave me the heebie-jeebies when I played it at night. Um, yeah, and it's a good game. I like it. It's challenging enough, it's good and challenging and it's, um, it's challenging enough. Um, it's challenging enough. Like some games, like I tried. I recently got Demon's Souls I think it's called Demon's Souls and it's challenging, but it's like, it's almost like just too hard, to the point where it's not rewarding and fun as well. So I had a whole bunch of news articles pulled up on my cell phone, but now it's being used in the recording process process, um, and so I can't do it.
Speaker 1:But there was something about an asteroid coming, and here's my, here's my take on the whole asteroid thing. It's like if you, if you knew, just give up, like I, I don't know what is the? Um, what is the point? If it's like, oh, the asteroid's coming, I have to what? What are you preparing for? I guess, like it just listen that see, that's mother nature agreeing with me.
Speaker 1:Because, um, what do you like? What are you, uh, preparing for exactly? You know, it's like a tornado thing, I, I like it's not quite, I guess, a tornado you can drive, you can drive to a northern state or I don't know whatever, wherever that this is coming, wherever, whatever providence you happen to be residing in, and, um, I don't know, like, what are you exactly preparing for? Because it's like it's inevitable in all shapes and fashions, because, like, it is a nice breeze. The breeze is nice because I have like bo right now, and the breeze, well, I don't know. I don't know if it's penetrating the snuggie, but it could. If it was cold enough, I'm sure which I don't know it might get colder today. But guess what, guess what? It probably won't be any colder today. So I'm not actually trying to cover my face, but I don't want anybody to get too excited. So, yeah, an asteroid is coming, probably later today. I would look out for it, but don't try to stop the inevitable. That's just, I don't know, a waste of time. But also, is it really a waste of time? Because it's um, it gives you something to to look forward to in your uh, life, your very meaningful life, um, uh.
Speaker 1:Next, I'm trying not to say um, but I, but by saying that I just said yeah, oh man, there's like snot coming out of my nose on this microphone, so we're definitely going to sell this as an artifact someday, with an autograph. Next on the list list, not that list, but on the list of. Got to talk about it. It's the elephant in the room. My instagram haters, if you're, if you've been hating on my instagram, I am going to roast you and school you and and take you to the graveyard. I mean, that's not a threat, but I'm going to annihilate you in the comment sections with a, with a type of like a, not an insult, because that might be considered slander but like I'm not gonna be, I'm gonna school you, I'm gonna take you back to school and way down inside, honey, you need a little led zeppelin.
Speaker 1:This is still a music show. It's a music comedy show, um, and people like it. I mean, this show is getting numbers in in all kinds of countries and and places like places that, like, literally, you wouldn't even understand the? Um, you wouldn't even understand the. There would be a language barrier. I guess there would have to be like some kind of language barrier, because there's no way you understand my just dumb rambling of nothingness unless, I don't know, maybe they do that in other other, other, other other countries where it's like they um, they just listen, like to get through work, they listen to stuff that they can't understand, like at their job. Maybe it makes the day go faster because it's like, well, every second of this is unintelligible. So maybe it explains the meaningless, meaningly meaningliness of my job. Meaninglessness, meaning lessness, meaning less claypool.
Speaker 1:Let's talk next. Oh, next on the agenda here. Let's talk about less claypool from bands such as oysterhead, um, primus, claypool, lennon Delirium. I'm just now hearing about these things.
Speaker 1:The Claypool Lennon Delirium is a side project. I'm not actually reading anything, is it? Oh, it's coming. The at is coming. I can smell the sulfur and magma oozing from the asteroid and it is coming right towards us. It's hurtling towards us in a fashion I always say that on here in in a way that other asteroids would not do, that. Um, what was I talking? Oh, primus, everybody should be listening to primus. Um, uh, you should be listening to Primus, probably every day. Every other day will also do. And the Claypool Lennon Delirium. You gotta be doing that every day, you gotta be every morning.
Speaker 1:Blood and Rockets Movement One, amethyst Realm the other songs the first album by them is okay. There's like a Crickets song on the album. It's good, it's acceptable and you know, do it. Listen to it Breakfast, dinner and lunch. At the end of the night, right before you go to bed, play Metroid Dread and listen to the Claypool Lennon Delirium, the um satisfaction. Uh, no, no, no, no, no. That is the path in steps to a greater and better. Better life is to listen to the things I just told you to listen to now and play Metroid Dread. This is not an ad for Metroid Dread, but I wish it was.
Speaker 1:It's the end of summer. You know what that means back to school season and cool season is over with. You know what that means Back to school season and cool season is over with. So that only means one one thing Check out Blake Cunningham on Spotify, apple Music, amazon Music, tidal, iheartradio, pandora and other streaming services. Blake Cunningham's music is charged up to the max with all kinds of melodies, riffs, solos and vocal harmonies and vocal um bliss and mattress matrimony, and and check it out b-l-a-k-e-c-u-n-n-i-G-H-A-M on Spotify, apple Music, everywhere you get your music. Thank you to that portion of the show.
Speaker 1:Next deal of business. Next deal of business. I don't want to have to talk about it, but, but Wait, I had some Genius Thing to say. Now my stomach is rumbling.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to do with today. Do I go get fast food or something? Is that a good use of my time? Do I cook a home cooked meal for myself? Is that a good use of my time, because I'm just going to eat it all and go to fall asleep? Do I actually work on music today? Do I actually do what I've been setting out to do this entire time? Do I go for the kill? Do I take things seriously? Do I make another episode of the show? No, this is literally the most mentally draining thing I've ever done. I have to sit here and talk and look at myself. It's, it's terrible. It's probably the worst thing anyone could do to themselves, and I got this extremely flattering camera angle going on. But I wanted the first one to be the best one and to not be the worst one, and that is something to take into account.
Speaker 1:Next deal of business, can we talk about these Canadian wildfires? What's what is up with that? They just be doing this, they just be doing that, and they, they start the fires all the time, like there's been like four or five different fires that Canada has endured, to like us as Americans, and I don't know why we're all just letting it slide. I mean, I don't know, there might be other geopolitical things going into it, or maybe it really is just some kind of wild accident that they're just starting fires over there all day long. I don't know. I mean, what are the odds? They just start fires right before the new iPhone comes out. Iphone 17 puts out wildfires. Samsung Galaxy S37.
Speaker 1:Take pictures of the smog in 4K. I think a storm is a brewing. If it started raining while I was doing this, that would be probably the most legendary thing to happen in the history of my show. It's going good, guys, it's going good. The show is straddling along, we're almost there. Just just don't click off.
Speaker 1:If you're watching this on YouTube, kudos, kudos to you, okay, because I wouldn't. I wouldn't watch content like this, but I mean the, the skull in the background. I mean that would keep me interested for at least 30 seconds, but other than that, I don't know. I don't know, I wouldn't be able to watch this. I wouldn't be able to watch something like this, honestly. So kudos to you. You're a real one, you're a real champ and you're a true soldier and it's nice to have you around. Honestly, it's nice to have you around. I'm just trying to think. I'm not trying to block your view of Mr I don't know Dennis. I like Dennis. I feel like that's like an ominous desert name.
Speaker 1:Looking at that skull thing makes me want to play Red Dead Redemption 2 very badly, and it should. This is not an ad for Red Dead Redemption 2. But this skull thing is really. It's like it's just right there, I mean like it's. It's in my peripheral. I can't. I actually I can't see it out of my, out of my right eye. This is my left eye, this is my right eye, but I can see it in the viewfinder, as they would say in the business. Here's the thing. All right, this is the thing everybody is talking about this week. Last week it was the thing. You know what I'm talking about. This week. It was the. The thing. You know what I'm talking about this week.
Speaker 1:It's the other thing that's, um, I don't know. It's like a uh, a uh, a pop star named Taylor Swift is getting married to Travis Barker. It's a head scratcher. I can see the. Okay, now I can see the meteor. Yeah, I won't show meteor. It's. Yeah, I won't show you. I'm not trying to scare anybody at home, but I can see the meteor now, Like it is in my immediate view, like I can see the meteor hurling towards us and it's kind of, it's nice. You know, like sometimes the moon is like red or orange because of like oxidation or something like that.
Speaker 1:I used, I used to care about science. I really did, until it became like this thing. It's like okay, like you see something, uh, one year and the next year, it's like they actually disproved this. It's like okay, so it just none of it is is of any. You know, good use of your time. It's all just like. I don't know. It's all really just speculation, like, like most things.
Speaker 1:It's like, you know, it's almost like a gamble. Um, you know, I went gambling this weekend On my birthday, and I am addicted to gambling. Uh, wait, can I even say that on this, Whatever I'm not addicted to gambling, do not gamble. I even say that on this, whatever I'm not addicted to gambling, do not gamble is bad for you, it I actually I it's like it's like lukewarm, like it's, it's what you make it like. Yeah, I want to go back right now and I'm convinced I would like win a substantial amount if I did go back.
Speaker 1:But if I here's the thing, here's, here's some real science. Okay, the Schroedner's cat thing. Okay, it's like. Okay, it's like, here's the Schroedner's cat thing and I and I'm not butchering this, I actually know everything about this. So the Schrodinger's cat thing is like the cat's in the box. That kills it. It has a 50% chance of being dead or alive, and when it's in the box, it's in a quantum state of being both dead and alive, of being both dead and alive. So the casino, a slot machine and scratch-off actually work the exact same way, where, if you don't play, if you play, you have a 1% chance of winning or whatever winning anything substantial, but if you don't play, you have a guaranteed zero percent chance of not winning anything. Um, and if you have a, uh, where?
Speaker 2:is I going?
Speaker 1:with this if you gotta block the win, if you, but also if you don't play, then you have a. You are both winning and losing at the same time. So it's always better to play and get the outcome, because if you don't play, you have a 0% chance Of getting the outcome, and that's basically Quantum physics In it's entirety Is just like If you don't, if you turn around, you have 100% chance of facing the north, but if you don't turn around, you have a 0% chance of facing south. Both directions, then you or if you face, if you faced west, you're facing both directions Simultaneously and you're in a state of Quantum superposition. And that's why it's all A big waste of time, because Go outside and just Play in the dirt. Literally take, go outside, take your shoes off and jab your toes into the dirt until your toenails are full of, until your toenails are pressurized because there's so much dirt in between your nails, and then you'll actually you'll feel something for once, instead of walking around telling people that do not care about quantum physics and your google stadia, because nobody actually gives any.
Speaker 1:I haven't sworn this whole episode Now. I really want to, but I won't because the first video episode is extremely flattering. Is this a little bit more flattering? Is this what you wanted? Is this what you want me to do? Be some kind of performative weirdo? Is that what you want me to do? Be some kind of Performative weirdo? Is that what you want? Want me to say Cool beans? Do you want me to be that guy, person, guy, that's like cool beans, just going with the flow. Man, hell, no, I just swore I ruined the episode, just swore on the episode well.
Speaker 1:I think that's good for the first video episode. I had all this other stuff, all these other news stories about I don't know the asteroid's, the only one I remember. I don't know what else is going on. There's like something about some states, maybe it was like Virginia's like doing this chemical castration thing.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know if that's actually probably not appropriate for the show. This is like a PBS program. This is, like you know, this is a public program. We invite all kinds of ideas and stuff on here, unless they're like, don't align with my philosophy of like Having long hair and like being super cool All the time and like Having a podcast and like Making music on Spotify. Go check that out Blake Cunningham On Spotify. If you're Listening, if you're Listening to the show, the name Of the music Is In the. Some of some of the songs are even on this channel. Unless you're on Spotify, then you're not even. You're getting a audio version of this anyway and, like everything, any of the visual, visual elements don't make sense to you anyway. But that's okay because you can.
Speaker 1:If you go on YouTube the Blake Cunningham delirium, you can see my grody fingernails. You can see this uh, moose head thing behind me. You can see my glass of water. Um, you can see my attire, my suit and tie. I have that so funny A suit and tie. I know the show isn't funny, but it's going to keep going and I'm going to get guests and I don't care, I'm still doing the show isn't funny, but it's going to keep going and I'm going to get guests and I don't care. I'm still doing the show. And F? I'm not going to say the word, but F? F, all the Instagram haters who have been pulling up on my block. That's been the Blake Cunningham Delirium. Thank you guys, thank you. That's, that's been the blake cunningham delirium. Thank you guys, thank you, and um, I'm gonna play metroid dread today and probably listen to the claypool linen delirium. Yeah, yeah, all right, all right, yeah, mic drop. Okay, that going to damage the microphone.
Speaker 2:The gears still turn the circuits turn. They were once as calm.