EP 22 CEASEFIRE AND SIDE-EYE

A black van. A sudden sponsor read. A confident claim that a centuries-deep conflict is “done.” We play the joke straight, then let the absurdity do the heavy lifting, exposing how easy it is to accept neat endings when the truth is heavy and our timelines are tired. The bit about a ceasefire wrapped with candy words isn’t just a gag; it’s a mirror held up to headlines and our own urge to move on.

From there, we veer into a shameless music plug that knows it’s shameless. We talk bangers, FLAC files, DACs, and the mythic pull of “perfect” frequencies, poking fun at audiophile lore while admitting why it’s tempting: when policy feels immovable, sound feels like a world we can shape. You’ll hear a riff on how art becomes a refuge, a hustle, and sometimes a truth engine that outpaces the news. We even test a heresy: does value come from control, or from circulation? The piracy riff is satire with a point, asking whether reach matters more than receipts when you’re trying to move hearts.

Under the jokes runs a thread about responsibility. If compromise lives “in the heart,” it can’t stay there; it has to show up in attention, in patience with complexity, in refusing to treat real harm like a plot twist with a tidy bow. We challenge quick closure, invite you to question the story beats you’re fed, and still leave space for joy in the making of things that matter. Laugh with us, argue with us, then decide what kind of story you’re willing to live inside.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And CIA Bit
• 1:12 Satirical Pivot To Gaza
• 2:05 Mocking The “Conflict Solved” Narrative
• 4:12 Compromise As Free Peace
• 5:35 Music Plug And Hi‑Fi Mysticism
• 8:24 Piracy Rant And Grand Sendoff

Transcript

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Hello and welcome back to the show. We got a little bigger show for you. Um What is going on? Uh this is the only show that doesn't that isn't literally this is the only show that isn't funded by the CAA The CIA This is the only show that isn't funded by the CAA. Do you think those do you think those other show isn't it a little suspicious? The kind of information that is put out in like the types of connections and like isn't it suspicious? Like at all? No, probably not. There's a black van behind me. Oh oh oh look at that. There's a black oh there's a couple oh I'll be back in one second, okay? I'll be I'll be I'll be back. This show is brought to you by the CIA. Now now that this is a pro CIA show, let's talk about the the uh conflict in Gaza. There was a ceasefire deal, and this happened a few days ago, and it's it's done. It's it's over. We're we're the conflict's over, the whole thing's done, sweep it under the rug. It's all it's all candy and sugar and and um nothing to uh worry about at all. You know? It it's just you know it's two little kids fighting and you you break it up, you say, hey, yeah, we're gonna take we're gonna put you guys to sleep. We're gonna it's time for bed and they go to bed and they never fight again. It's all good now guys. There's nothing to worry about. There's not a there's not a shred of doubt in my heart that this whole thing i you know this this multi generational multi-century you know conflict is is that it's done. It in one day we figured it out, we just had to tell 'em, hey, knock it off, you little rascal. It's done. It it's it all just a little wag of the finger and it's all good. There's nothing to worry about, and you can you can sleep soundly now. If you already weren't sleeping soundly in this country on you know your temperatic mattress, well you can sleep soundly now. There's there's not a there's not a star in the sky that won't shine unless you sleep tonight. That's what I've always said and I'll say it again. It it we're okay now. It's all good. We did it we we did it guys, we did it. It's we just we just went in there, we just said knock it off, and we just we just stopped them. Just dead in their tracks, just oh okay, yeah, my bad. Sorry I didn't know. Oh, that was our bad. Oh that was our ba it was our fault, it wasn't their fault, and then they say it was their fault, it wasn't our fault, but don't worry, we're gonna stop now. It's all over it's all over now. And yeah, and the solution didn't even it didn't even cost a dime. It didn't even cost a penny just just like that. You know, free the conflict conflicts cost money. Compromises are free because they're in your heart. Just remember the compromise is in your heart. There's always a destination to get to, and there's always another option, but we can't achieve any type of everlasting peace without my next upcoming projects. I have this song I'm working on, and it is a banger. Like it's such a banger that I don't I can't even use it as an intro song for the show. It's like so good that I can't even I can't I can't even like tease it. Like I'm afraid somebody's gonna steal it. And like if even if I did like a 10-second clip, like they're gonna put that up on their thing, and they're gonna make a lot of money because it's really good. And you should definitely always listen like pretty much like just like only listen to my music. Like my music, Blake Cunningham at Spotify, B L I K E C U N N I N G H A M. Is like it's like it's like use it, like use it to its full capacity. Like when you like you could you're you're only listening on like a base a basic like frequency. Like you there are other frequencies like this is like hi-fi, flack, like DAC, like this is like some hi-fi stuff, like you gotta like go in and like you gotta ch change the like fundamental frequencies to like like 432 to like maybe even like 252 hertz in above like even into the 200 kilohertz range, like you have to listen in such a way that like you uncover like the fundamental truths of the U universe and make maybe even like geo geo geologic like shapes and not geologic but geometric shapes, but if you want to find geo geologic shapes as well, I mean that it's open to all kinds of of uh in uh interpretation and all varieties of interpretation. So the bottom line is go into your Spotify and like like or whatever of whatever streaming platform or service or I don't know you go go ahead. You you can even pirate it. I don't care if you can if it if it's popular if it's somehow it's viol like uh violated the mainstream in such a way that uh people are looking to pirate it, then go ahead and pirate it. There's nothing wrong with that, and there's and there shouldn't be something wrong with that. So just go ahead, just delete all the other artists out of your life, and uh check my music out, Blake Cunningham and Spotify, everlasting peace and glory, and have have an amazing day out there because you never know when it might be your last.