Thank you, Bob.
I have to say, I used to skip over Zappa due to what I saw as simply against the grain / experimental art-music that I had little interest in exploring.
Tried to listen to his earlier stuff, but only seemed to encounter the talky-bizarre stuff and couldn't sit through it.
I've seen some of his straightforward (more conventional) compositions and I'm impressed. Plan to listen more...
OK, Payroll. The first show on air was great! I laughed out loud a lot.
Some of my favorite moments (James really liked iON's response to this first one as well):
A questioner ("flippy", "slippy"?) asks (Hour 1, 43 min. mark), "...Are there realities where all of the dark stuff actually occurs and consciousness papers over and switches vibratory tunnels?"
iON responds, "No. Not at all. There is no dark. That's the point. You only gauge dark by the absence of light. Well you can't create darkness, but you can control the amount of light.
So, you ran yourself down this rabbit hole, and then you want to have creature...spirituality conditions that placate your position to position you into a new place where you can see the light, rather than drown in the dark.
Well, none of them apply. And at the gates of hell you'll still realize you're the only hell your momma ever raised, and there it is.
So, as you come more and more into your place of joy, and delight yourself, then all of this mega-physical, meta-meta-meta-mess goes away, because it doesn't make a flip's but of difference, flipper, in 1.2 seconds, because it's all based on puffery and fear anyway.
They're trying to convince you that you're less-than, so you have to listen to them, so they can be more-than.
When you come into your own place of power you'll know."
I also enjoyed the following comment from iON (Hour 2, 18 min. mark) that came about during an exchange with Carolyn about eating, ReAline and how some folks can eat all they want and not gain weight:
James asked if it mattered how much you ate, to which iON responded, "It never matters how much you eat".
iON, "The reason that you're eating is significant. OK, if you have a mental disorder that's causing you to eat, or not eat, then it's an issue of the mind.
See, then you have to overcome that, or anything...people diet and gain weight. They'd look at a glass of water and gain 5 pounds, but other people eat 10,000 calories and they're 115 female / 150 male pounds and they don't gain an ounce.
And they're the ones you hate going to dinner with, because they'll order a second entree, and you're looking at your watercress salad, going, "What the fuck?" hahha
Other favorite moments:
iON plays the Portal 2 song and Bob starts objecting over the song toward the end, then lambastes iON for playing it (playfully, of course).
Bob's railing (mentioned imm. above) and other periods of two, three or all four participants talking over each other are funny and illustrative highlights. It's all play and there are no rules.
Having one or more person talking over one another is also, I believe, Bob's illustration of the chip body environment / tactility.
Also, Bob gets on a masturbation tangent (starting in Hour 2, 32 min. mark). This was hilarious.
Bob happily carries this theme forward, including as a response to email / chat board questions. Bob suggests in one instance that the good vibrations might emanate to your neighbor and they'll join you. What's not to like?
iON adds, "Rub one out for the Gipper."
iON responds to the following chat board / email question from Christina in Mexico, which Bob reads aloud.
Bob has trouble containing himself as he reads. He has to stop and re-start reading early on, having trouble with the phraseology, but you can tell he's also trying to get the question out without laughing.
Bob was genuinely having trouble keeping it together here.
The question, "I've had the reconnection to connect the DNA axitional lines. Can iON tell me anything about this? Did it reconnect me to the 12 new energy lines?" Bob chortles out the last few words of this.
Bob responds (in part), "Just start masturbating."
iON responds (in part), "...Is that like lines of cocaine? An eight ball? If I had 12 lines of blow, will it connect me to my...would I know what energy is if I do 12 consecutive lines of ReAline?
Go get lined up, honey. You're going to be in a line-up if you do it in the wrong place. Do that...do 12 lines in Union Station and you'll be in the line-up, you certainly will."
Bob reads Cider Somerset's(sp?) comment, (paraphrased), "Glad you're back and raring to go with more useless info."
iON says at this point, "Bill, you should feel better about that - we've now achieved uselessness."
Very significant point to follow:
A questioner, Ben from Florida, asks (Hour 3, 43 min. mark), "Is there a catalyst for RnA Drops?"
iON responds, "Yes, human DNA."
Ben continues, "Is there something to consume with RnA Drops and ReAline that helps accelerate the ascension process?"
iON responds, "No, not just yet, but when the H197 gets into a higher capacity within the atmosphere, you'll find that it will move it much faster, because there will be no oxidation, because oxygen will decrease.
So, once that kicks in, it will become an agar that kicks it, sort of jump starts it."
iON further says, "It [Oxygen] has been your inhibitor all along. Oxygen is an oxidizer. Oxygen rots you."
RnA Drops will become more effective when the H197 achieves a certain capacity in our atmosphere.
Bob says, "So, when the radiation takes over the atmosphere and oxygen diminishes RnA Drops will work better!"
Bob also references my earlier question, saying, "You'll be able to turn into an animal faster." hahaah Thanks for that.
iON and Bob also allude to a separate completement / food item (The Bread of Life), which is still to come.
Bob's Lazarus experience is also mentioned.
Bob never mentions what he (and Carolyn and J.W.) did while on his workation, but whatever it was, it shook up the United States (in particular, the Nation's Capital).
This was a great return show with lots of laughs and new information (we like new info)!
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