Sean Ongley

Category: The Not-a-Podcast Show

  • Sex Magic with Marcus and Forest Mommy

    Sex Magic with Marcus and Forest Mommy

    Episode 25 of The-Not-a-Podcast Show is my first anniversary show, and it features two past guests together for the first time: Forest Mommy and Marcus.

    Marcus is an expert on occult practices and Forest Mommy is something of a sex magician. I wanted to bring us together to explore the topic because I realized that there is power behind every sexual experience, whether there is any physical contact between two people or not.

    Forest Mommy uses her sexual energy online to attract an audience and transmit the message of personal freedom, from coerced medical interventions to sexual choice. Marcus uses sex magic within his marriage and seeks a relationship with God.

    My blog is meant for the more personal admissions and reflections about the content than lets say a purely promotional tweet. That said, my questioning had something to do with my own personal experience with someone and I wanted to understand how someone can gain a degree of control over your consciousness without having sex with you. And vice versa. Things that most of us do, like think about someone while gratifying ourselves, can make connections to people energetically or subconsciously.

    I want to be more careful about this. Not only I should be aware of what that does to someone on that level, but what it does for me. The imagination is more powerful than most people would admit. To consecrate my feelings for someone in my imagination is dangerous for myself as well, as it reinforces a potentially false reality. Magic is in many ways no more than the rippling of intention.

    The last thing I want to mention is the difficulty that I had keeping this interview on track. Forest Mommy admits on the show that she is pretty well drunk by the time we go live. I genuinely care for the woman whom I consider a friend and did not like seeing her in that shape for this show. On the other hand, from an objective standpoint, I was faced with interviewing a drunk person. I hope I handled it gracefully.

    With the chat room involved, it is a lively episode, my production value has improved and I’m looking forward to another year of episodes to come. Get it. To come. A verb in transitive.

    You can find Marcus on the Aquarian Anarchy podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find Forest Mommy on YouTube where she hosts two regular occurring livestreams.

  • Vegan Life with Sky Jack Morgan

    Vegan Life with Sky Jack Morgan

    Interview with vegan advocate Sky Jack Morgan

    As a counter balance to my talk with Texas Slim of the Beef Initiative, also a Bitcoin advocate, I had Sky Jack Morgan, host of the Vegan! podcast, entrepreneur, and Ethereum NFT guy. Could not be a starker contrast with Slim.

    My goal with The Not-a-Podcast Show is to talk to everyone about everything. It’s not easy getting liberals/progressives on the show. When I talk to Libertarians they tend to assume I fall in line with their thinking. There is hostility sometimes, but I find it gets real nasty with leftists.

    There was a moment when Sky equates myself to a child molester because I eat meat. He didn’t direct that at me personally, but he sees that as a moral equivalent: molesting animals in farms. I let it roll right past me, because it’s a trap argument to get caught in.

    This was a real test to see where I could find common ground. We ended the talk in good spirits and willing to keep in touch. That is success as far as I’m concerned.

    We talk about the ethics of veganism, the motives and goals, while I push back on the maximalism of that lifestyle/moral choice. It’s not that I have a problem with it or want to advocate for meat. I just think we have to live and let live and support the highest ethics of whatever our choice may be.

    As a coda, I made a 3-minute video chopping up three interviews, including this one, Slim, and Ross Farrier. It is a mashup that helps illuminate the argument and the common ground between us.

  • Taking a Left with Jean-Paul Jenkins

    Taking a Left with Jean-Paul Jenkins

    Jean-Paul Jenkins is an old friend and whenever we hang out we talk about whatever – anything – either competently or not, it is always an engaging thing. The concept of agreeing to disagree tends to work with matters that don’t involve real action at hand, and I believe because we ultimately live about the same kind of way, we thus get along fine.

    We’re low-income artists. We like communities, although we don’t tend to embed ourselves deeply into political parties or other kinds of groups outside of our music scene. It’s fascinating to me how my broad outlook and behavior in life hasn’t changed while I’ve become far more conservative in a pragmatic sense but anarchist in my baseline ideal social philosophy, thus maligning me from my politically obsessed socialist/progressive friends.

    This interview became a socialist versus libertarian argument, although I’m not either in true form, I am a little from both columns and I’m willing to be friendly with anyone who is friendly with me and those around me.

    That combined with my newfound great distrust for centralized power, I am trying to mend my old progressive views while decentralizing power.

    I really see a decentralized world more in line with the values that the new left espouses, but it’s difficult, because for some reason, power is deeply tied to the marxist way of viewing life, and capital is the primary source of power. Ironically, most socialists distrust authority while seeking it.

    JP makes a lot of compelling arguments and shares his story of living in a communitarian kind of way. As long as I have known him, he always offered a place to crash and food to eat to those around him. I always offered to lend a hand. That voluntarist kind of way is where we actually met common ground in life.

    Our band Death Worth Living was a voluntary band. The shows weren’t profitable. We toured a little bit but it was a kind of music that involved total cooperation. He did not start the band with me, but his involvement helped establish the group as a purely improvisational act.

    It’s good to see him playing with his band, who I was a big fan of, CEXFUCX, again, and I keep threatening to visit Portland again.

  • The Initiative of Texas Slim and his Beef with Big Industry

    The Initiative of Texas Slim and his Beef with Big Industry

    Texas Slim is a guy from Texas named Slim, not to be confused with the recording artist. He is on a tear against the establishment from the angle of beef, and he calls his crusade The Beef Initiative.

    Our conversation swirls around the cow as she connects to all areas of industry and agriculture. While I do not share his enthusiasm for a meat-based diet, I do not have an issue with it because I am a meat eater, and I agree that we can steward animals in a way that is good for everyone involved.

    We are domesticated ourselves. We abuse ourselves. In general, there is a lot of heart missing from our systems.

    At the same time, I own a vegan fashion brand, I’m a traditional liberal from Portland, and so I absorb vegan arguments routinely, and I’m broadly familiar with the arguments surrounding industrial farming, so I was pretty enthusiastic throughout this talk.

    Raising animals in the humane way can be sustainable and produce nutritious, bountiful, clean food. Getting away from mono cropping and more toward smaller farms with varieties of foods, that is the path forward, unless we want to go totally down the road of synthetic foods and centralized distribution systems, forever.

    This is the main thing that vegans and farmers, libertarians and democrats should be getting behind. Of course, our social environment is set to reduce this kind of harmonious discourse.

    Myself an historically left wing person now aligning more toward libertarian while continuing to have a social life with progressives and socialists has becoming quite an interesting thing for me.

    I try to be the example every day of what it means to tolerate and love everyone. Not everyone sees it that way and I have to let them go.

    This was a great talk and I enjoyed meeting him. Hope to do it again. We didn’t even get into Bitcoin, and that is a big part of his inititative.

  • Quiet Spirituality with Steve Simeone

    Quiet Spirituality with Steve Simeone

    Steve Simeone is a religious man, and quiet about it. He doesn’t announce it and perhaps my show was a rare break from pure comedy, I don’t know. All I know is that he’s got that positive energy that I’ve never really had and it is something to behold.

    We start with the fact that he’s from Delaware County, which is so close to Philly and so similar, we got to bond over that. I saw him do his Wawa bit in Royersford, PA, and it crushed. It is totally relatable and there is something about that place that puts everyone on their best behavior. It represents who we all should aspire to be.

    Getting to talk with him was a big deal, he’s the most successful comic I’ve had on the show, broadly famous and well connected to my favorite comics. I tried to make this the most professional presentation of the Not-a-Podcast Show yet.

    Audio bit me in the butt.

    Even after setting everything up, I moved the laptop downstairs and there was an auto-switch to the internal mic of the laptop and I couldn’t hear it because these systems don’t give you direct monitoring of the output signal. As an engineer that drives me nuts.

    So my good mic was not even the source, it became a prop. Ugh. Thankfully, I produce from a soundproof room, well padded, and the ambient noise is reduced to my creaking chair.

    Not just that, but the background audio feature on the streaming platform cut off randomly just as I was about to do a fade in.

    This blog is where I admit everything that went wrong and give a little personal side to things. Don’t take it as complaining.

    However, it did step a notch up for this show and my process is working. I appreciate Steve for joining me. He’s the best.