Operation Superstructure Skydive w Mx Defying

Welcome back, Mayberry! Your good ol host Shift is here with Auntie Boy, the most contrast, hyper masc/femme, elevated and deep, up and coming rapper from the LA area you. 

This is the Audio Only Version of this episode. To watch the video version, go to Good Morning Mayberry YouTube.

 

This conversation is all pearls, cardigans, and lap cats while Shift asks what in the actual fuck went down to manifest this cottagecore musical masterpiece.

After a special appearance from Auntie Boy’s little kitty, Twissleton, you get to find out why these sicc genre jolting beats and lyrics exist. 

We out here talking bout weird ideas, people trying to make us watch Dr. Who, and the multitudes we all contain.

The jive is hawt on production, collaboration, sharing, and life lessons learned through music and talks about perfectionism as an obstacle to success and happiness.

Auntie Boy shares his creative process for writing and beat production. 

Shift shares how his drum teacher taught him to find solutions by making loud mistakes. 

Auntie talks about his song release party at Violet 7 Studios. Spoiler alert, Shift went and is still obsessed with Echos dropping a surprise that may or may not be edited into the end of this episode.

Sit in with your boys, Shift and Auntie, as they appreciate the art of crafting your weirdness into a homing beacon to attract things and people into your life.

It’s giving Celine Dion. It’s giving Matisyahu. It’s giving lit version of gramma’s house.

It’s raining flowers! hallelujah. Come join Shift as he meets the beautiful and brilliant Auntie Boy!

 

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Now. Go listen to the Meryl Streep EP!

Let’s time travel back to January 29, 2023, with the glorious gem, Amy Dee, who came to stand by Shift as he firmly defends his reputation with the truth.

Some liars have threatened Shift’s life and livelihood by targeting him with hundreds of triggered fanatics --- this story is very important.

Learn about the timeline of Shift’s experience getting caught up in Eat Predators' messy “organization” after Alexa Nikolas started what may be the most selfish, inappropriate, and poorly managed book club that has ever existed outside of Yellowjackets season 1. 

Amy Dee reminds us that the #metoo movement centralizes around Central Casting, and mentions how irrelevant people can be made relevant by connecting their names in articles to actually important, well-known people and events.

Shift covers some anecdotal moments like how Alexa Nikolas' husband randomly left their baby alone with him... In a car... With the keys. And made Shift drive the baby around while he and Alexa Nikolas hung around taking pictures at a protest at Orange County School of the Arts with people like Nomi Abadi, Amanda Peters, and their partners. He also mentions how he was aggressively harassed by a police officer during the time they left him and their child alone. 

Shift refers to the bizarre and mysterious exposé website, alexanikolas.net, and how far back some truly alarming accusations about Alexa Nikolas’ abuse of others goes. He also reviews how Melanie Veronica inserted her undeserved and erratic #freebritney clout to boost Alexa Nikolas’ lies.

Tangentially, Shift highlights how long he's been working with media, culture, and movements with a story about taking care of Bella Eiko’s baby for 2 weeks in 2014 when Bella went to live stream the events in Ferguson just after Mike Brown was killed.

Can Alexa Nikolas project a lie that shines brighter than who Shift really is?

Can people play dumb while being smartasses?

Can movements ever get their shit together?

In all these questions and confusions… we know this much is true… liberal movement "leaders" tend to make themselves the Mean Girls in every room they’re in.

And… Shift and Amy Dee are committed to facing any foe to help make society more trauma-informed and honest.

 

How did Shift go from being called a “godsend” to being falsely accused of being a “stalker” by Alexa Nikolas and her husband, her mother, and her cultish fanatical “organization”?

Let’s get into it.

 

Hate us or love us? Call us and tell us at 415-343-4420.

 

Also.... get ready for Amy Dee and Shift's upcoming podcast, Glitch Sesh! A media and culturally-informed history and society focusing on spiritual predators and power abusers who seek to serve themselves at the expense of society and the cultural ramifications and consequences and how social behavior contributes to the erosion of trust in the culture of American society in modern times.

Season 1 is all about Britney Spears' circa 2004-2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[By the way, we aren’t breaking any laws, civil or criminal, by continuing to tell the truth.]

Lapi rushes in to update us on the new vile, fallacious smear/scare campaign being spun into tangled webs of lies that are constricting the #freebritney ecosystem. 

Lapi points out the extreme danger that cult behavior in Eat Predators poses to survivors and allies. Shift points out how much of a waste of time it was for Lapi to try and come up with more respectful terms than “pink clown” to describe Melanie Veronica even after she tried to silence him from publicly addressing concerns about Michael Kane controlling Britney Spears’ business.

How tragically meta that the Free Britney groupies are now getting their own following of fans. 

Let’s connect some alleged dots.

• Melanie Veronica used to work with BJ from That Surprise Witness.
• BJ has routinely avoided addressing many key players surrounding Team Con.
• Melanie is now buddied up with Alexa Nikolas. Alexa, Melanie, and BJ all regularly silence engagement in critical discussion about their platforms' harmful impacts and have made concerted moves to manipulate Britney Spears' conservatorship case to vault their own platforms into greater visibility.
• Alexa, Melanie, and BJ have also all been suspected in several people's alleged opinions of behaving in ways that several people suspect to be in controlled opposition to freedom movements.
• And they’ve all received significant material and social rewards at the expense of activists and researchers they try to bully out of the movement.

The growing list of false accusations Melanie and Alexa have publicly made against Shift includes uncharacteristic criminal and unethical acts… all because they don’t want you to hear our episode about The Real & True Origin Story Of Eat Predators w/ Caeli Higgins and Kay Brown.

You could check it out. Or maybe you should just shield your eyes and ears from the truth since these pretty little gals don’t want you to know what’s in there.

Get the real timeline of events to clarify confusion and alleviate public fear that Alexa Nikolas conjured up with her bizarre, alarmist tweets and “69 page open letter” (that Shift still hasn’t read yet as of the airing of this episode and) that (according to multiple lawyers, PR professionals, and literally random people just using basic common sense) should be removed and revised with the truth.

Learn what malfeasance Haunted American Girl Dolls Meanie the Clown and Hellexa are up to.

Melanie Veronica is running out of reasons to propel her fame on the inertia of Britney Spears' conservatorship case so it could make sense that she's trying to stay relevant by fabricating scary stories with deceitful, failed former child actor, Alexa Whattheactualfuckgurl Nikolas.

Anyway… go listen to Lapi's new song as a palate cleanser when you're done getting updated on this shitshow.

Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world-class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar.

What if you were allowed, even encouraged, to lie? If you’re learning about public communications from Professor Christine Warda, you might find yourself invited to lie… and possibly rewarded for lying if you do it well. 

Let's explore some angles on information, misinformation, and disinformation.

• How can we make sound choices in a world riddled with competing opinions and conflicting narratives?
• Can we really know people through online interactions? 

After Shift gets into how much he doesn’t get commercial holidays… briefly time-travel with christY back to 2011 when she was trying to hold teach-ins about what Occupy Oakland was really doing... and how she got the shakedown from law enforcement based on devious media warping their expectations. 

This chat on ethical communications kinda gets into everything here… truth, lies, trust, the idea of what a "friend" is, human psychology, betrayal, social dynamics, pop culture, media, news, the unreliable narratives our memories can offer us, satire, influence, fear, derailed trains in East Palestine, Ohio... ruining television, conspiracy theories, our individual power, aliens (except not according to Biden’s White House)… but…

You can leave your tin foil hat on the rack for this one. Shift and christY get this show back on the rails with a sobering look at perception and trust.

Christine Warda is a Communication Consultant & Educator with rich and innovative experience in professional training & coaching. She’s coached national champio debate teams and worked with a vast range of demographics in her private and academic offerings. 

About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

Lapi returns to discuss concerns about Alexa Nikolas hijacking the Eat Predators group from the seasoned survivor advocates, organizers only to wind up manipulating the #freeBritney movement for visibility and fame-chasing with Melanie Veronica. 

Shift misquotes one of his favorite quotes --- then google checks himself. Lapi ponders on the ethics of big platforms weaponizing the Internet to attack people, then tears into callout culture and celebrity influence on fanbases. 

Lapi describes being contacted by participants of #freeBritney who were reaching out to bully and guilt him into reporting posts on and blocking Shift’s personal and the Good Morning Mayberry Instagram accounts to suppress our reach in retaliation for us offering the episode we released with Kay Brown and Caeli Higgins a couple of weeks ago. 

Lapi and Shift connect to discuss the alarming and disorienting distraction the hijacking of the Eat Predators "group" has become for ethics watchdogs, activists, advocates, and people who need us.

Heads up! We talk about Melanie Veronica, who is — at the time of this recording — on both Shift and Lapi’s shit list… and also Melanie Carlson aka Mx_Defying, who is a leading entertainment business researcher specializing in Britney brands.

Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world-class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar.

About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

Shift Orion hosts Jaden Young --- aka @y2remayne from Instagram! --- talking in his own bold and brilliant voice about how important it is to have morals and caution when reporting publicly on events and people as he deconstructs the impact and consequences of intentionally spreading false narratives with powerful platforms in attempts to sway public thought.

Jaden talks in his own words about topics including but not limited to:

• TMZ
• Bam Margera
• Wendy Williams
• Wells Fargo lawsuits
• How Britney's fans can be used to make her life hell
• Alexa Nikolas and what the Eat Predators book club and Discord community she invited us into were like
• The humans behind the markets that brands and media seem to forget exist
• ... and how the same manipulation tactics lurk in both Hollywood and religious cults.

Without any further adieu… Jaden Young (in his own voice). Raw and unedited. For an hour and 30 fucking 6 minutes without counting my intro and outro commentary.

 

[Update: We were informed that Jaden publicly posted that there was some type of confusing issue with Eat Predators book club involving a person called WILL. We are not sure what's going on here, as this is a developing story, but here is what Jaden posted to the public from his Instagram.]

 

 

 

 

 

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Screenshots of Jaden's plight on GoodMorningMayberry.com!

Introducing Lapi! Here to talk about working in television as a child and entertainment as an adult, developing healthy approaches to engaging with toxic industries, and Lapi and Shift’s respective experiences both consuming and creating media.

Lapis Stone is a writer, violinist, singer, songwriter, creative performance mentor, and world class entertainer performing as LapiOnTheBeat. Lapi was formerly on the cast of Good Time Kids. After being signed twice, Lapi has evolved into an independent neon pop superstar.

We had to upload a duplicate of this episode that's audio only because Spotify only lets big-wig Hollywood podcasts stream video to y'all. You can watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube.

Can we Eat Predators if we are what we eat? 

Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety Summit) and Caeli Higgins (Music Industry Watchdog) join Shift Orion to describe the origins of the Eat Predators collective and how the brand was co-opted as they were driven out… just before Shift discovered it on social media, joined the unregulated Eat Predators Book Club, and hauled his ass from SF to LA to help the mysteriously misrepresented "leadership" lock down a business strategy.

Caeli and Kay detail their experience forming Eat Predators alongside other survivors and organizers like Nomi Abadi, Sochil Martin, and Alexa Nikolas. 

They cover the first planning meetings, escalating miscommunication and misrepresentation accelerated by media attention from a nearly-off-brand protest at Nickelodeon, and challenges navigating interpersonal and professional conflicts as the group (and Alexa's wounded ego) grew faster than anyone (except people who’ve been crushed by it) could imagine. As the media and public began to exclusively center and sensationalize Alexa, her participation and story have warped.

Shift describes his experience getting into the "Eat Predators book club" (then finding out it was never supposed to exist), having a short-lived but intense friendship with Alexa (and an even shorter-lived role working as her media and public relations manager), and being shocked and heartbroken discovering that Alexa had misled him about everything. Opening up about getting to know her remotely then planning an in-person visit, even staying at Alexa's house for 5 days, Shift recalls how quickly Alexa's endearing personality turned hostile after he became concerned about her capacity and ethics as she orchestrated the book club community and other people to shun him by making alarming and untrue claims.

Ultimately, the conversation remains loving and generous with hope for accountability, amends, and honesty to prevail.

Perhaps this is only the beginning of the story... 

 

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GMM Intro by Shift Orion

W1&WGC by Wonderful Glass Cage

Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage

(in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage

 

Caeli Higgins, leader of Music Industry Watchdog, is a writer, activist, dancer, and publicist for artists, brands, events, and music festivals. 

In 2020, she started an Instagram account that exposed multiple serial predators in the music industry. 

In 2021, she helped organize hunger strikes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and David Wade Correctional Center that successfully demanded the release of 23 prisoners from illegal long-term solitary confinement.

 

Kay Brown is Steward, Leader, and Founder of Four 4 Consent. As a living legacy of commitment to serving survivors of violence, Kay stays at the forefront of the highest levels of professional education related to advancing the fields that support that work. Kay has been in advocacy for nearly a decade. Their certifications include being a Nationally Credentialed Victim Advocate and holding a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a concentration in Victimology. 

Kay is a nationally recognized advocate, specializing in Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Intervention, Campus Advocacy, Comprehensive Victim Intervention, and Program Management. Kay was awarded Registered Advocate with Advanced Standing status from the Ohio Advocate Network and also achieved the requirements to be recognized by California's OES as a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Counselor. Kay is a member of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, and GLAAD.

Kay works to create a safer and more positive culture in nightlife, where all people are free to be themselves without experiencing discrimination or violence.

For more info on the org, like what sets Kay’s organization apart from the rest, check the FAQ towards the bottom of their site: four4consent.org

 

Resources For Survivors

Can we Eat Predators if we are what we eat? 

Kay Brown (Four 4 Consent, Nightlife Safety Summit) and Caeli Higgins (Music Industry Watchdog) join Shift Orion to describe the origins of the Eat Predators collective and how the brand was co-opted as they were driven out… just before Shift discovered it on social media, joined the unregulated Eat Predators Book Club, and hauled his ass from SF to LA to help the mysteriously misrepresented "leadership" lock down a business strategy.

Caeli and Kay detail their experience forming Eat Predators alongside other survivors and organizers like Nomi Abadi, Sochil Martin, and Alexa Nikolas. 

They cover the first planning meetings, escalating miscommunication and misrepresentation accelerated by media attention from a nearly-off-brand protest at Nickelodeon, and challenges navigating interpersonal and professional conflicts as the group (and Alexa's wounded ego) grew faster than anyone (except people who’ve been crushed by it) could imagine. As the media and public began to exclusively center and sensationalize Alexa, her participation and story have warped.

Shift describes his experience getting into the "Eat Predators book club" (then finding out it was never supposed to exist), having a short-lived but intense friendship with Alexa (and an even shorter-lived role working as her media and public relations manager), and being shocked and heartbroken discovering that Alexa had misled him about everything. Opening up about getting to know her remotely then planning an in-person visit, even staying at Alexa's house for 5 days, Shift recalls how quickly Alexa's endearing personality turned hostile after he became concerned about her capacity and ethics as she orchestrated the book club community and other people to shun him by making alarming and untrue claims.

Ultimately, the conversation remains loving and generous with hope for accountability, amends, and honesty to prevail.

Perhaps this is only the beginning of the story... 

 

Follow Caeli and Kay:

Kay Brown

Caeli Higgins

 

Follow Good Morning Mayberry!

GMM's YouTube

GMM's IG

 

Follow Shift! 

Shift's YouTube

Shift's IG

 

Logistics Credits:

Producer/host: Shift Orion

 

Graphics Credits:

Shift Orion

 

Soundtrack Credits:

GMM Intro by Shift Orion

W1&WGC by Wonderful Glass Cage

Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage

(in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage

 

Caeli Higgins, leader of Music Industry Watchdog, is a writer, activist, dancer, and publicist for artists, brands, events, and music festivals. 

In 2020, she started an Instagram account that exposed multiple serial predators in the music industry. 

In 2021, she helped organize hunger strikes at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and David Wade Correctional Center that successfully demanded the release of 23 prisoners from illegal long-term solitary confinement.

 

Kay Brown is Steward, Leader, and Founder of Four 4 Consent. As a living legacy of commitment to serving survivors of violence, Kay stays at the forefront of the highest levels of professional education related to advancing the fields that support that work. Kay has been in advocacy for nearly a decade. Their certifications include being a Nationally Credentialed Victim Advocate and holding a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a concentration in Victimology. 

Kay is a nationally recognized advocate, specializing in Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Intervention, Campus Advocacy, Comprehensive Victim Intervention, and Program Management. Kay was awarded Registered Advocate with Advanced Standing status from the Ohio Advocate Network and also achieved the requirements to be recognized by California's OES as a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Counselor. Kay is a member of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, and GLAAD.

Kay works to create a safer and more positive culture in nightlife, where all people are free to be themselves without experiencing discrimination or violence.

For more info on the org, like what sets Kay’s organization apart from the rest, check the FAQ towards the bottom of their site: four4consent.org

 

Resources For Survivors

 

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Doctor Larry is back talking about how parasocial relationships impact our daily lives, collective illusions compiling our shared reality, and some other stuff like family, working in entertainment and marketing, and relationality. This is the 1st half of the conversation from Dr. Larry Lyons - feat. Cancel Culture Club Pt 1.

We talk about Larry’s nephew Camden Coley (Karma’s World, Abbot Elementary, Mike) and the vibrancy of Black boy joy. We talk about the monetization of love and relationality, how our presence on the Internet results in our unwitting consent to toxic cultural developments, and get GRANULAR about what parasociety even is.

• What does it mean to have fans?
• What does it mean to force love and loyalty from a commercial market?
• Are there actually barriers encasing our socioeconomic roles?

WTF is a demi lovato and why is Shift mad about that? Shift gives more details about the non-denominational fundamentalist evangelical performing arts cult he traveled across the U.S. with as a teenager in the late 90s-early 2000s, and describes how he discovered (in 2021) what the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato even are and that, as teenagers, they all directly and literally made millions of dollars by directly and literally causing abuse against Shift and the other kids in the cult to escalate to inhumane levels. Shift lays out similarities in evangelical fundamentalism and Hollywood, marketing and evangelism, and both sides of “parasocial” bonding.

Shift talks about our real world programming, dealing with people who accidentally virtue signal and warp their praxis into unraveling, and glory of discovering the gospel of Anne Heche (aka Celeste) in the wake of her sudden, tragic death.

Larry comments on the power of fits and fists in the comments’ sections and IRL, ponders the architecture of the ecosystems that divide people from experiencing life outside of their class' status expectations, and details people insisting upon keeping social traditions they know don’t work. 

Oh, how glorious that brands and companies have effectively strived to exploit our most intimate vulnerabilities. Oh, how everybody has to deal with the impact of public relations whether they know it or not.

Liars and Grifters and Fakes? Oh, my!! 

Always remember to never forget... follow, like, and rate us everywhere you listen!

 

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GMM Intro by Shift Orion

Everything Is Different Now by Wonderful Glass Cage

(in no) Time (back soon 4 round 2) - remix - by Wonderful Glass Cage

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About Sam Maloney and Warner Music Group sexual harassment and NDA abuse

 

Dr. Larry Lyons has lectured and taught courses in 20th Century American literature, sociology and composition at Rutgers and Princeton University. As an independent consultant, he provides­ writing, editing and creative services for clients in education, public relations, non-profits and the arts. He is also the founder and creative director of Brick City Varsity, a Newark-based photography studio and vintage clothier.