Good Morning Mayberry

Get ready to be donkey-kicked down a rabbit hole of analyzing kids’ television made by loud sexual predators.

Sister Mary HotTakes, aka Blake, brings us on a logically erratic trek through an absolute nostalgia sewer system to autopsy the impacts of the career 90’s producer Dan Schneider built with his predatory working relationship with Amanda Bynes, Arianna Grande, Keenan Thompson, and other child actors under his lenses.

Blake connects the conspiracy facts of Jimmy Savile with what we know about the overtly creepy foot fetish empire of Nickelodeon.

Beware. Triggers, bold allegations, and unbelievably upsetting actually confirmed facts ahead.

Content alerts:

Sexual assault & rape, child abuse, mind control, mental illness, general Jimmy fucking Savile (gross), probably a bunch of other shit but this is the worst of it.

Breakdowns on Dan Schneider & Nickelodeon's horrible campaign to infuse kids' content with grooming and sexual expression from Sloan:

Inside DAN SCHNEIDER'S and AMANDA BYNES' BIZARRE RELATIONSHIP - 29 min 

Dan Schneider Made Ariana Grande DO WHAT?! - 26 min

2-minute promo clip of Larry Lyons and Shift Orion leading a rabbithole exploration into Britney Spears’ career.

Learn about ghouls like:

Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children)

Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in other cultures’ skins)

Justin Timberlake (an ice prince made entirely of glass)

Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes (an elder urban boy nymph who maybe sweats an elixir of youth)

Shift makes wild stretch connections to Frankie & Annette and other randomly dissociated pop culture connections.

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Larry Lyons returns! To platform over Britney Spears’ career & lead us through a rabbit hole full of ghouls with names like Max Martin (a goblin who made a life writing sex songs for children). Francis Lawrence (a mask burp incarnate with a compulsion to cosplay white girls in other cultures’ skins), Justin Timberlake (an ice prince made entirely of glass), and Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes (an elder urban boy nymph who maybe sweats an elixir of youth).

Shift reveals more of his yesteryear icon nostalgia referencing Frankie & Annette and makes randomly dissociated pop culture connections.

Join us as we walk a neat groove of nuance in navigating the space between victimhood and victimizer.

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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.

Audrey Sterling breaks down the impacts of whiteness on white people, surveillance tech, and intellectual prosthetic connection to transhumanist inventions.

Shift bitches about people binging data and using each other as vomitoriums. Lament the open field World Wide Web turning into a technofascist corporatocracy!

Have a short chat with Shift about the work of keeping ships relating, how resistance of our own passions can convert into delusions of mediocrity, and pushing through feelings of abandonment and inadequacy to show up for the program.

Shift opens up about his emotional preciousness and reactivity in The Fall of 2020, how he intentionally created a caustic environment for people who triggered his grief, and questions how any deity could be described as “infallible” or “omniscient” when humans are their product.

Celebrate Shift’s 4 year anniversary of partnering with himself by getting him a snickity snack on CashApp $iamshift or Venmo @luciferousshift-mannee. Being celibate during a pandemic but loving being spoiled is tough shit! Join the Good Morning Mayberry sponsor scene at patron.com/goodmorningmayberry.com.

Join the first subs for hot take poems in hot baths on Shift's OnlyFans.

Shift pushes through the cosmic weather to talk a bit about:

• Mercury haterade
• Britney Spears’ conservatorship
• Exhibition culture, cannibalism & Armie Hammer
• Boots Riley is hella chill
• Occupy Oakland celebrity stories
• Pop culture activists

And we swear Shift only goes off for one moment about BlueMAGA.

Dedicated to Rico, a chihuahua who got very very old, ????-2021

What does Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) have to do with Anthony Fauci? “Sister Mary HotTakes” Blake is back to pour all the tea for you and Shift Orion. In this episode, Blake talks about having to cancel his trip to hug Shift before getting into the similarities of the historic AIDS crisis and the current COVID crises, Fauci’s commitment to ignorance, and his refusal to approve effective international treatments for AIDS people dying in the US. Shift flips out when he realizes that Fauci fits perfectly in the 2020+ political kayfabe cast. 

Blake references a video from November 2nd 2011 about Olympia, Washington riot tourists who almost broke the encampment because they were violently misguided irreverent guests, titled This is NOT Occupy; Day of Occupy Oakland General Strike.

Come for the covid compliance whining, convenience store conflicts, and civil disobedience controversies… stay for the salt, tea, and glitter!

Episode artwork by bleakzblanketfort.com IG @bleakzblanketfort

Nikki Aliah's Earth Is Ghetto, a soulful new song about escaping the planet, has launched into viral revere! In this episode, Shift Orion gives the wheel to Black Literature expert Larry Lyons who jettisons our agenda about Britney Spears to take us on a voyage through Afrofuturism, practical time travel, and honoring powerful Black creators by contextually uplifting Nikki Aliah's work in concert with other artistic technologists. We’re also going in to discover some impacts of misguided cancel culture against individuals, communities, and superstructures! All aboard!

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.

Credits:

Nikki Aliah - lyrics, vocals, keys

Episode also includes covers by 

Broken Blues  & Damon Grant (percussion) w/ RAHBI (music) & Noah Schak Farlot (background vocals)

Other mentioned creators/works:

Flossy Baby (content creator)

Tiana J @DJTJC @retreatyoselves (content creator)

Steven Hurst (custom clocks)

Enpafè Crafts By Carmen (jewelry)

Nick Lovett (author, poet, musician)

Boots Riley (prolific poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, director, community organizer, and public speaker)

Watchmen (miniseries)

Lovecraft Country (TV series)

Janelle Monáe (singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer)

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Episode artwork by bleakzblanketfort.com

In part 2 of this bonus set, we are getting into a topic about a recent livestream broadcast that was brought to Shift’s attention by Eugene. The original video has been removed. It’s extremely violent and not in any way satirical, ironic, or disingenuous. We’ve got a link to a deconstruction of a screen capture of it here even though it may be pulled again. It's a video of 3 drunk not-exclusively-white men talking about committing acts of violence and calling for civil war as retaliation for recent censorship sweeps. 

Shift melts down then pulls himself together while Eugene, aka Lantern, takes us on a journey of evidence and illustration leading toward clarity around confusions and collisions in attempts to make sense of our situation.

Is it possible to deescalate the Culture War?

Mo Garvey returns to talk about the momentum of the Twitter conflict over what a “real leftist” is or isn’t. Shift declares himself the Leftist Purity Test in the leftier-than-thou game, then manages to make reference to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now and Robert Evan’s Behind The Bastards. 

All hail the labeling and dragging of the Boutique Left and their virtue signaling and cherry-pick stylist shopping for culture to wear. Come on in and hear about “fascism”, “communism”, and how people are talking without using the same meanings but pretending they understand each other. Make space for having a critical eye and a graceful hand in sifting through the nuance of a planet in labor.

Monique Garvey joins a spacey Shift Orion to talk about sociopolitical confusion, parasocial relationships, and anti-sycophantic avoidance. We dissect the logic of some statist trajectories and ideas.

We scratch the surface on the essence and utility of the word “coon” and the awkward soft censorship of the word on FaceBookInc social media before juggling nuance about covid vaccine anxiety. Come make fun of landlords crying about eviction moratoriums. 

Mo goes off about superficial Oppression Olympics and political bandwagoners, and teaches Shift some things about this #ForceTheVote thing and that Jimmy Dore exists. Shift makes literally everything literally existential.

Have we mentioned we do not understand billionaire apologists?  

Recorded on 12/30/2020.

In 2011, Shift and Blake, aka Bakesale, aka Sister Mary HotTakes, met on the street, there was an immediate connection, and now in 2021 they have ripped a wormhole into the past to bring you back hot, hot tea for your apocalypse buffet. Join us in a comparison of social movements, mainstream media irresponsibility, and personal impact of mass demonstrations from Occupy to whatever the fuck has been happening since 2020. Come for the protest breakdowns, stay for the Lindsey Graham gossip, cameo meows from Tubby The Background Cat, and occasional graceful tumble down deer trails of PTSD-charged street ministry and riot porn flashbacks with two random formerly homeless queers who suddenly realized they are spiritual and social first responders in a terrifying timeline.

Shift pops off about his frustrations over the misuse of words like “fascist” and “nazi,” reminds everyone he is coloring with crayons in unicorn coloring books instead of watching ANY of this news, and reiterates the logic of shunning of the DNC. Sister Mary HotTakes deconstructs Obama stans, illustrates the impacts of witnessing attacks from police, and shares his explorations into why racial violence is saturating recent American experience.

We gonna talk about how the dark and swampy South has changed with the Trump PRESIDEncy. We gonna talk about individual and communal healing from epic and neglected wounds. We gonna talk about the “anarchy of love.” experiential vs. theoretical politics, and people who use other people’s real lives to gain college credits. 

And we gonna talk about how Occupy was not a protest. And we’re going to tell you why.

Two bitches came to talk with y’all about how we TOLD Y’ALL SO. 

TW - sexual assault community counseling story

TW - liberal/centrist sensibilities

Image Credit:

Graph - Ryan Cleary

Icons - Shift Orion

Preview of tomorrow's bonus episode with Shift and Sister Mary HotTakes, a.k.a Bakesale, a.k.a. Blake. 

Today's episode was recorded a month ago and the mood is a dated fresh breath of some kind of air. Your good ol host Shift is joined by Eugene Steele in California and Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska to have a soberingly psychedelic discussion about community, responsibility, restorative communication, and compassion.

Come join this powerful chat about social beliefs, the abstract nature of capital, and hypotheses of responsible activist DNA coding.

In this preview of next Sunday's episode, Shift tells Yolanda and Eugene about Good Morning Mayberry slamming its one month milestone download goal.

A preview from next Sunday's upcoming episode wherein Shift Orion connects with Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska and Eugene Steele in California to discuss recovery from religious abuse, spirituality, activism, and radical healing practices. 

Shift, Bec, and Ryan talk about what it means to "do the work", mutual aid, advanced White Nonsense Roundups, and self-motivated direct action reparations. Bec talks about the mental and spiritual fortitude they've gained in confronting racism in their family and hometown. Shift gripes about white bitches who won't learn then act murdered for getting called out on public threads. Ryan calculates reasons privileged wannabe anti-oppressors do a virtue signal. 

In this short, Shift tells you and Ryan real quick about the genius that struck 10 minutes before 2021 New Year's Day closed out on the West Coast. Come get inspiration for resolving your constitution of consternation with bigot ass bullshit.

Shift tells a story about telling stories, touts psychedelics as a medicine and creative tool for himself, describes an unexpected encounter from a visitor, and weaves it all into a soapbox sermon about challenging his trauma-based narratives of personal and community potential.