1000 Years to Live

If I actually believed in a diagnosis of ADD (attention deficit disorder) I would then believe that I have an adult version of it.

I would then blame that on why I only post sporadically on here because there are so many things that run through my head that I have a hard time focusing on one long enough to expand my thoughts on anything.

Therefore I’ll post this way.

Things on my mind right now:

I have been reading more about the possibility of living to be 1000 years old. In fact a story crossed my path the other day that said that someone is alive now who will reach that threshold. 

I wonder what 1000-year old skin would look like. I would imagine that figuring out how to keep it looking from the horror that is conjured up in my mind would be really key to really wanting to live to be 1000. I can’t stand how I look at 53, let alone what might happen in a natural progression in 947 years from now.

I am someone who thinks there are too many people on the planet now. I don’t really care what the Bible says about “going forth and multiplying.” I think, “job well done there,” and now its time to move on to another goal of Biblical proportion.

How will it be possible to sustain 40 generations of families all at the same time? 

If we do end up with the ability to reach the age of 1000 I would have to think that there would need to be some trade off, unless with that ability and the ability to colonize and live on new planets, we could manage that immense population size.

So what would be that tradeoff? It would have to be sterilization, in my opinion. Yes, in order to live to be 1000 we would have to keep from adding to the increased numbers of the population. 

Then that calls into question what would happen if there was a huge disaster where a significant portion of the population were wiped out. Or, even if by attrition, it was determined that new members of society were needed. That would then mean we would have to start cloning people in order to increase numbers. Wouldn’t it? 

Makes you stop and think a little doesn’t it? It sure has for me. Ask my girlfriend who has heard me bring this up a few times in the past few weeks already.

This made me think about Social Security. When SSI was created, the age necessary to reach to begin collecting SSI benefits was 65. At the time, however, the average life span was 60. So, basically, SSI was designed to rarely even become collected. Now we are living to be 72-75 rather easily. What the hell would happen to our treasury if we lived to be 1000? 

I know that’s just a simplistic thought and question but at the very least I am rather certain that a REAL discussion of increasing the age for SSI benefit collection HAS to be raised to help keep it solvent because the math of SSI doesn’t work, and it was never intended to work.

Robots are doing more and more jobs that humans used to do and this is simultaneously awesome and frightening. 

When we think of robots, however, we need not necessarily think about Lost in Space robots or those similar to Terminator robots.

Much more simple machines have taken over for humans and have done so for a long time. I was at my local BJ’s Wholesale Club yesterday where there were 6 cash registers open but only two had live cashiers. That’s four people who didn’t have jobs right there. Ok, say three because I suppose one is necessary to fix the machines when they break down. 

In some other country I read last week that McDonalds had ordered 7000 order-taking kiosks. That is going to put 7000 people out of work.

Could the McDonalds kiosk project be a result of workers asking for increased wages of as much as $15.00 per hour to do such tasks as take orders? Hmmm....makes ya think, doesn't it?

This has been going on for a long time, as mentioned. There used to be a job called Telephone Operator, for example, and I’ll refrain from adding a bunch that you already know.

I’ll be truly worried when robots can start hypnotizing people since that is my main source of earning a living. I would think, though, that we, as a society, truly need to wake up before we are forced to wake up to the fact that we need to re-establish a hard-work ethic and not one of an entitlement mentality. The latter only forces businesses to come up with ways to get their work done, and their products produced, in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

This makes me think about my particular community and taxes. Our school districts keep trying to sneak past us these referendums to raise our taxes to give to our schools. I happen to live in the second worst district in my state and I DON’T HAVE ANY KIDS. Yet they continue to try to steal my money and pump it into this failure and joke of a district. 

Why is that related to robotics? Because too many kids come out of these schools incapable of succeeding. I keep getting told that my taxes help our community because these kids need the education and they will return to the community to make it a better place to live. Its not happening here.

I swear I just read a Facebook post in the middle of that paragraph from a writer acquaintance of mine promoting a tax increase in his district. Seems that he has some grandchildren there who will somehow benefit from the fact that the government is going to forcefully take tax money from the residents there. 

I have an idea. How about those who actually have kids in schools shoulder the tax burden for it? And if your family can’t do it then how about thinking that its time to stop having kids and placing that true burden on society?

Watch The Goldbergs on ABC. It’s a great sit-com. How did I get to that subject? Because when I start going down that path that ultimately leads me to get into basic political conversations I have to divert my attention somehow and that is one way to do it. 

But its very hard to steer clear from politics when people are now beginning to jump into the Presidential race for 2016. Make no mistake that I am very much invested in what happens in 2016 as WE ALL SHOULD BE. In these past 6 years I have suffered major setbacks that I can directly attribute to specific policies laid down in that period of time.

What you don’t know is that I just had to delete two full pages of material because I just went off into some detail and needed to replace that with this sentence.

See what I had to do there?

Back to work-related issues though. If I can impose ANY wisdom on anyone who actually reads this, or any young person who should ever ask me, I will say this. You MUST be able to do a variety of things to earn a living and DO NOT focus on just one particular thing. Develop multiple revenue streams because it is never known when one will become obsolete because of some new technology or some governmental regulation. 

That is why I don’t only focus on a comedy-hypnosis stage career. With that particular skill set I do a variety of things…hypnotherapy both group and individual, sales of hypnosis material and hypnotist training. Even the highlight videos I create from my shows are posted in a revenue-sharing program at YouTube.

There are other things I do as well. Even this blog generates revenue from ads embedded in it. 

So while I admitted, up front, that I might suffer from an affliction, in which I don’t even believe, I think it even helps me in that I can bounce from project to project which is necessary for me to do to try to survive in an economic environment that is wobbly at best, a disaster at worst.

Now I am thinking about lunch so that is what I am going to focus on now after I post this mess.

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10 Favorite TV Shows

It's time for another blog post which fits into the category of "Who Cares?"
But, let's face it, while I could certainly write about politics, which is something I do care about a great deal, I immediately alienate half of the world. And since I'm just trying to average 14 readers per post (which is a 10% increase in readership) I have to do whatever I can to not scare away people.
Still, though, the top ten TV shows that I like to watch will cause controversy and debate. But it's far less likely that someone won't hire me to do a hypnosis show just because I like to watch these shows as opposed to saying whether or not I like Obama.

10- Game of Thrones - HBO
I have always been a fan of these types of medieval-looking, fantasy stories. I wish there were more than 10 shows in a season, though. There are so many story lines that I don't think get developed enough.

9- Impractical Jokers - TruTV
Q, Murr, Joe and Sal are life-long friends who prank each in other public in a hidden camera show. Easily the funniest hidden-camera show created and the formula for this particular show has been stolen and put on another network.

8- The Bachelor - ABC
 Yes, as those who read this blog know, I am a big fan of this show. It's not for any romantic reason at all. This is one of the funniest reality shows out there. People actually think that they can find the love of their lives on a TV show because that's the last place they can think of to do it. I also happen to be a savant at picking who will be the final four after watching just the first episode. This is my fifth year watching and I am 18 for 20 and have picked three winners correctly, one was in second, and tomorrow we will find out if Whitney will become my 4th winner or 2nd second-place selection.

7- America's Got Talent - NBC
 I appreciate this because I am an entertainer. I love to see people who have worked hard and are extremely talented but just haven't been seen by the right people, or whatever has happened to keep them from greater success, finally earn the accolades they they desire.

6- Banshee - Cinemax
 I stumbled across this one of late. Its got a lot of violence and sex in it so it has me hooked. Just finishing its 3rd season.

Although not on TV, one of the funniest shows out there is the Marshal Manlove Comedy Hypnosis Show of course. Press the link to see highlights.  ;)

5- Homeland - Showtime
 Claire Danes is the lead here and they have just finished their 4th season, I believe...or third. It's basically a show about terrorism with Danes as a CIA agent.

4- The Following - Fox
 This has Kevin Bacon in it, so its awesome. He is ab FBI agent tracking serial killers. I had to chance to see him perform with his brother at the NY State Fair when I was doing my own show up there in his band The Bacon Brothers.

3- Big Brother - CBS
 When it originally came out I could have cared less. But after accidentally catching some of it one season I found myself hooked to the point where I sent an audition tape in one season. I'm too old and nasty for consideration but I'm still a big fan of the strategy involved and the engineering and production of the show.

2- Survivor - CBS
 Now in its 30th season, a remarkable television feat. It is still the all-time best reality game show out there even you can debate the reality aspects of it. (Cops is an actual reality show.) I have auditioned and sent in tapes a few times for this show because I am such a fan. I don't do it every season though because, quite frankly, I don't really like the sun and bugs that much, and I like food way too much.

1- The Big Bang Theory - CBS
  One of the top-five all-time sit coms of all time. I will watch reruns of this show every single day. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper, is a comic genius in every sense  of the word who stole this show. I might even be so bold as to say this is the BEST sit coms of all time over Cheers and Seinfeld. (My #2 and #3.)

What is your current top-ten list of shows you like, if you watch TV? Which sit coms do you think are the top 5 of all time?

I know that I go back and forth about which way this should all go...important stuff or just pop-culture stuff. It just is what it is and helps me like a journal does for some people.

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10 Funny Hypnosis Scenes

I am often asked about the funniest, or craziest, things I have seen happen in my comedy hypnosis show. Here are ten off the top of my head.

1- I have an old ALF stuffed animal which is sometimes part of the show. Often it is used as a “baby” which was just birthed by a man. Here is one guy breast feeding ALF, his newborn son.

2- At a home party the two sons of my host were helping set up chairs. They told me that at where the end of one side of the row was placed their dog had peed earlier that day. They were later hypnotized and sitting at that part of the row sandwiched around one of their friends. The kids were all turned into different animals with the two son’s friend made to believe he was a dog. He opened his eyes, got down on all fours, and the two sons both looked down at him now believing he was a dog and one of the boys pushed his friends face right into the spot where their own dog had peed just as if their friend had actually done it.

3- Eliciting bad smells always creates a lot of laughter. What people say to others who they believe smell read funky is just as funny as the faces people make. In one high school show a boy looked at the boy sitting next to him, made a funny face, gagged, then laid down on the floor and shouted out, “Oh my God, why don’t you just shit on my face!?”

4- This…

5-  This guy came up to me before the show and told me he could never be hypnotized. That is a chair that he believes is stuck to his ass.

Host your own comedy hypnosis show Marshal Manlove - Comedy Hypnotist


6- Rendering people unable to speak anything but nonsense is a common skit. But they have to return to their normal way of speaking so I usually have someone shout out something in English so, “I know I haven’t broken” them. One petite and soft spoken college girl was asked to say something in English and she demurely stated, “I like…to play…with…balls.” It took 3 minutes before the crowd stopped crying from laughing at that one. 

7- “The ground turns into a magnet, a giant flesh magnet.” This always creates funny. This girl’s face is stuck to the floor.

8- Adult shows are my favorite but I can rarely take pictures or video. A classic skit is one where people think of the most incredible physical feeling they have ever had, like, you know…a warm bubble bath, the sun on your face on the beach, a cuddly puppy, things like that. Then whenever I touch my ear they experience that feeling. 95% of the time they opt for a different feeling than any that I mention and you may have an idea about where they go in their minds. I intensify it 3 times with the third time being the “climax” of the show. In one particular show a rather larger guy was getting so into it that on the third and final intensification the folding chair exploded into four pieces underneath his ass. It didn’t stop the good time that was being had and it even continued after I stopped touching my ear.

9-  Um…

 Hypnosis is a powerful tool for change. Want to look in the mirror and see pound start to shed from body? The Hypnostore

 
10- Then there was Phil 

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Head: BOOM

Whenever I think I have things figured out in life I quickly am kicked in the ass in some way to remind me that I don't have a clue.

I was reading about mitochondrial donation this morning and the British debate about it merits, ethics, and potential dangers.

Essentially this procedure takes DNA from a multitude of people, for the most part three as far as I can tell, and create an embryo with that DNA.

This is supposed to help reduce, at the very least, mitochondrial diseases passed on to the fetus.

The opponents claim their opposition is based on safety, ethics, eugenics, bad medicine and religious reasons.

The obvious result of mitrochondrial donations

I'm only going to comment on the religious aspect, for some odd reason besides the lack of time people actually read what I have to write.

My particular issue with people who oppose science on religious grounds is based on the fact that billions of people over the years pray for cures for their family members and friends who are beset with tragic diseases.
All of a sudden a potential cure comes around and many of those same people ignore it and dismiss it as black magic or voodoo or skullcrockery or whatever they decide to call it.

Couldn't that potential cure be God's answer to the prayer? Am I one of the few who see that? I can't be, can I?

On the other hand I find it so ironic that there are those who view science in such a way that it can only be described as a religious following itself.
One thing I hear that always blows my mind is a statement such as, "But that's science. It's scientific fact," when we know that science and scientists are wrong over and over and over again.

Even Steven Hawking, the alleged genius, has proven himself wrong about at least one pretty important theory which helped him rise up the ranks of alleged geniuses.

When can common sense get injected into any of these discussions?
I really need to apply that to "global warming," or "climate change." One minute of a common-sense conversation blows the entire theory of this "settled science."

NEVER in any of the discussions about climate change (and when we say this we are talking about man-made climate change or global warming) does the great fireball in the sky get mentioned.
That is unless someone who is skeptical of the "science" talks about it before quickly being denounced as a charlatan and a freak by the wealth redistributionists who created the hoax from the start.


The whole worry about climate change? That the Earth will be 1 degree warmer by 2050. That is these "scientists" claim the computers models suggest.
These computers, of course, are the same ones that can't tell us within one degree of accuracy what next week's temperatures are going to be.
7 days ago the weather report for my area for yesterday said the temperature was going to be 48 and it was going to rain. It was 31 and snowed 4 inches. That is a 17 DEGREE MISTAKE.

The "scientists," and Al Gore who should be jailed for life for stealing the nearly billion dollars of wealth he has accumulated helping market this fraudulent scheme, want me to believe what will happen in 2050? And then they want to tax me more and regulate the energy companies more so that I have to pay more in energy bills every month to "solve the problem?"

These people need to be out of our lives.

Anyway, so I can see while there are certainly skeptics of mitochondrial donation, if I simply take the weather as a reason for it. But at the same time we do have to realize that science has, of course, saved billions of lives as well.

But is staring at a potential cure and, therefore, a potential answer to one's prayer and ignoring it an affront to God?

I'm not a scientist or a religious person so I can remain objective and make silly commentary off on the side of the battlefield. But I am also pretty happy I am not on either side because the more of this stuff I read, hear and see the more my head swells to the point of potential explosion.

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New NBC News Anchor

The Bryan Williams story makes me shake my head. If I'm in charge of deciding if he stays or goes based on what he did, he goes. It's a no-brainer.

I know for a fact that in 5 minutes I can find a replacement who will do a better job, represent my company better and will cost me less.

There are only 3 major network nightly news shows like this and perhaps, oh I don't know, 5 million people from whom to choose to take that spot so it should go without saying that if he made up a story or embellished a story and reported such a fabrication or embellishment that he gets fired.
Take note NBC. I will read the teleprompter as a news anchor for that show for...I don't know...$250,000 per year?! Think of all of the money that you will save and I won't make up stories.

The fact that its a major news story keeps my head shaking. Every other tv and cable opinion show host makes it a lead story. I get that in their industry its big, but I am pretty sure they are the only ones who really care.

This does bring me back to the situation with athletes who cheat to win. Bryan Williams is no different than them when it comes right down to it.
Just another example of a potential role model who fails at being one.
I think we all need role models but I think that real role models need to be richly rewarded instead of these lying, cheating scumbags who do.

One of my friends is one of the more talented, organized and hard-working people I know. He is broke. It doesn't make sense.
Williams is making 13 million dollars a year. I should say, WAS, because he did get suspended without pay. He is worth a reported 50 million dollars.

Good for him in the sense that anyone should have the ability to earn whatever they can make in this country. I just think it should be done honestly.

I drive a lot of miles every year; less so than about 10 years ago but a lot. Gas prices and tolls are an issue for me. So I have to say this...ANY politician who proposes a gas tax hike or a tax per mile driven should be immediately removed from office.

I know that a couple of cents here and there doesn't really make a big difference in reality. But in perception it does and in politics perception IS reality.

So I don't care in which party such a jackmeat resides. If he or she proposes raising those sorts of taxes they should be pitchforked out of office.

Our country, again, continues to set records for tax income. We have become champions at removing money from people's and company's coffers. It's truly disgusting and what's even worse is that we continue to set new records on overspending. They are all guilty of it, no matter who steps up to say otherwise, because the end result is all that matters.
And this will just get worse, I'm afraid.

This is just a basic rant. I really wish I had something profound to say so that I can inspire a generation today. Alas, I don't. So, it's back to work trying to make a living which politicians will yank out from under me. It's back to trying to figure out why the world is so backwards that liars, cheaters and criminals prosper when my friends who work hard and create amazing things and do nothing but good are broke.

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Back in the Groove

Happy New Year to everyone.
Any News Year's resolutions for you?
I do make them every year although they are more goal oriented.
Last year I did not reach my goals though and it was a bit distressing. My particular issue was that I set a particular financial goal but didn't even focus on all of the moving parts that would ultimately have made it possible to reach it.

So this year the overall goal is the same but the focus is taking care of the details.
There are a lot of things into which I get my hands and if you pass through my world at all you will hear about a lot of things, some old and some new. Please just keep in mind that anything that I do all has a final purpose. It might look like I am crazy and scattered but I just have an ultimate goal and will do whatever it takes to get there and reach it, that is legal and doesn't hurt anyone.

Some people will do whatever it takes to succeed including illegal, immoral and unethical things to get there. It can sometimes be frustrating watching those people in action and then to see the damage that all of those actions causes. But I do think that, in the end, they get what they deserve.

Take, for example, the recent MLB Hall of Fame selections, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Johns Smoltz and Craig Biggio.

Craig Biggio

John Smoltz

Randy Johnson

Pedro Martinez

These four guys had great success during the steroid era of baseball.
Now, on the surface, one might wonder how the heck Craig Biggio's star shined so brightly beyond the fact that he amassed over 3000 hits, usually one of those numbers that people reach that end of earning such a selection.
Other offensive players during his time included Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire and Juan Gonzalez. All had much better numbers and/or exciting careers, but all have been linked to steroid use and cheating at succeeding.
For the pitchers, the other three had to face one of the most successful pitchers of the era in Roger Clemens, a 7-time Cy Young award winner who won over 300 games and had over 4000 strikeouts; again, normally a 100% lock for HoF induction. BUT...he cheated too. So...NO SOUP FOR YOU CLEMENS...and Bonds, and Sosa, and McGwire and Palmeiro.

I was watching pieces of Cocaine Cowboys the other day and took particular note to a building boom in Miami in the 80's; most of it financed by blood money. Most of those connected to it either in jail or dead or cracked out in some alley somewhere.

So while the lure of financial success can be great and, I admit it is for me because I simply don't want to work anymore; I just want to retire in peace and travel like most everyone else I know does, I will never resort to cheating, in any way, to get there.

I had to watch the Golden Globes last night and since I had to I made the best of it. One of the shows I watch and recommend is The Affair on Showtime. Don't laugh, it's awesome, and it won a GG for best show in one of the categories and best actress in Ruth Wilson, who gets naked a lot in the show.

Another show I recommend is on Cinemax called Banshee. It's in its third season now and there is much hotness, nakedness, and blood on there with some good plot twists to keep it exciting.

 Of course, its that time of the year for The Bachelor, the best sit-com on TV next to The Big Bang Theory. It's a game show for me where I show off a very useless talent picking out the final four winners after watching the very first show with amazing success. For those interested this year will feature Whitney, Kaitlyn, Jade and Becca as the Final Four. Whitney will be the winner. Yes...Whitney with the horrible voice.

Kaitlyn

Whitney

Jade

Becca

That's it. I know, its been about 9 months since I posed in here. There will be more this year; its part of my focus.

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