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Strange Deranged Beyond Insane
Bridging Generations and Exposing Music Industry Wrongs with Bobby the Alchemist
Ever wondered how a single generation can bridge the gap between the analog and digital worlds? Join us on this eye-opening episode of Strange Deranged Beyond Insane as we welcome Bobby the Alchemist, a TikTok sensation known for his no-nonsense commentary. We dive deep into his fascinating insights on the unique generation born between 1983 and 1993, a group that straddles the pre-internet and digital ages in ways no other generation can. From their unparalleled adaptability to their dual understanding of traditional and modern lifestyles, Bobby's perspectives are sure to make you rethink generational dynamics. We also tackle the alarming resurgence of the bubonic plague with a recent case in Colorado and discuss how advances in medicine and living conditions have transformed its impact in today's world compared to the medieval era.
But that's not all. We pull back the curtain on the music industry's darker side through the tumultuous journey of Bebe Rexha. From being discarded from Pete Wentz's band to her ongoing battles with Warner Records and mistreatment by G-Eazy, Bebe's story is a glaring example of exploitation and disrespect in the music business. Her recent social media outbursts, aimed at exposing the industry's hidden dark secrets, underscore her resolve to spark change. We also touch upon Alanis Morissette's similar criticisms, underscoring the urgent need for a revolution in the way artists are treated. Tune in as we demand a better future for musicians and expose the harsh realities of an industry in desperate need of reform.
Hey everyone, welcome back to Strange. Strange Beyond Insane, and I am your host, melissa, and tonight's episode. I have somebody that I want to. He doesn't know it, but I'm going to bring him on to the podcast. I follow him on TikTok and his name is Bobby the Alchemist. He spits the most truest shit ever. He's like, you know, black and white, you know no bullshit, just cut to the point, and I really really enjoy his content and he also has an awesome mustache. So, again, you guys, go follow him. He is Bobby the Alchemist. All right, I want to start off with something really, really, really fantastic and I love how he addressed this. All right, let me get set up here real quick. You know, I, like I always say I love TikTok. I find the best content on TikTok. I think it's so much better than Facebook, instagram, um, twitter, twitter, I'm sorry, X, whatever. All right, move this mic back for you guys. All right.
Speaker 2:Here it goes, born between 1983 and 1993 are the most unique generation, and here's why they were born in between two generations the one before the internet technology took over and the generation after. The generation before us was old school and believed in working hard, and the generation after us believes in working smart. We saw it all Radio, tv, mario Waptric, nokia, nintendo 64, samsung, iphone, ps4, tapes, cds, mixit, mig-32, netflix, snapchat, emojis and virtual reality. The generation before us can be scammed by simple emails Asking for money and offering love. The generation after us knows it's better to have four emails One for social media, one for financial transactions, one for serious stuff and one for things you don't trust.
Speaker 2:We are the generation that knows tradition and questions it, picking from it what makes sense to us. The generation before us knew no questions. The generation after us knows no tradition. We are the gap between the industrial age and the internet age. We understand both sides from experience. We should be running the world. The old guys don't understand what's going on anymore and the new guys don't understand where what's going on came from. Anyways, please bring back warp tour merch link in bio. I'll see myself out people.
Speaker 1:This guy is so great and he's like so confident in the content that he just like shoots out there and he, like I said, he, he spit, he spits facts and if that's not the truest, I don't know exactly how like what my age gap of listeners are. I'm 35. So I mean I'd say we're like in that middle gap, but I mean everything that we have seen since we were younger. He pretty much covered all of that until the age that we're at now and pretty much like what our future looks like. All right, so he also goes on to talk about the bubonic plague. So I'm going to let him talk first and then I'm going to kind of add to this Okay, give me one second. Oh, I can't. I wonder if he took it down. I know Well, here I'll start off. So basically, people were freaking out on TikTok because they were like oh my god, the bubonic plague is back. I was actually talking to my mother-in-law about this when we were in Tennessee last week. So this article is very interesting. It reads A new plague case is a reminder that the Black Death lingers in the US, and this there was a case in Colorado. So when Colorado officials confirmed this week that a person had been infected with bubonic plague. They sprung into action with warnings, and this is from July 10th, so this is very recent.
Speaker 1:Plague is no longer the human, you know. I don't want to get too much into this, but it's, it's. Basically, it never goes away. And you guys, carissa has been on here forever. Um, in a day, I mean she's always. You know, she comes on in spurts, um, she likes the Colts talking about that, and this girl is so morbid with any plague that's ever wiped out. Um, a group, you know a huge group of people. She knows every plague and she has said ever since COVID she's like it's, it's like, you know, the black plague, it's gonna, it will run its course. People will, you know, unfortunately die, and then it will calm down and then it will come back with vengeance and then, you know, history repeats itself. So the plague is no longer like a human. Um, uh, I guess intimidation, because we all know that this is going to keep going on. Um's also known as the Black Death, and it has wiped out entire generations of medieval Europe and Asia. All right so, but still the plague infects a handful of Americans every year.
Speaker 1:And when Colorado officials confirmed this week that a person in Pueblo County had been sickened, they sprang into action with warnings. They cautioned against exposure to rodents such as prairie dogs, known to carry fleas with the Yersinia pestis bacterium that causes the plague. They also told people to be careful about pets hunting or roaming near where rodents live and encouraged them to get their pets treated for fleas and not to share a bed with pets. Times have changed and antibiotics can now treat the plague, but it remains a serious disease. The experts are saying Living conditions were very different then than they are now, and this is said by Rebecca Eason, a research biologist for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in Colorado, and she was talking to USA Today. We had high density urban environments that were often rat infested. That was a great breeding ground for transmission of the plague. However, a century after the last urban plague outbreak in the US, the disease remains a perennial and serious risk in the parts of the western US for populations that live near infected rodents. Outbreaks, though contained, are rare, and they become the subject of a widespread media coverage when cases pop up.
Speaker 1:That's why I was finding like, like I was, it was hard for me to like start out because I didn't want it to sound conspiracy, I didn't want to like freak everybody out, because we already went through COVID when I was younger. Spinal meningitis was a thing. You don't hear about that a lot but I can tell you a memory when there were kids dying, I think I was like around 10. One of our lunch ladies, mrs Tommy, she actually lost her grandson while we were in elementary to spinal meningitis and I remember being very, very scared and I think I was so scared that I actually made myself sick. I think I was so scared that I actually made myself sick. I did become infected with a pretty nasty flu and I was running a high temperature and I remember my mom being really calm but I think she was very cautious too because I was going around and you know. So just those memories alone. And then with what happened with COVID it's kind of like a touchy subject, but people have been talking about it all over the Internet so I just thought maybe I would bring it up because it's a hot topic.
Speaker 1:So the plague terrorized the globe, killed millions of people, we all know, and that began in the 6th century and endured until the 8th century. In the 14th century the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about 50 million people in Europe, more than a quarter of the population, according to the Science Museum in London. I think we did visit that museum when we were in London Very, very cool. I wasn't impressed, though, with the alien part I'm sorry, yeah, the alien part and the mummies, but that was a really cool place to visit. So outbreaks came again in the late 1500s and continued through the 1700s. The late 1500s and continued through the 1700s. Historians estimate 2.5 million people died of the disease in France alone between 1600 and 1670. Another pandemic began in the mid-1800s in Yunnan in southwestern China.
Speaker 1:Several Asian port cities, such as Hong Kong and Bombay now Mumbai had outbreaks of bubonic plague. In the late 19th century, more than 10 million people died of the disease in India and in that era 1,900 rats and stowaways aboard ships from countries with outbreaks brought the plague to American ports, including Honolulu and San Francisco. Public health officials in the western US scapegoated people in the Chinese and Mexican communities, wrongfully blaming them for being the carriers of the disease. And again, this is why tread lightly on this stuff, because even now people get very scared and things can go very fucking chaotic very quickly, as we know from COVID right. So Los Angeles experienced the country's largest and last urban outbreak of the plague in the mid 1920s, which was traced to a dead rat under a home in the city's Little Mexico neighborhood, just east of downtown. In response to 30 deaths, the city health department quarantined the area. Thousands of buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed. Plague never went away and it's still circulating out west.
Speaker 1:So basically, you know, we all know too, ebola is another thing. So Ebola scares the fuck out of me and I know there's been cases in like the last decade and other things. So Ebola scares the fuck out of me and I know there's been cases in like the last decade. But I would say with our modern medicine and, um, with technology, I'm pretty much pinpointing like where it's at, where it's coming from and how many of those infected people, how many people they've been around. I'd say they do like a really good job. But again, you know it's another hot topic. So I guess my advice out there is just to not freak out and know that we are pretty protected in the year you know, 2024. All right, so I do have again when we were driving to Tennessee of again. When we were driving um to Tennessee um, well, I shouldn't. Actually we were on our way to Kentucky and we, I know, in Michigan they got hit with pretty bad storms and we got to see some really awesome lightning through throughout the sky on our way to Kentucky. Um, we stopped there at my in-laws before we drove to Tennessee the next morning.
Speaker 1:So I always see these shorts and like all these terrifying facts, and some of them are, you know, really unique and some of them are just like, okay, we already knew that, but I did find 10 terrifying facts that I thought were extremely entertaining. All right, so the first one is that refrigerators are magnetic because kids used to unalive themselves inside of them. Before 1956, refrigerators could only be open from outside. Like, how fucking terrifying. I never, I didn't know that, I never even thought about that. Um, alright, so then, second one, we have brain activity doesn't stop after you've been clinically, when you've been clinically passed away, and I think we all know that. But this is actually, this is where it gets pretty cool. You might hear yourself declared dead. Up to 30 minutes of brain activity was recorded in one patient. That's crazy. So 30 whole minutes after being declared dead unalived. Whatever, you can still hear everything. They do say that your hearing is the last to go, but just knowing that there still could be brain activity, I don't know. That's pretty terrifying. I hope that doesn't happen to me or anyone I know. All right, so here's another one.
Speaker 1:The Romans were notorious for gruesome execution methods. Perhaps the worst alleged method was called this scapism, in which a person was force-fed and covered in milk and honey and they were put in a swamp and slowly eaten alive by maggots and worms. Wow, what a nasty-ass way to die. Alright, here's another one. There's about 30. Elevator and escalator caused deaths in the US yearly and set in over 17,000 injuries.
Speaker 1:Babies used to be operated on without anesthesia because doctors believed that they couldn't feel pain. Like up until the 1980s and Sue, my mother mother-in-law, knew that because she was in the medical field, but I was born in 1988. So up until the 1980s, that's crazy. Doctors removed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the victim and the scene. That's insane. I don't know what they thought they were going to see, especially back then, but I mean, I guess that's a cool concept, right? If only it worked that way.
Speaker 1:A perfectly healthy person can have a seizure at any point for no reason. The human brain has neurons that misfire all the time. So at any point, anyone can have a seizure. No underlining issues, it can just happen. Okay, this one's cool. A person that is split in half by the stomach does not die instantly. It has some last moments of suffering. So if you are completely split in half by the stomach, you, you can, um, you can suffer and um, you're not going to die right away. So that's great. All right, so the witch and Hansel and Gretel actually cooked the two kids in the correct way, this article says, and that was by using low heat, a low heat cauldron, over a long time with fatty meat, because she fattened them. So now, like every time I cook ribs in the oven you know it's always low and slow I'm going to think of that after reading this. All right, now this one is kind of tricky. I'm going to read this slow.
Speaker 1:If a biological trait is common in almost every human, then it evolved for a reason. Almost everybody has the same response to the uncanny valley, or, in other words, we are made uncomfortable by things that look almost human but they are not quite human. This implies humans once had a reason to fear something that looks human but isn't. So let that set in Like. That's kind of like our brains have like evolved right From an image, I guess, and a trait that has been carried throughout, I guess, human brains. But that's. I thought that was pretty cool. So those are the fun facts.
Speaker 1:Now, um, I know alanis merced was just here, um, she had a concert here, was it yesterday or the day before. We really really wanted to go see her. We actually were about to get tickets but, um, with us being in tennessee, and then I had another, um quick trip that I'm going to talk about in the next episode with Kevin on our latest ghost adventures. But anyways, alanis Morissette so she pretty much set the record straight and she's an OG, like she's grandfathered in, and I just fucking love her and her music. She is the angsty teen at least girl teen music that I loved growing up um listening to. But she admitted um that the music industry is run by all elites and that they're all pedophiles and she pretty much said fuck you to the whole music industry, which I think is amazing.
Speaker 1:Now Bebe Rexha. Um, she is a pop artist. I'm sure a lot of you guys know who that is on here. Um, she has just been going off on social media, but I'm just going to tell you the gist. Um, she wants to bring down the whole entire music industry and she goes into detail. But I'm going to pull that up. Um, she feels like she's been disrespected and hushed, hushed too much. Um, let's see. All right, here we go. Give me one second. One second you guys to set up I personally know about that.
Speaker 3:She's been fucked over in the industry rapid fire. By the way, welcome to my serious dirty pop, where we talk about the dark underbelly of the pop scene in 2021. With an interview with the los angeles times, bb rex says that the music industry is one of the most toxic industries on the entire planet. She talks about when she was signed to Pete Wentz's record label very early on in her career and she was a lead singer for Pete Wentz's band, the Black Cards. While they were on tour, when she was basically penniless and just working this gig, she got a call from management saying Pete doesn't want you in the band anymore. Goodbye. And she didn't hear from Pete until years later, when they kept running into each other at industry events.
Speaker 3:Then, in 2013, when Bebe Rexha signed to Warner Records, they tried to block her first EP, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, because it dealt with issues that were around mental health and they did not want to send a single to radios. Then, in 2013, bebe Rexha wrote Monster, which she was really excited about because it got sent to Eminem, who was interested in the song, except then he went completely silent on her and she didn't hear anything for weeks Until, randomly, she saw Rihanna tweet the word monster and realized her song had been passed on to Rihanna without her knowledge which she was still excited about because she loved Rihanna and she said, hey, at least somebody awesome is taking this on, even though she really did want to be on the track. Except then they left some of her vocals on the track and didn't credit her at all. Then, in 2015, things seemed to be turning around for Bebe Rexha, as she was to be featured on a brand new song from David Guetta, afrojack and Nicki Minaj called hey Mama. She performed and wrote the hook of the song, which you know is the most important part of the song, the part that people really remember. Except when it came time to make the music video, they decided they didn't want her in it because there were already too many big and they weren't even going to give her credit on the song until she sued them a few years later to receive it.
Speaker 3:Then, in 2016, bebe Rexha had a huge hit Me, myself and I with G-Eazy, which was going great. But then G-Eazy went on the MTV Music Awards and performed it with Britney Spears and replaced Bebe Rexha's vocals, without ever telling Bebe that they were going to do that, so she was literally left sitting in the audience embarrassed because she didn't know her own song was being performed without her in it at the award show that she was attending. Bebe Rexha also went on her Instagram at one point saying that when she turned 30, a male music executive basically told her she needed to be sexier and indicated that maybe she was getting a little washed up, and she's also revealed on a live stream before that Warner Music has hundreds of songs completed from her that they don't want to put out. Bebe Rexha has also recently indicated that things were not good with G-Eazy and that he treated her poorly, but she did not really say in what ways, other than she did mention one time someone from his team reached out to see if she wanted to do a photo op with him while they were in the same town, even though he has her number. But she indicated that there was a sordid past between them and that he did not treat her well during the Me, myself and I time.
Speaker 3:And then, of course, today, bebe Rexha put out a series of tweets saying that she could bring down a big part of the music industry if she ever spoke up, but that they will punish her, because that's what they do to people who speak out. I'm sure if I did a bunch more research I could find a ton of more ways that Bebe Rexha has been screwed over the years, but these are literally just the ones that I I knew about off the top of my head. Bb girl, speak up, speak your truth, tell the truth about this industry. It needs to be fixed. The fact that in 2024, katy Perry is still releasing music with Dr Luke tells me that we have not done the work yet. This industry is extremely predatory towards artists and writers and it needs to be talked about the music industry.
Speaker 1:All right. So that's just the gist of it, but I love the last recent um tweets that bb rexa has posted, like saying that she's basically gonna burn down the music industry, and I've been saying, I mean that's since the pandemic, really since I don't know like 2020 um, that it's all gonna come to a halt, like all these like different mute, different musicians and songwriters and even actors and actresses, you know, like when they did the banning of the movies and the shows Because the actors and actresses went on strike. It's like Hollywood Post Malone song Hollywood is Bleeding is so fucking true and it has been for a long time and I'm just watching it all unfold. Unfortunately, the ones that have been fucked over so bad. I don't know if they're ever gonna get out of it. You know what I mean. Um, but Bebe did release a new song and it's called I'm the Drama and I'm completely obsessed with that song, so you guys should totally go download that. It's awesome and I don't think she is gonna to shut up anytime soon, along with Britney Spears and I can. There's got there's hundreds of others. But that is the drama for the entertainment industry as of now, because there's a lot more that I need to talk about, but we need.
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