Why Books, Videos, And Lectures Are The Worst Ways To Learn (And What To Do About It)

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, episode 103

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You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. The number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my bald, beautiful, amazing, purple-shirted co-host, Christopher J.

Graham.

Christopher J. Graham (0:31)

I'm doing fantastic, man. We've had a little bit of a weird week, weird two weeks in the Graham household. I don't know if you guys saw on the television recently, but we're not going to talk politics here, but I got to bring out...

There's just a little bit of politics here. The Democratic debate for the presidency was like three blocks from my house in Westerville, Ohio.

Brian Hood (0:55)

That close?

Christopher J. Graham (0:56)

Yeah, it was...

Brian Hood (0:57)

Gosh.

Christopher J. Graham (0:58)

Susan Sarandon came to town. I loved her in the stepmom.

Brian Hood (1:03)

So that's fun because I saw all the hullabaloo... Hullabaloo? I don't know the word. Hubble Space Telescope.

Christopher J. Graham (1:12)

Hullabaloo. The Hullabaloo.

Brian Hood (1:14)

You know what I'm saying.

I saw all of the hype around it. It was like 4 a.m. I'm sitting at the airport about to fly to Mexico for a vacation, and they're talking about the Democratic debates going on, and I see Westerville, Ohio on the screen. I'm like, they're having this in Westerville, Ohio?

Christopher J. Graham (1:32)

It was insanity. All these, no offense if you're a wackadoo, but all these wackadoos, left, right, the whole nine yards, and I would try to walk home from my office that day, because I'm just right up the street. And it was like, whoa, it's terrifying up here. There's people running around with machine guns and shit, protesting and stuff.

And it reminded me of a story.

Brian Hood (1:54)

Just to clarify for our non-American listeners, these were professional police with armed automatic weapons, right?

Christopher J. Graham (2:03)

No, these were just normal people. In America, there's something called...

Brian Hood (2:08)

Are you serious right now?

Christopher J. Graham (2:10)

No, in America, it's called open carry, and you can bring a gun into public in most places. You couldn't bring it by a school or something like that, but people were just arguing in the street, and some of them are holding assault rifles.

Brian Hood (2:27)

This is a demonstration in their gun rights, so this is the super conservatives showing up at the Democratic, which is the left side.

Christopher J. Graham (2:35)

Yeah, which reminds me of a story I haven't told in the podcast. When I was in 8th grade, we did the Washington, DC trip. A lot of school districts do this.

And my Washington, DC trip, this is going to come back to machine guns and people.

Brian Hood (2:49)

Our school did this as well, by the way, in Alabama. But I was too poor to go, so I didn't go.

Christopher J. Graham (2:55)

Well, anyway, so I went and I had a crush on this girl, Erin Elia, and I had my friend ask her out for me because I was in 8th grade. And she really shot me down hard. And I was like really depressed. She was cute. She was tall.

And so I'm at Washington, in Washington, DC. I'm like all kind of like bummed about this.

And we go to tour the White House. And I'm a freaking weirdo, especially as an 8th grader.

Brian Hood (3:18)

Yeah, you don't have to preface this. I can only imagine Christopher J. Graham in 8th grade.

Christopher J. Graham (3:24)

Because you're weird now. Yeah, so it got awkward, because I was like, well, I'm going to be on the road. I probably should bring some screwdrivers just in case I need them.

Brian Hood (3:36)

I just love the thought process. In case I need some fucking screwdrivers.

Christopher J. Graham (3:41)

In case I need to like fix something. This is like me.

And so I've got my backpack, and I've got the screwdrivers in it. We walk into the White House, we put my backpack and everybody else's backpack on the x-ray machine, and they're like, whoa, what the hell? Why do you have screwdrivers? And I was like, fix stuff. And they're like, we're going to take these. I was like, oh shit, damn it. So I'm like pissed. We're walking into the White House, and I'm just like angry. Like, what do they think I'm going to do? Like steal a outlet cover or something like that? And so we get out of the White House, and we're out in front of the White House lawn, and we're like on the other side of the fence. And I look through the fence, and I can see this guy who I recognize. He's the guy who took my screwdrivers.