Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
with you, I'm not afraid of your suffering. I'm not afraid of my
own suffering. It's just suffering. Nobody dies of suffering, life
kills them. [Laughs] I mean, it's really obvious, we've all suffered,
and now we're fine, we're sitting in a radio station, we might suffer
again, it is okay, that's part of life, that's part of what happens. In
some ways it is not personal at all.
TRIP: So you have a pretty fresh approach, you're a little bit of a
comedian when you do your thing, and I know you're not
necessarily intending, but your face goes through this entire array
of emotional states and things.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Sure, sure.
TRIP: Sometimes when you get ready to speak [Laughs], I wish
people could see your face, you've just got this huge smile, and one
of your teeth is a little bit crooked that comes up, and your eyes are
wide open, and there's even a little white around the pupil, so it's
like you're really wide-eyed, and you have this big grin. You look
crazy.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: I'm glad I can't see me in the way you're
describing me. Yes, I don't know, I don't see my own face, I mean
there's one face missing in the room for each person and it's their
own, and I can't see myself. So I look like you.
TRIP: I guess you found that doing a video, your videos are on
YouTube, and do you do a video whenever you feel like it, or is it a
regular thing?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Usually I just try to answer. Somebody will
send in like a question or an inquiry or hey, make a video about
this. And I follow those, and what I love about the internet is that
people click, like I'm not knocking on anybody's door, so it's like a
salad bar of possibility, and people click it and there it is. They get
to watch it. But usually I just answer a question or play with an
idea that someone poses.
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