Daylight Savings Time Is A Hoax

Daylight savings time is a hoax and I there’s proof. I have a high-maintenance dog but not the kind that needs medical attention or requires a special diet. She’s the type that wants what she wants when she wants it. Some might call her a diva which is synonymous with beagle. Here’s Piper!

She’s 14 years old so we’ve had plenty of time to establish routines, update songs where I replace all the words with her name, and play hide and go seek and by hide and go seek I mean she runs away and I have to go seek her. Another routine is her meal schedule. Her servant (me) feeds her dinner around 4pm every day. I won’t even get into the morning mealtime because it’ll just shock you too hard. Dinner, though, yes it’s at 4pm. So naturally when the time springs ahead one hour for daylight savings, you’d think her new dinner time would be 5pm because her body still is on that schedule and thinks it’s 4pm.

But… no.

Without fail, when it gets to 4pm (which should feel like 3pm right?) she hops around like the Easter bunny. It’s a good thing her whimpers, her cute little face, her wagging tail are so darn adorable because the schedule she has me on can be exhausting. I was so looking forward to a later dinner because of the time change (and ultimately, a later breakfast, too), but unfortunately she outsmarted the world yet again. Therefore…

Daylight savings time must be a hoax.

Kinda like birds. We all know birds aren’t real. What a hoax!

-Out of the Wilderness

Dylan Mulvaney’s Music Video – Ironic Lyrics, Disabled Comments, and… James Charles?

Dylan Mulvaney is back in the limelight! This time he’s in the music video we always knew we never wanted. Because of lies like this one from Joe Biden, a lot of us have grown up thinking we can be anything we want to be. A pro baseball player. An astronaut. A woman.

This lie is part of the reason we are where we are with Dylan. A couple of years ago Dylan took on the role of a lifetime… pretending to be a woman for the rest of his life. Robin Williams must be turning in his grave! Even Euphegenia Doubtfire was more believable than Dylan’s less-than-mediocre impersonation.

Watch along and decide if Dylan sounds like any woman you’ve ever known or sounds like a dude imitating what he thinks we think a woman is. Jared Leto and all the male actors who’ve portrayed women before, watch out!

Singer/Songwriter… ish. Dylan’s parlayed his gender dysphoria into a cute little song about being a girl. And by cute I mean about as cute as Robin Williams dressed as an old woman with saggy boobs. Just from a songwriting and performance standpoint, with a line like “Girls like me gotta learn the basics,” in a cringey, exaggerated falsetto voice makes the whole thing as bad as you probably expected. Another disappointing aspect is that as a man, Dylan’s singing voice was really good.

Another line, “Boys on the dance floor it’s time to clear, the patriarchy’s over you can hold our beer,” is pretty ironic since the last time I checked Dylan still uses his father’s surname. So much for dismantling the patriarchy, huh?

And The Winner Is… I guess this is the new worst song ever. For a while, playfully, it was “Friday” by Rebecca Black. Remember that one? So bad it was good. Then came along Everleigh’s “Like Taylor Swift”… a great example of why rich people should be taxed more. But gosh, now I want to listen to either of those just to get Dylan’s none-hit-wonder song out of my head. Everything about it is so unappealing in every possible way.

But On The Other Hand. In the most simplest way, Dylan’s just a gay man using women as a costume. But there’s another gay man who actually has singing talent worth paying attention to and without all the confusing pronouns. I’ll admit that when my teenager niece wanted to show me this song, I had only planned to listen to make her happy. It’s James Charles, the makeup-wearing YouTuber who actually has a hell of a song here.

Proof Is In The Pudding. When YouTube comments are disabled you can pretty much guarantee the video isn’t going over well. So guess which one, Dylan or James, has disabled the comments. That should tell you all you need to know about how people are reacting to these two songs. One is pleasant to listen to and the other is Dylan’s.

-Out of the Wilderness

Joe Biden Lies to Stuttering Kid

Joe Biden recently sat down with a young man who struggles with stuttering. As far as a show of compassion goes, this was a step in the right direction… although anyone with half a brain can decipher what’s going on here. It’s a voting year, after all.

Hmm, what can I do to make myself look good so people vote for me?

– every politician

It’s a little ironic that they felt the need to include subtitles when so many Joe Biden gaffes (not stutters, 100% gaffes) require someone to interpret what he’s trying to say. Here’s the video the Biden campaign is sharing to trick you sway you into voting for Joe in November…

Lie To Me. Whether or not we believe Joe’s stutter is the reason he has blunders on a national stage every other day is beside the point. The misinformation in this video is when Biden goes on to tell the child that he can be anything he wants to be. Um, no. Sorry that’s not true. In middle school I was sure I’d grow up to be a baseball player. I had the experience, the desire, the equipment. I was missing one thing, though.

TALENT.

Please don’t patronize kids like this. The truth is we can’t be whatever we want to be. We can excel in what we do, work hard and become great at something, sure. But if young Ben (me) were told he could be anything he wanted to be and he believed it, he was set up for a lifetime of entitlement and ultimately, disappointment.

-Out of the Wilderness

Lainey Wilson “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” Music Video and More!

Why does every music video shot in the mid-western desert remind me of Texas? It happened with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” video, too. I guess the video clips remind me of my camping trip deep in the heart of Texas. For the record, I saw just as many buffalo as I did horses but “buffalo” is pretty hard to work into a song title. Plus the idea of wild horses conjures up different sorts of inspiration than wild buffalo. I’ll say this though, every time I saw buffalo along my journey to the midwest, it was down right wild.

Enough about me and my buffalo experiences, Lainey Wilson has a three-minute story about wildflowers and wild horses. Beautiful imagery by talented filmmakers and videographers, the way the shots were put together and edited, it’s a great work of art for Lainey’s latest music video…

The Location. It’s not Texas, after all. The location for this, as shown in the scrolling credits, was White Stallion Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Now those cactuses make sense. The ranch is open to the public so if you want to walk, ride, or e-bike in the footsteps of Lainey Wilson herself, check out their website for more booking info.

The Horses. I love horses so I’ll wrap this post up with a few of my favorite horse photos and maybe a wildflower or two.

-Out of the Wilderness

SiriusXM Channels Mark Twain and Conan O’Brien in New Commercial

I’m a subscriber to SiriusXM– and if they feel like sponsoring this post I’d be happy to send them my account info for a year of free radio 🤪– and I’m posting this because part of why I was born was to write! That’s half of an answer to the famous Mark Twain quote…

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

The other half answer is December 26th. 🎄🎅🏻❄️ Ya know, in case you were wondering. Here’s the SiriusXM commercial that opens with the Mark Twain quote and includes a trio of songs, a talented dancer, and a red-headed comedian.

The Music. Featured in the 30-second version of the commercial are three songs: “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat, “Roots Bloody Roots” by Sepultura, and “Bright Horses” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

The Comedian. You also might have caught the last statement in the ad… “If you can survive this, it’s going to make the whole story that much better.” This is a line from Conan O’Brien’s interview with Howard Stern referring to his tumultuous time taking over for Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.” They had just received a terrible review and Conan’s dad said that to him. History has shown how Conan not only survived it, but his story includes his own SiriusXM station (channel 104) which helps make his story “that much better.”

Cool ad for a streaming satellite radio service always facing the ever present opponent – the things we see competing with the things we hear.

-Out of the Wilderness