Welcome to the Curiosity Chronicles

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All right,

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welcome to the Curiosity Chronicles with me,

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Taylor Cecilia Brooke,

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your guide through life's crazy insanity,

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your master unfucker,

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your chaos coordinator,

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and the boss bitch you didn't know you needed.

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I don't know if any of that's actually true, but I want to feel that way.

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So we're just going to go for it.

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So the whole point of this podcast,

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I'm just going to give you guys a little bit of a rundown about what I'm going to

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be doing here.

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I got inspired because Joe Rogan, I know, don't come at me for that.

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I was listening to him for a different reason.

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But someone asked him if anyone, literally anyone, has been able to recreate what he's done.

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And you know what, guys?

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I'm going to fucking do it.

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No one has been able to do it.

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No one has been able to do just what Joe Rogan does, which is just fucking bullshit with people.

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And I love bullshitting with people.

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And he said that the literal point of what he does is curiosity.

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Like he has all these people on his podcast because he's genuinely curious.

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Well, guess what?

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Curiosity is literally like my bread and butter.

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I am so curious.

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My human design literally talks about how much of a curious human being I am.

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which I find super interesting because my whole life it's been like this.

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I am digressing.

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Wow.

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Super digressing.

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That'll be a very common theme in this podcast because if you're curious,

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I have attention challenges sometimes,

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but not all the time.

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Anyway.

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Anyway, anyway, so this podcast, I don't really know what I'm doing.

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So I'm just trying to fucking do shit.

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And like, if there's something that you want me to look up and talk about, let me know.

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And I will, because I will look up literally anything.

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I love absorbing information.

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If you go back through my history,

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y'all,

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one of my posts talks about how I have a deep,

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intrinsic need to uptake information.

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Well,

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this goes from anything to why Boeing's planes are having so many issues to should

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I invest in Bitcoin or stocks or both.

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to what kind of fucking substitutes can I use for cream of mushroom soup?

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Like literally anything.

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I want to know as much as I possibly can.

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Why?

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Because it's so much fun.

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So what I'm going to be doing here is I'm going to be talking about shit that I find interesting.

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Maybe I'll read some of my book stuff because again, this is the Curiosity Chronicles.

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So if you're curious about the books that I'm writing, let me know.

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But I'll probably be releasing a little bit just because it's going to be,

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curious for other people.

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They're going to be like, hmm, I want to learn more.

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I want to hear more.

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I want to know more.

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Because in this day and age, that's what we are.

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We are information absorbers.

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We're fucking sponges at this point.

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So like we might as well do it for the good and not like just absorb bullshit.

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Like I used to spend so much fucking time on TikTok.

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I hardly ever go on there now because like all you do is doom scroll.

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All you do is sponge and soak up bullshit.

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Like there's nothing that you can get on there that is positive that you can't get

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in a bajillion other formats.

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It's replacing social interaction.

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It's replacing education, blah, blah, blah.

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And don't get me wrong.

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I am so fucking thankful for the shit that it's done for me.

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But it is no longer my bread and butter.

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And I don't need to be absorbing that kind of stuff.

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But I do still think that there is a lot of room for humor and curiosity and

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excitement on the same space.

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And here's the thing.

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I don't really have a lot of crazy, bold opinions.

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So, like, I enjoy hearing other people's perspectives.

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And 99.9% of the time I can completely relate to the person.

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I can understand how they arrived at that conclusion.

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I read Elon Musk's book again,

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not because I find the man like amazing or because I worship him or whatever.

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No, because I read it because I wanted to get inside his brain.

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I really, really wanted to see what his brain was like.

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And let me tell you folks, he's fucking crazy.

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But I think we already knew that.

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But he's not crazy in all of the ways that everybody thinks he is.

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They always think that he's literally doing, he's doing moonshots.

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Some people are probably like, what the fuck is a moonshot, Taylor?

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I had to learn that too.

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A moonshot is a giant fucking goal.

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What is Elon Musk's moonshots?

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Autonomous cars.

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AI robots.

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colonizing mars like literally all those things are fucking giant moonshots but

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he's going for them because you want to know why because he's curious because he

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wants to learn more because he knows but anyway i digress again but i read that

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book just so i could understand why why he does what he does why he does it the way

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he does and what propels him to do it in those ways

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And by the end of the book, I really had a deep understanding of why Elon is the way he is.

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And I understand how he arrived at the conclusions that he arrived.

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Do I agree with all of them?

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Absolutely not.

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But that's the coolest thing I feel about humanity is we can simply coexist in a

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world where not everybody has to have the same opinions and the same views.

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Now,

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There's plenty of other people out there that'll tell you that this doesn't work,

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that no one's existing with opposing views without being at each other's throats.

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But guess what?

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Everybody does.

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Every single fucking day.

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You know why?

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Because...

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Joe Schmo likes fucking red onions and you think they're fucking disgusting.

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Well, guess what?

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Those are two different opinions, but you're not beating his ass because he likes red onions.

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You're not over there calling him fucking names or anything like that.

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No, he just likes fucking red onions and he thinks they're amazing.

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But you don't.

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Who gives a fuck?

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Like, that's the thing.

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We are all,

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yes,

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entitled to have our own opinion,

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but nobody...

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People need to stop giving a fuck about other people's opinions.

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And that's really...

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what I am seeing a giant theme.

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And I feel like this trajectory has gone off very,

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I feel like the trajectory of this podcast has gone off very off course.

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You know, what's sad is my words are all over the fucking place right now.

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And I haven't even had anything that could do that.

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I am a hundred percent sober.

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Now that's not always the case.

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And I do think, I do think because I am a tree consumer,

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that doing some podcasts with a tree consumer on there would be super cool but the

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curiosity chronicles are just gonna be literally whatever i want to talk about like

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i mean that's what my blog is right like all these posts are just whatever the fuck

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i want to talk about i talk about lily i talk about me i talk about my past

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relationships i talk about shit that i see i talk about shit about talk about shit

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that i'm doing like i just simply love to talk

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And that's what we're going to do.

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We're going to talk here.