Host: Our guests today are Stanley, videographer for the Colorado Supernatural Investigation Team, and Christoph, Stanley’s partner and newly minted associate producer.
Christoph: Mandy made me responsible for the coffee. That’s all that means.
Host: Thank you for being here today. Now that you are both working with Vivian and Muerto at CSIT, I bet you see some pretty scary things.
Christoph: Ask this guy, he’s seen way more than me.
Stanley: Psssh, you mean what you saw the other night didn’t scare you?
Christoph: No, Vivian said we shouldn’t talk about that.
Stanley: I’m just calling you out. You can’t pretend to be mister skeptical anymore. Admit it.
Christoph: Whatever, it’s fine.
Host: This question is for both of you. What is your scariest experience?
Stanley: (laughing) You mean, besides waking up in a white suburban neighborhood everyday?
Christoph: Come on, babe. Don’t go there.
Stanley: Babe, you’ve known me for five years. You’ll know me for fifty, and you still won’t know what it is like.
Christoph: I know.
Stanley: For real. Christoph knows. Name an experience that is scarier than for a black man to be pulled over by white cops, when you’re seventeen, and carrying a quarter ounce of herb. The shit I’ve seen, I’m sorry, can I say shit?
Host: Say what you want.
Stanley: The scariest shit I’ve seen in those places pales in comparison to the fear that I felt as a young man growing up in south Louisiana. The fear is different, because, with moving lights, dark shadows, what’s the worse that can happen? You get scared? Man, try living with death and racism hovering over your back 24/7.
Host: Our first question seems frivolous, now.
Christoph: I’ll throw a changeup, and say that my greatest fear, is that life will take him away, and I will lose him.
Host: What is the craziest thing that either of you have done?
Stanley: (chuckling) The craziest thing?
Christoph: It had to be the time we went hiking on Capital Peak and decided to explore off-trail. That nearly killed us.
Stanley: Really? You think? Crazier than that time in Georgia?
Christoph: (laughing) Holy shit, yeah, that too. I don’t know. It’s a toss up.
Host: Any more descriptive details, for our audience?
Christoph: (still laughing) No.
Stanley: You don’t want to know the details. They may or may not entails clothing.
Christoph:(eruptive laughter). That was (between breaths) the funniest part. Even if we had died, you praying… (laughing).
Stanley: I was praying hard. Dear God. Heavenly Father. Please don’t let my parents know that I fell off a damn cliff while hiking naked in the woods.
Host: Okay, that’s scary-ish.
Stanley: You weren’t there, bro.
Host: Next question. Who are the most important people in your life?
Stanley: My Mom and Dad, Christoph. My high-school coach, Coach Binson, who taught me to think my way out of bad situations. My college physics teacher, Professor Ward, who taught me that my crazy ideas about the world could be expressed through physics and engineering.
Christoph: My parents, they accepted me for who I was. I was never (air quotes) in the closet with them. I admire the teachers that recognized that, even though I didn’t make great grades, I could offer a different perspective on the world that had value.
Host: What is your dream job?
Christoph: I would like to be a software designer, to write my own platform, and own my own business one day.
Stanley: I would like to do the same thing with my life partner.
Host: If you could have dinner with any person, dead or alive, fact or fiction, who would it be?
Christoph: Yoda. Man that would be a paradigm inversion. Would that make The Force real in our universe?
Stanley: My first thought is Cornell West, because, I just want a peek at what he knows about the world. But, then, I think, no, I’d want to have dinner with someone that really values dinner. I’ll have dinner with that old homeless guy that we saw the other day. I’ll ask him what he wants to eat, and then, we’ll have all of that and more.
Host: Have you considered journalism, Stanley?
Stanley: That was my minor at Tulane.You might even say, that’s what I’m doing now. Engineering and journalism. I’m making sure these guys don’t hoax what I film.
Host: So, no hoaxes.
Stanley: Are you kidding me? I love our team, but we can hardly put together a remote access show. Manufacturing hoaxes is not in our pay grade.
Host: Who do you admire?
Christoph: Stan.
Stanley: I admire Christoph too, but I think the audience wants a little something, maybe, more spicy. Come on, Chris, pretend that I’m eliminated from the universe by a collision with an anti-Stan. You know who you admire the most.
Christoph: Yeah, it’s Fred Rogers. I wanted to ride that train so bad as a kid.
Stanley: Yes. And, given a Chris to anti-Chris field collision, I’m going to say Cornell West.
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The Paradigm Convergence 