Why Can't We Deny the Holocaust? with Beth Lapides

It was an honor to speak to my teacher, friend and muse, alt comedy legend, Beth Lapides. Beth is the founder of Uncabaret, as well an artist, author, performer and creativity coach. We shared an edgy, illuminating conversation about aaalll the things, including:

• Beth Lapides: The Woman, The Myth, The alt comedy swami
• The limitations of traditional comedic format then and now
• Comedian Andrew Dice Clay is an unlikely catalyst
• A blink and the stare: the cosmic download and the birth of THE UNCABARET
• The role of intimacy and conversation in meaningful art
• Culture, Art and Performance of the 1990s as compared to the present
• The expansion and contraction of language and communication in the current climate of comedy
• Eradication of hateful speech vs. Freedom of Information and Speech
• In the absence of free speech, we are disabled from knowing how others REALLY think
• Engendering open mindedness through growing our capacity for understanding other perspectives by engaging our capacity for neutrality and non-defensiveness
• Triggered: But not in the annoying way
• Living in a culture of regulated and hierarchical denial
• Free Speech Absolutism and other bad ass business
• Devotion and Desire: The hunger for authentic curiosity in an enflamed culture
• Louis CK – Is he a bad guy or just a complex human being?
• A tale of a recovering know it all and the liberation of not knowing
• Appreciating the joy of an expanding perspective and appreciating divine and perfect order
• The absence of personal responsibility its role in the infantilization of women
• My Opinion: Opinions are like assholes and silence can be Golden
• Trusting the process and a willingness to make mistakes
• Carrying hope in the culture of LIFE and a culture of DEATH
• Permission to live in a space of expansion, hope and kindness
• Best Case Scenarios: Honesty and getting back to a place of self-responsibility?
• The use of story telling and openness
• Win/win: Why does anyone have to lose?
• The constant subconscious search for hierarchy and the role of liberation
• In search of self-imposed Boundaries to create Freedom
• Dani’s Book of the month: THE RIGHT USE OF WILL
• The miseducation of the American People
• Beth Lapides new book: SO YOU NEED TO DECIDE
• Following the process rather than the product of decision making

Find the second half of our conversation at danikatz.locals.com or patreon.com/danikatz

Find Beth at bethlapides.com
To work with me, find me at danikatz.com