# A Cat, A Platypus and Ram Dass Walk Into A Video… You, Me and Everyone We Know Debut Animated New Single - Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/a-cat-a-platypus-and-ram-dass-walk-into-a-video-you-me-and-everyone-we-know-debut-animated-new-single/ - Published: 2021-08-12T15:00:00-05:00 - Author: Eugene Tierney [[ **You, Me, And Everyone We Know** [Debut Animated New Single](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=5f3f23c846&e=615f2b8493) **New Album**_** Something Heavy**_** out September 17, 2021 **Chicago and Brooklyn Album Release Shows in October** you, me, and everyone we know - Ram Dass Dick Pics (Official Music Video) [⌊you, me, and everyone we know - Ram Dass Dick Pics (Official Music Video)⌉⌊you, me, and everyone we know - Ram Dass Dick Pics (Official Music Video)⌉ Watch this video on YouTube **You, Me and Everyone We Know “Ram Dass Dick Pics”** **August 12, 2021** – After announcing their first album in nearly a decade, **_Something Heavy _**(release date: **September 17**_via_** Know Hope Records**), indie-punk stalwarts **You, Me, & Everyone We Know** have released a brand new, full-band version of their cathartic single “**Ram Dass Dick Pics**,” along with an animated video. In addition, the band have announced two album release shows this fall: **The Bottom Lounge** in Chicago on October 9 with Kali Masi, City Mouth, and Tiny Kingdoms supporting and Brooklyn’s **The Kingsland** on October 30 with support from Best Ex, Proper., and Chousand. “Ram Dass Dick Pics,” is an homage to spiritual teacher Ram Dass, (formerly known as Richard Alpert) whose mission up until his death in 2019 was making Easter mysticism understandable to Western minds. His teachings were impactful on YMAEWK vocalist** Benjamin Liebsch **(pronouns: He/Him or They/Them; Ben is non-binary) which helped them get through turbulent depressive episodes and anxiety over the last several years. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/94f32626- cc6f-2133-c953-2b35cd7b7381.jpg?resize=374%2C250&ssl=1) **You, Me and Everyone We Know** Photo credit: **Connor Feimster** A member of Timothy Leary’s LSD-fueled crowd at Harvard in the late ’60s, It was around 1967 that Alpert traveled to India and studied under Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba who renamed him “Ram Dass” meaning “Servant of Ram.”   “‘Ram Dass Dick Pics’ is partly a common grounding exercise, demonstrated in the first verse and explained in the last part of the second verse,” explains Ben about the song’s meaning. “It’s a description of looking around, getting up from the couch I was seated on, and taking in my surroundings on a walk to the store.” “The song stays pretty well zoomed into the present until we start getting to the latter half of the song, where things open up to this sort of large epiphany about what I want in life and what I wonder about the world around me on the other side of it,” Ben explains. “The song title came from this idea about being in the middle of a transformation. The notion of Ram Dass taking dick pics is absurd but it’s like living in two opposing paradigms. The platypus mentioned in the song is also an example of this. It is also a reference to being non-binary. Ram Dass’ birth name was also Richard Alpert, Dick for short… like looking at ‘Dick pics,’ (i.e. pictures of Richard Alpert) before he became Ram Dass.”     It has been six years since we last heard from You, Me, and Everyone We Know. Understandably, a lot has changed primarily with Ben’s journey with their own mental health. Through therapy, they began to learn how to unpack traumas that informed a lot of the perspective of past material and understand the impact those traumas had on their development as a person. The process of knocking down these walls that Ben forgot they even built informed a good chunk of songwriting for _Something Heavy_, which references the ideological teachings of Ram Dass and the philosophical musings of comedian Pete Holmes, in such a way that allowed all of the separate world’s that they’ve inhibited to bleed into one another. Ben has said that You, Me, and Everyone We Know is what has kept them alive through all of the peaks and valleys of human existence. “Music never crossed my mind as a pursuit,” they reveal. “Nothing did. When I first started writing the songs that would be the unintended inception of this band, I thought I would be dead by now. I had no intention of doing any of this. Yet here I am 15 years later, having since found deep meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in someone else’s dream.” **_Something Heavy _**by**_ _You Me, and Everyone We Know** will be released on ** September 17**_via_** Know Hope Records**. ![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/b3bc6166- 6327-ae06-8e3b-83dd5a43217b.png?w=1290&ssl=1) ![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/c927e30b- 8953-9f9f-931a-23589c64594f.png?w=1290&ssl=1) ![](https://i0.wp.com/mcusercontent.com/f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984/images/2e7b5db7- 1829-29d0-be8f-2d5ff980b756.jpg?resize=278%2C278&ssl=1) **Tracklisting _Something Heavy_   1. I Don’t Care Anymore, I’m Enough Now2. Better Than I Ever Was3. [Draggedacrossconcrete](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=d1bff13059&e=615f2b8493) 4. (Still) Basically A God5. F.I.N.E.6. 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