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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/messagePodsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/73559242024-02-16T12:00:00+01:002024-02-23T12:04:16+01:00CO-ACCIDENTAL CREATION: Artist Dave McKean and pianist Stefano Bollani converse through creativity<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5P948WY4qvY?si=MHQfdUd5U_iYb7H1" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Join renowned artist, Dave McKean, and Italian pianist, Stefano Bollani for an enlightening conversation on Podsongs covering their shared interests in art, jazz, and literature. The two creatives explore the intricacies of music creation and appreciation. Insights include their artistic journeys, perspectives on music education, experiences with film scores, the impact of regional dialects on music, and their love for various music styles such as jazz and Brazil's Bossa Nova. Personal stories of inspirations, challenges, and the magic of matching music to films make it a must-watch for arts and music enthusiasts. A perfect blend of shared passion, engaging creativity, and intellectual conversation on the convergence of art and music, which results in the creation of a new song by Dave McKean called 'Coincidentals'. </p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/coincidentals%20" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/coincidentals </a></p><p>LYRICS to 'Coincidentals' by Dave McKean: </p><p>His assistants busy themselves<br>Fetching scissors and coloured papers<br>Mixing hues of different flavours<br>Painting blues and greens and purples<br>Cutting stars and squares and circles<br>Beginning the journey<br>Through a thicket of collage and texture and bread and<br>circuses<br>From his bed he considers the surfaces<br>He remembers his voyages<br>And he watches<br>Henri watches<br>Henri’s body is bed bound<br>But his mind isn’t even earthbound<br>He cuts into the form of a figure<br>He places it next to another<br>Improvisation,<br>No turning back, no hesitation<br>Letting go to muscle sense and iteration<br>Creativity in the present tense<br>No more sitting on the fence<br>Commit to the composition<br>And he watches…<br>Enrico watches…<br>The kids coming up through the quavers and crotchets<br>Little birds with their scales and rhythms and pitches<br>Finding their voices and hoping to sing<br>He’ll pass on the history, of princes and kings<br>Of Bix and Miles and the truth and the sophistry<br>Of Chet and Louis and the proof and the mystery<br>And he takes an occasional player under his wing<br>And flies through fundamentals<br>Improvisations and incidentals<br>And he watches…<br>Stefano watches…<br>The silence of the film and the stillness of the man<br>Deadpan<br>Buster<br>Keaton<br>The girl leaves<br>His heart heaves<br>His blank expression<br>Falls to his knees and then the horizon<br>He sits.<br>He thinks.<br>Pushing his hat<br>Back on his head.<br>Lost in this moment of loss, the signs he misread,<br>He fails to notice<br>The coupling rod on the train that is rising and falling<br>and that is where his seat is<br>He bobs up and down as his dignity decreases<br>His stone face flashes a moment of indignation beneath<br>his…<br>Hat.<br> <br>To acquire learning you need to read<br>But to gain wisdom you must watch<br>Stefano watches<br>Through the bars of his cage<br>A cage of bar lines and staves<br>Something to break out of<br>To fight with<br>To play with<br>To push and pull and tear and tickle and sway with<br>All those accidentals<br>Co-accidentals<br>Incidental music for life<br>Incidental music for life</p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.davemckean.com%20" data-link-type="url">https://www.davemckean.com </a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.stefanobollani.com%20" data-link-type="url">https://www.stefanobollani.com </a></p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/73357042024-01-16T02:00:00+01:002024-02-16T08:14:55+01:00EVERY BEING'S A THOUGHT AWAY: Animal communicator Manjiri Latey inspires rock singer Uday Benegal<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/60cHC3bHZ-M?si=_SkKZIC5uaEm2iSl" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/udaybenegal%20" data-link-type="url">Uday Benegal</a> speaks to Manjiri Latey, Telepathic Animal Communicator and expert in Neuro Linguistic Programming about Interacting with The Universe: Tune in for a deep conversation on consciousness, Animal Communication, and Eastern Spirituality. Uday is inspired to create a new song called 'Hollow Bones. Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/hollowbones">https://ffm.to/hollowbones</a> </p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LxphNZZlC9o?si=34LS45MaU8W6qiW5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.earthwise.co.in/%20" data-link-type="url">Manjiri Latey</a> is a celebrated Telepathic Animal Communicator and teacher in animal communication, shamanism, and holistic living practices. Across the episode, they delve into in-depth discussions on topics such as consciousness, telepathic interaction with animals, neurolinguistic programming, divination, mediumship, and the Wim Hof method. They underline the significance of open-mindedness, self-trust, and the need for understanding and compassion towards animals. Drawing upon their' Indian roots, the conversation explores Eastern spiritual practices, while also appreciating the insights of Western ideas, aiming ultimately to guide the audience towards a raised collective consciousness. </p><div>LYRICS:</div><div> </div><div>Hollow bones</div><div>Divining from River Stones</div><div>Thriving on</div><div>The world contained in a moment of play</div><div>And every being's a thought away<br> </div><div>Hollow bones</div><div>Human-based telephones</div><div>All-embraced</div><div>Calling all creatures, every race</div><div>Tune into your inner space</div><div> </div><div>Journeying on a magic trip<br>Into the underworld<br>There we met the special ones<br>Our spirit animals</div><div>
<div>The ripple effect is playing out</div>
<div>Raising consciousness</div>
<div>Connecting to the source of life</div>
<div>With greater confidence<br> </div>
<div>And still you try try try<br> </div>
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<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Divining from River Stones</div>
<div>Thriving on</div>
<div>The world contained in a moment of play</div>
<div>And every being's a thought away<br> </div>
<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Human-based telephones</div>
<div>All-embraced</div>
<div>Calling all creatures, every race<br>Tune into your inner space</div>
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<div>Metamorph into alignment</div>
<div>By tapping into tools</div>
<div>Mirroring and taking on</div>
<div>As you journey through the rules<br> </div>
<div>Love and forgiveness both come first</div>
<div>In everything you do</div>
<div>Saying your sorry and ask forgiveness</div>
<div>And they you say thank you</div>
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<div>And still you try try try<br> </div>
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<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Divining from River Stones</div>
<div>Thriving on</div>
<div>The world contained in a moment of play</div>
<div>And every being's a thought away</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Human-based telephones</div>
<div>All-embraced</div>
<div>Calling all creatures, every race<br>Tune into your inner space</div>
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<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Divining from River Stones</div>
<div>Thriving on</div>
<div>The world contained in a moment of play</div>
<div>And every being's a thought away</div>
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<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Hollow bones</div>
<div>Hollow bones</div>
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<div>INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:</div>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Hello and welcome to pod songs where we interview inspirational people in service to others as inspiration for a new song Today, my guest and co-host is the Indian Rock Singer Uday Egal of Indiscreet, and his guest is the Telepathic Animal Communicator Manje Latte.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Hi there, Jack.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Hey Uday. How you doing? Good, how are you? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I'm great mate. So what's the agenda for today? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Telepathic animal communication. Ah, indeed. Yeah. This is gonna be fun. It's just, the title alone is gonna bring people in. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Oh, really? Yeah, I guess it would. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Sure. Yeah. Rock singer. Rock singer Interviews telepathic animal communicator.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That's interesting. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah. Yeah. I I hope it's interesting. It's an interesting title. Let's hope the show is interesting itself. The conversation. Yeah. Yeah. It should be, I'm sure. I'm sure Ri has very interesting things to say. Yeah. Let's see. How <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> unfold, where are you? Where you in Mumbai or I'm <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> in Go, I'm in Goa where I live.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I don't, yeah. I don't live in Bombay anymore. Bombay anymore. So I try to limit my my, my time there as much as I can. Just become, it's a crazy city that's gone. It's a downward spiral that looks impossible to reverse, basically, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> really. Yeah. Yeah, I can imagine the air is a lot fresher.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I've never been to Goa, but <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Goa's a lovely place, but it's a, it's incredible. It's pretty interesting how in the last few years, in this post pandemic world or this post pandemic country, at least it's in the last year or year and a half, it's as of people have been trying to make up for lost time and in Goa the amount of construction that has been taking place, which means constructions, means destruction, actually.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. Because it's the cutting off insane number of trees and stuff like that. We've got water problems already, but there's such a myopia here in this country about all this stuff. The Prime Minister likes to his propaganda machine is fantastic. They're really very effective because they say a bunch of things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>He does exactly the opposite and no one seems to notice and over again, that's just the way things are, politics. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah. Yeah. And are you by the beach or are you, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> whereabouts are you? I'm close to the water. I'm not by I'm at a point where the main river of God's called Armando V so where the Mano empts or meets with the Arabian Sea is where my neighborhood is.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>It's very lovely here. And yeah, it's, but like I said, it is very lovely, but it's going. Every week I can see, I don't like to use word use words like development, because that's a positive word. Yeah. Yeah. Everything connected to the word development now is is a terrible thing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Unfortunately. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> I think it's like every, everyone who goes to a place like Goa or Bali, in the early days you just, you're gonna be more and more disappointed every year because the thing you came for is destroyed by the people who come after you. Absolutely. Yeah. And you are part of the problem because you are coming there as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>You are telling people I'm here. Yeah. And yeah, you're such a cool guy. And everyone wants to go there as well. And yeah. So eventually there'll just be this, we'll be gathered around this one tree <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> ab exactly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> But you winning, sorry, but you've just been on a retreat to get back to nature. Yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>You've just come back from <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> this retreat. That was when we last spoke. I had just returned at that time. Okay. Like a few weeks ago. So yes, I was freshly back from that. Freshly pumped freshly that <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> sounded amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I looked at some videos online that looked really cool. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> But the thing's always, it's always a tricky thing coming back into mainstream human society.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. That's always the challenge. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah. And did it work? Can you talk to the animals now? Can you <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> The thing is the tele honestly, I've. Even when I did the first animal communication course with Manjari, which was last year, and that was only on Zoom, and I was a little skeptical first before doing it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Not skeptical about the course itself, but whether, how effective it would be doing it on something like Zoom. And it was fantastic. And that's really where it began. While I'm doing the animal communication course, and of course I try to employ it with, say, for example the six I'm learning to get away from words like Stray and Street.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Somebody suggested free living dogs. Cause there's nothing stray about them. They, they know exactly where they're going and where they are. They haven't gone as stray, but there are six who live outside my building and in the street outside. And I meet them every, almost every day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I give them breakfast in the morning and I play with them and. They allow me to rub their bellies, which is very therapeutic for me. And in the course of that, I met a couple of pups in house next door, and I'm both of whom I fostered. So I've been trying to employ it with them in a telepathic sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes. It does seem to work sometimes because I will say that for example, there's one particular dog that I have a very close connection with. One of the dogs outside who I call chickpea. And I've tried a few times. There are times when I wouldn't necessarily be looking at her. She's not looking at me and I send a little message about something either to come to me or something like that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And it often works. Most of the time it does. She's also a very free-spirited dog, so she does her own thing. Yeah. But yeah, I see it working. I see it in com. It's not like I'm actively necessarily having two-way conversations with the animals. The truth is, I did the course and I did the advanced course, which is the more recent thing as well, which was part animal communication and a lot more general, much wider consciousness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I got into it because of consciousness and wanting to expand my consciousness. So yes, through telepathy, communicating with animals that may be of maybe in need or may do with my help or something. Usually it's me who needs their help. I've focus more and more I do try and using that, but really for me it's more about just being in tune with the world in general.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>All beings, all creatures. And going beyond creatures, what we went through with in the recent course, the advanced course was you can communicate with your finances, you can communicate with parts of your body, you can communicate with anything. Anything, because everything is consciousness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Finally, everything is finally part of the big fabric of consciousness, wow. What we see as, what we see as solid material things is really just, and this is where science supports it all, it's all electromagnetic frequency. Finally, that's has different density. So what we think as solid as is like the stable is just, I guess electrons or atoms or whatever it is, vibrating at different speeds and frequencies, which gives the impression of solidity and of course makes it then impenetrable or partly penetrable or something like that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The deeper one goes into it, at least in terms of an understanding. Conceptually it makes a lot of sense applying it to one's day-to-day life in a material world, of which I'm very much part of a material world. That's the hard part, and that's part of the journey for me. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. Ah, so you did the VAPA courses as well and you started to ban the whirl cs, which is a really <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> did he, did you catch the word Kalis? Not too many people have co You've done so you've done the passion. I have, yeah. Yeah, you have, yeah. Done a few times. So it's interesting how people who've done Wipa have not very few that I well known.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I know, caught the word and I got it from the course itself. But it was funny. I, it's nice that it's nice to meet someone who did catch the word. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah. It's the smallest part of an anatomy or the Yeah. That's appearing and disappearing and <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> That's right. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. But you've studied a lot. Also mange. She's does, you told me she does the whim H method, and she mentions like Rupert Shel Drake, and she's really, she seems to be emerging of the, like the western and the eastern mines. The science with the. With the philosophy of the east as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>They did. I, yeah. Did I get that? Yeah, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I think so. Yes. Absolutely. And I think that's really, eventually everything is about union. Yeah. Whether it's western, east, male and female, positive, negative, dark and light. Eventually that binary, the binary aspect of the world as we, we've learned, grown to experience it, which is what yoga is.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>As she write from course yoga is yoga actually, yo, which is, which I learned from Alan Watts, who is probably one of my favorite philosophers, is also tied, is also connected to the word yoke. The yoke on, say for example horse guard, the word yoke stems from yoke from yoga, which really is about bringing together, it's about union of I guess all of this really is about is about union and I guess so is ethere because it's union with extraterrestrial beings as well. It's about finally making that understanding that one consciousness. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah. Yoga means union with God, I think is a Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Brilliant. I'm super excited, but I've been listening to all your music as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>You you were quite the old rockstar there back in the day with your long hair and your <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Oh yeah. You seen all those videos, you've done your research. Yeah. Yeah. It was funny for me to see, oh, I don't look at them, but when someone sees videos say, Hey man, that's you. It's always funny to look at that and say, yeah, that was me one time, but you were there was me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Was me. Yeah. You were the Indian equivalent of you're a big name. The kind of rockstar <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> We, yeah. Things fell into place, let's put it. Yeah. We were really just a bunch of Schmucks from Bombay who wanted to play rock and roll at a time would've made absolutely no sense to do it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But sense and rock and roll don't necessarily meet very often. So we do it for the love of it. And things fell into place, things aligned serendipitously for us. We like to, why we would love to ascribe it to all our hard work. That's not necessarily the case. Hard work goes into it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But there's plenty of people who've worked a lot harder than me who haven't been lucky enough or fortunate enough to have the same a assignments, yeah. So I look at that with amusement. It's, yeah. Did all that stuff and it's fun, but can't take it seriously. No, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> but you mean you started with rock machine and there were many Band India band started as cover bands at that time, I think.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I read and it was but no perfect recreations. It sounded exactly like not just any cover band, but better than any cover band I've heard. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Oh, really? Thank you. Yeah. We rehearsed a lot. That was our work ethic definitely involved rehearsing a lot because we just felt that when we get up on stage, especially at that time, there would pretty much every band in India, the bands who were all cover bands would get on stage and then there'd be a lot of chit chat would between band members about what to play next and a lot of time wasting and things. And we didn't care for that. We liked to run a set and start to finish and know which song segued into the next one and where there would be a break for an announcement and things like that. So when the segment of choreography, it was also the eighties. It was those the big hair glam rock bears and the choreographed GI guitar players movie.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. It's really <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> funny. Yeah, it's funny looking back. Yeah. But that too, instead fun, that all that practicing paid off because when you start to do your own songs and you really had the chops. You could, you had the discipline, you had done the 10,000 hours or whatever, and you, and that really shows off.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah, yeah, I suppose it did. We've always worked with the idea that this is something we love to do. So it's in our own interest to do it as well as we possibly can because I've, every time there was a, I wouldn't say bad gig, but gigs where I made mistakes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I've learned to forgive myself for the minor infractions, but I get off stage kicking myself. I could have done that better kind of thing. So we were pretty, pretty married to the idea that the less you have to think about it on stage, the more you would play music with truth, you feel it as much rather than calculate your way through a set and you have a better time, you get off stage feeling good about what you did and the sh and the show you had. And if you do it, if you have, if you are having a good time, then there's a very strong chance that's gonna translate to the audience that's in front of you and.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And they'll feel it. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> You still see that in the videos? Sorry. That in the videos. There's so much energy there. The crowds, huge stadium gigs it looks like. Amazing. Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. And then you worked with Tim Palmer, the producer on your last That's right. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah. Big name.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. That was, yeah, that was a great experience. Yeah, that was a really wonderful experience. We never even met them Tim, in fact a keyboard player Zen met Tim for the first time. Was it this year or late last year? Early this year. When he'd gone to Austin to, he was on, he was traveling through the US and went to Austin where we have, where he has a friend met up with him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But un until then, from 10 years ago, it was all done just via email and ah, and server. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Ah, because you lived in New York for a while. I know you were <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> over there. I did live in New York for a while, but I was back. I was well back before we even heard of Tim Palmer. Ah, the funny thing is when we recorded the album the album evolved and we were wondering about who to get to mix the album.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What led us to Tim really was an album that we were pretty much in love with the sound of the album, particularly we loved the songs as well. A British progressive brand, progressive rock band called Porcupine and Tree, and an album call him Absentia and in Absentia was probably was or not, probably was definitely our favorite sounding album at the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Just in terms of the mix and the dynamics and everything about it. So what we thought to ourselves was let's research and see who's, let's find out who's mixed this mix the album and I saw the name. Okay. Tim Palmer. Okay. Who's Tim Palmer Went on online, went to Wikipedia, and it was like, oh.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Oh, really? Pearl Jam, 10 Osborn, mark Malcolm got good taste. Yeah. Now this became, this actually became the thing that drove us to it even further. He also mixed, didn't just mix. I think he produced or co-produced the album RA Raul and the Kings of Spain by Tales for Fears.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And that at that time when Raul and the Kings of Spain was was released, was my favorite sounding album of the time. So I said, okay, there's two albums that in their own in their own periods. And those epoch were the albums that spoke to me the most in terms of sonic integrity and just beauty.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So I said, this is the guy we gotta work with. And that's when we decided to reach out to Tim because I was actually reluctant to it. And I said, oh, this guy's too big, it's gonna be too expensive. And keyboard player zin said you know what's free email? Send him a message. I said that. I said, that's true.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So I emailed Tim and told him about us and how much we really want to work with him, but we're like a indie band from India. We may have a bunch of headlines to our name, but, rock and roll in India is still singing in English to a very limited audience, so there's, there isn't that kind of money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We don't have the kind of money that rock and roll stars in the west have not by a long shot. And he replied the same day. He was really prompt. He got back and he said, I just went online. I saw some of your stuff. I like you. I really like what you guys are about. So send me some of your rough mixes and we'll take it from there of the newer material.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So we uploaded a few rough mixes of what we've done. And he said, I like it very much. We decided he gave us it was, we were still stretching ourselves in terms of the cost of it, but I'm sure he was he had dropped his rate quite a bit. Okay. As he said, as he explained to us, he said it was he's saying these are not the days of the big LA recordings that he had been, that he spent most, many of his years doing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>He saying it would've been a different scenario then by then he'd moved to Austin, set up his own mixed room, and so he was able to work much more flexibly with us. And that was it. He said so we sent him, the only thing we did physically was we sent him the the sessions, the proto sessions via courier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Okay. Theier them to him because they was just too big to upload to any servers. And that was it. He would mix a track and upload to his server. We downloaded, listened to it, and that's how he worked and it was incredible. Yeah, it was incredible. Loved everything that he did. Just loved him. He loved the way he works.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Yeah. You do manifest these things. I heard about how you got in the band in the first place. You just, you went to see the gig and you were, shall I, if this band asked me to be the lead singer, would I accept, which is that's really manifesting. And <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> as well, I learned 30 years later that it's called Manifesting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I didn't know at the time. At the time it was just a kid who went to see Rock, this band called Rock Machine and didn't know anybody in the band. And suddenly fantasizing, what have they asked me to sing for this band? And comparing it with another band as well, doing an ab there was another better, better known band in Bombay at the time called Crosswinds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And yeah, that was my little post gig fantasy as I was walking out, didn't know anybody, but still thinking to myself, if Crosswinds were to ask me to join them as a singer, and if Rock Machine were to ask me to join them as a singer, who would I opt for? And crosswinds slick, really together.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Tight band, established rock machine, raw, little loose, but the energy. And I was like, okay. It wouldn't be the wisest thing to do, but I'd go with the newbie band rock machine because there was the energy that really that really resonated for me. And yeah, a few weeks later I bumped into the guitar player while I was showing somebody else.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A friend of mine had asked me to guide this kid in college as a kid. He was the same age as me who was taking part in the singing competition, I wanted to say. And was gonna be singing time, the song time, by Ping Floyd in the contest. And so Patrick, my friend, who was going to accompany this guy, said, just show him how to sing it because he's not getting it right.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And I said, okay, fine. I sang it for the guy. And then next thing I see this, somebody else sitting around there was a guitar player, a rock machine. He said, Hey Matt, do you wanna try out for the band? And.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Sure. And that was it. That was it. That was that's when I joined the band. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> I was reading some of the comments on YouTube and people said that cuz Bollywood came up the same, it was in the eighties as well in the Rock. So it could have gone either way. You could have been even bigger now if it had, if the Indian music culture had tastes had changed, if it was more rock orientated, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> do you think?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Oh yeah. Bollywood was not really into the whole rock and roll thing at all. And there was also the language thing. So Bollywood really is India's, or film music, I would say, because Bollywood is really the Hindi language stuff. And then there's stuff in the south as well. Chennai previously knows Madras is also a big producer of of yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. And they call it Hollywood. Long never end. I hear there's a as well somewhere. Oh. I think the name Bollywood itself is self perpetuating. It's a bit ironic. It is, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, film music in India is really the country's main form of pop music. So rock and roll would never be able to compete with that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Never will be able to compete with that. The closest rock music has gotten to Bollywood itself is through a movie called Rock On which is about a rock band in big, playing to big stadiums and stuff like that with a very Bollywood plot. The plot is a bit cheesy and stuff, but as all Bollywood films are.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But it was the first time that rock music itself, and that's pretty recent. I don't know when Rock on was was produced and released, but isn't the last 15 years. Oh, okay. And but it was, yeah, last, within the last 15 years. And it was the first time that, that the Indian film audience really was exposed to a rock band on stage as the main thing because it was really about the characters who were all part of a rock band.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So there were many, all practically every song as against the usual Bollywood song routine, which would be boy and girl running around a tree or alongside a river or whatever it is. And some playback music happening. In this case, the difference was there was a band on stage singing and playing in the songs that were part of the movie, which is quite a diversion for Bollywood itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But that's the closest <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> that's got the music. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're in a foot there and a foot in either world. So I've seen you've done some interesting collaborations though on your own YouTube channel. You are mixing up, you're doing other things <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> as well. I like to work with other people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Honestly. I really love, I love working with other musicians. Just people have good, interesting ideas and it shakes it up from, it shakes me out of my patterns. Which is really important to me because I, and which is why I've always loved, so when we came, when we restarted industry, when I moved back from the US to India and we restarted industry there were only three of us left from the original band.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And we had the blessings of all the other guys, because a few of the other guys were in different parts of the world. One of the founding members still lives in Bombay, but he'd hung up his bass guitar at the time that we first shot shop and he said, that's it for me. I'm not doing this again.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And he said, but you guys go ahead and even bringing in the two young, so we're now in our forties and we get these two a bass player and drummer in the early twenties. And that was such a beautiful shot in the arm for us as well. Cause it wasn't just bringing in off young energy. It was a bring, bringing in off a whole new bunch of influences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That weren't reference points for us because the stuff that these guys had grown up listening to was very different from the stuff that forget what we'd grown up listening to. But we weren't even listening to that stuff necessarily. At the time the drummer was really into a lot of metals, so my sugar and stuff like that, you periphery and the heavy stuff.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But they were bringing in these really beautiful ideas to to the band. So I've always loved that. I love working with people with new ideas, young or old, it doesn't matter, like different ideas. It makes life more interesting for me. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Did you sing that song Fireflies from the last album? Yes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes. Really? That's amazing. That's a such an English accent there. I really, that was no per well accent. Perfect. I mean you really, cuz some of the other songs have more of American, but this is really, you sounded like an Englishman English young English <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> singer there. So here's the thing. Yes. We, starting out as a band, we were very much emulating.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I grew up on British and American Rock. My biggest my, my biggest influences were more British rock bands than American rock bands, but really both countries, the who was my biggest influence growing up really, and two towns and very specifically, but also led Zep and a whole bunch of others beat the Beatles, of course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But the thing is, a media of instruction, which is in English, is British English. The English we learn in school, and the English we speak is British English. It's not American English. By the same token as a young band, rock band that's aspiring to be like a western rock band. I fell into that whole thing of saying can't and rolling my Rs and stuff like that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And that's not the way I speak. Maybe it's getting on a little bit in years and stuff. So by the time we reach Evolve, I said, I'm gonna sing the way I speak. It's, my accent is going to be an extension of, or not an extension. It's going to be the accent I use when I speak, because that's what's natural to me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the pressure is on, I would say, post the album more recently, something I'd done for it was a collaboration, but it was a corporate thing and I was pretty much, I didn't say can't, I said can't, but my voice was ducked underneath and the can't was of the other singer, the backing singer was pushed through.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So there's it's a weird kind of pressure over here. People still seem to think that you should be pronouncing it that way for it to sound cooler. And I'm saying, no, just be yourself, man. That's it. If you say can't when you speak normally, why would you say can't? When you're singing?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. Say can't. It's okay. Yeah, I guess that's, Probably what I did with fireflies and the other songs and the albums. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Just, yeah, that's an amazing performance. Really good. So thank you. Yeah, thanks. So I'm honored to be able to collaborate with you on a track inspired by animal communication. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Me too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Likewise. Yeah. I'm very happy to honor as <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> well. Yeah. Yeah. I dunno what I'll leave, we'll see what she says. Do you have some ideas already or you just gonna <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> go with I'm just gonna go with the flow. Really? Yeah. I wanna leave it to Manjari really, and I want her to do the talking. Yeah, sure.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm gonna ask her a bunch of things, but a few things. But it really is about what she's doing and in, when I first messaged her about this I, she was, she began with a certain reticence, but not a reticence to being a part of it, a reticence towards being the focus of it. And I think she's, that's where she's gonna come from.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I is my suspicion. Is which I respect very much, is that she says, look, this is, I don't want this to be about me because I'm only doing, I'm only following the work of a bunch of other people. And I said, yes, absolutely. You are an extension of the ancient wisdom and indigenous knowledge that we are all now drawing on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And newbies like me are an extension of that via teachers like you. So we're all finally drawing from the same source from the same the same bunch of wells, but she's the teacher right now. So we'll talk about what she's doing and let her take us to wherever she feels is the right place to go in terms of wherever the subject is heading.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Okay. Yeah, she's, it's the way she combines the different things. So she pulls in the things that we, she thinks the students can benefit from. She's gone to all these different teachers and, yeah. So that she's doing a great service to others by. By being this catalyst and condensing it down because there's all the knowledge is there and it's, it's easy to say, yeah, we are all one.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And absolutely consciousness is everything, but you just repeat the truths in many different ways so that eventually we can break it down and understand it ourselves <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> in a and in an experiential way, which is the most important thing. Because otherwise it's just information. It becomes knowledge when it's your experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Otherwise it's, you are repeating what you've read or you've heard you're only speaking truth when you've actually gone through the experience. So part, very much everything that she teaches is experiential and and it's, there's a multiplicity to it as well. It's not just one particular thing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>She's exploring so many different tools. So we've all got access. It's an introduction to the experience of using variety of tools. To explore consciousness far more deeply and far more expansively. That's the way I'm seeing it. That's the way I'm interpreting my experience through her workshops.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. I see people, I see someone like Manjari. She's just getting, she's getting on board. I see people like ri as incredibly valuable to the world today particularly. And the way it's, the way it's moving. Cause it's the river that's leading us to someplace. Really beautiful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Great introduction, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> great segue. I can see you. We were just talking about you, RIE. Hello. Good evening. Good evening to you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> How you doing? Thanks for <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> joining us. Thank you, Jack. Thank you for having me. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> I've heard so much from Uday about your work, and that's why I'm really grateful that he's gonna, he's gonna chat to you and pull out all these gems of wisdom.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Condense it down into an hour. He's done a very long course, so I don't think we can cover everything, but yeah. I'm really pleased to hear you two in <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> conversation. Will I preface the session? Angel I talk to Jack right now by explaining your initial reticence or your reluctance to be the focus of it all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And but the thing is Yeah, absolutely. I'm with you. But that's what it all, that's what it all is, but yeah, we're all finally traveling down the river, but we need we need able captains of the ship to steer us down the river. So you're the captain of the ship. I've been sail on recently, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> and I've been happy to have you on board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Okay, cool. Yeah, so Jack, should I start shooting questions to Gerrie or whatever? Please go ahead. Start the conversation. No I'm, okay. Let me start, I'll start with my perception of what's been happening. When I first heard about the animal communication course through my friend Smith, I was reluctant initially to do it because it was on Zoom and I was like, oh, something like this I would think should be in person until a few months later, I realized that doing it in person seems to be that possibility seems very somewhere between remote and not possible at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So let me go online and do it. And then of course, realizing that it's telepathic, so you don't really have to be there in person at all. But from the, apart from the stuff that you were teaching us and the methods, the methodology you were teaching us, I sensed a much Let's put it this way, I sense that this was an opening into a much larger arena of consciousness itself, which is really, what I won't say sucked mean.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>It really drew me in very, in a very beautiful way. That's my perception. I'm gonna leave it to you. What is animal communication for you? What drew you to animal communication and and what is it to you? What is it for you? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Wonderful. Thank you for that question there. I think if we just first break it down into even communication as a concept and communication itself is very redundant.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>It's innate to every being whether has consciousness or so-called non-living with largely understood unconscious being, but we are able to communicate with everything, whether it's a set of keys and a pair of glasses to whether it's our own human body or an unborn child or another human in front of us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So communication is innate. Whether we are aware of it or not, it's any way happening because no communication is also a form of communication. If I refrain from answering somebody, it's an answer in itself. When we understand that communication is a part and parcel of our being and operational being in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The time and space that we are in, why not dwell further and understand its many layers and applications was what drove me. And with a backdrop of what is called NLP or new role linguistic programming, which has to do with predominantly human behavior. It was sp of events, whether it was my upbringing with parents of mountaineers and our interaction with outdoors very early to one of our dogs falling a and that're propelling me to seek cancers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>All that combined suddenly for me as well. Then similar lines as yourself. I wouldn't say I started as a skeptic. I was already if we may, for a positive of another word, say a believer or in acknowledgement that something like this existed. But I wasn't fully aware that it was a full-fledged body of work and awareness in itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And when one of our dogs who passed away handheld me into exploring this very niche, Aspect of communication, which had to do with telepathic awareness and working with animals. And honestly, it's a point of no return as you have experienced it yourself. You go down this rabbit hole and then you realize, ooh, there are so many other pathways.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And Right one leads to another and it just keeps getting better. So that's predominantly what led me to explore it <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> myself. Can I jump in there to something you just said? You said your dog of yours who had passed away, had led pretty much held your hand to it. How, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Happened? Yeah. So he had, so if I even go back in, in time I our first family dog was when I was less than a year old was when a dog was got home and she lived to be 18.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So she saw me literally into adulthood. Wow. And I don't know, a life without an animal around me. And it was so natural that you come back home and you have a wagging tail and a wet nose welcoming you at the door. And somebody who is, and. A non-judgmental awareness at home is something, there are all the two leggeds around you will judge you, but that four legged being is the one who is in complete acceptance when you come back home, irrespective of how crabby your day has been.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That's something one look forward to. When that dog passed away, one of our first dogs, we just knew that she had lived her life to be 18 and ripe. And she transitioned very peacefully. However, our second dog went through this cycle of a lot of physical suffering, which was why it led me to seek more answers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And as humans we tend to carry a lot of guilt that could we have made better decisions? Was it something a lack of Right. Care that made him suffer. So there was a lot of guilt I carried for a while. And that was a point, way back in 2008 or nine when an aunt of mine guided me to.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A video of Anna Burton Bach from South Africa. And when I saw that video I said, Ooh. I mean something that was just in my mind that can we speak to an animal or, a lot of us, even when our loved ones pass away, we have a word with them in our mind saying, let's hope you are in a better place and you are, divide of any physical suffering.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Something that I had been doing anyway unknowingly, like most of us. But the minute I realized and learned that there is a whole body of work of this nature was when I said, you know what? I want to learn this and I don't want to outsource it to somebody, but we are born with this awareness. Why not explore it ourselves?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And that's why I say it was his. Passing away. That literally led me okay. Down this pathway. And one of the teachers that I started learning with, her name was Maya Kingaid in Arizona. And, we had those old dial up connections and I would log in late at night and do that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> And that's, she's world renowned, right?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>She's, she's. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Absolutely. She's one of the yeah, biggie, one of the pioneers that actually she's working with the un, she's working with multiple, a lot of her students are doing PhDs and bringing this into mainstream. Wow. So Maya was very instrumental in making this very matter of fact. And there wasn't the, her beau, the beauty of her teaching was there was no structure and it was so natural.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And she said, oh, I'll jump in. And I remember thinking to myself, there's a dog who doesn't have a body. When I look at that old me and the same questions come up in workshops now I know. I think all of us go through that cycle of learning. So we are not doubting it, but I think our conditioned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Socially conditioned minds make us question the authenticity or the ease with which it happens. Really. And that's where one of our last dogs literally said, now it's your time. Walk this path. And that's a one way street. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah. The way you describe it right now in terms of just jumping into it, that was my reaction when I was doing your course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>You were like, okay, let's just do it. Start to communicate, stop doubting yourself. And I was really, is it that simple? And so I'm sure I'm loving the experience. I'm loving everything that I'm learning from you. And of course we'll talk about the advanced workshop as well, because that goes well, that went well beyond animal communication, which I was thrilled about.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I love the animal communication part of all of it, of course. And then I'm in love with the animals for sure. But then it went even further. I love, but just in terms of the animal communication itself, I'm loving the experience that a lot of people respond when I talk about I'm doing an animal communication course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Of course I'm fortunate to know a lot of people who've accepted the crazy aspect of myself, so they're not surprised about it. But there's always the larger number of skeptics who will either laugh or scoff or sneer. How would one explain it to them? How would one explain to somebody who is not already open to the idea of being able to telepathically communicate with an animal?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm not talking about a hardcore skeptic. I'm talking about somebody who's on the fence. Absolutely. How would you describe it? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Even if we bring in the hardcore skeptics in this discussion, I think we are surrounded by them anyway, whether they wear their hat on their sleeve or not, or they may not say it openly, but we have a lot of them around us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So whether they're fan sitters or they are absolute skeptics or non-believers a few things that I realize over a period of time, and I went through my own learning cycle with this, the first thing I realized is we need to be respectful of their belief because everyone. Creates and carries a belief because it serves a purpose in their operational everyday life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Probably life has been really hard and harsh on them, which is why skepticism is what keeps them going and alive, right? So first, being respectful. Second, what I realized was the more I went out to convince them, the more I actually convince them away from it. So I stopped convincing people. What I did do, and I continue to do, and I also encourage others to see if it works for them, is help these people see evidence of this phenomena in their everyday life, something that they're oblivious to.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Simple things like when they're making intuitive decisions while signing a document and a voice inside them says, you know what? Don't sign the document. Did you haven't read it fully. Or when they're making a commitment, they're making a payment or something in their mind tells them that, rather than feeding my dog, a.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Kind of food, let me feed them, be food just everyday evidence and it's anecdotal evidence in their lives. The minute you bring that to the forefront and just leave it at that they themselves will start realizing, Hey, you know what? The person is not forcing their view on me. I see evidence of this though, I may not come in out in the open and say overnight, I'm a believer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Why not just start giving this thought? And frankly, what I realized with there was when you just leave them with these concepts and ideas, they start, you've given them a new perspective. And every day what was unconscious, they start consciously seeing and noticing the phenomena in their life. And before you ne know, they're already believers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If somebody comes and says, you're who in the head or making a fool, lot of people say, oh, really good to know. Or tell me something. I don't know. I feel the pulse of the person in front and choose my responses accordingly. Sure. But sometimes I'd say, oh, I was unaware.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Good to know. Or literally as beaten as it may sound, tell me something I didn't know. And I believe it as well, or I didn't think I would get caught. I've. Played it, played with somebody and said, yeah, I didn't know I would get caught, or that you would realize I'm making a fool.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Lot of people. All marketing today is waking hypnosis anyway. So whether it is this or whether it is unknown things that are happening I think a lot of people join workshops now more than ever before, who openly say, we're skeptical and say wonderful, because what I realized was believers probably don't come up with qualitative questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Skeptics actually ask really qualitative questions, and they actually, from that space of skepticism to the crux of what this is as a science, as a way of living. So honestly, the least we convince them, the more we are convincing them towards it. So if <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> that answers the question, I get it. Yeah. No ab absolutely.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And I get what you mean about the skepticism part of it also, because, I'm almost thought that I was born a cynic, a cynical optimist, is how I saw myself. And there will always be that part of me that questions even now. But it's I will say that for me the challenge is between and that's where the gray area takes place for me, is between questioning and doubting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>There's a real fine line between asking question and seeking maybe a validation or some kind of a, some kind of a cogent response to a con confusion or a doubt, or actually doubting something. And I would, I'll say that in the first course, the basic course that I did with you, the basic animal communication course, just the fact that you brought in something as simple as ask the question to the animal and trust the answer that you receive.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Every time you doubt yourself, you are creating an obstruction. That itself is a huge step forward, I would think, for anybody. Removal of doubt, it seems to be the thing that holds back to human race more than anything else. It's what's corralling us into this, in this very limited existence is we've convinced ourselves that this is what life is.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We unwilling to accept that there is so much more beyond that. And that's what I seem to be getting from first, your first animal communication course as well as the advance. But what I've also found interesting was the reading material you sent out after the first course, after the basic course, and with books by Rupert Shere, of course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And who's a gentleman who wrote Bi Biology of Belief Bill. Dr. Bruce Lipton, Bruce Lip, stuff like that. That goes well beyond, it's not, that's not woo vu. I embrace my woo on the one hand, of course. But these are pretty serious dudes with very strong analytical minds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Absolutely. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Yeah. Absolutely. If I may just add caveat here, where I have realized, and I think probably Jack would also see a different perspective to this. So there, culturally people respond differently to content and it's a cultural consciousness that also makes us either question the authenticity of something or we come as believers, even trusting ourself as blatantly racial as this may sound.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But I think in a country like India with our own past that we've had as complex as it is and our population and the cultural complexities that come with it, I think each one doubts. The other, the capabilities and doubting oneself is a natural outcome of it. Everybody makes a decision.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Think about it in the western world, a child is 18. He is, he's encouraged to leave home, go figure his own life out. And if he makes some decisions, he has to own up to those decisions saying, no, you made bad decisions. You pull your socks up, you learn and you gut it out. On the other hand, in a country like ours, like India, you are sheltered for whatever reason.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. You are sheltered till the very end. And very rarely are we made to realize that we have the potential doubt is such a deeply ingrained aspect of our culture. So even when we have people logging in from different parts of the world, they respond culturally very differently to the same statements and content discussed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And this, the minute I know that the entire group in a workshop comes from Indian roots born and brought up here, I know what to lay most stress on, which is trust yourself fully, let go as the doubting mind to take a backseat. Versus if I have a half and half group half that is logging in from say, Europe or the Americas, I wouldn't lay so much stress on it because trusting themselves probably comes a little more easier to them than our cultural context.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Okay. It's just one something that I observed. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> That's interesting. What about the divisions in say I will say this as somebody who's a very westernized Indian that's who I am. I grew up in Bombay to raised by very westernized parents. Jack was, Jack and I were chatting, Jack was commenting on my English accent on one of the in discrete songs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And it's all part of that South Bombay upbringing, so there's a lot of Westernization in my upbringing, but it's very much India in my genes and my blood and my surroundings as well. And there's all, but how do you see the division between, say, the Western analytical mind and the Indian the Indian who's already attuned to, I guess here's where it gets a little weird, I see India as, okay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Here it gets to be more Hindu than any other religion because Hinduism contains so much of nature within, in, within the pantheon of gods and and figures to be revered, And yet we seem to have forgotten that if we can, if we have them as Gods, then clearly we should be treating them better in this country because we are particularly very bad.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Very, I would say we are terrible custodians of the natural world in India this period of our lives. Now the same time, culturally, are we more connected to animals than say, the western world, which has seen humans being superior to forms of nature. As, say someone like Alan Watts would describe it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> I had read a, an editorial in the Times of India many years back, about 20 odd years back, but I still find it relevant now, where the metaphor was a snake for India and culturally and religiously, where the snake has its head in the 21st century and the body dates back into prehistoric times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And I think it is still relevant now because as a culture, as a respectful and aware we want to be of our veic scriptures and where nature was was revealed as God, our , which are our holy scriptures, contains so much information about just shamanic beliefs, where every element in nature was God.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We I think we are pulled where one part of our society does want to subscribe to. It wants to dwell deeper. And actually the western world has taken to it more than, Absolutely Indians ourselves, because I think our population is just busy, just Maslow's hierarchy of needs, putting food on the table and so many aspects of survival and security, I think a priority for an average Indian today running pillar to post in making ends meet rather than thinking of spiritual aspects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Whereas probably people in the western world or those who have more westernized upbringing, I think we have privileged backgrounds where we don't have to probably worry as much as a lot of average people around us. So I think we have the privilege of really thinking about spirituality, thinking about what past our country has and exploring it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But I think we, it's is the paradoxes in our country that make us so unique, probably because we are probably somebody sitting across the table from us may have a completely unique upbringing in the same city as ours, but it's probably these polarities that make a discussion qualitative and are respectful of the past we've had.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah, that's, those are the first thoughts that come up to mind when you pose <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> that question now. Okay. Now you've got something like, part of one of the many things that you teach as part of earth wise is nlp, neuro realistic new neurolinguistic programming, which is something, honestly, I've done a bit of research.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm finding it very hard to understand what it really is, because everything on YouTube seems to be some kind of vague, this is wonderful for you, but nobody tells, says exactly what it is. You could use en lightness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> So I will start with the same thing. It's wonderful for you and all of us as a science, but if we break it down into understanding what the phrase means.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So neuro implying brain linguistic as a common man's understands language, but it is both spoken and heard and programming implying that all behavior has a structure right now. If we really simplify this, Each of us has a unique set of linguistics we choose to use. Maybe there are repeated words we are using.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Our internal world operates a certain way, and that's what makes us so unique. Now, what N L P entails is as a behavioral science, very simply, let's take quick examples to make this easy. A lot of traditional approaches in psychology work with diagnosis, okay? So it says, okay, you have syndrome, or you have happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And a classic example I give for N L P is classic approaches in human behavior study the ill in curing the well, okay, so repeat that again. A lot of classes of classic approaches and human behavior study the ill in curing the well. Nlp on the other hand, studies the well on understanding what keeps them well so that there is no concept of ill right now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>For example there is one concept in NLP called role modeling, implying that if, for example, I really like the way you lead life or you make music, I need to understand under neurolinguistic and programming that your behavior has a structure, there's a recipe to your behavior. And the minute I understand the building blocks of what you're doing, I can duplicate it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So something like an autobiography serves the same purpose, which is why we pick up autobiographies and say, I would, what's the react to richest story? The person started at the same level as I did. How did he or she get a better outcome than me? Or how can I reach the same outcomes? So N L P basically makes life manageable, easy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Let's take one more way to simplify it. If a friend comes to us with a problem, we give them 10 different solutions. Why don't you do this? But when we are faced with the same problem, most often we are very dumbfound saying what do I do? But if the capability to give a solution to somebody else exists implies that the capability to give yourself the same solutions also exists within us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But self-help is something that our brain hasn't really practiced. So it is basically focusing on ourselves, realizing all the resources we need to bring about change are already within us, and how to work with our own capabilities and making life simple. So there are multiple applications of N L P, but at the root of it, it is how you can make life simple, easy, manageable, and smooth sailing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That's why it's a behavioral <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> science. Okay. I'm curious about the linguistic part of it is because language has always been my favorite subject. So is it, is, are you, is there a. Is it a methodology of recalibrating the way you even speak outwardly as well as inwardly? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Wonderful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Absolutely. Yes. And if we from the linguistical perspective If, let's take English as an example now because that's the common language we are communicating in at the moment. At a very basic level, we've done this even during our animal communication workshops. We have five senses right now where each one out of the five senses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The linguistics I'm using in less than one minute, you can gauge what sends the other one is operating from, right? For example if I'm using emoticons on WhatsApp and I'm using more action oriented emoticons, implying I'm a more kind aesthetic person, that means touch, feel a more important to me. So if I want to get through to this person and my linguistics are more kind, aesthetic and action oriented, I'm able to build better rapport with the person.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If I realize the person is more visual, where they're using more visual emoticons or they say, Hey, see I'd love to see you tomorrow, or can you picture this implant that the person is using of visual linguistics? And if I speak to the person in the language, his brain understands best, I'm able to get a foot in the door and have a better rapport with the individual and what we are helping.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>People, whether they're in marketing, advertising, teaching, training, or even general communication is the more holistics, holistic our linguistics are. We are reaching all genre of people. A teacher in a classroom may be a very visual person herself, but if 70% of her class is more kind, aesthetic and auditory, she's losing, reaching to them completely.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>But if she creates a script with awareness that incorporates linguistics from all senses, she has the children glued in understanding content and recreating it during exams and otherwise in life. So linguistics has multiple layers. There is hypnotic language. There is, there are what I call embedded commands If I want somebody to do something there are very subtle ways of using linguistics to get through an individual.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So linguistics plays a huge role over there in everyday life. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Okay. Slightly edgy word to use, but I don't mean it in the negative sense of it, but it is a way of manipulating a situation in a sense. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> I'm glad you asked the word manipulate. So the dictionary meaning of the word manipulate is the skillful use of hands.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Okay. And, ah, it, it came from actually the founders of N L P, the founders of N L P. There are two individuals who, there are multiple who contributed to N L P to becoming what it is, but there are two who gave it the classic structure. The one is Dr. John Grinder, and the other is Richard Bandler.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the first book is called Structure of Magic because they realize magicians used skillful use of hands to create a magical effect for an observer. And even when somebody says, are you manipulating, you are manipulating somebody's. Awareness to get better outcomes, right? A doctor, one of the people that's instrumental in making nlp, what it is Dr.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Milton Erickson, who, by the way, his story is absolutely worth reading and understanding. So he was plagued with polio when he was just 17 years old. He got himself to be fully mobile and functionally active again, and went on to become the best hypnotherapist the world has ever seen. And wow. Somebody asked him this very question there, where are you manipulating?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And Dr. Milton Erickson's answers are something that reverberate in my mind till date. He says A doctor manipulates a joint when it is dislocated. A mother manipulates a child to get him to eat and be fed well. A spouse manipulates their partners so that they have a more meaningful relationship.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So manipulation unfortunately has a negative connotation in general understanding. But when you move something and meta and shift it for better aligned outcomes than it is manipulation, no doubt about it. Yeah. Yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Got it. Okay. Interesting. So communication is your thing now, but, okay, animal communication.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes. On a telepathic level. Neuro linguistic programming, which is very much language. But now I wanna go to your, I'm, I'll reach out to my experience in your advanced course because I was I spoke to Jack shortly after that and I think he noticed a certain glow face, but I was definitely, yeah.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And no, I did come away. I honestly, I came away from that workshop very energized and very uplifted. I will also say that reintegrating back into regular society with every, with gen regular people is not easy after things like this. But that part now, what started out as animal communication, which was your first course of animal communication itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Now let's leapfrog to the advanced course at a large outside beautiful national park, the Khan National national Park in in Central India. But your course now has gone well beyond it's taken animal communication and gone well beyond that. Talk to us more about that. I'll tell you why, because this is, my mind was blown by the last time because it's pretty much kind of the direction I've been finding my cell phone, inadvertently.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think part of it is deliberate, intentional, and a lot of it is seemingly unintentional. Clearly there's an intent behind that's putting me on this journey. But getting into huu territory we clearly, to me it seems very obvious that we're moving into a time of ascension on the planet, A time of evolution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Let's not use words like ascension for fear of scaring away the the ones on the fence, just in terms of evolution and expansion. Now, you were tapping into so many tools to evolve and expand. Talk to us more about that and where you're coming from and what your intent is with all of this stuff.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> In all honesty, about eight years back when we started our first advanced workshop to what it is today, it has meta mofos and it continues to meta each year. And I think it is only rightful for us to keep moving with the times. I think there are two parts to this. One, my awareness and experience as a facilitator and as a medium for the group is also shifting and changing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And second, I think our needs as a society are shifting as variant is only then doing justice to our, whether we call it spiritual needs, whether we call it our emotional needs, whether we call it our souls needs. It is to feed all these needs is where the course content has been, constantly shifting and moving.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In the first few workshops that we started, I was, I realized that the need of the hour was, For us as a community, just to first understand that there is something as animal communication and we can dive deeper into it. With all subsequent years, I realize, okay the society that is signing up for these workshops, Somewhere already are believers and are really, going to the deep end of the pool.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So then we started saying, okay, where all can we apply? And honestly, u there what was happening was the kind of clients that came in every consultation led me one step deeper into what telepathic could do. For example, during a consultation I would have things like the consciousness of an apartment join into the conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the first time that happened, I was like, whoa, what just happened? The animal speaks about something very imbalanced in the house. Now when we are speaking about imbalance, it's not just the animal and the humans are inhabiting that space, but the space itself has its awareness and it's a no-brainer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Actually, let's think about it. How did you ex <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> walk into some, how did you experience that? What led you to that? That that realization? So <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> specifically, I remember one of the chats I was having, this was back towards the end of 2009, early 2010, where in a conversation with a dog, the dog says, this house doesn't seem happy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>There's something in this house that seems really unhappy. And I remember sitting back in my chair with a live call, and that, that time there was no zoom, there was no WhatsApp. I was on a phone call and we used to do consultations on a phone call with the family, and remember sitting back and saying if the house is unhappy, how about talking to the house?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And Pat came the answer, and I asked, is this the house responding as a, sunk, we have a word which means a space or an entity by itself. And when I was mentioning earlier, it's largely a no-brainer. You walk into someone's house or you walk into a space and sometimes you feel really settled, warm, and welcomed, right?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And on the other hand, sometimes you walk into a space and it unnerves you. And there's something about that space where if you ask yourself, do I want to go back there? And instant answer is no. I would rather refrain from re-engaging with that space, and it is devoid of humans. So it's a space that has its own consciousness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So I said, all right. First let me spend about six odd months in exploring doing this myself with clients, with cases. And when I realized it is as seamless as working with animals, I incorporated that in the next workshop that we had. Say, okay, now why not all of us explore it? Maybe another.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Participant on the workshop will probably take it further than where I have reached. They'll pick up and run with it in a different direction and find new aspects to it. So that's how it has been shape shifting content-wise. Yeah. To where it is now. Where we are working with plants, animals, nature, we are working with elements within our body.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And I think there's a reason why they even working with elements in our body became so imperative because for us to be hollow bones and do justice to being conduits between an animal and a human, I think as communicators we really need to first be respectful of our own bodies, respectful of our own internal Needs sorry, did I lose you guys for a moment or No?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is you, is the connectivity okay? Because it just stalled for a moment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I'm hearing you clearly, sometimes the picture is a little jumpy, but I'm hearing you very clearly. Sorry. Know Jack's feeling Same. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Is it patchy or It seems okay because I just, it's a bit, a little bit patchy, but <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> okay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Yeah. Does <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> it sound, so the audio seems fine, just the visual is sometimes hang a little bit but the audio doesn't break. Super, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> super. So I was just mentioning that I think I realized that as communicators and being conduits, we need to be respectful of our own bodies. Just awareness of how the elements of nature inside are balanced or imbalanced.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And that's why that facet came in. And I continue to explore more modalities that can make us better humans. And so whether it's using pendulums for dowsing and ion, or whether it is harmonic wisdom to be explored. Anything that can get us as a group of people to not only raise our awareness, but raise the awareness of anybody that we are crossing path with.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think that is how the content was developed into what it is currently. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Okay, so what you were talking about earlier, I think everyone will connect to the idea of actually offer home having energy. I guess we've never thought of it as something we can speak to because anyone who's looking to either buy a home or to rent a place, most people will say, will respond to the energy of that, of their home.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I love the energy of this place, or I don't get a good vibe in this place, but we never think about it in terms of something that we can communicate, which that's fascinating. And that's what I was getting from the advanced course I was telling Jack earlier as well, that you spoke about communicating with one's finances.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm trying that with an investment of, it seems to be quite stagnant. I'm waiting for a response. Yeah. So how does it work? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Nice. Yeah. If we just go back to very basic laws of physics that you can. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It's only changing form. And every time, maybe an investment was an idea in your mind, and idea is also an energy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And then you channelize that energy into a physical investment. So it's only changing form. The idea was already birthed. Even when it's money, whether it is our body, whether it's a land or it may be a dream, a book. One is writing a song, one is writing. Could be absolutely anything. It's all energy that can be communicated with, and there is an interface that's happening.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Even stagnation can be a metaphor. So maybe if money is stagnant at that point of time, it is literally, we are a few questions away from asking that investment saying, Hey, I see you to be stagnant. Are you actually stagnant? Are you in hibernation? Because they can be very two different things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>When something is hibernating, it is waiting to come out better than before. We are seeing no movement as stagnation, but money as an energy could be hibernating, waiting for just the right time to bloom and, come out and become better. So just check with the question with that monitoring investment saying, are you stagnating or are you hibernating?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Or is there another option? That hasn't crossed my mind. And then just, I'd invite you to go through the typical questions that we do. Are you mirroring, are you taking on anything for me? Sometimes ude, especially with money related things, there is a huge <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Explain the three questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. Will you just explain questions <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> for whoever working Absolutely as well? Yeah. What I realize over a period of time is that typically we see patterns in how phenomena is unfolding energetically. Whether it's a, it's an animal, whether it's a child in the house, whether it's a space or money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Largely, we realize there are three parameters that it goes through. The first is what is called mirroring. So let's simplify it for an average audience as well. Let's take an animal. An animal actually acts as a mirror for a human. Simplifying it even further, let's say a human has a smudge on their face, the mirror merely is going to reflect the smudges as a, as an image.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Now, if we take a cloth and we are wiping the mirror, it's a pointless exercise because still the human doesn't make that change. The mirror is not going to reflect the change. So if an animal is classically mirroring for a human, he or she's only showing us an internal mirror of what's happening within us, either with health or behavior or our decision making capabilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the minute the human makes the changes, the animal foregoes that behavior as well. So there can be a mirroring. The second probability we've realized as a pattern is what is called taking on. So let's continue the example with an animal itself. So it's easy for people to comprehend. Animals tend to act like little vacuum cleaners, so they will suck out of a human.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What they see is either with health or behavior, not serving a very positive purpose for the human. And because animals are largely earth and grounded they are like a earthing wire in a pluck point. What they will do is any energy surges in the human's body, they will try and earth and ground it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So they take on. And classic examples of this are where a lot of people with cats will notice it, or dogs that are smaller breed dogs. People will notice it is cats will sit on the body where there are lymph nodes in the body. So in the arm pages under the neck or near the groin region where.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The immunity centers in the body are, so a cat may sit there and heal the human in that perspective. So there is a taking on. And the third probability is that the animal is neither mirroring, not taking on. It can be the animal's own journey by itself are the classic three examples. But if we go back to the reference of money and investment, the money as an energy can maybe be mirroring where there's a stagnation in human's life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Person X, let's not say whether you, let's say person X, maybe there is stagnation, person X life and money as an investment is reflecting that. Or maybe it is taking on right now the role of hibernation and it can be on its own journey. So you can just ask these three questions, see where it's the combinations are, and then follow up with more probabilities to it and see where it leads <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Okay. So correct me if I'm interpreting this correctly So the fact that I can communicate with, say, an investment that I have made, I'm able to communicate because that invest, that investment itself in a sense is alive because it is an extension of my original intent. Is that what it is?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Okay. Absolutely. Yes. And actu, you know how much ever we want to fragment it and say, it is my intent. Actually, it feeds into the greater intent of. Universal balance as well in some form or the other. And another way of simplifying it is there are a lot of people who only think about making money, but rarely think about giving back to society.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So whether it is charity or whether it is doing something for somebody until that monetary energy is not in movement or in rotation, it's not gonna come back to us. Yeah. So sometimes for some individuals money just stops as in it, it used to be a perennial stream and it starts drying up and then they realize, oh, I haven't done charity in a while, so the minute I do charity, there is an outflow of monetary energy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And then the inflow comes cause you're creating space for more energy to come in. So it is not just an extension of our intention, but something that plugs into a greater good for more universal balance as well. If that makes sense. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Absolutely. Makes sense to me. So now I'm gonna dial back to the animal part of things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. In the communications now referencing what you spoke about in terms of animals with the mirroring, taking on all their own karmic journeys or their own soul journeys or whatever it is, the fact that we've always seen as human beings, we've always seen animals as either annoyances or burdens or helpless creatures who are requiring of our beneficence or our health and magnanimity and I will come back to that that much hated word, the term that of yours, pet parent, where human beings, and I see it all the time, and now that you've, when you've brought up the issue of the pet parent, I can't see any post.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>On Instagram or Facebook with somebody is made about an animal where they aren't referring to the animal as their child or as, and I know it's coming from a very beautiful place. It's coming from a deep sense of love, but there's a real patronizing aspect to it. And the way you've described it is animals being actually of a higher vibrationally nature than human beings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And so therefore the roles are actually quite the opposite. Talk more about that. That kind of, that has really shifted a lot of things for me. I would say that for sure it's, I love animals so deeply, but now the way I see them is so very different. It's so very different. The love has deepened, but the respect has grown so <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> much.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm glad you asked this question there. And I'd like to highlight the work of one gentleman by the name of Dr. David Hawkins and American psychiatrist and did a lot of work in what is called kinesiology and under N L P when I started exploring kinesiology or muscle testing. The simple things everything that we do in life is either life supporting or life harming.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Okay? For example, somebody says, do you wanna come for this party or this meal? And sometimes if it is life supporting, our body sways towards it. And if it is life harming, our body sways away from it. Now these are things where there is an emotional energy with that actor event that tells us at a very visceral level that, go towards it or go away from it, which is kinesiology in a simple way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Now, Dr. David Hawkins studied human behavior and consciousness and went into the layers of consciousness in his entire lifetime. And in one of the charts that he made, which is called the levels of consciousness, which I'll use as a backdrop, just conversationally right now for us to understand man, animal perils specifically for a modern man are, in this chart of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>He has put in his observations something like guilt. Hate, anger, apathy really lower down in the chart. And something as neutrality somewhere, mid chart and something like love, forgiveness, unconditional love further up in a chart. Okay? And we are not saying something is better or greater than the other, but and maybe each of us has this emotional vocabulary as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We do have anger, we do have guilt. But what is paramount is how much time does an average human spend on this chart? So let's take a human and an animal. If you look at an average city dwelling human today, we spend most of our time being angry, upset, frustrated unhappy guilty. Our education system works on guilt tripping people all the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Parenting is about guilt tripping. So an average human spends a lot of time in the lower spectrum of emotions, which are life harming. And an animal, an average animal, whether in the wild or domesticated, is an epitome of unconditional love, forgiveness, and acceptance. So they are spending majority of their time further up in this vibrational chart, which is life supporting rather than life harming.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What then makes us, Feel that we are more evolved purely because I think we lose so much stress on intelligence and ability to speak out loud. And these are the yard sticks we're using to say we are more evolved than animals, but as vibration awareness. Absolutely. Airplanes are an interesting example.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes. And these are yard sticks that we have created for our own to caress our own ego, if I may say that. And animals on the other hand really don't care whether they're pretty or whether they're, you know how they look and a guest comes home and they will roll on their back and expose their entire underneath.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>They only don't care. They're looking for their needs and what makes them happy. So even if we are just using this chart as a reference, we realize if we are that lower down in our vibrational awareness, And animals are up here. He's not just a dog. And it's not just a cat. It is a dog and a cat that needs the respect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And if we may use a classic Indian word as they are probably the gurus in our life and we have to be worthy of having them in our life. So they are definitely not our children. Babying somebody. Gives us the pseudo sense of superiority. If I may put it that because it puts us in a controlling position that I make all the choices, but you're actually depriving that soul of its own independent life choices with a domesticated dog, we are choosing when they will poop and pee and when they'll go for a walk and what time they will eat and, sit down give paw.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That's an extremely high spiritually aligned being. It's not there in our lives to entertain us with give paw role, sit down. Other than all that which is more human ways of doing things, we can seek their guidance. To raise our own awareness and just be better human beings. Least of a burden on the planet, but more aligned and in one with the fabric around us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah. The fascinating thing is how, is, how sporting they are with all the games, with all the rolling over and jumping through hoops and everything. There's no complaint. So is the answer presence, is it about, because you spoke about that, that animals are always in the present moment. And that's something we, as human beings, we, we do, we go to courses and we do all kinds of things to bring ourselves into a state of presence while always battling this internal con chaos of uncontrollable thoughts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Is the difference, is this the fundamental difference between animal and human being in the present moment or at all times? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Undoubtedly, yes. And I think they are fully aware of their connection with the source energy. That means they are fully surrendered to why they are on this planet and they don't need to go to workshops to understand what is my purpose.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And they know their purpose and they're surrendered to what divinity within them ask them to be aware of. And when we say they're living in the present. A classic example is if you tell a dog you need to move homes. He will happily just walk. He doesn't need his toys, his bed, nothing his bowl.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>He needs nothing. He will just pick himself up and move. And you tell a human, forget moving a house, you're going on a one day holiday. A human will pack this youth bit, fat bag with a gazillion things that he will never end up using, which means we are constantly dwelling either in the past or the probable future saying, I might need this for my holiday.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Get to the holiday and see what happens. Just bring your presence over there. Probably you won't need anything but just your awareness. And that is a major difference where one, I realize they are so aware of the connection with source energy and universal energy. And second, they are not defined by any of these materialistic things, which makes them live in the present more rather than live in the past, what was or dwell in what will be in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So I think that defines just what their presence is for us. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> And we need to reevaluate our relationship or the way we see ourselves in comparison with the animal world in terms of intelligence and superiority or any of that stuff. But now, absolutely. So it's, but now this all goes beyond animal, community, animals and animal communication.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Who are, which are, which of course is integral to consciousness. It's all part of the same deal. But you are expanding well beyond that. You had we did the Wim Hoff method by the river, which was, even those, even the three cycles of breath that we did was, it was incredibly powerful. Is that what you mean by taking care of the conduit, the body in terms of oxygenating the body.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So it's bet it's a better instrument to be playing this role as communicator. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Absolutely. In shamanism they use the word hollow bone. Meaning that you have to be so hollow that you are not deducting or adding anything of your own. And all traditional shamans are who practice as mediums made sure they were doing justice to being a connection between us to souls in, or whether a tree or an element in nature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the human, they were doing justice by being as hollow as they can. And when we speak about we are not different from it as city dwelling, modern people, we are also, it's very challenging, easier said than not to be in the present moment. And a lot of us are either in the past or the future to being here and now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What does help is all tools and techniques that can help us first respect our body because we carry our body into every situation and interaction in life. And we are probably most beret of its abilities and capabilities of what the body. Has. So whether it's, even when I was in active athletics, I realized that breath work was something that was so paramount and PR AM or aura yogic practices, definitely the first thing is attention to breath.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And I realized whims methods for some of the most easy methods that one can do in everyday routine life. And you need about five or seven minutes to put yourself in the right frame of mind and energize yourself rightly whether it's whims methods or whether it was just hugging a tree, it's anything that gets us to be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>More in alignment or in touch with our own body and the better mediums center justice to what's flowing through us. And one need not be actively doing telepathy. You could be just an Uber driver for all you care, and you could be somebody cleaning homes and toilets, right? Each job has its own role, and somebody who's doing their job, if they're in full surrender they tend to enjoy, they tend to do a hundred percent justice to it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And the person, somebody who's cleaning toilets, a person comes and uses it and says, you know what? Thank you for keeping it the way it is. You've made their day, but, and they put in a hundred percent. You as a receiver were aware of the way the toilet was and clean. And both people, I think the justice to the presence in that space.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So yeah, just anything that gets us more aware are tools and techniques that we don't have. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> What's your goal? I'm seeing are you I will, I wanna step in here just for, just say for very briefly that I think you're an incredible teacher. Remarkable teacher. No, seriously.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. I've been through the Indian school system where, I had very nice people as teachers. I didn't really learn very much. I won't blame the teachers. I will not blame the teachers at all. I'll take on the responsibility of that. Of course, it was a very boring curriculum as well. But I've, over the years, good teachers really stand out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Very tall. You teach incredibly well. So clearly you are coming from a very honest and clean space. But your teaching is very expensive. So we've got the moff method. Apart from the animal communication via tele telepathy, we've got the Moff method, divination using, we were using stones pendulum, dowsing remote viewing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Searching for a power animal. It's quite a wide pallet of activities. How do you see these all coalescing? What is your, where do you see it le leading to? What is your intention with this? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> I think if I may use the word greedy here, in all honesty, I think I'm just greedy that we as a species, if we are going to increase our vibrational awareness, even micro milli in, in whatever we are doing, again the list that you narrated right now, that's exhaustive as it may be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Not every participant who comes on the workshop takes all that back. Each one is on their own journey. And out of the 10 things that are laid out in the buffet of. Engagements and experiences. Somebody realizes that their plate can only accommodate two modalities, and that's all that they're helping themselves to.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Somebody else has a bigger spiritual appetite, and the soul needs to feed itself more. So they may take five things out of the 10 that are laid out. So each one takes what they're needing, but whether they take two or they take five, or they take all 10 things that are laid out in the buffet, I think each one is making themselves a better human.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And as a ripple effect, if one person, just basic, again, physics one molecules, vibrational awareness changes, all the molecules in the periphery are going to change. So one human in a family a company, a group of friends comes with a more aware awareness, I think as a ripple effect, whether they're aware of it or not, they are going to affect that set of people and it's going to move on and on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>They can't put their finger on what did this person do that's making me feel better, but I think my greedy. Outcome and intent always is that we are able to have more meaningful engagements with people. A vibe will attract our tribe. And other than spending time and energy in discussing things that are not life supporting, we are able to have more qualitative discussions and just become better people for this planet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think that's a very vested interest I would have in curating these <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> workshops. I'd say amen to that. Better people is what we need and better people. What we need to become really is what we need to become. Yeah. Yeah. I think that pretty much grabs it. And you got a psychic mediumship workshop coming up, which has got my antenna, sorry, swinging wide.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I've been in, I've been in touch with vie already about it. Wonderful. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Yeah. Yeah. That's another entire body of work by itself. Just working with the spirit world and doing ORIC scans for people's bodies. Health awareness. Sky is the limit. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Ultimate better humans and make a better word.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Absolutely. Just raise our consciousness and awareness as a community. That's it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Yeah. Fantastic. I have to say Manjari, I'm so happy to have, firstly done the first course and then continuing to do more to learn more from you. I really am. I'm very happy to have met you and I'm really so thrilled to be learning so much from you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Thank you for making this effort and finding me worthy of this time and effort that you gentlemen are putting in. And if I can be the voice of, I was just mentioning to the even earlier Jack, that there are so many people who work with native wisdom that probably don't have these platforms to bring their wisdom too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>So if we can be little flag bearers of their wisdom and do justice to them, then that's the least we can do for them as well. So thank you for doing this to both of you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I'll have to, I have to acknowledge Jack's patience. Jack has been has been messaging me for over a year now, reminding me that maybe we can still do this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Are you free? Can you still do this? And I did not want to be difficult. I'm not somebody who doesn't, who takes a long time to respond. But I was going through my own whatever life's, whatever, turmoil, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> nobody, he had such high standards for a guest. He said, I want somebody that re who nobody's inspired me yet, who really inspires me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And then he went on your course, and then he said, okay, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> our founder. But this is actually true. I couldn't think of anyone. I couldn't think of anyone before that, man. So I'm really so happy to be doing this. Thank you, Jack. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> Thank you. Pleasure. Thank you for this privilege. Thank you very much. All the best to you guys.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Thank you. We'll send you the song as soon as it's ready. We'll, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#A86800;"><strong>Manjiri:</strong></span> I'm excited. Thank you. Have a nice evening. You too. Bye. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Bye, Jack. We will chat soon. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> That was super inspiring. Thanks so much for that. It was really thanks for, bringing her without her, without your bring. You're bringing her to so many more people now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We'll hear about her and and her work and the strange that she's joining us. Great questions as well. You really did a great job interviewing. Thank you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Thank you. But did you find what she said? Interesting. I find I did. Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> So fascinating. I was interested to know, I forgot to ask what the what does she cuz with for the Indian mind?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>She emphasizes be self-trust. I wonder what she emphasizes for the Westerners. It'd be good to know. I didn't collective flaw we have as a as the Western hemisphere. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I don't know her point of view, of course, but I think individualism is being looked at as not necessarily a good thing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think the great pioneering spirit of the western world has been fantastic in terms of exploring and. Boldly going where no man has gone before, so to speak. But I think individualism is also led to a very fragmented world. I think that's being called into question a lot now. Especially in a world that's evolving into what's referred to as collective consciousness. But I go back to Alan Walks again. I think I quote Alan Walks a few too many times as being the one consciousness. And so the, we are only individual expressions of the one consciousness, so fine, we go on a separate journeys.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think that seems to be the one, the thing that's being called into quest, into into focus these days is the difference between community living, which has become a bit of a hypocritical thing in the eastern world now. Family is not what it used to be. There's plenty of infighting in families all the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And western individualism, which is really a scattering of of energies where everyone's only thinking of the individual self rather than the collective group, so maybe that's the thing we all have, I honestly, what she said, what I found very interesting, what she said was about how the Western brought so much back to India and brought so much back to us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I will say I have taken, I have learned so much about Indian philosophy via my Western westernization. I've got so much from the western world bringing me back to my Indian roots. The roots that I ignored are looked away from for so many years. So I think there is a coming together already, the western world is bringing back to the east so much of what the east exported to the west, but that the east has forgotten because the east has been so keen on becoming Western.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> I remember when I was in India, I was, it struck me that the east is copying the worst parts of the west. You were bemoaning the government there and the In the development and this group. But we also have a lot of good qualities in the West, which you could golf as <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I, I think that is changing for sure. It's definitely yes. Very <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> interesting. Yeah. And you've got any idea? I thought, any ideas for a song or, I thought hollow bones struck me as a good type. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Sounds good. Sounds good. Yeah. Hollow bone sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> start.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I was making up a few notes here and yeah. Are you going on her next course then? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> I am, yeah. I'm, I was yeah, I was in touch with the person who handles the bookings. I was in touch with her on online on email today. And I'm already keeping the first week of October aside, reserved. I'm pretty keen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Because I wanted to ask, because I've been on a few of these courses myself and I was always the only man. Were you the only man on that on the course or was it Oh, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> No. It's quite, it was quite a mix actually. A lot of women, in fact funnily enough in India. Oh, you were the only man you said?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes. Yeah. It's usually more, it's usually more women than men. That's true. But it was quite a, it was quite an interesting mix at least the last course that I did. It'll be interesting to see whether the psychic and mediumship course whether it attracts more women or if there's gonna be an equal an equal blend of agendas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> I think you're in a, I just wanna round up by saying I think you're a great role model for, musicians and cuz you're really a thinking man's musician. And that's really what we want on this show is people who are, working, putting their thought. I know you've always written great lyrics, but now we can see, I think people have got to see the man behind the lyrics in this interview.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>And you really are thinking man, songwriter and. I really, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Thank you, Jack. I wanna move away from being a thinking man to a feeling man, because that seems to be the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> yeah. Change the hemispheres. We covered a lot in this interview. That's really great. Yeah, I'm super inspired as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Brilliant. We'll be in touch now. We'll do back and forth as far as the song is concerned, so I'll wait to hear from you. Yeah, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> we work on this song for about a few months and it magically appears at the end of the interview, but it's gonna be a lot of work for us, but it'll be <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> worth it. Wonderful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yeah. Yeah. I have a guitar player and a keyboard player on standby. They're waiting. I told, I've told them the whole thing. I said we're writing composing start to record and then they can throwing their parts. Wow. Brilliant. My partner is in the band, okay, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> great. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Can't wait. Thanks for being so patient, Jack.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Really. And I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long, man. But there was no worries. There's a shit going on, so you were worth waiting for. Thank you. Thanks so much. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#C50052;"><strong>Jack:</strong></span> Okay, mate. Chat again soon. Take care. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#DE4A1D;"><strong>Uday:</strong></span> Cheer. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.<o:p></o:p></p>
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The Lagom Chef meets Jack in Water<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/21384/c2585affa616df5e7ac48299cb17b71b0361e671/original/martyn-odell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_inline border_" />Episode 142 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— <a class="no-pjax" href="www.jackinwater.com" data-link-type="url">William Clapson</a> (Jack in Water) speaks to <a class="no-pjax" href="www.lagomchef.com" data-link-type="url">Martyn Odell</a>, aka Lagom Chef - a Food Waste Disruptor, as inspiration for a new song called 'Lagom', which will be released as a single on 3rd November</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/lagom-jackinwater">https://ffm.to/lagom-jackinwater</a></p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mj9lzetgPRI?si=A6RGVousv7KAQo-3" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>LYRICS</p><p>Strip the leaves<br>And pick out the flowers<br>Toast the seeds<br>And harness the flesh<br>May your cupboard<br>Be abundant with<br>Flavours and colours<br>And the produce you buy<br>Be exactly what you need<br>Not too much, Not too little,<br>Just right, Just right, Just right<br>No life is linear<br>All days are adventures<br>To enjoy or endure<br>And all food still matures<br>Without you in mind<br>One day you want pizza<br>The next you want pie<br>It’s kind of easy<br>If you eat what you buy<br>Not too much, Not too little,<br>Just right, Just right, Just right<br>Not too much, Not too little,<br>Just right, Just right, Just right</p><p> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72865212023-10-11T03:40:00+02:002023-10-23T22:40:49+02:00NOTHING EVER LASTS FOREVER: Professor Alan Lightman inspires jazz musician Leo Sidran<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/21384/8a2fbacd14a96a94cd1de9c15a79859d39a2fd4d/original/alan-lightman.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_left border_" />Leo Sidran speaks to Alan Lightman, American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur on Episode 141 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—as inspiration for a new song called 'Meaning in the Moment'</p><p>Alan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p><p>Leo Sidran is an American Latin Grammy-winning musician, composer, performer, and producer whose credits include co-producing the Oscar-winning song "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" for the soundtrack to the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. <a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.leosidran.com/" data-link-type="url">http://www.leosidran.com/</a></p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/meaninginthemoment">https://ffm.to/meaninginthemoment</a></p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k_r23LwgZig?si=xirgeI9sjDTHMyUq" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> </p><p>LYRICS:</p><p>Everything you see is impermanent<br>Every last star in the firmament<br>Everyone you love or you ever met<br>Every single thought running through your head<br>Every setting sun, every morning mist<br>All the works of art and the sciences<br>Every “out of body” experience<br>Everything you see is impermanent<br>Try, try, try not to let it throw you<br>You know you can find<br>Meaning in the moment<br>Meaning in the moment<br>Every sweet song that you ever heard<br>Each turn of phrase, every perfect word<br>Every back corner of consciousness<br>Every single thing is impermanent<br>Try, try, try not to let it throw you<br>You know you can find<br>Meaning in the moment<br>Meaning in the moment<br>No one will remember us<br>When we return to sand and dust<br>But there’s one thing that you can trust<br>When you feel all alone<br>Meaning in the moment </p><p><br>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72803302023-09-28T05:15:00+02:002023-10-23T22:55:47+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 12<p>A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. </p><p>Note from Jack: In the video I mistakenly say this is our 11th album... but it's actually our 12th </p><p>1. Miracles<br>2. Une ville avec un fleuve enterré <br>3. Deeper Than Love <br>4. Two Cokes for Paul Nelson <br>5. Afterlife of a Painting <br>6. Candy Land <br>7. Galileo - with a microscope <br>8. Eagles <br>9. Public Land <br>10. Peace on my mind <br>11. The New Convention <br>12. Animam Nondum Efflavi </p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uIP2G32Au3A?si=f15kkVjwXJ0kb_4t" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72746882023-09-15T19:00:00+02:002023-10-23T22:44:32+02:00THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE GOLDEN GATE SURVIVOR: Kevin Hines inspires Shane Thomas<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9RjtJnxwDpY?si=RvgNIbg-j-ZO3dEx" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Episode 140 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song— Shane Thomas speaks to Kevin Hines, an American suicide prevention speaker who attempted suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. His story gained major media coverage and he has since become a motivational speaker and advocate for suicide prevention. Shane was inspired to create a new song called ‘Animam Nondum Efflavi’.</p><p>Shane also wrote this poem.</p><p><strong>Animam Nondum Efflavi (I Have Not Yet Exhaled My Spirit)</strong></p><p>[Latin original]:<br>animam nondum efflavi,<br>tametsi eam vulneravi;<br>parce mihi frater,<br>tam longe meo carne.<br>quando te deterrui<br>et quo furtim effugisti?<br>te quoniam necavi.<br>mortuis adiunxisti<br>vel phasmatibus perditis?<br>redde mihi vitam<br>quam in noctem abstractam.<br><br>[English translation]:<br>I have not yet exhaled (flared out) my spirit,<br>Though I have caused her harm (wounded her) ;<br>Forgive me, my brother,<br>So distant (remote) from my flesh.<br>When did I cause you to flee in terror,<br>and whither have you quietly (furtively) fled?<br>For I have murdered (killed) you.<br>Have you joined the company of [the] depraved phasms (spirits) ?<br>Return to me the life (vitality)<br>that was dragged off into the night.<br>Shane Joshua Thomas </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="www.KevinHinesStory.com" data-link-type="url">www.KevinHinesStory.com</a></p><p> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72687502023-08-30T05:00:00+02:002023-10-23T22:45:46+02:00AI ART WILL EAT ITSELF!!! Dave McKean inspires a song about Midjourney<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v9I-2VMrQ8I?si=zRyYSo0b4L8JeN_-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>In Episode 139 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—Thomas Feiner interviews Dave McKean, an award-winning English illustrator and graphic designer, about the effect midjourney is having on their industry. Thomas uses the interview as inspiration for a new song called 'The New Convention'.</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/thenewconvention" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/thenewconvention</a></p><p>LYRICS<br>A journey into moments<br>A journey out of mind<br>A journey through the possible<br>Collated and entwined<br>Telescopic netherworlds<br>Portals into space<br>Hyperplexic Ferris wheels<br>Cut up and replaced<br>Welcome to the new invention <br>Where everyone is an artist - Why would anyone disagree?<br>It's dark inside the great convention<br>Exhibitors are reminded to be uniformly free<br>Pixelated prophecies<br>Prompted into being<br>Will we ever be able to<br>Believe in what we're seeing<br>Artistic instability<br>Call it what you will<br>It comes without a warranty<br>And this is not a drill<br>Welcome to the new invention <br>Where everyone is an artist - Why would anyone disagree?<br>It's dark inside the great convention<br>Exhibitors are reminded to be uniformly free</p><p><br><a class="no-pjax" href="www.thomasfeiner.com" data-link-type="url">www.thomasfeiner.com</a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="www.davemckean.com" data-link-type="url">www.davemckean.com</a></p><p> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72687492023-08-30T05:00:00+02:002023-10-23T22:47:11+02:00STRENGTH FROM PEACE!!! Rev. James Martin inspires Nicholas Gunty with a message of love & acceptance<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4zoS6nqfeU0?si=4pr5dpEKj5fYC_UR" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> </p><p>In Episode 138 of Podsongs—the podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song—musician and producer <a class="no-pjax" href="https://nicholasgunty.com/%20" data-link-type="url">Nicholas Gunty</a>—most famous for being part of the folk band <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.franceslukeaccord.com/" data-link-type="url">Frances Luke Accord</a>—interviews James Martin, American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.americamagazine.org/" data-link-type="url">America: the Jesuit Review</a>, as inspiration for a beautiful new solo song called ‘Peace on my mind’.</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/peaceonmymind" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://ffm.to/peaceonmymind</a></p><p>LYRICS</p><p>I know I am strong With peace by my side The story is power Will truth out in time? This one's for all The shame in our lives I need you to call me by my name I need you to let me be my way The story is power With peace by my side I know I am strong I know I'm alive Time and again Building a bridge Change happens when they hear what we did Build with the pen Building with stone Building with fire Building with bone Burdens are ugly The burden is real I know I am strong I know I will heal I know what I know Change happens this way We work from within It ripples away It ripples away We work from within We all gotta live If you felt under-loved And you're at the edge Call your nephew and niece By the name that they choose Be a sensitive man Put your skill to good use Go write a good book Go write a new song Go practice your love With everyone Make it all real Make it yourself Because you are here And you're nobody else This one's for all The love in your heart I know you are strong As I fall apart This one's for all With peace by their side With peace in their heart And peace on their mind</p><p>Nicholas Gunty - - - He is the primary writer/producer for the folk band Frances Luke Accord (NPR: “The definition of lean-in music”) and a regular collaborator with Darlingside and Chris Dupont. Nicholas has shared stages with Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and Grammy-nominated guitarist Tim Reynolds.</p><p>James J. Martin SJ - - - An American Jesuit Catholic priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. A New York Times Best Selling author, Martin's books include The Jesuit Guide to Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and My Life With the Saints.</p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72511722023-08-02T02:00:00+02:002023-10-23T22:48:51+02:00KEEP PUBLIC LAND IN PUBLIC HANDS!!! Cal inspires new Po' Ramblin' Boys song for Public Land<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xIThAYdF7qQ?si=GxKP-JCoRBc6NUA0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> </p><p>Jasper Lorentzen of Grammy-nominated bluegrass band <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.theporamblinboys.com/" data-link-type="url">‘Po’ Ramblin’ Boys’</a> interviews <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/olcal406" data-link-type="url">Ryan Callaghan</a> of Meateater on the Podsongs podcast, as inspiration for a new song called Public Land</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/publicland" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/publicland</a></p><p>LYRICS:</p><p>We grew up on a dead-end street out on the edge of town</p><p>We didn’t have much land to call our own</p><p>We had big dreams of the mountains and tall pines</p><p>We needed those wild places we could feel it in our bones</p><p>Every weekend Dad would take us to the forest to roam around</p><p>We learned to hunt and fish just like he had planned</p><p>It was as much a part of us as that house that we called home</p><p>I thank god every time I step on public land</p><p>Those hills were like a classroom they taught me all I know</p><p>It wasn’t hard for me to understand</p><p>Leave it better than you found it cause we only get one chance</p><p>We have to be good stewards of the land</p><p>Every weekend Dad would take us to the forest to roam around</p><p>We learned to hunt and fish just like he had planned</p><p>It was as much a part of us as that house that we called home</p><p>I thank god every time I step on public land</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72446592023-07-20T12:48:27+02:002023-07-20T12:50:27+02:00UNDERSTAND HOW EAGLES THINK: Ornothologist Dick Forsman inspires a new Ruben Hein song<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cc0krl4VHJk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>In episode 136 of Podsongs, Dick Forsman's deep knowledge and passion for birds provide pianist and songwriter Ruben Hein with a unique perspective on the world of raptors, inspiring him to create "Eagles," a song that delves into the profound majesty of these magnificent creatures.</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/eagles-rubenhein" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/eagles-rubenhein</a></p><p>LYRICS:</p><p>We can’t soar above this</p><p>Or migrate away</p><p>Just leaden on the land without wings</p><p>We’re deafened and deceived</p><p>An outcome out of sight</p><p>Lost without non-human rights?</p><p>Oh where the eagles live</p><p>Over the rim of a far long cliff</p><p>Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge</p><p>So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have</p><p>So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head</p><p>I wish I could get up there</p><p>Glide through the sky</p><p>As chaos plays out on the ground</p><p>Where money does the talking</p><p>But could it be contrite?</p><p>Can it say non-human rights?</p><p>Oh where the eagles live</p><p>Over the rim of a far long cliff</p><p>Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge</p><p>So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have</p><p>So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head</p><p>It’s more than philosophical</p><p>An upgrade for us all</p><p>Replace positions we’ve been claiming for so long</p><p>It’s a necessary call</p><p>An unexpected rule of law</p><p>And change the patterns that would otherwise go on</p><p>Oh where the eagles live</p><p>Over the rim of a far long cliff</p><p>Where I lay on my belly and look over the edge</p><p>So I could get a glimpse of what eagles have</p><p>So I could get a glimpse inside an eagle’s head</p><p><br>Dick Forsman: <a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.dickforsman.com/">http://www.dickforsman.com/</a></p><p>Ruben Hein: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://rubenhein.nl/">https://rubenhein.nl/</a> <br> </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p>--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72378942023-07-05T00:00:00+02:002023-10-23T22:55:47+02:00LIFE-CHANGING GAPS!!! At last a song about how fixing your microbiome can cure IBS, Autism and more<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mkvcqCCApos" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Episode 135 features musician Karl Blau's speaking with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. This interview sparks the creation of a new song titled "Galileo - with a microscope," set to release on July 14th. In this captivating episode, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, renowned expert in medicine and nutrition, and the creator of the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet. The discussion explores the intriguing connection between gut health and overall well-being. Karl Blau struggled with health issues for a long time until his life (and wife) were transformed by the diet. This interview—and the song he writes for her—is some small payback to say thank you to Dr Natasha. </p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/galileowithamicroscope%20" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/galileowithamicroscope </a></p><p>LYRICS </p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Trust your gut and it will tell you</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">"Put your love in the ground"</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Make amends with inside friends</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Help them to feel at home</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo - with a microscope</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Wobbling on the pottery wheel</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Microbiome from Ma & Pa</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Lord of the Flies meets Silent Spring</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I'll be glad to wake from this Piscean dream</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Galileo - with a microscope</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Tuned in by choice</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Had I not been in pain</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Would I choose the same?</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Dr. Natasha</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">The worlds that you found</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">When you looked around</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">The Universe inside us</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I've got your yellow book</span></p><p> </p><p>Dr Natasha's site: https://gaps.me/ </p><p>Karl's music: https://www.karlblau.com/ </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72350702023-06-28T13:00:00+02:002023-06-30T14:27:44+02:00WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Discussion on modern Evangelical Christian beliefs<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DEQYXkC2mGA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p> </p><p>Dillon Hodges and Heidi Feek (firekid) interview Lee C Camp and Brad Crisler as inspiration for a new song. Lee is a Professor of Theology & Ethics at Lipscomb University, and Brad Crisler is an award-winning music producer, both with strong ideas about modern Christianity. In this interesting discussion they talk about what it means to be a Christian in these days. firekid are inspired to write the song Candy Land</p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/firekid-candy-land" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/firekid-candy-land</a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/firekidmusic">https://www.instagram.com/firekidmusic</a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.leeccamp.com/">https://www.leeccamp.com/</a></p><p>LYRICS:</p><p>Mother, father I’ve seen signs <br>In the symbols of your faith <br>Gone are days of muscadine <br>Nightmares follow like a wraith <br>Tears of sparrows, Brothers blood <br>Laid a curse on holy ground <br>Buried boundless in the mud <br>For the joy of tainted crowns <br>Go down Moses lead the band <br>Fill their mouths with desert sand <br>Milk and honey in their heads <br>Dreaming of a candy land <br>Children’s sorrow, hidden well <br>Drowned out by a gospel song <br>Trouble hid behind the veil <br>Lost in plain sight all along <br>Go down Moses lead the band <br>Fill their mouths with desert sand <br>Milk and honey in their heads <br>Dreaming of a candy land <br>Milk and honey <br>Running wild <br>Hungry mouths are full of sand <br>Go down Moses, meek and mild <br>Raise your cane and lead the band <br>Say farewell to freedom child <br>Welcome them to <br>Candy land </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72302992023-06-21T01:00:00+02:002023-06-30T14:27:44+02:00SOMETIMES DEAD IS BETTER??? Laura Weinbach uses the the C-word in conversation with Alissa Bennett <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X7qneyM_kDs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Episode 133 of the Podsongs Podcast: Laura Weinbach of Foxtails Brigade finds inspiration in historian of bad behavior Alissa Bennett, Co-host of the C-word PodcastIn this episode, Laura draws inspiration from the insights and experiences shared by Alissa Bennett of the C-word Podcast. The conversation between the two serves as a catalyst for the creation of "Afterlife of a Painting," a song that beautifully captures the essence of their discussion. With Laura's lyrical brilliance and Foxtails Brigade's signature sound, the song will resonate deeply with fans old and new. The song will be released on June 30th, 2023</p><p>www.foxtailsbrigade.com</p><p> <span style="color:#1155cc;"><span data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Stream the song: https://ffm.to/afterlifeofapainting"}' data-sheets-userformat='{"2":1325891,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16773836},"9":0,"11":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":1136076},"15":"Arial","16":10,"21":1,"23":1}' data-sheets-formula="=CONCATENATE(R[0]C[-2],R[0]C[-1])"><u>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/afterlifeofapainting</u></span></span></p><p><style type="text/css"></style><span data-sheets-value='{"1":2,"2":"Afterlife of a Painting"}' data-sheets-userformat='{"2":31555,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":13228792},"9":0,"11":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial","16":10,"17":1}'>AFTERLIFE OF A PAINTING</span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Now I'm convinced and I admit that dead is better </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Only as long as there's a way to live forever </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">The choice was clear then as it is now </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I walk the path for immortality </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I lived bold with elegance and a sense of pride </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Then passed away irrelevant and cast aside </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Today I'm the beautiful queen you have crowned </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Tomorrow I'm another woman drowned </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I was the image of perfect grace </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Encapsulated by the painter's trace </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I keep the paintings in the afterlife </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And for the image I paid the price </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">The people saw themselves in me with fallen grace </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Then tore me down relentlessly to my disgrace </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Today I'm the beautiful queen you have crowned </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Tomorrow I'm another woman drowned </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">The fruit is gone now, the tree is bare </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And though you've seen me, you will not stare</span></p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72235552023-06-07T03:00:00+02:002023-06-15T10:57:48+02:00THE ROCK IN ROLLING STONE: Mutual friends of iconic rock writer Paul Nelson reminisce<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jjk1DlqYhd0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Two heavyweights in their respective fields of music and writing discuss their mutual friend, the late Rolling Stone writer, Paul Nelson—and go on to create a tribute song for him 'Two Cokes for Paul Nelson'. </p><p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/twocokes </p><p>TWO COKES FOR PAUL NELSON (Murphy / Lethem / Stafford) </p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Two Cokes for Paul Nelson</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">(Murphy / Lethem / Stratford</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">These are the elements of a verse</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Sherman cigarettes - but it gets worse</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Footprints on the running board of his wall</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">And by the way his name was Paul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">And let’s not talk of his fall … just yet</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Oh starved to death – that’s what the tabloids say</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">But you know - I don’t see it that way</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">In fact for me - the opposite is true</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul was a glutton for everything he loved and knew</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">From Orson Welles, Ross Macdonald, Howard Hawks, Raymond C, Chet B, PKD, and</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Warren Z … oh The New York Dolls and me</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">So let’s take a seat at the Jackson Hole</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Let’s raise two cokes and toast his soul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The soul of a man - our friend</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A magnum forty-five and a snub-nose thirty-eight</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">But books can kill if you can’t get them straight</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A paragraph, a sentence, to a starving mind</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Some die for want of an opening line</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Life on a shrinking editorial island</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul couldn’t lie, he couldn’t lie</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Hey Rod Stewart - bashed out on a lark</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Typing as fast as Lester Bangs could bark</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul the quiet man, living in a borrowed head</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">An enabler who couldn’t get out of bed</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Marathon man in a hamburger booth</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">He told the truth, he told the truth - that’s Paul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Let’s take a seat at the Jackson Hole</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Let’s raise two cokes to toast his soul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The soul of a man - our friend</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Abiding mentor, with a guiding mind</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Freeze-frame, isolate the details, and then rewind</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A stickler for the director’s cut</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">His own mis-en-scene, he fell into a rut</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Scraps on the cutting-room floor</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Shut the door, shut the door, shut the door</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Now somehow he lost his way and that’s a pity</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">But in the words of Norma Desmond</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The movies got small not Paul not Paul not Paul not Paul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A drink at the Jackson Hole</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Two cokes oh let’s toast his soul</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The soul of a man</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Our dear friend</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Paul Nelson – Paul Nelson</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The older you get, the more you live with ghosts</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">And that’s according to Nick Tosches</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">who’s now among them</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">And Paul …</span></div><p>Credits: Elliott Murphy : Vocals, Acoustic Guitars Jack Stafford : Backing Vocals Massimino Voza : Mellotron, Percussions 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Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p>--- Send in a voice message: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/message">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/message</a></p><p><iframe src="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/embed/episodes/THE-ROCK-IN-ROLLING-STONE-Mutual-friends-of-iconic-rock-writer-Paul-Nelson-reminisce-e22la93/a-a9mo0h3" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72180142023-05-24T23:00:00+02:002023-06-06T13:32:04+02:00DEEPER INTO LOVE: 7 Keys to a Heart-Based Spirituality with author Chrissie Blaze<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QNWWLnWcnE4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology. <a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.chrissieblaze.com/" data-link-type="url">http://www.chrissieblaze.com/</a></p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/jsdeeperthanlove">https://ffm.to/jsdeeperthanlove</a></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">LYRICS:</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">After our life together</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">We don't need to speak</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">To say what we're thinking</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Or know what we need</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">What started as love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Has gone far above</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Become something we can live with</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Something that lasts</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Cos Love as a feeling</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It comes and it goes</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Ebbs and it flows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And Everyone knows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It dims and it glows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Hides and then shows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Speeds and it slows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And it shrinks and it grows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">But what we have is</span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love, love, love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I need you baby</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Like I need the air</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">I know I can rely on you</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">You're always there</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">We haven't stayed the same</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">No we have both changed</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">But we worship good qualities</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And that's why we're strong</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Cos Love as a feeling</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It comes and it goes</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Ebbs and it flows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And Everyone knows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It dims and it glows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Hides and then shows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Speeds and it slows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And it shrinks and it grows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">But what we have is</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love, love, love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Rises with reasons</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Changes with seasons</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Grows when you're pleasing</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Then gives way to demons</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Cos Love as a feeling</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It comes and it goes</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Ebbs and it flows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And Everyone knows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">It dims and it glows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Hides and then shows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Speeds and it slows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">And it shrinks and it grows</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">But what we have is</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Deeper than love, love, love</span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;"> </span></p><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p>--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72070262023-05-10T20:15:00+02:002023-06-06T13:32:04+02:00TUXEDOMOON IN THE TWILIGHT: Blaine L. Reininger in conversation with Crepuscule's James Nice<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0gwkfBnEx_A" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>Blaine L. Reininger—American songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, writer and performer, best known as a member of the Californian post-punk, new wave band Tuxedomoon who migrated on mass to Europe in the 1980s—speaks with James Nice, owner of Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux, about their formative time together in the emerging Brussels music scene.</p><p>Stream the song Blaine created after being inspired by the conversation: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/fleuveenterre" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/fleuveenterre</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Une ville avec un fleuve enterré</strong> <br>Voilà la ville avec un fleuve enterré <br>Qui coule sous les pavés <br>Ciel de plomb <br>Bas en dessous de la place dorée <br>Bruxelles des années 80 <br>Ma joie et mes remords <br>Dans le vidéo bar branché où <br>Sans un sou sur la rue <br>Des superstars inconnues <br>En longs manteaux noirs <br> <br>Je suis assis sur une rive lointaine <br>Savourant ce chagrin ancien <br>Perdu dans la musique <br>Déformé par la musique <br>Posant dans le cimetière <br>Debout sous la pluie</p><p> </p><p>TRANSLATION:</p><p><br>A city with a buried river <br> <br>Here is the city with a buried river <br>Which flows under the cobblestones <br>leaden sky <br>Down below the golden square <br>80s Brussels <br>My joy and my remorse <br>In the trendy video bar where <br>Without a penny in the street <br>Unknown Superstars <br>In long black coats <br>I sit on a distant shore <br>Savoring this ancient sorrow <br>lost in the music <br>Distorted by the music <br>Posing in the cemetery <br>Standing in the rain </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/" data-link-type="url">https://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/</a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://mundoblaineo.org/" data-link-type="url">https://mundoblaineo.org/</a></p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/72003082023-04-26T21:00:00+02:002023-05-02T08:40:28+02:00DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES??? Amanda Anne Platt is inspired by Princeton Professor Elaine Pagels<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bl3OpetQFhc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">After making a spiritual resolution, Country Roots Singer Amanda Anne Platt talks to Elaine Pagels (Professor of Religion at Princeton University) to come to a greater understanding, and write a beautiful new song - "Miracles". </span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Stream the song: https://ffm.to/amandamiracles </span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">LYRICS: I saw Jesus in a parking lot he said to give the world what I got but nobody believed me yeah they said I was crazy and now it's gonna turn me to stone like milk for the baby that never came home it's the saddest thing that I've ever known and can't nobody save me Sometimes the heart breaks just like an egg hatches tiny and barely breathing hungry for some meaning Sometimes the world laughs just trying to hold the tears back sometimes we're lonely sometimes we're only dreaming We were short on miracles Guess they needed them for the war so we said "we don't believe in miracles anymore" but I don't wanna be scared to love I don't wanna be scared to hope I don't wanna be scared to call out just cause there might be no answer She misses her brother today asks me why he went away I say "honey, it's beyond me" I been trying to wrap my head around the whole damn thing trying to find the truth, trying to make it sing sometimes the truth just seems so ugly We were short on miracles Guess they needed them for the war so we said "we don't believe in miracles anymore" but I don't wanna be scared to love I don't wanna be scared to hope I don't wanna be scared to call out just cause there might be no answer </span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">CREDITS: </span></p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">Amanda Anne Platt : Vocals </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Dulci Ellenberger : Harmonies </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Jack Stafford : Backing Vocals </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Luigi Falcione : Acoustic Guitar, Banjo </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Massimino Voza : Drums, Strings, Vibes </span><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Maurizio Sarnicola : Bass Guitar </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Written by Amanda Anne Platt & Jack Stafford </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">Produced, mixed and mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records Italy </span><br><br><span style="color:#ffffff;">// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com // LINKS // Website: https://podsongs.com Podcast episodes: https://podsongs.com/podcast-episodes Songs: https://podsongs.com/music Spotify artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/32FYyRx1y1ex3jHHAgLMC7?si=4Nv7WW85SbSPZvCsj1o7Ig Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sN1viy82HPiNTVX2YBxpq?si=1b84c2b9bdea4656 // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsongs Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsongs Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsongs</span></p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71918552023-04-12T20:00:00+02:002023-04-17T20:11:20+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 11<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/21384/12d096328723189bc7bdc6c521d48e5c45a5a784/original/commentary-volume-11.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_s justify_left border_" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><iframe src="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/embed/episodes/Track-by-Track-Commentary-on-Podsongs-Volume-11-e20fc6d/a-a9gd3lc" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p> </p><p>1. Nothing's by Design</p><p>2. Borderline</p><p>3. Don't Forget How Far You've Come</p><p>4. Get Free</p><p>5. EZ Water</p><p>Bonus track - Blinding Lights</p><p>6. If I listened to you</p><p>7. Drunk on the Cork</p><p>8. Your Energy</p><p>9. Always Gonna Be The Same</p><p>10. The Science of Sound</p><p>11. Feel the Colors</p><p>12. Peace is a Serious Matter</p><p>--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71806392023-03-29T20:00:00+02:002023-05-01T13:07:46+02:00WHAT'S THE SECOND SHOCK OF EXISTENCE?? Zak Stein & Al Lover talk psychological dysfunction <p> </p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q9UghuHWHhc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> </p><p>Psychedelic soundsmith Al Lover interviews writer, educator and futurist Zak Stein as inspiration for a new song.</p><p>Stream the song <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/peaceisaseriousmatter" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/peaceisaseriousmatter</a></p><p> </p><p>PEACE IS A SERIOUS MATTER</p><p>Build peer-to-peer propaganda</p><p>Techno-feudalists position for mate</p><p>The social media memoranda</p><p>Hypnotize to a suggestible state</p><p>Reaching peak psychological dysfunction</p><p>Going down an infinite scroll</p><p>Pulled out with intentional suction</p><p>No self-control </p><p>Son rise become all that you're meant to be</p><p>Son rise over everything and be free</p><p>Queuing up for micro-targetted rapture</p><p>Enjoy the pleasure of the new world order</p><p>Addicted to attentional capture</p><p>A self-diagnosed disorder</p><p>Overcoming the shocks of existence</p><p>Che Guevara's in the shopping mall</p><p>Hendrix plays Star Spangled Resistance</p><p>Slowly we fall</p><p>Son rise become all that you're meant to be</p><p>Son rise over everything and be free</p><p><br>Links:</p><p>Zak Stein - <a class="no-pjax" href="http://www.zakstein.org/" data-link-type="url">http://www.zakstein.org/</a></p><p>Al Lover - <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.al-lover.com/" data-link-type="url">https://www.al-lover.com/</a></p><p>Podsongs - <a class="no-pjax" href="https://podsongs.com/">https://podsongs.com/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71728202023-03-15T19:00:00+01:002023-03-20T18:20:11+01:00FEEL THE COLORS!!!! 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Bonnie from Death Valley Girls gets inspiration for a new song by interviewing Neil Harbisson, a cyborg artist and activist for transspecies rights. He is best known for being the first person in the world to have an antenna implanted in his skull. </p><p> </p><p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/feelthecolors</p><p>https://cyborgarts.com https://www.instagram.com/deathvalleygirls/ </p><p>// SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter, donations and download the song for €/$1 @ https://podsongs.com</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>--- Send in a voice message: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71648552023-03-01T01:40:00+01:002023-03-14T11:38:22+01:00THE POWER OF MUSIC!!!! Rick Beato on music's magical ability to inform and transform<p><iframe style="border-radius:12px;" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/4TwPnlDWrfVlL7f47fMzxF/video?utm_source=generator" width="624" height="351" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>I</p><p>In this episode, the musician Michael Lane interviews music-appreciation maestro Rick Beato. Millions have subscribed to Rick's channel to hear him dissect music old and new. An outstanding musician and producer in his own right, Rick has used his skills to help others deepen their understanding of the music they love. </p><p>The interview inspires a song about Rick's ear-training program, and the perfect pitch developed by his son Dylan after exposure to hours and hours of Bach. Unfortunately, Michael Lane wasn't able to provide the vocals for the song, so Jack Stafford stood in. </p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/thescienceofsound" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/thescienceofsound</a></p><p>THE SCIENCE OF SOUND </p><p>With perfect pitch And linguistic abilities Mathematical mind Woken latent capabilities Cos Dylan heard Sounds of such complexity That his mind grew Out of sheer necessity Processing power Stimulation made The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound The science of sound The science of sound The sun spoke the word The earth came into existence And we all flowed Down the path of least resistance Our ideas have traction If we know that truth is action The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound Grow as you're meant to be Know all you're meant to see Latent destiny The power of music The science of sound Firing neurons Or earthing to ground The power of music The science of sound Untying potential That's otherwise bound </p><p>Written by Jack Stafford </p><p>Produced by Maurizio Sarnicola, Goldmine Studios </p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71553132023-02-15T22:00:00+01:002023-03-14T11:36:07+01:00WHAT WILL AMAZON DESTROY NEXT??? Oliver Ackermann (APTBS) asks Stacy Mitchell (ILSR)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/21384/209c37a7d16ebc55c5cd11a398e2452eb8b7dbfb/original/125-stacy-mitchell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_m justify_left border_" />What will Amazon do once it’s eaten every other business, automated every process, and none of us have any money to buy their products? To find out, musician Oliver Ackermann (A Place To Bury Strangers) interviews Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She inspires him to create a new song ‘Always Gonna Be The Same’. </p><p>Stream the song: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/AlwaysGonnaBeTheSame" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/AlwaysGonnaBeTheSame</a></p><p><iframe src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/WHAT-WILL-AMAZON-DESTROY-NEXT----Oliver-Ackermann-APTBS-asks-Stacy-Mitchell-ILSR-e1uq2al/a-a9ap3hb" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ALWAYS GONNA BE THE SAME</p><p>I could spin a story that would make you freak</p><p>But I’m not thinking of ways to manipulate you - I don’t hate you</p><p>I just want you to enjoy your life</p><p>And I hope you’re a really good potato - Kato</p><p>I don’t wanna live in a stupid world</p><p>I don’t wanna live under their control</p><p>I don’t wanna buy all their useless shit</p><p>That should just be thrown in a giant pit</p><p>I don’t wanna be hooked on all these drugs</p><p>Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs</p><p>I just wanna live and have some fun</p><p>I don’t need to feel like I have won</p><p>Cuz it’s gross</p><p>They’re lying to our faces</p><p>It’s a show</p><p>They stripped away their regulations</p><p>What we don’t know</p><p>Is that they multiplied their operations</p><p>So if we don’t vote</p><p>Then its always gonna be the same</p><p>Someone’s gotta play the adult in the room - with a broom</p><p>We can’t let these greedy fuckers take another dime - waste of time</p><p>I would rather be out on vacation - in another nation</p><p>But we seem to be living with some bad potatoes - Kato</p><p>I don’t wanna live in their stupid world</p><p>I don’t wanna live under their control</p><p>I don’t wanna buy all this useless shit</p><p>That should just be thrown in a giant pit</p><p>I don’t wanna be hooked on all their drugs</p><p>Pushed to fund someone's expensive rugs</p><p>I just wanna help out my fellow man</p><p>Any fucking way that I can</p><p>Cuz it’s gross</p><p>They’re lying to our faces</p><p>And it’s low</p><p>They bought a house with our donations</p><p>What we don’t know</p><p>Is that they buried all the allegations</p><p>So if we don’t vote</p><p>Then its always gonna be the same</p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71467522023-01-31T05:00:00+01:002023-03-14T11:34:29+01:00YOUR 37 TRILLION CELLS ARE NOT YOUR OWN!!! Author Tom Oliver and songwriter Sally Seltmann talk Self<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/4dab1e846bd3120d1d26a3fef334ea39414aa0a4/original/124-tom-oliver.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_" alt="" /></p><p>We're delighted to have the wonderful Sally Seltmann come on for this episode. She is an award-winning songwriter with a canon of amazing songs—including Feist's worldwide smash 1234. </p><p>We talk with writer Tom Oliver about his book 'The Self-Delusion' and how science doesn't justify our claims for any sort of individuality. </p><p>Stream the song 'Your Energy' which was inspired by the conversation: <a class="no-pjax" href="https://ffm.to/sallyyourenergy%20%20" data-link-type="url">https://ffm.to/sallyyourenergy </a></p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="www.sallyseltmann.com%20" data-link-type="url">www.sallyseltmann.com </a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/YOUR-37-TRILLION-CELLS-ARE-NOT-YOUR-OWN----Author-Tom-Oliver-and-songwriter-Sally-Seltmann-talk-Self-e1tuhar/a-a97tri5" width="400px"></iframe></p><p> </p><p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/71435212023-01-18T01:00:00+01:002023-01-26T00:54:24+01:00DRUNK ON THE CORK: Gad Saad explains how people have been seduced by politicians <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/0d1b076499cd62c3fba24b08b658236b00ab337c/original/123-gad-saad.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Professor Gad Saad, host of 'The Saad Truth' comes on to inspire a song. Jack's co-host for the episode was Aaron from the Portland band Ezra Bell. Unfortunately the collaboration didn't come through, and Jack and the Podband play this one. </p>
<p>https://www.gadsaad.com/ https://www.ezrabell.com/ </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/drunkonthecork </p>
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<p>This week's guest is Kelly G. Wilson, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Mississippi, and founder of Onelife, LLC. He has authored or coauthored eleven books, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Two. In this episode, he inspires a song about the importance of listening. http://onelifellc.com/ </p>
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<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/ifilistened </p>
<p>IF I LISTED TO YOU</p>
<p>LYRICS </p>
<p>If I did all the things that you tell me <br>And you did all things that I tell you <br>There's nothing that we couldn't do </p>
<p>If I listened to you <br>And you listened to me <br>Imagine how happy we'd be </p>
<p>Cause you tell me truths <br>I don't like to hear <br>Truth is painful <br>You know you can lie sometimes </p>
<p>Then I'd listen more <br>To the wise words you've said like <br>Like, like... errrr </p>
<p>If I did all the things that you tell me <br>And you did all things that I tell you <br>There's nothing that we couldn't do </p>
<p>If I listened to you <br>And you listened to me <br>Imagine how happy we'd be </p>
<p>We'd be healthier, happier, fitter and wiser <br>Richer and thinner and younger and more organised <br>The world would be a better place <br>Without war </p>
<p>It's a simple thing but hard to do <br>With ego involved it's a blinkered view <br>But if you saw yourself from outside, you'd say <br>"Why didn't you tell me!?" </p>
<p>The world's a crazy mixed-up place <br>Because of the stupid human race <br>Our thoughts pollute the very <br>Air we breathe </p>
<p>If we're going to be the ones to make the change <br>It's our thoughts we need to contain <br>And switch our brains from broadcast <br>To receive </p>
<p>And if I lived for you <br>And you lived for me <br>Imagine how happy we'd be </p>
<p>If I did all the things that you tell me <br>And you did all things that I tell you <br>There's nothing that we couldn't do </p>
<p>If I listened to you <br>And you listened to me <br>Imagine how happy we'd be </p>
<p>If you listened to me <br>I listened to you <br>We listened ro each other <br>Listening to you </p>
<p>Did you hear what I've been saying? <br>Has any of this registered? <br>You're looking at your telephone <br>I don't know what to say <br>I've done all I can </p>
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<p>Stream the song https://ffm.to/blindinggypsylights </p>
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<p>This week's episode is with Gerald Pollack is a scientist who's recognized worldwide as a dynamic speaker and author, whose passion lies in plumbing the depths of natural truths. He inspires a song about his life's work: EZ Water—the fourth phase of water—and its incredible life-giving properties. </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/ezwater </p>
<p>He received the 1st Emoto Peace Prize and is a recipient of the University of Washington's highest honor, the Annual Faculty Lecturer Award. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the research journal WATER and Director of the Institute for Venture Science. Dr. Pollack's (award-winning) books include: The Fourth Phase of Water (2013), and Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life (2001). https://www.pollacklab.org/ </p>
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<p>EZ WATER</p>
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<p>In the water </p>
<p>I am reborn </p>
<p>With EZ water </p>
<p>No structures torn </p>
<p>With the water </p>
<p>And with the sun </p>
<p>This EZ water </p>
<p>Keeps me young </p>
<p>My mitochondria </p>
<p>Rebuilding cells </p>
<p>My power swells </p>
<p>Without the water </p>
<p>My life is starved </p>
<p>But with EZ water </p>
<p>I am recharged </p>
<p>With the water </p>
<p>And with the sun </p>
<p>This EZ water </p>
<p>Keeps me young </p>
<p>My mitochondria </p>
<p>Rebuilding cells </p>
<p>My power swells </p>
<p>Running free these radicals </p>
<p>They're speeding up the change </p>
<p>All are idiopathical </p>
<p>I'm closer to my age </p>
<p>But in the water </p>
<p>I am reborn </p>
<p>This EZ water </p>
<p>Builds back what's worn </p>
<p>And with the water </p>
<p>And with the sun </p>
<p>This EZ water </p>
<p>Keeps me young </p>
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<p>In this episode of Podsongs, Ryan Walsh of the critically acclaimed Boston-band 'Hallelujah The Hills', interviews ground-breaking researcher Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). The interview that the song inspires is song called 'Get Free'. </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/getfree </p>
<p>Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master’s thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. https://maps.org/ </p>
<p>Hallelujah The Hills have been releasing critically acclaimed albums and touring the U.S. since 2007. Described by Spin as “criminally underappreciated” and lauded by Pitchfork for their “fist pumping anthems,” they’ve been declared “Boston legends” in their hometown and as having a “cult following” by Stereogum. The band released their first two albums on Misra Records, assisted Titus Andronicus in recording their breakout album The Monitor, and are one of the only bands to have ever toured with The Silver Jews. Their sound was creatively explained as “the kind of punk rock you’d expect on stage at the roadhouse from ‘Twin Peaks’” in The Boston Herald. Others go further, with Aquarium Drunkard noting “few do it with the style and imagination of Hallelujah the Hills” and Captain’s Dead boldly publishing that they “without a doubt they are one of the greatest bands currently making music.” https://www.hallelujahthehills.com/ </p>
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<p>LYRICS: We’ve been backstabbed betrayed, butchered and splayed On the altar of “the way it’s always been done.” It’s American, man, watch the funerals span The bulk of the calendar year And you can shake your head say it’s not right Spend all your nights in electronic fights But you know in the end, there’s no way to defend The way we do nothing at all When waking up is a trauma and hellos turns to drama You disassociate from every nuclear thought Total lack of conviction with a bullshit addiction It’s enough to forget all we’ve got And all we’ve got could someday be enough A spiritual world where we lean into love Well hey I get it man, you’re not sure of the plan As you harangue me holding a beer What if the best in us was on the cusp Of true manifestation? Could we take the leap into the deep And find that the softest landing? And besides What have we got to lose? If we could stay like this or get better, What would you choose? I just want my friends to get free I just want my love to get free I just want the pained to get free I just want you to get free I just wanna get free Come on let’s all get free </p>
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<p>In this episode, Chad Moses of 'To Write Love on Her Arms'—the non-profit dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide—talks to Swedish songwriter Paula Jiven to inspire a new song that will inspire those going through difficulties. </p>
<p>Stream the song 'Don't forget how far you've come': https://ffm.to/dontforgethow </p>
<p>TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Since its start in 2006, they have donated over $3 million directly into treatment and recovery making it possible for people to access mental health care when they need it the most. </p>
<p>Each month, TWLOHA creates more than 11 million moments of hope through their online and social media presence for people in over 100 countries. And these moments lead to people taking the next step to find help as TWLOHA connects 3,000+ people monthly to mental health resources like crisis lines, support groups, and affordable local mental health resources through the FIND HELP Tool. </p>
<p>On a mission to disrupt </p>
<p>Swedish songwriter and artist Paula Jiven from Gothenburg made her debut appearance for the public at age 14 with her rendition of Michael Jackson's ‘Billie Jean' on Sweden's Got Talent in 2018. A cover that gave her a Golden Buzzer and that subsequently went viral, amassing over 4 million views to date. She has since then developed her songwriting talent together with Wamer/Chappell and currently shares her management with the likes of Imagine Dragons, Clinton Kane, and The Killers (Reynolds Management in Las Vegas, US). Paula Jiven makes spellbindingly original pop music, each song sparked from her radiant imagination. </p>
<p>At just 18-years-old, she's already cultivated a truly singular voice as an artist, one that defies all expectations in favour of following her most playful and daring instincts. With a self-described mission of “disrupting the comfortable and comforting the disrupted,“ Jiven is set to deliver a debut body of work revealing her supreme gifts as a storyteller and the tremendous power of her captivating voice. </p>
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<p>DON’T FORGET HOW FAR YOU’VE COME </p>
<p>Say you’re down <br>And say your stuck <br>Can’t get out of bed </p>
<p>Laugh it off <br>But it’s not a joke <br>What’s messing with your head </p>
<p>You say it’s hard <br>To be living out <br>In the way you wished you could </p>
<p>But I know it’s not <br>How you think it is <br>When you think you’re really screwed </p>
<p>You’ve got things <br>you’re convinced you need <br>The things you’ve got to be </p>
<p>I’ll lend a hand <br>And I’ll lend my eyes <br>I wanna help you heal </p>
<p>Cause all we need <br>Is all you are <br>I want you to run free </p>
<p>You were always beautiful <br>And one day <br>I hope you’ll see </p>
<p>Don’t forget how far you’ve come <br>And I’ll - write the love upon your arms <br>I’ll lend my hand, I want to help you heal <br>You’re all we need, I want you to run free <br>You’re all we need, I want you to run free <br>You’re all we need, I want you to run free </p>
<p>You’re all we need, I want you to run free </p>
<p>I want you to run </p>
<p>For more information, please visit: www.twloha.com. </p>
<p>Facebook: www.facebook.com/towriteloveonherarms <br>Twitter: www.twitter.com/twloha <br>Instagram: www.instagram.com/twloha </p>
<p>Links: </p>
<p>Paula Jiven - https://paulajiven.com/ </p>
<p>Podsongs - https://podsongs.com/ </p>
<p>Recorded at @Goldmine.Records </p>
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<p>What happens when a young Boston musician interviews a Professor of Sociology at Boston University about the refugee crisis happening worldwide? The answer is a great song for Social Change. </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/juniperborderline </p>
<p>Heba Gowayed is the Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, and it's her job to make sense of it all. Her research, which is global and comparative, examines how low-income people traverse social services, immigration laws, and their associated bureaucracies, while grappling with gender and racial inequalities. </p>
<p>Heba’s writing has appeared in Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Sociological Forum and in public outlets including Slate and Teen Vogue. Her new book, Refuge, out now with Princeton University Press, explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as a costly, and often deadly, transaction. </p>
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<p>After meeting in college, Scott Johnson, Ahren Shreeve, and Alejandro Marín formed Juniper. The group has formed their unique sound from diverse influences of alternative rock, folk, R&B, and bedroom pop. With various vocalists throughout their early discography, one thing has remained constant: their songwriting is tangibly honest, ranging from upbeat and high energy to delicate and introspective. With roots in local venues and basement gigs, their music found a loyal fan base early on, which has since only grown. At just 21 years old, the band has emerged as one of the new faces of the Boston music scene, and with this encouragement, they’ve consolidated and are now working on their debut album, coming soon. </p>
<p>On the borderline </p>
<p>Ordinary people <br>Are intertwined <br>On the borderline </p>
<p>If you think it’s equal <br>Then you’re colorblind <br>Can’t you see it’ll never be the same </p>
<p>Even if you’re from the same place <br>Disproportionate, longevity <br>Based on things you wouldn’t believe… </p>
<p>Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies <br>A never-ending staircase <br>With freedom at the top in disguise </p>
<p>Protected by <br>Countries with money <br>And no sense of pain </p>
<p>The pain, of dropping everything <br>And moving away <br>At the borderline Hope is used </p>
<p>To build the lie// <br>That it's a better life <br>It takes a criminal mind </p>
<p>For death and sacrifice <br>To find a compromise <br>To find a compromise </p>
<p>But can’t u see it’ll never be the same <br>Even if you’re from the same place <br>People seek refuge </p>
<p>But don’t you go calling them refugees… <br>Who’s complicit in creating (generating) lies <br>A never-ending staircase </p>
<p>With freedom at the top in disguise <br>Protected by <br>Countries with money </p>
<p>And no sense of pain <br>The pain, of dropping everything <br>And moving away </p>
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<p>Research has now revealed how our capacities for compassion evolved, how it works in our bodies and our brains, and when cultivated, is a source of courage and wisdom to address suffering. Compassionate courage lies in the willingness to see into the nature and causes of suffering - in ourselves, others and the human condition. </p>
<p>Patrick McGuire-inspired <br>Straight White Teeth is the tenacious songwriting project of musician and writer Patrick McGuire. Stream the song: https://ffm.to/nothingsbydesign </p>
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<p>Nothing's by Design</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/70740922022-09-30T13:00:00+02:002022-10-06T15:32:09+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 10<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/6f0d0051ccad27dbcff45304c3dfc586b344c750/original/commentary-volume-10.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 11 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. </p>
<p>1) A Hose Through Which Love Flows <br>2) It's Not 1984 <br>3) War On Mother Nature <br>4) From Me To We <br>5) This Is Making Me Crazy <br>6) Transhuman Dreams <br>7) The Rules of Ayurveda (Dinacharya) <br>8) Where Were The Drugs? <br>9) Let Go <br>10) CRISPR <br>11) Masterpiece <br>12) Next episode </p>
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<p>In this episode of Podsongs—the show where musicians interview inspirational people, as inspiration for a new song—Professor Carl Hart, author of Drug Use for Grownups and a campaigner for drug law reform, talks to American singer-songwriter Tanner Peterson about why everything we know about drug addiction is wrong. The resulting song inspired by the conversation is called ‘Break the Spell’ and features Carl’s son Damon Xavier rapping as guest vocalist. </p>
<p>https://drcarlhart.com/ <br>https://tannerpmusic.com/ </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/tannerbreakthespell </p>
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<p>BREAK THE SPELL </p>
<p>They’re coming again <br>They’re coming for my own heart <br>Just follow the trend <br>Everyone plays their part </p>
<p>Need a reset <br>Spirits in the mind are breaking through <br>New consciousness <br>Visions of something I can’t prove </p>
<p>We’re changing slowly <br>But still falling onto ourselves <br>Can’t stop the controlling <br>Could melodies break the spell? </p>
<p>Illegal truth <br>Covered up like it’s suicide <br>Forbidden fruit <br>How can you tell me what is mine? </p>
<p>We’re changing slowly <br>But still falling onto ourselves <br>Can’t stop the controlling <br>Could melodies break the spell? </p>
<p>We’re changing slowly <br>But still falling onto ourselves <br>Can’t stop the controlling <br>Could melodies break the spell? </p>
<p>Time to grow up <br>'Cause it’s no rights if they control us <br>My whole life all I heard was “no drugs” <br>Coming from the motherfuckers that don’t even know drugs <br>And as I <br>Get to get a little closer <br>I can identify the propaganda like “hold up” <br>Then we can recognize that the lies never hold up <br>Whether you do a line, or wine, or you roll up <br>High Times couldn’t cover my mind by the byline <br>The news never spill the truth on a timeline <br>The boys in blue are the brutes in my lifetime <br>I been on sidelines and now it’s high time <br>Look at the country deposit <br>Locking my people for profit <br>How can you look in the mirror? <br>I cannot honor "Your Honor" <br>Chasing our happiness and I’m knowing the courage will cause it <br>What do we need? To get out the closet <br>Wassup? </p>
<p>We’re changing slowly <br>But still falling onto ourselves <br>Can’t stop the controlling <br>Could melodies break the spell? </p>
<p>We’re changing slowly <br>But still falling onto ourselves <br>Can’t stop the controlling <br>Could melodies break the spell? <br>Could melodies break the spell? <br>Could melodies break the spell? </p>
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<p>In this episode of Podsongs—the show where musicians interview inspirational people, as inspiration for a new song—high-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais, who’s worked with some of the world’s top athletes, talks to LA singer Katie Welch about what it takes to be the best version of ourselves. The result is a song called ‘Masterpiece’ which invites you discover the artist inside your heart. </p>
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<p>High-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais has dedicated his career to exploring how to push the boundaries of human potential. His clients include Olympians and Fortune 100 CEOs. As the host of the Finding Mastery podcast he interviews world-leading professionals taking their fields to the edge. Dr. Gervais works in high-stakes environments with some of the world’s top-performing athletes and businesspeople. He is known for his work on the Red Bull Stratos project, where he helped Felix Baumgartner overcome the anxiety and claustrophobia felt when he pulled on his jumps suit to make the history-making leap from 128,000 feet. Meditation, mindfulness and team-building techniques introduced by Dr. Gervais are credited by Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll as being key to his team’s 2014 Super Bowl win. Carroll and Dr. Gervais continue to work together as co-founders of Compete to Create, a digital platform helping people become their best through mindset training. Here, Dr. Gervais shares insights gleaned from working with the best in the world. </p>
<p>Katie Welch is an American Pop-Jazz singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, her cinematic pop-soul sound highlights her powerful presence and soulful voice, influenced by the greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, and Celine Dion, but with a dance/disco-funk edge inspired by The Jacksons, Prince, Cher, Stevie Wonder, and Christina Aguilera </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/katiemasterpiece </p>
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<p>Everyday’s an opportunity to create a living masterpiece <br>The biggest thing that hold us back is the fear of what other people think <br>Your most authentic self’s available to you every day and everywhere that you meet your feet <br>Cuz when we’re present and we’re grounded and we’re mindful <br>That’s when life gets really sweet </p>
<p>Because we’ve all got the chance to be the best versions of ourselves <br>And we can learn to harness all the gifts we’ve each got to express <br>You’re enough just because you are <br>And everything you need is inside of you <br>Your inner capabilities are absolutely extraordinary </p>
<p>Baby you’re a work of art <br>The artist is inside your heart <br>Your body is the canvas <br>And you’re mind is the paint <br>Once you can see the picture you can paint it for the world to see </p>
<p>Because we’ve all got the chance to be the best versions of ourselves <br>And we can learn to harness all the gifts we’ve each got to express <br>You’re enough just because you are <br>And everything you need is inside of you <br>Your inner capabilities are absolutely extraordinary </p>
<p>Baby you’re a work of art <br>The artist is inside your heart <br>Your body is the canvas <br>And you’re mind is the paint <br>So paint the picture that you want the world to see </p>
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<p>Jo Zayner is a biohacker, artist, and scientist best known for their self-experimentation and work making hands-on genetic engineering accessible to a lay audience, including CRISPR. josiahzayner.com/ </p>
<p>Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. http://www.chicksonspeed.com/ </p>
<p>Podsongs is a podcast where musicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song. www.podsongs.com </p>
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<p>Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats <br>Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats <br>CRISPR <br>CRISPR </p>
<p>CRISPR <br>CRISPR <br>CRIS, CRIS, CRIS, PR </p>
<p>Where’s the bass? Doing the science <br>Cut and add, you’ve got the sequence <br>Making it happen <br>Do you want to jam, with my genes? </p>
<p>Give me some of your genetic engineering <br>Your kitchen garage time machine <br>Take me to see a dragon <br>Everybody has a device to push the button </p>
<p>Bottom up, top down <br>Lifloning logistics <br>Baby genes in editing <br>Change our genes, make a choice <br>Self-injected, what’s the real <br>Believe in who, what’s the wrong in the world </p>
<p>Science isn’t done a lab coat <br>Seeing through your twisted CRISPR <br>Science isn’t done a lab coat </p>
<p>Empty hallways what’s going on <br>Artificial balance hey <br>Hey love I could lose <br>Body autonomy </p>
<p>Me and you just we two point of view <br>What’s the truth? </p>
<p>Make me faith <br>Make me real <br>Change modify </p>
<p>Men on estrogen <br>Therapy it’s popular <br>Vocabulary </p>
<p>Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats <br>Clustered Interspaced Palindromic Repeats <br>CRISPR <br>CRISPR <br>CRISPR <br>CRISPR </p>
<p>I was not born this way <br>Didn’t like my DNA <br>You said my genes were lame <br>Were so uncool and my parents were to blame </p>
<p>If only, science made me cooler <br>Maybe some talent and a photogenic bone structure <br>Dear science, save me from this gene pool <br>It’s mediocre why does nature have to be so cruel? </p>
<p>What do you think about mosquitos? <br>What about repair kit? <br>What about the DNA? <br>What about the therapy? <br>What is natural? <br>Have the repair kit rather than the scalpel? <br>What about fixing the murals? <br>What about repair kit subsitutes for jail cells? </p>
<p>I’m starving mosquito flying around <br>Can’t locate dinner <br>Receptors are down <br>My target of desired of plasma can’t be found <br>A starving mosquito <br>Buzzing around <br>Buzzing around <br>Buzzing around <br>Buzzing around </p>
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<p>A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. </p>
<p>1) Unclench <br>2) It's Possible <br>3) Afterlife <br>4) Bravery <br>5) Kudzu From Heaven <br>6) Changes <br>7) Unravel <br>8) Moment of Truth <br>9) A Change Is Coming <br>10) Change without pain <br>11) Live to Give <br>12) Where Attention Goes </p>
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<p>Can you learn to let go? This is what Kyle Cease challenges Doe Paoro to do in their interview together in this episode of Podsongs. </p>
<p>New York Times Best Selling author Kyle Cease has a gift of merging comedy with personal transformation. As a comedian, Kyle had two #1 Comedy Central specials and was voted as #1 ranking on Comedy Central’s Stand-up Showdown. After leaving his job as an award-winning comedian, Kyle dedicated his life to helping others and created Evolving Out Loud, which is a growing community with over 400 thousand members worldwide. Kyle has personally coached over fifteen thousand people and his YouTube videos have been watched over 60 million times. http://kylecease.com/ </p>
<p>Working under the name Doe Paoro, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Sonia Kreitzer blends elements of soul, R&B, dubstep, and dark-toned pop. After earning critical accolades with her self-made first album, she signed to Anti-, working with members of Bon Iver and making her label debut with 2015's After. Slow to Love Following a trip to Tibet, the Syracuse native began recording under the name Doe Paoro, folding Tibetan opera vocal influences into her own minimalist pop sound. https://www.doepaoro.com/ </p>
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<p>LET GO</p>
<p>Well I never had the sense of a road <br>No no no no </p>
<p>And I gave up all of my knowing <br>A long time ago </p>
<p>Yeah I tried <br>To let go <br>Of what could not hold </p>
<p>Well I promised myself a love <br>That wouldn't rely </p>
<p>On anyone else's choosing me <br>This love never dies </p>
<p>Yeah I tried <br>To let go <br>Of what was a love so many times </p>
<p>I had to let go so many times <br>I had to let go of so many lives </p>
<p>I had to let go of so many so many so many lives <br>So many times <br>I had to let go </p>
<p>I had to let go <br>I had to let go <br>Of so many lives </p>
<p>So many times </p>
<p>Well I walked to the edge <br>Gave my prayer to the stars </p>
<p>What if the thing that I want most <br>Is breaking my heart </p>
<p>Well I tried, yes I tried to accept what is hard <br>Yeah I tried to accept what is hard <br>I had to let go <br>So many times <br>I had to let go of so many lives <br>so many lives </p>
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<p>Jeremy Hunt inspires a song about Covid medicine. Jeremy Hunt is a senior British politician serving as Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee. In this interview with Jack Stafford he discusses Covid treatment and the new NHS, and inspires a song.</p>
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<p>WHERE WERE THE DRUGS? </p>
<p>Where were the drugs in our hour of need? <br>Where were the drugs against this deadly disease? <br>That it's wholly untreatable's not entirely believable <br>But for what other reason can you rush through vaccines? </p>
<p>Are you really telling me? <br>When every other ad I see <br>Pumped in by TV <br>Is for a magic cure <br>I don't believe you anymore </p>
<p>Cos all doctors were pharmacists <br>All-day long prescription lists <br>Now suddenly the only thing in their bag is <br>Paracetamol </p>
<p>Where were the drugs in our hour of need? <br>Where were the drugs are we being deceived? <br>Can we wake up from denial, we're in one big clinical trial <br>And Paracetamol is not an anti-viral </p>
<p>Why can't drugs be authorized? <br>Until you've been hospitalized <br>The system has been paralyzed <br>Right before our very eyes <br>Everyone's been hypnotized <br>With the thought of being immunized <br>The unjabbed are despised </p>
<p>Now there are drugs you cannot mention <br>It's become a sin <br>Even to talk about ivermectin <br>Or Hydroxyquinoline </p>
<p>There must not be <br>Vaccine hesitancy </p>
<p>And all the SARS that went before <br>We treated them we won the war <br>But suddenly the only thing we have is <br>Paracetamol </p>
<p>Where were the drugs in our hour of need? <br>Where were the drugs are we being deceived? <br>Can we wake up from denial, we're in one big clinical trial <br>And Paracetamol is not an anti-viral </p>
<p>Where were the drugs in our hour of need? <br>Where were the drugs against this deadly disease? <br>That it's wholly untreatable's not entirely believable <br>But for what other reason can you rush through vaccines? </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/69998552022-06-22T10:00:00+02:002022-06-23T10:16:50+02:00Bernardo Kastrup discusses materialism and consciousness<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d3ada7e89c7d63ce9dbc64b9c867f82ecb9a7fe6/original/19.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is a reissue of Episode 7, while Jack recovers for the birth of his first child last week. Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others. </p>
<p>https://youtu.be/ZiFc11XHRQ4 </p>
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<p>THE PRISON OF MATERIALISM </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Fm <br>It's stitched into the sitcoms <br>It's sewn into the news <br>Bfm <br>Twisted in the movies <br>It underwrites your views </p>
<p>It underwrites your views <br>Fm <br>Pumped in by the television <br>Reinforced in school <br>Bfm <br>Seeps into your every hole, <br>But your nobody's fool? </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Cm <br>It permeates and advocates <br>Corroborates we're separates </p>
<p>Bfm <br>Venerates-our-physical-traits-while-vindicating-violent-states </p>
<p>Cm <br>Perpetuates subordinates <br>Implicates we're primates </p>
<p>Culminates in selfish hate <br>That enumerates & exterminates </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Bfm <br>Oh no, they’re selling you a prison <br>Cm <br>Don’t buy the lie of materialism </p>
<p>VERSE <br>It’s been cunningly conceived <br>And slyly concealed <br>Dripped into your consciousness <br>Now it has congealed </p>
<p>You're just purely physical <br>You're a piece of meat <br>Who cares if I beat you <br>Or emotionally mistreat you </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Soul starvation, strangulation <br>Spiritual castration </p>
<p>Secularize-sexualise-glamourise-with-vacant-lies <br>Temptation and gratification <br>Physical adoration </p>
<p>Sedation of civilization <br>Societal transmogrification </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>VERSE <br>They're happy you're confused <br>They feed upon your fear <br>Suck up all your feelings <br>They’re always very near </p>
<p>You’re one of the little pawns <br>Putty in their hands <br>Moving in formation <br>As they whisper their commands </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Preaching the dualities <br>Physical realities </p>
<p>With-distorted-moralities-for-limited-mentalities </p>
<p>Contorted tonalities <br>Temporal modalities <br>Separate nationalities <br>For global criminalities <br>CHORUS </p>
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<p>This is a reissue of Episode 6, while Jack takes a short break for the birth of his first child. Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist and has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. He inspires a song called True Believer, about the life philosophy he has built based on his work and travels. </p>
<p>His books include What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men's Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside, and Fast Company. His work has been the subject of a variety of radio and television programs, including on NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010, he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his story “ Meet the Parents,” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. Carney has spent extensive time in South Asia and speaks Hindi. He attended Kenyon College and has a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in Denver, CO </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/scottcarney </p>
<p>Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Qc1Lo4uAaTA </p>
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<p>TRUE BELIEVER </p>
<p>There's a wedge, we drive <br>For our minds, to thrive <br>We wither in this world <br>Or we evolve </p>
<p>What is truth? What's belief? <br>What is hiding underneath? <br>In the lie-infested world in which we crawl </p>
<p>You call me faithless - but my faith's unshakeable <br>In fact, I'm one of only a few believers left </p>
<p>From what I've seen with my own eyes <br>A lie is always in disguise <br>My faith's built on solid base <br>I trust in what I touch or taste </p>
<p>I've been convinced by black and white <br>That today will end in night <br>The song is long while will is free <br>Life ends in a minor key </p>
<p>You call me faithless but I've no doubt <br>I'm a true believer - believe me! </p>
<p>I've faith men cheat, Faith men lie <br>Faith they steal, one day die <br>I'm a believer! <br>A true believer </p>
<p>I've faith they'll kill to make a million <br>Sell their bodies, sell their children <br>I'm a believer! <br>A true believer <br> <br>Lies are always told <br>As lives are, bought and sold <br>Our belief is the currency that we traded away </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/69874292022-05-25T07:00:00+02:002022-06-06T06:50:02+02:00Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya - Everyday Ayurveda: Habits to change your life<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/df261c7bda5281cae59e43942601d60cb64bf82c/original/111-bhaswati-bhattacharya.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>In the show where every conversation inspires a song, Jack Stafford interviews Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya about her book 'Everyday Ayurveda: Daily Habits That Can Change Your Life in a Day'. </p>
<p>Living between Manhattan and Kashi, Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a licensed, board-certified physician, integrating 'Good Medicine' with Ayurveda for the past fifteen years. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a PhD researcher in Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University. She is a 2014 senior Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, recipient of American Medical Association's Leadership Award and the first Indian to speak at Commencement Exercises at Harvard University. Her work is featured in the documentary, Healers: Journey into Ayurveda. </p>
<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/therulesofayurveda </p>
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<p>THE RULES OF AYURVEDA (DINACHARYA) </p>
<p>Waking up <br>Before the sun <br>You have your motions <br>One-by-one </p>
<p>Clean out the Kapha <br>From your head <br>Accumulated <br>While in bed </p>
<p>Clean the teeth <br>And scrape the tongue <br>Gargle with oil <br>Then Abhyanga </p>
<p>I get tired of the rules </p>
<p>Nasal drops <br>Salute the sun <br>Wash your body <br>When you’re done </p>
<p>Meditate <br>And then hydrate <br>Break your fast <br>Very late </p>
<p>Exercise <br>December to May <br>To only half <br>Capacity <br>Well I get tired of the rules </p>
<p>But every time I go a little crazy <br>Do something I know is really wrong <br>I wake up in the morning feeling so bad <br>That I go running... to the rules </p>
<p>Not holding a sneeze <br>Or stopping a yawn <br>No activities <br>At dusk or dawn </p>
<p>Only breathing <br>Through your nose <br>Never eating <br>When the right ones closed </p>
<p>All 6 tastes <br>In every meal <br>The ratio <br>For how you feel <br>I get tired of the rules </p>
<p>Avoiding incompatible <br>Foods <br>Mixing with fruit <br>It precludes </p>
<p>Then you lie <br>On your left side <br>While you digest <br>What's inside </p>
<p>Control the body <br>Speech and mind <br>Granting gifts <br>And being kind <br>I get tired of the rules </p>
<p>But when I forget contraindications <br>Don't change with the seasons or my situation <br>Whenever I act mindlessly, I feel so bad <br>I go running to.... to the rules </p>
<p>Speaking little <br>Speaking good <br>Speaking only <br>When you should </p>
<p>Not causing ill will <br>Telling lies <br>No dissension <br>In others lives </p>
<p>With a smile <br>The first to greet <br>Insults received <br>Never repeat <br>I get tired of the rules </p>
<p>Living a life that's <br>Filled with dharma <br>Pursuing only <br>Pleasure and kama </p>
<p>Not believing <br>All you see <br>But nor suspect <br>Conspiracy </p>
<p>Perfect the skill <br>Of adoring others <br>Sharing profits <br>As with brothers </p>
<p>Not loving <br>living alone <br>Compassion for all <br>Is always shown </p>
<p>And having the long life <br>And the health <br>The reputation <br>And the wealth </p>
<p>Who's tired... of the rules? </p>
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<p>Let's talk transhumanism. Steve Fuller Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England talks to Holly Chant of the band Xylaroo, to give her inspiration for a new song. </p>
<p>Social Epistemology, what it is and how it is relevant to the question of Intelligent Design? Steve was originally trained in history and philosophy of science, but he is best known for the research programme of 'social epistemology', which is the title of a journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his dozen books. </p>
<p>Links: </p>
<p>Xylaroo - http://www.sundaybest.net/artists/xylaroo/ </p>
<p>Prof. Steve Fuller - http://profstevefuller.net/ </p>
<p>Podsongs - https://podsongs.com/ </p>
<p>Recorded at @Goldmine.Records </p>
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<p>TRANSHUMAN DREAMS</p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/69580922022-04-27T16:31:32+02:002022-04-27T16:31:32+02:00Dr Caroline Leaf on how to grow your brain<p>In this conversation, Dr. Caroline Leaf inspires a song about the struggle for sanity in our crazy world. Dr. Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist and was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. </p>
<p>During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA, she developed her theory (called the Geodesic Information Processing theory) of how we think, build memory, and learn, into tools and processes that have transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), learning disabilities (ADD, ADHD), autism, dementias and mental ill-health issues like anxiety and depression. She has helped hundreds of thousands of students and adults learn how to use their mind to detox and grow their brain to succeed in every area of their lives, including school, university, and the workplace. https://drleaf.com/ </p>
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<p>Stream the song: https://ffm.to/MakingMeCrazy </p>
<p>THIS IS MAKING ME CRAZY </p>
<p>I can’t live in this place <br>It makes me crazy <br>All are wild with naked greed <br>To which somehow it seems that we have all agreed </p>
<p>I can’t live in a city <br>It makes me crazy <br>Overcrowded, poisoned air <br>Frowning face’s surrounding me everywhere </p>
<p>I can’t live with a job <br>It makes me crazy <br>Sold myself, get paid in stress <br>Now what I have left of my life’s worth so much less </p>
<p>When there's so much confusion <br>And so much is wrong <br>And so many people <br>Then I must be strong </p>
<p>When so much is wasted <br>And there's so much of strife <br>I need to change my life </p>
<p>I can’t live in a house <br>It makes me crazy <br>Even though I’ve too much stuff <br>What I have just never seems to be enough </p>
<p>I can’t live with a woman <br>They make me crazy <br>Always complaining, nothing’s right <br>All I get is criticism every night </p>
<p>When there's so much confusion <br>And so much is wrong <br>And so many people <br>Then I must be strong </p>
<p>When so much is wasted <br>And there's so much of strife <br>I need to change my life </p>
<p>I can’t live with a body <br>It makes me crazy <br>Aches and pains and colds and flu <br>And it never looks the way I want it to </p>
<p>I can’t live with a mind <br>It makes me crazy <br>Always talking, never peace <br>Even meditation gives me no release </p>
<p>I can’t live with myself <br>I make me crazy <br>Cos after all the things I’ve changed <br>I myself remain the same </p>
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<p>FROM ME TO WE</p>
<p>All our problems come <br>When we get outside ourselves <br>We need to grow our communities <br>And seize new opportunities </p>
<p>We gotta move... from me to we <br>Think reciprocity </p>
<p>It's time to move from me to we <br>Think one community </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>Independence is <br>An illusory thing <br>It's real the abundance <br>So share it all with a caring call </p>
<p>And move from me to we <br>Think generosity </p>
<p>We gotta move from me to we <br>Think one big family </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>Instead of over-reliance <br>On global supply chains buy locally </p>
<p>Say no to corporate violence <br>Against the earth and all of us yeah </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
<p>All together now <br>Altogether now </p>
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<p>#VandanaShiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations and billionaires like #billgates invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. For more information on Vandana’s work and to take part in her online courses go to navdanya.org Her latest book is called: Oneness VS the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom. Also please check out the documentary film about Vandana’s work “The Seeds of Vandana” here: https://vandanashivamovie.com </p>
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<p>Stream the song https://ffm.to/waronmothernature </p>
<p>The song was performed by Rebecca Jenkins whose partner Joel Bakan—writer and director of The New Corporation documentary—suggested Vandana Shiva to Podsongs host Jack Stafford. </p>
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<p>Podsongs is a unique podcast format created and hosted by Jack Stafford, a British musician living in Italy. Musicians interview inspiring people and produce a song inspired by the conversation. It launched in November 2020 after COVID lockdowns forced Jack to look for other outlets for his music, and it evolved into a collaborative project. </p>
<p>War on Mother Nature </p>
<p>The song was recorded at Goldmine Records in Vallo della Lucania, Italy. The music was written by Jack Stafford, with lyrics by Jack Stafford and Rebecca Jenkins. Rebecca Jenkinson sang vocals, and it was produced by Maurizio Sarnicola and Massimino Voza, who also played Drums, Piano, Bass, Trumpet, Organ and Keys. Maurizio Sarnicola played guitar. </p>
<p>LYRICS:</p>
<p> WAR ON MOTHER NATURE</p>
<p>Capital creation you know <br>It's just blatant theft <br>And the system will not stop <br>Until there's nothing left </p>
<p>Wake up people come on now <br>Don't get mesmerised <br>By these digital barons <br>And their hypnotic lies </p>
<p>Their aim is not discrete <br>They want to defeat Mother Nature <br>It's their illusion </p>
<p>It's so senseless <br>Dangerously <br>Anti-life, anti-health, anti-woman <br>No accountability </p>
<p>Their media floods our minds <br>PR pollution <br>Money is their goal <br>But you know it's nature's execution </p>
<p>Their aim is not discrete <br>They want to defeat Mother Nature </p>
<p>Mother Nature <br>It's their illusion </p>
<p>As food creators <br>They own what we need </p>
<p>They patent nature <br>Even precious seed </p>
<p>Come on people <br>Let's collectivise </p>
<p>It's time for revolution <br>It's been prophesised </p>
<p>Their aim is not discrete <br>They want to defeat her <br>Their aim is not discrete <br>They want to defeat her <br>They want to defeat her <br>They want to defeat her </p>
<p>Come on people <br>It's time for revolution <br>Come on now <br>Let's collectivise <br>It's time for revolution</p>
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<p>TRANSCRIPT </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: I know you don't like being compared to Gandy, but, you are a true disciple of his no? </p>
<p>Vandana: I am a disciple for sure. I mean, every time a door has been closed, it's Gandy who shows a little window, that's still open a skylight. That's open. So yeah. </p>
<p>Or you can open that's the thing. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Okay. Cause we need people like him to inspire us, you know, to raise our own behavior, to show us what we can be. And I guess that's the essence of what you're doing is. It's to show us that just one person like you can, can move mountains. </p>
<p>Vandana: Well, you know, he always said, you've got to be the change you want to see. And of course we are interlinked. We are totally connected, but you never begin at the wrong end of the connection, which is not you. Yeah. You don't begin with a corporations and you don't begin with the fake person called the corporation. </p>
<p>You know, I mean, they created a corporation in order to not have to be accountable and. And gangsters really nothing but gangsters got together then to create the corporation of the east India company. And the gangsters are creating corporations today. And the legal personhood of the corporation is the hiding. </p>
<p>So you don't begin by taking this ghost, literally ghost person. And so you change, no, you, you are the person interrelated to a beautiful world and you have to be the change you want to see. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: That's beautiful. Actually, that leads perfectly into what I wanted to talk to you about because I had Joel bacon on the show and he was the first person to introduce this idea exactly what you said that corporations have the same rights as people, but they're basically psychopaths. They have none of the moral or moral morality that we do. </p>
<p>Vandana: and they have none of the responsibilities that real. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: right? So I want to do a whole album of songs for him. And he suggested people like an interview. And he said that you will be wonderful to speak to. Um, so because there's so many issues, evils, air pollution, poverty suffering. </p>
<p>Vandana: And after these interviews, </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Exactly. Exactly. </p>
<p>Vandana: oh, okay. But let me, didn't complete the basically gangsters hiding behind. The fiction of a corporation and how did they begin? They call it the limited liability corporation. The very word limited liability says no responsibility. They never created a corporation with full liability, began with limited liability. </p>
<p>And now the bill gates and others are creating what I call zero liability call. They call it zero cost accounting, zero budget accounting, and the trick they are playing on the word. No. With all of the climate disaster is something called net zero. Yeah. We'll continue policing. 99% of the pollution comes from the rich, rich countries, rich individuals who are still flying in their private jets while everyone else is locked down. </p>
<p>And they're not going to stop. And they're going to have privileged visa is for those who are their slaves. So yeah, you can come, you can cross the borders to be our slaves, but those who are truly, truly independent, we, sorry, we're going to block them. And in a way, the lockdown is a good test of the zero liability concept, but a zero liability concept with all rights to all resources. </p>
<p>You know, I've been working on the seat. It used to be Monsanto. I used to deal with, from the late eighties to literally about a few years ago. And now it's bill gates. I have to deal with who can draw all the seed of the world. Most people don't realize it through digital technologies because you know, every time there's an attempt to control real resources, really human beings, real societies, corporations. </p>
<p>Cook up a new tool and they pretend it has miracle pass. Yeah. And the corporation must use tools for civilizing missions. In those days. It used to be religion, not a tool religion. I mean, I think Christ would never have accepted what happened. With the battle bull Christ just would not have accepted how 9 million people were killed as witches for continuing to believe they're part of nature. </p>
<p>You know, most people don't realize the witch hunts were about being part of nature and the pat good will. That was they're too close to nature. They must be separated. And then you get the decals and you get the bakers and you'll get all of this separation pieces. And if you believed in. As part of the air you believed in being citizens, you believed in having a body that can feel pain. </p>
<p>You well, then a witch. And today we have new kinds of champs, fascinating with chance. But what is common from the beginning of the corporation to today is you create a civilizing. You create tools of Congress for superintending superiority, we are superior to you because we have digital and so forth. We can take over. </p>
<p>We superior to you because we have all and you don't, you don't mess up the climate. We have oil and we will create a climate change and mess your legs up and melting glaciers and create cyclers in the bay of Bengal. But. We will not be. And instead of polluter to base principle, we will make you pee. We have continued to pollute, and now we will create global accounting systems around this net zero. </p>
<p>Which will take your land, take it for a stick. Your trees, take your soil. The stool is being done through digital. They want one bill gates wants one global accounting system and wants to be the one global certifier or what's allowed in the world or not. What's not allowed in the world. So we are. You know, as it is, corporations began as an anti-life anti women, anti major enterprise, and the third world, you know, they colonized us, they were created to colonize us and that work of being totally anti-life and to women and the health and freedom continues. </p>
<p>I mean, that is same, except the tools are more destructive. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Well, I was hoping it's going to be a comedy song or a bit lighthearted, but, um, I don't think there's any chance of that. We can't have him, but, uh, that's fine. </p>
<p>Vandana: We have the lighthearted bit. We have the lighthearted, which always, you know, for me, fake food is a lighthearted bit. I mean, you mentioned. Two 75% people's gut microbiome with processed food. And now you want to say, oh, eat more lab food, eat more GMOs, eat more fake food. And I will pretend fake food that destroys your gut is saving the planet. </p>
<p>To me, that's a joke. Yeah. A zero budget. You have a, you have to laugh and B you have to say, you will not force me. You know, that is my learning from God. If I have learned from Gandhi, one thing, it is no matter how powerful the corporations are, the power you have is to say no, but you can only see no, if you are not attached to what they force you to have. </p>
<p>Yeah. So detachment then. Becomes your boss because there's nothing they can give you. You have your own life, you have your own autonomy. You'll have your own mind. You have your own relationships. And if you refuse there, room refuse corporate room, which he did with the solid. We did it with a seed. We said, Gandhi could say no to the salt monopoly of the British by walking to the beach. </p>
<p>And seeing nature gives it free. We need it for our survival. We will make salt. We will not be a loss. So when the Monsantos came up with patenting life, I said, no nature gives these seeds to us. Our ancestors have breadth that we need to pass them on to future generations. That side. And we will not being a loss, no matter what law you bring, we will continue to save our seats. </p>
<p>So currently go to the salts. That's the force of truth. We call it the seats at that rate, but I've had to do food, something raise, you know, they tried to shut down galleys, cold press oil mill. Can you imagine that the industrial oil system based on GMO soya, which is destroying the Amazon, they wanted us to EGM. </p>
<p>So, and to ban. And your oil by million close bread, cold press mills was shot. And they also tried to shut gun these men. So we did a civil disobedience and I am now preparing. I hope more people will wake up and I hope your podcast will happen. We have to do a subcategory for life. You know, food is life, good food heals us. </p>
<p>All chronic diseases are recognized to be coming from a food that is distressed, affecting nature. And integrity. Even the new epidemics, the Ebola is the HIV is the XY because the chicken Gunas, they are all coming because of invasion into forest by agribusiness. If you look at where is the invasion happening today? </p>
<p>Amazon GMO Sawyer, Indonesia, Congo, pharma oil, all for a fake food system, raw material for fake food. So if we are concerned about COVID. Well, you better be concerned about take food. If you're concerned about your health, reducing your immunity in the COVID disaster, you better be good concerned with food freedom. </p>
<p>That's our work. See, I think it's time to recognize that corporations are so greedy and so hungry for profits. They want our food now they will not see it in their wonderful, this is what they want and they want our land on the land. They want to see they're wonderful. And they wound up mine. So, how do you defend all this? </p>
<p>You defend your mind by continuing to think as a free individual, you can defend your land by saying no way your digital programs will not steal my land. It's just been working with farmers who wanted to understand what the Microsoft entry in taking control of our land records means that was explained to them. </p>
<p>It basically means the new British landlord or some where with one stroke of the pen. They took our land and killed our people. 14 million died for rent extraction, except that then it needed a pen and now it needs a kit. And that's the big difference for today, but we've done the seats that they gray and we have defended seeds. </p>
<p>We've defended laws, and this movement is priming. It's so beautiful. And during COVID, even though the propaganda kept saying, there's no connection between your native immune. And, and your resilience to the disease. Everyone is realizing, you know, the levels of awareness in India, everyone, you know, we work with women farmers, and they're green gardens everywhere because they don't understand, you know, we go do a village and say, I'm in my car. </p>
<p>I had my, I had my LD. They know it. I mean, after 10,000 years of knowledge can be whipped away just because of gates said, I have digital, I control your mind. This is the freedom of our time. This is the freedom. Because all the corporations that are controlling the world today are technology corporations. </p>
<p>So what is the technology, corporations, capital, the data they steal from you. That's why they call it data mining. Right? They steal data. So you've got to be very cautious about that. Letting your data be stolen. You've got to be very cautious that were. It's based on that, like the British belt was based on theft. </p>
<p>It's not out of the blue that you have big data is the new Orleans. Yeah. So it's interesting times. And I think more and more people are becoming aware of how rotten the corporate construct was and how they want to seek freedom in a non-corporate dominated life. And people are making the shift. That awareness is coming anyway. </p>
<p>There's some stupid. And suddenly, you know, what, what is interesting for me for our times is thought so-called more educated. People are more willing to slip into propaganda or the corporations of good for us. Oh, surely they bring us new technology and don't we need those nutria. Or just like, there was a time when they said, oh, don't we need the pepper ball and don't we need your individual religion to be destroyed, but an invading religion, which was not Christian. </p>
<p>This is not business. Every one of us spiritual teachers rose against the British rule as corporate rules. Yeah. Most people don't realize the resurgence of Indian spirituality in contemporary times was a material resistance to corporate greed. Sri Aurobindo gone to gore Swami. They cannot read any of them. </p>
<p>They're speaking against the corporations and the rule of. So it is, it is also a spiritual struggle. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Wow. That's a lot to unpack because do you see the rise of these, these digital barons? Shall we say as, are they more of a threat than corporate. </p>
<p>Vandana: They are corporations. And as I said earlier, the digital barons are corporations with severe. In the hands to control. So they are corporations, you know, a digital bearing is not a, non-cooperation a digital Baron is a corporation, but a corporation with new tools of surveillance, of control of mining, your data, working with governments to totally take away your freedom. </p>
<p>And that's why they're more dangerous, you know, a Monsanto sold toxic GMO seeds. That's all. It's all these guys. Uh, selling the toxic GMO seeds because that's what gates is doing. They are. I said that meaning there's the other new Monsanto's, but they are basically trying to toxify our minds and our thinking never before has all of humanity had an invasion into their mind on the scale that we are having. </p>
<p>Most people think a tool is a tool and it's outside there, but these tools are invasions into the spot. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: So it's more insidious. Yeah. </p>
<p>Vandana: More much, much more violent. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Um, you, you, you wanted to call it oneness against the north point Norton at 1%. Um, cause it's actually, I was speaking to Sandra and the video it's actually, there's about 10,000 people who control the fate of the world. </p>
<p>Vandana: It was an ugly. I have so many zeros before it. And also anyway, the occupy wall street movement had named the 1% and 99%. So I said, let's just carry that as a metaphor, not as a realistic definition of how many they are, but as a metaphor of polarization, which is getting worse, you know, it's getting worse because what is the look down I'm doing? </p>
<p>Taking away. People's livelihoods. I've just come to sort things out and deli, and it's unbelievable. Like I'm just getting more and more stories about them. You know, the pumps were stolen, the pipes were stolen me. If you Rob everyone of them. They have to do something to eat, right? So you're going to create, you are going to create criminal societies and it is these corporations that are responsible for the rise of crime. </p>
<p>They are responsible for the femicide. They are responsible for the genocide and the equals. That is the crime they're committing. They're committing ecosite crimes against nature, genocide crimes against humanity femicide, because the women are the worst victims now as they were during the week. That's the violence. </p>
<p>And because women are the defenders of life, you know, women have been. So when the land is, which again is the one who's there, when a scene is grabbing rabbits, the woman was there and the toxics was prejudiced. The women were still fighting union carbide. We came down, we became DowDuPont, which is our Deva and they keep changing their names. </p>
<p>But the insight evil is not just the same. It's amplified. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: So when I was researching you, I was watching you on YouTube. And you, you mentioned bill gates in the title. </p>
<p>Vandana: Because very hot in Delhi. And my Mac is saying the MacBook is getting me hot and, um, and it will shut down Crow. So do your questions fast. Now </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Okay. Right. Have you ever been in the same room as bill gates? </p>
<p>Vandana: Yes, of course, not once many times, but I don't remember a particular time. The world economic forum, you might remember. After the 1999 shutting down of WTU, then the world economic forum started to woo. People like us and call us to meetings. And till two years later inside, I was giving speeches with the DuPonts of the world bank. </p>
<p>And then I washed out for solidarity. To the protestors who police try to beat me up. So I came back and held the press conference. I said, I'm the senior human being outside. I'm getting solidarity. And I'm a criminal inside. You applaud me. No, this one work, you've got to apologize to the protestors and to me and I won't come back to you like it in apology. </p>
<p>So I never went back. But during that period, they were calling me to these world economic forums. And the one in Melbourne was very, very, very. And, uh, and the protests would just block the hotel. So I was marching with them and I said, you know, so-and-so time I have a debate with bill gates. And if you give me permission, I'll go. </p>
<p>If you don't want me to go, I want this. Of course you must score. And they let me through bill gates. Couldn't come. He had to come by a helicopter to the. And then he was singled the most and I've done what, 15 years ago? He said, well, the more serious thing is people don't have computers. I spend the most serious thing is people don't have food, the most serious things. </p>
<p>People don't have water, you know, that's the divide we have to be addressing. So when he's been out, I mean, he became a millionaire with Microsoft, billionaire, billionaire, and now he'd like to be a training. With taking control of her seat and food. Of course, I've been in the same room with him. And more than that, I've been in the same room or with, during the, the Paris summit where this man is standing with heads of state. </p>
<p>I said, what happened? I know that you enough, it's supposed to be heads of state one country, one walk since when did the billionaire ethic over a UN body. And that's when I wrote one, this was as 1%. </p>
<p>Jack Stafford: Mm. </p>
<p>Vandana: To solve that Plaza or when did billionaires take over government and the United nations? That my book one, this was when 1% is trying to solve that puzzle. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah, I've been seeing all these farmers protests. We saw them all last year, but, um, in September, 2020, uh, Modi introduced these three bills to give farmers the freedom to sell that produce anywhere in the country and enter into contracts with unlicensed buyers at a pre-agreed price. But, um, I found out the farmers they're still camping there in Delhi. </p>
<p>Vandana: Yeah. So globalization came to India. 91 became formal through the world trade organization. The laws passed now were written by the world bank in 19 months. We've been fighting them since then. And we've created huge movements, 500,000 in Bangalore, 200,000 in Delhi and the movements against new liberal globalization. </p>
<p>Have been going on since I guess the corporations, you know, we are the first country that threw out the east India company. We defeated the first corporation that was ever created and it was a farmers movement. So the current movements are very important because they are carrying the soul of India. The soul of India is the funds. </p>
<p>So it's really green of corporations and the soul of every person, every being and soul of India. </p>
<p>Jack: Do you think Monsanto and these corporations that like, uh, do you think they're like a locust plague? Like, you know, they come in, there's a good harvest. The soil's good. They destroy everything. And then in a very short time </p>
<p>Vandana Shiva: But a local is just destroys these guys T they destroy entities. Right. So if they're destroyed, we, we jump right back because we work with the resilience of nature, the earth hasn't gone. The plants haven't gone. A locust </p>
<p>attack can be survived. </p>
<p>These guys are destroying the planet and the future, and they're doing it very intentionally. </p>
<p>Every place where life is destroyed, most people don't realize the Googles. You know, we are on Google, we are on Chrome </p>
<p>and they must be spying on us OK spy listen to what I have to say, </p>
<p>five years ago, Google started a life science division and the moral is we have </p>
<p>to defeat. Mother Nature </p>
<p>Vandana: This was what the corporate wallet road then. </p>
<p>Vandana Shiva: And those who you call </p>
<p>the </p>
<p>digital Barons are still struggling </p>
<p>to defeat mother nature, not getting it that she is undefeatable. </p>
<p>You can rupture her systems, </p>
<p>you can create storms, but she's the one who </p>
<p>has the last. </p>
<p>word </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. You said the corporations and the capitalism doesn't produce anything. It, it has this illusion of growth. Yeah. </p>
<p>Vandana: Illusion of creation and production and out of that, And therefore they have to deny and wipe out the real creativity and production of nature or women or farmers. Why are they threatened by small farmers? Because if the farmer's production is accepted digitalization picture, you know, so they have to make it look like this is primitive and this is modern, right? </p>
<p>No, this is pet and that's freedom. </p>
<p>Jack: but you know, if we're also the customers, I mean that w they rely on us, our profit. To spend they're relying on us using them. So if none of us have any livelihoods, oh, aren't we all going to die out? </p>
<p>Vandana: Well, they don't realize because they have so convinced themselves they are the gods. They are the creators, they're the masters of the universe. They take that illusion into themselves and they have no idea that everything that is supporting the world. That they are profiting from. If they destroy it, there will be no profits. </p>
<p>You know, that they have so enthralled themselves with their own illusion, that there will be nothing. There will be no digital world. There will be no digital barons. There will be no billionaires on a dead planet. Nothing. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. I remember you wrote in the oneness versus the 1% you said we are living in times when the 1% has the power to destroy our planet and common lives with no responsibility and accountability for their actions, because they have clever ways to create their illusions. And we all buy into this illusion. </p>
<p>Um, </p>
<p>Vandana: So that's what our challenge is to not get trapped by the illusions. That's us. That's freedom today. The freedom today is not getting trapped by the illusions. Freebie, you know, what are the spiritual tradition? What does, what does the line number talk about? What did they don't allow your mind to be polluted? </p>
<p>What is pollution? Letting someone else's illusions shape your thinking? That's pollution. It's pollution of the mind, and it is more toxic than the poisons that are being spread by the Monsanto's. </p>
<p>So Jack, we should be wrapping up. Yeah. </p>
<p>Jack: Okay, well, thank you so much for your time. And, um, I just wanted to ask you one closing question, um, because you know, you live your life, you live your life in service so much. I mean, if bill gates calls up tomorrow and says, you know, I've read your book. I realize I've been in this. Um, I'm just gonna, I'm going to do exactly what you say. </p>
<p>What, what would you do? What, what, what dreams would you have you going to live in the Himalayas? Would you sail around the world? What would you do if it was all over? </p>
<p>Vandana: Well, the first thing I'd say is apologize, apologize to the earth. Apologize to the farmers. Apologize to those who have harmed. The second thing I'd say is get back our seats, give back our food. It doesn't belong to you. Hands-off just hands off. And third is with humanity. Come in and very willing to have you. </p>
<p>As a student at the earth university, we started more than happy to teach you how living beings. </p>
<p>Jack: Well, okay, well I'll tell him. </p>
<p>Thanks, Brenda. </p>
<p>Vandana: bye. </p>
<p>Jack: Bye bye. </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/69246942022-03-16T15:20:00+01:002022-03-25T09:46:17+01:00Dorian Lynskey on protest songs and The Ministry Of Truth (ft. Musical Guest Kai Mata)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/32077f6d4d09f05424bc3a59a85725e50ad3905f/original/106-dorian-lynskey.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Balinese activist and singer Kai Mata interviews English writer Dorian Lynskey—author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984—on episode #106 of the Podsongs podcast. </p>
<p>Challenged to come up with a song that covers both subjects, she creates an anti-protest song—an anthem for peace.</p>
<p>The books which inspired the song </p>
<p>The first book was 33 Revolutions Per Minute, which tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war. Dorian Lynskey explores the individuals, ideas and events behind each song, showing how protest music has soundtracked and informed social change since the 1930s. Through the work of such artists as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Fela Kuti, The Clash, Public Enemy and Gil Scott Heron, Lynskey examines how music has engaged with racial unrest, nuclear paranoia, apartheid, war, poverty and oppression, offering hope, stirring anger, inciting action and producing songs which continue to resonate years down the line. </p>
<p>The second book was The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984. 1984 isn’t just a novel; it’s a key to understanding the modern world. Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 – Orwell’s final masterpiece gains potency and influence with every year. Dorian Lynskey is a writer, author and columnist. His new book examines 1984 and its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; Orwell’s personal experiences in wartime Britain; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and the Orwell Prize for political writing. </p>
<p>As well as writing these books, Dorian Lynskey's journalism has also appeared in titles such as The Guardian, The Observer, GQ, Q, MOJO, Empire, Billboard, Pitchfork, Spin, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Big Issue, The Village Voice and BBC Culture. I also host the Oh God, What Now? podcast. </p>
<p>Kai Mata: Musician and campaigner </p>
<p>Kai Mata is an Indonesian Singer-Songwriter with a modern, quirky-folk charm and a vulnerable lyricism that intertwine to cultivate connection. With an emphasis on truthful storytelling, her shows are not solely performance, but also where audiences are invited into the world of sunlight to shadows. Her 2018 debut album, Time to Shine, brought her folksy beats to tour in the US, where she shared her experiences discovering adulthood and love, showcasing her songwriting as her medium for expressive communication. </p>
<p>Since then, Kai Mata has opened for Indonesian pop-star Vidi Aldiano, performed at festivals and events worldwide (Ubud Readers & Writers, BaliSpirit, Sonic Bloom, Women’s March Bali), and has been launched into the spotlight as Indonesia’s openly LGBTQ+ Musician. Currently, she works on her second album, a piece that holds presence by exploring new themes, genres, while still anchored in her unifying message of love.</p>
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<p>It's Not 1984</p>
<p>To those who call for an uprising <br>And bloodshed to begin </p>
<p>Who holler that the system <br>must be torn down from within </p>
<p>If you want to drive out the dark <br>Well stand up with light in your heart </p>
<p>You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution <br>Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions <br>Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution <br>You're acting like it's 1984 </p>
<p>An eye for an eye <br>Makes the whole world blind </p>
<p>With peace in your actions <br>There's peace in your mind </p>
<p>If you want to drive out the dark <br>Well stand up with light in your heart </p>
<p>You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution <br>Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions <br>Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution <br>You're acting like it's 1984 </p>
<p>In the cacophony, I hear a single melody <br>So would you come along and sing this song with me? </p>
<p>We can use harmonies to sing of what we dream this little world could be <br>You can be mad, you can be angry <br>In this time where words are feeling so unheard </p>
<p>We write songs about our worries <br>Sing out loud to share our stories <br>In the hopes that someone near or far can hear our words and feel them in their heart </p>
<p>You're acting like it's Nineteen Eighty-Four - And you need a revolution <br>Screaming for a storm rage and a war - trying to tear down institutions <br>Preaching hate, liberate, anger bait nothing more - we're in need of resolution <br>You're acting like it's 1984 </p>
<p>Links: </p>
<p>Kai Mata - http://kaimatamusic.com/ <br>Dorian Lynskey - https://www.dorianlynskey.com/ </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/69123592022-03-02T10:00:00+01:002022-03-18T11:28:25+01:00Diana Winston and her MAP to mindfulness<p>Today's guest is Diana Winston, author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, and the co-author of Fully Present, the Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. </p>
<p>She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1993 in a variety of settings including the medical and mental health field, and in universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools. </p>
<p>At UCLA, where she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation (TMF), which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is also a founder of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. </p>
<p>Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. The LA Times has even called her “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness.” </p>
<p>She has been practising mindfulness since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma (Myanmar). </p>
<p>Learn more at <a contents="www.dianawinston.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.dianawinston.com">www.dianawinston.com</a></p>
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<p>A HOSE THROUGH WHICH LOVE FLOWS</p>
<p>Am I validated feelings <br>Am I compassion incarnate <br>Or the darkest of the answers <br>Resigned to his fate </p>
<p>Yes am I doomed to live forever <br>With the free will that I chose <br>Or am I a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm an accumulation of consciousness <br>A wave before the sand <br>An amalgamation of aspects <br>At the limit of the land </p>
<p>I'm growing and collecting <br>Where attention goes <br>And I'm a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm chaos in the making <br>And robust rigidity <br>Desperately adding layers <br>Trying to fashion identity </p>
<p>I'm refractions of the light <br>An animal that knows <br>And I'm a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm a bundle of emotions <br>Each with their own name <br>Pretending individualism <br>All desperate for a frame </p>
<p>I'm the wheel of awareness <br>A whisper dressed in clothes <br>And I'm a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm a preacher proud to stand up <br>A prosecutor who'll fall <br>A politician in the alley <br>Answering mother nature's call </p>
<p>I'm integrating hemispheres <br>The poetry and the prose <br>And I'm a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm the left side giving narration <br>And the right side reaching out <br>A problem-solving algorithm <br>Wants to know what it's about </p>
<p>I'm the observer and the object <br>The audience and the show <br>And I'm a hose <br>Through which love flows </p>
<p>I'm a hose through which love flows </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68990012022-02-16T10:00:00+01:002022-02-25T10:27:47+01:00Prof. Dan Siegel - On how overcoming chaos or rigidity is the secret to healthy psychology<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/73b89edc51bc81f8d27c5ac3766b6a8219bdc68a/original/104-dan-siegel.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Musicians Jack Stafford and Will Clapson interview world-renowned professor of psychology Dan Siegel to understand their own psychology and write a song inspired by their insights. /This interview is also available on Youtube, and you can as artist Ciro Fabbozzi creates the artwork for the single while listening to their conversation.) </p>
<p>Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. https://drdansiegel.com/ </p>
<p>Guest musician: Jack in Water - https://www.jackinwater.com/ </p>
<p>Jack in Water is the artist name of William Clapson. He was brought up in a little village in Essex and grew up listening to the different musical influences of his parents. His Dad introduced him to a whole host of melancholy and drama created by bands such as Radiohead and the Blue Nile. Whilst at his Mum’s house, the living room was mostly full of the powerful R&B and soul voices like Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross. It was this mix of post rock melancholy instrumentation, partnered with the emotional soulful voice of some of the greats that really drove him to make the music he does today. His latest work is his most personal to date, looking back on his childhood memories and relationships, digging back into uncomfortable emotions and abuse, in order to process past traumas and appreciate the person he is now. “When you’re no longer tangled up in its ups and downs but you’re still able to see that you’re inevitably a result of everything that’s happened to you so far” William explained. “Being able to reflect on my upbringing has been quite therapeutic, and also difficult at times. </p>
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<p>Written by Jack In Water and Jack Stafford <br>Producer: Maurizio Sarnicola <br>Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Soundscape: Jack In Water <br>Backing Vocals: Jack Stafford, Massimino Voza, Maurizio Sarnicola <br>Drums, Bass, Synthesizers: Maurizio Sarnicola <br>Mixed and Mastered by Maurizio Sarnicola at Goldmine Records - Italy </p>
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<p>WHERE ATTENTION GOES</p>
<p>Once in June, Dan explained to me a rhyme that i could use <br>To reinforce the undivided love I promise on to you and it was simply <br>Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows </p>
<p>So to you I dedicate my attention <br>In the hope that it fills you with the energy to take on this world <br>Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows </p>
<p>There will be no energy wasted on shame <br>The only exchange is the fruit of integration <br>So we avoid rigid or chaotic frustration <br>Where attention goes, neural firing flows and neural connection grows </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68872382022-02-02T07:00:00+01:002022-02-03T11:38:48+01:00Jen Sincero: How to make your brain your bitch (ft. musical guest Gregory Harrington)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/4cf70068db7ef04e13514aa9de6fd24c2a964650/original/103-jen-sincero.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>This episode of Podsongs—where inspirational people inspire a song—is Jen Sincero, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, speaker and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), has been on the NY Times bestseller list for over four and a half years, has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, is available in over 40 languages, and continues to grow in popularity around the globe. Her follow-ups, You Are a Badass® at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (2017), also a NY Times bestseller, You Are a Badass® Every Day (2018), and Badass Habits (2020) are written with the same signature sass, down-to-earth humor and blunt practicality that made You Are a Badass® a beloved bestseller and Jen a celebrated voice in the world of self development. https://jensincero.com/ </p>
<p>MUSICAL GUEST: Gregory Harrington is one of Ireland’s most recognized violinists, with a wide ranging diversity that encompasses classical to jazz to crossover. </p>
<p>Born in Dublin and based in New York City, violinist Gregory Harrington is redefining the classical virtuoso for the 21st century. As a classical artist, he is admired for the expressive lyricism of his playing, beauty of tone, and impeccable musicianship. His unique ability to transform movie and film scores, popular jazz, rock and pop music into brand new violin concert pieces has enthralled audiences around the world. As noted by critics, Mr. Harrington juxtaposes Bach and Bob Dylan, Beethoven and Leonard Cohen, Radiohead and Johnny Cash to staggering effect. As a performer/arranger with orchestra or his performing groups, Harrington’s cross-cultural and wide-reaching appeal has brought him to perform for Presidents and Vice Presidents, celebrities, heads of state, the United Nations and millions of music fans around the globe. https://gregoryharrington.com/</p>
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<p>LIVE TO GIVE</p>
<p>There's a golden rule <br>They don't teach in school <br>It's when you help someone else <br>You end up helping yourself </p>
<p>And as you give what you can <br>To your fellow man <br>There's a reaction <br>That's opposite and equal </p>
<p>Fear will disappear <br>When you're not scared to share <br>And when you live to give <br>The world gives back to you </p>
<p>Now add in gratitude <br>As your gateway drug <br>To a life of awesomeness <br>And abundance </p>
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<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68746182022-01-19T08:00:00+01:002022-01-22T09:53:53+01:00Binyamin Appelbaum on how economists rose to rule the world<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/eb8571c479020c7ee6238b8d8a80205b874dc80a/original/102-binyamin-appelbaum.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Binyamin Appelbaum, of The New York Times, talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, which traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization. </p>
<p>Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times. He joined the board in March 2019. He was previously a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Appelbaum has previously worked for The Florida Times-Union, The Charlotte Observer, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His book, The Economists' Hour, was published in September 2019.</p>
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<p>CHANGE WITHOUT PAIN</p>
<p>What kind of world are we living in? <br>When going out, is giving in <br>Do you feel we're one? <br>Or that you're the only one <br>And can we change without pain? </p>
<p>The fractured land society <br>The prophets failed it's plain to see <br>Where's the broad prosperity <br>Promised by their reign <br>And can we change without pain? </p>
<p>Do you ever feel these changes? <br>Altogether, going through changes </p>
<p>Economists now, have all control <br>Companies bought, our very souls <br>In the Economists Hour <br>Hard to explain <br>How we change without pain </p>
<p>Do you ever feel these changes? <br>Altogether, going through changes </p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68596002022-01-05T11:00:00+01:002022-01-22T11:11:23+01:00Joel Bakan on the psychopathic personality profile of Corporations<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/144c33aa8dcc180911cd3914f3381843ff815c27/original/101-joel-bakan.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. </p>
<p>His critically acclaimed book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), electrified readers around the world (it was published in over 20 languages), and became a bestseller in several countries. Bakan wrote and co-created (with Mark Achbar) a feature documentary film, The Corporation, based on the book’s ideas and directed by Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The film won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success. </p>
<p>The New Corporation, a sequel to that film, is based on Bakan’s book of the same name and directed by Bakan and Jennifer Abbott. Bakan’s scholarly work includes Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (1997), as well as textbooks, edited collections, and numerous articles in leading legal and social science journals. His award-winning book, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (2012), has been translated into several languages. A recipient of awards for both writing and teaching, Bakan has worked on landmark legal cases and government policy, and serves regularly as a public speaker and media commentator. Also a professional jazz guitarist, Bakan lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Rebecca Jenkins who sings the song.</p>
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<p>A CHANGE IS COMING - LYRICS:</p>
<p>The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution <br>Was meant to free slaves from persecution </p>
<p>But corporations shouted hey we're persons too <br>We want the constitution's rights for all we do </p>
<p>And now they have the same rights as me <br>But they don't eat they don't breathe, why do they need liberty? </p>
<p>Especially when you see they have <br>The psychology of a psychopath, oh boy </p>
<p>I see a change is coming <br>The people have had enough </p>
<p>I see a change is coming <br>It's time that we call their bluff </p>
<p>We know what the fight will be <br>We gotta reclaim democracy, hey yeah <br>Reclaim democracy </p>
<p>These psychopaths have built a toxic world <br>They feel no guilt, remorse zero empathy, no no </p>
<p>Because climate change, social inequality <br>Destroyed the earth corrupt democracy, mmm mmm </p>
<p>And too high a sense of their own self-worth <br>I'm surprised they don't boast of having a virgin birth, yea yeah </p>
<p>I feel a change is coming <br>The people have had enough </p>
<p>I feel a change is coming <br>It's time that we call their bluff </p>
<p>You know what the fight will be <br>We gotta reclaim democracy, hey yeah <br>Reclaim democracy </p>
<p>Create the world we want to see <br>Reclaim democracy <br>We know what the fight will be </p>
<p>Reclaim democracy <br>Reclaim democracy <br>Reclaim democracy <br>Democracy yeah <br>Reclaim democracy <br>Democracy</p>
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<p>INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT</p>
<p>Jack: Well, I just want to say how excited I am to speak to you because with this Podsongs, project, I'm interviewing many different people, many different issues, but after watching the corporation and the new corporation reading I realized there's only one issue and that's this the corporations. </p>
<p>So how did you come up with this? Because you had this Eureka moment that it's like corporations have the same rights as people, but if they were, if they did a personality test, what kind of personality do they have in their psychopaths? So that's kind of a, that's a Eureka moment that people grabs people. </p>
<p>So how did you come up with that? </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. So I'm a I'm a law professor by trade. That's my day job. So I study the corporation as, as a legal institution and indeed corporations don't exist in nature. They, they, they're purely created by government, by legislatures, by courts and by law. And what the law does is two things. Well, it does a number of things, but the two things that are important for us here are number one, it's says that corporations are to be treated by the law as though they were persons. </p>
<p>So this, this is quite a common understanding that we all know about corporate personhood and all that. But the second thing they say is that corporations and their directors and their managers. Always have to act in their own self interest. They're not allowed to make decisions for the sake of other people or the environment or social justice or any of that. </p>
<p>They always. Act in their own self interest and what the law means by their own self-interest is value for their shareholders. So they always have to make money for their shareholders. That is their legal obligation. That is their legal imperative. I had done psychology as a, an undergraduate. And so when I was sitting in my corporate law class at law school and, and thinking, this is very interesting that the law has created this artificial person. </p>
<p>And then it's imbued it with a personality that says it's only allowed to act in its own self interest, right? If that were a real person it would be a psychopath that that is the definition of a psychopath. So that was kind of the germ of the idea. And then I played out that? </p>
<p>idea in the first book and. </p>
<p>Which came out in 2003, 2004. And then I returned to that idea most recently in my new book and film the new corporation. And the basic idea there is that over the years, corporations have become more powerful, more Jane dress larger. They've taken more control of our society. They've reached more habit. </p>
<p>The havoc, the issues that we looked at in the early two thousands have all gotten worse, whether it's inequality or climate justice, pollution, worker exploitation, all of that. And, and in 2011, the American psychiatric association added a new criteria to it. Psychopath checklist, which was. And so at the same time that corporation have been causing more trouble in the world. </p>
<p>They've also tried to tell us that they've become better, that they are sustainable, that they are socially responsible. And so the penny dropped for me there that really, this is just a psychopath finding its charm and trying to seduce us to let it take power over us. </p>
<p>Jack: Wow, because the first documentary, I mean, it was sent, was it 17 years ago? Something like that. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah, it was a long time ago. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. And it was a success. I mean, it really hit home. The, the P the people in power, really, it touched a nerve. No, and they, and it also galvanized the grassroots. So people started asking corporations to behave better and that it filtered up to the CEO. </p>
<p>So it was a success, but now you have to make this unfortunate sequel, which, </p>
<p>Joel: No, that's absolutely right. I mean, I think in some ways we, we were part of the cause of the problem that we now address in this </p>
<p>new </p>
<p>film </p>
<p>that, you know, and, and it really, it was really interesting because after the first film and book came out, I was getting a lot of calls from people in the business world. </p>
<p>And I thought that they would be wanting to yell at me and say, well, You. </p>
<p>call them psychopaths, you know, are pissed off at you. But instead, what they, what they did is they said you called a psychopath. Thank you. Thank you for, you know, letting us know that we haven't been good. We know because we've seen all the people in the streets of London and Prague and Seattle, that sort of anti-globalization protests. </p>
<p>We know that there's a problem. We're getting the message and your film kind of consolidated the message for us. So thank you for diagnosing us. We now have the. And we're now going to fix things. And so you see around 2005, like almost just a year after the first film, a book come out that there's this massive course, correction with big international companies, multinational companies saying we're going to be a hundred percent sustainable recycling renewable energy. </p>
<p>You know, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna put out less waste. We're gonna use less water, fewer resources. We're going to be good to society. We're going to promote a quality. And so that is the new corporation that the title is referring to. It's a, it's a very explicit and very self-conscious course reset. </p>
<p>The problem is that despite all of that, the actual institutional nature of the corporation didn't change at all. And, and that under this guise of this kind of new goodness corporations became even more adept. At gaining more power at pushing for privatization of pushing, for deregulation, at pushing for more tax cuts and pushing for more impunity and more power. </p>
<p>So, so I run a sickly or maybe not, ironically, maybe hypocritically is the better way to look at it. This embracing of goodness actually amplified the degree to which they could do bad. </p>
<p>Jack: Because the subtitle of the book is good. How good corporations are bad for democracy? </p>
<p>Joel: Right. Which is exactly that. </p>
<p>Jack: So when people, perhaps a lot of conspiracy theories, people say I know just pick one, but it's, it's actually the system working properly. This is what they're supposed to do. </p>
<p>Joel: Yes, I'm I'm not a fan at all of conspiracy theories. I think that in addition to conspiracy theories sort of paralyzing us because they sort of, they leave no room for us to act as citizens because, you know, there were five people in a smoky room, a dark smokey room plotting the course of the world, and we're never going to be able to get at them. </p>
<p>So I think that's one problem with, with conspiracy theories. But the other problem with conspiracy theories is that they presume a level of organizational ability among human beings that I don't think exists. They presume that those five people in the dark smoky room, that one of them isn't going to blow the whistle or see some other advantage. </p>
<p>It presumes a kind of degree of cooperating and evilness that I think human beings just aren't capable of. Fortunately aren't capable of, I mean, you see evil regimes, but they always fall apart because there are people within them who, who, who find them to be wrong and do something about them or blow the whistle or whatever. </p>
<p>So, yeah, you're absolutely right. My critique is not at all about conspiracy. It's about a system that in effect we've all been complicit in creating corporate capitalism. And when it is working properly, What it is supposed to do. </p>
<p>I mean, the word capitalism, I think is important because what it suggests is that the entire system is supposed to be oriented to the production of capital and capital. </p>
<p>Isn't just money lying around you know, as contemporary economist, Karl Marx you know Adam Smith, all others recognized is the difference between the investment that you make, whether as a worker, your investment of labor or your investment of money as a capitalist. And, and what's produced out of that is the kind of extra that surplus value as Marx talked about it. </p>
<p>That's what capital is. So. And, and so that is basically profit and growth and all of those things. So capitalism is a system that is entire teleology. Its entire goal is to make that is to produce capital. And so if that system is working properly, It will produce as much capital as it possibly can. And in order to create capital, you need to do what you know, Schumpeter called creative destruction. </p>
<p>You need to dig things out of the ground in order to get at the gold, you need to destroy the environment to get at the goals. You need to harvest things from the land. You need to take land and turn it into agriculture. You need to take water from streams. So you need to take, take, take, you literally need to extract and you need to extract labor from individuals. </p>
<p>So that's how you create capital. And, and when that system is working well, it's built in that. It will be destroying, it will be exploiting. It will be harming in the name of creating capital. And when you put corporations into that capitalism doesn't mean. Corporations Adam Smith's conception of capitalism did not have major corporations that had the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. </p>
<p>But when you put corporations into that, you put a very powerful legal tool into sort of massively magnifying the capital production process. And when it's working properly, it is not paying attention to social and environmental goals. It's producing capital. So the best we can hope for from the system is that in its pursuit of capital, it may throw a few crumbs to the peasants. </p>
<p>It may, you know, respect environmental and social values a little bit never in ways that will cause it not to be able to create capital, but a little bit on the way to making capital so that the peasants don't write. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. I was in another song that I wrote about the tragedy of the commons and </p>
<p>Joel: Yes. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. Nature is worth more dead than alive and that's probably the, </p>
<p>Joel: So do you sing as well, </p>
<p>Jack: yeah. </p>
<p>Joel: but can you think of a song </p>
<p>Jack: Sure nature's worth more dead than alive. It's a race to cut down the trees before somebody else does. </p>
<p>Yeah. </p>
<p>Joel: right on. </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. But your, your wife's going to sing this song. Is that right, Rebecca? </p>
<p>Joel: Rebecca. That is, that is the plan. Rebecca? </p>
<p>is a I'll introduce her now, but she'll come and introduce herself later. She's a Canadian film and TV actress, but also a well-known singer who I, I play jazz guitar and and we have an act together and we make albums and they're up on Spotify and things like that. </p>
<p>So, Yeah. she was part of, I, I mean, In Canada, there was this very fertile scene that produced people like, you know, Joni Mitchell, or we're sort of around the edges, Neil young Leonard Cohen, all of these sort of great Canadian acts. And there was this ferment in Toronto called the queen street scene which had bands like the parachute club and its sort of anthemic rise up, which is an activist song. </p>
<p>And Jane Seaberry another artist from that time who toured England recently actually, and the UK and, and Rebecca sang with, with those bands and was part of that whole scene back in the day, but she's, and she also made a film called by blues back in the late 1980s where she played a jazz singer. </p>
<p>And so did her own singing in that. So yeah, so, so that'll be </p>
<p>fun. </p>
<p>Jack: voice. Yeah, maybe we could do it. I haven't done a jazz song. We do an all different styles of music. So we've </p>
<p>done rock. </p>
<p>Joel: you play jazz, </p>
<p>Jack: No, </p>
<p>Joel: okay. </p>
<p>Jack: it's just, it's all about the it's about the rhythm. Isn't it. So </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. If you send, if you send a song, we can, we can justify it for you. </p>
<p>Jack: fantastic. That'd be great. I haven't had it. I've had a guest play an instrument on the song before, but never but never full production like this. We can do. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. What we can do is we can, We can record it. We do. </p>
<p>a lot of duo work with me, sort of on my jazz guitar and her singing. And we can record it for you and in a nice way and </p>
<p>Jack: Fantastic. So how do you, how do you go from, was it, did Rebecca help? How did you go from being a law professor to, I mean, I can understand writing a book, but how did you go to making a documentary and it's fantastically put together and you're not, you're not like Michael Moore. Who's, you know, walking around. </p>
<p>You're not the front man. You you're invisible in the. </p>
<p>Joel: Correct. </p>
<p>Jack: I mean, yeah, it's kind of you stitch it together so well. So how did you, how did you do that? </p>
<p>Joel: So, so for the first film I was the writer. And it was directed by Jennifer Abbott and mark Akhbar and edited by Jennifer Abbott. So my job there was in terms of the stitching together was to provide sort of the broad framework of the ideas and, and the argument. And it was really Jennifer's editing that stitched it together. </p>
<p>So well in the second film I played a more active role because I was not only writer, but I was also director and and directed with Jennifer Abbott. She was my co-director. But so she came on a bit later. We'd already done some of the shooting of the film. And I spent basically a year sitting in the edit suite with Peter ROIC, who is a brilliant, brilliant film director and piecing together this film. </p>
<p>And it, it was a great challenge. Yeah, because partly because while we were after we had thought we had finished the film, the COVID crisis hit and we felt we needed to incorporate that into the film and so that at a time, and, and then when we thought we'd finished the film again the black lives matter protest in the wake of George Floyd's brutal police killing hip. </p>
<p>And we felt, again, we had to open up, we had locked the film, we had to unlock it. And so we locked it twice and due to the way events unfolded, we had to unlock it. so that's why it took a year. And again, it was really a combination of having a very sort of strong. Thesis and argument and thinking about how I mean, as a lawyer, I kind of think about how do I, how do I put the witness's testimony together to create the case? And this was effectively a prostitution of the corporation. And so, so it was really a question of lining. The the different sort of witnesses and the various stories and telling them in a way that that really nailed the point down while Peter, the editor was, was sort of making sure that the visual and the Sonic and the emotional and Jennifer, my co-director that the the, the sort of filmic elements were really, really working. </p>
<p>So it was a great combination of of sort of research and writing and storytelling that I could bring to the table. And, and then the more filmic sound and graphics, and just images and emotional cadence that Peter and John could bring to the table. And, you know, the result is I think a pretty watchable film on a very heady set of ideas. </p>
<p>Jack: Because I heard it. You heard, you described it as a zombie movie that you inspires, that you start off with, you know, the suburbs and everything's okay. And then. </p>
<p>Joel: No, absolutely. I mean, it, it was, you know, I am a film buff even though not a filmmaker by trade and I've always loved the narrative arc of zombie movies because they're, they're incredibly hopeful. And and, and this film are sort of really Wow. </p>
<p>To model on that because zombie seems to be the right metaphor for this idea that the corporation is good now. </p>
<p>That it's just, it's, it's, it's fake. It's not real. And So yeah, you start out in the bucolic suburban town with, you know, the paper boy throwing the paper onto the porch and you know, all those kind of actually really American images of, of the bucolic, small town with the white picket fence and the big porch and all of that. </p>
<p>And, and everybody's happy. And Joe is at the barber shop and, you know, the candlestick maker and the butcher, the baker are all happy in this town and it seems totally bucolic. And for us in this film, that was Davos. That was the world economic forum meeting. In, in the film where everybody's like, oh, corporations are great and the world is good and we're going to save it. </p>
<p>And you know that the whole corporate social responsibility, we should feel happy and good. And this is a nice town that we're in. And then in the zombie film, the second act, it turns out that that barber Joe is actually a flesh eating zombie who's masquerading as a human being as are a lot of the other people in the town. </p>
<p>And the zombies reveal who they really are, you know, their, their skin comes off. And the nasty business of being a zombie comes out and, and, and they wreak havoc and they kill people and they destroy the town. And so that's the second doc. And you get to the point of absolute despair where it seems like there's no hope. </p>
<p>And that's what happens in our film too. And then the third day. Is, you know, you find there's this group huddling in the basement of a church of human beings who have managed to escape the zombies. And they're like, you know, they're hiding out and they start talking and they think, they say, you know, what, if we pulled together collectively, if we organize our collective power, we can, you know, we can push back, we can beat the zombies back and we can win. </p>
<p>And they do that. They, they organize, they go out there, they fight. And that's our third act in the film where we see kind of democracy coming back and trying to contain the corporate beast. And it's likened, zombie films are like some zombie films are film. It's left, uncertain, it's left with a lot of inspiration, but we don't know who wins in the end. </p>
<p>We know that there's a huge, inspiring movement to, for the people to win. Over corporations, but we're left hanging a little </p>
<p>Jack: Wow. </p>
<p>Joel: We're left with hope and inspiration, but not a final answer. </p>
<p>Jack: So they key was to go in to get to to Davos. I mean, how did that, how was that? I heard you got you. Is it cloud Schwab? You. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. </p>
<p>Klaus Schwab is, is the person who, I mean, most people sort of, not everybody knows what the album says. So suffice it to say it is a town in Switzerland where every year. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's a ski resort and lovely, lovely place. And it is the site every year, except for this year because of COVID. </p>
<p>But every year from about 1971 for a massive meeting, the sort of meeting of all meetings of the global elite, meaning not just the heads of corporate and finance, but the heads of government. I mean, prime minister's president in 2018, Donald Trump was there. The prime minister of my country was, was there the prime minister of your country? </p>
<p>Was there, you know, it was, it was just a massive it's a massive elite meeting and it happens every year and it is the kind of party of the year for the global elite and civil society groups are there to trade union movements, environmental movements, all that. So they all come together. And as I sketch out in my book and say, The basic idea is an idea that comes from the founder and still current head of this whole thing of the world economic forum and the Davos meeting. </p>
<p>And that's an economist named Klaus Schwab a German Swiss economist named Klaus Schwab. And he's been doing this for 40 years. We, and, and what's interesting about. To me, is that it really is the it is the sort of symbol of this idea. I'm talking about, it's all about how corporations are going to save the world, how corporations are going to become better citizens in the world. </p>
<p>It's like, that is the theme. And it follows from Klaus Schwab's idea back in the 1970s of what he called stakeholder capitalism, the idea that capitalism shouldn't just serve capital, but it should serve the environment and workers and the people and society. That was his idea. And that idea is very much the animating idea of this entire new corporation movement, which, you know, inclusive capitalism, connected capitalism, created capitalism, green capitalism, social, like all of these modified capitalisms are kind of variations of cloud Schwab's original life. </p>
<p>So we apply for media credentials to get into Davos. And we're told, I mean, it was one of the quickest responses we got from anybody where it was like, no, you can't come in. We don't give media credentials to documentary crews only to broadcast media outfits. So if you're CNN and you want to do a piece fine, but not some independent production from Canada. </p>
<p>So, so that was a, you know, a bit of a problem. So I thought, Okay. </p>
<p>well, genuinely would like to talk to Klaus Schwab because he is the kind of godfather of this new corporation movement. And so so I approached him through his world economic forum office and said, genuinely, I want to talk to you, about stakeholder cup. </p>
<p>Jack: seen your previous film? </p>
<p>Joel: And he had, and, and he had seen the film, he had read the book. I mean, he's, you know, very, I mean, that film in book were kind of trigger for anybody in the space. Cause it was the criticism out there of the corporation. And So people like him would, would watch that film and read that book and they would say, okay, yeah, backends. </p>
<p>Right. And we're now solving that problem. And I think he would have seen it that way. And, and I came to him with an open mind and said, I want to talk to you, like, are you solving the problem? You know, it wasn't in any way dishonest. And he seemed intrigued enough and he invited us to New York for an interview. </p>
<p>And so we jumped on a plane with a crew and went and interviewed him. And after the interview I said, you know, you're the head of this whole Davos thing. Surely you could. Invite us, even though your media people have said no, cause I would really like to follow up on this conversation and see you in the water in which you </p>
<p>swim. </p>
<p>Jack: him. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, okay. And off we went to Davos. </p>
<p>Jack: And what was it like? Because know, these people </p>
<p>Joel: Yep. </p>
<p>Jack: they, they believe as no. </p>
<p>Joel: They believe, they believe. And to me that is both the most hopeful and dangerous thing. It's helpful in the sense that it's a beautiful thing that as human beings, we, whether we're cloud Schwab or whether we're Jamie diamond or whether we're John Brown, the former head of British petroleum and some of the people who are in the film, bill gates, it's a beautiful thing that we. </p>
<p>Strive to be good and to do good. There's just something really good about that. That is human beings. We feel the need to do that. And so when people really believe they are doing that to me, that's helpful, but that's better than people intentionally manipulating and deceiving us to believe they're doing good. </p>
<p>When in fact they know they're doing harm, these people believe they're doing good and don't think they're doing harm. They believe that their vision of a better society is our best hope. The only problem with their vision is it has no place for democracy and I'll return to that in a moment, but, but they're sincere in their beliefs. </p>
<p>That it's a better vision. That is also what makes it so dangerous because if they were just faking. If they truly didn't believe that they were doing good, then it would be much easier to push back against it. Then you just lift the veil and what you see as the zombie underneath them. It's like, okay, you know, that's obvious, like you're not fooling us anymore, but in a way, there is no veil because they're caught in their own mythology. </p>
<p>So they really believe they're doing good. I don't, I have, I believe bill gates is very dangerous. I think he has way too much power in the world. And he has a vision of the world that is radically undemocratic and unjust, but I believe he believes he's doing. I think he's probably a pretty nice guy. </p>
<p>And and I think that's the same for all these guys. I don't think they're, they're sort of fire-breathing you know, nasty people, you know, there's a film out there in a book out there called assholes, and I don't know if you've seen it. It might be another, another interview for you. I can imagine an interesting song with </p>
<p>Jack: Wow. That's a song. Title is taken care of. Yeah. </p>
<p>Joel: Exactly. But the thesis of this book and film in the name of the author is escaping me now. And I apologize for that. But the thesis is that there are people who are just assholes and that the world is in trouble because they have too much power. And, and I, I just, I just don't agree with that. I think the problem is much deeper and more profound and problematic than that, because it was just a question of people being assholes. </p>
<p>You know, that that's fairly easy to deal with you, you, you know, you put yourself on guard for assholes, you make sure that the ship doesn't float to the top and and you deal with that. But the problems as I think we show in the film and book are much more deep, deeply structured. So I want to make one more point. </p>
<p>I know I'm talking a lot, but I said before, This new vision of the world, the new corporation vision has no place for democracy. And that's a very, I realize a very strong claim and there's a point in the film and in the book where I think the point that point lands, and it's a point where I'm in Davos and I'm interviewing Richard Edelman. </p>
<p>Richard Edelman is the guru of. all gurus in the business world. He has a company called Edelman and they consult with all major corporations and governments too. And they. Talk about where the world is going, what is happening? You know, they really have cornered that sort of business guru market, and they do public relations and all of that. </p>
<p>So if you just Google them and you'll see, they're huge and they're in every, Yeah. </p>
<p>they're in every city. They have an office in my city of Vancouver and London, you know, they're, they're all over the place. They're kind of like McKinsey and company in terms of which is another business consulting firms. </p>
<p>So these are kind of the firms that that businesses rely upon to, to help set their course. That's so, so Richard Edelman is the guy who started this and the brains behind it. And I ran into him in the town square in Davos, and I had my camera operator with me and I stuck a microphone in his face up. </p>
<p>Would you do an interview? This is what we're doing, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, I'm sure. And so I wanted to tease out a little bit what his belief. About corporations. And basically you told me we're at a point now where corporations are becoming good actors, where social responsibility is no longer, just some kind of peripheral thing, but is becoming a core commitment of companies. </p>
<p>And as they become good actors, he said they can fill the void left by retreating governments, which he could have added are in retreat because big business has been pushing them into retreat for 40 years through lobbying. But I just added that in my own head. He didn't say it. So they're going to fill the void left by retreating governments because they're good actors now. </p>
<p>And so I said to him, well, there's a bit of a problem with that. And that is whatever else you say about corporations, even if they're the most benevolent institutions in the world, they're not. They don't represent anybody except for their shareholders. They don't, they're not accountable to anybody. </p>
<p>They're not responsible to anybody. This whole notion of democracy that we've developed over the last two centuries just doesn't touch them at all, except in their relationships with their shareholders. But shareholders, aren't citizens. They're a small group of people wealthy enough to invest. So, so he said to me, this and this for me is when the penny really dropped. </p>
<p>After I said that, he said, you know, I'm not much of a, and it's in the film. And the book said, I'm not much of a believer in political citizenship. I believe in the power of the marketplace. And I was like, boom cop, right there. There it is. Corporations are good. They can fulfill, they can take over the job of. </p>
<p>governing from government and political citizenship, AKA democracy. </p>
<p>Is now in the rear view mirror and markets and corporations are to take the mantle where the mantle of governing society, that why good corporations are bad for democracy it's because that ideology inevitably is part of the push for corporations to become better. </p>
<p>Jack: So city corporations that have all these rights as individuals, but they get lots of fines as you've said in your, but how did they, have they ever been dismantled? </p>
<p>Joel: So it's a really interesting question. Because I mean, one of the really interesting things that we always need to keep in mind is that corporations were not created by God. They're not part of nature they're created by governments. And so that, that means two things. One is when you hear all this stuff, About free markets. </p>
<p>You have to understand that is absolute bullshit. Nobody wants a market to be free because a market can exist without a massive infusion of government power. Where do we get property rights from there? They're not written in the fabric of the universe. Property rights are created by the courts. They're enforced by the courts by police, by military. </p>
<p>Where do we get contract rights from the same thing? Where do we get corporations from, from the pens of the drafters of legislation from corporate registries that are part of the state. So the entire market system, the entire corporate system is created by government and the state. So the idea that, you know, markets are about not having the state is, is absolutely absurd. </p>
<p>And anybody who's honest and intelligent in the realm of economics, politics, law, anywhere else. That you cannot Have markets and corporations without a massive intrusion of the state. So when people say we don't like government, we want free or markets, Margaret Thatcher, you know, that whole idea or prime minister Johnson, you know, whoever Ronald Reagan, I mean, these are the sort of the rogues gallery of this view. </p>
<p>When they say, you know, government's the problem we need free or markets, all of that, that is absolutely oxymoronic because without massive involvement of the state and government, you could not have, </p>
<p>a so-called free market system. So what people are asking for when they say we don't want government is they're saying we don't want government to restrict. </p>
<p>Th the other things that government does. So government creates property rights and enforces property rights. We want government to do that, but we don't want government to impose environmental restrictions on how those property rights are exercised, or we don't want government to tax us. We don't want government do those things. </p>
<p>So it's not about government or no government. It's about how government does what it does. And, and so the whole idea of free market is absolute myth and, and it's a dangerousness. So that's one notion that comes from this idea that you know, from your question, can government dismantle a corporation? </p>
<p>What implication of government making corporations is that the notion of free marks is ridiculous. A second notion is that if government make corporations, they can unmake corporations. And, and so, but they don't typically they do in some. </p>
<p>Jack: Have they ever have, </p>
<p>Joel: Yes. Yes, they, they have in some very usually it's if a company is a small company that has gone bankrupt or has not paid off its creditors in some way, typically a very small company, it will unincorporated so that you can go through a judicial proceeding. </p>
<p>Um, </p>
<p>Jack: like. </p>
<p>Joel: never a big company. No though that is, that is possible. And some people say that's what needs to be done, but I, I'm not sure it solves the problem. It, it goes, I don't want to go down this rabbit hole too much, but there's a real intricate relationship between big companies capitalism as it exists today that we can't separate the two. </p>
<p>We can't just say we're going to make these big corporations disappear and everything will be fine. Um, </p>
<p>Jack: just as a headline, you know, if you'd Exxon was always one of the worst actors. </p>
<p>Joel: You know, the problem is, and the reason courts don't do it is because the implications would just be, so, I mean, even Enron wasn't decertified, it was fined it's leaders went to jail, all of that, but it continued to exist as a corporate entity. And part of the reason for that is that if you evaporate the corporation, then you also no longer have an entity that those who have been harmed by the consumer. So it, and run a good case that you actually needed a corporate entity to continue to exist in order to fulfill the legal liabilities that it had created. And, and you can spin that logic out further that if you sort of destroy your corporation, All of the pensioners whose pensions owned shares in that corporation will suddenly lose their money. </p>
<p>So because the tentacles of these large corporations are so broad it's just that the implications of getting rid of a corporation, the workers would be out of work. The pensioners would be out of pensions. It just to unwind a big company like that, suddenly through some kind of a judicial order would just be too consequential for too many people who were really at fault for what the company was </p>
<p>doing. </p>
<p>Jack: seems they want the best of both worlds. Cause they're always lobbying for lower taxes, but then when they want to bail out, they go to the government and then the they're too big to fail now. </p>
<p>Joel: Absolutely. And that is, that is the problem with our system. And it underlines the point we were talking about before, you know, not only do they rely on government to create them, not only do they rely on government to create markets that are advantageous to them, but then when within that system, they fail, they rely on government to bail them out. </p>
<p>It is an but, but it goes back to the point we were talking about that. If your system sees the main goal is creating capital, then it's always going to be intervening in ways that ensure that creation of capital is not interrupted. </p>
<p>Jack: a business owner. </p>
<p>Joel: And that's capitalism. </p>
<p>Jack: a business ever own a business owner ever come to you and says, I was thinking of incorporating, I saw read your work. And I realized what a terrible mistake it would be. I'm just going to stay a private company. </p>
<p>Joel: Well, here's the thing. I mean, no, and, and I mean, you know, you can look at people who might have done that. And I think of a sort of British Dutch company named Unilever which was run by a CEO named Paul Polman for many years, who was at the forefront of this corporate social responsibility movement. </p>
<p>And there's a small company. </p>
<p>from Vermont in the United States called Ben and Jerry's and Ben and Jerry's make ice cream. And most people are probably familiar and Ben and Jerry's are all about sort of ecology and environment and social justice and all of that. They sold to Unilever. I mean, so, you know, I mean, they were a private company and. Yeah. if not, if, if they didn't sort of think about it and you know, they, they got probably hundreds of </p>
<p>millions of dollars if maybe tens of millions. Yeah. I mean, I think there are many, many examples, especially in the high tech space of companies that seem to be very socially minded selling out to apple and Microsoft </p>
<p>and. </p>
<p>Jack: the biggest company that we'd all know that is not a corporation. </p>
<p>Joel: So, so let me just be a little, let me be a bit of a law professor here. There are no companies that are not corporations because by definition, where you're setting in England, when we talk about a company, we mean, we mean an entity that's been incorporated. So, but there's this and, and no large enterprise can operate in the economy without being incorporated. </p>
<p>They need. Basically in order to assume legal obligations and in order to have legal rights. So even, even the company that made my film is a tiny, tiny company that was created just to make the film grand street productions. And we had no choice, but to incorporate because nobody would give us investment money, including public entities, government agencies, that fund films, they wouldn't give us money. </p>
<p>Unless we were incorporated because they needed a legal entity to be able to Sue if things didn't work out and I, as a creator on the film want to be incorporated. So if things go sideways investors can't come after my house and my, my bicycle, you know? So, so. There is a place for incorporation, but the real issue is what is the largest company that is not publicly traded. </p>
<p>That that's the real dividing line, because if you are a company that is private, you can decide how you want to balance profit and social values. It's up to you. you. have No shareholders, so you don't have any fiduciary obligation. And there are some companies there's a company based in the United States called Cargill, C a. </p>
<p>R G I L L, which is a huge food company that is not publicly traded. </p>
<p>And, you know, there are various examples in tech of companies that got quite large before they go public. And what, where these companies differ from a publicly traded company is that they actually can make decisions. They're free to make decisions about how they balance business values with other values. </p>
<p>The truth is though that most of those companies operate very similarly to publicly traded companies in terms of prioritizing </p>
<p>profit. </p>
<p>Jack: a great example of a ethically, the most ethical company in the world. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. </p>
<p>And you know, I mean, Patagonia, arguably is a fairly ethical company. It's not publicly traded It's an example that's often used, but at the same time, you know, they run into problems to Mount mountain equipment co-op is a big company, but it's a cooperative, which was recently bought out by a private equity firm. </p>
<p>And private equity firms are another piece of this. And that is, there are firms that are not public. But they have vast pools of capital and, and they've been buying up a lot of companies. And So technically those companies are not publicly traded, but the private equity firms run on a very profit driven basis. </p>
<p>So, you know, and that gets back to the point we were making about capitalism. That when you, have large companies be the publicly traded or not operating in a capitalist system for them to get financing. in other words, take, you could have a company with the, greatest ideals in the world. Let's say Patagonia, but Patagonia needs to get financing. </p>
<p>You know, no company can operate without, so it goes to the bank and the bank looks at its business fund and the bank will not give a credit unless its business plan is one that comports with making a return. And so even though now it doesn't have its shareholders looking over its shoulder. It has a for-profit bank </p>
<p>Jack: Hmm. </p>
<p>Joel: at shoulder. </p>
<p>And, and so, so </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. </p>
<p>Joel: that as long as we're in the system where everything is oriented towards the creation of capital it's going to be very hard to escape that imperative. </p>
<p>Jack: you, in the, in your work, you said the democracy, that is the solution. And we should have, we should apply out, use our rights as citizens to curtail these corporations. How can we do that? </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah. </p>
<p>So, I mean, I think what we, as citizens need to understand is, is that we have power to address the kinds of issues of corporations, having too much power of markets being too pervasive and too influential of corporate values, being too much the values that we're supposed to all serve, that we can do something about this. </p>
<p>I, I don't necessarily believe we shouldn't have markets in society. I don't necessarily believe we shouldn't have corporations in society. What I do believe is that both of those need to be seen as tools, not as ends in themselves, but they need to be seen as public policy tools. Corporations were inventing. In order to finance railroads in Britain the modern corporation, because for the first time with the steam engine, there was a possibility of creating large, large enterprise. It was no longer just a Milan on the river floss, but You could create these massive steamship enterprises, factories, railroads. </p>
<p>And so you now had a need for large pools of capital to create those. And it was that need that was met by creating the corporate form. That's why government created a, it's basically a financing tool that enables you to go out to millions or hundreds of millions of people and get a little bit of money from each of them shareholders. </p>
<p>And you do that by legally. Breaking the link between ownership and management. And so I don't want to, again, I don't want to go down that rabbit hole, but suffice to say that the corporation is a very powerful tool for financing large scale enterprise. In our current world, given technology, we're likely going to have large projects, whether it's airlines or, or computer companies or whatever. </p>
<p>We're likely to be operating at a fairly large scale. And corporations are a fairly good way to to raise finance for that. And markets are a fairly good way to organize production in society, but again, they have to be seen as means to the end of providing a good society. There is such a thing as society, and we want it to have equality. </p>
<p>We want human rights to be respected. We want climate change to be addressed. Those have to be the ends. And the means we can use markets and corporations as public policy tools for helping us achieve those dents. And it's democratic government that have to be mediating all those competing interests, not a non-democratic companies or authoritarian governments or whatever. </p>
<p>So the, the suggestion at the end of the film and book is that we try to re re understand, recreate what democracy is to really build in a robust commitment to social and environmental values to see democratic government being very much twinned and, and symbiotic. Movement for a more just society for an environmentally more sound society. </p>
<p>And so we look at examples at the end of the film of, of those kinds of, of movements, but I think it is really re democratizing democracy. And sort of the idea in the film, we start with the occupy movement and the idea of the films we need to do more than occupied the streets. We actually need to occupy democracy. </p>
<p>In fact, that's a democracy is supposed to be is government occupied by the people. So that's what we need to get, get to. I was going to say, get back to, but we were never </p>
<p>really there. </p>
<p>Jack: on a local level or national. </p>
<p>Joel: I mean, I think it has to happen at all levels, but we do sort of talk about it in the film as and we look at some local politicians in the film and we talk about what, what one commentator talks about as the urban Renaissance, which is this movement of progressive government and local authorities sort of getting elected. </p>
<p>And, and, and so the idea as one sort of progressive city councilor in Seattle, Shauna, Silwan talks about it as is that you can start at the local because it's doable. And, and then, you know, work higher, but, you know, I think people like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn you know, try to weather ultimately. </p>
<p>Much success, but, but I think tried to move in a direction that was different. And in opposition to the kind of neoliberal ideas we've had for 40 years. And I would say, I mean, I say not totally successfully, but I think some of what is happening now in the United States with the Biden administration is very much connected to the energy that was created with the Sanders move with people like AOC and whatnot. </p>
<p>And the hope is that, you know, that sense that this pandemic has brought us, that we really aren't. And crisis and, and, and moving from just a pandemic and thinking about climate on all these things and in a positive way, thinking we really need collective solutions, public solutions. We can't rely on corporations to get us out of this. </p>
<p>You have, they may play, play a role. They may, you know, help create vaccines and things like that. But ultimately the policy, the ideas, the leadership has to come from our Democrat governments, and there are some fairly encouraging signs that </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. Yeah. Cause I mean, we think we w when we think of things is we can't imagine things changing. Can we, but I mean, in my lifetime, I remember Thatcher and, you know, campaigning for privatizing and how it was much more efficient and, you know, selling off everything. And, but then in your first form, you talk about how, how it used, how fire at fire engines, for example, Used to be in the, in the private sector. </p>
<p>So if you had a plaque on your wall from that like health insurance in America, now you could get the fire engine to </p>
<p>Joel: Okay. </p>
<p>Jack: So, we can, we, there is the power to change these things and bring them back into the public sector and reform the system that it's not, it's not just because the corporations are winning now. </p>
<p>It doesn't mean that it has to stay like that now. </p>
<p>Joel: You're absolutely right. And I think that is it's a fight. It's a struggle, but that is, it's a, it's a struggle that I think can be one. And let me introduce you. It's 10 45 </p>
<p>Jack: Hello, Rebecca. Hello? Pleased to meet you. </p>
<p>Joel: Good to meet you too. </p>
<p>Jack: I </p>
<p>Joel: It sounds like such a fun </p>
<p>Jack: oh, thank you. Well, we have, it's a very challenging. </p>
<p>Joel: So I'm just listening through the ear. What was </p>
<p>that? </p>
<p>Jack: challenging idea. I mean, to make a documentary was difficult enough. I mean, took him a year, but I think this song take me longer. </p>
<p>Joel: Good luck. And you two want to talk at all about </p>
<p>what the song might </p>
<p>be </p>
<p>Jack: Yeah. Yeah. also </p>
<p>Joel: Awesome. </p>
<p>Jack: what it was like too, has it been difficult to live with Joel over this past? Have you seen much of him? </p>
<p>Joel: Actually I I've actually, no, he's always, he's actually always around. </p>
<p>Jack: I thought was in the editing suite, you know, locked away. </p>
<p>Joel: Well, it wasn't the, oh yeah, no, that's true. During the making of so bad. I don't know whether that's good or not. Wasn't so bad. No, it was all Right. </p>
<p>I'm very, I'm very good at disciplining myself, not to work all the time and to work efficiently when I am working. </p>
<p>And I, I really, Rebecca was just an absolute inspiration support could not have made the film written the book. She edited the book. She has a real your for, for language and writing. So she edited the book and was constantly giving me input on the cuts of the film. And so, Yeah, I'm just absolutely indebted. No, </p>
<p>no. </p>
<p>Jack: from when your partner is doing something, I'm sure it's the same when you're in a movie that, that your partner learns so much kind of osmosis now, especially when you read it in the </p>
<p>book. </p>
<p>Joel: Yeah, it's, it's really true. And honestly, it's not hard to edit Joel's work. It really isn't. He he does so many drafts first. He just works it and works it until it's to a place where really it's not that hard to it. </p>
<p>Jack: So have you, what have you, are you more of an activist now? If you, are you energized more than you were before? </p>
<p>Joel: I'd say, I'd say particularly after this last book. Yeah. I mean, laying out because it just lays out so broadly and the, the big, the huge, the big ideas. And I mean the first book too, but yeah, it just deepens it just ones one's understanding of it. And that's what when you understand that's, that's what activates </p>
<p>you. </p>
<p>Jack: we've all drunk. The Kool-Aid no, I mean, your friends must also think the same, like cause they're very persuasive, the arguments of, of corporations and sustainability, the language they use. I mean, it's what we've all adopted as well now. </p>
<p>Joel: This is very true. It's very true. Oh yeah. It is </p>
<p>Jack: They commented as well. </p>
<p>Joel: friends and family like it like it and see it as, as a revelation. I mean, I think it's because we all do find these ideas so compelling, which is a very positive thing. It's a very positive thing. And I say this in the book more explicitly than in the film, it's a very positive thing that people are drawn to this. </p>
<p>Even though it's missing. It's very positive that people are drawn to it Because they're the urine, you know? So they're looking for the right. They're, they're looking, they're following the wrong star, their reasons for following it are rights. If, if they're sort of drawn into the idea that corporations are going to serve up these values, they the, to read my book or watch the film. </p>
<p>But but the fact they're drawn into them is a beautiful </p>
<p>thing, Is a much better thing than if </p>
<p>they weren't. </p>
<p>Jack: all these ideas like heard that littering was even an invented by companies and, and the whole re recite, recycling that to, to act, to let you </p>
<p>say externalize the costs, because that's what they're doing. So you don't even know it. It's not labeled as Kool-Aid, you know, it's incredible, you know? </p>
<p>Joel: no, exactly. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm just hoping this project and your song and Rebecca singing of it will, you know, we'll set </p>
<p>Jack: Well, I think, I </p>
<p>Joel: but. </p>
<p>Jack: was wrong to say that a song is going to do it. I think we need to do a whole album. </p>
<p>All right. Well, I'll get to thinking about a song and, you guys can jazz it up. All right. Nice to meet you. Thanks so much for taking the time to chat. All right. Thank You Bye-bye. </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68498862021-12-23T10:08:06+01:002021-12-23T10:08:06+01:00100th episode! Unique one-off celebratory album track-by-track with Brian Keneipp and Paul Nugent<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/da1b8ddabaaab0dda4306611740e7bbad818ab91/original/100-brian-keneipp-and-paul-nugent.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />We made it to 100 episodes in just over a year. Well done to the whole team. Thanks to the guests, the musicians, the listeners, everyone! How should we celebrate our one-hundredth episode? - it has to be something special edition. And it is. Because I originally started Podsongs as a way to help publicise the Aetherius society, the spiritual organisation that I’m a member of. And about 12 of the last 100 guests were from the Aetherius Society. Two directors of the society in LA—Brian Keneipp and Paul Nugent—agreed to come on and give a special track by track commentary, with some extra metaphysical insights. </p>
<p>The album is called 'Through slits in the chrysalis'—meaning the truths we get glimpses of, through cracks in our cocoons—and will be available on all platforms from 1st January. </p>
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<p>Tracks: </p>
<p>1 The Prison of Materialism <br>2 The Violet Flame <br>3 The Mother Earth <br>4 The Healer <br>5 Most Caterpillars Don't Believe In Butterflies <br>6 The Mighty Sun <br>7 If The Bombs Go Off <br>8 Pranayama <br>9 Serve <br>10 Hymn of the Blessings <br>11 Bravery <br>12 Don't Dwell on your Physical Shell <br>13 The Absolute <br>14 Blind and Groping in the Dark </p>
<p>Moving forward.... In 2022 we'll be switching to an episode every fortnight which is what many other shows do, like Song Exploder the next best music podcast. Podsongs has become all-consuming... Because it's not just the production of the podcast that takes time - now I have to find musical guests who want to collaborate, finding a guest expert for them to interview, researching, recording, editing.... and then making the songs of course, which has been huge.... but it's also that now we give every song a special single release, with marketing, promotion, a music video... we're a proper record company. And two singles a month is still a lot. </p>
<p>And even on top of that, another new idea for next year is that I want to release episodes with video as well - but we need something extra special for Podsongs - so not just talking heads, but as well as each episode inspiring a song, it will also inspire a painting..... I'm asking artists to video themselves creating a piece inspired by the conversation - so on youtube, you'll have a split-screen of the interview and the artist painting a picture in real-time. It's evolving into a gesamtkunstwerk - as we have music, dancers in the music videos. Maybe some literature in future, with story readings instead of interviews. I don't know how I can get architecture in there, but if you have an idea let me know. </p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68427452021-12-15T09:00:00+01:002021-12-23T10:05:43+01:00Martyn Williams - Mountaineer: on a lifetime filled with barely believable adventurers<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/1065e4eb55203d4c7554b881fe46cb841838fb8f/original/99-martijn-williams.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />An incredible episode with a mountaineer turned Transformational Teacher and Coach for living an Enlightening Life. He's a world-record-holding expedition leader, who led expeditions to Everest, the North Pole, and the South Pole. As well as succeeding in business: he created the first commercial airline in Antarctica and other multiple multi-million dollar businesses. Other notable achievements include initiating a global youth empowerment project involving 60 million young people and producing a Primetime TV documentary. To cap it all he has now travelled on a spiritual adventure and has taught meditation to monks in India and around the world. He lives in constant bliss, joy, love, and creativity.</p>
<p><a contents="Watch the trailer for his documentary" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdejd72MJ1g">Watch the trailer for his documentary</a></p>
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<p>MOMENT OF TRUTH</p>
<p>I am ready, for revelations <br>I am ready, for open eyes <br>I am ready, for sacrifice </p>
<p>I'm ready for love <br>I'm ready for loss <br>I'm ready for truth </p>
<p>I'm ready for an open eye <br>I'm ready for the truth inside </p>
<p>I'm ready for a turn of the wheel <br>I'm ready for electric feel </p>
<p>I'm ready to give up dislikes <br>I'm ready for the great insights </p>
<p>I'm ready, leave it all behind <br>I'm ready for a higher mind </p>
<p>I'm ready for love <br>I'm ready for loss <br>I'm ready for truth </p>
<p>I'm about to believe <br>Open my heart and receive </p>
<p>I'm about to believe <br>Show me how show me now </p>
<p>Cos I'm about to believe <br>Ready to know and perceive </p>
<p>I'm about to believe <br>Ready to see, There's more than me </p>
<p>I'm about to believe <br>I'm on the eve, to receive <br>Tell me tell me </p>
<p>How, I can slowly perceive <br>The truth as it breathes open my eyes, I'm ready </p>
<p>A matter of time <br>A matter of faith <br>A matter of grace - ooooooh </p>
<p>I'm about to believe <br>to receive <br>Come on, come on, come on, come on </p>
<p>About to believe <br>Open my heart and receive </p>
<p>I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, <br>Help me now, show me how </p>
<p>Ooooooh </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68337302021-12-08T12:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:13:21+01:00Charles Eisenstein on the unravelling of civilisation (ft. musical guest Brian Bulger)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/da127d94d050a54d7acfdf68cbea86af239468a9/original/98-charles-eisenstein-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy and the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples. Eisenstein has been involved in the Occupy, New Economy, and permaculture movements. His work has also been popular with countercultural and New Age audiences. An advocate of the gift economy, he makes much of his work available for free on his website. https://charleseisenstein.org/ </p>
<p>Musical guest BRIAN BULGER: </p>
<p>Brian Bulger is an alternative singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. Folk, indie, and pop elements infused with honest storytelling is what sets Brian apart. He strives to tell his own story in a way that places the listener within the moment, crafting worlds and emotions in the melody. https://brianbulgermusic.com/</p>
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<p>SPECIAL OPTION: Watch an artist create a picture inspired by the conversation:</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>UNRAVEL</p>
<p>We're in the world <br>And overwhelmed <br>While we're divided <br>We are compelled </p>
<p>Even though small <br>And all estranged <br>We are ambassadors <br>Agents of change </p>
<p>I want <br>I wanna unravel <br>There’s something deeper in my being <br>There must be something more than just breathing </p>
<p>While we ourselves <br>See us apart <br>Our actions will be flawed <br>Wrong head, wrong heart </p>
<p>You show me cause <br>I see effect <br>Separateness <br>Road to neglect </p>
<p>I want <br>I wanna unravel <br>There’s something deeper in my being <br>There must be something more than just breathing </p>
<p>To die <br>And to multiply <br>My self-interest <br>My capital <br>My persistence to my ignorance </p>
<p>We die <br>And we multiply <br>Our self-interest <br>Our capital <br>Our persistence to our ignorance </p>
<p>There must be something more than this </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68264562021-12-01T13:00:00+01:002021-12-17T09:21:34+01:00Sandor Katz on the Art of Fermentation (ft. musical guests The Silent Comedy)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bd7866dda86d236cf20cedb7eeebf8a06280597b/original/97-sandor-katz-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Acclaimed food author and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death, inspires songwriters Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy to create a new track. </p>
<p>Sandor Katz is a rock star of the food world. Since 2003 when his book Wild Fermentation was published, he has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process in their kitchens. His next book The Art of Fermentation (2012), received a James Beard award and was a finalist at the International Association of Culinary Professionals. <a contents="https://www.wildfermentation.com/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.wildfermentation.com/">https://www.wildfermentation.com/ </a></p>
<p>Musical guests: the Silent Comedy </p>
<p>Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy have spent most of their life on a tour bus and subsisted almost wholly on fermented food. They’ve performed with Dave Matthews, Mumford and Sons, and Vampire Weekend, and at Bonnaroo, Kaaboo and more. The band recorded and self-released a series of albums, selling hundreds of thousands and streaming millions. Still, they needed to capture the magic of their live show. Work with Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith led to a body of work that includes the EP Friends Divide and LP Enemies Multiply. <a contents="https://www.thesilentcomedy.com/ " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.thesilentcomedy.com/">https://www.thesilentcomedy.com/ </a></p>
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<p>CHANGES</p>
<p>Gather up the pieces of the day <br>Pushed into the dark and locked away <br>I fear I’m repeating my mistakes <br>But I can’t stay <br>Can’t stay the same </p>
<p>Might take days <br>Might take ages <br>You need patience <br>To make peace with change </p>
<p>Might take days <br>Might take ages <br>You need patience <br>To make peace with change </p>
<p>No can’t stay the same <br>No can’t stay the same </p>
<p>Gathered myself up to meet the day <br>Pulled out from the dark what I put away <br>I think I’m getting free of my mistakes <br>If I don’t break <br>I’ll break away </p>
<p>Might take days <br>Might take ages <br>You need patience <br>To make peace with change </p>
<p>Might take days <br>Might take ages <br>You need patience <br>To make peace with change </p>
<p>No can’t stay the same <br>No can’t stay the same x3 </p>
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<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68209382021-11-24T09:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:14:14+01:00Charles van Rees on invasive species (ft. Musical guests Creature Comfort)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/3d1bdee5e98c6de73725f6e9e7f6f15c7df48d3e/original/96-charles-van-rees-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Charles van Rees is a conservation biologist and naturalist specializing in freshwater ecology, ornithology, and human-wildlife water conflict. Freshwater ecosystems are a primary focus of his work because of their extremely high levels of threat, important ecosystem services, and multifarious interactions with water resources management for societies. He also co-hosts the Nature Guys podcast - https://natureguys.org/ https://cbvanrees.wordpress.com </p>
<p>Musical guests: Creature Comfort </p>
<p>Creature Comfort are a Nashville-based rock band. Frontman Jessey Clark’s anthemic, heart-on-your sleeve lyrics and end-of-the-day vocals together with new lead guitarist Charlie Hickerson—backed by a rawer sound that draws on the band’s Tullahoma, Tennessee roots. Add in multi-instrumentalist Alex Robinson’s lush backing vocals, Cole Bearden’s ever-mobile bass, and Taylor Cole’s spry drumming, and you’ve got a sound that has affectionately been dubbed “bootgaze.” Think of it as Fleet Foxes for people who grew up bailing hay, or your favorite indie record—if that record were scattered, smothered, and covered, of course. https://www.creaturecomfortband.com/ </p>
<p>Pre-save the song/listen: https://ffm.to/CC-Kudzu</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>KUDZU FROM HEAVEN</p>
<p>The sickness came in and killed off the pine <br>I got my lumber at the Walmart for $2.99 <br>The river dried up and push turned to shove <br>Now we’re choking on the kudzu from heaven above </p>
<p>What can one man do <br>To stop the invasion from spreading around you <br>What can one man say <br>To stop the darkness from winning the day <br>What can one man do <br>To stop the invasion from spreading around you <br>What can one man say <br>To keep our good nature from fading away </p>
<p>I don’t wanna talk to strangers, I want to be with my friends <br>You tell me it’s the beginning when it feels like the end <br>I fell asleep in Tullahoma and when I opened up my eyes <br>It was a town like any other that I didn’t recognize </p>
<p>What can one man do <br>To stop the invasion from spreading around you <br>What can one man say <br>To stop the darkness from winning the day <br>What can one man do <br>To stop the invasion from spreading around you <br>What can one man say <br>To keep our good nature from fading away </p>
<p>I can fight <br>I can walk <br>I can talk <br>And I can listen </p>
<p>I can teach <br>I can learn <br>I can laugh <br>I can cry </p>
<p>What can one man do? <br>What can one man do? <br>What can one man do? <br>What can one man do? </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68136992021-11-17T07:50:00+01:002021-12-17T09:22:26+01:00Richard Lawrence on the Nine Freedoms<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d812169c0dcab2bfcc526024f7eed5d293950f53/original/95-richard-lawrence.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space. </p>
<p>He also the host of the Spiritual Freedom Show: a fortnightly podcast bringing you the wisdom of some of the greatest spiritual teachings ever given to Earth: The Nine Freedoms.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> BRAVERY</p>
<p>We're all taught, an outlook based on fear <br>We are caught, in bondage of our making </p>
<p>Study fear coldly without emotion <br>See it for what it is - a state of mind </p>
<p>Walk towards - what you're afraid of <br>Show the world - what you are made of <br>Break away, clearly see <br>That bravery, it's freedom </p>
<p>We have allowed, negativity <br>We have imprisoned, our psychic abilities </p>
<p>But with knowledge and enlightenment <br>Burn fear in the light of your new dawn </p>
<p>Walk towards - what you're afraid of <br>Show the world - what you are made of <br>Break away, clearly see <br>That bravery, it's freedom </p>
<p>We all made this <br>We denied bliss <br>That's why we are all suffering </p>
<p>But transmute fear <br>Apply knowledge <br>Tempered by love <br>Become wise.... </p>
<p>Walk towards - what you're afraid of <br>Show the world - what you are made of <br>Break away, clearly see <br>That bravery, it's freedom </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/68043732021-11-10T16:27:25+01:002022-03-30T09:35:07+02:00The legend of Janet Varney (ft. Frances Luke Accord)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/e56cf83e0677803b90c92dbb55fa63e7fba7bced/original/94-janet-varney-2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Janet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the award-winning voice of Korra on Nickelodeon’s critically-acclaimed standout hit “The Legend of Korra,” a role for which she continues to be invited to comic cons to give sweaty handshakes the world over. She can also be seen as the entitled and bitchy Becca on FX’s (via hulu) “You’re the Worst” (named as one of the last decade’s best comedies), and fighting dark forces alongside John C. McGinley as Evie Barrett on IFC’s (via hulu) “Stan Against Evil.” </p>
<p>Her own podcast on the Max Fun network, The JV Club with Janet Varney, has been going since 2012 and features almost 400 interviews with celebrities about their awkward teenage years. She co-programs comedy for Outside Lands music festival and is co-founder/creative director/producer of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival, now in its 20th year. http://janetvarney.com/ </p>
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<p>Episode co-hosts: FRANCES LUKE ACCORD </p>
<p>When Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and their voices together, there is a delicate magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR's Mountain Stage calls “the definition of lean-in music.” Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music. Both raised in South Bend, IN, Gunty and Powers met and began performing together during their time at the University of Notre Dame. </p>
<p>Their first release, 'Kandote', was an intercultural collaboration with the Barefoot Truth Children’s Choir in Uganda, a not-for-profit effort which provides ongoing support to the choir to this day. Relocating to Chicago in 2013, the duo honed their songwriting craft while releasing two more self-produced EPs, laying the groundwork for their breakthrough debut LP, 'Fluke'. This immersive, philosophically rich album set them off on their first national tour, which included support dates with Anais Mitchell, Darlingside, and The Ballroom Thieves. The duo's 2021 release, the Sunnyside EP, offers a glimpse into the larger body of work Frances Luke Accord have been developing over the course of the pandemic. More to come soon. https://franceslukeaccord.com/ </p>
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<p>LYRICS to Afterlife: </p>
<p>As long as you’re by my side <br>I will make you dinner in the afterlife <br>Live in our after world <br>Stringing jewellery of gold and pearl </p>
<p>Some bonds don't break </p>
<p>I come to nourish you with my hands <br>Make you a sculpture in the sand </p>
<p>Hands that work, hands that tire <br>We form the shape but the shape expires </p>
<p>You know I worked for all these years <br>Trying my hardest at my life career <br>We’ve been witness to joy and pain <br>But the world we left was the world we gained </p>
<p>We’re so different you and I <br>In a way we never saw eye to eye <br>Despite the loss that set me free <br>In a way you’re maybe still guiding me </p>
<p>Some bonds don't break </p>
<p>We all need shape </p>
<p>As long as you’re by my side <br>Will you make me laugh in the afterlife? <br>Long as our long dark night <br>You can lead me on to the morning light</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67980002021-11-03T09:00:00+01:002021-12-17T09:25:18+01:00Dennis Tirch on treating yourself with compassion<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/97f67c9baf4395af8afd74664172c748ae193554/original/93-dennis-tirch.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Dr. Tirch is the Founder of The Center for Compassion Focused Therapy, the first clinical training center for Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in the United States. Dr. Tirch has been described as one of the country’s foremost leaders in compassion training and evidence-based therapy. He is an internationally acknowledged expert therapist, supervisor and trainer in CFT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Buddhist Psychology (BP). </p>
<p>Dr. Tirch is an author of 6 books, and numerous chapters and peer-reviewed articles on mindfulness, acceptance and compassion in psychotherapy. His books include the new Guilford Publications release, Experiencing ACT from the Inside Out, a self-practice/self-reflection workbook for therapists, and The Compassionate Mind Guide To Overcoming Anxiety, the first evidence-based self-help book to apply the science of compassion to the treatment of anxiety. With Dr. Laura Silberstein-Tirch and others, Dr. Tirch is currently developing a research protocol involving behavioral science and CFT for treating anxiety, worry and fear-based difficulties through compassionate courage cultivation.</p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/itspossible/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>IT'S POSSIBLE</p>
<p>Compassionate living <br>Is easy to do <br>The seed is already there <br>Inside of you </p>
<p>And can you imagine? <br>All you could do? <br>If only you? <br>Didn't stop you </p>
<p>It's possible - all you gotta do is try <br>It's possible - let your old habits die <br>It's possible - to change the way you feel <br>It's possible - to become the ideal </p>
<p>Maintain a loving heart <br>In the presence of strife <br>Awaken your courage <br>Reclaim your life </p>
<p>Observe anxiety <br>Watch it get quashed <br>With love as your compass <br>You'll never get lost </p>
<p>It's possible - all you gotta do is try <br>It's possible - let your old habits die <br>It's possible - to change the way you feel <br>It's possible - to become the ideal </p>
<p>It's possible - change your likes and aversions <br>It's possible - be your very best version <br>Be grounded and here <br>Let go of your fear </p>
<p>Dear inner critic <br>I wanna thank you again <br>I know you're trying to protect us <br>From going through pain </p>
<p>Despite your criticism <br>I hold you in kindness <br>But you can <br>rest now because <br>We've got this </p>
<p>It's possible - all you gotta do is try <br>It's possible - let your old habits die <br>It's possible - to change the way you feel <br>It's possible - to become the ideal </p>
<p>It's possible - change your likes and aversions <br>It's possible - be your very best version <br>Be grounded and here <br>Let go of your fear </p>
<p>It's possible <br>It's possible <br>Make it probable <br>Be loveable </p>
<p>It's possible - all you gotta do is try <br>It's possible - let your old habits die <br>Be grounded and here <br>Let go of your fear </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://an</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67883182021-10-27T17:41:12+02:002021-12-17T09:27:11+01:00VOCAL MASTERCLASS with Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/0f8dfeac4f841b8d9ae6837dc306ae340fe59441/original/92-masterclass.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />This is a special one-off episode where I’ve invited revolutionary singing teachers Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla back on the show (listen to Episode 58 first), to give advice to singers with vocal problems. </p>
<p>Thank you to these talented artists who volunteered to have their vocal issues discussed on the show that more singers, suffering with the same problems, can listen and learn: </p>
<p><a contents="Tiz McNamara" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://tizmcnamaramusic.com/">Tiz McNamara</a> is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Canada. McNamara’s independent releases have racked up more than 15 million streams on Spotify. His songs have featured on UK TV shows Hollyoaks and Emmerdale and have gained support from some of the industry’s heavyweights, including BBC Radio 2, CBC and Amazing Radio. He’s toured with BRITS Critics Choice winner James Bay, and was asked to sing alongside one of his musical heroes, Sir. Paul McCartney, as well as Robbie Williams and Shane McGowan under the The Justice Collective name. Tiz’s latest offering ‘Miami Night Sky EP’ was signed to New York-based label, AntiFragile Music and has been receiving rave reviews. </p>
<p><a contents="Stephen Scaccia" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stephenscaccia.com/">Stephen Scaccia</a> is an award-winning 29 year old vocalist from Burnaby, British Columbia. He has performed for several fundraisers, Pride events and charities around the Lower Mainland, and was voted "Favourite Local Musician" alongside Michael Buble in the 2017 "Best of Burnaby" awards. Stephen has two pop EP releases under his belt, along with over 140,000 subscribers on YouTube. Stephen has gone on to perform with Michael Buble, and has received reactions and shout outs from Mariah Carey on YouTube. </p>
<p><a contents="Nikita Afonso" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://nikitaafonso.com">Nikita Afonso</a> has made it her mission to create songs that provoke human emotion. She has taken her love of country music and made it her own, incorporating modern components and inspirations from her favourite artists, Lennon Stella and Sasha Sloan, to name a few. Like the world, Nikitas's artistry is continuously evolving, and yet, she maintains the quintessential elements of classic songwriting, moving listeners and putting music to emotions we have all felt and know. </p>
<p><a contents="Elisabeth Kontomanou" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/waitinforspring">Elisabeth Kontomanou</a> was born in Sète (France) in 1961. She moved to New York in the 1990s and then on to Stockholm where she was based when she recorded Back to My Groove. This album includes covers of songs which she sings in English. Kontomanou has worked with Michel Legrand, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Alain Jean-Marie, Jean-Michel Pilc, Daryl Hall, Franck Amsallem, Toots Thielemans, Richard Bona, Stéphane Belmondo, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Leon Parker, and Geri Allen. </p>
<p>Plus <a contents="Courtney Hunt" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/CourtneyHuntMusic">Courtney Hunt</a> who has been a professional singer since 2018 as frontwoman of Canadian event band Appaloosa and on the roster of other international corporate bands. She began a solo career in 2020. </p>
<p>Contact Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla via their <a contents="website" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.newvoicestudio-brilla-paglin.com/">website</a> or email assistant.newvoicestudio@gmail.com</p>
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<p>LYRICS to the song:</p>
<p>UNCLENCH</p>
<p>Our bodies grow around the tension <br>We take on its form <br>Becoming whatever it is we imagine </p>
<p>We're energetic creatures <br>But deny our very nature <br>As we focus on the mass that it creates </p>
<p>Reach for a pill <br>We're making ourselves ill </p>
<p>Unclench <br>Let it flow <br>You are already perfect <br>If you let yourself know </p>
<p>Unclench <br>Don't be the block <br>The door will open for you <br>All you have to do is knock </p>
<p>Practicing techniques <br>To bring the best out of ourselves <br>But all the patches do is build a barrier </p>
<p>Pressure in the jaw and body <br>Build up over time <br>Disconnecting us from ourselves </p>
<p>Reach for a pill <br>We're making ourselves ill </p>
<p>Unclench <br>Let it flow <br>You are already perfect <br>If you let yourself know </p>
<p>Unclench <br>Don't be the block <br>The door will open for you <br>All you have to do is knock </p>
<p>Unclench <br>Let it be <br>Your voice is right there for you <br>All you have to do is talk <br>And just unclench </p>
<p>Let it go <br>Let it flow <br>Become everything you ever want to be </p>
<p>Do it all <br>Or nothing at all <br>It's all up to you</p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67824692021-10-20T11:00:00+02:002021-11-01T09:36:52+01:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 8<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/43b457d3f8b782f2364c852e8fbacd4971706dbd/original/commentary-volume-8.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. </p>
<p>1 Sweet Dharma <br>2 Pranayama <br>3 Don't Dwell on Your Physical Shell <br>4 The Violet Flame <br>5a Electric Cars (ft. Helen Austin) <br>5b Electric Maybellene <br>6 People Of The Garden (ft. Shane Thomas) <br>7 You Are The Average <br>8 Between The Worlds <br>9 Plastic Sea <br>10 Vikruiti <br>11 Retrosuburbia <br>12 A Land That Loves Me </p>
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<iframe src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Track-by-Track-Commentary-on-Podsongs-Volume-8-e18hkij/a-a6lvqlv" height="102px" width="400px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67743752021-10-13T00:00:00+02:002021-11-01T09:36:02+01:00Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post on what she'd like from her country<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/24b8d7c1165096164fb05715b030dc7e149c8c75/original/91-catherine-rampell.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, immigration and politics, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. She is also an economic and political commentator for CNN, a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor to Marketplace. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Rampell has received the Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism and is a Gerald Loeb Award finalist. She grew up in Florida and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
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<p>A LAND THAT LOVES ME</p>
<p>I want to live in a land <br>Where there's real welfare <br>Not just for the sick <br>But real healthcare </p>
<p>A land where the police are loved and trusted <br>The legal system's there to always give you justice <br>And prison is seen <br>As the very last resort </p>
<p>Education for all is the top priority <br>For all children all minorities <br>I want to live in a country <br>That cares about me </p>
<p>That cares about me <br>That cares about me <br>That cares about me </p>
<p>Where those who have a lot <br>Give all they've got <br>To raise all the boats <br>Helping those who have not </p>
<p>I want to live with a sense of community <br>And everybody there has equal opportunities <br>I want to live in a country <br>that cares about me </p>
<p>That cares about me <br>That cares about me <br>That cares about me </p>
<p>I want to live in a land <br>A land that loves me <br>A land that needs me <br>A land that believes me </p>
<p>This land is our land <br>This land is your land <br>Reach out take my hand <br>We are but one band </p>
<p>No man is an island <br>And we can rule and <br>United we stand <br>be at my right-hand </p>
<p>This land is our land <br>This land is your land <br>Reach out take my hand <br>We are but one band </p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67696802021-10-07T12:00:00+02:002021-10-25T09:42:20+02:00David Holmgren on how to become resilient in an energy descent future<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/048741081a746b9018561886d4d3a8628ed31e7b/original/90-david-holmgren.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Australian environmental designer, ecological educator and writer. He is best known as one of the co-originators of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. His latest project is RetroSuburbia is part manual and part manifesto. The book shows how Australian suburbs can be transformed to become productive and resilient in an energy descent future. It focuses on what can be done by an individual at the household level (rather than community or government levels). </p>
<p>RetroSuburbia is a source of inspiration, introducing concepts and outlining patterns and practical solutions. It empowers people to make positive changes in their lives. As with David’s previous work, it is thought-provoking and provocative. If you are already on the path of downshifting and living simply, exploring RetroSuburbia will be a confirmation and celebration that you are on the right track and guide you on the next steps forward. If you are just beginning this journey, it provides a guide to the diversity of options and helps work out priorities for action. For people concerned about making ends meet in more challenging times, RetroSuburbia provides a new lens for creatively sidestepping the obstacles. </p>
<p>The book outlines options available to retrofitters in three ‘fields’ – the Built, Biological and Behavioural – along with speculation on the future and philosophical musings. Throughout the book, examples from David’s ‘Aussie St’ story and real life case studies support and enhance the main content. RetroSuburbia can be read as a whole, cover to cover, or can be dipped into according to your interests.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>RETROSUBURBIA</p>
<p>You say this way of living is way too hard <br>Start a revolution in your backyard <br>Be the change in the world that you wanna see </p>
<p>What if you could stay right where you are <br>No more wasting hours every day in a car <br>What if you could make a living doing what you really love </p>
<p>Retrofit suburbia <br>Downshift through the gears </p>
<p>Before the crash, be earlier <br>thriving there for years </p>
<p>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Ready for resilience </p>
<p>What if you could suddenly be free of debt <br>Leave behind your worries and your woes forget <br>What if you were poor but the richest man you know </p>
<p>Yes imagine being rich beyond your wildest dreams <br>Cos you lived entirely within your means <br>Saying you were happy already right where you are </p>
<p>Retrofit suburbia <br>Downshift through the gears </p>
<p>Before the crash, be earlier <br>thriving there for years </p>
<p>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Ready for resilience </p>
<p>You don't like the way we're living <br>Build it for yourself </p>
<p>Surrounded by abundance <br>In happiness and health </p>
<p>What if the world around you collapsed <br>But you felt so relaxed </p>
<p>Cos you'd reduced yourself years ago <br>Now help all the rest </p>
<p>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Ready for resilience </p>
<p>Ready <br>Are you Ready? <br>Are you Ready? <br>Ready for resilience </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67616022021-09-29T00:00:00+02:002021-09-30T15:33:10+02:00Michael Lennox on dreams and astrology (rerelease)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/55b52885b35dd85ade470fe6890fa77d4d58a4ca/original/michael.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. Michael Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology, and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn's Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. </p>
<p>Highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning with the Sci-Fi Network's The Dream Team and has also been featured on numerous network and cable television venues including NBC's Emmy award-winning Starting Over, Soap Talk, The Wayne Brady show and many others. His radio appearances talking about the power of dreams number in the hundreds. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Michael called 'Brighter' </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BRIGHTER</p>
<p>You've told him of a childhood <br>That no one would aspire to <br>He says - "look at the strength it's given you" </p>
<p>Tales of misfortune <br>Catalogue of doom and gloom <br>Michael just smiles at you </p>
<p>You're having the nightmares <br>You're writing them down <br>But all you can see is the storm </p>
<p>But the best plays are the tragedies <br>We get shown what we need to see <br>The moral is morality <br>You make your own reality <br>But I'm afraid <br>With your frame of mind </p>
<p>(It's only gonna get) Darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>Darker than you remember <br>Wait until November </p>
<p>Mercury's in retro <br>Chaos from the get-go <br>Live it up - you reap what you sow </p>
<p>Neptune's in alignment <br>Saturn's feeling violent <br>Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds </p>
<p>La la la la la la </p>
<p>Your scars clearly show <br>The world's been unfair to you <br>But only if you let it define you </p>
<p>If every experience <br>Gives you strength and resilience <br>Use it to help others in need </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>You're having the nightmares <br>You're writing them down <br>But all you can see is the storm </p>
<p>And when you moan and when you curse <br>You write your play with every verse <br>The truth is cold may seem perverse <br>But burn it up live in reverse <br>Otherwise <br>I'm afraid </p>
<p>(It's only gonna get) Darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>Darker than you remember <br>Wait until November </p>
<p>Mercury's in retro <br>Chaos from the get-go <br>Live it up - you reap what you sow </p>
<p>Neptune's in alignment <br>Saturn's feeling violent <br>Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds </p>
<p>La la la la la la </p>
<p>Get over what your parents said <br>The voices inside your head <br>Only speak to people in the room </p>
<p>You'll get happiness you'll get health <br>If you're not focused on yourself <br>Just change your state of mind </p>
<p>And it'll get brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>Brighter if you're willing to serve </p>
<p>The crazier the world becomes <br>Suffering in everyone <br>The more chances to serve </p>
<p>Your world will get brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>Brighter if you're willing to serve </p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67548812021-09-22T08:00:00+02:002021-12-29T20:18:43+01:00Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, campaigner for clean air and mother of the only person in the world to have 'officially' died from air pollution<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/92440ce44e65bcb76b4c7ce8fb887e63ae8103a3/original/89-rosamund-kissi-debrah.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is a grassroots campaigner in London, UK raising awareness of asthma and the health problems that can be caused by air pollution. Kissi-Debrah's campaign for clean air followed the death of her 9 year old daughter, Ella Roberta, in 2013 who had experienced a series of severe asthma attacks over several years. A 2014 inquest focused only on Ella's medical care, prompting Kissi-Debrah to campaign for air pollution to be included on her child's death certificate, after learning about its possible adverse effects on health. Her campaign has led to a second inquest in 2020, where evidence about air pollution was considered, with a ruling in December 2020 that pollution from the South Circular Road, London was a contributing factor to Ella Roberta's death. </p>
<p>Roberta also co-founded the Ella Roberta Family Foundation to promote her goals more widely to the public and officials. This charity aims to improve the lives of children affected by asthma in South East London. It engages with politicians and policy makers as well as young people and communities to raise awareness of asthma, advocate for better medical treatment of asthma and also campaigns for clean air. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE BALLAD OF ELLA KISSI-DEBRAH </p>
<p>Reading in the papers <br>Numbers written there <br>Of how many die each year <br>Cos of dirty air </p>
<p>But numbers they don't speak <br>Drama they lack <br>Unlike the sound of hearing someone <br>Die from an asthma attack </p>
<p>What can change? </p>
<p>So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Didn't die in vein <br>And we all take action <br>And Policies change </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Hear our prayers <br>So that no more children <br>Will die <br>From breathing air </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Deserves a happy tune <br>But this song is not for her <br>It is meant for you </p>
<p>To pluck and play your heart strings <br>So you think twice before we drive <br>And decide who you will give your vote to <br>So more kids stay alive </p>
<p>So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Didn't die in vein <br>And we all take action <br>And Policies change </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Hear our prayers <br>So that no more children <br>Will die <br>From breathing air </p>
<p>--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsongs/message</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67475372021-09-15T13:00:00+02:002021-10-25T09:44:33+02:00Robert Svoboda on Ayurveda<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c7d364952e2d60badff0bf4d1f28874295f84840/original/88-robert-svoboda.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983. (Information on all of his books can be found here) Dr. Svoboda was born in Texas in 1953, and in 1972 earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in Chemistry with a minor in French. After being ritually initiated into the Pokot tribe of northern Kenya as its first white member in June 1973 he moved to India, where he lived from 1973-80 and 1982-86, receiving his Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (Ayurvedacharya) from the University of Poona in 1980. In his final year of study at the Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya he won all but one of the University of Poona’s awards for academic excellence in Ayurveda, including the Ram Narayan Sharma Gold Medal.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
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<p>VIKRUTI</p>
<p>Vata <br>You're feeling tired uptight a pretty sorry sight <br>After years of gas and constipation </p>
<p>Craving heat, can't sleep, rings under your eyes <br>No strength and emaciated </p>
<p>Deluded and dizzy, even having tremors <br>Talking all the time </p>
<p>You're in pain, inflamed, for years it stays the same <br>They test and test, but still it can't be named </p>
<p>They suggest treatments but no prognosis <br>You can't even get a real diagnosis </p>
<p>It could be a gluten allergy <br>It could be a genetic malady <br>It could be mineral deficiency <br>When you've still got no idea about doshas </p>
<p>Kapha <br>Heavy and hazy, lethargic and lazy <br>Body feels loose and cold </p>
<p>Poor digestion, salivation and white discolouration <br>You take test after test, for your respiratory distress </p>
<p>They suggest treatments but no prognosis <br>You can't even get a real diagnosis </p>
<p>It could be autoimmunity <br>It could be a parasitic disease <br>It could be an allergy to trees <br>When they've still got no idea about doshas </p>
<p>Perhaps they've misunderstood <br>And it's something from your childhood <br>They just can't seem to do no good <br>And running out of ideas </p>
<p>But you're emphatic <br>It's not psycosymatic <br>In fact, you've had it <br>With this Western approach to medicine </p>
<p>Pitta <br>Got a burning sensation, yellow discoloration <br>Of your faeces, urine, eyes, and skin </p>
<p>So hungry, so thirsty, so very little sleep <br>You take test after test, and the specialists go deep </p>
<p>They suggest treatments but no prognosis <br>You can't even get a real diagnosis </p>
<p>What could it be? <br>They know what it should be <br>If only you would be <br>A little co-operative surely </p>
<p>Gluten allergy? Do bey do bey <br>Iodine deficiency? Do bey do bey <br>Imaginary? Do bey do bey <br>It's nothing officially </p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67408862021-09-08T11:00:00+02:002021-10-25T09:45:15+02:00Chad Nelsen the surfer campaigning for plastic-free seas<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/005be1ff4b0be8a7fbcef32b19668852e3103419/original/87-chad-nelsen.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Chad Nelsen is the head of The Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to protecting oceans and beaches. Its major programmatic work is carried out by sixty local chapters around America. They've more than forty thousand members, as well as affiliates in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and Japan. Its membership is made up of surfers, swimmers, divers, bodyboarders, kayakers, and beach enthusiasts who have learned to be effective advocates for the ocean environment they value.</p>
<p>At any given time, the Surfrider Foundation is tackling more than 100 campaigns across the country. The Surfrider network works to protect clean water, healthy beaches, ocean protection, coastal preservation and beach access for all people. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>PLASTIC SEA</p>
<p>Out there in middle of each ocean <br>Is a high-pressure gyres with little motion <br>All the rubbish collects there <br>Swirls in from everywhere <br>There they form a plastic sea </p>
<p>The bad news is the problems getting smaller <br>As the pieces become too small to collect from a trawler <br>Just because plastic don't break down <br>Doesn't mean it can't be ground <br>Now everywhere's the plastic sea </p>
<p>The process has already long begun <br>And soon there will be more plastic than plankton <br>It works its way up the food chain <br>And makes a home in your brain <br>Welcome to the plastic sea </p>
<p>So don't be surprised when the next time you gut a fish <br>And find it its stomach filled with plastic bits <br>All the chemicals in its flesh <br>That soon you will digest <br>As you eat the plastic sea </p>
<p>They're already discussing the possibility <br>Of how it affects our virility <br>They said there wasn't proof <br>Until nobody can reproduce <br>Of course it was the plastic sea </p>
<p>And they say there's no reversal <br>And it's only going to get worse so <br>Better keep your DNA on ice </p>
<p>And then as the sea levels rise <br>Keep your eggs and your sperm held high <br>Don't use an oil-based lube <br>Store them in a glass test tube <br>As you wade into the plastic sea </p>
<p>And then in 10,000 years time <br>They dig down to the plastic line <br>We got what we deserved <br>But at least we are preserved <br>Perfectly in the plastic sea </p>
<p>Perfectly in the plastic sea </p>
<p>Forever in the sea </p>
<p>Forever in the sea</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67347092021-09-01T09:00:00+02:002021-09-21T10:51:17+02:00Jeffrey Babcock - the curator of Amsterdam's underground cinema scene<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/1f4ffea49c429c0b44189c2ecf192810af40daa1/original/86-jeffrey-babcock.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Jeffrey Babcock is an American alternative film curator and cultural activist now in Amsterdam. As a promoter of independent film culture he is currently the programmer of several underground cinema venues throughout the city, where he places the films he screens into a historical, aesthetic, political and biographical context. As a student of Stan Brakhage, he developed a keen interest in experimental cinema and philosophy. He also has a keen eye for finding elements of experimental film-language beyond the strict limits of what is categorized as experimental film: from early science documentaries to contemporary Korean teenage films.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
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<p>Straight, while you watch and curate <br>Consume or create <br>Allowing eternity to enter </p>
<p>Free, like the sway of a tree <br>You shrug in its lee <br>This is the stillness that was never still </p>
<p>Silently dreaming together </p>
<p>Bright light, cutting our night sight <br>Guiding our inflight <br>To a new polarity </p>
<p>Big screen informing our dreams <br>Living our slow scenes <br>riding through realities </p>
<p>Between the light <br>Between the dark <br>Between the worlds </p>
<p>Right, a disguised fight <br>Machine guns of light <br>Doing the maths up to infinity </p>
<p>Apart, the flickering art <br>Somewhere smart <br>This is the magic of the cinema </p>
<p>Silently dreaming together </p>
<p>Bright light, cutting our night sight <br>Guiding our inflight <br>To a new polarity </p>
<p>Big screen informing our dreams <br>Living our slow scenes <br>riding through realities </p>
<p>Between the light <br>Between the dark <br>Between the worlds </p>
<p>And we are <br>The negative <br>Exposed to <br>A positive </p>
<p>The principles <br>Of photography <br>Rise us up <br>And set us free </p>
<p>Bright light, cutting our night sight <br>Guiding our inflight <br>To a new polarity </p>
<p>Big screen informing our dreams <br>Living our slow scenes <br>riding through realities </p>
<p>Between the light <br>Between the dark <br>Between the worlds</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67211902021-08-18T16:00:00+02:002021-10-05T13:43:24+02:00Gregg Caruso puts the case against free will (ft. Nate Frederick)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/a2094e2298f8daca99aab2eb0302b973ce4d56f5/original/85-gregg-caruso.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (w/Daniel C. Dennett) (2021), Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012), Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013), Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-edited w/Owen Flanagan); and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society (co-edited w/Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom). http://www.greggcaruso.com/</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>YOU ARE THE AVERAGE</p>
<p>Careful of the friends you have <br>Remember you can choose <br>You may not like their attitudes <br>But in time you'll share their views </p>
<p>Everything gets past around <br>From attributes to vice <br>If you accept their company <br>You'll soon take their advice </p>
<p>You are the average <br>Of the five people <br>With whom you spend most of the time </p>
<p>You are the average <br>You only know what you've been taught <br>You think your culture's thoughts </p>
<p>You look around the place you work <br>With an expression of disgust <br>At people who you'll never be <br>There's no one you can trust </p>
<p>But take a look from a little bit up <br>You already look the same <br>You're blending in quite perfectly <br>You fit inside the frame <br>You fit inside the frame </p>
<p>You are the average <br>Of the five people <br>With whom you spend most of the time </p>
<p>You are the average <br>You only know what you've been taught <br>You think your culture's thoughts </p>
<p>Even you ambitions <br>What you want from life <br>Can be enabled or destroyed <br>By your husband or your wife </p>
<p>Your friends can help you be a better person <br>Or lead you on the path to sin <br>You might think you can rise above it <br>But in time you will sink in <br>In time you will sink in </p>
<p>You are the average <br>Of the five people <br>With whom you spend most of the time </p>
<p>You are the average <br>You only know what you've been taught <br>You think your culture's thoughts</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67077592021-08-04T16:00:00+02:002021-12-29T20:19:46+01:00Yasmine Mohammed argues how the Hijab is a tool to oppress women (ft. special musical guest Shane Thomas)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/5759849e46e9225ab3ae26709982e33b4b2cf732/original/84-yasmine-mohammed.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Yasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim Canadian educator, human rights activist and author who is critical of Islam. Mohammed, who escaped a forced, abusive marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative, became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free Hearts, Free Minds. She is a member of the Center for Inquiry Speaker's Bureau and on the board of advisory for the Brighter Brains Institute. </p>
<p>Through her initiative Free Hearts, Free Minds she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Muslim-majority countries and co-ordinates an online campaign called #NoHijabDay against World Hijab Day. She also has a website. Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris, Seth Andrews, and several news outlets from multiple countries, and in 2019 self-published the book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. </p>
<p>MUSICAL GUEST: SHANE THOMAS </p>
<p>Shane Thomas is still in his early 20s, but his extraordinary story started when he was 3. He insisted he could play the piano at that age despite never having touched one in his short life, apart from a tendency to play an imaginary one on the carpet. Shane finally got his hands on a piano aged 7, sat down at the keys and immediately starting playing all sorts of recognisable tunes with both hands. Within weeks he was composing his own pieces. A month later he made his first public performance and was nominated for the national Talented Youngster of The Year Award. The top prize in the Music for Youth Awards then followed. By the time he was 9, despite not having had a piano lesson, he achieved Grade 8, having skipped Grades 1 to 7. He was playing all the classics, just about any contemporary pop song and was even arranging them in a classical style. Shane was asked to appear on The One Show where Jamie Cullum exclaimed ‘he’s amazing!’. The Daily Telegraph hailed Shane as a ‘mini Mozart’. </p>
<p>At 11 Shane became the youngest composer to be given his own publishing deal with a major publisher – EMI Music. This led to invitations for Shane to play in front of 10,000 people at Castle Howard, at a private dinner for the then Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair and even being endorsed by royalty. And then everything stopped. Shane’s mother had walked out of the family home never to be seen again (she is now in prison). This left Shane, his father Clayton and two little siblings to fend for themselves. Clayton, himself a former pro musician and teacher had to singlehandedly look after the family unit. Priority was given to Shane’s education, leaving any potential musical career behind. Money was not just short, it was non-existent at times. Sometimes they were sat in the dark, without electricity. </p>
<p>Suddenly with Shane now well into his teens, the media remembered him. The BBC set him the challenge of composing and performing a symphony for the BBC Northern Orchestra within 8 weeks and Shane completed it in half the time. He performed it in front of a disbelieving audience of several hundred and the BBC cameras. Shortly after this Channel 4 picked up on Shane’s extraordinary story and produced a documentary called ‘Extraordinary Teens – Young Gifted and Broke’. So where are we now? Decca Records went on to release two singles in 2017 and his track ‘The Ruins’ hit No.2 in the Classical iTunes chart. Bucks Music Group then signed him to a publishing contract in 2018 and have been building him as a composer/artist since then. 10 years on from his original publishing deal at EMI Music , he could now more accurately be grouped with the likes of Ludovico Einaudi, Nils Frahm and Hans Zimmer. What is extraordinary about Shane is that, as well as composing melodies that have such immediate ear-worms, he does so by evoking such strong emotional links and themes. His team have identified that Shane can become one of the most exciting and prolific new artists at a time when playlists are so in need of new composers of great original music.</p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/67002412021-07-28T16:00:00+02:002021-10-05T13:43:06+02:00Robert Llewelyn explains everything there is to know about Electric Cars<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/cba9893932060390650359983c05bd7c2364041f/original/83-robert-llewelyn.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows.</p>
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<p>ELECTRIC MAYBELLENE</p>
<p>As I was motivatin' over the hill <br>I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville <br>A Cadillac a-rollin on the open stretch <br>Nothin' will outrun my Tesla S <br>The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95 <br>She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side </p>
<p>Oh Maybellene well you won't get far <br>Nothing outruns an electric car </p>
<p>The Cadillac pulled up at 104 <br>The Tesla hot and wouldn't do no more <br>It done got cloudy and started to rain <br>I tooted my horn for the passin' lane <br>The rain water blowin' all under my hood <br>I knew that wasn't doin' my battery good </p>
<p>Maybellene well you won't get far <br>Nothing outruns an electric car </p>
<p>Breaker breaker <br>You got your ears on caddy? <br>What's your 20? <br>Seen a county mounty <br>in a plain white wrapper <br>10-4 </p>
<p>The motor cooled down, the heat went down <br>And that's when I heard that highway sound <br>Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake <br>A 110, a half mile ahead <br>The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still <br>And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill </p>
<p>Maybellene well you won't get far <br>Nothing outruns an electric car </p>
<p>Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true? <br>You done started back doin' the things you used to do </p>
<p>Maybellene, why can't you see? <br>You're draining my batteries </p>
<p>Maybellene, why can't you be true? <br>Why do you do? The things you do? </p>
<p>Maybellene, please see <br>How you're draining my batteries </p>
<p>ELECTRIC CARS (ft. Helen Austin) </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>Why's it taking so long? <br>If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline <br>Switch to an electric car </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>Funkier by far <br>Never have I seen a sexier machine <br>I want to get in an electric car </p>
<p>I want to give joy to all whom I meet <br>Don't want to leave behind smelly streets </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>Come on now it's common sense <br>With so much air pollution, can you think of a solution? <br>Dumbo, get in an electric car </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>The time has come time to change <br>If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline <br>Switch to an electric car </p>
<p>I want to give joy to all I meet <br>Don't want to leave behind smelly streets </p>
<p>I want to soar <br>I want to surge <br>A revolution <br>We're on the verge </p>
<p>I want fresh air <br>That's pure a clean <br>Like the future <br>Of my dreams </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>Where were you all of my life? <br>Only when you've met one will you know you're gonna get one <br>There's no way back from electric cars </p>
<p>Electric cars, electric cars <br>Why's it taking so long? <br>If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline <br>Switch to an electric car </p>
<p>I want to give joy to all whom I meet <br>Don't want to leave behind smelly streets</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66938122021-07-21T09:00:00+02:002021-09-21T10:56:46+02:00Chrissie Blaze on the Art of Astrology<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/2e5f0d579c74968f3a69146b79175d10bc6cbfd3/original/82-chrissie-blaze.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology. http://www.chrissieblaze.com/</p>
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<p>THE VIOLET FLAME</p>
<p>The holiest being <br>That you'll ever meet </p>
<p>Is right there below you <br>Under your feet </p>
<p>She hides the beauty of her true light <br>Under material form </p>
<p>To render to us sustenance <br>Until we return </p>
<p>But we don't honour her name <br>We defile and defame <br>And involve ourselves over again </p>
<p>Bring up the violet flame <br>Transmute the dross in this frame <br>While we scar her body <br>And we cause her pain <br>Still she gives her violet flame </p>
<p>Blessed is this Goddess <br>Who gave us refuge </p>
<p>Instead of accepting unlimited gowns <br>She refused </p>
<p>So that we can gain experience <br>On our way back to God </p>
<p>she has not yet demanded <br>That we change or leave </p>
<p>But we don't honour her name <br>We defile and defame <br>And involve ourselves over again </p>
<p>Bring up the violet flame <br>Transmute the dross in this frame <br>While we scar her body <br>And we cause her pain <br>Still she gives her violet flame </p>
<p>So bring up the violet flame <br>protection of power retained <br>She gives this willingly <br>Without a claim <br>Love it is a violet flame </p>
<p>How can she suffer so much? <br>Silent in solemn sacrifice </p>
<p>While we dam her arteries <br>And cut chunks out of her flesh </p>
<p>Commit foul acts against this angel <br>The very being that sustains us </p>
<p>When her seeking children ask her <br>Still she gives her flame of transmutation </p>
<p>So bring up the violet flame <br>Transmute the dross in this frame <br>While we scar her body <br>And we cause her pain <br>Still she gives her violet flame </p>
<p>So bring up the violet flame <br>protection of power retained <br>She gives this willingly <br>Without a claim <br>Love it is a violet flame</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66884582021-07-14T09:00:00+02:002021-09-21T10:59:51+02:00Nehemiah Davis, yogi and teacher of mystic practices<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/4ee7f01e27acd581432a202424fd420521aed35a/original/81-nehemiah-davis.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Nehemiah Davis is a yogi and teacher of mystic practices. From early childhood Nehemiah’s father (Althair H. Davis) taught him to manipulate cosmic energies (prana) through prayer and mantra with metaphysical teachings that stress balanced karmic methods of actions through life. With this, his father instructed him in several forms of yoga, which included; karma yoga, hatha yoga, bhakti yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, mudra yoga, pranayama (yogic breathing exercises) and kundalini yoga. As a child his father created and enforced a daily schedule of early morning and late evening prayer, meditation, and pranayama. His education in metaphysics while growing up included mystic authors such as; H.P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Rama Prasad, Swami Vekadanada, Yogic Ramacharka teachings, Alice A. Bailey, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Sivananda, Sir. John Woodroffe, as well as the late Dr George King founder and president of the Aetherius Society, a modern mystic order that his family were members of. Nehemiah Davis has been teaching on various metaphysical subjects over the last 25 year. His students have asked him over the last decade to write on the subjects he taught. This book “The Ancient Language of the Soul” is his beginning in sharing his knowledge with a large audience around the world. http://mysticknowledge.org/</p>
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<p>DON'T DWELL ON YOUR PHYSICAL SHELL</p>
<p>Don't dwell on your physical shell <br>It's temporary <br>Borrowed from the sun <br>Yours and everyone's </p>
<p>The physical plane <br>Here vibrating <br>All that's born <br>Disintegrating </p>
<p>It's not physical <br>Only fleeting <br>Carriages <br>For the souls you're meeting </p>
<p>Ephemeral <br>And transient <br>Use it while <br>You've remenants </p>
<p>Your body you made <br>It wasn't God <br>He'd have done a better job </p>
<p>Don't dwell on your physical shell <br>Cos it's the only thing you see <br>Open to the entire spectrum <br>Be all you can be </p>
<p>See the people <br>Go through hassle <br>Building their <br>Little sandcastles </p>
<p>Want to make it big <br>Or make it thin <br>All before <br>The tide comes in </p>
<p>Wearing it out early <br>Cos you're nervous <br>Instead of living <br>In selfless service </p>
<p>Instead they hold back themselves <br>Limit their senses <br>And get stuck behind <br>Illusory fences </p>
<p>Cos you fell for your physical shell <br>And think it's all you are <br>Wake up to the real truth <br>You're greater now by far </p>
<p>Then on the astral <br>Fulfilling desires <br>With the love <br>Or in the fires </p>
<p>Reincarnating <br>Here and there <br>Back and forth <br>Until you evolve </p>
<p>So don't dwell on your physical shell <br>Cos there's far more to you <br>Your dark matter, matters more <br>Think about what you do </p>
<p>Don't dwell on your physical shell <br>Use it as a tool <br>To help others gain experience <br>Graduate from school</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66833702021-07-07T17:00:00+02:002021-09-21T11:02:03+02:00Ayub Malik on Pranayama<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/80519b8ce06810eca8b05808cc1374d6f6b358a6/original/80-ayub-malik.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Ayub Malik is a Spiritual pioneer and Expansion Committee member of the international spiritual organisation called The Aetherius Society – a group which has a unique and very active role in the Divine Plan for the enlightenment and salvation of humanity that is gradually unfolding. He was born into a large traditional muslim family in England, and is based in London, United Kingdom. </p>
<p>He has a life long natural love for yoga, deep conversations with like-minded souls interested in personal and spiritual development, running and connecting with Mother Earth through trips to the forests, mountains, seas, Whilst in his teens, Ayub had a life-changing experience which enabled him to acquire a deeper insight and feel for the practical benefits of oneness through King Yoga, which was founded by The Aetherius Society as a revolutionary pathway back to the oneness that is God. He attained a level of realisation that all of life is one – expressing itself in countless trillions of forms on this world and beyond. Why? In order to learn and gain mastery over matter and experience and to gradually shed the perceived and accepted limitations that block the realisation of Oneness. </p>
<p>For almost 20 years Ayub has been sharing the positive and practical life-changing results that are available to people through King Yoga workshops, talks, videos, spiritual healing on an individual, group and global level – this in addition to contributing to and promoting the more important world saving missions of The Aetherius Society. He is directly involved with various Aetherius Society run Spiritual missions that are uniquely designed to help stop or reduce earthquakes, and other natural disasters, by working directly with strategic chakras of Mother Earth and advanced Spiritual masters from other worlds. Some of these missions can even stop or reduce the effects of war and bring mass healing and support to targeted world situations. www.aetherius.org</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>PRANAYAMA</p>
<p>Waking up feeling rushed <br>Stupid mind need to shut up <br>Seeing stress in my day <br>I can't get a hold </p>
<p>Assume the position on the floor <br>Left nostril breathing in <br>Right nostril breathing out <br>There you go </p>
<p>Pranayama - restraint of the breath <br>Pranayama - controlling the course <br>Of my life force </p>
<p>Taking control by letting go <br>Ease my racing mind <br>Ground my soaring soul <br>Settle down </p>
<p>Cross-legged on the floor <br>Balanced Ida and Pingala <br>Slowing down powers up <br>It's systems go </p>
<p>Pranayama - restraint of the breath <br>Pranayama - controlling the course <br>Of my life force </p>
<p>Oh Pranayama <br>Pranayama <br>Pranayama <br>Pranayama <br>Pranayama</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66767982021-07-02T08:00:00+02:002021-09-21T11:17:27+02:00Lama Karma Justin Wall on Dharma, Buddhism and mindfulness<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/eb7a2119d4f3258eefa24c728de08732884888a2/original/79-justin-wall.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Lama Karma is a Milwaukee native who first left home to attend college at Columbia University in NYC. After a long period of desperation and depression, he found a bit of light in studying the non-dual teachings of Sufiism, Christianity, and the Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhist philosophy. Through developing a connection with teachers such as Robert Thurman and Peter Awn, he wrote a wordy honors thesis on hermeneutics, literary theory, and Madhyamika philosophy. </p>
<p>Although his head was full, his heart was empty, and he took Robert Thurman’s advice of a Wanderjahr in Asia, only to end up back in New York where he started. </p>
<p>Along the way, he attended a ten-day Vipassana course in California, followed by various retreats in Nepal, India, Germany, and Ireland until he returned to New York, jumping blindly into a three-year retreat at Kagyu Thubten Chöling Monastery under the guidance of Lama Norlha Rinpoche. Three years later he went into back into retreat for another three years and four months. </p>
<p>When he graduated, he moved to Tennessee to build a retreat center and stupa, and has continued as the director of Milarepa Retreat Center. In order to reach more people with his work, Lama Karma participated in UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center Teacher Training program, and works with MARC as an online mentor. In the winter of 2017 he worked with Lama Denys Rinpoche to translate the Open Mindfulness platform into English and became an accredited facilitator of Open Mindfulness. </p>
<p>He currently divides his time between the Hudson Valley, NY and Happy Valley TN teaching mindfulness, Buddhism, and raising his daughter Gomadevi with his wife Karina. https://lamakarmajustin.com/</p>
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<p>'SWEET DHARMA'</p>
<p>My pure and precious dharma <br>What I wouldn't do for you <br>I'll keep you pure, be always sure <br>Let nothing harm my heart </p>
<p>I'll protect my precious dharma <br>Won't let anger burn it down <br>No violent movies, no video games <br>I'll see nobody harmed </p>
<p>I'll shield my precious dharma <br>From any sexual deceit <br>Remain passionless, not obsess for flesh <br>See no pornography </p>
<p>My dharma <br>My sweet dharma <br>My dharma <br>My sweet dharma </p>
<p>My pure and precious dharma <br>Is such a fragile thing <br>It could so easily die, telling one little lie <br>You could make a river from my tears </p>
<p>So I'll hide my precious dharma <br>From the very idea of theft <br>Take nothing not given, just live and let living <br>Let greed never touch my heart </p>
<p>It's my dharma <br>My sweet dharma <br>My dharma <br>Sweet dharma </p>
<p>It's my dharma <br>My sweet dharma <br>My dharma </p>
<p>I love my precious dharma <br>It gives meaning to my life <br>I live life at leisure, with this secret to pleasure <br>The happiest I've ever been </p>
<p>My sweet dharma <br>My sweet dharma <br>My dharma <br>Sweet dharma </p>
<p>It would drown in alcohol <br>It would die on drugs <br>Any type of intoxication <br>Would wash it from the earth </p>
<p>It's my dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma <br>My dharma <br>My sweet dharma </p>
<p>Sweet dharma <br>My sweet dharma <br>My dharma....... <br>.......</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66727962021-06-28T16:00:00+02:002021-09-21T11:19:04+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 7<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/935b8a94eaeceb99ea856a2d335b378e62e8858d/original/commentary-volume-7.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by the interviews. </p>
<p>1 Vaccinate <br>2 A Girl Called Corona <br>3 Apophenia <br>4 Unnecessary Music <br>5 Something That Sounds Like A Song <br>6 The Mighty Sun <br>7 If The Bombs Go Off <br>8 Civilised to Death <br>9 The Death of Expertise <br>10 We Don't Know What We Don't Know <br>11 Sure Would Like To Find Out <br>12 The Lie</p>
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<p>MUSICAL GUEST: <a contents="Angela Predhomme" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.angelapredhomme.com/">Angela Predhomme</a></p>
<p>With a laid back, soulful style, singer-songwriter Angela Predhomme expresses emotion with honesty and passion. She has a knack for writing catchy melodies and lyrics that touch your heart, and sings with bluesy overtones that hint of her roots in Detroit. Predhomme’s songs have been heard by millions through television, film, and in major retail chains. Credits include the popular Hallmark movie “Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane,” Lifetime’s hit show “Dance Moms,” Freeform’s “Switched at Birth,” TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” commercials for ING Bank and Fiat, and closing credit placement in the film A Wedding Most Strange, among others. http://www.angelapredhomme.com/</p>
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<p>THE LIE</p>
<p>You've been denying it for years <br>These are deep-seated fears <br>It's not acceptance <br>It's not inclusion <br>It's collusion <br>It's the lie </p>
<p>It's there for all to see <br>Implicit supremacy <br>Why to hide it? <br>Why deny it? <br>Why the long face? <br>Why the lie? </p>
<p>If you're invited to a table <br>That you build with your own hands <br>It's not a bridge <br>It's not inclusive <br>It's exclusion <br>It's the lie </p>
<p>There's a serpent round the legs <br>And its eyes your throat <br>Feel it moving <br>Feel it rising <br>Feel the coldness <br>Feel the lie </p>
<p>If you decide your destiny <br>And control identity <br>You'll see the tightening <br>Feel the grip <br>Here it comes <br>It's the lie </p>
<p>Its the warped reality <br>At the heart of the country <br>It's the decay <br>It's the wreckage <br>It's the damage <br>It's the lie </p>
<p>The foundations are all rotten <br>And the termites caused destruction <br>The walls are caving <br>The roof is failing <br>It's coming down <br>It's all a lie </p>
<p>Somewhere in the wreckage <br>In the rubble of the righteous <br>Are the honest <br>Are the real <br>Is the pure <br>Is the truth </p>
<p>There's a reckoning to come <br>When the sorting will be done <br>Without derision <br>Without division <br>Without the hatred <br>Without the lie </p>
<p>The kiln is fired up <br>Rage is burning hot <br>Forge again <br>In the fires <br>In the flames <br>Beat out the lie </p>
<p>Build it for the third time <br>Rising from the ashes <br>Hope's renewed <br>Hope's revived <br>Hope's reborn <br>Without the lie</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66656302021-06-21T16:00:00+02:002022-03-30T08:19:15+02:00Lawrence Krauss on known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns (ft. Musical Guest Heather Pierson)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/04997393694f2845a65613a4e802980e60655427/original/77-lawrence-krauss.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Lawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science education. An anti-theist, Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors. </p>
<p>GUEST MUSICIAN: <a contents="Heather Pierson" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://heatherpierson.com/">Heather Pierson</a> is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, songleader, and performer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases delve into Americana, blues, New Orleans jazz, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and folk. Best known for her virtuosity at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, her songs and musicianship embody joy, honesty, playfulness, and a desire to share from the heart. In twenty years on her own record label, Vessel Recordings, she has released thirteen albums of original music including Lines and Spaces, her most ambitious and most personal release to date. https://heatherpierson.com/</p>
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<p>SURE WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT</p>
<p>Is there only what is and what not could be <br>Is there any such thing as possibilities <br>It's fun not knowing what it's all about <br>But I sure would like to find out </p>
<p>And what or where exactly is consciousness <br>Any speculation makes the water muddy I guess <br>It's fun not knowing what it's all about <br>But I sure would like to find out </p>
<p>Every flap of a butterflies wing <br>Is both an answer and a question <br>That looks into the nature of everything <br>There's an equal mix of tragedy and beauty stored </p>
<p>In every moment I'm alive how could I ever be bored <br>It's fun not knowing what it's all about <br>But I sure would like to find out <br>I'd really really like to find out <br>Before I die I'd like to find out</p>
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<p>WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW</p>
<p>After so many years <br>Of searching science <br>Countless experiments <br>And breaking down of elements </p>
<p>Of contradictory theories <br>And fantastic formulas <br>Endless equations <br>To get to the truth </p>
<p>The only thing <br>That we can confidently say <br>Throughout the ages.... is that </p>
<p>We don't really know what we don't know <br>We can't even say what we can't see <br>We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown <br>Enough to prove that it is what it is </p>
<p>And we can't conceive of new realities <br>Or visualise a fraction of what might be <br>Our imagination, fails at application <br>When we think of new possibilities </p>
<p>So much of nature <br>Is still conjecture <br>And every new answer <br>Asks a hundred other questions </p>
<p>Once everything's disproved <br>The one thing that's left <br>The unchanging reality... is that </p>
<p>We don't really know what we don't know <br>We can't even say what we can't see <br>We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown <br>Enough to prove that it is what it is </p>
<p>And we can't conceive of new realities <br>Or visualise a fraction of what might be <br>Our imagination, fails at application <br>When we think of new possibilities </p>
<p>How did this something <br>Come from nothing <br>What forced its becoming <br>Well different types of nothing </p>
<p>Science is moving <br>Perpetually improving <br>Examining and removing <br>Until we have one unifying thing... and it's that </p>
<p>We don't really know what we don't know <br>We can't even say what we can't see <br>We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown <br>Enough to prove that it is what it is </p>
<p>And we can't conceive of new realities <br>Or visualise a fraction of what might be <br>Our imagination, fails at application <br>When we think of new possibilities</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66630132021-06-18T10:55:00+02:002021-09-21T11:27:32+02:00Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/92fb9809590c9800aff69a63b90ad1864781d9b2/original/76-tom-nichols.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Tom Nichols is an academic specialist on international affairs, currently a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and at the Harvard Extension School. His work deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Nichols taught international relations as well as Soviet and Russian Affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. He was also a fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nichols was the Chairman of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College where he also held the Forrest Sherman Chair of Public Diplomacy. Nichols is a former Secretary of the Navy Fellow and also a fellow in the International Security Program and the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School.</p>
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<p> THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE</p>
<p>Having strong opinions <br>Is not the same as knowing things <br>Experts are more likely to be right </p>
<p>Now we're all.... <br>Google-fuelled and wiki-fed <br>Conspiracies, easily led <br>Our feelings matter more to us than facts </p>
<p>Experts say unanimously <br>It's the death of expertise <br>Democracy's in jeopardy <br>We're our own worst enemy <br>the death of expertise </p>
<p>Ignorance was made a virtue by <br>Social entrepreneurs who <br>Confuse obscurantism with humility </p>
<p>But now we're <br>all omnicompetent <br>And demanding our entitlement <br>Our society could quickly cease to function </p>
<p>Experts say unanimously <br>It's the death of expertise <br>Democracy's in jeopardy <br>We're our own worst enemy <br>the death of expertise </p>
<p>Ensuring all have equal rights <br>Doesn't mean that all opinions are right </p>
<p>And disagreeings not insulting <br>Saying you're wrong's not saying you're stupid </p>
<p>It's not elitist or undemocratic <br>To say that professionals know more about their work <br>than you do </p>
<p>Experts say unanimously <br>It's the death of expertise <br>Democracy's in jeopardy <br>We're our own worst enemy <br>the death of expertise</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66586462021-06-14T09:15:00+02:002021-09-21T11:30:08+02:00Chris Ryan on Sex at Dawn and how civilisation is the heart of what's wrong with everything<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/b804b481e170574e72a91c77705a8cfb9ec3f499/original/75-christopher-ryan.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a B.A. in English and American literature in 1984, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, twenty years later. His master's thesis examined differences in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist Stanley Krippner, a humanistic psychologist, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jürgen W. Kremer.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> CIVILISED TO DEATH</p>
<p>You've got emergency surgery and antibiotics <br>Half your work done by a team of robotics <br>Still you've confessed <br>You're depressed <br>And distressed <br>and oppressed <br>What's the matter with you? </p>
<p>You can travel through the sky sitting down in a chair <br>Get a drink, eat a meal and there's wifi up there <br>But at the slightest delay <br>You complain <br>Like it's the end of the world </p>
<p>So why aren't you happy now? <br>Why aren't you in awe <br>You've been civilised to death </p>
<p>You've got your mother in a home, kids at childcare <br>You're working 7 days a week just to keep them there <br>You've been promised all your free time <br>When you're retired </p>
<p>You're the pyre for the fire of incessant growth <br>Where any movement's advancement or progress or both <br>Youe’re like a falling man <br>Who insists he’s flying </p>
<p>So why aren't you happy now? <br>Why aren't you in awe <br>You've been civilised to death </p>
<p>How much time still to put in? <br>Can't be long 'til you're retiring <br>Scratching on the walls until your time is up <br>One last sup at the poisoned cup </p>
<p>Take me back <br>To the simple life <br>When we surrendered <br>To being alive </p>
<p>We lived by the ocean <br>And drank from the stream <br>In a world of abundance <br>Our lives were a dream </p>
<p>We had all we needed <br>Happy in our tribe <br>Surrounded by beauty <br>That you can't describe </p>
<p>The trees gave us everything <br>We worshipped the sun <br>Nature was all <br>And we were as one</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66586392021-06-11T09:00:00+02:002021-09-21T11:32:40+02:00Katherine Hudson, CND, on why we're 100 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c8e7adeab2dc3c4a374a778351ca1dd0377fa103/original/74-kate-hudson.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Kate Hudson has been General Secretary of CND since 2010, having served as chair since 2003. She first became active in the peace movement in the early 1980s in the big upsurge of activity against cruise missiles. One of her proudest moments was helping to Embrace the Base at Greenham Common in December 1982, along with 30,000 other women. With the end of the Cold War, like many others, Kate felt that the issue of nuclear weapons had gone away, so she turned to other campaigning work. But by the mid-1990s with expansion of NATO and escalation of the US ‘Star Wars’ system, she came back into CND activity and into CND’s leadership just as the ‘war on terror’ was beginning. She has been a key figure in the anti-war movement nationally and internationally and considers international cooperation and solidarity to be the key to our ultimate success. </p>
<p>By profession a historian, Kate was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University prior to working for CND. She is author of a number of books, including a history of CND.</p>
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<p> IF THE BOMBS GO OFF</p>
<p>Ordinary people feel under attack <br>And that the enemies invisible they can't fight back </p>
<p>So they focus on an issue that's important to them <br>But they forget about the worst thing that could happen to men </p>
<p>Global warming's irritating like a splinter <br>Compared to hunkering down for a nuclear winter </p>
<p>Don't let politicians blind you with their commotion <br>When you see missiles flying over that's one issue you'd vote on </p>
<p>Make nuclear disarmament the thing you're locked on <br>By asking all your leaders where they stand on the bomb </p>
<p>Cos if the bombs go off <br>No other issues matter <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your life will be in tatters <br>If the bombs go off <br>You'll wish that you'd acted before </p>
<p>If the bombs go off <br>There's no way to vote them back <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your world is going black <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your overriding emotion will be regret </p>
<p>Only 9 countries have nuclear weapons <br>But any single one of them could end us in seconds </p>
<p>One determined hacker and security breach <br>A single crazy president with a button in reach </p>
<p>An angry dictator who won't be disarmed <br>Some kind of malfunction that sets off an alarm </p>
<p>So many scenarios can't think of them all <br>Of course the one that you forget would be the fate we befall </p>
<p>The odds are all long but the risk is so high <br>And there's no way back, once they're all up in the sky </p>
<p>Cos if the bombs go off <br>No other issues matter <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your life will be in tatters <br>If the bombs go off <br>You'll wish that you'd acted before </p>
<p>If the bombs go off <br>There's no way to vote them back <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your world is going black <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your overriding emotion will be regret </p>
<p>Nuclear war could lead to social improvement <br>With equal opportunity and freedom of movement </p>
<p>Freedom of speech would be a forgotten obsession <br>When you're pushing round a shopping cart with all your possessions </p>
<p>There'd be no discrimination or judging by race <br>After a massive a fireball has burnt off your face </p>
<p>Cos if the bombs go off <br>No other issues matter <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your life will be in tatters <br>If the bombs go off <br>You'll wish that you'd acted before </p>
<p>If the bombs go off <br>There's no way to vote them back <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your world is going black <br>If the bombs go off <br>Your overriding emotion will be regret</p>
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<p>He is the co-author of two books, both of which he wrote with international bestselling author Richard Lawrence, namely Prayer Energy (Cico, 2009; 2nd edition 2019) and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels (O Books, 2007), which was voted “best book on spirituality 2007” by readers of Kindred Spirit magazine. Prayer Energy has been translated into French and Japanese, and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels into Russian and Portuguese. </p>
<p>Mark has travelled extensively, having spent time not only in China, but also in Europe, India, Mongolia, West Africa and the Caucasus. He currently lives in Fulham, London. He speaks English, Russian, Chinese, Italian, French and German.</p>
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<p>Don't have no faith, no need to try <br>The God in the Bible's the sun in the sky </p>
<p>Go deep within, look out your eye <br>The Brahma of the scriptures is way up on high </p>
<p>It's the solar logos on whom we depend <br>To go through invaluable experience </p>
<p>Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one <br>Who shineth always in sacrifice </p>
<p>The nearest thing to God in manifestation <br>The most evolved creature in our concept of creation </p>
<p>You say you've looked around, oooh you're not too bright <br>All that you see is solidified light </p>
<p>It's the solar logos on whom we depend <br>To go through invaluable experience </p>
<p>Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one <br>Who shineth always in sacrifice </p>
<p>Don't have no faith, no need to try <br>The God in the Bible's the sun in the sky </p>
<p>It's the solar logos on whom we depend <br>To go through invaluable experience </p>
<p>Blessed is this one, Sacred is this one <br>Who shineth always in sacrifice</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66515242021-06-04T10:25:00+02:002022-03-30T08:11:08+02:00Sodajerker on songwriting<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/e5e078454a0a3364f2dab038eb29af1763abd0c3/original/72-sodajerker.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor, Sodajerker is the creative outlet for two friends raised on the celebrated songbooks of such luminaries as Lennon and McCartney, Bacharach and David, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Goffin and King and The Chic Organisation. Like the profession from which they take their name, Sodajerker use their hard-won skills to conjure artistry from the everyday. Their songs have been heard on radio stations around the world and on a number of film soundtracks. Simon and Brian are also the co-hosts of the Sodajerker On Songwriting podcast, a programme featuring interviews with some of the world’s most successful songwriters. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG</p>
<p>Radio plays <br>No. 1 hit <br>But is there really <br>Anything to it </p>
<p>Melody flows <br>On repeat <br>Underneath <br>Generic beat </p>
<p>Soaring up <br>Crashing down <br>Missing meaning <br>It's only sound </p>
<p>Don't listen hard, and don't listen long? <br>To something that sounds like a song </p>
<p>The production <br>Is delicious <br>Only a little <br>Repetitious </p>
<p>Is the rift <br>Stuck in your head <br>Is it important <br>What was that he said? </p>
<p>People listen all day long <br>To something that sounds like a song </p>
<p>Pause for a moment <br>To take it apart <br>Peel back the pieces <br>Is there a heart? </p>
<p>A chorus to praise <br>Wisdom in verse? <br>Will it change things <br>For better or worse? </p>
<p>Fighting injustice, righting a wrong? <br>Or just something that sounds like a song? </p>
<p>Make a video <br>Cover your traces <br>Distract with images <br>Lots of pretty faces </p>
<p>Don't listen hard, and Don't listen long <br>To something that sounds like a song <br>Something that sounds like a song <br>Something that sounds like a song</p>
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<p>UNNECESSARY MUSIC</p>
<p>The world is saturated with songs <br>And we all just nod along <br>They have the patter and the beat <br>But they're whitebread food to eat </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Why do we produce it? <br>Cos it is more fun to do <br>Than it is to listen to </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Perhaps it's therapeutic <br>But they say a burden shared <br>Is a burden doubled </p>
<p>No idea in there was conceived <br>The embryo can't be believed <br>It has a head and arms and legs <br>But take its pulse you'll find it's dead </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Why do we produce it? <br>Cos it is more fun to do <br>Than it is to listen to </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Perhaps it's therapeutic <br>But they say a burden shared <br>Is a burden doubled </p>
<p>What spurred you on to finish it? <br>Put layers on the thinnish bit <br>When you had half-written the song? <br>Why'd you decide to carry on? </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Why do we produce it? <br>Cos it is more fun to do <br>Than it is to listen to </p>
<p>Unnecessary music <br>Perhaps it's therapeutic <br>But they say a burden shared <br>Is a burden doubled</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66447202021-05-31T16:00:00+02:002021-09-21T11:36:57+02:00Reed Berkowitz: a game designer’s analysis of QAnon<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d31e373661788b0e89503d88424b2a06e909e47c/original/71-reed-berkowitz.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />"I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass. When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music) QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game..." Reed Berkowitz. Read the rest</p>
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<p> APOPHENIA</p>
<p>In unrelated things, you perceive a commonality <br>Building a breadcrumb trail, away from reality </p>
<p>The players create it <br>All looking to spot </p>
<p>The journey is the point <br>There's no bigger plot </p>
<p>Apophenia is leading you <br>To join the dots and build the pictures </p>
<p>Seems there are some scenes for you <br>Interpretations of the scriptures </p>
<p>Leading you and deceiving you <br>Seeing what you want to believe in </p>
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<p>The longer you play <br>The greater your role </p>
<p>The further we all go <br>Down the white rabbit hole </p>
<p>Apophenia is leading you <br>To join the dots and build the pictures </p>
<p>Seems there are some scenes for you <br>Interpretations of the scriptures </p>
<p>leading you and deceiving you <br>Seeing what you want to believe in </p>
<p>The stage must be set, for a new reality <br>Crumbs are easy to swallow, but will lead you astray </p>
<p>IF you fall in with the rest, following the hordes <br>Don't believe all you see, on the message boards </p>
<p>Apophenia is leading you <br>To join the dots and build the pictures </p>
<p>Seems there are some scenes for you <br>Interpretations of the scriptures </p>
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<p>Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist and a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, and Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International. He was previously a faculty and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Chan School of Public Health between 2004-2020, and an epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. </p>
<p>In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic risk of COVID-19. He focuses his efforts on analyzing COVID-19 trends, stop COVID-19 misinformation, advocate for public health, and improve health policy. Dr. Feigl-Ding’s work focuses on the intersection of public health and public policy. </p>
<p>He also currently works on social-network based behavioral interventions for prevention, drug safety, diabetes/obesity prevention, and public health programs in the US and globally. He has further expertise in designing and conducting randomized trials, systematic reviews, public health programs, and improving health policy. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p> VACCINATE</p>
<p>It's often hard to know what to do <br>You hear different arguments, points of view <br>What is wrong, and what is true? <br>On the subject of the virus </p>
<p>Our attitude to mortality <br>How we feel about authority <br>Filter and form all our opinions <br>Am I being righteous? </p>
<p>But if in doubt about how to act <br>Then always do, what's best for other people </p>
<p>Where a mask that filters well <br>Wash your hands, distance and gel <br>Open windows, ventilate <br>Vaccinate </p>
<p>Run in the mountains, swim in the sea <br>Build robust immunity <br>Limit your plate and watch your weight <br>Vaccinate </p>
<p>So kids can go back to school <br>Cos keeping them at home is cruel <br>Don't ruminate or hesitate <br>Vaccinate </p>
<p>Don't trust to fate or leave it late <br>Calculate it could mutate <br>If you postulate or speculate <br>Or read posts about conspiracies </p>
<p>And if in doubt about vaccines <br>Browse horrible photos of defeated diseases </p>
<p>Birth defects brought on by Rubella <br>The terrible shock of Chickenpox <br>Parents in hysteria, kids with Diphtheria <br>Vaccinate </p>
<p>Would you like Hepatitis or Rotavirus? <br>Or the evils that come from Measles <br>It's cretinous to risk tetanus <br>Vaccinate </p>
<p>You don't want your kids low with Polio <br>Only silly men scoff at Whooping Cough <br>You'll feel like a chump if they get the Mumps <br>Vaccinate</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66404342021-05-26T16:00:00+02:002022-04-04T15:22:50+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 6<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/035963baa37dac5612701fedbdae9d9da2392dc2/original/commentary-volume-6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 Ways To Lose A Country <br>2 Coffee Lover <br>3 Dumpster Diving <br>4 The Economics of Love <br>5 Hingminashi Eikhoi <br>6 You Know They Lie <br>7 The Libertarian <br>8 Helicopter Parents <br>9 Everything Is Perfect <br>10 The Terrible Tale of Gain-of-Function Research Under the Streetlight <br>11 Give The Devil His Due <br>12 The Ballad of Ella Kissi-Debrah</p>
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<p>Maria Neira joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993 as the Coordinator of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control. In 1999, she became the Director of the Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication. She was then appointed as the Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in 2005. During her career, Maria also worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in refugee camps in Central America. </p>
<p>Maria served as the Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, as President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency, as the Public Health Adviser of the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, and as the United Nations Public Health Advisor/Physician for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Rwanda. </p>
<p>Maria studied medicine and surgery at the University of Oviedo. She specialized in endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the Université René Déscartes. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in Public Health, a diploma in Human Nutrition from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and an international diploma in Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management form the University of Geneva. In 2016, she received the “Inspirational Women in Geneva Working for the Environment” award, in additional to other international awards in France and Spain.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> THE BALLAD OF ELLA KISSI-DEBRAH</p>
<p>Reading in the papers <br>Numbers written there <br>Of how many die each year <br>Cos of dirty air </p>
<p>But numbers they don't speak <br>Drama they lack <br>Unlike the sound of hearing someone <br>Die from an asthma attack </p>
<p>What can change? </p>
<p>So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Didn't die in vein <br>And we all take action <br>And Policies change </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Hear our prayers <br>So that no more children <br>Will die <br>From breathing air </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Deserves a happy tune <br>But this song is not for her <br>It is meant for you </p>
<p>To pluck and play your heart strings <br>So you think twice before we drive <br>And decide who you will give your vote to <br>So more kids stay alive </p>
<p>So that - Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Didn't die in vein <br>And we all take action <br>And Policies change </p>
<p>Ella Kissi-Debrah <br>Hear our prayers <br>So that no more children <br>Will die <br>From breathing air</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66384552021-05-21T09:00:00+02:002021-05-26T16:20:26+02:00Michael Shermer on scepticism and free speech<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/5648132cf72232cec639bcc546e2dbcf52b69675/original/68-michael-shermer.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism. Shermer is producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown which was broadcast in 1999. From April 2001 to January 2019, he was a monthly contributor to Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. He is also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).Shermer was once a fundamentalist Christian, but ceased to believe in the existence of God during his graduate studies. He accepts the labels agnostic, nontheist, atheist and others. He has expressed reservations about such labels for his lack of belief in a God, however, as he sees them being used in the service of "pigeonholing", and prefers to simply be called a skeptic. He also describes himself as an advocate for humanist philosophy as well as the science of morality.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE</p>
<p>Through much of my life I was lost, to what opinions were mine <br>I was blown with the wind, confused, most of the time </p>
<p>But hindsight is helpful for learning, and I learnt a lot <br>I'm older and wiser and stronger with the knowledge I've got </p>
<p>The right from the wrong, the false from the true <br>I gave the Devil his due </p>
<p>There were times when I had to close my ears, cos I couldn't bear to hear <br>When people had terrible views, that filled me with fear </p>
<p>Or lies like a virus infected, I thought all conspiracy <br>But more times exposed, meant greater immunity </p>
<p>Consensus can hide. Discern and decide <br>I gave the Devil his due </p>
<p>I've learnt the most from those with whom I disagreed <br>They forced me to think what exactly it was I believed </p>
<p>Knowledge is a currency. But wisdom is gold <br>Weigh up the value of everything, you've ever been told </p>
<p>Most of it's wrong, but some of it's true <br>So I gave the Devil his due</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66322572021-05-17T11:10:00+02:002021-05-20T10:22:03+02:00Marc Lipsitch Harvard Epidemiologist on COVID-19 and the dubious art of "gain-of-function" research<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c24ef2c8fab3a3a6b539b9e5b24bc016652d05b3/original/67-marc-lipsitch.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Marc Lipsitch is an American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. He is currently working on modeling the transmission of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Lipsitch attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1991. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying zoology, and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995. There, he studied under Robert May and Martin Nowak. He then returned to the United States for his postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University from 1995 to 1999. During that time, he worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE TERRIBLE TALE OF GAIN- OF- FUNCTION RESEARCH UNDER THE STREETLIGHT</p>
<p>I was reading in the Lancet just the other day <br>About the risk and benefits of gain-of-function </p>
<p>How some thought it desirous <br>Give functions to a virus <br>Of virulence and transmissibility </p>
<p>Thereby enabling assessment <br>to inform investment <br>In preparedness plans for pandemics </p>
<p>But what was the cause of the funding pause? <br>Human error in high containment labs </p>
<p>Gain-of-function <br>Strange instructions <br>Vague assumptions <br>Gain-of-function </p>
<p>We can't even predict <br>How influenza hits <br>From one season to the next </p>
<p>Instead of understanding these <br>And improving the vaccines <br>They look for answers where the looking's good </p>
<p>Testing out the 'ifs' <br>And sequencing the 'whats' <br>Like, how about if this virus was airborne </p>
<p>Cos if we know, how transmission goes <br>We're better prepared to prevent it </p>
<p>Gain-of-function <br>Insane construction <br>Plain dysfunction <br>Gain-of-function </p>
<p>From ferret, to ferret <br>Really is there merit? </p>
<p>Research it, regret it <br>Disaster you'll inherit </p>
<p>From mammal to mammal <br>It's utterly disparate </p>
<p>Don't get it? Don't sweat it? <br>It'll kill if you let </p>
<p>"Why are you looking under the streetlight? <br>Do you think the answer's over there" <br>The searcher answered with a spurious riposte <br>"No, but the light is brighter over here" </p>
<p>Gain-of-function <br>Insane construction <br>Plain dysfunction <br>Gain-of-function </p>
<p>Strange instructions <br>Vague assumptions <br>Gain-of-function</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66300492021-05-14T10:00:00+02:002022-03-30T08:07:58+02:00Murilo Gun the most creative man in Brazil<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/542c90ee7629bd22dc2e8120a8ddf38f091567d4/original/66-murilo-gun.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Murilo Gun is a speaker, master of ceremonies, professor of creativity and founder of Keep Learning School. </p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p> EVERYTHING IS PERFECT </p>
<p>Everything is perfect <br>Faultless without a defect <br>Everything you've ever been through. Happened exactly as it was meant to <br>Everything is perfect </p>
<p>Everything's exquisite <br>The world & everything in it <br>I love it all, my heart is bursting. But nobody sees it, that's the worst thing <br>Everything's exquisite </p>
<p>Everything is perfect <br>Utterly in all ways correct <br>I wouldn't change it if I could. It always works out for the good. <br>Everything is perfect </p>
<p>Everything's superb <br>Sublime in the way it occurs <br>Your life is how it's meant to be. To teach you more and help you see <br>Everything's superb </p>
<p>Everything is perfect <br>Everything is perfect <br>Everything is perfect </p>
<p>Everything's divine <br>As Karma plays out all the time <br>This is how God manifests, you get pressure back to feel effects <br>Everything's divine </p>
<p>Everything is perfect <br>Everything is perfect <br>Everything is perfect</p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/everythingperfect.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66262032021-05-10T09:00:00+02:002021-09-21T10:06:46+02:00Robby Soave on what makes Zillenials tick and Libertarianism<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/4bb1257d90237dd3e027bae047759d504842c3d6/original/65-robby-soave.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Robby Soave is an award-winning American journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is an editor at Reason. He enjoys writing about college news, education policy, criminal justice reform, and television. Soave has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News. In 2016, Forbes named him to the 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He won a 2015 Southern California Journalism Award for his commentary on Rolling Stone's investigative reporting on sexual assault at the University of Virginia in which he was skeptical on the subject. In 2016, Soave won the Alumnus of the Year Award at the International Students for Liberty Conference. He was also appointed to the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Soave is a 2017-2018 Novak Fellow at The Fund for American Studies. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and syndicated radio program.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE LIBERTARIAN </p>
<p>At college he was cruelly isolated <br>His ideologies set him alone <br>Republicans had fun and the best parties <br>While the alt-left ran the place to feel like home <br>All the were on the edges <br>With him in the middle </p>
<p>It was only years later <br>That he found his tribe <br>A group who's values <br>He recognised <br>They formed a circle </p>
<p>With him in the middle </p>
<p>He's a libertarian <br>And been set free <br>He says it loud, he sings it proud <br>"At last I've found my crowd </p>
<p>I'm a libertarian <br>And I belong <br>I'm coming up, I'm coming clean <br>This is what I believe </p>
<p>Yes to giving all a voice <br>Yes to more freedom of choice <br>Yes to work, deregulation <br>Yes to peace with other nations </p>
<p>Yes to beauracratic reduction <br>Yes to the Virtue of Production <br>Yes autonomy, less authority <br>Yes to freedom's our priority </p>
<p>I'm a libertarian <br>The third way <br>Two parties is no choice <br>When we all need to have a voice </p>
<p>Libertarians <br>Become free <br>I'm coming up, I'm coming clean <br>This is what I believe </p>
<p>Yes to giving all a voice <br>Yes to more freedom of choice <br>Yes to work, deregulation <br>Yes to peace with other nations </p>
<p>Yes to beauracratic reduction <br>Yes to the Virtue of Production <br>Yes autonomy, less authority <br>Yes to freedom's our priority </p>
<p>2) HELICOPTER PARENTS </p>
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<p>Helicopter parents <br>Bred generation Z to be <br>Fearful of most everything <br>Unconsciously </p>
<p>Helicopter parents <br>Lack basic bravery <br>Onto unsuspecting offspring they load <br>Their anxieties </p>
<p>Helicopter parents <br>The media's to blame <br>In their rush to ratings they pushed <br>Kidnapping claims </p>
<p>Helicopter parents <br>Were arrested if they didn't <br>Provide a home environment that was <br>Safety sufficient </p>
<p>The breakfast table <br>Bolstered the fable <br>Abduction from strangers <br>An everpresent danger </p>
<p>Who's bright idea was it <br>To breed the fear of it <br>Missing kids <br>On milk cartons </p>
<p>All of their descendants have <br>Panic in their veins <br>At the slightest provocation they feel <br>Emotional pain </p>
<p>These kids are adolescents at <br>University <br>And even Halloween costumes cause them <br>Anxiety </p>
<p>They're on anti-depressants <br>Cos the pressure is immense <br>Free speech needs to be constrained for <br>Their self-defence </p>
<p>Cos of their suppressants they need <br>Safety at all costs <br>They're asking to be treated in the <br>Way that they grew up </p>
<p>The breakfast table <br>Bolstered the fable <br>Abduction from strangers <br>An everpresent danger </p>
<p>Who's bright idea - was it <br>To breed the fear - of it <br>With missing kids <br>On milk cartons</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66239722021-05-07T12:00:00+02:002021-11-06T09:49:40+01:00Laura Nirider on Un-Making a Murderer (ft. Musical Guests Big Little Lions)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/8e0705199b5739ad47636a621b81f22fafe6e45c/original/64-laura-nirider.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Laura Nirider is a lawyer and the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Nirider represents individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes when they were children or teenagers and specialises in areas such as confessions and police interrogations. </p>
<p>Her clients include Brendan Dassey, whose case was profiled in the Netflix Global series Making a Murderer, and Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, whose case was profiled in the documentary West of Memphis. </p>
<p>On her CV, Nirider says: "My responsibilities include representing wrongfully convicted youth, co-teaching a clinical course on wrongful convictions of youth, and directing the Center’s mission and work. "Both my courtroom work and classroom work focus on police interrogations and confessions. </p>
<p>"I maintain an ongoing caseload of post-conviction cases involving individuals who were convicted as children or adolescents. The majority of my clients’ cases involve confessions."</p>
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<p>FEATURED MUSICAL GUESTS: <a contents="Big Little Lions" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.biglittlelions.com/" target="_blank">Big Little Lions</a> are the award winning band from Cincinnati, OH and British Columbia, Canada. They were born out of a collaboration that won them a JUNO Award in 2014. Since then they have been cranking out infectious folk pop songs that are jam-packed with emotion and tight harmonies that sound like the product of two people working side-by-side instead of living in different countries. They have released 5 albums to date, which have garnered them awards and nominations including the CFMA Ensemble of the Year. Their critically acclaimed music has appeared on the CBC’s Top 20 and featured on shows like q and Vinyl Cafe. The duo consists of Paul Otten and Helen Austin, both hugely prolific songwriters - their music has been placed in hundreds of movie trailers, ads, network TV shows and on MTV. </p>
<p>Their live show is quite the spectacle with Paul playing drums, bass and keyboard all while singing lead vocals. Helen, who is no slacker either, sings, plays guitar and foot percussion. They use every limb, and then some, to make two people sound like a full band. </p>
<p>Their music has been dubbed ‘a blissful marriage of new folk and sophisticated pop’, and is packed with emotion and tight harmonies. https://www.biglittlelions.com/</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>YOU KNOW THEY LIE</p>
<p>Don't say a word <br>You know they lie <br>The system is blurred <br>And so we fight <br>So don't say a word <br>You know they lie </p>
<p>They pulled it out of you <br>A story with no truth <br>over your head <br>They get up in your face <br>Tell you you'll be safe <br>If you say what they said </p>
<p>Don't say a word <br>You know they lie <br>The family get hurt <br>And so we fight </p>
<p>No shred of evidence <br>Victim of circumstance <br>Put you away <br>How do they sleep at night <br>Knowing it's not right <br>They know that they made you say </p>
<p>Don't say a word <br>You know they lie <br>Their power is earned <br>And so we fight <br>No alibi so they say what they like <br>Confuse, distort and deceive <br>See it's the law using their last straw <br>Tell me who they gonna believe </p>
<p>Don't say a word <br>You know they lie <br>What have we learned <br>You know they lie <br>Just like a bad dream <br>You know they lie </p>
<p>Millions have seen <br>You know they lie <br>A life locked away <br>You know they lie </p>
<p>We hope and we pray</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66208342021-05-03T09:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:01:17+02:00Binalakshmi Nepram working for peace and freedom in Manipur<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bfa000b0b9837b6a2bcfc5d64f8faa566b3591ce/original/63-binalakshmi-nepram.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Binalakshmi Nepram is a humanitarian, author, and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements with the objective of arresting gun culture and bringing about peace for her home state of Manipur in particular and northeast India in general. For her contributions in this field to Manipur and northeast India she is known by the epithet "The Face & Voice of North East". Nepram has established many institutions such as the Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) in 2004, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN), Manipur, and Secretary General Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI). On the disarmament issue she opines, "You cannot shoot an unarmed person. This goes for both the State and non State actors... nonviolence will win at the end." Forbes named Nepram as one of its "24 Young Minds to Watch out for in 2015", and the Action on Armed Violence of London listed her among the top 100 influential people in the world actively pursuing a reduction in armed violence. </p>
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<p>LYRICS: </p>
<p>When your own governments against you <br>War is all you've ever known <br>Corruption undermines everything <br>Votes are bought and sold </p>
<p>Armed gunmen drive through the streets <br>AFSPA says they do that you please <br>Your own military, is adversarial <br>Who do you turn to for peace? </p>
<p>There's nothing to say <br>Only to sing </p>
<p>Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi </p>
<p>Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi </p>
<p>Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi </p>
<p>No one sheds tears for Manipur <br>Or the forgotten North East of India <br>Hidden away, people shot every day <br>Quietly one by one </p>
<p>With bullets fired from Western-built guns <br>Who profits from peace? <br>Keep going no one will know <br>When will the winds of change blow? </p>
<p>There's nothing to say <br>Only to sing </p>
<p>Hing-min-ashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi </p>
<p>Hingminashi Eikhoi, Mit-kap thok-lo mayam <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi </p>
<p>Hingminashi Eikhoi, Apun ba na yaiphare <br>Hingminashi Eikhoi</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66208362021-04-30T09:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:10:08+02:00Justin Wolfers on the economics of love and happiness<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/904c7deda175d1845c930edcd58e0a286d67d3e4/original/62-justin-wolfers.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Justin Wolfers is an Australian economist and public policy scholar. He is professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Wolfers holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1997–2001) and an Master of Economics (2000), both from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney (1991–1994). He had a Fulbright Scholarship.Wolfers attended James Ruse Agricultural High School (1985–1990). He is noted for his research on happiness and its relation to income. Wolfers moved to the University of Michigan as professor of economics and public policy beginning in fall 2012 with his partner, fellow economist Betsey Stevenson. </p>
<p>Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Wolfers was associate professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributor to the New York Times (where he writes for The Upshot blog) and the Wall Street Journal, and was an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity from 2009 through Fall 2015. Wolfers' research has explored the economics of sports, sports betting, prediction markets and the family. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song: The Economics of Love </p>
<p>I've done a differential game model <br>On our partnership <br>the results are what you'd expect </p>
<p>Based on effort and appeal <br>Our love it is ideal <br>Cos we've both so heavily invested </p>
<p>But it's not the sunk cost fallacy <br>That keeps us together <br>It's the ongoing returns <br>And compounded interest </p>
<p>Not the sunk cost fallacy <br>Why we go on forever <br>It's a high-yield bond <br>vs a high-heeled blonde <br>I've learnt the economics of love </p>
<p>It's growing exponentially <br>A concave curve <br>Building on our saving reserve </p>
<p>With no signs of fragility <br>And maximized utility <br>Returns are much greater than cost </p>
<p>But it's not the sunk cost fallacy <br>That keeps us together <br>It's the ongoing returns <br>And compounded interest </p>
<p>Not the sunk cost fallacy <br>Why we go on forever <br>It's a high-yield bond <br>vs a high-heeled blonde <br>I've learnt the economics of love </p>
<p>The coefficient of variation <br>Of our love affair <br>Shows mutual benefits <br>Of which we're both aware </p>
<p>Perceived costs are low <br>Cost of separation is high <br>Net benefit's optimized </p>
<p>But it's not the sunk cost fallacy <br>That keeps us together <br>It's the ongoing returns <br>And compounded interest </p>
<p>Not the sunk cost fallacy <br>Why we go on forever <br>It's a high-yield bond <br>vs a high-heeled blonde <br>I've learnt the economics of love</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66208952021-04-26T13:00:00+02:002022-03-30T07:58:24+02:00Florian Bassfeld on cycle touring with Rocky the Husky<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/3a6fe5c228abaf46865fadb60eb777918750d23c/original/61-florian-bassfeld.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />We gave shelter to a touring cyclist and his beautiful husky. He is having a real adventure travelling around the world so I decided to interview him as well so you could hear about it. He writes books about his adventures, makes videos and posts about it on his Socials. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the songs:</p>
<p>DUMPSTER DIVING</p>
<p>For some time now I've had my eye on you <br>And to win your heart, I've made my mission to do <br>It's gonna have to be something special, cos you're widely desired </p>
<p>You're a healthy girl, who loves to cook and eat <br>And I know the way, that our hearts can meet <br>Together we'll create the biggest feast you've ever seen </p>
<p>I may be a poor man <br>But I've got a secret plan <br>To the banquet of your dreams.... Gonna take you... </p>
<p>Dumpster diving <br>Put you in the mood honey <br>Just look at all this food mummy <br>Dumpster diving </p>
<p>Bring a torch and gloves, and a crate to stand on <br>And when jump in choose something soft to land on <br>Then sink into the delights down below </p>
<p>It might look dirty, a bit of a mess <br>But open the black bags the food's sealed and fresh <br>All the food the supermarkets aren't allowed to sell </p>
<p>But before we go <br>There's one thing you need to know <br>Don't open the meat bag baby </p>
<p>Dumpster diving <br>Put you in the mood honey <br>Just look at all this food mummy <br>Dumpster diving </p>
<p>I know the bakery with same day bread <br>The cheesecake shop with an amazing spread <br>I'll take you to the finest spots all over town </p>
<p>Some say it's risky, but you'll find it fun <br>If security come, get ready to run <br>It's not illegal, we're doing the world a favour </p>
<p>We'll finish by the florists, forget a spray <br>I'll make you a stunning bouquet <br>To end our perfect day </p>
<p>Dumpster diving <br>Put you in the mood honey <br>Just look at all this food mummy <br>Dumpster diving </p>
<p>Then we'll pack it away in the middle of the night <br>And make love by the fridge light </p>
<p>Dumpster diving <br>Gonna make sweet love tonight <br>Dumpster diving <br>Gonna make it sweet tonight <br>Dumpster diving <br>Gonna make it sweet tonight <br>Dumpster diving</p>
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<p> COFFEE LOVER </p>
<p>She drinks coffee I drink tea <br>I'm from England she's from Italy <br>She the caffeinated lover <br>That I've discovered </p>
<p>She flits about on her caffeine high <br>Gets any higher then I think she'll fly <br>I won't bring her down <br>I just want to hang around </p>
<p>We've got a deep dark roasted love </p>
<p>Cappuccino, Frappuccino, Macchiato, Espresso <br>Latte, Frappe, Americano, Cortado </p>
<p>She likes her coffee strong and black <br>I've learnt to make it like that <br>I wake her up with the aroma <br>I'll get my barista diploma </p>
<p>I bring it to her when she's still in bed <br>We cuddle up under the spread <br>And as the coffee gets stronger <br>I know our love goes longer </p>
<p>We've got a deep dark roasted love </p>
<p>Cappuccino, Frappuccino, Macchiato, Espresso <br>Latte, Frappe, Americano, Cortado </p>
<p>Coffee is the way to my lover's heart <br>Coffee makes her love me more </p>
<p>Coffee is the way to my lover's heart <br>Coffee is the thing that she adores </p>
<p>I've got to keep her up there <br>Keep her in the mood <br>I'm putting caffeine in her food <br>To preserve her altitude </p>
<p>Coffee is the way to my lover's heart <br>Coffee makes her love me more <br>Coffee is the way to my lover's heart <br>Coffee is the thing that she adores</p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66208932021-04-23T00:00:00+02:002021-12-29T20:23:12+01:00Ece Temelkuran on How To Lose Your Country in 7 Simple Steps<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/9717165914bab44b6510a6cc770f3395691ee3ad/original/60-ece-temelkuran.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist for Milliyet (2000–2009) and Habertürk (2009 – January 2012), and a presenter on Habertürk TV (2010–2011). She was fired from Habertürk after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre. She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist". Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique. A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she has published 12 books, including two published in English (Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Verso 2010, and Book of the Edge, BOA Editions 2010). In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide. Her books include Ne Anlatayım Ben Sana! ("What am I Going to Tell You!", Everest, 2006), on hunger strikes by Turkish political prisoners. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008. Her first novel, Muz Sesleri ("Banana Sounds"), was published in 2010 and has been translated into Arabic and Polish. In 2019, she published a nonfiction book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>WAYS TO LOSE A COUNTRY </p>
<p>Beware of movements that arise <br>Painting heaven in the skies <br>Telling you that they alone have the solution <br>On the right, on the left <br>Many roads lead to theft <br>And they're one of the ways to lose your country </p>
<p>Beware of the new rationale <br>That boosts popular morale <br>And schizophrenic logic terrorises <br>There's a distorted narrative <br>Where the truth will never live <br>It's just one of the ways to lose your country </p>
<p>Beware of brazen shamelessness <br>It's a nasty business <br>When people are acting up with immorality <br>Not humble or humane <br>Then chaos is soon to rein <br>And it's one of the ways to lose your country </p>
<p>Beware of appointments and dilutions <br>And attacks on institutions <br>When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers <br>A superfluous state <br>Will sign and seal fate <br>Another of the ways to lose your country </p>
<p>Beware of model citizens <br>Who are anointed as the ones <br>To follow and emulate cos they are perfect <br>While the rest of us are left <br>To feel second class at best <br>It's just one of the ways to lose your country </p>
<p>Beware of laughter in the streets <br>As they mock their new elites <br>The only self-defence left is their humour <br>Some say it's just sequential <br>And at best inconsequential <br>But it's one of the ways to lose your country</p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66563022021-04-20T12:00:00+02:002022-03-30T16:00:56+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 5 <p>A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 Sober Letters To My Drunken Self<br>2 Gaia's Sorrow<br>3 Roll Back the Surveillance State<br>4 Killing the kids<br>5 The Moloch Trap<br>6 Bicycle Ride<br>7 Serve<br>8 Chronotypes<br>9 How Not To Die Yet<br>10 Our town<br>11 A song about singing<br>12 Doctors Unite</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/6bbfb4062f4ada632a215e245dbafb33cfc2c49b/original/commentary-volume-5.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66091562021-04-19T14:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:20:56+02:00Eric Topol on Why Doctors Need to Organize<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/6cbfb4522c8f920a9e4931b8798a3af3c7be801c/original/59-eric-topol.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Eric Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. He is editor-in-chief of Medscape and theheart.org. He has published three bestseller books on the future of medicine. The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2010), The Patient Will See You Now (2015), and Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019). He was also commissioned by the UK 2018–2019 to lead planning for the National Health Service's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Topol was awarded a US$207 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (All of Us Research Program), a one million American prospective research program. This is in addition to his role as principal investigator for a US$35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to promote innovation in medicine and the education and career training of future medical researchers. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p>DOCTORS UNITE </p>
<p>We need the doctors to lead the fight <br>We need the doctors to combine their might <br>We need the doctors to lead every campaign </p>
<p>We need the doctors to take this on <br>We need the doctors to be strong <br>We need the doctors to stand up in our name </p>
<p>Obesity is killing people <br>It's an epidemic <br>Heart disease is deadly <br>And it's become endemic </p>
<p>Who can end the nightmare <br>What can stop the pain? <br>Dieticians? Or marketing campaigns? <br>No, the remedy is Universal <br>Doctors unite </p>
<p>Doctors are stressed to breaking <br>By unnecessary work <br>Tied down to their keyboards <br>They are data entry clerks </p>
<p>Who can end the nightmare? <br>What can stop the pain? <br>Medical Administrators, this is their terrain <br>No, the remedy is Universal <br>Doctors unite </p>
<p>We need the doctors to lead the fight <br>We need the doctors to combine their might <br>We need the doctors to lead every campaign </p>
<p>We need the doctors to take this on <br>We need the doctors to be strong <br>We need the doctors to stand up in our name </p>
<p>There are so many issues <br>So many fights <br>From inequality to poverty <br>Don't mention gun rights </p>
<p>But if one million doctors <br>Were together in one lane <br>Imagine their power <br>How much they could change </p>
<p>Opioids are overused <br>A crisis now exists <br>Doctors serve as drug dispensers <br>For big pharma lobbyists </p>
<p>Who can end the nightmare? <br>What can stop the pain? <br>Possibly new legislation? Or something in that vein? <br>No, the remedy is Universal <br>Doctors unite </p>
<p>We need the doctors to lead the fight <br>We need the doctors to combine their might <br>We need the doctors to lead every campaign </p>
<p>We need the doctors to take this on <br>We need the doctors to be strong <br>We need the doctors to stand up in our name </p>
<p>We need the doctors to unite <br>We need the doctors to aim a strike <br>We need the doctors to get us out of this </p>
<p>The remedy is Universal <br>Doctors unite</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66091372021-04-16T14:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:22:43+02:00Lisa Paglin and Marianna Brilla on the revolutionary singing technique that stops singers losing their voices<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/003c2d26bb8c99b4d36ffa41443f841b98432417/original/58-lisa-paglin-and-marianna-brilla.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />'The voice is the perfect musical instrument' When Lisa Paglin met Marianna Brilla, Marianna was questioning everything about the voice. Degrees from prestigious schools, international studies with 27 world-renowned teachers and a Fulbright Award had proven to her that clear criteria for achieving ease, perfect intonation and simple communication through the word in singing was no longer available anywhere. Despite personal dissatisfaction, she was sought after as a singer and began a successful career. But, determined to rediscover the foundations of fine singing, Marianna left the stage and began challenging fallacies, inaccuracies and misinformation. Lisa was an accomplished pianist and singer from early childhood. As a young soprano at the Vienna Staatsoper, she drew much praise for her voice and musicality, but confusing vocal instruction, combined with a period of poor health, threw her off-balance. Longing to return to effortless and joyful singing, Lisa consulted prominent teachers, to no avail. She joined Marianna, and together they completed over 15 years of painstaking research, resulting in a thorough understanding of voice. Their methods for voice training and vocal rehabilitation, Vocal Balance™ and Vocal Restoration™, were born. </p>
<p><a contents="Read the Guardian article that inspired me to contact them for singing lessons&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/10/adele-vocal-cord-surgery-why-stars-keep-losing-their-voices">Read the Guardian article that inspired me to contact them for singing lessons </a></p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>A SONG ABOUT SINGING<br><br>I'd been driving for years <br>Lost in foreign lands <br>Searching for answers <br>Some guiding hands </p>
<p>I'd gone cross country <br>Even lost the road <br>I was given directions <br>By people, far gone themselves </p>
<p>But it was in my darkest hour <br>That I heard her name <br>Whispered on the wind <br>And I was guided to a place </p>
<p>The parking lot was packed <br>the queue went round the block <br>But a desperate man won't be denied <br>I found a window unlocked </p>
<p>I climbed into her chamber <br>And poured out my heart <br>Of how I'd lost my voice somewhere <br>She watched me in the dark </p>
<p>"Your problems obvious <br>You've forced your tone <br>Singing should be an effortless thing <br>Leave well alone" </p>
<p>After an hour together <br>I felt changes deep inside <br>And I walked out the door two inches taller <br>With words to reach the sky <br><br>And I could sing sing sing <br>Such a pure and simple thing <br>Go within <br>And let it ring </p>
<p>Yes I could sing sing sing <br>A recrowned king <br>I went within <br>And let it ring <br><br>Her technique was simple <br>As light as love <br>An iron fist <br>Inside a velvet glove </p>
<p>She took away the parts <br>That were not me <br>Like Michaelangelo <br>Had done for David </p>
<p>With balanced tone <br>The right vibrations <br>Like a type rope walker <br>I had bold and new sensations </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66047682021-04-12T16:45:00+02:002021-05-20T12:24:20+02:00James Fallows on a 100000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America<p> </p><!-- more -->
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/7f09f20ae1c118a7269e16ae4e65599f5e3505cb/original/57-james-fallows.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> James Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job. Fallows has been a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and China and holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of eleven books, including National Defense, for which he received the 1983 National Book Award, Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009), China Airborne (2012), and Our Towns.</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>OUR TOWN </p>
<p>In our town we have pride <br>We don't form factions or divide <br>We chose to come together <br>And together we decide </p>
<p>By ourselves, we don't wait <br>For the government or state <br>To help us with our problems <br>We fix issues that we face </p>
<p>We are united <br>We are neighbors <br>To get things done <br>We work as one </p>
<p>We rise together <br>Or not at all <br>We share a future <br>When we stand tall </p>
<p>In our town, we've made changes <br>To get young people to stay <br>By giving them the helpful breaks <br>They can do things here their way </p>
<p>And our town's always growing <br>While keeping heritage <br>It isn't small, it isn't big <br>It's perfect as it is </p>
<p>We are united <br>We are neighbors <br>To get things done <br>We work as one </p>
<p>We rise together <br>Or not at all <br>We share a future <br>When we stand tall </p>
<p>Our town was made from what we do <br>Our town was built by me and you <br>Our town's alive <br>Our town is true </p>
<p>Our town is black, our town is white <br>Our town is red, our town is blue <br>Our town's the color <br>Of me and you </p>
<p>It wasn't drawn up from top-down <br>We raised it up out of the ground <br>Our town has roots <br>Our towns foundations </p>
<p>Our town is living history <br>Our town is straight simplicity <br>Our town is honest <br>Our town is free </p>
<p>Our town has people that belong <br>Our town will go on living long <br>Our town is stable <br>Our town is strong </p>
<p>This is our town <br>Look at our town <br>It is our town <br>We love our town</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66080862021-04-09T16:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:28:34+02:00How Not To Die? It's a big question. And Dr Michael Greger has made his life's work answering it<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bae6b6bc3346eb618f0f159a036e51575d5766e5/original/56-michael-greger.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p>Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show, and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous " meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. Dr. Greger's most recent scientific publications in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Family and Community Health, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture. Dr. Greger is also licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition and is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charity. He is the author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America's Low Carb Craze. Three of his recent books — How Not to Die, the How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet — became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His latest book, How to Survive a Pandemic, was just released in May. View the trailer for How Not to Die here, for How Not to Diet here, and for How to Survive a Pandemic here. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>HOW NOT TO DIE YET</p>
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<p>VERSE D# G# <br>C <br>Getting antioxidants from cooking with spices (spices) <br>F <br>Sprouting seeds and grains across my counter (kitchen counter) <br>C <br>Blending veg and fruits to make my green smoothies (smoothies) <br>F <br>In every meal I'm adding some legumes (legumes) </p>
<p>CHORUS (one strum - different strum) - <br>Am G F C <br>Whole foods made fresh are what I eat <br>Am G F C <br>Nothing fried, never meat <br>Am F G C <br>As I try not to die yet </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Tumeric and pepper mixed together into almost every meal (healthy meal) <br>Berries when I need them in the freezer cos they're full of vitamins (vitamins) <br>Stopping damage to my DNA with broccoli (broccoli) <br>Sprinkling ground flax seeds over everything I see (all I see) </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Whole foods made fresh are what I eat <br>Nothing fried, never meat <br>As I try not to die yet </p>
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<p>MIDDLE (Quiet) <br>Am G <br>I check Nutritionfacts.com <br> Em F <br>To hear how healthy I've become <br>Am G <br>And Dr Greger's daily dozen <br> Em G F <br>God you've got to love him </p>
<p>CHORUS (Quiet) <br>Whole foods made fresh are what I eat <br>Nothing fried, never meat <br>As I try not to die yet </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I'm binging all day long on bags of broccoli (brocolli) <br>And Walnuts are my favourite for omegas cos so they're so nutritious (nutrichness) <br>Flaxseed muffins are my special breakfast treat (breakfast treat) <br>And I'm cutting my cholesterol with legumes (legumes) </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Whole foods made fresh are what I eat <br>Nothing fried, never meat <br>As I try not to die yet </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090932021-04-05T13:00:00+02:002022-08-05T17:45:04+02:00Michael Breus the Sleep Doctor on the key to good sleep <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/2712567a03af4caf15e5e5a9f94f9342d1527dc9/original/55-michael-breus.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> <a contents="Michael Breus" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.thesleepdoctor.com">Michael Breus - The Sleep Doctor</a> is a practicing Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in sleep disorders. He oversees nine sleep labs across Southern California and Arizona as the senior vice president of Clinical Operations of Phoenix Sleep. In addition to treating more than 5,000 patients every year and training other sleep doctors, he consults with major airlines and hotel chains to provide effective sleep tips for their customers. Dr. Breus is the co-founder of SoundSleep Solutions LLC and is the designated sleep expert on WebMD.com. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p>CHRONOTYPES </p>
<p>VERSE <br>E <br>I lived with a lion <br>B <br>It was a nightmare <br>F#m <br>Woke me early in the morning <br>A <br>You don't do that to a bear </p>
<p>I dated a dolphin <br>An insomniac <br>And I made with a wolf <br>But barely made it back </p>
<p> B A E <br>Are you my kind of girl? </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> A <br>Come over and sleep me <br> E <br>I like you baby come and sleep with me <br> A <br>We need to try it baby, sleep with me <br> E <br>Compatability, sleep with me </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>E A <br>So what's your chronotype baby <br>E A <br>Are you good for me? <br>E A <br>I need your chronotype baby <br> B <br>Let's try it and see and see </p>
<p>Do the Chronotype quiz to <br>Check if we match <br>Turn on your sleeping app baby <br>Let's take a quick nap <br> <br>VERSE <br>I lived with a lion <br>What a nightmare <br>Woke me in the morning <br>You don't do that a bear </p>
<p>I need a girl like me </p>
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<p>BRIDGE <br>So what's your chronotype baby <br>Are you good for me? <br>I need your chronotype baby <br>Let's try it and see </p>
<p>Do the Chronotype quiz to <br>Check if we match <br>Turn on your sleeping app baby <br>Let's take a quick nap </p>
<p>What's your chronotype baby <br>Are you good for me? <br>I need your chronotype baby <br>Let's try it and see </p>
<p>Do the Chronotype quiz to <br>Check if we match <br>Turn on your sleeping app baby <br>Let's take a quick nap </p>
<p>So what's your chronotype baby <br>Are you good for me? <br>I need your chronotype baby <br>Let's try it and see </p>
<p>Do the Chronotype quiz to <br>Check if we match <br>Turn on your sleeping app baby <br>Let's take a quick nap </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090942021-04-02T13:00:00+02:002021-05-20T12:31:58+02:00Paul Nugent from Charity Worker in the UK to Cosmic Director in LA<p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d0e3e51322fbd12d869c0d07e522e7f9e3fafd5a/original/54-paul-nugent.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Paul Nugent, Born in Cambridge, England, in 1958, was brought up in the Church of England, culminating in regular worship and charitable work for the homeless at London’s famous St. Martin’s in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square. Having completed a business degree in 1980, he later studied Eastern Philosophy at London’s School of Economic Science, as well as spending two periods at the New Age spiritual community of Findhorn in the north of Scotland. </p>
<p>At the same time, he was introduced to the cosmic teachings of The Aetherius Society that had been founded in London in 1955 by Western Master of Yoga, Dr. George King, becoming a member in 1986. He moved permanently to the Society’s American Headquarters in Los Angeles in 1990. Two years later, I became a personal assistant to Dr. King, remaining at his side until his passing in July 1997. Since 2001, he has been a director of The Aetherius Society, helping to spread the cosmic teachings that were given by Masters from beyond this Earth through Dr. King. </p>
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<div>SERVE Service is the culmination</div>
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<div>SERVE Come out of suffering</div>
<div>SERVE Receive truth and everything</div>
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<div>You could be living in paradise</div>
<div>But you took your own bad advice</div>
<div>This is the price</div>
<div>Now serve your way out of this</div>
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<div>SERVE The heart of religion is to</div>
<div>SERVE The most glorious yoga</div>
<div>SERVE To practice love you need to</div>
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<div>SERVE Set aside your vanity</div>
<div>SERVE Devote yourself to humanity</div>
<div>SERVE With every muscle and sinew</div>
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<div>Transmute selfishness SERVE</div>
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<div>Discover greater happiness</div>
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<div>No more hiding out in monasteries</div>
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<div>Even idleness is criminal</div>
<div>Entertainment must be minimal</div>
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<div>SERVE The most glorious yoga</div>
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<div>SERVE Devote yourself to humanity</div>
<div>SERVE With every muscle and sinew</div>
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<div>Doesn't matter if you believe</div>
<div>If you don't today</div>
<div>You will tomorrow</div>
<div>Accept it - and serve</div>
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<p>His yuppie job nourishing nothing and taking him nowhere, in April of 2019 Ted Kunz bailed out and headed south from the USA on board a dual-sport motorcycle. Immediately, he began submitting monthly Dispatches to The Idaho Press, his home state newspaper. He had the loose idea of chronicling two years on two wheels, a full circumnavigation of the globe, for a home audience. </p>
<p>Passing through 17 Latin American countries, he finally reached Argentina after riding some of the more challenging routes in the Americas. From there, he transitioned by plane to Cape Town, South Africa where he began again, this time pedaling a bicycle, with a rough idea of surviving 13,000 kilometers to Cairo. </p>
<p>Then, in March of 2020, the pandemic struck. Barely making it over the border into Zambia, a series of serendipitous events led to the construction of a fully-equipped school science laboratory in a tough neighborhood in Livingstone, a miraculous story and a victory for the spirit. </p>
<p>Ted’s regular Dispatches to the Idaho Press proved to be immensely popular, and have since turned into a book titled “Two Wheeled Wanderer: An Obscure Man in Obscure Places,” available online from Pediment Publishing. An ebook is also forthcoming. </p>
<p>Ted met Jack at a show in Amsterdam in 2007, and he’s sure glad for that. Less notably, he holds a degree in Economics from NYU and a couple of bourgeois credentials too, the content of which he’d rather forget.</p>
<p>Follow him on <a contents="Instagram" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/two.wheel.wanderer">Instagram</a> and his <a contents="newspaper column" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.idahopress.com/community/two-wheeled_wanderer/">newspaper column</a> in Idaho. His new book is out now <a contents="The Two-Wheeled Wanderer" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.pediment.com/products/two-wheeled-wanderer-ted-kunz-idaho-press-dispatches-book?fbclid=IwAR048mNVyMIN_G4AWGpi9t7kNpUsQOlUnKuoulDvcCnOQfSDyWClBEkR72A">The Two-Wheeled Wanderer</a></p>
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<p>BICYCLE RIDE <br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>On my bike, on my bike, ‘cause it’s all I got<br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>‘cause it’s all I got <br><br>No I ain’t got a car <br>Can’t take you that far <br>But I know we’ll have a good time <br><br>So jump on the back <br>Of my bicycle rack <br>And together we can fly <br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>On my bike, on my bike, ‘cause it’s all I got <br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>‘cause it’s all I got <br><br>We'll see such wonderful things <br>Just you and me <br>Through the stars you’ll see my name? <br><br>Some dust on your skin <br>Wash it in off in the ocean <br>And you’ll never be bored again <br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>On my bike, on my bike, ‘cause it’s all I got <br><br>I wanna take you for a ride on my bicycle <br>‘cause it’s all I got </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66091462021-03-26T14:00:00+01:002021-05-20T12:46:47+02:00Liv Boeree, ex pro poker player, on the odds of us destroying ourselves<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/50cf4e91eaee1dae8f3b1a16a7d8baf56d74e396/original/52-liv-boeree.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Liv Boeree is a science communicator, television presenter, and former professional poker player. She is a World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion and is the only female player in history to win a WSOP bracelet and EPT event. Born in Kent, Boeree earned a First Class Honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Boeree is a 3x winner of the Global Poker Index European Female Player of the year and currently sits at #5 on the female all-time live poker winnings list. </p>
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<p>THE MOLOCH TRAP </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G <br>How on earth will we survive? <br>Em <br>Nature's worth more dead than alive <br>C <br>It's a race to cut down the trees <br>D <br>Before somebody else does </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br> C D <br>Where are our brains and imagination? <br> G D/F# Em <br>Smokestacks pumping out damnation <br> C <br>There's no way to prevent this <br> D <br>Cos we have... </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> G <br>Perverse incentives <br> Em <br>To sacrifice values <br> C <br>Be more competitive <br> D <br>Racing to the bottom </p>
<p>How can we stop them? <br>Without co-operation <br>The tragedy of the commons <br>Unnecessary sadness </p>
<p>Multipolar madness <br>Walking to the Moloch Trap <br>How do we turn? <br>How do we turn? </p>
<p>And break the cycle <br>Not fulfill <br>The prediction <br>Of human extinction </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Wars are good for the economy <br>Pollution boosts our GDP <br>Its nuclear weapons or risk destruction <br>AIs now an arms race </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>What's good for others, is good because <br>It's long term good for all of us <br>Where are the glad and wise? <br>Instead, we have... </p>
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<p>OUTRO <br>Do you mourn for Maldek? <br>Have fury at Lemuria? <br>And the conflicts of Atlantis? <br>Do you reminisce? </p>
<p>Free will vs Freedom <br>Within the law of karma <br>The madness of this <br>Moloch drama </p>
<p>Are we gonna rise up? <br>Are we going to stand? <br>Or are we going to fall? <br>Are we going to fail?</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089952021-03-22T11:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:23:38+01:00Marion Nestle the grandmother of dieticians<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bcec2a0ed7ffbe045a5586081389515803cbf7ec/original/51-marion-nestle.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American academic. She is the Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. Nestle received her BA from UC Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa, after attending school there from 1954-1959. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p>KILLING THE KIDS </p>
<p>VERSE <br>D Bm <br>Processed, preserved <br>D G <br>Frozen and fried <br>D Bm <br>Set in their ways <br>D G <br>Too long, to change <br>Bm D <br>And the truth's too terrible to face <br>Bm A D <br>They're killing the children with food </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Their bodies, engourged <br>Their minds clogged up <br>As their hearts grow weaker <br>Assaulted every day <br>It's an execution so crude <br>They're killing the children with food </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Bm D <br>But it must be alright as it's offered <br>G A <br>No one willingly do them harm? </p>
<p>And the providers are but a link in the chain <br>And each feels free from blame </p>
<p>Bm D <br>They say nothing can be proved <br>Bm A D <br>They're killing the children with food </p>
<p>VERSE (INSTRUMENTAL) </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Mouthful by mouthful <br>Plate by plate <br>As God provides <br>They abdicated their fate <br>And they called the prophet rude <br>They're killing the children with food <br>They're killing the children with food <br>They're killing the children with food</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089722021-03-19T11:45:00+01:002021-05-20T13:14:13+02:00Cory Doctorow on the Surveillance State, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c4531d97009839d836cd7870736c5d410f20ad31/original/50-cory-doctorow.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p>ROLL BACK THE SURVEILLANCE </p>
<p>VERSE <br>E A <br>Big tech monopolies are on the march <br>E Bf <br>Acting improperly </p>
<p>Working for the government and sucking us in <br>They capitalise on me </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>A <br>I thought I was protected <br>C#m <br>Pretty much hid <br>A <br>But they've got more power <br>Bf <br>Than the Stasi ever did </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>E Bf C#m A <br>But I don't want big brother deciding my fate <br>A Bf E <br>Roll back the surveillance state </p>
<p>VERSE <br>The door doesn't swing both ways, I can't see back <br>But I've welcomed them into my home </p>
<p>Behind DRMs, and a legal maze <br>Now I can't even open things I own </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Am I sensor? <br>Or something to be sensed? <br>The smart cities watching <br>And they know I'm against </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>But I don't want big brother deciding my fate <br>Roll back the surveillance state </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>A <br>I've seen the sum it <br>Bf <br>And no good can come of it <br>C#m E <br>Stories like this always <br>A Bf <br>End unhappily </p>
<p>Democracy dies <br>Everyone cries <br>Behind closed doors then <br>Descend dramatically </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>But I don't want big brother deciding my fate <br>Roll back the surveillance state </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE (Quiet) <br>In a world without scarcity I'm doing alright <br>I've every necessity </p>
<p>Every need met and I've security <br>Except the basic right to be free </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>I thought I was protected <br>Pretty much hid <br>But they've got more power <br>Than the Stasi ever did </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>But I don't want big brother deciding my fate <br>Roll back the surveillance state</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66088802021-03-15T09:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:25:50+01:00Dave Powell talks about how to save the planet and avoid catastrophic climate change<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/b13a9a69756bf1356f4638ee3ae156cef139275f/original/49-dave-powell.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dave Powell is one half of Sustainababble: a weekly podcast about the environment, for and by the confused. He's supposed to be an expert in how to save the planet. But why’s everything got to be so confusing? Is he a little bit closer to enlightenment? They sift through the most egregious eco-guff out there, exposing the real eco villains vs the hapless incompetents. It&rsquo's topical, funny, and hopefully more than a little cathartic. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE SORROW OF GAIA </p>
<p>A song inspired by James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia". There must have been a time when CO2 levels reached the tipping point and Gea began her shift to the higher operating temperature described in the book. </p>
<p>VERSE 1 <br>Em <br>When the world changed <br>Em <br>A warm night in July <br>G <br>The factories were working overtime <br>To meet the rising demand <br>D <br>An ever bigger fire <br>Bm <br>To feed the flames of man's desires </p>
<p>VERSE 2 <br>When the world changed <br>For her it was no surprise <br>For too long they’d been burning <br>The balance had been turning <br>But the point at which they’d learn <br>Was past the point of no return </p>
<p>VERSE 3 <br>When the world changed <br>She did it with a sigh <br>For all that she’d created <br>Would have to start again <br>All because of them <br>And the ambitions of men </p>
<p>VERSE 4 <br>When the world changed <br>She knew they’d take it on <br>Not accept the changes <br>And try to intervene <br>Then only when they see the cost <br>Would they realize what they’d lost </p>
<p>VERSE 5 <br>When the world changed <br>Forever in a day <br>To bring the balance back <br>And counter the attack <br>She wondered if she should <br>But it was for the greater good </p>
<p>VERSE 6 <br>The night the world changed <br>She didn’t sleep at all <br>She thought about the changes <br>cos there could be no reverse <br>But things were getting hot <br>And man was never gonna stop </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>Am <br>The night the world changed <br>C <br>Ahhhhhh <br>Am <br>The night the world changed <br>C <br>Ahhhhhh <br>Am <br>The night the world changed <br>C <br>Ahhhhhh </p>
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<p>When the world changed <br>A warm night in July <br>The factories were working overtime <br>To meet the rising demand <br>An ever bigger fire <br>To feed the flames of man's desires </p>
<p>When the world changed <br>For her it was no surprise <br>For too long they’d been burning <br>The balance had been turning <br>But the point at which they’d learn <br>Was past the point of no return </p>
<p>When the world changed <br>She did it with a sigh <br>For all that she’d created <br>Would have to start again <br>All because of them <br>And the ambitions of men </p>
<p>When the world changed <br>She knew they’d take it on <br>Not accept the changes <br>And try to intervene <br>Then only when they see the cost <br>Would they realize what they’d lost </p>
<p>When the world changed <br>Forever in a day <br>To bring the balance back <br>And counter the attack <br>She wondered if she should <br>But it was for the greater good </p>
<p>The night the world changed <br>She didn’t sleep at all <br>She thought about the changes <br>cos there could be no reverse <br>But things were getting hot <br>And man was never gonna stop</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090972021-03-12T13:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:25:01+01:00Ed Latimore.... from fighter to writer<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/a0d6ae00dae918916625b379b4da58ff4b175579/original/48-edward-latimore.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Ed Latimore Jr. (born February 15, 1985, in Pittsburgh, PA) is a retired American professional boxer (13-1-1), influencer, and author. His final professional fight was December 17, 2016. He launched his blog Mind and Fist[4] in 2013, focusing on the difficult lessons he learned from growing up in public housing projects, overcoming alcohol and pornography addiction, and general self-improvement. He has published two books. Not Caring What Other People Think Is A Superpower: Insights From A Heavyweight Boxer and Sober Letters To My Drunken Self along with a writing and marketing guide for social media titled Engagement Are The New Cocaine: The Art And Science Of Writing Awesomely Addictive Tweets. He's been a guest on The James Altucher Show, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Art of Manliness, Farnam Street, and Coffee with Scott Adams to discuss sobriety, boxing, growing up in poverty, and physics. He's also been featured on Ryan Holiday's blog The Daily Stoic as well as in James Clear's international bestseller, Atomic Habits. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> DRINKING REASONS <br>CAPO 1st - So it's in C# </p>
<p>VERSE - C# Bfm F# C# <br>C Am F C <br>I drink to cope, I drink to cleanse <br>C Am F C <br>I drink I drink I drink though I know where it ends </p>
<p>I drink routinely, I drink out of habit <br>It's a crutch now and I need to have it </p>
<p>I drink for boredom, I drink to numb <br>In mundane social situations </p>
<p>I drink for peers, I drink to belong <br>I drink I drink I drink though I know that it's wrong </p>
<p>CHORUS F# C# G# C# <br>F C <br>I need to acknowledge <br>G C <br>That I am afraid </p>
<p>What happens afterwards? <br>What must I trade? </p>
<p>I need to set a goal <br>Have something to attain </p>
<p>And I need new habits <br>To maintain the gains </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I drink to dull, I drink to distort <br>I drink to silence repetitive thoughts </p>
<p>I drink with purpose, I drink to purge <br>I drink I drink I drink whenever I've the urge </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>I need to acknowledge <br>That I am afraid </p>
<p>What happens afterwards? <br>What must I trade? </p>
<p>I need to set a goal <br>Have something to attain </p>
<p>And I need new habits <br>To maintain the gains </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I drink to mask, I drink to hide <br>The self-loathing that I feel inside </p>
<p>I drink to overcome, I drink to be free <br>From stress and anxiety </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>I need to acknowledge <br> That I am Afraid </p>
<p>What happens afterwards? <br>What must I trade? </p>
<p>I need to set a goal <br>Have something to attain </p>
<p>And I need new habits <br>To maintain the gains </p>
<p>I drink for approval, and validation <br>To overcome feelings of deep-held frustration </p>
<p>I drink for friends, I drink to fit in <br>So I can feel confident in the presence of women </p>
<p>I drink to be popular, I drink to be funny <br>So I can feel relaxed in other people's company </p>
<p>I drink to celebrate, I drink when its practical <br>I drink in every situation imaginable</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66200852021-03-09T16:00:00+01:002022-03-30T15:59:40+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 4<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/0fa45b2f4d747a8e140b2d9ad621ad7b1b27612b/original/commentary-volume-4.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 Beating Guns<br>2 The Flow<br>3 Clean and Regular<br>4 Logotherapy<br>5 The Man Who Brought The Fire<br>6 Heated<br>7 Wake Up To Social Justice<br>8 The Absolute<br>9 Keyholes to Open Borders<br>10 What's Pandemic Protocol?<br>11 The Numbers Game<br>12 The Healer</p>
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<p>LYRICS:</p>
<p>Step aside for the healer <br>Comin' through <br>Higher energy <br>Flowing through you </p>
<p>Sendin' out the light <br>Pushin' out the love <br>Pullin' from above </p>
<p>Here comes the healer <br>An average man <br>Doing somethin' <br>That anyone can </p>
<p>An instrument of healing <br>Working for the one <br>Directly for the sun </p>
<p>Give it up for the healer <br>Flowin' through you <br>Visualising action <br>With a mind and a mudra </p>
<p>Pulling down prana <br>The transfer of <br>Directing it with love </p>
<p>Stand back for the healer <br>Let the power come through <br>Realisation is something <br>You can do </p>
<p>Cometh the hour <br>Cometh the man <br>The change has begun </p>
<p>Lift up to a higher level <br>Send the power out </p>
<p>Confident that your healing <br>Will work without a doubt </p>
<p>Harnessing invisible force <br>It's extra sensory </p>
<p>Visualise it going <br>As far as you can see <br>It's not imaginary </p>
<p>Step aside for the healer <br>He's coming through <br>Higher energy <br>Flowing through you </p>
<p>Sending out the light <br>Pushing out the love <br>Sent down from above </p>
<p>Here comes the healer <br>An average man <br>Doing something <br>That anyone can </p>
<p>An instrument of healing <br>Working for the one <br>Pulling from the sun</p>
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<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66088832021-03-05T09:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:19:16+02:00Russ Roberts, Economist and host of EconTalk... "don't let numbers rule your life"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/b3b319e0f05f854a816079bc2828fe01ad355a17/original/46-russ-roberts.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Russ Roberts is an economist, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and president-designate of Shalem College. He is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms as host of the EconTalk podcast. Roberts categorizes himself as a proponent of classical economic liberalism. He has said, "I believe in limited government combined with personal responsibility. So I am something of a libertarian, but . . . that term comes with some baggage and some confusion." Roberts was awarded a B.A. in economics in 1975 from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1981 for his thesis on the design of government transfer programs under the supervision of Gary Becker. Roberts has previously taught at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis (where he was the founding director of what is now the Center for Experiential Learning), the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a regular commentator on business and economics for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Roberts also blogs at Cafe Hayek with Donald J. Boudreaux at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia. Roberts writes and publishes videos on economics, some of which have been viewed millions of times.[16] One of the most widely watched videos is Fear the Boom and Bust, a rap battle between 20th-century economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE NUMBERS GAME <br> <br>VERSE <br>D <br>Statistics, get twisted <br>What kind of life are we living? <br>Bm A D <br>Our world is data-driven </p>
<p>Correlation's not causation <br>The truth is often hidden <br>My world is data-driven </p>
<p>BRIDGE C D - G F#/D Em - C D <br>G A <br>Got no destination. Distracted by the stations <br>D A Bm <br>Money and crap and those complications <br>G A <br>Still I try, and I I I I </p>
<p>CHORUS G Em C D <br>D <br>Got down, but don't know how to do this <br>Bm <br>Oh no, gotta hit the digits <br>G <br>I eat I sleep I feel <br>A <br>I'm living my life, flat out running, running on the running wheel </p>
<p>God knows, I do not to want to do this <br>All work, however I'll come through this <br>For life, for family, for pleasure <br>For now and on and on forever </p>
<p>OUTRO Em C D Em - C D G <br>Bm G <br>Every time the same <br> A Bm <br>Why do I even play? <br>G A D <br>I'm losing at the numbers game </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Bad sampling. Wrong baseline. <br>Mistakes are not forgiven <br>When your world is data-driven </p>
<p>Cos of bias, interpretation <br>I can't connect or make decisions <br>When the world is data-driven </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Got no destination. Distracted by the stations <br>Money and crap and all those complications <br>Still I try, and I I I I </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Got down, but don't know how to do this <br>Oh no, gotta hit the digits <br>I eat I sleep I feel <br>I'm living my life, flat out running, running on the running wheel </p>
<p>God knows, I do not to want to do this <br>All work, however I'll come through this <br>For life, for family, for pleasure <br>For now and on and on forever </p>
<p>Every time the same <br>Why do I even play? <br>I'm losing at the numbers game </p>
<p>MIDDLE C Em F#/D G <br>G Bm A D <br>Gotta think to the future, look a long way deeper <br>G Bm A Bm <br>Need to ask what my values are, focus as a seeker </p>
<p>G A [Stop] D <br>On who am I. And why? </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090792021-03-03T13:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:20:25+02:00Dr Martin Kulldorff, Epidemiologist @Harvard Medical School, on the Great Barrington Declaration and whether lockdown measures do more harm than good<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/e5f96285423caaab2c9f3bcff000fd32010784e5/original/45-martin-kulldorff.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Martin Kulldorff , Ph.D., is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women&rsquo's Hospital. His research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. Dr. Kulldorff has developed new sequential statistical methods for near real-time post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance, where the purpose is to use weekly or other frequent data feeds to find potential safety problems as soon as possible. He has also developed tree-based scan statistic data mining methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance. Keeping the outcome definitions flexible, the methods simultaneously evaluates thousands of potential adverse events and groups of related events, adjusting for the multiple testing inherent in such an approach. Another major research area is spatial and Spatio-temporal disease surveillance, for which he has developed various scan statistics for disease cluster detection and evaluation; and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. These methods are used by most federal and state public health agencies around the world, and by many local public health departments and hospital epidemiologists. Dr. Kulldorff is the developer of the free SaTScan software for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as the trees can data mining software. He is a co-developer of the R-Sequential package for exact sequential analysis. Dr. Kulldorff received his bachelor’s degree in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in Sweden, and his doctorate in operations research from Cornell University. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>WHAT'S PANDEMIC PROTOCOL</p>
<p>CHORUS <br>F <br>What's Pandemic Protocol? <br>Isolate <br>the most vulnerable </p>
<p>What's Pandemic Protocol? <br>The threat is small <br>& Protect them all </p>
<p>That's Pandemic Protocol? <br>discoverable <br>About the overall </p>
<p>G# Bf </p>
<p>VERSE <br>F <br>How's the virus spread? <br>C <br>Who's the most at risk? <br>Bf <br>Take total demographics <br>F <br>And analyse this </p>
<p>Ensure protective measures <br>Do more good than harm <br>Raise the pros and cons <br>Before you raise alarm </p>
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<p>VERSE <br>Take in the bigger picture <br>The long-term side effects <br>Of any safety measures <br>On whom you would protect <br> <br>Input consequence <br>Roll out your precautions <br>Define application <br>Equal out distortion </p>
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<p>MIDDLE (Whisper) <br>You can't be swayed by the headlines <br>Or the panic of the crowd <br>But be brave <br>Almost clinical </p>
<p>There is so much at stake <br>So many implications <br>Open the schools <br>Don't deprive the children </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66088982021-03-01T09:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:21:24+02:00Bryan Caplan, Economics Professor, on Open Borders for a global boom<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/e8388edb9542d8d85737b5edb297b9f7de5b527a/original/44-bryan-caplan.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Bryan Caplan is an American behavioral economist and author. Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former contributor to the Freakonomics blog; he also publishes his own blog, EconLog. He is a self-described " economic libertarian". The bulk of Caplan's academic work is in behavioral economics and public economics, especially public choice theory. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>KEYHOLES TO OPEN BORDERS</p>
<p>CHORUS <br>G Em C G <br>Build walls around the welfare state, not a border round the country <br> Em C D G <br>These ideas may sound unfair but poverty's unfairer <br>C D G <br>Keyhole solutions to open borders </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G D C G <br>Immigrants took our jobs! took our jobs, took our jobs! <br>C Em D G <br>Use apparatuses like taxes <br>as practices to relax the natives <br>by paying their taxes <br>so their objection collapses </p>
<p>Immigrants only take, and they will break, the welfare state <br>For these purposes <br>make access to services <br>purchases <br>so this encourages nurturers <br>for surpluses </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br> D C D G <br>What about having Blue cards - as well as Green? </p>
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<p>VERSE <br>They don’t talk like us, they can't discuss, they can't adjust <br>To address this request I suggest a language test which selects the best that possess the necessary linguistic finesse </p>
<p>They've got bad ideas, they'll bring them here, these are our fears <br>Protect from the threat from the outset by vets for citizenship with a net to catch the criminal mindset </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Restriction of movement has given us global apartheid </p>
<p>CHORUS (INSTRUMENTAL) </p>
<p>MIDDLE (CHORDS AS CHORUS) <br>G Em C G <br>You say stop immigration when you don't get causation <br> Em C D G <br>When your only tools a hammer, everything looks like a nail <br>G Em C G <br>America had open borders til 1924 <br> Em C D G <br>And got the tired and poor, no none wanted anymore <br>D C D G <br>It became the richest country in the whole wide world </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>They say stop immigration, cos they don’t understand causation </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Immigrants they bring crime, all the time, just by design <br>The data doesn’t back this up but check criminal records <br> </p>
<p>They don’t know our culture, or our structure, they are vulgar <br>Stipulate local knowledge, and a cultural exam </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>For many financial and social problems they say restrict immigration <br>They throw away the benefits cos they don’t understand causation <br>When your only tools a hammer, everything looks a nail </p>
<p>BRIDGE (Spoken) <br>These solutions may sound difficult, but they're already in action <br>Welfare to Work & delayed citizenship have already gained traction <br>What about Blue cards as well as Green?</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66088992021-02-26T09:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:26:40+02:00Brian Keneipp on a commonsense approach to the sometimes mysterious world of metaphysics<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/e5b9ab803f9dae286891efc909ab147119b77c8a/original/43-brian-keneipp.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Rt. Rev. Brian C. Keneipp is the Executive Director of the American Headquarters of The Aetherius Society, a registered non-profit, religious, scientific, and educational corporation, established in California in 1960. Brian Keneipp worked for over twenty years with The Aetherius Society founder, the late Dr. George King, a Western Master of Yoga. Brian was a key disciple of Dr. King and helped build The Aetherius Society and perform Spiritual missions on behalf of and for humanity in cooperation with the Ascended and Cosmic Masters. </p>
<p>He teaches the advanced form of Yoga practiced in The Aetherius Society - King Yoga, Brian is also actively involved in several field missions performed by The Aetherius Society, which Dr. King designed to help balance world Karma, to bring greater world peace, and to aid in the salvation and enlightenment of mankind. He is a Bishop in the Aetherius Churches as well as co-editor of the New Age journal Cosmic Voice. Brian has lectured in America, Canada, England, and New Zealand on a variety of New Age subjects. With a background in science and corporate management, he retains a balanced, commonsense approach to the sometimes mysterious world of metaphysics. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE ABSOLUTE <br>VERSE <br>Am <br>The all it made you <br>F <br>The all it made me <br>Dm <br>The all is in everything <br>E <br>Forever will be </p>
<p>The all it is living <br>Here and perceiving <br>The all it is knowing <br>The spell that it’s weaving </p>
<p>The Absolute's here <br>Screaming your name <br>Beside the door <br>Out of the game </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Dm E <br>Stillness speaks </p>
<p>CHORUS (Chords as verse) <br>I want to be lightning <br>I want to be rain <br>Never reborn <br>Ever again </p>
<p>I want to be oceans <br>The spectrum of light <br>Feel the whole <br>Finally unite </p>
<p>VERSE <br>The Absolute's solid <br>It is complete <br>As light as the air <br>Beneath your feet </p>
<p>The Absolute feels <br>Pain when you lie <br>And suffers your tears <br>Whenever you cry </p>
<p>We are the cycle <br>But live in denial <br>Fuelling the endless <br>Death and revival </p>
<p>BRIDGE </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>F <br>But it’s the wanting <br> Am <br>That tightens the chains </p>
<p>It's the one thing <br>That makes this a cage </p>
<p>Dm F <br>Here in heaven <br>Dm E <br>The entrance price <br> F E Am <br>Is to be blind in paradise </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089002021-02-24T09:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:27:49+02:00Peter Boghossian on the rise of Social Justice<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/636c65061e83b6876171e2e7dd1ce7d2e831bfbc/original/42-peter-boghossian.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Peter Gregory Boghossian is an American philosopher. He is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, and his areas of academic focus include atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism, and the Socratic method. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and (with James Lindsay) How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. Boghossian was involved in the Grievance Studies affair (also called "Sokal Squared" in media coverage) with collaborators James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, in which they published several hoax papers in academic journals, as part of their criticism of a set of fields including gender studies. As a result, Portland State University initiated a research misconduct investigation of him in 2018. Boghossian coined the term street epistemology for a set of conversational techniques he described which are designed to enable examination of strongly held beliefs, especially of the religious kind, in a non-confrontational manner. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>WAKE UP TO SOCIAL JUSTICE</p>
<p>VERSE <br>"The Master's house can't be dismantled <br>By using the Master's tools" <br> <br>That's an anarchic fallacy <br>And will never set us free </p>
<p>If I get to say what you can say, democracy will end that way <br>Think reason and rationality </p>
<p>Instead of violent condemnation <br>Engage... in conversation </p>
<p>VERSE <br>We must not co-operate with tyranny <br>By claiming mass conspiracy </p>
<p>Speaking truth in the face of danger <br>Parrhesia will keep us free </p>
<p>Your way, uses the words I say, to take away my liberty <br>Freedom is a hard-won thing </p>
<p>Instead of aggressive condemnation <br>Engage... in conversation </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Only the Master's tools can dismantle <br>Forever the Master's house </p>
<p>Freedom of speech must be defended <br>Even if we don't like what we hear <br> <br>If I get to say what you can say, democracy will end that way <br>Think reason and rationality </p>
<p>Instead of outward condemnation <br>Engage... in conversation</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66091482021-02-22T14:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:17:17+01:00Emily Atkin on taking on the deniers with powerful climate journalism<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/23d5444f3a32b577ef4df312bac98791a1ad55c6/original/41-emily-atkin.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /> Emily Atkin is an environmental reporter and writer, best known for founding the daily climate newsletter HEATED. She also launched a podcast by the same name to explore the intersectional issues highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously she was a reporter for The New Republic and ThinkProgress. She is an author in the collection All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, and a columnist at MSNBC. Atkin was raised in New York and went to school at SUNY New Paltz for journalism. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>HEATED</p>
<p>VERSE <br>A E <br>Every year the fires are getting worse <br>D A <br>And red smoke blocks the sun out of the sky <br>A E <br>Can you really say <br>C# A <br>That it's ok that way? <br>D E A <br>How can you live in denial? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>When terrifying storms do so much damage <br>Get stronger and move slower every year <br>Meteorologists exclaim <br>That they're running out of names <br>How can you live in denial? </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br> E D A <br>Slowly, surely sea levels rise <br>E D A <br>Along with the CO2 in the sky <br>C# E <br>If your home was destroyed <br>D A <br>Then would you believe? <br>D E A <br>How much proof do you need? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>E very year things get a little hotter <br>Each season sets record-breaking highs <br>All the ice is melting <br>The Arctic's close to collapse <br>How can you live in denial? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Forests are disappearing overnight <br>So many species have been lost forever <br>How can you say <br>It is ok this way? <br>How can you live in denial?</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089022021-02-19T10:00:00+01:002022-03-29T09:54:54+02:00Darragh Carroll's incredible journey<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/0b1bf3b560d3655979ddbb5b934f1cac9c792cbf/original/40-darragh-carroll.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Darragh Carroll, That's all I'm saying. Listen to it, it's incredible. (And includes a journey.) </p>
<p>LYRICS: </p>
<p>A young man came upon a land <br>Where there was good and plenty <br>His thoughts went back to his own island <br>Where poorly folk were many </p>
<p>He prayed to know what to take to them <br>What can one man do? <br>Twas then the fire spoke to him <br>Said 'I will come with you' </p>
<p>A boat was found and readied <br>And they set out on winter seas <br>Truly the storms were fearsome <br>For months the man was ill at ease </p>
<p>But the fire fed by its brother elements <br>And grew ever more bright <br>Until the storms abated <br>And Ireland was in sight </p>
<p>Once upon the shore <br>The fire grew anew <br>Feeding on Spring energies <br>As the earth came into bloom </p>
<p>By horse and cart they travelled <br>Bringing light and food to all <br>The plague-ravaged population <br>Came out to heed their call </p>
<p>When they reached the sacred centre there <br>With a small and solemn band <br>The man looked long into the fire <br>Then buried it in the land </p>
<p>When your crops never stop growing <br>Fill your glass to overflowing <br>Drink a toast to Devas <br>And the man who brought the fire</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>LOGOTHERAPY</p>
<p>Will for power or will for pleasure <br>Dragons you are chasing </p>
<p>Meaning is more powerful <br>Cos by the means you measure </p>
<p>Be it what your encounter, your actions or your deeds <br>Welcome lessons as they come, don't try to feed your needs </p>
<p>Things aren't always the way you see them <br>Therapy from meaning </p>
<p>Old man sad, old man crying <br>Cos his wife has gone </p>
<p>He loved her more than life itself <br>It's a tragedy her dying </p>
<p>But what if he had died before? Think then of her pain <br>His suffering's the price he's paid to spare her all that strain </p>
<p>Things aren't always the way you see them <br>Therapy from meaning </p>
<p>Sometimes high anxiety <br>Others low depression <br>Hard to keep track of the waves <br>Where are you in society? </p>
<p>You've the freedom to choose response to any situation <br>And suffering's not suffering when you've signification </p>
<p>Things aren't always the way you see them <br>Therapy from meaning</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089042021-02-15T10:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:26:47+01:00Naveen Jain on investing in gut bacteria<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d69d2a15af59ce0a0cd51fb7fc5263e3ae7e15a9/original/38-naveen-jain.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world's biggest challenges through innovation. A man who knows no limits, Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. His audacious vision and magnetic personality continually inspire others to follow what feels impossible. The founder of Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, Rome, TalentWise, Intelius, and Infospace, Naveen sees beyond the current business and technological landscape, creating companies that make a true impact. Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India's " Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur," and the receiver of " Albert Einstein Technology Medal" for his pioneers in technology, he has been repeatedly honored for his entrepreneurial successes. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the " Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs" and with the " Lifetime Achievement Award." Naveen Jain's next endeavor is to travel to the moon, using lunar resources for innovation here on earth. Whether it's business or life, Naveen is guided by one firm belief – Our only limit is our imagination. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>CLEAN AND REGULAR <br>Capo 2nd - chords are for the shape. Transpose up 2. </p>
<p>It's in the key of A </p>
<p>VERSE CHORDS: A F#m <br>BRIDGE CHORDS: <br>D E <br>A G# Fm <br>D E <br>CHORUS CHORDS: A F#m D E </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G Em <br>She feels all messed up inside <br>G Em <br>It’s the pressure she can’t hide </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>C D <br>Wants to go badly <br>G D# Em <br>But just can’t work it out <br>C D <br>I’ll win her heart when I help her out </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>G Em C D <br>To be clean and regular, is her ambition in life <br>If she was clean and regular, it would all be alright </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Something’s wrong, deep down <br>She’s not a pleasure to be around </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Not feeling so well <br>And as far as she can tell <br>Her backlogs getting big </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>To be clean and regular, is her ambition in life <br>If she was clean and regular, it would all be alright <br>I’ll take her, fresh fruit in the morning, Triphala at night <br>I’ll make her, clean and regular, she’ll love me alright </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Em <br>The thoughts she can’t explain <br>G <br>Lie inside her second brain </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>C D <br>Her messy microbiome <br>G D# Em <br>Needs analysis <br>C D <br>We will get to the bottom of this </p>
<p>CHORUS (CHORUS) </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>She gets a little pent-up <br>When things don’t go with the flow <br>Having troubles, down below </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>To be clean and regular, is her ambition in life <br>If she was clean and regular, it would all be alright <br>I’ll take her, fresh fruit in the morning, Triphala at night <br>I’ll make her, clean and regular, it will be alright</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090882021-02-12T13:00:00+01:002022-03-29T09:43:11+02:00Brian Koppelman on the flow that took him from being Tracey Chapman's manager to a Hollywood Screenwriter<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c07a9cd2aa303d38856a1a47a7f500748bfaaa75/original/37-brian.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Brian William Koppelman (born April 27, 1966) is an American showrunner. Koppelman is the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen and Rounders, the producer for films including The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones, the director for films including Solitary Man and the documentary This Is What They Want for ESPN as part of their 30 for 30 series, and the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Showtime's Billions. Koppelman was born on April 27, 1966 in Roslyn Harbor, New York to a Jewish family, the son of Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman and Charles Koppelman. His father was a producer and media executive. Koppelman holds degrees from Tufts University and Fordham University School of Law. He first started managing local Long Island bands as a teenager. He would also book bands at a local nightclub. Through booking acts, he came into contact with Eddie Murphy and helped arrange Murphy's first record deal. As a student at Tufts University, he discovered singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman and executive-produced her first album. He was later brought to Giant Records by president Irving Azoff. During his career, Koppelman was an A&R representative for music labels Elektra Records, Giant Records, SBK Records and EMI Records </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE FLOW ( I GET IN MY WAY)</p>
<p>I'm tuned into a frequency <br>Channelling some higher voice <br>Something that's not part of me <br>No need to make a choice <br>When I am in the flow </p>
<p>Ideas come like I'm pulling on a string <br>Words and pictures and everything <br>Perfectly formed with melody and swing <br>I'm picking up mind outside of me </p>
<p>I wake up gently keep the water's still <br>Sliding out a dream </p>
<p>Slip into the gentle flow <br>An unpolluted stream </p>
<p>I wish I could always be like this <br>Forever in the moment </p>
<p>No before and nothing after <br>All I have I own it </p>
<p>In peace I listen to the voices <br>Passing through my mouth </p>
<p>Until my conscious mind starts to wake <br>And to crave <br>And end my bliss... </p>
<p>I get in my way <br>I get in my way </p>
<p>I'm a stubborn cow <br>Sat down in the road <br>A jack-knifed truck <br>That lost its load </p>
<p>I'm leaves on the line <br>Snow on the tracks <br>The oncoming car <br>That won't turn back <br> <br>I get in my way <br>I get in my way </p>
<p>I'm the screaming neighbours <br>And their barking dog <br>The crying baby <br>And a squealing hog </p>
<p>I'm wind on the mic <br>Dirt on the lens <br>The ringing telephone <br>That's an annoying friend </p>
<p>I get in my way <br>I get in my way </p>
<p>The thing that stops the flow is me I know</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089062021-02-10T10:05:00+01:002022-03-29T09:41:25+02:00Shane Claiborne on true Christian activism to end gun violence and the death penalty<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bebc275352fff1aa4929647a07f35bd954f024c2/original/36-shane-claiborne.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living " as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence. Shane&rsquo's books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Executing Grace, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, and his newest book, Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films including " Another World Is Possible" and " Ordinary Radicals." His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He&rsquo's given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BEATING GUNS<br>Beat swords into ploughs <br>Sow seeds of peace <br>Grow a world of hope <br>And be released </p>
<p>Bang bang goodbye <br>This gun's reborn <br>Transformed in the fire <br>No more we mourn <br>Oh oh oh </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I love my country, I love freedom <br>I'll stand up for my rights I know that I need them <br>But the constitution never had guns or swords <br>Don't need no amendments to the words of the Lord </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Beat guns into hammers <br>Melt bullets into nails <br>Build heaven on earth <br>Cos like this we fail </p>
<p>Fill your head with bravery <br>Make your heart sincere <br>Don't need to hold a gun <br>Once you let go of fear <br>Oh oh oh </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I beat by guns into garden tools <br>Gonna grow food for the hungry <br>If someone breaks into my house to steal <br>Gonna sit 'em down - cook 'em a meal </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Hammer out hatred <br>Smelt down mistrust <br>Forge a new future <br>That's fair and just </p>
<p>Lock and load with love <br>Set your sights on harmony <br>Take a shot at solidarity <br>Pull the trigger on peace </p>
<p>VERSE <br>My little boy went to school one day <br>He never came home <br>Don't pray for him <br>Don't pray for me <br>Pray for gun control <br>No more guns, please </p>
<p>CHORUS (minor) <br>Hammer out hatred <br>Smelt down mistrust <br>Forge a new future <br>That's fair and just </p>
<p>Lock and load with love <br>Set your sights on harmony <br>Take a shot at solidarity <br>Pull the trigger on peace</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66201122021-02-09T17:00:00+01:002022-03-30T16:02:21+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 3<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/00bef502a78cb91e8a711d3c0ffe06770e02e24e/original/commentary-volume-3.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 The Universal Law of the One and the Many <br>2 Norway and Saudi Arabia <br>3Arab Tyrant Manual <br>4 One Free Miracle <br>5 Most Caterpillars Don't Believe In Butterflies <br>6 Hook Point <br>7 Agni vs Ama <br>8 Desolenator <br>9 Mouth Breather <br>10 In My Opinion <br>11 The Golden Fountain <br>12 Blind and Groping in the Dark</p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BLIND AND GROPING IN THE DARK</p>
<p>Verse</p>
<p> Bm Em F#m Bm </p>
<p>There’s so much beauty here before me, but how little I perceive </p>
<p> Em F#m Em F#m </p>
<p>Of other realms existing here, I cannot conceive </p>
<p>Bm Em F#m Bm </p>
<p>Between me and the mystics, the difference is stark </p>
<p>Bm Em F#m Bm </p>
<p>I'm an involved creature, blind and groping in the dark </p>
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<p>VERSE </p>
<p>While the psychics can see colours for which we have no names </p>
<p>Clairvoyance shows them devas flying, while they play fantastic games </p>
<p>They also see the difference 'tween them and me so stark </p>
<p>As I wallow in the filth, blind and groping in the dark </p>
<p> <br>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>Bm Em F#m Bm x2 </p>
<p> <br>vERSE </p>
<p>My mind's an open book to them, if they were bored enough to read </p>
<p>While Psychometry can tell them more than you would dare believe </p>
<p>Or hear me talking miles away, saying some snide remark </p>
<p>While I cannot even hear the silence, blind and groping in the dark </p>
<p> <br>MIDDLE </p>
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<p>What makes this so much harder </p>
<p>Bm </p>
<p>What grinds me finer still </p>
<p>Em </p>
<p>Is that I know that I could join them </p>
<p>F#m </p>
<p>If only I had the will </p>
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<p>I've know the breaths and Mantras </p>
<p>Em </p>
<p>Worth more than any jewel </p>
<p>Bm </p>
<p>That you'd only learn in ages past </p>
<p>F#m </p>
<p>After years in Mystery Schools </p>
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<p>But instead of listening to discourses that would blow your mind apart </p>
<p>I'm arguing with idiots, blind and groping in the dark </p>
<p> <br>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p> <br>VERSE </p>
<p>Yet inevitably one day I will turn back to the source </p>
<p>When the serpent stirs and starts to climb along Sushumna's course </p>
<p>On that day I'll ignite again, I am a divine spark </p>
<p>Until then I'm the ashes, blind and groping in the dark</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089092021-02-05T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:49:28+02:00Coen van der Kroon on Urine Therapy<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/f0c1a725e58ad65b8e1bd6e3518a4ca6b7b0e028/original/34-coen-van-der-kroon.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Coen van der Kroon was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1962. He has an academic background in Greek and Latin Languages and Culture. His MA thesis was on ancient Greek gynecology with a comparison between Hippocratic and Ayurvedic Medicine. This was the start of his interest in and study of Ayurveda. Coen van der Kroon has dedicated his life to understanding the Indian health science of Ayurveda. It has been his mission to clarify the ancient Eastern advice for disease prevention and day-to-day health and well-being so that the implications can be understood by the modern Western mind. He is making this happen through his writing for magazines and books – including an international bestseller – and his teaching, centered around The Academy of Ayurvedic Studies (AAS) in the Netherlands, which he founded in 2005. He himself was privileged to have studied with the most renowned and inspirational teachers in the field of Ayurveda and yoga, including Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Sunil Joshi, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Atreya Smith, and Dr. Vijith Sasidhar (who are all visiting faculty at the AAS), as well as 3 years at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr. Vasant Lad, in the USA and hands-on experience in India. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE GOLDEN FOUNTAIN</p>
<p>VERSE <br>C Am F G <br>Throughout the ages men have fought against mortality <br>Sought the elixir of life for vitality <br>Famous alchemists have tried to formulate it <br>Great adventurers set sail to locate it <br>Am G <br>Only to discover <br> F C <br>That the source that they sought <br>Am G F <br>Was very much closer to home <br> G <br>Than they I known </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> C <br>The mythical... Golden Fountain <br> F <br>The elixical fountain of youth <br> G <br>Brings out the beauty within <br> Bf F <br>Can you handle the truth? </p>
<p>Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain <br>Wash your hair and your skin <br>Your whole body will glow <br>Cleansing and moisturising </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>You have the secret now you have to keep it <br>F <br>Can't tell nobody cos nobody will believe it <br>C <br>They'll call you names and whisper from the shadows <br>G <br>Strangers'll phone you and ask you onto chat shows </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>F Am <br>Your family name <br>F Am <br>Will become a byword for shame <br>F G <br>And they taunt you again and again </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>That's the price of the...... Golden Fountain <br>The elixical fountain of youth <br>Brings out the beauty within <br>Can you handle the truth? </p>
<p>Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain <br>Wash your hair and your skin <br>Your whole body will glow <br>Cleansing and moisturising </p>
<p>CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br> F C <br>It will miraculously heal your wounds <br> F Am G <br>Cure allergies and decongest you </p>
<p>Boost immunity and protect from a virus <br>Help with diabetes and even arthritis </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>The inexaustable...... Golden Fountain <br>The elixical fountain of youth <br>Brings out the beauty within <br>Can you handle the truth? </p>
<p>Take a sip from... the Golden Fountain <br>Wash your hair and your skin <br>Your whole body will glow <br>Cleansing and moisturising</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089102021-02-03T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:50:40+02:00Madhu Trehan on what she learnt from 50 years as a pioneering journalist in India<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/103ae707cb4684727f656f3abd93f4cd86d82e02/original/33-madhu-trehan.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Madhu Trehan studied at Welham Girls' School in Dehradun, graduating in 1962. In 1968, she went to Harrow Technical College & School of Arts in London to study journalistic photography. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York in 1972. While in New York, she worked at the United Nations in their press department, and served as an editor for a weekly newspaper, India Abroad. She returned to India in 1975 when she founded and started the news magazine India Today, with her father V.V.Purie, owner of Thomson Press. Trehan left the magazine to her brother's stewardship in 1977 during her pregnancy, and returned to New York to start her family. Upon her return to India in 1986, Trehan produced and anchored Newstrack, India's first video news magazine, which earned her a reputation as a pioneering investigative journalist. </p>
<p>In Aug 1994, Madhu Trehan took the rare and only interview of Yakub Memon who was convicted in 1993 Bombay bombings. In 2009 Trehan published her first book, Tehelka as Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth, examining the 2001 Operation West End exposé and its aftermath. Trehan has written for leading news magazines and newspapers such as Outlook India and Hindustan Times. In 2000 she launched Wah India, a website and print magazine. She, along with three other colleagues, also launched a crowd-sourced media critique website calledNewslaundry in February 2012. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>IN MY OPINION</p>
<p>VERSE <br>D <br>My opinion <br> A <br>Is what people pay me for <br> G <br>I don't think I know anymore <br>D A <br>Than you or anyone else </p>
<p>My opinion <br>Is for the gullible <br>I'm not culpable <br>Just an actor playing a part </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Em A <br>I tell people what they want to hear <br>An affirmation of their own ideas </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Em <br>And in a world of minions <br>G <br>Under dominion <br>A <br>You need strong opinions <br>D <br>Lightly held </p>
<p>VERSE <br>My opinion <br>Maybe overkill <br>But it pays my bills <br>Which is more than you can say for yours </p>
<p>My opinion <br>Brings in advertising <br>Which sells people other things <br>The secret cycle is shuddering </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>I'm an illustrator that is all <br>The picture that I paint must be colourful </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL (BRIDGE & CHORUS) </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Em Am <br>Take what I say with a pinch of salt <br>The actions of others are not my fault <br>Can I be blamed for behaviour or refusal to think? <br>If someone pours you poison do you drink? </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090512021-02-01T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:51:44+02:00Patrick McKeown on the incredible benefits of nose breathing (and how mouth breathing can ruin your life)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/8e9b8642d00ace5a88e6e68b21df4c28a5f2a9ac/original/32-patrick-mckeown.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />World-renowned author and breathing practitioner Patrick McKeown was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko. </p>
<p>From a young age, Patrick suffered from asthma and relied on an array of medicines and inhalers until he discovered the Buteyko Method at the age of 26, experiencing immediate relief from his symptoms. By applying the principals of the Buteyko Method, Patrick remains asthma-free since then, a feat that over 20 years of medication had failed to accomplish. </p>
<p>In a career spanning 15 years, Patrick has since also become a bestselling author and expert on the topic of optimal breathing for improved health, well-being, and fitness. </p>
<p>Among the eight books Patrick has written, two have consistently remained in the top ten best sellers on Amazon.com: ‘ Close Your Mouth’ and ‘ Asthma Free Naturally’. </p>
<p>His latest book ‘ The Oxygen Advantage®’ is based on 4 years of scientific research and tailors breathing exercises for anyone seeking to improve their fitness and sports performance. Already in its 3rd print run in the UK since September 2015, ‘ The Oxygen Advantage®’ is set to revolutionize how we train, by addressing dysfunctional breathing patterns and simulating high altitude training through specific breath-holding exercises as devised by Patrick. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> MOUTH BREATHER</p>
<p>VERSE <br>A F#m <br>Well his bad breath is deadly <br>D A <br>And his teeth are decayed <br>F#m D E <br>His dentist is a worried man </p>
<p>A F#m <br>All because he never used <br>D A <br>His nose like he should <br>D E A <br>Things are going downhill from here </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> D <br>Cos he's a mouth breather <br> A <br>He doesn't sleep cos he's a mouth breather <br> D <br>My mama didn't raise no mouth breather <br> A <br>You look so poorly, cos you're mouth breather <br>E D A <br>Who know so many side effects? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Now his chin is receding <br>And his face is too thin <br>So much he's got an overbite </p>
<p>At school he's no attention <br>Cos he don't sleep so good <br>Now they got him on Ritalin </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>F#m <br>After years of poor sleeping <br>A <br>Made worse by the drugs <br>Bm D <br>He's failed academically </p>
<p>Now he's a labourer <br>Thinks he's a failure <br>He draws in a long breath </p>
<p>Then let's out a deep sigh <br>"It's not cos I didn't try" <br>If only then I had known why </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> E A <br>Nobody saw I was a "Mouth Breather" <br> F#m <br>They could have warned me "Mouth Breather" <br> D <br>They should have called me a "Mouth Breather" <br> E <br>I would have changed </p>
<p>Now I've poor immunity "Mouth Breather" <br>Zero opportunity "Mouth Breather" <br>I lost my dreams "Mouth Breather" <br>It's too late for me </p>
<p>But think of the children "Mouth Breather" <br>Save one of them "Mouth Breather" <br>Shout out to everyone "Mouth Breather" <br>The cycle must stop </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089122021-01-29T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:53:00+02:00Alexei Levene of Desolenator and his mission to give fresh drinking water to the world<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d6048088470ad1d5b7b1daf7b2eedeae6f016fa7/original/31-alexei-levene.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Alexei Levene is the co-founder of Desolentator, and now responsible for Strategy and Business Development. BA (Hons) Philosophy, CPE, Law, currently based in London. Background in consumer products, business consulting, and sustainable technologies. A globetrotter who has lived in UK, US, Poland, India, and France contributing to Fortune 500 corporations and innovative start-ups. Loves philosophy, disruptive technologies, and adventure. He's working towards a world without waste, with access to clean water, food, and education for all. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>DESOLENATOR</p>
<p>VERSE <br>C F C <br>Water water everywhere but most not fit to drink <br>C F C <br>When most of the world is covered by water, d'ya ever stop to think? <br>Am G F C Am G F <br>By 2030 half of humanity will struggle for a water source <br>C F C <br>Ironic that rising sea levels will only make it worse <br>G <br>Think </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> F <br>Desolenator everyone <br> C <br>All you need is sea and sun <br> F <br>Desolenator purifies <br> C <br>A sustainable water supply <br>G </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Poor people are walking miles every single day <br>For a few litres of stagnant water, disease and dysentery <br>Or living at the mercy of the tanker man, but change their lives we can <br>By purifying local water the power's in their hands <br>Think </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>(INSTRUMENTAL) </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE (Same chords as middle part of Verse) <br>You want water that's pure and clean, so you buy it in bottles <br>But it's absorbed the biphenyls and other cruel potentials <br>G </p>
<p>VERSE <br>You pay more for bottled water, and so does the earth <br>10 million joules of fossil fuels go into every litre <br>Compare this to your tap water that's 2000 times cheaper <br>Are you one of the enlightened one, who know the price is steeper? <br>Think</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090542021-01-27T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:54:20+02:00Dr John Douillard - Ayurvedic doctor - on digestive wellness as the secret to health and immunity<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/671c2c51491e0ea00d0b7ae6996f3d40b33c0c0f/original/30-john-doiullard.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP is a globally recognized leader in the fields of natural health, Ayurveda, and sports medicine. He is the creator of LifeSpa.com, the leading Ayurvedic health and wellness resource on the web with more than 9 million views on YouTube and more than 130,000 newsletter subscribers. LifeSpa.com is evolving the way Ayurveda is understood around the world, with thousands of articles and videos joining ancient wisdom with modern science. John is the former director of player development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, author of seven health books including his newest Amazon best-seller Eat Wheat, a repeat guest on Dr. Oz, and newly released Yoga Journal video course Ayurveda 201 on Ayurvedic Psychology. He directs LifeSpa Ayurvedic Clinic, the 2013 Holistic Wellness Center of the Year in Boulder, Colorado. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> AGNI VS. AMA </p>
<p>INTRO <br>Gm <br>There are two digestive concepts <br>That will turn your world around <br>Bf <br>They determine both the length <br>A/Bf <br>And your quality of your life </p>
<p>Understand both sides <br>It's Agni <br>vs. Ama </p>
<p>The fire of Agni is enzymes <br>Hot, Light, Dry and Penetrating <br>You're not simply what you eat <br>Only what you metabolise </p>
<p>And when there's indigestion <br>Some Ama <br>Gets left behind </p>
<p>At any of the stages <br>From Rasa through to Shukra <br>If it can't process the food <br>Into a dhatu or a mula </p>
<p>Then there's malabsorption <br>And some Ama <br>Gets left behind </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>D# Bf <br>When there's too much Ama inside <br>D# Gm Bf <br>You're guaranteed to feel at ease <br> D# F <br>It's the soil, for disease </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Ama is the toxins <br>Cold, heavy, oily, dull <br>How bad has it become? <br>Check the map upon your tongue </p>
<p>As it slowly accumulates <br>The flame of Agni <br>Goes down </p>
<p>Help it with cold water <br>Feed it eating late <br>Then have an early breakfast <br>The bad mixing takes place </p>
<p>Whenever you eat without hunger <br>The flame of Agni <br>Goes down </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>If your Agni becomes too weak <br>You're guaranteed to feel ill at ease <br>The door's open, for disease </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>Bf Gm <br>May your Agni be strong <br>D# F <br>Then your lifespan will be long </p>
<p>When you detox your Ama <br>You bring forth good karma </p>
<p>When your Agni is strong <br>Ama's long gone </p>
<p>VERSE <br>The battle of your life <br>Is your Agni <br>vs Ama</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089152021-01-25T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:55:52+02:00Brendan Kane on the foolproof way to get 1 million social media followers in 30 days<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/6e95c2c00030e37b5e2795613cdc639907e81434/original/29-brendan.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />"Brendan Kane is a growth hacker for Fortune 500 corporations, brands, and celebrities. He thrives on helping brands systematically find and engage new audiences who reward relevant content, products, and services with their attention and spend. Brendan started his career at Lakeshore Entertainment where he oversaw all aspects of Lakeshore’s interactive media strategy. At Lakeshore, he worked on 16 films that generated a worldwide gross of $685 million dollars. While at Lakeshore, Brendan pioneered the first-ever influencer campaigns to effectively promote Lakeshore's movies. Brendan went on to build applications and platforms for celebrity clients Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Xzibit, Charles Barkley, Michael Strahan, supermodel Adrianna Lima, and pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler. Brendan is known for creating an innovative application for Taylor Swift and Rihanna that can automatically turn any Facebook profile into a website in less than 60 seconds. The applications and platforms Brendan created for his celebrity clients have been accessed by 50 million+ people worldwide. He also served as a consultant for the NHL and NFL Players Association on how to bolster their digital offering to both players and fans. In partnership with MTV, Brendan conceptualized and built an advertising technology that monetized consumer-to-consumer interaction within social networks. This technology was utilized by MGM, Lionsgate, Sony, Yahoo, MTV, Rockband, and Vice Magazine. Brendan helped grow Strike Social to one of the top social media buying intelligence companies in the world. Strike Social runs over 2,500 advertising campaigns a day for brands such as; Disney, Fox, NBC, Netflix, XBOX Linkedin, and many notable fortune 100 companies. Brendan is most recently known for generating one million followers in 100+ counties in less than 30 days. He went on to publish the best-selling book; One Million Followers breaking down how he was able to achieve such a feat." </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> HOOK POINT</p>
<p>VERSE <br>G Em C G <br>In our three-second world, people are scrolling so fast <br>G Em C D <br>I had your attention but in a moment it passed </p>
<p>Most people's ads aren’t clever and their message gets lost <br>Connect with your audience to get yours across </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> C <br>That's why you need a hook point <br> D <br>A headline like a setpoint <br> C D <br>That reaches out and pulls your reader in </p>
<p>Gotta have a hook point <br>Or you'll only disappoint <br>Yourself and your viewers and your friends </p>
<p>VERSE <br>We're seeing thousands of messages every hour of every day <br>But stand out with a twist by changing just a small way </p>
<p>Like the writer who added four words to an old beggar's sign: <br>G C Em G <br>"It is spring but - I am blind" </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>That's why you need a hook point <br>A headline like a setpoint <br>That reaches out and pulls your reader in </p>
<p>Gotta have a hook point <br>Or you'll only disappoint <br>Yourself and your viewers and your friends </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Am <br>With an image or an insight <br>G <br>An idea or some text <br>F <br>With added personality <br>Em <br>To grab their interest </p>
<p>Mock it up and test it <br>Try to find the best bit <br>Simplify the concept <br>Til you find what really works </p>
<p>MIDDLE </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Got a hook point <br>A headline like a setpoint <br>That reaches out and pulls your reader in </p>
<p>Gotta have a hook point <br>Or you'll only disappoint <br>Yourself and your viewers and your friends <br>OUTRO [Strummed once] <br>G Em C G <br>In our three-second world, people are scrolling so fast <br>Em C D G <br>I had your attention but it didn't last</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089172021-01-22T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T13:59:47+02:00Alyson Lawrence on UFOs and an alternative theory of evolution<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/da38d20fcae88abc7d79228be6d65a7765872859/original/28-alison-lawrence.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Alyson Lawrence is a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches and an International Director of The Aetherius Society at the European Headquarters in London. She was a devoted follower of Dr. George King during his lifetime and has lectured in several countries and written articles on many and varied metaphysical topics. Alyson is also an experienced teacher and trainer in dynamic prayer. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: </p>
<p> MOST CATERPILLARS DON'T BELEIVE IN BUTTERFLIES</p>
<p>CHORUS <br>B E <br>Most caterpillars don't believe in butterflies <br>B E <br>You make a chrysalis, then you die <br> F# E <br>Despite the butterfly sightings </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Butterflies in the sky <br>Tricks of the light or cloud formations <br>Flocks of birds or you expectations <br>Who knows? Who can say? <br>Don't look they'll go away </p>
<p>Caterpillars are apathetic <br>They're focused on their leaf <br>"Don't borrow me with spiritual things <br> F# F# <br>I'm living in the hear and now" </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>VERSE <br>The Nine Freedoms explains it all <br>How Bravery, Love and Service <br>Lead to enlightenment and cosmic consciousness <br>Then ascension and interplanetary existence <br>Before we get to Saturn and then life on the sun <br>Many more things are mentioned <br>It's a lot to take in <br>And when talking to caterpillars <br> F# F# <br>It's hard to know where to begin... </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>E F# B E <br>The caterpillar government's not helping things <br>E F# <br>I guess they have their reasons </p>
<p>E F# B E <br>But I know one day that everyone will see <br>B E <br>Inevitably <br>F# B <br>That becoming butterflies is our destiny </p>
<p>But until then... </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089182021-01-20T10:35:00+01:002021-05-20T14:01:40+02:00Rupert Sheldrake on why science has become a pseudoscience<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/d1d0e25d01b93d56405de2bd79500306ca413349/original/27-rupert-sheldrake.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Rupert Sheldrake, is a biologist, author, and researcher, best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance. He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University. He has written many books on science, spirituality, and morphic resonance which is a process whereby self-organizing systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits and memory is inherent in nature. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> ONE FREE MIRACLE</p>
<p>68 BPM </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C Em <br>Centuries of science, have given us the answers <br>We know matter's unconscious <br>We can show evolution's purposeless <br>C D <br>The only reality's material reality </p>
<p>There's just one part that's hazy, that bit at the beginning <br>How all mass and energy, came into being <br>And the laws that govern all of existence <br>Appeared at once, in a single instant, from nothing... <br>We just need </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> G F# Em <br>One free miracle <br> C D <br>The B part of the Bang <br>Give us this one free miracle <br>For our theories to hang <br>Only this one free miracle <br>We can explain the rest <br>We need just one free miracle <br>All else we can test </p>
<p>VERSE <br>We're all on the same page, from Dawkin to Hawking <br>Intellectual phase-locking <br>Fundamental constants, must never change <br>We average results out so they stay the same </p>
<p>Ditto to the dark stuff, we add and subtract <br>"Conservation of energy" must remain intact <br>Science is settled, without an almighty <br>So now we restrict, the areas of enquiry <br>To the details </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Am G <br>Nature is mechanistic <br>F C <br>Unexplained phenomenons are illusory </p>
<p>Get it through your head - your mind's in your body <br>Biological inheritance is only through your genes <br> <br>[Instrumental chords as Middle] </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090592021-01-18T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:03:00+02:00Iyad El-Baghdadi on dealing with dictators<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/188c04bfe200cfbb407f9088f747c6f3921e7fbd/original/26-iyad-el-baghdadi.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Iyad El-Baghdadi is an internationally-recognised Arab Spring activist and expert on authoritarianism. He is the President of Kawaakibi Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the Arab Tyrant Manual. He is an outspoken critic of both Islamic movements and secular dictatorships, and has set himself apart from many other activists through his use of humor and sarcasm. He contributes to his own blog site Islam and Liberty and podcast Arab Tyrant Manual on Soundcloud. A stateless Palestinian who was born in Kuwait and raised in the United Arab Emirates, he is now a political refugee in Norway. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Iyad and all the other Podsongs athttps://jackstafford.org/music </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>NORWAY AND SAUDI ARABIA </p>
<p>58BPM </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>A# Gm D# A# <br>Norway and Saudi Arabia both won the lottery <br>With one lucky strike they were lifted up, out of poverty </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Gm D# <br>One said whoa! Come on let’s go <br>Gm F <br>This is our chance we’re going to take it </p>
<p>Built cities out of sand, turn the seas into the land <br>This is how we’re going to make it </p>
<p>And we’ll live it up fast, while the good times last <br>No one's going to stop me baby </p>
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<p>VERSE <br>The other said no, put it away <br>Save it up for a rainy day </p>
<p>Keep the day job, put it in savings <br>Don't give in to carnal cravings </p>
<p>Cos you never know, and history shows <br>Sometimes it's best not to grow </p>
<p>CHORUS [INSTRUMENTAL] </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>A# <br>Bright nights <br>F <br>Big city lights <br>D# <br>Or the countryside <br>F <br>And the quiet life </p>
<p>Fast living <br>Or selfless giving <br>Different ends <br>From the same beginnings</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66091492021-01-15T14:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:04:25+02:00Dr. John Demartini on what he learnt from reading 30,000 books<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/326c3936d7cc5f99fa8027ec64e026942f50cf92/original/25-john-demartini.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. John Demartini is a world-renowned specialist in human behavior, a researcher, author, and global educator. He has developed a series of solutions applicable across all markets, sectors, and age groups. </p>
<p>His education curriculum ranges from corporate empowerment programs, financial empowerment strategies, self-development programs, relationship solutions, and social transformation programs. His teachings start at the core of the issue, addressing the human factor and range out to a multitude of powerful tools that have proven the test of time. </p>
<p>He has studied over 30,000 books across all the defined academic disciplines and has synthesized the wisdom of the ages which he shares on stage in over 100 countries. His presentations whether keynotes, seminars or workshops, leave clients with insights into their behavior and keys to their empowerment. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with John and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
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<p>THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF THE ONE AND THE MANY </p>
<p>INTRO <br>From the One comes the Many and from the Many comes the One <br>Within the one is the potential for the many <br>And within the many, there is inherently the one. <br>In the subatomic world <br>In the astronomical world <br>And anywhere in between <br>Including all of human behaviour. </p>
<p>VERSE <br>In the Universe, expanding out <br>Forming super galaxy clusters <br>that will contract, back into the one </p>
<p>On the Earth – In Geology <br>Tectonic plates make a continent <br>Then disintegrate back, into individuality <br> <br>In Oceanology, equatorial heat rises <br>And watery polar cool falls <br>Circulating, and redistributing resources </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>The more you force yourself to the many <br>The more nature forces you back to the one <br>Use... <br>this knowledge <br>Understand nature’s way, accept it and grow </p>
<p>VERSE <br>In the body – In Chemistry <br>Nucleophilic substitution or elimination <br>Many to one and one to many reactions </p>
<p>In Enzymology, enzymes catalyse <br>Anabolic and catabolic reactions To build and <br>destroy, to maintain metabolic equilibrium </p>
<p>In the nervous system, the parasympathetic anabolises <br>And the sympathetic catabolises <br>Autonomically, from one to many. </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Understand this Law <br>Meet the needs of others <br>Not just your own <br>And you can make a vast difference <br>Change the entire world </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>When everything outside's a reflection of what's inside you <br>You... will have mastered your life <br>You’ll have equity outside <br>Equanimity within <br>Be inspired by what you do <br>Become certain and present <br>And live <br>With love <br>And gratitude</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66201132021-01-14T17:00:00+01:002022-04-04T15:15:58+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 2<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/9b30c37381a5b3775f8bf05d3d30c132367d035a/original/commentary-volume-2.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 The World Does Not Revolve Around Me <br>2 Mobile Library <br>3 The Mother Earth <br>4 Katy Parody <br>5 Unbendable <br>6 You Are Responsible <br>7 Mailing List <br>8 Podcast Pollination <br>9 Zoom Gloom <br>10 Some Things Stay Deeply Hidden <br>11 Saint Julie <br>12 Perfect Posture</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Track-by-Track-Commentary-on-Podsongs-Volume-2-e1052u6" width="400px"></iframe></p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089212021-01-13T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:06:25+02:00Esther Gokhale - the woman with the perfect posture<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/8e8bc212c0ee5cde33964a7eb75d3d87591a2de0/original/24-esther-gokhale.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Esther Gokhale has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest in healing led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. </p>
<p>After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Gokhale began her lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain. Her studies at the Aplomb® Institute in Paris and years of research in Brazil, India, Portugal and elsewhere led her to develop the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living. </p>
<p>Gokhale's book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into ten languages. In 2010, Gokhale hosted the nationally-televised program Back Pain: The Primal Posture™ Solution (available on DVD and streaming). The Gokhale Method continues to grow as dozens of qualified teachers, each personally trained by Gokhale, now teach the method worldwide. </p>
<p>Gokhale has taught at corporations such as Google, IDEO, and Facebook, presented at conferences including TEDx(Stanford) and Ancestral Health Symposium, consulted for the trainers of the SF 49ers and several Stanford sports teams, and conducted workshops for physician groups at Stanford, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, PAMF, and UCSF. The New York Times gave Esther the title “The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley” in 2013. </p>
<p>Esther Gokhale lives on Stanford University campus where she raised three children with her husband Brian White, a professor in the Math Department. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Esther and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE GIRL WITH THE PERFECT POSTURE </p>
<p>VERSE <br>F# <br>Some men like big girls, some like 'em small <br>F# <br>Some men like short ones, others like 'em tall <br>B <br>Some are into bottoms, others into breasts <br>F# <br>But she's got something that's by far the best </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>C# <br>She's so fine <br>B <br>Make her mine <br>F# <br>It's her spine </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>B <br>I'm in love with her perfect posture <br>E <br>She's like a ray in a darkened night <br>B <br>And you know that I want to get with her <br>E <br>It's so sexy how she stands up so straight </p>
<p>I'm in love with her perfect posture <br>It's like she's powered by some strength inside <br>That's the reason a girl was made for <br>That's a back that I want to ride </p>
<p>VERSE <br>While other girls cower and other girls bow <br>With rounded backs and heads bent low <br>She's like a beacon tall in the night <br>A bright example of how it's done right </p>
<p>BRIDGE </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>SOLO </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I've tried to emulate but it might be too late <br>I've rounded shoulders, my back isn't straight <br>I know that she is out of my reach <br>But I want to learn if she's willing to teach </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>The way she stands <br>It's so grand <br>Please command</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089222021-01-11T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:07:30+02:00AJ Jacobs, NYT best-selling author, on his incredible lifestyle experiments <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/7f28aaa06c72e9c3e57d4770898c2d65e381a7b1/original/23-aj-jacobs.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />A. J. Jacobs is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. AJ has said that he sees his life as a series of experiments in which he immerses himself in a project or lifestyle, for better or worse, then writes about what he learned. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with AJ and Julie and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>SAINT JULIE ( AJ'S WIFE)</p>
<p>CAPO 4th </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>AJ being honest <br>F C <br>AJ listing facts <br>C G <br>AJ entertaining us with all his crazy acts </p>
<p>AJ connecting relatives <br>AJ saying thanks <br>AJ outsourcing all his worries, even arguments </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>F Am <br>We all love reading 'bout AJ's life <br> F G C <br>And that very saintly lady AJ's wife? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>AJ joining Mensa <br>And taking the bible literally <br>AJ stoning adulterers in Central Park for all to see </p>
<p>AJ unitasking <br>AJ peeing in the sink <br>AJ staying in the moment by saying everything he thinks </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>It'd be fun to have AJ in our life <br>But spare a thought for poor old AJ's wife </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>C <br>Saint Julie <br>G <br>Must love him truly <br>F <br>She's living a movie <br>G <br>The kind you watch slowly </p>
<p>Saint Julie <br>Came down from on high <br>To take pity on that dorky guy <br>On the 28th floor </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL (CHORUS) </p>
<p>VERSE (Strummed) <br>AJ and Julie riding in Gondolas having romantic times <br>AJ and Julie holding hands watching Waking Ned Divine </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>We'd kill for dinner with AJ and wife <br>So we can hear her side of their crazy life</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089232021-01-08T10:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:21:36+01:00Sean Carroll - America's favourite physicist (ft. musical guest Emma Hill)<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/bb13e87c8df43bd24bea34be1d885f5c9f839652/original/22-sean-carroll.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Sean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. His research has focused on fundamental physics and cosmology, especially issues of dark matter, dark energy, spacetime symmetries, and the origin of the universe. Recently, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the emergence of spacetime, and the evolution of entropy and complexity. Carroll is the author of Something Deeply Hidden, The Big Picture, The Particle at the End of the Universe, From Eternity to Here, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Royal Society of London, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report, PBS's NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. He is host of the weekly Mindscape podcast. </p>
<p>This episode I'm joined by <a contents="Emma Hill" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.emmahillmusic.com/" target="_blank">Emma Hill</a>, an Alaskan singer-songwriter and old friend of mine. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote with Emma after being inspired by our conversation with Sean and all the other Podsongs </p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Sean-Carroll---Americas-favourite-physicist-plus-special-musical-guest-Emma-Hill-eoee1i/a-a48bdk8" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K8oY7sbbuwk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/deeplyhidden.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>SOME THINGS STAY DEEPLY HIDDEN</p>
<p>Capo 4th </p>
<p>B G#m E B <br>E G#m F# B </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G Em <br>Quantum leaps in quantum theory <br>C G <br>A multiversal prism <br>C Em <br>Unthreaded from the theory string <br>D/F# G <br>A cosmic mechanism </p>
<p>E F# <br>B F# G#m <br>E F# G#m </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> C D <br>Many ideas are encouraged <br> G F#/D Em <br>others are forbidden <br> C D Em <br>While some things stay deeply hidden </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Many worlds links many theories <br>It scratches at the gloss <br>As carousels of parallels <br>Cascade across the cosmos </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Theories are proudly postulated <br>Formulas are written <br>While some things stay deeply hidden </p>
<p>G#m <br>E <br>B <br>C#/F </p>
<p>MIDDLE </p>
<p>Em, </p>
<p>Science is reaching </p>
<p> C </p>
<p>Learning and teaching </p>
<p>G, </p>
<p>Constantly questioning </p>
<p> D/F# </p>
<p>The spaces between </p>
<p>Em </p>
<p>With small steps or leaping </p>
<p>C </p>
<p>Persistently seeking </p>
<p>G </p>
<p>The answers we crave </p>
<p>D/F# </p>
<p>To particles and waves </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL (Same chords as Middle) </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Some or all are not convinced at all <br>By the patterns placed before them <br>They interrogate and authenticate <br>To solve superposition </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Many worlds is crying out <br>Dying to be ridden <br>While some things stay deeply......... hidden</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089462021-01-04T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:09:38+02:00Joyce Pring - No.1 podcaster in the Philippines - on how to survive Zoom-living<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/7c7c11bef4f6ca6c56018b979a2eaa4f55d26caf/original/21-joyce-pring.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Joyce Pring, On-air as a radio jock for 4 years, Joyce now hosts the leading podcast in the Philippines, Adulting with Joyce Pring, which garnered popularity since its launch in 2018 - garnering the number one spot on both Spotify and iTunes, with more than 250 thousand listeners globally and 2 million streams across all platforms. She has been a child sponsor for 9 years, and 3 years ago, she became a World Vision Ambassador - championing for the protection, and education of children. Recently, Joyce was appointed by the Department of Education and World Vision Philippines as the ambassador for their latest campaign, Brigada Pagbasa. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Joyce and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Joyce-Pring---No-1-podcaster-in-the-Philippines---on-how-to-survive-Zoom-living-eodnm7/a-a48b0r3" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/zoomgloom.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>ZOOM GLOOM</p>
<p>VERSE <br>F <br>Wall to wall meetings today <br>C <br>Hardly breaks, no time to play <br>Bf <br>Double the work, without the breaks <br>C <br>All over my body aches </p>
<p>Just cos I'm home doesn't mean I'm free <br>I'm working flat out virtually <br>That's not the way the family sees it <br>Calling me, in my room... with </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Zoom gloom <br>Weighs me down <br>Talk is long, talk is cheap <br>With people I never meet </p>
<p>Zoom gloom <br>Nowhere to hide <br>Camera's on, I feel open wide <br>And everyone can see inside </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Mind is drifting can't concentrate <br>Fighting hard just to stay awake <br>Who wants a meeting after lunch? <br>One bad apple in the Brady Bunch </p>
<p>Too many faces to cognitize <br>I need more info than just the eyes <br>After every call I'm feel drained <br>Communicatively immune </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Barely time to wake-up <br>Put on a little up makeup <br>Before the camera's on <br>And show's begun </p>
<p>Wake up the co-host <br>The one that I love most <br>Do a little gurgle <br>I have come full circle </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089472021-01-02T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:35:45+02:00Tom Schwab - podcast expert - on the secrets to a great podcast<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/37fcf51d315f5c04e00cd25bcbaddb88d2a59032/original/20-tom-schwab.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He&rsquo's done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into customers. The author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy, Tom is also Founder/CEO of Interview Valet, the category king of Podcast Interview Marketing. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Tom and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Tom-Schwab---podcast-expert---on-the-secrets-to-a-great-podcast-eodmu5/a-a48at03" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/podcastpollination.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>PODCAST POLLINATION</p>
<p>VERSE <br>A E A <br>The radio inside my head is dull <br>D E A <br>The presenters have the same boring opinions <br>D A <br>The programming's repetitive <br>D A <br>The ideas never new <br>D E <br>If only there was something I can do </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>A E <br>My thoughts were all the same <br> D A <br>Until you pollinate my brain <br> D E A <br>After a podcast I have new and shiny thoughts </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Podcasts have given me my education <br>I've learnt the most amazing tips and tricks <br>Adopted happy habits <br>Stopped what held me back <br>Turned my life around got back on track </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE <br>An ice bath clears my head and trains my body <br>I want to lift the veil of materialism <br>I try to be a bit more vegan <br>ACT upon my thinking <br>And look forward to the life that comes after death </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I want to lift the veil of materialism <br>In reality we're aspects of the one <br>I bathe inside bliss brain <br>ACT upon my thinking</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089482020-12-30T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:41:48+02:00Todd McCarty on the modern music business<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/b69a7fb8562aa5a881eeceb8211c190502a34891/original/19-todd-mccarty.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Todd McCarty is currently living in Japan after leaving his record label job to build a consultant business and educate a large audience of musicians via his new platform Band Builder Academy. He's served musicians and fans his entire career. He also consults record labels and independent musicians getting placement for music on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. </p>
<p>Previously he was Sony Music USA as Senior Vice President of Sales. Previously he was General Manager for Fearless Records where he worked for 13 years (2002 – 2015) helping artists like Portugal. The Man, I Prevail, Motionless In White, Mayday Parade, Pierce The Veil, The Maine, and Plain White T&rsquo's create heat on the street. He was awarded a 5x Platinum single, 3 Platinum singles, 5 Gold Albums, and many Gold singles for RIAA-certified sales achievements. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Todd called 'Mailing List' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Todd-McCarty-on-the-modern-music-business-eo6e4o/a-a46kru1" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/mailinglist.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>MAILING LIST</p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>Here's the tale of our stale indie music <br>F <br>Speaking to you like this is very therapeutic </p>
<p>Nobody buys CDs, they're only streaming <br>Fractions of cents are all I get for dreaming <br>One day perhaps I'll make it on a proper playlist <br>Glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list </p>
<p>I am glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list <br>I joined Band Builder, I'm in Todd's Academy <br>I got the secrets of the big label strategies <br>I play for algorithms, write for AIs <br>I'm on a left brain, right brain, strategem <br>I watch the metrics, got a box of tricks to enlist <br>Glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>I'm glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>Let's keep in touch now, and be like real friends <br>I’ll be the annoying one, who's goes on 'bout what’s going on with them <br>Don't be shy though my lyrical prowess is scary <br>The secret is I use a rhyming dictionary <br>I've got a podcast now with songs about the guests that's the twist <br>You've heard the music, now sign up to the mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>I'm glad you like my music, will join my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>F <br>You cannot unsubscribe <br>Am <br>Request denied <br>G <br>I'll never cease <br>Am <br>I'll never desist <br>F <br>You said you liked my music <br> C <br>Now you're on my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>I've got you forever, now you're on my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>Even if you die, you'll stay on my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>Even on the astral, you'll be on my mailing list </p>
<p>[Lead solo] </p>
<p>I need your email cos my posts won't win a Grammy <br>My social media anemia's a tragedia <br>I have to pay Facebook to get it to remind you I exist <br>I'm glad you like my music, will you join my mailing list</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090002020-12-28T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:42:57+02:00Dr Neal Barnard on veganism and animal rights<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/7ee7dca46076e46b4396a98fe0be326c95d64207/original/18-neal-barnard.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Neal D. Barnard is an American author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Barnard founded Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in 1985 because he "wanted to promote preventive medicine." By 2016, the Washington D.C.-based PCRM had 150,000 members, including 12,000 physicians and reported revenues of more than $20 million. He appeared in the 2011 documentary feature film Forks Over Knives. </p>
<p>Barnard serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He founded the Barnard Medical Center in 2015 as part of PCRM, and it opened in 2016 with him as president; the center provides primary care and emphasizes diet and preventive medicine. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Neal called 'You Are Responsible' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Dr-Neal-Barnard-on-veganism-and-animal-rights-eo1sai/a-a46534g" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/youareresponsible.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE</p>
<p>VERSE <br>Fm <br>Could you shoot a cow? <br>Cm <br>Stab a goat? <br>Bfm <br>Hold a little sheep <br>Fm <br>And slit its throat </p>
<p>Would you feed a pig a diet that includes <br>Euthanised pets <br>Which have been dried and ground and sold as <br>"Protein concentrates"? </p>
<p>Then slaughter it <br>And eat its guts <br>Then grind up whatever's left <br>for growing piglets? </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>This is you <br>I'm afraid it's true <br>Cos the men who do <br>They work for you </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Could you inseminate a cow? <br>In a very very painful way <br>Then 9 months later come back and <br>Take its baby away </p>
<p>Then drag that calf down <br>Into your basement <br>And never ever let it <br>See light again </p>
<p>Chain it up <br>So it can't sit down <br>Give it a diet of liquid food <br>So it lives with diarrhoea </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>This is you <br>I'm afraid it's true <br>Cos the men who do <br>They work for you </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Fm <br>You are responsible <br>Bfm <br>You are responsible <br>Fm <br>You are responsible <br>Cm </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Would you feed your children hormones <br>In the interests of economics <br>Or give them health complications <br>From a diet of animal antibiotics </p>
<p>Or have them absorb the emotions <br>Of an animal that lived in torture <br>And thoughts from the mind of the man <br>Who shot it through the head </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>But you do <br>I'm afraid it's true <br>If only they knew <br>The things they chew </p>
<p>This is you <br>It's all you <br>If only you knew <br>Well now you do</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090332020-12-27T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:44:00+02:00Alan Dershowitz on defending the undefendable<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/03e648fd85a7c74eaf760911f11cf7b389a44aeb/original/17-alan-dershowitz.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his scholarship of U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and a noted advocate of civil liberties. He taught at Harvard Law School from 1964 through 2013, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. He is also a prominent voice on the Arab–Israeli conflict and has written several books on the subject. </p>
<p>Dershowitz is known for taking on high profile and often unpopular causes and clients. As of 2009, he had won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he handled as a criminal appellate lawyer. Dershowitz has represented celebrity clients including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, followed by Claus von Bülow in 1984 who had been convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. </p>
<p>In 1995, Dershowitz served as the appellate adviser on the O. J. Simpson murder trial, part of the legal "Dream Team", alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. Dershowitz was a member of the defense team for Harvey Weinstein in 2018 and for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in 2020. He was a member of the legal defense team for Jeffrey Epstein and helped to negotiate a 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein's behalf. </p>
<p>Dershowitz is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two most recent works are: The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019). </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Alan called 'Unbendable' and all the other Podsongs </p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/podsongs/embed/episodes/Alan-Dershowitz-on-defending-the-undefendable-eo1p0c/a-a464eie" width="400px"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/alandershowitz.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>UNBENDABLE</p>
<p>CAPO 6th </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C (F#) <br>Born in Brooklyn <br>Raised in the boom <br>A mensch man with honour <br>From class to courtroom <br>F (B) <br>Taught to fight <br>For constitutional rights </p>
<p>CHORUS <br> G (C#) <br>Defend the undefendable <br>F (B) <br>Make complex comprehendible <br>G (C#) <br>With principles <br> C (F#) <br>Unbendable </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Defending due process <br>The truth not coerced <br>Freedom for all <br>First Amendment comes first <br>Taking the stand <br>When others stand down <br> <br>CHORUS </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Am (D#m) <br>Trial by jury <br>Em (A#m) <br>And trial by state <br>F (B) <br>Or trial by Twitter <br>G (C#) <br>Trial by hate </p>
<p>Media censored <br>Socially censured <br>The mob mentality's <br>Our new normality </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Impeached or accused <br>Now doubt is removed <br>But aren't we all innocent <br>Until guilt is proved? <br>Trial by ordeal <br>Without appeal </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089512020-12-23T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:45:08+02:00Stanley Chi on life in the Philippines<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/179083650e265fcabc17a621b8df36b78d1dc1cd/original/16-stanley-chi.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Stanley Chi is a Chinese Filipino observational comedian, cartoonist, TV host, columnist and book author. Chi has gained an underground cult following because of his unique comedic chops. He is the columnist for FHM Philippines' website, One Night Stan and a video blogger for Spot.ph's Suplado in the City. He also hosts The Underpaid Podcast, a podcast that talks about work-related topics, anything and everything about the office such as how to deal with your horrible boss, office mates, office politics and how to survive the corporate world. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Stanley called 'Katy Parody' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://ffm.to/stanleychi.owe/widget?width=300&height=250&note=" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>KATY PARODY</p>
<p>VERSE <br>G#m <br>Ever since I've worked from home <br>I'm spending too much time alone <br>C#m <br>I dress for Zoom above the waist <br>G#m <br>The part below can suit my taste <br>D#m <br>I've split my personality <br>G#m <br>'tween me and Katy Parody [cockney] </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Luckily my girlfriend has my size <br>Though things get tight around the thighs <br>She's got a mini-skirt I love <br>And that one fits me like a glove <br>What a sexy sight to see <br>Me as Katy Parody </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE <br>I think she's started to suspect <br>When she does washing she inspects <br>When she noticed lingerie was stretched <br>I was ready to confess <br>But I don't think she would like to see <br>Me as Katy Parody </p>
<p>VERSE <br>In team reviews I wear high heels <br>It gives me power the way it feels <br>I've been promoted twice then <br>I've got a power over men <br>What a sexy sight to see <br>Me as Katy Parody</p>
<p> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090022020-12-21T12:15:00+01:002021-12-29T20:16:03+01:00Chrissie Blaze on Earth: Astrology's missing planet<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/3623102038b62c18440921d811871cd0349e8271/original/15-chrissie-blaze.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Chrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowned English Yoga Master, Dr. George King, Founder of The Aetherius Society. Her goal is the global promotion of practical spirituality, including astrology. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Chrissie and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE MOTHER EARTH</p>
<p>Capo 5th </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C F <br>Some thoughts depress you - like what you had and lost <br>C F <br>Like we ever really possess anything - and even know who we are </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Am C <br>Think of your ancestors do you even know their names? <br>Am C <br>They've been blown away and are floating with the stars </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>F G C <br>We are all specks of dust, here upon the Mother Earth <br>F G C <br>We owe her all of our love. Blessed is the Mother Earth </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Think of everyone through history - everyone whoever was <br>And of the lives they lived and what they did - how little we know of </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>They lived their every moment in this tiny place <br>And in the universe they left no trace </p>
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<p>MIDDLE <br>Am <br>Rivers of blood spilt in triumph <br>C <br>To claim one piece or own one corner <br>F <br>Endless cruelties visited out <br>G <br>To move about imagined borders </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>How many have died? Fighting for the Mother Earth </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Every creator, every destroyer of civilisations <br>Every hero, every coward, every king </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>They owe all of their lives, to the sacred Mother Earth </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Every saint, every sinner, every son <br>Every inventor, every explorer, everyone </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>In the history of our species, crawled around the Mother Earth <br>Yes they lived out their lives, here upon the Mother Earth</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089522020-12-18T10:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:48:53+02:00Esther and Laura on how they started a mobile library for refugees in Greece<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/65bd6ce91a2545dce7f860782a14265ba9e8dc6e/original/14-laura-naude-and-esther-ten-zijthof.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />ECHO is a mobile library helping refugees in Greece. Around 80,000 displaced people in Greece are currently stuck in isolated camps that lack basic facilities, let alone a library. ECHO is a grassroots project organized through a community network between Athens and eleven camps and community centers in mainland Greece. I speak to Laura Naude and Esther ten Zijthoff, two of the founders. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Esther and Laura called, unsurprisingly enough, ‘Mobile Library’ and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>MOBILE LIBRARY </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>Our story starts at the Macedonian border <br>F <br>Two volunteers, Ester and Laura <br>C <br>There’s a refugee camp here <br>Am <br>And in the toxic atmosphere <br>F <br>Their degrees in development <br>G <br>Didn’t seem relevant </p>
<p>The borders closed and no one knows <br>People got no place to go so <br>They get no relocation <br>Got no motivation <br>No access to books or communication <br>What could make them… smile? </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Mobile library <br>Breaking through bureaucratic Bullshit <br>Mobile library <br>Just solo and independent </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>Fund raising got the girls a mini-van <br>F <br>Turned into a library with a handyman <br>C <br>Kitted it with Wifi and tables and chairs <br>Am <br>Donations arrived from Dubai <br>F <br>Supplies from Saudi Arabia <br>Am <br>Soon they had books in Farcy <br>F <br>French and Arabic <br>G <br>Urdu, English, Kurdish and Greek </p>
<p>Harry Potter helped Akmed disappear <br>Ali escaped with Agatha Christie <br>Malcolm Gladwell showed Hussan <br>How Little Things Can Make a Difference <br> Mohammed was rejected, just sat in his chair <br>Until he read Slumdog Millionaire </p>
<p>Am <br>And when the snow was falling <br>C <br>The tents were freezing <br>F C <br>Dan Brown, kept people warm <br>Am <br>While Callon from Camaroon <br>F <br>Who’d come on foot to get there <br>G <br>Walked to Freedom with Nelson Mandela </p>
<p>It was a simple idea that people will never forget <br>Access to books and the internet <br>The van keeps moving they can't settle down <br>They have to park outside the camps <br>Stopped by police, for disturbing the peace <br>There are no happy endings in the story of Greece </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Mobile library <br>Rising above reality <br>Mobile library <br>Changing lives one book at a time, yeah </p>
<p>VERSE <br>(QUIET) <br> C <br>Only the cream of Syrian society <br>F <br>Could afford the fee of being refugees <br>C <br>Now doctors, pharmacists and lawyers <br>Am <br>Counting their cents <br>F <br>Living in tents <br>G <br>While smuggler’s kids get their homes as presents </p>
<p>(SLOW) <br>C <br>But there’s more irony when they land on the beach <br>F <br>€20,000 euros waiting for each <br>C <br>Not that it’s ever really meant for them <br>Am F C <br>It’s there to pay for the entire system </p>
<p>(FAST) <br>C <br>And it’s the new Greek graduates <br>Am <br>Who get a lot of the revenue <br>F <br>Getting their breakthrough <br>Am <br>With the EU <br>F <br>You don’t hear anymore about the Greek crisis <br>G C <br>It’s been solved by Assad and Isis </p>
<p>Am <br>While the UN guys <br>F <br>Rent top of the range, four wheel drives <br>G <br>And who knows where the money for the NGOs goes! </p>
<p>CHORUS </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>Mobile library <br>Bordered bodies but minds free <br>Mobile sanctuary <br>Taking literature, literally </p>
<p>Mobile missionary <br>Independent, voluntary <br>Mobile emissary <br>Giving back, dignity </p>
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<p>To be fair they're just trying to fit in <br>In Thessaloniki they're all on the take <br>Even the elements give you no place to go <br>Incredible heat or freezing snow <br>And all they ever hear is people complaining <br>But everything's solved by double-glazing <br>It can be tough to get through another day <br>To make it from frappe to frappe</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090492020-12-16T12:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:50:05+02:00Neil Dykes about volunteering to help refugees in Greece<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/3ea6b999f1bc05773458dc2bee566b2b730fb83f/original/13-neil-dykes.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Shocked by the news reports of the conditions in Greece, UK couple Neil and Caroline Dykes went to Thessaloniki to see what they could do to help. They were met by dreadful scenes of overcrowded, rundown buildings with no heat or running water and no prospect of onward movement for the people. These poor families had had their houses bombed out from underneath them, had suffered terrible horrors and their plight was desperate. The large NGOs were sitting on their hands and were more interested in finding comfortable accommodation for their staff than attending to the needs of the Syrians. Their prevarication incensed Caroline and Neil and they set about arranging practical help for the refugees. They visited Greek estate agents and persuaded them to rent apartments to the Syrians, paid for by Caroline and Neil. And when a family moved into an apartment they gave them money for essential shopping, and arranged advice on citizenship and seeking asylum in other countries. Neil even built a wooden bus shelter after a Syrian woman had been run over and killed while waiting for a bus on the side of a busy road. The measure of their success can be seen in the grateful emails they receive from Syrian families now living and working in EU countries. </p>
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<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Neil called 'The World Does Not Revolve Around Me' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>AROUND ME </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Egos on the rampage <br>Not a pretty sight <br>I'm up for the ugly prize </p>
<p>Searching out in others <br>Only their mistakes <br>But when I put the eye aside </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>She thinks I'm just being selfish <br>Thinking of myself and no one else here <br>Playing a game of wait and see <br>See if the world revolves around me <br>Or in the chaos swirling around <br>Checking the background hearing the sounds <br>Happy to notice, pleased to see <br>The world does not revolve around </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Dissatisfaction <br>With all action <br>Patterns on repeat </p>
<p>Make a little room <br>Tune it out <br>All the radios </p>
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<p>Around me x8 </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>Focused minds <br>Energy and drive <br>The attention that we crave </p>
<p>All this love <br>All these voices <br>Screaming to be heard </p>
<p>CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66201142020-12-15T17:00:00+01:002022-03-30T16:07:41+02:00Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 1<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/c7d7f45f44389ac1c7160e6bf3e0d6ccbe4414c5/original/commentary-volume-1.jpeg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />A commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.</p>
<p>1 It'll All Work Out <br>2 ACT <br>3 Bobbie and Bernie <br>4 Brighter <br>5 The wonder of one <br>6 True believer <br>7 The Prison of Materialism <br>8 Grief 2 Growth <br>9 Hymn of the Blessings <br>10 Bliss Brain <br>11 Happy Habits <br>12 Master of Mind</p>
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<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Thom called Master of Mind and all the other Podsongs. </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>ARE YOU THE MASTER OF YOUR MIND? </p>
<p>(CAPO 1st) </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G <br>You can build your body and hone yourself an incredible physique <br>Perform fantastic physical feats that must be seen to be believed </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>C G <br>But can you breathe and only breathe <br>C G <br>Yes can you breathe and only breathe </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Or buy an education that's the envy of all <br>Become an economic mastermind know the workings of the world </p>
<p>BRIDGE </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Em G <br>What good is such a powerful force <br>Em G <br>If you can't still your mind and hold it on a course <br>C D <br>Are you the master of your mind? </p>
<p>VERSE <br>You could study the languages learn Sanskrit and Greek <br>Understand the ancient texts and find long-forgotten techniques </p>
<p>BRIDGE + CHORUS </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Or become a leader of the military with power over men <br>Put a country to the sword or show mercy upon them </p>
<p>BRIDGE + CHORUS </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Or use your life as a politician and be an honest one at that <br>Make the world a better place or at least a part of it</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089552020-12-11T11:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:52:52+02:00Karen Salmansohn on happiness<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/503178f644f154478f8927d38598a6b23f2d3aa9/original/11-karen-salmansohn.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Karen Salmansohn is a best selling self-help book author and award-winning designer with about 2 million books sold nationally and internationally. She is the founder of notsalmon.com, a popular personal development site, which offers books and video courses on topics including anxiety, toxic people, emotional eating, relationships, meditation, and happiness. Her website also includes many of her viral quote posters that she writes and designs. Salmansohn was formerly a senior VP ad creative director (at age 26) who left her job to pursue writing. She has been profiled in the NY Times, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, ELLE, Marie Claire, and Fast Company. She also appeared in popular television shows and was a regular lifestyle reporter for Fox TV. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Karen called 'Happy Habits' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>HAPPY HABITS </p>
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<p>Throw your television out of the window </p>
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<p>Replace it with flowers or something that grows </p>
<p>Pay other people to do the cleaning you hate </p>
<p>Get out of the house and spend time with your mates </p>
<p>G C D <br>Happy habits, reprogramme your day </p>
<p>Happy habits, blow your blues away </p>
<p>Happy habits, are some simple tricks <br>Happy habits, to make your good moods stick </p>
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<p>Learn a new skill it can be anything </p>
<p>Paint a picture or do colouring </p>
<p>Exercise and then stand on your head <br>Cheer yourself up by freshly baking bread </p>
<p>Happy habits, reprogramme your day </p>
<p>Happy habits, blow your blues away </p>
<p>Happy habits, are some simple tricks <br>Happy habits, to make your good moods stick </p>
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<p>Stop with the texting and have real conversations </p>
<p>Practice compassion and forgive your relations </p>
<p>Save for a trip that’ll be good for your soul </p>
<p>Focus your sights on a single life goal </p>
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<p>Happy habits, reprogramme your day </p>
<p>Happy habits, blow your blues away </p>
<p>Happy habits, are some simple tricks <br>Happy habits, to make your good moods stick </p>
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<p>Meditate in the morning, Before you check your phone </p>
<p>Have fun days out with happy friends, Then quiet ones alone </p>
<p>Keep a journal and count your blessings </p>
<p>Make them rhyme and you'll feel even happier </p>
<p>Happy habits, reprogramme your day </p>
<p>Happy habits, blow your blues away </p>
<p>Happy habits, are some simple tricks <br>Happy habits, to make your good moods stick</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089562020-12-09T11:00:00+01:002021-05-20T14:53:59+02:00Dawson Church on the mechanics behind mediation<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/6c75e8f4934dac1dc8c4c7417c74a2712bff95fb/original/10-dawson-church.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniusGene.com) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality.” Bliss Brain (BlissBrain.com) demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (NIIH.org) to promote groundbreaking new treatments. He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and personal performance through EFT Universe (EFTUniverse.com), one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Dawson called Bliss Brain and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BLISS BRAIN</p>
<p>VERSE <br> C <br>Start with your tongue loose inside your mouth <br> G <br>This will relax your vagus nerve <br> F <br>Take the Parasympathetic lane <br> G C <br>To Bliss Brain </p>
<p>Now imagine a void behind your eyes <br>Turn off your frontal lobe <br>Everything's changed <br>Bliss Brain </p>
<p>Regulate your breathing now <br>Six seconds in six out <br>Start a heart coherence chain <br>To Bliss Brain </p>
<p>CHORUS: C F C G x2 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Visualise breath through the heart <br>A sphere of energy <br>Start to take aim <br>At Bliss Brain </p>
<p>Next send a beam of energy <br>To a place that feels wonderful <br>Thank God you're going again <br>To Bliss Brain </p>
<p>Gradually expand this beam out <br>For universal compassion <br>So simple to attain <br>Bliss Brain </p>
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<p>MIDDLE <br>Am <br>Change the hardware of brain <br>F <br>With the software of mind <br>C <br>Flourish in compassion <br>G <br>Become truly kind <br> <br>In complete coherence <br>An alpha state <br>Every day more <br>The more you meditate </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Remember tongue loose inside the mouth <br>A void behind your eyes <br>Breath your way <br>Into Bliss Brain</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089572020-12-07T11:05:00+01:002021-05-20T14:57:16+02:00Richard Lawrence on UFOs and yoga<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/9c706694da4ab8444d05fe3e6fc6e513ae4a0e4b/original/9-richard-lawrence.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Richard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Richard called 'Hymn for the Blessings' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>HYMN OF THE BLESSINGS</p>
<p>VERSE 1 <br>G C D G <br>Blessed are they who work for peace <br> G C D G <br>They sacrifice their bliss so that we can exist <br> Em C D G <br>Their unselfish actions never cease <br>G C D G <br>Blessed are they who work for peace </p>
<p>VERSE 2 <br>Blessed are the wise ones for spreading their light <br>Who went deep within and found the peace therein <br>But sacrificed it all to help us through the night <br>Blessed are the wise ones for spreading their light </p>
<p>VERSE 3 <br>Blessed in the now are they who love <br>With love for their brothers they live for others <br>They know that it's God that we're all part of <br>Blessed in the now are they who love </p>
<p>VERSE 4 <br>Blessed are the planetary ones <br>Who left behind their homes to come here alone <br>They walk unsung in silence, shine like brilliant suns <br>Blessed are the planetary ones </p>
<p>VERSE 5 <br>Blessed are the thanksgivers they turn great tides <br>They expended energy so that they can see <br>They send love to the Devas and they bridge the divides <br>Blessed are the thanksgivers they turn great tides </p>
<p>VERSE 6 <br>Blessed are the healers in these days of pain <br>Who lay their hand upon the brow of fevered brothers <br>The universal power flows through their veins <br>Blessed are the healers in these days of pain </p>
<p>VERSE 7 <br>Blessed is the Mother Earth <br>Who refused to advance so we'd have refuge <br>A material form hides her real worth <br>Blessed is the Mother Earth </p>
<p>VERSE 8 <br>Blessed is the Mighty Sun <br>The closest thing to God in our solar system <br>Gives of itself so that we can live on <br>Blessed is the Mighty Sun </p>
<p>VERSE 9 <br>Blessed are the Supreme Lords of Karma <br>Who implement the holy laws that guide our return <br>Watching over lifestreams and trillions of dramas <br>Blessed are the Supreme Lords of Karma </p>
<p>VERSE 10 <br>Blessed is this great being the Galaxy <br>Inside its body, even worlds evolve <br>Who cast off its crown so that we can live free <br>Blessed is the great being the Galaxy </p>
<p>VERSE 11 <br>Blessed are the Supreme Lords of Creation <br>The great and mighty hands of almighty God <br>Even the suns lack have the comprehension <br>Blessed are the Supreme Lords of Creation </p>
<p>VERSE 12 <br>Blessed is the Absolute <br>Blessed in the immobility of its silent self <br>Blessed in the glory of its manifestations <br>Blessed is the Absolute </p>
<p>VERSE 13 <br>Blessed is the Master Jesus <br>Who devoted his life to helping us all <br>He walked alone in simplicity among us <br>Blessed is the Master Jesus </p>
<p>VERSE 14 <br>Blessed is His Eminence Sir George King <br>Who served as a channel for divine wisdom <br>And saved us from destruction countless times <br>Blessed is His Eminence Sir George King</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090042020-12-04T12:00:00+01:002022-03-18T08:46:34+01:00Brian D Smith on growing from grief<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/1b8350eb3690b7c6efb61c8c689f5e7a2f91e09f/original/8-brian-d-smith.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Brian D Smith is a life coach and grief counsellor, and the host of Grief 2 Growth Podcast. " After 57 years of experience and almost that much time helping and leading people informally, I decided to make it official, obtain my life coaching certification, and seek to help people more formally. I&rsquo've had a career as an engineer, incorporate tech sales, and as a small business owner of a business I built from the ground up. I&rsquo've raised two children. I&rsquo've experienced the death of a child. I&rsquo've been married for nearly thirty years. More importantly, I have a passion for helping people. Grief 2 Growth is a natural progression of my time on this planet." explains Brian. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Brian called Grief 2 Growth and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>GRIEF 2 GROWTH</p>
<p>Everyone you know <br>One day will go <br>Through the initiation of death <br> <br>You’re left with grief <br>But it’s not an emotion <br>It’s a myriad of feelings that flow <br> <br>Now whether you grieve for them <br>Or they grieve for you <br>Depends upon who’s leaving who <br> <br>But really you know <br>There’s nowhere they go <br>They’re just here in a different way <br> <br>So go from grief to growth </p>
<p>Be planted not buried <br>Willing and ready <br>For the next time around <br> <br>Grief’s not an illness <br>We grieve cos we love <br>And we go through it time and again <br> <br>You say the deeper the love <br>The deeper the mourning <br>But how are you honouring them? <br> <br>They’re not the same <br>You’ll never be again <br>But be version 2.0 <br> <br>Happiness is fleeting <br>Wealth is deceiving <br>Fulfilment is what you should flow </p>
<p>So go from grief to growth </p>
<p>Be planted not buried <br>Willing and ready <br>For the next time around </p>
<p>So go from grief to growth </p>
<p>Be planted not buried <br>Willing and ready <br>For the next time around</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089592020-12-02T11:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:22:12+01:00Bernardo Kastrup discusses materialism and consciousness<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/35d9990eeb2997fe80d37a7af40a4bcd9ae9755d/original/7-bernardo-kastrup.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Bernado called The Prison of Materialism and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE PRISON OF MATERIALISM</p>
<p>VERSE <br>Fm <br>It's stitched into the sitcoms <br>It's sewn into the news <br>Bfm <br>Twisted in the movies <br>It underwrites your views </p>
<p>It underwrites your views <br>Fm <br>Pumped in by the television <br>Reinforced in school <br>Bfm <br>Seeps into your every hole, <br>But your nobody's fool? <br> <br>BRIDGE <br>Cm <br>It permeates and advocates <br>Corroborates we're separates <br> <br>Bfm <br>Venerates-our-physical-traits-while-vindicating-violent-states <br> <br>Cm <br>Perpetuates subordinates <br>Implicates we're primates <br> <br>Culminates in selfish hate <br>That enumerates & exterminates <br> <br>CHORUS <br>Bfm <br>Oh no, they’re selling you a prison <br>Cm <br>Don’t buy the lie of materialism <br> <br>VERSE <br>It’s been cunningly conceived <br>And slyly concealed <br>Dripped into your consciousness <br>Now it has congealed <br> <br>You're just purely physical <br>You're a piece of meat <br>Who cares if I beat you <br>Or emotionally mistreat you <br> <br>BRIDGE <br>Soul starvation, strangulation <br>Spiritual castration <br> <br>Secularize-sexualise-glamourise-with-vacant-lies <br>Temptation and gratification <br>Physical adoration <br> <br>Sedation of civilization <br>Societal transmogrification <br> <br>CHORUS <br> <br>VERSE <br>They're happy you're confused <br>They feed upon your fear <br>Suck up all your feelings <br>They’re always very near <br> <br>You’re one of the little pawns <br>Putty in their hands <br>Moving in formation <br>As they whisper their commands <br> <br>BRIDGE <br>Preaching the dualities <br>Physical realities <br> <br>With-distorted-moralities-for-limited-mentalities <br> <br>Contorted tonalities <br>Temporal modalities <br>Separate nationalities <br>For global criminalities <br>CHORUS <br> </p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090212020-11-28T12:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:20:56+01:00Scott Carney on the search for truth<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/da7e6ca202718cb8a44ae872e5b877963e724178/original/6-scott-carney.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men&rsquo's Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside, and Fast Company. His work has been the subject of a variety of radio and television programs, including on NPR and National Geographic TV. In 2010, he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for his story “ Meet the Parents,” which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. Carney has spent extensive time in South Asia and speaks Hindi. He attended Kenyon College and has a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently lives in Denver, CO </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Scott called 'True Believer' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p> TRUE BELIEVER</p>
<p>Key: F </p>
<p>BPM: 62 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>F <br>There's a wedge, we drive <br>C <br>For our minds, to thrive <br>Bf C <br>We wither in this world <br>Or we evolve </p>
<p>What is truth? What's belief? <br>What is hiding underneath? <br>In the lie-infested world in which we crawl </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Bf C <br>You call me faithless - but my faith's unshakeable <br>Bf C <br>In fact, I'm one of only a few believers left </p>
<p>VERSE <br>From what I've seen with my own eyes <br>A lie is always in disguise <br>My faith's built on solid base <br>I trust in what I touch or taste </p>
<p>I've been convinced by black and white <br>That today will end in night <br>The song is long while will is free <br>Life ends in a minor key </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL (Wha Wha Wha) </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>You call me faithless but I've no doubt <br>I'm a true believer - believe me! </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>I've faith men cheat, Faith men lie <br>Faith they steal, one day die <br>I'm a believer! <br>A true believer </p>
<p>I've faith they'll kill to make a million <br>Sell their bodies, sell their children <br>I'm a believer! <br>A true believer </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>Lies are always told <br>As lives are, bought and sold <br>Our belief is the currency that we traded away</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089622020-11-27T11:00:00+01:002021-05-20T15:03:21+02:00Lynn Russell on Near Death Experiences<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/9f6e64345bcb4d78363b56d4559ae2a0bcf1c8e1/original/5-lynn-russell.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Triggered by her own spiritual experiences, Lynn Russell went on a journey to study Near-Death Experiences - 2,500 of them! Today, Lynn is a recognized NDE expert, and has collated her research into her new book: The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself. Her research has uncovered messages about our lives, reality, and why we exist. This episode is a very insightful discussion with a truly beautiful person. I learned so much, and am sure you are going to get a lot out of this episode too! Lynn has researched under Dr. Jeffery Long at NDERF (Near-Death Experience Research Foundation) and also worked as a family counselor. For more about Lynn, you can visit: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wonderofyou1 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Artsoul2 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lynn.k.russell.9 Lynn&rsquo's book The Wonder of You can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-You-Death-Experience-Yourself/dp/1480094250 </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Lynn called 'The Wonder of One' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>THE WONDER OF ONE</p>
<p>BPM 64 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G <br>Speeding through tunnels <br>Bm <br>To loved ones who've died <br>Em <br>Connecting with past lives <br>C D <br>And meeting with guides </p>
<p>Beautiful gardens <br>lands to behold <br>Fantastic palaces <br>Of crystal and gold </p>
<p>Floating in blackness <br>A velvet embrace <br>Heavenly music <br>Just drifting through space </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Am C D <br>And wherever you go there's the light </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>C Em <br>We are all one <br>G D <br>Children of the sun </p>
<p>We are all one <br>Going to back where it begun </p>
<p>The wonder of one <br>Quantum consciousness </p>
<p>We are all one <br>Making our progress </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Take on a form <br>Whatever you feel <br>Talk through telepathy <br>Everything is real </p>
<p>Travel in an instant <br>Across time and space <br>Without disabilities <br>You had in this place </p>
<p>Love it embraces <br>A physical thing <br>Lifting you free <br>Like the coil on a spring </p>
<p>BRIDGE + CHORUS </p>
<p>VERSE G Bm Em C D </p>
<p>BRIDGE Am C D </p>
<p>CHORUS C Em G D <br> <br>MIDDLE <br>Am <br>There's no need to strive <br>Em <br>To be closer to spirit <br>G D <br>Effort takes you further away </p>
<p>Silence is reality <br>Connect with the source <br>You're already all that you seek </p>
<p>BRIDGE + CHORUS</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089632020-11-25T11:15:00+01:002021-12-29T20:18:16+01:00Dr Michael Lennox on dreams and astrology<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/920c608f09fec294c74d558fc68e1b38463dbb39/original/4-michael-lennox.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. Michael Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology, and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn&rsquo's Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. </p>
<p>Highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning with the Sci-Fi Network&rsquo's The Dream Team and has also been featured on numerous network and cable television venues including NBC&rsquo's Emmy award-winning Starting Over, Soap Talk, The Wayne Brady show and many others. His radio appearances talking about the power of dreams number in the hundreds. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Michael called 'Brighter' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BRIGHTER</p>
<p>Bpm 120 </p>
<p>CHORUS (INSTRUMENTAL) </p>
<p>VERSE <br>C <br>You've told him of a childhood <br>F <br>That no one would aspire to <br>C G <br>He says - "look at the strength it's given you" </p>
<p>Tales of misfortune <br>Catalogue of doom and gloom <br>Michael just smiles at you </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>F <br>You're having the nightmares <br>G <br>You're writing them down <br>Em Am <br>But all you can see is the storm </p>
<p>Am <br>But the best plays are the tragedies <br>Em <br>We get shown what we need to see <br>G <br>The moral is morality <br>F Am <br>You make your own reality <br>F <br>But I'm afraid <br>G <br>With your frame of mind </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>(It's only gonna get) Darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>Darker than you remember <br>Wait until November </p>
<p>Mercury's in retro <br>Chaos from the get-go <br>Live it up - you reap what you sow </p>
<p>Neptune's in alignment <br>Saturn's feeling violent <br>Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds </p>
<p>La la la la la la </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Your scars clearly show <br>The world's been unfair to you <br>But only if you let it define you </p>
<p>If every experience <br>Gives you strength and resilience <br>Use it to help others in need </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>You're having the nightmares <br>You're writing them down <br>But all you can see is the storm </p>
<p>And when you moan and when you curse <br>You write your play with every verse <br>The truth is cold may seem perverse <br>But burn it up live in reverse <br>Otherwise <br>I'm afraid </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>(It's only gonna get) Darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>And darker <br>Darker than you remember <br>Wait until November </p>
<p>Mercury's in retro <br>Chaos from the get-go <br>Live it up - you reap what you sow </p>
<p>Neptune's in alignment <br>Saturn's feeling violent <br>Pluto's gonna tear you to shreds </p>
<p>La la la la la la </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Get over what your parents said <br>The voices inside your head <br>Only speak to people in the room </p>
<p>You'll get happiness you'll get health <br>If you're not focused on yourself <br>Just change your state of mind </p>
<p>And it'll get brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>Brighter if you're willing to serve </p>
<p>The crazier the world becomes <br>Suffering in everyone <br>The more chances to serve </p>
<p>Your world will get brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>And brighter <br>Brighter if you're willing to serve</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66089642020-11-24T11:00:00+01:002021-05-20T15:05:45+02:00Dr Bernie Siegel on healing yourself<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/7f604286a9b29beabe3f91cbec39258fadf9fd2f/original/3-bernie-siegel.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Dr. Bernie Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale-New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran&rsquo's Hospital and the Children&rsquo's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Bernie: Bobbie & Bernie and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>BOBBIE AND BERNIE</p>
<p>Bpm: 93 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G Em <br>I've come to a choice now <br>C G <br>On which road do I go <br>Em C <br>I'll follow the right fork <br>D <br>By taking them both. </p>
<p>They're the beginning of a circle <br>That you cannot see. <br>But all bring you home, <br>like a river to the sea. </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>G <br>Oh Bernie <br>Em <br>Did you hold on tight today? <br>C <br>Draw me a picture <br>D <br>Of the demons in your way </p>
<p>Oh Bobbie <br>I'm taking you out tonight <br>Leave a sandwich on the back porch <br>Tie a bow to the streetlight </p>
<p>Em C <br>The Earth will be absorbed one day <br>Em G <br>Back into the sun <br>Em C <br>But Bobbie and Bernie <br>D G <br>Will remain as one </p>
<p>VERSE <br>When the cold weather's rising <br>And the icy wind wakes <br>Washing all before it frozen <br>All the skies and lakes </p>
<p>With her back to the wind <br>and her voice to the clouds <br>She found that her spirit <br>Could soar above the ground </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>Oh Bernie <br>Come up and see me some time <br>I'm leaving notes for you everywhere <br>A penny and a dime </p>
<p>Oh Bobbie <br>Yeah I heard you moving last night <br>You've got to learn to keep it down <br>I'm getting up early to write </p>
<p>The end will come for everyone <br>The goldfish and the young <br>But Bobbie and Bernie <br>Are here for everyone </p>
<p>INSTRUMENTAL </p>
<p>MIDDLE <br>G <br>Send me dimes <br>Em <br>Send me pennies <br>C <br>Many signs <br>Em <br>Through the lives </p>
<p>You're still mine <br>You've sent me many <br>Where I go <br>All the time </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>The end will come for everyone <br>The happy and the young <br>But Bobbie and Bernie <br>Are here for everyone </p>
<p>VERSE <br>Don't search for answers <br>Don't ask me why <br>Just tilt your head back <br>And laugh at the sky</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090092020-11-23T12:00:00+01:002021-12-29T20:20:30+01:00Steven C Hayes on controlling your thoughts<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/3195c07e13062837a372f5f35447d998f339676f/original/2-steven-c-hayes.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Steven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods. </p>
<p>Watch Steven's fabulous TED talk. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Steven - 'ACT' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:</p>
<p>ACT</p>
<p>BPM 113 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>F <br>Most of us live in a state of constant confusion <br>F <br>As automatic thoughts cause circuitous delusions <br>Bf <br>We don't want these feelings <br>F <br>So choose distractions </p>
<p>But with simple exercises, your mind can be taught <br>To watch the act of thinking without entangling in thoughts <br>Welcome emotions <br>Hold them to the light </p>
<p>Bf C <br>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react <br>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react </p>
<p>VERSE <br>For a minute let your mind go wherever it wants <br>Then write down the thoughts you had, every little point <br>When you've let the fish run <br>Reel him in </p>
<p>Now disobey on purpose the dictator within <br>Write down the phrase "I cannot walk around this room" <br>Then read it outloud <br>While you walk around </p>
<p>Or give your mind a name, and listen to it speak <br>Politely as you would to any stranger you meet <br>And agree or disagree <br>Respectfully </p>
<p>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react <br>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react </p>
<p>MIDDLE (whispering and downbeat) <br>Bf <br>For sticky thoughts <br>C <br>Sing them away <br>Dm <br>To the tune of <br>F <br>Happy Birthday </p>
<p>Or write them down <br>And carry them with you <br>Wherever you go <br>Through your day </p>
<p>Bf <br>Accept every memory, every faction <br>C <br>Override rigid reactions </p>
<p>WHISTLING VERSE </p>
<p>VERSE <br>So you've noticed now that there's more than one voice <br>An argument begins whenever you're faced with a choice <br>Does this to-and-fro <br>Feel familiar? </p>
<p>Write down what the voices are repeating at you <br>Don't think which are appropriate or even true <br>See them as quarrelling children <br>Watch in amusement </p>
<p>Now your mind's a bus, thoughts are passengers <br>But they're distracting your driving and causing a fuss <br>Keep your destination sign <br>Always in mind </p>
<p>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react <br>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react <br>Defuse your thoughts, choose how to react</p>Podsongstag:podsongs.com,2005:Post/66090102020-11-22T12:25:00+01:002021-05-20T15:07:56+02:00Carlos Tanner on healing trauma with Ayahuasca<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/21384/fa6a901ad3a1dc908fcde31ae3a661beb55089a4/original/1-carlos-tanner.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" />Carlos Tanner is the founder of The Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru. After living and studying with a curandero for over four years, Carlos worked to provide a safe and effective way for people to not only receive treatment in the healing tradition of the Amazon but also to study the tradition, the way he had with his maestro. The idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation was born from a desire to spread the science of plant medicine back into the world. The Foundation supports the preservation of indigenous wisdom and culture, offering healing retreats and educational courses, and conducting research focused on the ayahuasca healing tradition used for millennia by indigenous healers of the Peruvian Amazon. The Ayahuasca Foundation also supports the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, and promotes educational efforts to raise awareness about sustainability, permaculture, and harmonious environmental relationships. The Foundation participates in community outreach programs and cultural reeducation projects. </p>
<p>Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Carlos 'It'll All Work Out' and all the other Podsongs </p>
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<p>Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview: <br> </p>
<p>IT'LL ALL WORK OUT</p>
<p>BPM: 60 </p>
<p>VERSE <br>G <br>Imagine a scene <br>Em <br>Where a very young child <br>C <br>Watches his mother <br>D <br>Give birth to his brother </p>
<p>Seeing the blood <br>hearing the screams <br>How traumatising <br>It could haunt him for years </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>Em <br>It's hard to metabolise (TALKING) <br>C <br>All the things that we see <br>Em <br>And learn from the lessons <br>D <br>We need to receive </p>
<p>VERSE <br>While we watch all the chaos <br>Going on, on the Earth <br>Zoom out on these changes <br>And witness a birth </p>
<p>BRIDGE <br>The world she is changing <br>We must change too <br>Raise our vibrations <br>live up to this truth <br>And be brave brave brave <br>Then it will work out </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>It'll all work out <br>It'll all work out <br>It'll all work out <br>It'll all work out </p>
<p>CHORUS (Chords) <br>Fires in the Amazon <br>The trials of your son <br>Deaths of the loved ones <br>The suffering of everyone, will work </p>
<p>CHORUS <br>It will work out <br>It will work out <br>It will work out <br>It will work out </p>
<p>OUTRO <br>Sins can't be forgiven <br>But learn from the lessons given <br>We'll come through this somehow <br>Pray for the power now </p>
<p>There are always reasons I know I have seen this <br>Help us to rise like the phoenix <br>One day we'll know what it's all about <br>I've faith that it will work out</p>Podsongs