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Join Charlie, a non-binary sci-fi fantasy writer and practicing Druid, alongside their husband Brian, as they explore the concept of the Wind Horse from Shambala teachings. Delving into mindfulness, basic goodness, and the transformative power of the five poisons into the five powers, they draw parallels with Druidic practices and other spiritual traditions. This episode encourages a thought experiment on riding the Wind Horse, aiming to harness the intrinsic energy of the universe for personal and spiritual growth. Practical mindfulness exercises and an in-depth discussion on faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom are included.Tips or Donations here: https://ko-fi.com/cedorsett patreon.com/cedorsett Substack: https://www.creationspaths.com/ For Educational Resource: https://wisdomscry.com For all of the things we are doing at The Seraphic Grove go to Creation's Paths https://www.creationspaths.com/ Social Connections: BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/creationspaths.com Threads https://www.threads.net/@creationspaths Instagram https://www.instagram.com/creationspaths/Transcript:[00:00:00] Charlie- New: When we were talking about what we wanted to do in this season of Lúnasa, We got to talking about the races. That used to happen. The chariot races, the horse races, the foot races. Brian asks, is there anyway, we can incorporate that into what we're talking about. My mind immediately went to an idea. From the Shambala teachings. The idea of the wind horse. Let's talk about that a little bit today. On Creation's Paths. Intro hello everyone. My name is Charlie. I'm a non-binary sci-fi fantasy writer. I'm also a practicing. Druid and priest a Bridget. I am joined today by my very silly husband, Brian. [00:00:51] Brian - New: Hello. [00:00:52] Charlie- New: Today we're going to be talking about the Lungta or the wind horse. I've really been trying to see if I could find a Celtic equivalent. Of this or something from the Irish or Welsh. Scottish. Myths that would. Fit, this kind of story. I'm struggling for that. So if you know of anything, do let me know. My experience with this idea comes from. Chögyam trungpa Rinpoche's Shambala. Of the ideas that are presented in that book. And so I don't have the strong cultural connection to it. That others would with this appearing on various net national flags. And whatnot. So I want to kind of say state this up front that from my practice of Shambala. That's where this is coming from. I mean, nothing but respect. To all of the communities that have a much deeper. Tied to this imagery. Then perhaps I do. In shambala. The Lungta or wind horse. Is defined as an expression of the basic goodness of the universe, the basic energy of the universe. In druidry it straddles the line between what we would call Arwin and Nwyfre. Between that creative breath. That is blowing through the world. And that energy that we can tap into. It might be right to say that the wind horse in the Shambala teachings is an expression of Nwyfre. It is an expression of how you connect to that basic goodness. And learn to ride it. And learn to harness it and. Bring that energy into your life. To help it to flow through all things and through practice. The wonderful magic that is discussed in the Shambala. System. We were told that. The element of wind. Reminds us of just how strong. And exuberant. This basic goodness of the world is. If you've not encountered this idea before you. It's also present in Buddhism. Stop for a minute. Unless you're driving. If you're driving, pull over to the side of the road or do this part of the exercise when you get home. Or to, to a parking lot somewhere , don't do this while driving. I want you to close your eyes for a minute. And just slowly. Breathe in. And breathe out. Breathe in. And breathe out. And just focus on your breathing anytime, a thought or feeling. Tries to distract you from. Your breath. Just. Go back to the breath. No struggle. No fight. Just go back to your breath. And then there was something happening inside of you. Yeah, this is the beginning of a mindfulness meditation. This is how we start learning mindfulness. But do you notice something else? There's an ease. There's a. Sensation that a lot of people feel. When they enter this mindful state. It might take you a bit to. Dig down into it. You might not be instant. Let's just breathe in. And breathe. Slowly at first until you. Been able to. Gather that focus on your breathing. Then let your breathing. Become more natural. Let it flow in and out. And you'll feel something. There are a lot of words for this. Basic joy. Basic calm basic goodness. All manner of words for you. Feeling. It's very. Present. That's the heart and the root of mindfulness. That's basic. Goodness. Now I, from a druidic perspective. Would tell you. That you were touching the very edges of. Oh, This is like when you're a kid in the car and you stick your fingers out. Not the full window, like the whole window hasn't opened the windows kind of cracked. You kind of stick your fingers out and feel the wind. Brushing against the tips of your fingers. Where you're standing by the edge of a stream and you just gonna dip your fingers in and you feel the water. Flowing by. That's what you're feeling. In this moment. That basic goodness. That gentle flow. Of the Awen. This isn't like when the wind hits us and we're raptured away into this creative. Fury. The other one isn't there just then. It's always there. Everyone has a different name for it. Everyone has a different way of talking about it. And here in the Buddhist and. Shambala tradition. It's basic goodness. Because everything's okay. That moment in meditation that you get to where you just feel everything's all right. Now. Imagine being able to. Ride that feeling. That's the image in Shambala. That's the image of the wind horse. It's been able to get into that. Place of basic goodness. And ride that current. To ride it forward. And to stay on it and to harness that. Intrinsic power of the universe. That basic goodness. For better. Is that a powerful image? Is that an image that moves you? It moves me. That's how. We can start getting into the Awen. That's how we can start getting into basic goodness. And that's. And what we mean when we say riding the wind horse in the title. Yeah. It comes from this basic image. What. Would it mean if we could actually do that? Let's just think about this for a minute. Let's have a thought experiment. The whole idea of the Shambala practices. We're trying to bring that realm of all the enlightened beings to Shambala here. To earth. The idea in Christianity is we're trying to bring the kingdom of God here. May your will be done on heaven. And on earth as it is in heaven. In. Kabbalah, You are. Restoring the world. So that it will be made perfect in the world to come. A lot of us have this. Idea. We're trying to perfect them. a, Bodhisattva takes the vow so that they will not enter their final Nirvana. They're very Nirvana. Until all beings are enlightenment. You're here for the long haul. They're going to be here until the end until this golden age. In the Shambala teachings. We're told that. Learning. This practice. I'll be able to ride that basic goodness. That's how we get there. Now in Druidry, we don't have that. Per se. We can talk about. tir na nog getting. The land of youth, the land of the living. That other world. It really is. Um, other world we're not trying to bring tir na nog here. I think you can experience. Glimpses. Of the other world here. We're not actually going to enter the other world until we enter the other world. We are trying to bring that inspiration. That Awen. Into the world. We're trying to find. The Mabin. The child of light. That's been stolen from the divine mother. So that. Life can be restored to the land. Then so doing the story. We travel around to the four oldest creatures trying to find. Where the Mabin has been hidden. Whereas the child. Where did you hide? Where's he hidden where. Where is it? But even that's not an eschatological idea, right? It's there's no end of the world. We don't know if there wasn't an end of the world. There so little that has survived of Irish Welsh. Scottish Manx Cornish. Mythology. We don't know if they ever had. An idealized state or. Uh, cyclical universe kind of like what happens after Ragnar rock, where. The old gods are dead. And the three gods, the three sons of. Oden survive and recreate the world. I don't know. We don't even know if that's how that story originally ended. It's the version that we have was written by a Christian. And they could have just Christianized. So we, we don't know. I like to think. When we look at the stories. We can see this. Balance. This ideal of balance. Between our world and the other world. The spirit in the material world. We're not always working for the, either the spiritual or the material work. Trying to bring the best of both together. That would involve writing the wind horse. [00:09:20] Brian - New: In addition to that, I'm thinking about writing. The wind horse. I found myself thinking about. The word. and how it breaks down. Too. Lung being space. Of the five elements. ta meaning horse. Horse being that transformation. Of purifying of taking something. Bad and making it. Good. After thinking about it for a while. It dawned on me that. In this practice. When I am riding the wind horse, when I'm actively doing this. It is the act of. Being mindful of the five poisons. Transforming them. Into the five powers. When I'm in a journey throughout my daily life, I tried to be mindful of. That. When I'm really engaging in that, I'm. Engaging in that transformative power. The five poisons. are doubt. Which we. Experience often. even right now, I'm facing doubt. laziness. Lisa, this is something that, you know, He constantly wrestled against it's okay to rest. But laziness is that overindulgence. heedlessness. Not paying attention to where you're going or what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Recklessly charging forth. Distraction. as one of the ADHD community members. Uh, Yeah, distraction. Definitely a poisoning challenge. And ignorance. Through lungta, through riding the wind horse, the exercise. I look towards faith. because faith removes doubt. [00:10:57] Charlie- New: The faith that we're talking about here in the Buddhist context. Is what I would consider true faith. And that's trust. It's I have faith in my friends. It's I have learned to rely on this, that this is reliable. It is an earned. Trust it is not necessarily wish fulfilling trust. No. The important thing is that it is built from one. You start with a, I'm going to test this and see if it works. But you only keep that faith. Once you've learned that it is trustworthy. [00:11:30] Brian - New: It's proving all things holding fast to that, which is true. It is also that trust. That comes from. The hope that. Things will happen. But knowing that it might not happen in the way that you expect it to, or the manner in which you expect it to. You do the effort along with that hope it's hope plus effort, which is the second power. Which is the second power. Energy. Energy and effort. Very, uh, very, uh, yeah. That effort. That's what controls laziness. When getting into the five powers, the five poisons you'll realize one tends to lead to the other. Effort. That'll control that laziness. So it's, okay to rest. We all need to take time to rest, to rejuvenate, to heal. Two. Build our energy, our power back up. But that is different from. Overindulging in. Too much, [00:12:26] Charlie- New: I would say it's differently. As somebody who has a lot of chronic pain. Issues. In my life. I don't like this idea of. Overindulgence being the phrasing there for me. I look at laziness as. This inattentive use of energy. It's a wild. The broken power line. That's just sparking around and not. Really doing anything. It's not allowing your energy to flow where it can flow. Whatever little bits of energy you may have. [00:12:59] Brian - New: Yeah. It can also be obstructed or poorly applied energy. Or poorly applied effort, which. Flows right into the next one. That heedlessness as the poison or mindfulness. as the power. in those moments, when you're being heedless, when you're your energy is just randomly zapping out. And you are. Electrocuting people around you. So to speak. that's when you want to give pause. And be mindful. Just being aware. Of where your energy is, how it is flowing. It is in a way that meditation, Charlie. Having us do earlier. Just a simple breathing. Is a mindfulness and an awareness that we're all on the wind horse. We're on it, no matter whether we want to or not, it's called the journey of life in its present moment. It's being in a present moment. Were there. Which. Then it leads us to the next power is concentration. Where the poison is distraction. When you're finding yourself in those moments of distraction. Mindfulness can help lead you back into concentration. So you take that pause. Like when I have that. Ooh, what's that? It's okay to take that moment, whatever, but I then have to be mindful and bring myself back. Into focus back into concentrating. On where my energy needs to be, what I am actually doing, choosing to do. Yep. Not reacting, but choosing to do. In that moment. Which leads us. To the fifth power that's wisdom. Which helps to control ignorance. [00:14:37] Charlie- New: I think ignorance is one of the most important things in the world right now. Because. I feel like so many of our problems. Our people refusing to admit what they're ignorant about. Very true, because we've turned ignorance into a vice ignorance is an advice it's a poison. And it's one that's in the water. It's all around us, all around us. It's in the water. It's in the air. We're all ignorant of so many things. We're ignorant to so many things. We have no idea how many things we're ignorant of. [00:15:03] Brian - New: The headlessness in distractions in our lives. This leads us to our ignorance. Yes. We're distracted by clicking on this and clicking on that and watching this, watching that and not being mindful and not. Concentrating. On what we need to know or knowing that we don't know a lot of what we need to know. [00:15:23] Charlie- New: Or thinking that we know a lot more than we actually do. Yeah. That. Really is. In so many ways, the opposite of wisdom, like with wisdom. Starts by knowing that you don't know. I forgot who said it but admitting that you don't know is the beginning of wisdom. It really is. You have to start from the place of, I don't know. [00:15:43] Brian - New: Yeah. This is where they flow back into each other. Because faith allows you to go, I don't know. But I know I have faith. That I could still do things. I could still be active in my life and in my community. And have the energy to move forward. And with mindfulness and concentration, I can get more wisdom. So that I can be wiser, but also at the same time have that faith that I can step out there and maybe be wrong. Which is okay. That's part of learning. That's part of gaining wisdom. In being wrong and then admitting and being aware that you are wrong. Once you're made aware. You can then learn and grow and gain that wisdom. [00:16:27] Charlie- New: We're going to be talking about the five powers a lot. Because. They are the engine. That spirituality runs off. It's important for us to have a very active understanding of how our spirituality works. All too often. We just pick up ideas and we put them down and we don't really know what we're doing with them. And this model of understanding. Really helps us to get to the root of it. We picked something up and that's faith. Does this work? Let's try this. When somebody tells you do mindfulness meditation, that'll help you out. Like I did earlier. In this episode. Well, if you have just a little bit of faith of, okay, I'll try it. So you put in the effort. Which will hopefully bring you mindfulness literally in this case. Well, you become aware of what is going on. Which allows you to concentrate and focus in. And then a little, little bit of wisdom. Oh, I did calm down. My mind did come down. I did get a small taste of that basic goodness, that basic reality. That is. Under all things. And that gives you trust. Which is faith. And the cycle continues again and again, and again. don't believe that you can lose your faith. I hear people say this a lot. It's a very common. Phrase in English. I lost my faith in, I lost my faith in. Uh, you can have your faith betrayed. You can. Realize you had never really had faith in something to begin with, but you can't really lose it. Unless trust is betrayed. It doesn't really go away. I know many institutions once had my faith and trust. And then betrayed my faith and trust, and I no longer have faith in those institutions. I didn't lose my faith in. Those institutions. That's that's internalizing that feeling way too much. Those institutions betrayed my faith. They betrayed my trust. And so they no longer have it. And have a lot that they would have to do to earn it back. These five powers. Which are the engine. That runs. All spirituality, whether people are Mo. Mindful of it or not. It really does. Help you get in touch with that basic good does. And learning to operate this machine. That is what riding the lungta is. It's something to operate this machine. It's learning. To tap into that basic. River that basic flow. Of goodness of life. Whatever you want to call it. Yep. That is running through all things. I hope that this episode has helped you out in some way. If nothing else, maybe give you something to think about. We are going to be talking about the five powers a lot. It comes up. And a lot of what I talk about and write. , I have an article up over on https://wisdomscry.com . And on https://www.creationspaths.com/ about the great work inviting people to join me. In that. And one of the. Sections of that is talking about how this actually functions. Within us and in our faith. And links out to other articles that I've written about the various aspects of the five. Power. So definitely go check that out. If this is something that interests you. And wherever you are, if you, if you've liked us at all, if. The app gives you the ability to like it. If you have followed or subscribed, do that. If. Yeah. Can leave a review. If you're listening to us on apple podcasts. Please leave a review of your life as it really does help out so much more than, you know, They don't actually take listens into effect that much. They do pay attention to. Number of reviews and number of stars and reviews. So it really does help out a lot. If you've got a few pennies that you can throw our way, if you go over to https://www.creationspaths.com/ . You can sign up and. 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In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simple structure shapes novels, films, politics, and our world, from easy seductions of comfort to difficult promises of liberation. In the episode, Pardis references Thomas Edison's 1903 film, Electrocuting an Elephant, which is super sad, and kind of terrifying, but an economical explanation of plot. She also discusses Max Ophüls's 1953 film, The Earrings of Madame de... as an example of a film with a potentially liberatory plot. We recommend you watch the latter, not the former. Other texts referenced in this episode include Mary Anne Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time (Harvard, 2002) and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) and Female Complaint (Duke, 2008). The occasion for our conversation was Pardis's new book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago Press, 2023). If you'd like to get yourself a copy there's a 30% discount on the University of Chicago Press website with the promo code UCPNEW. It's a book about film and literary modernism, including the work of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner. The cover is really beautiful, and it's definitely worth a read if you're interested in either of the genres it addresses. Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program (MECANA). She has published everywhere, and is friends with everyone! She teaches courses in twentieth-century literature, film studies, Middle East studies, and theory. She was also one of the first guests on High Theory! You can listen to her 2020 episode on The Autonomous Work of Art if you're feeling a flashback. The image for this episode is a publicity still from George Cukor's 1936 MGM film Camille, showing Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in a tense embrace. Digital image from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simple structure shapes novels, films, politics, and our world, from easy seductions of comfort to difficult promises of liberation. In the episode, Pardis references Thomas Edison's 1903 film, Electrocuting an Elephant, which is super sad, and kind of terrifying, but an economical explanation of plot. She also discusses Max Ophüls's 1953 film, The Earrings of Madame de... as an example of a film with a potentially liberatory plot. We recommend you watch the latter, not the former. Other texts referenced in this episode include Mary Anne Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time (Harvard, 2002) and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) and Female Complaint (Duke, 2008). The occasion for our conversation was Pardis's new book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago Press, 2023). If you'd like to get yourself a copy there's a 30% discount on the University of Chicago Press website with the promo code UCPNEW. It's a book about film and literary modernism, including the work of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner. The cover is really beautiful, and it's definitely worth a read if you're interested in either of the genres it addresses. Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program (MECANA). She has published everywhere, and is friends with everyone! She teaches courses in twentieth-century literature, film studies, Middle East studies, and theory. She was also one of the first guests on High Theory! You can listen to her 2020 episode on The Autonomous Work of Art if you're feeling a flashback. The image for this episode is a publicity still from George Cukor's 1936 MGM film Camille, showing Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in a tense embrace. Digital image from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simple structure shapes novels, films, politics, and our world, from easy seductions of comfort to difficult promises of liberation. In the episode, Pardis references Thomas Edison's 1903 film, Electrocuting an Elephant, which is super sad, and kind of terrifying, but an economical explanation of plot. She also discusses Max Ophüls's 1953 film, The Earrings of Madame de... as an example of a film with a potentially liberatory plot. We recommend you watch the latter, not the former. Other texts referenced in this episode include Mary Anne Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time (Harvard, 2002) and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) and Female Complaint (Duke, 2008). The occasion for our conversation was Pardis's new book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago Press, 2023). If you'd like to get yourself a copy there's a 30% discount on the University of Chicago Press website with the promo code UCPNEW. It's a book about film and literary modernism, including the work of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner. The cover is really beautiful, and it's definitely worth a read if you're interested in either of the genres it addresses. Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program (MECANA). She has published everywhere, and is friends with everyone! She teaches courses in twentieth-century literature, film studies, Middle East studies, and theory. She was also one of the first guests on High Theory! You can listen to her 2020 episode on The Autonomous Work of Art if you're feeling a flashback. The image for this episode is a publicity still from George Cukor's 1936 MGM film Camille, showing Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in a tense embrace. Digital image from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with stakes that establish norms. This seemingly simple structure shapes novels, films, politics, and our world, from easy seductions of comfort to difficult promises of liberation. In the episode, Pardis references Thomas Edison's 1903 film, Electrocuting an Elephant, which is super sad, and kind of terrifying, but an economical explanation of plot. She also discusses Max Ophüls's 1953 film, The Earrings of Madame de... as an example of a film with a potentially liberatory plot. We recommend you watch the latter, not the former. Other texts referenced in this episode include Mary Anne Doane's The Emergence of Cinematic Time (Harvard, 2002) and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) and Female Complaint (Duke, 2008). The occasion for our conversation was Pardis's new book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago Press, 2023). If you'd like to get yourself a copy there's a 30% discount on the University of Chicago Press website with the promo code UCPNEW. It's a book about film and literary modernism, including the work of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner. The cover is really beautiful, and it's definitely worth a read if you're interested in either of the genres it addresses. Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program (MECANA). She has published everywhere, and is friends with everyone! She teaches courses in twentieth-century literature, film studies, Middle East studies, and theory. She was also one of the first guests on High Theory! You can listen to her 2020 episode on The Autonomous Work of Art if you're feeling a flashback. The image for this episode is a publicity still from George Cukor's 1936 MGM film Camille, showing Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor in a tense embrace. Digital image from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

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This hour Klein shares the story of his trip to hell, we give you a shot at AAC tix by playing four on the floor, and give you tips on how to keep your pets safe this holiday season 

Story of failure: Electrocuting myself while changing a light fixture.Tony Castillo's journey began as an overweight middle schooler. This continued throughout high school until he decided to jump on a “diet.” Unfortunately, this resulted in unsustainable weight loss. His weight fluctuated in college due to lack of nutrition knowledge, but this inspired him to understand how nutrition played a role in the human body.Tony's passion today is to teach others how healthy lifestyle modifications optimize performance in ALL areas of life. After working at the University of Florida and then with the Toronto Blue Jays, Tony focuses on helping you to become an elite performer. Being an elite performer in your field can take many forms, whether you're the owner of an investment firm or a professional athlete trying to become an MVP. Tony's plan is to teach his clients how to sustain their weight goals without counting calories or macros.Tony graduated from Florida International University in Miami with a B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Chemistry, and an M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics. He is credentialed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a Registered Dietitian. Tony continues to hone his practice and regularly mentors with colleagues and professionals such as Tony Stephan, RD and The Dietitian Mentorship program.And did you know? Tony's parents are from the Dominican Republic, and Antonio is fluent in both English and Spanish.In today's episode Tony talks about:his story of why he got into nutritiongetting checked out by a female doctorleaving the urologist confused and frustratedworking through mental health issueslosing weight and gaining confidencetrying all the diets and working outbreaking his foot dancing after malnutritionlearning about nutrition and getting a masterswhat are the secrets to athlete's nutrition?having a good relationship with foodworking at the Toronto Blue Jaysteaching kids how nutrition can impact performancebuilding a plate compositionlong term habits for eatingreframing how he saw foodbodybuilding.com forums and weeding through informationpremium or regular gas?feeling confident through foodPaul Landrum as a mentorcrying in front of another manmentor from the Toronto Blue Jays - Stephanie Wilsonwaiting for a smoothie machine until 2 AMfailing to prepare for presentation and working through itselling himself short because he didn't feel like he was readyonly Spanish speaking kid in 1st gradebeing told he would never be able to speak Englishhis dad working through med school barely speaking Englishhating reading and writing because he was forced to do italways being a fighternever, never, never give upgoing to english school instead of going to baseballgetting an A in English in collegeonly speaking Spanish in the house, but you still need to learn Englishfeeling weak after failing“Always be prepared.”“If we can ask better questions, we can get better results.”asking questions and getting feedbackhelping athletes learnkeeping up with the latest challenges of the sports worldthe power of ‘I don't know'being open and honestthe courage of saying I don't knowbranch chain amino acidsmaking a protein with 20 amino acidslucine amino acidwould you water your plants in the middle of the rainstorm?bird feathers supplementbeing open to chaining his opinion as long as the research backs it upseeing a therapistCam Hall - Leadership Consultant“Are you doing it to them, for them, or with them?”never being taught how to run a business in schoolreforming the way he asks for helpwhy am I eating this way?pausing before he speaksoverly communicating with yourselfhow and why?just doing what you're toldthe intimidation of writing a book and lunching a podcasthelping build authorityChristiano Ronaldo choosing waterwanting to work with athletes that have a great opportunity to promote good changenot being inhibited by my typing skillsyou made it, you survivednot coasting, but achieving www.nutritionfp.comEmail: tony@nutritionfp.comInstagram - @coach_tonycastilloYouTube

Neuroscience in the News! This week Dr. CK Bray is sharing the latest and most fascinating research that has been published over the last month—or will be published in the near future. (Dr. Bray received some early access!) Today, Dr. Bray discusses brain stimulation in older adults and how new research shows brain stimulation can improve both long-term and short-term memory in older adults. (You will see this coming soon for younger patients). Dr. Bray also gets a bit saucy and discusses sex and the sun. You don't want to miss the new research on how being in the sun for 15-20 minutes a day can improve your love life. Dr. Bray then closes the podcast by discussing the benefits of smells found only in the countryside or forest areas and how these outdoor smells can improve your well-being and memories. This is a fun and informative podcast you don't want to miss. *Episode photo credit to Robert Reinhart QUOTES BY DR. BRAY “If you don't have the love life you want, it's time to go somewhere sunny!”

On this week's Walnut Wednesday episode, we hear brand new updates on imidacloprid. Additionally, Kylie Harlan reports on a UC Davis trial looking at weed control by electrocution.    Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Phycoterra –https://phycoterra.com/ Verdesian - https://vlsci.com/ Rango - http://www.rangonow.com/

Andrew getting expelled from school, Smelling like fish, I don't know why swallowed the fly , Electrocuting myself with a sweet wrapper and much more ...

Oh My God What Now? The Podcast for Someone Standing Over a Dead Body - it was me, Bob Newhart The Celebrity Poetry Podcast - we need to arm ourselves before Susanne Somers transforms AJ's App Lab - the app requires a whole planetarium I guess Ska'dcast - DIRT FLOOR What Should This Podcast About the Founding Fathers Be Called? - it's the sixth dead Franklin this week Alf's Drinking Game: Just Saying the Word ‘Puerto Rico' Could Make It Worth Your while - they've ruined the Thanksgiving Parade Brain Boo Boo - that's the story of the time I saw the Ewok movie Slow Your Minds - Frankenstein loves that paint Thank You Scott Adams - congratulations Dilbert on stopping the third impact 

We have some SCARY stories about electricity, bats, and inventions. Grab some Halloween candy and listen to a classic Soda and Son episode.

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A look at an apparatus to contact the spirit world that Thomas Edison claimed to be working on, but which never surfaced. In 1920, famed inventor Thomas Edison gave a series of interviews bragging about a device he was testing, a spirit telegraph, which spiritualists could use to give their seances a more scientific bent. Though he despised Ouija boards, table tipping, and other trappings of spiritualism, Edison believed that his new invention could determine whether the human personality persisted after death, once and for all. The only problem? The invention never materialized. Highlights include: • Creepy uses for the phonograph • The "little people" or "life units" that make up our bodies • Electrocuting an elephant in Coney Island • A chapter of Edison's diary that his family had removed • Edison's ghost Note: At 3:36-4:40 there're details of a person being executed via electric chair, and at 4:40-5:26 there're details of an elephant being electrocuted. For all of our shownotes, including our sources, visit buriedsecretspodcast.com. You can listen to more audio on our patreon ($3/month): https://www.patreon.com/buriedsecrets Follow us on instagram @buriedsecretspodcast, and follow Jen @jenmariewilde. E-mail us at buriedsecretspodcast@gmail.com. 

Three Young Bolivian Brothers. HBO's Redundant Department of Redundancy Department! Living Your Best 2FA Life. A Murder of Muppets. How Many Bollocks In A Bag? Do Psychopaths Dream of Electrocuting sheep? Two Small Things, Starring Scott and Brian. It's Idaho, DAMMIT! I am not racist, I just reference racist movies. Fall into the family Gap plan. One Angry Captain Dipshit. How Often Do You Feed Your Jacket?! Wolfgang Amadeus Jack. Is that a Mercedes Benz or a piece of crap. Therapy Thursday and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

Three Young Bolivian Brothers. HBO's Redundant Department of Redundancy Department! Living Your Best 2FA Life. A Murder of Muppets. How Many Bollocks In A Bag? Do Psychopaths Dream of Electrocuting sheep? Two Small Things, Starring Scott and Brian. It's Idaho, DAMMIT! I am not racist, I just reference racist movies. Fall into the family Gap plan. One Angry Captain Dipshit. How Often Do You Feed Your Jacket?! Wolfgang Amadeus Jack. Is that a Mercedes Benz or a piece of crap. Therapy Thursday and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

1:25 – Nick & Gerardo on Record-Highs in the Major Indices, Resilient Gold, the Bottom in the JRM & the Global Markets Record-Highs: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/dow-futures-fed-reserve-financial-stability-report.html  Ray Dalio: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-has-gone-mad-system-broken-ray-dalio/ Ominous Autos:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/car-shipping-giant-grimaldi-faces-tariff-headwinds-11571576400?shareToken=st720135fb5a4d49248632453977cdd9dd https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-12/chrysler-pressured-dealers-to-absorb-a-glut-of-unordered-cars?srnd=premium https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-45-000-loan-for-a-27-000-ride-more-borrowers-are-going-underwater-on-car-loans-11573295400?shareToken=st47d8372d7dbf4b079a798da86ca51db3 14:22 – Unloved Cannabis Sector  19:48 –Simon Moores' Lithium Market Insight 23:39 – Roger Stone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/15/roger-stone-joins-remarkable-universe-criminality-surrounding-president-trump/  32:08 -Kaepernick: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28081192/hue-jackson-lead-colin-kaepernick-workout-13-nfl-teams-committed-attend 38:03 – Squirrel Lady: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/29/judge-dismisses-felony-cruelty-charges-against-squ/ 39:13 – Nick's Uranium Stock Pick: Cameco (NYSE: CCJ)

Heather & Terry are back to differ about the effectiveness behind electric treatments on weight loss & skin tightness, reflect on the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire, and plan their upcoming trip to Palm Springs! Then the two try to figure out what they're going to do for their anniversary before exploring the recent update on School Admissions scandal...and how responsible the kids are in the whole mess! Have any questions for Heather & Terry? Use the Heather Hotline and call or text 949-439-5159 anytime, anywhere! And thank you to today's sponsors: The Dubrow Diet = Heather & Terry's book is available today—order your copy now at Amazon.com Hello Fresh = For $80 off your first month visit HelloFresh.com/dubrow80 and enter promo code dubrow80 at checkout Little Caesars = Welcome the return of the BACON-WRAPPED Deep Deep Dish today at participating locations TrueCar = Find your next car for a fair price near you at TrueCar.com

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Maneesh Sethi is the founder and CEO of Pavlok (https://pavlok.com/), an incredibly interesting behavioural modification tool that's been used by thousands to quit bad habits like smoking, biting fingernails, over-eating, getting out of bed late, and so much more. Based on the theory of Pavlovian Conditioning put forward by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, it works on the principle that some of our deeply conditioned behaviours can be quite easily changed with a mild shock, or tap to the wrist, where the Pavlok device is worn. For biohackers, changing our behaviour is a big deal, and something that most high-performers want to implement more in our lives, to override old programming, negative habits, and everything in between. And like a dog being trained to know when it's dinner time by the ringing of a bell as Ivan Pavlov demonstrated, it's extremely easy to modify some of these behaviours in a very sort timeframe, by having a device like the Pavlok remind us when we're slipping into old modes of conditioning. In this episode, Maneesh talks about how he was inspired to create Pavlok, his story of hiring a "slapper" to slap him in the face in order to be more productive, info about the Pavlok device itself, why you shouldn't be scared of being shocked by the device, the most common behaviours that people use the Pavlok to change, an interesting case study of one Pavlok customer who multiplied his business many times over and changed the way he was productive, some weird behaviours that Pavlok customers have used the device for, and so much more. If you've found it hard to change some of your learned habits over the last few years, or simply have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning with your first alarm, then Pavlok may be the device that can help you. As some have said, it's shockingly effective.   PAVLOK WEBSITE: https://pavlok.com/ PAVLOK COACHING: https://pavlok.com/pavlok-coaching-call/  IVAN PAVLOV STUDY: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html  MANEESH ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/maneesh    CONNECT Connect with Leon The Alchemist online for more intensive biohacking, longevity, and performance advice daily, with exclusive content you won't find anywhere else: INSTAGRAM: @LeonTheAlchemist | https://www.instagram.com/leonthealchemist  TWITTER: @AlchemistLeon | https://twitter.com/alchemistleon LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/leonthealchemist WEBSITE: http://bioalchemy.co COURSE: http://bio.ax/    LEARN Want to take your biohacking skills to the next level? Wake up feeling better each and every day? Or as Dr Aubrey De Grey has suggested, see if you can implement some of the longevity biohacks that may see you living to 1,000 years or more with advancements in technology? Then my intensive biohacking course The Alchemist's Guide to Biohacking (http://bio.ax/) is something you should consider becoming a student of. Use the code "HALF" during the first month of this podcast being launched to get 50% off lifetime access, with all future updates. Check out this biohacking course at: http://bio.ax/    SUPPORT I spend a ton of time putting together this podcast, and would love your support. Whether as simple as reviewing this podcast, to checking out the products I recommend, or even becoming a student of my intensive biohacking course "The Alchemist's Guide To Biohacking", I appreciate every human who supports me, however large or small the action. ITUNES: https://apple.co/2GQnXH2  SUB ON GOOGLE: https://bit.ly/2SbvJ05  BIOHACKING COURSE: http://bio.ax/

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In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave try to make sense of corporate surveillance, opioid obituaries, and merciful mothers. Also, several solid Salmon stories. Articles discussed include: "The Employer-Surveillance State (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/10/employee-surveillance/568159/)" by Ellen Ruppel Shell via The Atlantic "Obituary: Madelyn Linsenmeir, 1988-2018 (https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/madelyn-linsenmeir-1988-2018/Content?oid=21797604)" via Seven Days "A New Recipe: Grace in Family Life (https://www.mbird.com/2018/10/a-new-recipe-grace-in-family-life/?highlight=grace%20in%20family%20life)" by Dorothy Martyn via Mbird.com

In Episode 34, Quinn & Brian discuss: Electrocuting the S#!t Out of Cancer. Our guest is Theo Roth, an MB/PhD student candidate at UCSF who spends his days running experiments in the Marson Lab, and contributing to kick-ass research like the development of new tools for efficient CRISPR genome engineering in human cells. The topic of this episode is extremely close to us and particularly relevant right now because September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Childhood cancer, unfortunately, only receives 5% of the total federal research funding, which means we need more people like us supporting cancer researchers and hospitals that are working to help children with cancer. So our goal with this episode is to not only explain all of the awesome work that Theo does and how in the hell he electrocutes cancer cells – although we definitely get all up in that – but also to identify some steps you can take RIGHT NOW to support people like Theo who are fighting the good fight and working to eliminate cancer. On that note: f#$k cancer in the face. Want to send us feedback? Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voice message! Trump’s Book Club: The 8th Day of Creation by Horace Freeland Judson Links: Support Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Support Alex’s Lemonade Stand Learn more about Marson Lab: marsonlab.ucsf.edu The Emperor of All Maladies by by Siddhartha Mukherjee Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli Watch: The Knick Sign up for Nature’s email newsletter Sign up for STAT’s newsletters Read: "Why Daydreaming is Good for Us" Connect with us: Support this podcast

For our tenth episode it's back to the Discworld - and Ankh-Morpork - as academic, writer and broadcaster Dr Dan Golding joins us for Moving Pictures. The tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures was published in Pratchett's most prolific year: Good Omens, Eric and both sequels to Truckers also came out in 1990! Student wizard Victor Tugelbend has been happily failing exams at Unseen University for years...but when alchemists suddenly invent "moving pictures", Victor finds himself drawn to Holy Wood, the mysterious coastal home of this new entertainment industry. He's not the only one: hopeful actors, ambitious producers and even talking animals have all been caught up in the glamour of the "clicks". It's not magic in the wizard sense, but there's definitely something unnatural going on - and it'll take Victor, fellow star Theda "Ginger" Withel, Gaspode the Wonder Dog and the faculty of Unseen University - including new Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully - to solve the mystery of Holy Wood. Bringing modern world concepts to the Disc had always been a feature of the series, but Moving Pictures really kicks off the tradition of "X comes to the Discworld" main plots. Pratchett takes broad aim at Hollywood in a mix of homage and parody, referencing everything from the pre-talkie era to the Golden Age and 1980s blockbusters. It also features first major roles for Detritus and Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler (both introduced in Guards! Guards!), and is the first appearance of Gaspode the Wonder Dog (who returns in Men at Arms) and the stable, ongoing cast of Unseen University wizards. There's so much happening in Moving Pictures, and we'd love to hear what you thought of it! Use the hashtag #Pratchat10 on social media to join the conversation. In our next episode we'll be joined by television captioner and Discworld mega-fan Sarah Pearson as we reunite with Death for the eleventh Discworld novel, Reaper Man! If you have questions you want answered on the podcast, send them in by  via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat11. Show Notes and Errata: Dan Golding is on Twitter at @dangolding. His next book Star Wars After Lucas will be released on May the 4th, 2019, but you can see his ABC series What is Music? with co-host Linda Marigliano right now! Check it out on ABC iView or the triple j YouTube channel. You can find all the info about Dan's excellent podcast Art of the Score with Andrew Pogson and Nicholas Buc at artofthescore.com.au. They also have a Twitter account at @ArtoftheScore. To hear Dan talk about Star Wars music, check out the five Star Wars episodes of Art of the Score (the original film actually gets three episodes!), or watch the video he made for the ABC explaining why the theme is so great. The previous book that kicked off with Death overseeing the passing of a previously unmet character was Sourcery, in which Ipslore the Red dies but tricks Death, passing his soul into his staff. We almost get this sort of beginning in Pyramids, but Pteppic's father only dies after the school days flashback section of the book, and again in Guards! Guards!, though Gaskin dies before the book starts and we instead join Vimes after the funeral. In the real world, cellulose is an organic compound vital to the structure of cells in green plants, while celluloid (eventually a trademark name) was the first kind of thermoplastic, made from cellulose nitrate, used to replace ivory in billiard balls (as discussed in episode one) and widely as a filmstock before the development of safer, cheaper and easier to make acetate film in the 1950s. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in which multiple (fictional) plots to kill nazi leaders during World War II converge on a Paris cinema at the premiere of a new propaganda film. Liz refers to the 1903 film Electrocuting an Elephant, produced by the Edison Film Company, in which Topsy the circus elephant, who had killed several people,

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On this date in 1903, Topsy, an Asian elephant was euthanized by electrocution at Coney Island, New York. Here are some things you may not have known about the incident. Topsy was brought to the United States and performed in the Forepaugh Circus, where she gained a reputation as a bad elephant after killing a spectator in 1902. The next year, she was sold to Coney Island’s Sea Lion Park, which was redeveloped as Luna Park by new owners Frederick Thompson and Elmer Dundy. At Luna Park, Topsy was used to move timbers and power a carnival ride. Her trainer, William “Whitey” Alt, once stabbed Topsy with a pitchfork in an effort to get her to pull the ride. As a result, the police were called to investigate. This led Alt to remove Topsy’s harness and let her run wild in the streets. Alt, who blamed the incident on alcohol, was arrested. In December 1902, a once-again drunken Alt rode Topsy down the streets of Coney Island and used the elephant as a battering ram to get through the door of the police station, leading the officers to hide in the jail cells. Alt was fired after that incident. The owners, now without an elephant trainer, decided to euthanize Topsy by hanging her, and selling tickets so the public could watch. The president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals intervened, calling hanging a “needlessly cruel means of killing” the elephant. After negotiations, he and the owners decided Topsy should be strangled with large ropes tied to a steam-powered winch, poisoned and electrocuted. On Sunday, January 4, an estimated 1,500 spectators and 100 news photographers descended on the amusement park. Topsy was fed potassium cyanide, a poison, electrocuted with 6,600 volts and then strangled by the apparatus for 10 minutes. On site that day was a film crew from the Edison film company. They recorded the event and weeks later released a 74-second movie of the proceedings. Contrary to claims, Thomas Edison did not organize the electrocution. 15 years earlier, Edison had been involved in the electrocution of animals to demonstrate the danger of alternating current as part of the War of Currents. Edison, a proponent of direct current, had already merged his company with General Electric and sold all of his stock. Our question, which is generally larger, the Asian elephant or the African elephant? We'll have the answer after this break. Welcome back to the Trivia Minute. Today is Independence Day in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma. It’s National Trivia Day, World Braille Day and Pop Music Chart Day. It’s the birthday of scientist Issac Newton, who was born in 1643; educator Louis Braille, who was born in 1809, and musician Michael Stipe, who is 57. Because our topic happened before 1960, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1976, the top song in the U.S. was “Convoy” by C.W. McCall. The No. 1 movie was “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” while the novel “Curtain” by Agatha Christie topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.   Now for our weekly question: What scientist and inventor was Thomas Edison’s main rival in the War of Currents? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll reveal the correct answer on Friday’s episode. Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant http://www.eleaid.com/elephant-information/differences-african-asian-elephants/ http://www.himandus.net/elefunteria/library/elefacts/elefacts.html

It's January 16th, 1903, and racial tensions are high in Mississippi after the unfair firing of Minnie M. Cox, Thomas A. Edison's film "Electrocuting an Elephant was released on the 12th, and Houdini has been demonstrating his prison escapes in Amsterdam.We also discuss some more cannibalism, a brief history of the Cony Island amusement parks and Senator Tillman shooting his political rival Narcisco Gener Gonzales

Curtis Bennett - founder of Thermografix Consulting leaves nothing out and bares the facts about wireless technology within schools - we are electrocuting our kids. Always intense and straight forward. This is an interview on your must listen to list!This show is broadcast live on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The humans are dead.” Whether or not you recognize the epigram from Flight of the Conchords (and if not, there are worse ways to spend a few minutes than by looking here, and I recommend sticking around for the “binary solo”), Dominic Pettman‘s Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) will likely change the way you think about humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them. Pettman uses a series of fascinating case studies, from television programs to films to Sufi fables to pop songs, to explore the notion of Agamben’s “anthropological machines” and the human being as a “technospecies without qualities” in a modern mediascape that includes Thomas Edison’s film Electrocuting an Elephant, Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, and the interplanetary soundscape created by NASA (among many, many others). We recently gathered over Skype to talk about some of the major thematic and argumentative threads snaking through this book and Pettman’s recent exploration of totems in Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology (Zero Books, 2013). Both books take on the varied ways that love, technology, identity (both human and not), and economies have been transformed in a world that includes pacifist Orcs, voices without bodies, ecologies without nature, reptile-doctors, and pixelated lovers. Enjoy! During our conversation, Pettman mentions a film about the zigzag totem that can be found here. Cabinet Magazine, which also comes up in the course of our conversation, can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices