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Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
This is a rare true crime episode, trying (in vain) to understand the horrific crimes of Axel Rudakubana in Southport last summer. There is also some discussion of the Lucy Letby case and brief mention of John Lennon’s reviled killer Mark David Chapman, in terms of the psychology of crime and society's relationship to it.
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episode links
Axel Rudakubana
BBC Children In Need advert 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wc1WqGScg
BBC Panorama documentary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027x2z
Taxi ride and arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hI7Hx995ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ye387OZYM
Joel Verite testimony
https://news.sky.com/video/man-describes-coming-face-to-face-with-southport-knife-attacker-13187561
LBC caller on Alphonse Rudakubana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqsaTpvp5Dc
Rob Ager deep dive on the 2024 post-Southport riots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVQpAer1BU
The Psychological Effects of Bullying on Kids & Teens
https://mastersinpsychologyguide.com/articles/psychological-effects-bullying-kids-teens/
Lucy Letby
Was There Ever A Crime? (podcast series)
Full interview with prosecution ‘star witness’ Dewi Evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQleiz5P05k&list=PLisbmqPbVDrYRuFmluXVm5YDQhoRo5Pw2&index=3
Press conference of ‘new evidence’ conducted by Dr. Shoo Lee (Feb 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT8CO15IHMs
‘According To Carl In The UK’ on Lucy Letby possible release
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Completing our foray into advertising, mostly using Antony’s talk on Julian Charles’s excellent podcast ‘The Mind Renewed’ back in 2015, we dive deeper into Edward Bernays’s work and then segue into the darker underbelly of the craft, including the engineering of a military coup and the truly egregious and unethical snaring of innocent hearts and minds involved in advertising to children. On a lighter note we mention a few points made in Neil Sanders’s very entertaining presentation called ‘The Art of Creating Reality’ (see show notes).
From there we talk about an excellent short video called ‘Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed’ (see show notes again) and how we have been trapped into a certain way of life. There are a few words from Antony at the end of the talk on this subject, and Antony and Julian offer some advice for combatting the controlling force of advertising.
See you on the other side for another episode soon
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Link to Julian’s website/podcast and our original talk in full
https://www.themindrenewed.com
https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2014-15/717-ep020
episode links
Edward Bernays: A Brief History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ6HIzaSm4
‘Company Store’ by Dissident Prophet (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcx3T_UoHsU
Consuming Kids: The Commercialisation of Childhood (2008 doc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMaRsR7orTk
How Advertising Rewires Kids’ Brains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGN1ZEABk_Y
Neil Sanders - The Art of Creating Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIRBU0LVWI
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufeavz7d0GU
A Parent’s Guide to Resisting Television Advertising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQYMG0JnWw
Rory Sutherland’s superb TED talks ‘Perspective Is Everything’ and ‘Life Lessons of an Ad Man’
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man
Stephen Fry can’t stop shopping! (go to 44.55)
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Following on from the propaganda multi-parter at the end of last year, this time we dive into a topic with quite a lot of overlap, namely advertising. The bulk of the content comes from a talk that Antony did on Julian Charles’s excellent podcast ‘The Mind Renewed’ back in 2015.
Despite the time that has passed since the talk, most of the general thrust of advertising has been in place for a long time so we are confident that the information is still relevant and hopefully useful.
In Part 1 we talk about what advertising is and some of the techniques employed by advertisers to sell products. Towards the end of this part, we begin to discuss the work of Edward Bernays, ‘the most influential man you’ve never heard of’ (more on him later).
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Link to Julian’s website/podcast and our original talk in full
https://www.themindrenewed.com
https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2014-15/717-ep020
episode links
What is advertising (wiki)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising
‘Company Store’ by Dissident Prophet (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcx3T_UoHsU
Most common advertising techniques
https://localiq.com/blog/advertising-techniques/
Cadbury’s Gorilla ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs2z7OA3XKI
Noam Chomsky- real vs created needs & wants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CFwSQiTu3I
Manufacturing Consent (book & documentary)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent
https://archive.org/details/manufacturing_consent
Julian Charles- Holding Things Lightly
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
And so we bring an end to another fine journey through a fascinating topic and indeed another year of this podcast.
Part 3 of this series looks at ‘positive propaganda’ in the field of public health, multiple examples of negative propaganda by way of the demonising (sometimes literally) of political rivals and rival nations, and finally a look at how technology has brought propaganda, along with the world, into a very new landscape in the 21st century.
If nothing else, this series should get you thinking about propaganda and whether it is all bad or simply becomes that in the wrong hands
(ref- the outro clip is Bill Hicks talking about the first Iraq War and President George H.W. Bush)
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See you in 2025!
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Link to David Welch’s book ‘Propaganda: Power & Persuasion
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674209-propaganda
What is propaganda?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
25 powerful propaganda posters
https://www.emlii.com/25-most-powerful-propaganda-posters-that-made-all-the-difference/
episode links
Roger Stahl’s ‘Militainment Inc’ (how the 2003 Iraq War was sold to the public)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31080465/
Bill Hicks on war and weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRy5znLg1f8
Iraq War lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ
Edward Bernays and female smokers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ6HIzaSm4
Adam Curtis’s ‘The Power of Nightmares’ and the truth about Al Qaeda’s origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjRcwDxvEY
Review of ‘Downfall’ on The Mind Renewed podcast
https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2022-23/1572-ep070
‘Propaganda Watch’ on the Corbett Report website/podcast (James Corbett)
https://corbettreport.com/category/propagandawatch/
John Pilger on how to see through propaganda
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
We continue our exploration of the fascinating and contentious topic of propaganda, using as our basis David Welch’s 2013 book ‘Propaganda: Power & Persuasion.
In Part 2, we look at the propaganda of nationhood and leadership before taking a deep dive into the chapter of the book on war propaganda. Is propaganda good or bad? Or does it just depend on who’s propagating the information? Part 3 will be out in December
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Link to David Welch’s book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674209-propaganda
episode links
What is propaganda?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
25 powerful propaganda posters
https://www.emlii.com/25-most-powerful-propaganda-posters-that-made-all-the-difference/
You’re not immune to propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2fnWIlDZg
How to Get a Country to Go to War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Ev1gM0nt8
Frank Capra’s ‘Why We Fight’ film series (war propaganda)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight
Country Joe & The Fish at Woodstock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk
‘Propaganda Watch’ on the Corbett Report website/podcast (James Corbett)
https://corbettreport.com/category/propagandawatch/
John Pilger on how to see through propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvF3d8hhoJo&t=213s
Noam Chomsky propaganda lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shpeKIXCMc&t=1181s
Theaters of War (Hollywood propaganda)
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
To round off the year, we present another multi-part series, this time on a fascinating topic that I have come to see as something of an art form. The main material being used is David Welch’s very accessible and even-handed book ‘Propaganda: Power & Persuasion, which accompanied an exhibition on the topic at the British Library in 2013.
Is propaganda good or bad? Or does it just depend on who’s propagating the information? In Part 1, we look at definitions of propaganda, some of the history of it, and we begin to build up a picture of its place in our society. Part 2 will be on its way soon
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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com
Link to David Welch’s book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674209-propaganda
episode links
What is propaganda?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Edward Bernays’s seminal book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493212.Propaganda
25 powerful propaganda posters
https://www.emlii.com/25-most-powerful-propaganda-posters-that-made-all-the-difference/
Noam Chomsky propaganda lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shpeKIXCMc&t=1181s
Theaters of War (Hollywood propaganda)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaters_of_War
Top Gun’s crude/clever propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9XqeE21bAU
Rory Sutherland’s superb TED talks on advertising
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything
https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man
Muhammad Ali on the black/white issue in culture (1971)
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
Wednesday Sep 11, 2024
We’ve got a special episode for you this time as Antony is joined by 1990s football legend and truth-seeker Matt Le Tissier. The conversation hits on a few topics such as the recent Euro 2024 tournament and some of the problems with the mentality of English football. Antony and Matt then discuss media narratives and the wider agenda regarding sport, especially its propagandistic relationship with national identity.
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episode links
The problem with England (football team)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Jd1IacEwE
Why people love watching football
https://breakingthelines.com/opinion/the-psychology-behind-why-we-love-watching-football/
Matt’s Twitter feed
Matt on ‘The Mind Renewed’ podcast
https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2022/22-interviewnotes/1533-int-209n
CBD products (use the code Tiss40 at checkout for 40% off any product )
Matt’s top 10 goals (spectacular!)
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
To mark Life And Life Only’s half-century, I drove back to my original home town on the day I celebrated another journey round the sun, to share a few personal reminiscences and also muse on nostalgia, memories, socio-economic status and a few other things…
There’s a nice bit of relaxing music to finish today’s episode and an announcement of a rather special guest coming up for LALO 51
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episode links
The good and bad of nostalgia (Psychology Today)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-everyday-unconscious/202009/the-dark-side-of-nostalgia
John Lennon And Me (Glass Onion: On John Lennon Episode 98- includes ‘The Blind Goalscorer’ story)
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-98-john-lennon-and-me
A walk through Egham town centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1TxjwLJ7o&t=297s
A video about the JFK memorial in Runnymede
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2AWLJfAY0
Bill Hicks plays Egham (no local material included!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGcI0hxSuo&list=PL97DFD641E4A2A440&index=1&t=43s
Matt Le Tissier on ‘The Mind Renewed’ podcast
https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2022/1532-int-209
Some of ‘Le God’’s amazing goals
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
And so we bring to an end another podcast series as we conclude our whistle-stop journey through some of the highlights of John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, which is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor and the intelligent layman.
The topics and sub-topics this time include spiritual experiences and the various ways of achieving them, being fully alive and awake, death, mortality & aging and the difficulty of change.
As you listen, perhaps you could ponder these questions:
-Are we really living our lives or actually dreaming our way through them?
-Why not devote the rest of your life , starting now, to improving your wellbeing and working on your development and happiness
As is the usual format, Antony picks parts from the book, reads them out and then expands on some of the points made.
We sincerely hope you enjoy this show and have enjoyed this recent series of episodes
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episode links
John and Robin’s 2 books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582.Families_and_How_To_Survive_Them
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It
Derren Brown’s ‘Happy’ book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy
Bill Hicks on drugs and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFywGDAU3ik
Rupert Sheldrake banned TED talk (The Science Delusion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
Rupert with Russell Brand on the ‘Under The Skin’ podcast (Science vs God)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAS-QzWvj8g
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s 5 stages of grief
https://www.cruse.org.uk/understanding-grief/effects-of-grief/five-stages-of-grief/
Monty Python’s ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
We continue our sprawling but hopefully enlightening trawl through John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, which is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor and the intelligent layman. One of the many strengths of the book is how it takes concepts and ideas and shows how they can be adapted to various contexts.
Among the topics and sub-topics touched upon in this episode are politics, society and its many forms, the continuing quest for the keys to happiness and mental clarity, the differences between British, American and Japanese culture, myths & reality, and the relationship between religion and mental health.
As is the usual format, Antony picks some interesting parts from the book, reads them out and then expands on some of the points made.
Part 3 will be on its merry way soon
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If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
John and Robin’s 2 books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582.Families_and_How_To_Survive_Them
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It
The Id, Ego, Superego concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego
Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers episode) clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIVGX-IkVy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uDB-0iBR8
The Secret Life of Brian documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6jUQI9s
Chris Ryan interview on ‘Civilised To Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdThkFaQ4fQ
Review of Matt Taibbi’s ‘Hate Inc.’ (recommended book about the current political climate)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699020965190