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A podcast about...life and the search for inner and outer truth, with an emphasis on Life Coaching, Psychology and Alternative media
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Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Inspired by the recent U.S. Open tennis tournament, here’s my take on the grand slam singles finals won by Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic, the G.O.A.T. debate and the sport and its culture in general. From here, we look at two things that are inextricably linked to top-level tennis and sport- media and fame. There’s also discussion of a very important argument put forward in the seminal 1974 tennis/sports psychology book, ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’.
As well as lauding the impressive achievements of these elite athletes, this episode also looks at the dark side of fame and touches on the cautionary tennis tales of Monica Seles, Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu.
I wish them all a happy life, whether they’re winning titles or not!
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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 or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
The Inner Game of Tennis summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YJePnMrGY
Coco wins and celebrates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0XQWWFIAo
US Open on-court interviews (Coco Gauff, Daniil Medvedev, Novak Djokovic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCo3Y6DfrVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZq7_s0XGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgSXzL7Uwk
Coco and Naomi Osaka have a moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Al3IA1sbWE
Sloane Stephens humorous truth bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCu0tKrzhc
What happened to Emma Raducanu?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnPitPzfjCU
Andy Roddick with Jonathan Ross (funny!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j070zjfq0Uc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5AWJ8aJ4c
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
We continue our foray into the surprisingly complex world of happiness, with extracts from Derren Brown’s 2016 book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ to guide us through, along with host Antony’s interjections and musings.
In this part, we look at a wide range of sub-topics including more on the history of happiness, a look at the Stoics and Marcus Aurelius and their influence on Cognitive-Behavioural and Life Coaching, virtue (signalling), desire, fate, judgement, the psychology of relationships and a few other things along the way. Antony also discovers his new favourite phrase- ‘psychological robustness’.
Part 3 will follow next month
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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 or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
Podcasts about, or influenced by, the Stoics and Stoicism
https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/william-b-irvine-on-living-stoically
https://dailystoic.com/Podcast/
A podcast deep dive into Marcus Aurelius and ‘Meditations’
Derren Brown talks about his book
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Happiness seems to be simple to understand, but profound and lasting happiness is actually a complex business, as brilliantly illustrated by Derren Brown in his 2016 book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’. Derren’s 500-page very readable tome forms the basis for this series of episodes on the many aspects of happiness, including its history.
After musing on his recent illness and reading some quotes about happiness, Antony reads choice passages from the book and adds his own interjections.
Part 2 will follow next month
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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
episode links
Derren Brown interviewed about the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4
Derren on the Joe Rogan podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFeL7XGwJTs
Quotes about happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness
Types of happiness (online article)
https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234
Alan Watts- Music and Life
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
This time around, Antony reads two of his short stories, referred to in the title of the episode, and muses on various things, including Chris Ryan and his ‘Tangentially Speaking’ podcast, Thai memories, a surreal Valium-fuelled overnight trip, a wonderful review from a listener, the magic of cats, normies vs truthers and a couple of other things. I don’t always have answers but I’ve got plenty of good questions…
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
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episode links
The original ‘Travelling Light’ and ‘Pure Heaven’ blog posts
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/travelling-light/
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/pure-heaven/
Chris Ryan's 'Tangentially Speaking' podcast
https://chrisryanphd.com/category/tangentially-speaking/
TED-Ed videos about cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8NsYIyQ2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsj-hDW9bS8
9/11 documentary (warning to normies- this will change your view of the event if you’ve only ever considered any holes in the official story to be baseless ‘conspiracy theories’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Q5eZhCPuc
Everything Is A Remix (there have been subsequent parts- check the website below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
Echoes vs 2001: A Space Odyssey (get high without drugs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn7MmS3vazU
Money As Debt (there have been sequels as well)
https://watchdocumentaries.com/money-as-debt/
The Money Myth Exploded (very thought-provoking)
https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/social-credit/item/the-money-myth-exploded
TED talk by Yossi Ghinsberg (Amazon survival)
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
David Blaine is known around the world and a magician and illusionist. However, he has also had a parallel life doing endurance stunts, apparently for real without illusion (though some believe otherwise).
This episode deals with my personal favourite of these stunts, when he tested the limits of human endurance, both physical and psychological, living in a plexiglass box for 44 days in London in 2003 with only water to sustain him.
One of the ironic things about this stunt is that he was both alone in isolation but was also surrounded by a daily throng of visitors who kept him going as he grew weaker, and kept him entertained as he watched the world go by…
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
episode links
The original blog post
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/the-many-sides-of-david-blaines-above-the-below/
Previous episodes about meditation (‘Life And Life Only’ and ‘Luke’s English Podcast’)
https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-4-the-joys-and-wonders-of-meditation-part-1-of-2/
https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-5-the-joys-and-wonders-of-meditation-part-2-of-2/
David Blaine and ‘Moonlight Sonata’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaQ9dDtiNAY
Harmony Korine’s film 'Above The Below’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCl9cgBgoQ
David Blaine Street Magic/Magic Man (TV specials)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtaKtUWQ7I
David being mysterious with Eamonn Holmes in 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVbs7LL8I0
David on the Joe Rogan podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3Zg37nIHo
David Blaine- ‘How I held my breath for 17 minutes’ (TED talk)
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_for_17_minutes
David with Larry King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdr1Luq3PYY
Derren Brown mathematical memory ‘trick’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAJHUv2JS7w
John Cage’s 4.33 (not too much noise, ok?!)
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
We complete the reading of Antony's longform essay with the dramatic sinking and its aftermath. Ordinary humans of all levels of means and status fight for their lives against the slow, inevitable creep of death, and after the disaster there's equal measures of genuine humanity and ugly scapegoating
The story of R.M.S. Titanic and its unfortunate fate seems to have everything, both good and bad, in terms of how society views itself, its apparently superior relationship to nature and people’s relationships to their fellow man. This is a historical event but it’s also a story full of drama and human interest, and one that has been subject to constant revision in the 110 years since the ship sank.
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episode links
The essay in full
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/legends-and-folly-the-remarkable-story-of-r-m-s-titanic
Links to the 2 main books used as sources
2-part documentary series on the disaster ‘Death of A Dream’ and ‘The Legend Lives On’
https://archive.org/details/Titanic_The_Legend_Lives_On_A_And_E_WOC_1994-07-25
The 1958 film ‘A Night To Remember’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftYho4K3FQ
Robert Ballard talks about the discovery of the Titanic in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3eA6wYil4
Titanic wreck footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVYT_I1gL4
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
The story of R.M.S. Titanic and its unfortunate fate seems to have everything, both good and bad, in terms of how society views itself, its apparently superior relationship to nature and people’s relationships to their fellow man. This is a historical event but it’s also a story full of drama and human interest, and one that has been subject to constant revision in the 110 years since the ship sank.
Antony reads his own longform essay regarding the maiden voyage and sinking of the world's most famous ship, and there are interjections with further observations throughout.
Ordinary humans of all levels of means and status fight for their lives against the slow, inevitable creep of death…
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching) https://www.antonyrotunno.com
episode links
The essay in full
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/legends-and-folly-the-remarkable-story-of-r-m-s-titanic
Links to the 2 main books used as sources
2-part documentary series on the disaster ‘Death of A Dream’ and ‘The Legend Lives On’
https://archive.org/details/Titanic_The_Legend_Lives_On_A_And_E_WOC_1994-07-25
The 1958 film ‘A Night To Remember’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftYho4K3FQ
Survivor Testimonies by Charles Lightoller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzG4cjm5mKo
A deleted wireless room scene from ‘Titanic’ (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nlc0YGjl7Y
Frost Report sketch on the 3 classes
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
In an edited version of what was originally a video podcast (link below), Antony and Luke Thompson dissect the seminal Canadian documentary written by law professor Joel Bakan and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.
Although often run by people with decent intentions, the modern corporation, complete with its legally-determined 'rights of a person', has become a monster that seeks to devour all that stands in its own way while polluting the environment and often ruining lives. You may be shocked to hear the documentary's diagnosis of this legal monster, which we outline during the talk.
Some of the talking heads (including critics of the entity, corporation CEOs and everything in between) include Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Naomi Klein.
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The original unedited video version of this talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZgKhah2Acc
Luke's podcast and website
Luke's Twitter page
https://twitter.com/EnglishPodcast
A recent film review collaboration between Antony and Luke (Monty Python!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMtOOBpRBaA
episode links
Links to the documentary itself and its 'unfortunately necessary' sequel https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcHj...
Rutger Bregman cuts through the crap at Davos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY
The news, sponsored by Pfizer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2LQW1TY0lY&t=45s
TED talk by John Perkins, former economic hitman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Nicnac Marsh has a podcast that delves into his psyche and the challenges of the complex business of existence in an ever-changing and increasingly confusing world. I was delighted to make 2 appearances on his show around this time last year so this latest offering is a compilation of the two.
Our talk goes to many different places but there is particular emphasis on creativity and also discussions on how the world might actually work beyond the propaganda and some discussion of John Lennon, which was Nicnac’s original entry point to my work.
There are audio clips included to complement the conversation and also musical contributions from Nicnac, myself and others
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Nicnac’s podcast
episode links
The peerless Bill Hicks live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfdEN4ipoiw
Life Goes On Stargate Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1u2pyBi_Xk
In The Psychiatrist’s Chair- featuring R.D. Laing
https://podtail.com/podcast/in-the-psychiatrist-s-chair/rd-laing/
John Lennon’s slow piano version of ‘Help!’ (1970)
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
The BBC, once considered the bastion of fairness in journalism, has in recent times begun to wear its propaganda on its sleeve. Antony attempts to give a fair but critical overview of their recent 'Unvaccinated' documentary and point out both the overt and more subtle propaganda techniques used in a piece of programming whose agenda is clear from the very start.
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episode links
the documentary itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLr6mqufuNM
2 mainstream reviews of the doc (one positive, one highly critical but neither showing any vaccine hesitancy)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/unvaccinated-review-painfully-patronising-documentary-treated/
An interview with 2 of the participants