The B&P Realm

This episode briefly touches upon some of the meanings of Capricorn Season before joining three, umm, friends, on a park bench to ramble about  how Capricorn Season relates to current events, listening to a reading of an upcoming blog post of mine titled "The Two Questions I'd Ask Bill Gates," and taking in a reading about the lack of integrity of the mainstream media coverage about Ivermecti...

This episode is a playful, rambling exploration of Sagittarius season, this episode finds me doing a deep philosophical dive into both/and, the unity behind the duality. A few details: I look at how astrology has two major schools and how we can use both lenses to understand our chart; I talk about how astrology has polarities, such as Sagittarius-Gemini; I digress into a riverside rambler of adve...

Whoa nelly, do we have a doozy of a show for you all this week as we dive into the many meanings of Scorpio season! As a fixed water sign, I suppose it makes sense that I went so deep to penetrate the mysterious wisdom of this transformative, often misunderstood sign of the zodiac. The show begins with some prepared general thoughts on Scorpio, detours into a Scorpionic story from last fall that s...

Today's show is one where, on a bike path babbler, I dissect my 2020s mantra, which is, "I don’t know/we’ll see/adjust accordingly/everything is OK." I'll be telling you what this mantra means to me and why I think it can be useful for you as we navigate these stormy seas. Enjoy! Media Links Season 1, Episode 15 of this podcast, "B is For Becoming Comfortable with I Don't Know" Today's Song: "Cali...

This episode is the first of a series I plan to do where, at the start of an astrological month, I'll discuss the archetypal meaning of that month and share some other thoughts about it, while perhaps sprinkling in some info about the astrology of the upcoming month. Thus, this one is about Libra season, which holds a special place in my heart concerning my dive into astrology which I'll go into i...

A shortie, but a goodie where I challenge the "thinking" going on today among the so-called educated "elites" such as CNN's Don Lemon who are de-humanizing people and call them to raise their game by listening and empathizing with those they think are stupid (but who may actually have wisdom you've just shut yourself off from). Enjoy! If you want to connect with me, find me at: Facebook:   ht...

I'm going super deep on this one. You might wanna listen on 1.5 speed...but I was being very deliberate in my language because this is a very important topic, where I do my best to explain what I think the consciousness is that is behind the tomfuckery we have been seeing in our world for many decades now. Enjoy. If you want to connect with me, find me at: Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com...

Why the sound of crickets is more pleasant than the sound of cicadas; discussing the dichotomy between freedom and safety; the relevance of Plato’s allegory of the cave for our times; questioning some of the vaccine narratives; why my reasonably accurate 20-year track record of predicting where things are going, even when those predictions were unpopular, gives me confidence in holding unpopular o...

Recorded on a night walk with a flat tire, this episode is slightly different from the usual riverside ramblers because, well, it was recorded at night as opposed to the morning. Which means after a 15-minute opening bit about how I ignored my intuition regarding the flat tire (and how that might have been a good thing), I dive into some of the more fun things I like to think about, including: mem...

This episode is an hour-long riverside rambler where I speak to my participation in the Rebel Wisdom community and discuss a question I asked host David Fuller about how he was coming to his conclusion that Covid-19 vaccine side effects are (quote) “typically exceedingly rare.” As you all know this is a huge topic that continues to dominate media coverage and I’ve spent a fair amount of time on it...

This episode playfully rambles through: childhood recollections about the dog days of August, the unreliability of memories, the power of the mind, hanging out at a Japanese shrine and wondering if I’ll get struck down by lightning for it, the unspoken rules of Japanese culture and how we foreigners aren’t expected to follow them, the experience of unbalance in the work/play relationship and being...

Recorded on a typically hot Peak Summer day with a background of chirping cicadas here in central Japan. I spend about 25 minutes detailing my detox efforts, from intermittent fasting to better discerning what to feed into my head from the media, before a few brief asides about the travails of English pronunciation, some meta commentary on why my thoughts can get lost among the parenthetical weeds...

No show notes, suckers! Ha ha. Seriously, this is just a podcast where I catch you up on what's been going on with me for the past two months and the things I've been pondering. I had fun recording it, and think you'll have fun listening to it. Beyond that, you're just gonna have to jump into the deep end this time...if you dare! Enjoy the show! If you want to connect with me, find me at: Facebook...

Topics include: Clip 1. Aesop’s Fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf;” who the boy is in the lab leak hypothesis media story; a dictionary definition of hypothesis and theory; should we really trust fact-checkers and social media outlets to decide what the truth is?; why the Founders were so smart to make Freedom of the Press an essential right; why the argument that Facebook and other social media co...

Topics include: What's the best Japanese convenience store?; Japan convenience stores and fast food vs. US ones; Rebel Wisdom community new storytelling; the buoyancy of green Nature this time of year; why Taurus season is green; what is yhe basic Purpose of storytelling; Taurus season is room temperature season; an improvised Story about Humanity’s relationship to Nature; what two qualities must...

This episode is focused has three segments but it's focused on the work of one man, American playwright, novelist and fellow ex-pat CJ Hopkins who is an erudite, outspoken critic of the New Normal totalitarianism and who is someone I am very excited to share with you. The first segment is my reading of Matt Taibbi's piece " Meet The Censored: C.J. Hopkins, Critic of "The New Normal. " In the piece...

Topics Include : The nature of spring; comparing climate in Los Angeles to Tokyo, and how it speaks to misperceptions; how the Coronavirus crisis has chilled out Japanese culture some; why my communication seeks a balanced, holistic perspective; why there aren't many Renaissance People in Japan; why getting into Nature has kept me healthy since I was a kid; my summation of the two main camps in th...

Pt. 1, April 12th: “Integrating the Masculine and Feminine Archetypes in Our Culture Wars” Topics include: Lex Fridman’s American Dream as engineering and how it relates to masculine archetypes; the positives and negatives of that archetype; do the Titans of Technology have good blueprints to engineer the New World?; the rising power of the feminine archetype; why we need both; the Sun/day as masc...

This is a big one, folks. It might be the last from me for a bit. Or it might not. Regardless, I have devoted a lot of time into this topic over the past week so figured I'd pour some of that effort into a podcast episode. Some of the many topics covered include: Why fact-checkers on Facebook may be only "partly true" in revealing who they work for; why these vax passports are a slippery slope; ho...

Yes, at long last, the B and P Realm is doing what any proper podcast should do, which is get someone else on to do some of the darn talking! All jokes aside, I had a blast connecting with a guy I've known for several years and chatting about a variety of topics. The topics (but are not limited to): the shifting sands of identity, and how living for over a decade in Japan colors the lenses we use...

Topics include: A chat about why this podcast will be evolving toward including guests; on Information Overload and why I don't want to contribute to it; why re-connecting with old friends is great and inspires me to have conversations with with regular fascinating people on this podcast; pondering Gabor Mate’s model of addiction as being a result of childhood trauma and wondering how collective t...

Topics discussed include : Sun conjunction with Neptune this week and its meaning; where I’m at in my interpretation of astrology now, how it relates to the geometry of the spheres; why I relate to Neptune, and why contentment helps keep me sober; Dr. Carl Hart’s attempts to de-stigmitize drug use; a Neptunian poem on the power of actual prayer; how I define astrology and how it connects to Nature...

Topics covered: feeling into the comfort of the Earth’s gravity; sports on other planets; a fascinating, boring gravity-on-planetary-bodies website (see link); why I find it easy to fall asleep to people chatting; how our disconnection fuels things like Q Anon and our inability to understand it; my story relating to how connecting to Nature’s metaphors guides me and makes me a better human; Alan W...

This episode is a look back on the experiences I’ve had and the things I’ve learned since the Coronavirus Crisis began in Japan one year ago. I focus on the personal for much of it, but tie the collective into the picture in the latter half of the episode. Among the topics covered are: becoming more in tune with the cycles of time; boundaries as a key theme of 2020; how Just Saying No can free tho...

Welcome to Episode 8, Being Reborn and Being Silly (And an Interview with a Rock God) Hi folks. There are three clips to this episode: first, an opening rambler where I touch on a possible writing project, among other things;  second, a soon-to-be-published blog post titled How Grieving Over Trees And Facing My Addiction Gave Me New Life: The challenging death and rebirth cycle was at the cen...