The B&P Realm

Whoa nelly! We've made it to episode 11 and TBH, it's my favorite one yet. You get a lotta bang fer yer buck in this one: Discussion of new music I'm digging, a re-visit of Warren v Sanders after this week's Nevada debate where Warren shredded measly oligarch Michael Bloomberg, much to my delight, a rather odd interlude where a new character attempts to be both a play-by-play and a very, umm, colo...

This episode shares an inspiring moment from the Bernie Sanders campaign from my hometown and my thoughts on why #VoteBlueNoMatterWho is a disingenuous attempt to shut down Bernie supporters, a great rant by the fiery progressive podcaster Benjamin Dixon, and then a ramble-cast by bike (with a bit too much wind...sorry, edited a lot of it, did my best!) about my relationship with bi-polar disorder...

Another hodgepodge of a messy episode, put together as I went through one of my down phases, so I shared a bit about that, including an assist from the Intuitive Astrology Podcast with Molly McCord , and then to liven things up, dived into the library to find some ramblings about privilege and a couple clips of me urinating. Seriously. You get to hear me pee. And fart. What more could you ask for?...

Perhaps a bit disjointed, perhaps brilliant, perhaps both, this episode covers a week of personal growth ponderings, where I look at the Jungian Archetype of the Trickster , reference a Medium blog post I wrote on the topic, share some pieces from a recent episode on The Trickster f rom a great podcast called This Jungian Life, make fun of the lack of integrity in the American political process an...

Ep 8 has been delayed a day or two. It's coming, just not today!

I recorded most of this episode in a park waiting for a meeting and it covers a lot of ground--a 1980s pop music quiz, birthday shout-outs, why I don't jive with opera and classical music, the immorality (and not pragmatic) policy of drone strikes, parks, kids in parks, kids in parks who get up in your grill, the various inanities of life as an English teacher in Japan and, last but not least, my...

Mayor Pete. Mayor Cheat. Wall Street Pete. No matter the moniker, how well do we really know this dude who none of us had heard about until less than a year ago? Answer: not very well. But, it doesn't matter. For the more you dig in, the more you realize he's smoke and mirrors. In addition, Bernie Sanders has a broad coalition of unwavering supporters; Pete doesn't. Like 2016's Republican primarie...

Ramblers from a cold windy day which prove Mayor Pete is Mayor Cheat and other fun stuff. (Apologies, quality has some wind issues but did my best due to craopy Jappy winter wind, )

Sorry folks, but this has been a big day so I am decided to try another fun one...me fiddling away on me guitar and just yakking about the Iowa Caucuses and other shit which I can't remember now. I'm crazy and we live in crazy times. Deal with it...or don't. Either way, you win!

This here episode is me going fucking nuts trying to convince y'all messy lovers to clean up your poop, your ramen wrappers and your popcorn containers and to stop expecting other mofos to do YOUR dirty work for ya, because we all got a beautiful world to build and we ain't gonna build it if we gotta waste our precious time cleaning up each other's excrement. Oh, and me also telling you "woke" fol...

This episode is a podcasting first! That's right, a host takes a stroll around a park golf course in Japan and babbles about the Democratic Primary and the generational divide between Biden (Boomers) and Sanders (Millenials) and how, in his opinion, the Boomers should defer to their grandkids because the kids are gonna have to live with the consequences of this historic 2020 US presidential electi...

A more light-hearted one where I recount a silly anecdote from a Phish concert in summer 2018, I talk about how my writing is inspired by life experiences and I make up for not being so funny in studio with a ridiculous phone call from a bedrazzled Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump in which the future of humanity may be at stake. Plus, two of my favorite chapters of the first book of "The Teacher and...

This episode covers: a breakdown of CNN's awful, self-serving story that Elizabeth Warren's team concocted about Bernie Sanders being a misogynist; an explanation about how the B&P Realm will use four more letters of the alphabet to come up with topic titles, and last, chapters 5 and 6 of my novel, "The Teacher and the Tree Man." (start time 28:05)

A bit more about me, why I'm doing this podcast, my plan to visit the States, my politics and why when I bike, I find stoplights so annoying. Plus, count how many times I say "basically"!. And then, enjoy chapters 3 and 4 of my novel, "The Teacher and the Tree Man," which begins at 25:05.

This introductory episode to the B&P Realm Podcast covers how this wide-ranging, broad-minded podcast will talk about how the show will cover at least six topics, three that start with the letter B (biking, the Disco Biscuits (Bisco) and books) and three with P (personal growth, Phish and podcasts). In addition, it'll cover (mostly U.S.) politics in a phun way. Last, this episode introduces my...