Podsongs Jack Stafford

Binyamin Appelbaum, of The New York Times, talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, which traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization.

Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the Editorial Board of The New York Times. He joined the board in March 2019. He was previously a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Appelbaum has previously worked for The Florida Times-Union, The Charlotte Observer, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. His book, The Economists' Hour, was published in September 2019.

LYRICS TO 'CHANGE WITHOUT PAIN':

What kind of world are we living in?
When going out, is giving in
Do you feel we're one?
Or that you're the only one
And can we change without pain?

The fractured land society
The prophets failed it's plain to see
Where's the broad prosperity
Promised by their reign
And can we change without pain?

Do you ever feel these changes?
Altogether, going through changes

Economists now, have all control
Companies bought, our very souls
In the Economists Hour
Hard to explain
How we change without pain

Do you ever feel these changes?
Altogether, going through changes




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Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard.

His critically acclaimed book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), electrified readers around the world (it was published in over 20 languages), and became a bestseller in several countries. Bakan wrote and co-created (with Mark Achbar) a feature documentary film, The Corporation, based on the book’s ideas and directed by Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The film won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success.

The New Corporation, a sequel to that film, is based on Bakan’s book of the same name and directed by Bakan and Jennifer Abbott. Bakan’s scholarly work includes Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (1997), as well as textbooks, edited collections, and numerous articles in leading legal and social science journals. His award-winning book, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (2012), has been translated into several languages. A recipient of awards for both writing and teaching, Bakan has worked on landmark legal cases and government policy, and serves regularly as a public speaker and media commentator. Also a professional jazz guitarist, Bakan lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Rebecca Jenkins.


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We made it to 100 episodes in just over a year. Well done to the whole team. Thanks to the guests, the musicians, the listeners, everyone! How should we celebrate our one-hundredth episode? - it has to be something special edition. And it is. Because I originally started Podsongs as a way to help publicise the Aetherius society, the spiritual organisation that I’m a member of. And about 12 of the last 100 guests were from the Aetherius Society. Two directors of the society in LA—Brian Keneipp and Paul Nugent—agreed to come on and give a special track by track commentary, with some extra metaphysical insights.

The album is called 'Through slits in the chrysalis'—meaning the truths we get glimpses of, through cracks in our cocoons—and will be available on all platforms from 1st January.

Tracks:

1 The Prison of Materialism
2 The Violet Flame
3 The Mother Earth
4 The Healer
5 Most Caterpillars Don't Believe In Butterflies
6 The Mighty Sun
7 If The Bombs Go Off
8 Pranayama
9 Serve
10 Hymn of the Blessings
11 Bravery
12 Don't Dwell on your Physical Shell
13 The Absolute
14 Blind and Groping in the Dark

Moving forward.... In 2022 we'll be switching to an episode every fortnight which is what many other shows do, like Song Exploder the next best music podcast. Podsongs has become all-consuming... Because it's not just the production of the podcast that takes time - now I have to find musical guests who want to collaborate, finding a guest expert for them to interview, researching, recording, editing.... and then making the songs of course, which has been huge.... but it's also that now we give every song a special single release, with marketing, promotion, a music video... we're a proper record company. And two singles a month is still a lot.

And even on top of that, another new idea for next year is that I want to release episodes with video as well - but we need something extra special for Podsongs - so not just talking heads, but as well as each episode inspiring a song, it will also inspire a painting..... I'm asking artists to video themselves creating a piece inspired by the conversation - so on youtube, you'll have a split-screen of the interview and the artist painting a picture in real-time. It's evolving into a gesamtkunstwerk - as we have music, dancers in the music videos. Maybe some literature in future, with story readings instead of interviews. I don't know how I can get architecture in there, but if you have an idea let me know.




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An incredible episode with a mountaineer turned Transformational Teacher and Coach for living an Enlightening Life. He's a world-record-holding expedition leader, who led expeditions to Everest, the North Pole, and the South Pole. As well as succeeding in business: he created the first commercial airline in Antarctica and other multiple multi-million dollar businesses. Other notable achievements include initiating a global youth empowerment project involving 60 million young people and producing a Primetime TV documentary. To cap it all he has now travelled on a spiritual adventure and has taught meditation to monks in India and around the world. He lives in constant bliss, joy, love, and creativity.

LYRICS to "Moment of Truth":

I am ready, for revelations
I am ready, for open eyes
I am ready, for sacrifice

I'm ready for love
I'm ready for loss
I'm ready for truth

I'm ready for an open eye
I'm ready for the truth inside

I'm ready for a turn of the wheel
I'm ready for electric feel

I'm ready to give up dislikes
I'm ready for the great insights

I'm ready, leave it all behind
I'm ready for a higher mind

I'm ready for love
I'm ready for loss
I'm ready for truth

I'm about to believe
Open my heart and receive

I'm about to believe
Show me how show me now

Cos I'm about to believe
Ready to know and perceive

I'm about to believe
Ready to see, There's more than me

I'm about to believe
I'm on the eve, to receive
Tell me tell me

How, I can slowly perceive
The truth as it breathes open my eyes, I'm ready

A matter of time  
A matter of faith
A matter of grace - ooooooh

I'm about to believe
to receive
Come on, come on, come on, come on

About to believe
Open my heart and receive

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready,
Help me now, show me how

Ooooooh


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Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy and the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples. Eisenstein has been involved in the Occupy, New Economy, and permaculture movements. His work has also been popular with countercultural and New Age audiences. An advocate of the gift economy, he makes much of his work available for free on his website. https://charleseisenstein.org/

Musical guest BRIAN BULGER:

Brian Bulger is an alternative singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. Folk, indie, and pop elements infused with honest storytelling is what sets Brian apart. He strives to tell his own story in a way that places the listener within the moment, crafting worlds and emotions in the melody. https://brianbulgermusic.com/

Lyrics to UNRAVEL - https://ffm.to/BB-Unravel

We're in the world
And overwhelmed
While we're divided
We are compelled

Even though small
And all estranged
We are ambassadors
Agents of change

I want
I wanna unravel
There’s something deeper in my being
There must be something more than just breathing

While we ourselves
See us apart
Our actions will be flawed
Wrong head, wrong heart

You show me cause
I see effect
Separateness
Road to neglect

I want
I wanna unravel
There’s something deeper in my being
There must be something more than just breathing

To die
And to multiply
My self-interest
My capital
My persistence to my ignorance

We die
And we multiply
Our self-interest
Our capital
Our persistence to our ignorance

There must be something more than this


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Acclaimed food author and fermentation guru Sandor Katz whose renegade revival of ancient culinary rituals has transformed his relationship with life and death, inspires songwriters Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy to create a new track.

Sandor Katz is a rock star of the food world. Since 2003 when his book Wild Fermentation was published, he has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process in their kitchens. His next book The Art of Fermentation (2012), received a James Beard award and was a finalist at the International Association of Culinary Professionals. https://www.wildfermentation.com/

Musical guests: the Silent Comedy

Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman of The Silent Comedy have spent most of their life on a tour bus and subsisted almost wholly on fermented food. They’ve performed with Dave Matthews, Mumford and Sons, and Vampire Weekend, and at Bonnaroo, Kaaboo and more. The band recorded and self-released a series of albums, selling hundreds of thousands and streaming millions. Still, they needed to capture the magic of their live show. Work with Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith led to a body of work that includes the EP Friends Divide and LP Enemies Multiply.  https://www.thesilentcomedy.com/

Listen to CHANGES: https://ffm.to/TSC-Changes

LYRICS:

Gather up the pieces of the day
Pushed into the dark and locked away
I fear I’m repeating my mistakes
But I can’t stay
Can’t stay the same

Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change

Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change

No can’t stay the same
No can’t stay the same

Gathered myself up to meet the day
Pulled out from the dark what I put away
I think I’m getting free of my mistakes
If I don’t break
I’ll break away

Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change

Might take days
Might take ages
You need patience
To make peace with change

No can’t stay the same
No can’t stay the same x3


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