The Pasho Perspective

Patricio Donoso Jr.

Ever feel like you're the only one who sees what's happening in the world? Ever feel frustrated over the appearance of the world's antipathy to its own demise? If so, do I have a podcast for you. At The Pasho Perspective, I strive to speak the truth. I strive to tell it as my heart feels it.  I'm a Christian, married, father of three who likes to howl at the moon. I am ardently passionate about life and expect to cover all those things we find in the space between life and death. So please... turn up the volume, get comfortable, and join me. You can also support me and receive some merch from the podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepashoperspective

  1. 12/03/2025

    "the soldier, his wife, and the bum" by Charles Bukowski (read by Pasho)

    Send us a text I really enjoy Bukowski: I hope you do too. Enjoy! "the soldier, his wife, and the bum" I was a bum in San Francisco but once managed to go to a symphony concert along with the well-dressed people and the music was good but something about the audience was not and something about the orchestra and the conductor was not, although the building was fine and the acoustics perfect I preferred to listen to the music alone on my radio and afterwards I did go back to my room and I turned on the radio but then there was a pounding on the wall: “SHUT THAT GOD-DAMNED THING OFF!”   there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, “you shouldn’t have done that.” and the soldier said, “F**K THAT GUY!” which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did.   anyhow, I never went to another live concert and that night I listened to the radio very quietly, my ear pressed to the speaker.   war has its price and peace never lasts and millions of young men everywhere would die and as I listened to classical music I heard them making love, desperately and mournfully, through Shostakovich, Brahms, Mozart, through crescendo and climax, and through the shared wall of our darkness. -Charles Bukowski Support the show Thank you for all of your support. God bless. Pacho's Chachos for life!

    2 min
  2. 11/18/2025

    "A Story" by Li-Young Lee (read by Pasho)

    Send us a text This is one of my all time favorites to teach in my AP Lit and Comp class! As a father, it is almost impossible for me to read it and not tear up. One day our boys will leave their homes and become men. That is a beautiful thing, but it doesn't mean it wont hurt a little when it happens. One day there will be no more stories, no more advice, no more wisdom for a father to give his son before he goes out into the great wide open and develops his own.  I remember starring at my infant child, new born into this world, and already I felt this pain: crazy. "A Story" by Li-Young Lee Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his lap. Not the same story, Baba. A new one. The man rubs his chin, scratches his ear. In a room full of books in a world of stories, he can recall not one, and soon, he thinks, the boy will give up on his father. Already the man lives far ahead, he sees the day this boy will go. Don't go! Hear the alligator story! The angel story once more! You love the spider story. You laugh at the spider. Let me tell it! But the boy is packing his shirts, he is looking for his keys. Are you a god, the man screams, that I sit mute before you? Am I a god that I should never disappoint? But the boy is here. Please, Baba, a story? It is an emotional rather than logical equation, an earthly rather than heavenly one, which posits that a boy's supplications and a father's love add up to silence. God bless. Pacho's Chachos for life!!! Support the show Thank you for all of your support. God bless. Pacho's Chachos for life!

    2 min

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Ever feel like you're the only one who sees what's happening in the world? Ever feel frustrated over the appearance of the world's antipathy to its own demise? If so, do I have a podcast for you. At The Pasho Perspective, I strive to speak the truth. I strive to tell it as my heart feels it.  I'm a Christian, married, father of three who likes to howl at the moon. I am ardently passionate about life and expect to cover all those things we find in the space between life and death. So please... turn up the volume, get comfortable, and join me. You can also support me and receive some merch from the podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepashoperspective