Hello, I am Eckhart Tolle, the new announcer for the Raw Impressions Podcast. Welcome! So Eckhart took over for a Fortrack Man? Yep.
Fortrack Man's on vacation? Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe this is permanent. Maybe Fortrack Man is...
What? Yeah. He's retired? I don't know.
I felt... It is here that I must say that I myself Eckhart Tolle am not a fan of podcasts. I don't listen to them. There's too much information.
I am happy to speak on spirituality. I am happy to dispense my knowledge of nothingness. So I talked to Fortrack Man. Okay.
We talked about it because we've had kind of this. I... We got a message from our listener, Joey Corsetino, that said he was feeling uneasy with the way that Fortrack Man was kind of bullying me through the episodes. And I thought about it.
It was like it's kind of true. You know, and life is short, you know, to be bullied by someone when you're... You know, I'm 58 now. Damn.
You're bullied by anybody else other than my children? No. The answer is no. And I talked to Fortrack Man about it.
And we were actually... We had a really good discussion about... Because we're both like... And I am also happy to take this challenge as the new announcer for the Raw Impressions podcast.
Give me a... You know, our impression. So I talked about it with Fortrack Man. We just came through like a mutual decision.
Wow. And we talked about our own journeys to like self-awareness and enlightenment. And he was talking about this guy Eckhart Tolle that he knows. But he's been up on.
Not Eckhart Tolle? Not Eckhart Tolle. Okay. Who's the power of now?
The power of now. No, this is the strength of... The strength of whenever. That's Eckhart Tolle's book.
Uh-huh. The strength of whenever? Yeah, because it's not like... You know, it's like...
It kind of takes the pressure off a little bit. It's like, now. It's like, look. Now you need to be focused on the noun.
It's like, now, now, now. And Eckhart Tolle, when he talks about it, it's a little... He... It's an intense pressure in a way.
It doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room. No. And what Eckhart Tolle is saying... Is it like, whenever you can access that...
Whenever, buddy. Whenever. Yeah. Okay.
The strength of whenever. The strength of whenever. I feel more relaxed already without that pressure. Well, I feel kind of mixed feelings though about...
Fortrak Man, not even saying goodbye to me. Well, I... Just listening to it now. Listening to Eckhart Tolle's contribution to this episode.
It sounds a lot like Fortrak Man. It sounds very similar. So he's like sort of renamed. I don't know.
I'm not positive. He'll just want to see what happens. Okay. I was just going to say this could be like Ron Prusson's listeners could be like, wow, I was there at the beginning, man.
There was this character called Fortrak Man. They don't even know. They don't even talk about him anymore. Like it would be the OG listeners who know about Fortrak Man.
You know, it was a mutual decision. We were both ready to move on. Okay. Like I said, he did suggest Eckhart Tolle.
To hop in to take his place. Okay. Okay. Real power.
The insight. The timing. And as we know, podcasts are not about silence. In fact, they are often about information.
A lot of information. So much information. Too much information. I was attracted to this job to be the announcer of the Ron Prusson's podcast because Ron Prusson's is not about information.
So much. Personal information. I'm here to shepherd Lou and Adele on their journey towards silence. He's feeling a little bit more like Fortrak Man every time.
I'm actually feeling a little attacked. He's trying to silence me. I don't need a man silencing me. He's just silencing.
I feel like slightly bullied by that as well. Yeah. God damn it. Never ends.
Never ends. It just shapeshifts. How could somebody use mindfulness as another tool for bullying? How could this happen?
How could this be hijacked? My one way to peace of mind where I'm finally getting there. You know what I was thinking about? This road to silence.
So I've been recently, like just this week, using the 10% happier app, which is like a mindfulness meditation app with apparently your best friend, Dan Harris. My best friend. Literally your best friend. My biggest fan.
Exactly. Hashtag biggest fan, Dan Harris, Blue Barlow. I didn't even know the connection to my husband, Wild. But you never cease to surprise me like that.
I'll be like, hey, you really pull that one out. I'm just thinking that this is my thing. Whatever you are now, like actually inserting yourself into my app and my meditation, you're like, guess what? The guy who started that, he loves me.
I'm like, what are you talking about? How is this even related to you? How is my app have anything to do with Blue Barlow, any rock dude? And you're like, well, let me pull up a YouTube video right now for you, dear.
I'm like, I'm sorry, what? How many years old was that clip? No, 2009. Oh, yeah.
Okay. Like 14 years ago. Yeah, it was 14 years ago. I was interviewed by Dan Harris, now known for the 10% happier app.
And his mindfulness, he was like a network anchor, action man, reporter guy. But he did a short live show called Amplified for ABC Something. And he featured me in it. And he's from Newton, Massachusetts.
I'm pretty sure I'm just going to say Boston people. I'm going to say he probably, you know, Andy Rock, he was an indie rocker. Yeah, he's 53 years old. I look at the idea.
Perfectly perfectly in the pocket to have like heard some sebodone and dinosaur junior when he was in college. So yeah, he and I had an interview 14 years ago. I've had no contact with him since I must be absolutely clear about this. No, he's had no contact with me.
I, however, you follow him on Instagram. I like his vibe. Yeah. And you were like, apparently telling me about him now for who knows how to do it.
I haven't tried to tell you. He was like, well, I know this time. I'm like, I know that guy interviewed me and you just are like, la, la, la. You didn't, you rarely, you rarely.
I just think I wasn't giving you like the attention and the focus that you. I just don't. Are you feeling unheard? No, but this morning it was confirmed that I was unheard.
I never, I generally I feel heard with you. Thanks. I do. I always still heard.
I'm never like, I never elbowing in and trying to get your attention. You know why? You generally are like, what do you need to say, say it to me now. I'm all eyes.
I'm all ears. Yeah. You receive. I am.
I'm there for you, baby. What was slippery for me is because I'm actually not great with names sometimes. You know, like, so I like, you're just like, Dan Harris, this guy, whatever. I just hear that and I'm like, whoop, I don't, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't hear something to be, to be honest. And no, no, nothing. I apologize to Dan Harris for what I'm about to say.
Okay. Dan Harris is a bit of a generic name. Sure. I mean, it's not his fault, but his parents.
No offense to your parents. Dan, sure, they're lovely. So I bet they are. I fuck.
Yeah, they're definitely lovely. So, listen, here's the thing. So I, I have been participating in a weekly Zoom meditation for, God, like what two years now? Has it been that long?
Two. I think so. I know. I know.
It's a weekly one hour Zoom meditation that is in the process of transforming my life, I would say. Well, you're always in process. I'm always in process. Never arrive, by the way, BTW.
I'm just saying that I'm not a, I'm not an anchored boat. I am moving. I am changing. I am evolving.
I like to change and evolve and grow. And not everyone does. That's my point. And that's why I'm saying I am, it's changing my life.
You are an evolveer. Yeah. I like that about you. Thanks.
I like that about you too. I think that's kind of why we're together. Yeah, I think so too. We were like, let's evolve.
Let's change. Let's keep changing. Let's keep changing. Yeah.
Don't stop changing. Don't stop changing. I know. That's my power ballad.
That's my power ballad. Fuck. Don't stop changing. Right that shit.
Next time I start Junior record, I'm going to write this fucking power ballad. Don't stop changing. Don't stop changing. I just got chills.
Oh, powerful. I actually feel like crying. Ballad, like your big power ballad. Don't stop believing.
Don't stop changing. Don't stop changing. Roll with the changes. That's part of the chorus.
All right. You got to roll with the changes. Yeah. No, I'm not being sarcastic.
No, I'm not either. I'm deeply serious. I'm realizing. Wow.
Okay. Well, you know what, it's time to write a new dinosaur? Junior song anyway. Let's put that one on the bookstore.
You write that one down. Don't stop changing. I like that. Well, so basically this is very long winded.
Saying that I look at me, I meditate everyone once a week. That's right. I guess you can say it's kind of like my therapy, right? It's sort of my sanity touchstone.
I really like it. Don't stop changing. And so my friend and meditation coach, Jeanette mentions occasionally in our Zoom meditations this app 10% happier. And how some people find it very helpful, very useful.
Because it's guided meditations. It's hard to meditate on your own, your brain's all fucking in the way and yapping at ya. Shut up, right? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I really like guided meditations because of that, because of my busy little brain. And so I finally thought, oh, I'm gonna actually download this 10% app, right? So I download it, I log in, and it's like $99 a year. And I, I bocked, I was like, oh, ouch.
Like, dang, that's okay. Okay, I wasn't quite expecting that. But then I thought, oh, okay, I'll reach out to Jeanette and ask her, like, in your humble opinion, and just silly, because she's a meditation coach. I'm sure she's gonna think it was worth it.
I said, what do you think about the $99? She says, I think it's definitely worth it. But here, I have a 30-day guest pass for you. I'll send it to you.
I'll log in, have 30 days to see how you feel about it. And I'm really enjoying this 30-day pass. And I have to say, I will 100% think it's worth the, look at this unsponsored app right now, you guys. I just realized I was literally in the middle of doing it unsponsored, non-local, but semi-local, because it is actually the app says it's based out of Boston too.
Mwahaha. My unsponsored app for 10% have your Dan, if you're listening, feel free to send us some money. Send me that $100 right back. You know, give me my free, or free lifelong meditation.
For this, yes, for this unsponsored. For me realizing that I married to someone that you admire the guy who started it. How weird. I had this thought.
How weird. I had this thought. Wait, so let me just finish my sentence with it, which is just that I didn't realize that the connection to the app was this guy that you had been trying to tell me about for a while. A long time.
A long time. Hey, I think I've even like, oh, this is the Dan Harris app I've been telling you about. You're like, the guy that started the 10% happier thing. And he interviewed me 14 years ago for a little, a little, a little, a little, for a seldom seen music, the 10 minute music show.
We're gonna put a link to that in the show notes. Your hair is the, my hair. It's a solid fucking mullet. And I swear to God, like you said, that's a look now, man.
I, that was a video that although I was very, I really enjoyed my interview with him. Yeah, it's a good interview. I actually enjoyed my time with him 14 years ago. But right after that aired, my sister saw it and said that my hair, haircut looked like Christopher Makepiece.
Who had the craziest? Who was Christopher Makepiece? He was in a bunch of like movies in the 80s, 70s and 80s who had this kind of curly hair, but trying to keep it short and it was like all over the place. It was like a crazy, and I looked, my hair is so, it's really funny in there.
It's funny, but I thought for years, it was so bad that I couldn't show it for anybody. And when I had watched it, when I had like watched that video, which I did, I did watch what I had done with Dan Harris 14 years ago. I went and watched it and I'm like, oh my God, I look like such, I look so bad. It was a really difficult, it was a very, it was an in-between period.
It was like when, it was before I embraced my curly, before I embraced my inner Jesus. And I mean that by like, I'm not my outer Jesus. Right, so I say your inner. Yeah, I'm not there yet.
That's like, that's part of the journey. Part of the journey. To tap your inner Jesus. But as far as my, my outer genius.
Like when you go into the Salvation Army, you see the Jesus on the wall in the picture. That's what the vibe you're looking for. Little old late, I'll tell you this. When I go to the thrift store, and I walk down those, like the island clothes, some little old ladies will look at me and smile.
Of course. Because here I am, I'm here to get you. I'm gonna scoop you up right now. Yup, you're saved.
You're saved. I've, you know, Flicking Hollywood. I walked into savers wearing a white tunic and sandals. I know some people just might start falling behind you.
They're just stepping line. I could just have, I could just walk circles around savers and have this little train of old women following me. Yeah. And children.
Sure. I'd be caring. I swear though, this is why now when you, because you do have this like sort of, you have the gorgeous Jesus look. There's many different Jesus's, but the one that's really popular is like gorgeous Jesus.
You know, like hot Jesus, right? Like hot white, hot Jesus. Hot white Jesus. Which again, not Jesus everybody, but you know, I don't think he was white.
I'm pretty sure. Hot white quasi Jesus. Yes, but the popularized, the one that makes the white people so comfortable, they're like, oh, that's Jesus. You know what, too?
Can I say like my days of travel, I just got back from tour. So a lot of days of travel, I meet a lot of people, you know, a lot of like airports, a lot of like gas stations, yeah, a lot of like hotel lobbies. I've been cultivating, you know, through my, through the strength of whenever. Yeah.
I have been, I'm cultivating a beatific look where I smile at everyone I see. I smile. That's power. I'm not going to say it there.
And I often, and I have been known and increasingly known to make small talking elevators. Okay, I just want to say for the listeners who don't know, this is a hundred percent a shift in Lubeart, I was like, and it probably does have to do with this growing out of your hot white Jesus look, because this was not your vibe, like 14 years ago. You, I think, were more internal and not going to say you would have like a sour look on your face, but maybe more of a, I would say you weren't really smiling at people. You were maybe getting into more fights, more verbal arguments with like service people, like people who had the counter.
Maybe not then. Maybe a little bit before then. I had children. My kids, I kind of, that did.
Well, still, I do remember the last one you had, I remember the last. You were there for that? You were together, you were here in Massachusetts, and it was like the last one. Never mind.
Well, but you are involved. You are involved hot Jesus, it's better now, but you. Well, I was over 10 years ago. Yes, it's been a little while, but you flipped out on someone at an airport who, but then, but the change was this.
You said to me, you were like, I don't think I should do that anymore. And I was like, that's right. That's your last time you're going to do that. And you, I think you even said like, that's the last time I'm going to ever do that approach, because you approached a flight attendant or something with a way that was very aggressive.
Just a way to see the vibe. Yeah, your vibe was aggressive. Even if there's no place. A checitori.
You were like, hey, why is it this like fucked up? And she immediately was like, yeah, we'll fuck you. And you know, so you guys went back and forth and back and forth and you were like, wow, I got nowhere. And I'm an asshole now.
And now I also feel bad. And she hates me. I'm a deck that like ruined her fucking day for no reason. Right.
Or, or maybe she's just not the most generous person herself. Maybe not, although I remember you told me the story. It sounded like you came at her. Yeah.
And that's the story. Yes. You called me because you felt bad. You were like having your reckoning.
Reckoning. You did. And I remember and I, you were like, I don't think I'm ever going to do that again. And I was like, never fucking do that again.
And then I lectured you about how to treat service people again. Because I am the service gal. That was always my job. I was always behind the counter, taking customer service, taking the shit.
And so I've lived it. I lived it for a decade plus of like, that was me on the other side of the counter. And so I know you got to follow. You have to do certain things.
You have to lead with kindness. You know, even if they're not being gracious, you just can't, you can't match it. If all possible, try your darndest to not match it. Well, I've had great results.
Yes. Not matchable. No, it's been a huge transformation for you. Huge.
And now, willingly smile and greet strangers again. I have been with you. We've been together 12 years. I have witnessed this transformation, especially I would say in the last seven years.
You've really embraced being more like outwardly. I was going to say, it's been six or seven years. It hasn't been the whole time. It's been fairly, you know.
I consider my journey a slow one. That's okay. Very slow one. And I was, I was, you know, it just, I came at that.
I came at that. I played the never man. And I, you know, and I, it came, it happened through a lot of different. I, you know, I read a lot of books.
Yeah. And they weren't necessarily like spiritual or self-help books. I was just, I read some books about the brain, about the way, what the words in your head mean. I read a book about breath.
Mm hmm. Yeah, the breath one is huge for you. I read some old, what that fucking crazy book, the Master Keys system. Crazy.
I read some really weird kind of early stuff. It's wacky stuff. Kind of wacky, early self-help books, but they're kind of fun. Yeah.
And I was thinking about how to do you know. You can pick and choose the things that make sense. You're like, oh, that's totally crazy. It's not your Bible, you know.
Yeah, it's not your corona. It's not your, it's not that fucking. The Book of Mormon. Yeah, it's not that, but it's not the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the Hare Krishna book.
What's that one? I don't know. Yeah. Well, we're just gonna let this awkward.
Hey, let's embrace the silence as I throw out Hare Krishna and the Bhagavad Gita. The Bible's not meant to be taken literally either, by the way. Yeah, there's not one way. The point is there's not one way.
I don't think I'm gonna lose a single listener by saying it. I don't think anyone listening to wrong questions is following the Bible to the teeth. Look, well, you can, you can absolutely use it in respect to, because all spiritual teachers do not all of them. But the ones that I've read.
Oh, yeah, there's things to be learned from all of them, right? Except maybe the Book of Mormon. Okay. Now I'm going on to the book.
Oh, shit. What have we done? Where's that cart total? Get in your car.
I can't save you. I don't want to lose my Mormon fans. So, you know, I've got both of my hands. I'm trying to get things in my shoes.
I'm just farting out my words at this point. That's okay. It's, you know, we're, what are we, what are we talking about? Oh, well, I was trying to make a connection, a very long winded connection to Dan Harris and 10% happier app, which is worth it, by the way.
The word is. Oh, I know. Oh my God. I finally figured out what I was trying to say, which is silence.
You're talking about silence and I was then reminded of the 10% happier app because as I'm doing it and I'll be doing the guided meditations, I think it's such a sign for how we live in a society now of like lots of information all the time that when there are pauses in the guided meditation, sometimes I'll go, did it turn off? Is there a mistake? It's like, no, bitch, you're just supposed to fucking like shut up. You're, you, this is your silent moment.
You're literally meditating. Okay. And I will like pick up the phone almost immediately like, Oh, it's a glitch. Oh, something happened.
And then they come back in like, good, good. How is that moment, that fucking moment you had to endure with your own brain? Anyway, I'm working, I'm working progress. Wow.
Embrace the silence. We're back everybody. Thank you. Do you want to say anything?
This new episode of fraud impressions, I am at Cottone. I can't pretend that I've heard any of this episode or I will ever hear anything. I can't pretend that I've heard any of this episode or I will ever hear any episode of law impressions, but I am very happy to be here announcing. I'm very happy to return to silence.
I think that's a four track man. Yeah, I think he fucking duped me. He's back. He's back.