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Audiodes
by John Elliott
Impressionistic audio collages. Reflections and meditations on American culture, news, and events. Released monthly.
Episodes
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Audiode 96: Celebrate the Absurdity
The final five: The Odyssey...25th Anniversary of 9/11...a river walk in Laughlin...The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas...the bright side happens in the daytime.
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Audiode 95: Conclusions and Continuations
The summer of camping continues...waterskiing...it's really something that your activity causes destruction that renders your activity impossible to do...ploppin' rocks..."I will remember her shoes— how they lit up when she moved, small blue flashes across the floor, trying, briefly, to...
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Audiode 94: The Hereafter 20th Anniversary
This summer is the 20th Anniversary of The Hereafter album! To celebrate, I dug deep into the firewire archives and unearthed five never-before-heard outtakes. "Before The Setting Sun" single streaming release August 14th + full Extended Play streaming release September 7th!
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Audiode 93: The Greatest of the Great Apes
The Chinese Farmer...Camp...North Woods...The Sixth Extinction...Overstory...Pride.
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Audiode 92: Trends
Andy Featherston + Analogics (https://andyfeatherston.substack.com/) Jason Perz + Against All Odds Research (https://aaoresearch.substack.com/) “Market Wizards” - Jack D. Schwager “On Writing” - Stephen King
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Audiode 91: Recoveries and Reflections
Time heals all wounds. First Waymo experience. Walking and talking in Los Angeles.
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Audiode 90: We Don't Serve Kings
It's almost like I chose to come to the planet to repeatedly be taught the lesson to have no expectations and then to repeatedly forget it and learn it again. Maybe that's the whole reason I'm here.
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Audiode 89: Success Success Success
Get ready to be ready. What is it that you want to create that you feel love about? What can you focus on that gives you your sovereign self? What gives you that feeling of a divine homestead where you can create your roots? What gives you that feeling of connection with the eternal flow of life?...
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Audiode 88: Truth
What is the truth of what’s going on right now?
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Audiode 87: New Album Audio Liner Notes for "I Am John Mayer"
New album audio liner notes! "I Am John Mayer" is available to stream and buy (vinyl, CD, digital download) at https://www.thehereafterishere.com/iamjohnmayer.
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Audiode 86: Manifestation
A manifestation Audiode! Let's start with a brief body scan...holy moly...more than eleven...a thousand...find that balance and strike it...financial energy...I want everyone to be fed and clothed and housed...some level of consistency and balance...slow down...access to a bicycle, the ability to...
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Audiode 85: artists' relationship to their own recordings
Elam Blackman, Anthony da Costa, Raina Rose, Robert Sarazin Blake, Kelly McFarling, Dawn Oberg, and Megan Keely.
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Audiode 84: 100% organic, cage-free, free-range, GMO-free, AI-free
This new album is a 100% organic, cage-free, free-range, GMO-free, AI-free creation…I got a luxury EV free upgrade car rental from Avis…no one go to Target…Operation Break Even…it’s gonna be like “buy the digital download, buy the CD, buy the vinyl”…if you are in an abundance of financial energy…
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Audiode 83: Strides
Pride 2025...the American Dream is dead?...The Story of the Mouse...Gratitude for the muse and the ability to play for people...the Reptilian Elite?
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Audiode 82: Memorial Day
A college of where are we this Memorial Day. How’s everybody doing? Let’s just sit back and take stock. I’ll be sad anyway on Memorial Day. All the plans that I made have all withered away and turned into light. No one here knows anything about me. I’ll be sad anyway on Memorial Day. All the...
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Audiode 81: Communities Over Highways
I was honored, privileged, and humbled to attend the Communities Over Highways summit in Minneapolis/St. Paul last week. Thank you to Our Streets and America Walks for the opportunity. I left inspired, resolute, and quite overwhelmed at the immensity of the task before us. And just today the…
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Audiode 80: Innocence
As the train rolls by like our conscious lives. I can kinda swallow and breathe again and Ibuprofen is starting to put a dent in it. Even the Daily show says they made Covid in a Chinese lab now. Joe Rogan was right all along? I don’t mean to hop on a trend. I don’t need to see Adam Duritz…
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Audiode 79: Don't Panic
I know it’s just late stage capitalism hunger games lord of the flies squid game out there. It is all good. Acquiesce. The rebirth of humanity. No thing at all can avoid the changes coming. Rule 1: Don’t Panic. Rule 2: Don’t Take Anything Personally. To put on my pants and pull it together,...
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Audiode 78: 2025 Still Alive!
2025: Still Alive! Totally failed in getting an Audiode out in December. This thing is going to be embarrassingly and impossibly out of date. Happiness vs. Fulfillment. Get through it because it will and does get better and can get better. December is a real humdinger of a month. How about...
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Audiode 77: And So It Goes
Post-Election Special!
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Audiode 76: Proposition K
The Way It Is Now: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City closed certain public streets to private motor vehicles, reserving the streets as public open space for recreational purposes. These closures included the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard (Upper Great Highway),...
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Audiode 75: Whining
The kids call 'em discs. I can't have the whining. It's not acceptable behavior. It's so hard being a person on this planet. Try to eat the couch and then get upset about that. The cost of vinyl. The human supremacist toll of touring with burning fossil fuels a quarter of the way into the 21st...
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Audiode 74: Overinflated Capitalist Cathedral
The more signs you have, the more ugly it is. Yes We Kam? Production collaboration? Unknown unknowns. Recording Tour? Diddies for Dads! Lunchtime. 100 Audiodes? Steve Miller Band + Journey + Def Leppard concert review. Millions and millions of listeners. Overinflated Capitalist Cathedral. Human...
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Audiode 73: What A Month!
What a month in American politics! Whew. Here's how it all unfolded.
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Audiode 72: New Album Audio Liner Notes
https://johnelliott.bandcamp.com/album/it-doesnt-matter-why-it-is-it-doesnt-matter-if-its-wrong-v Audio liner notes to accompany the release of the fifth episode in the "It Doesn't Matter Why It Is, It Doesn't Matter If It's Wrong" series! Only on Bandcamp (for now).
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Audiode 71: Marvin Month One
Some personal news.
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Audiode 70: Easter Special
“When I pay the money I pay these days to go to a movie I hope it’s got a lounger. Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's. Ask, Seek, Knock. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.” Theologian guest Pierre Bourgeois talks Jesus and the gospels and...
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Audiode 69: Shorelining
I watched the Super Bowl and I don’t think there’s anything healthy about that. It’s just not how most of us are experiencing our time on this planet. We’re these privileged, fat, wealthy, bloated, greedy, plastic-eating monsters…and also just beautiful lights of humanity dancing through the...
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Audiode 68: Back For More
2024: Back For More. I wish I knew how to quit you, Audiodes. Pot committed. Every man or woman has his or her or their own cross to bear. Dad is the deliverer of karmic reply to what we’ve given. Every place in the world has something to say about dragons. Dragons are real. We’re never gonna see...
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Audiode 67: Transition
As we transition to the new year and Audiodes transitions into whatever it is going to become, here is a conversation with one of my oldest friends who had a different name and gender when we were kids. I share this with wishes for peaceful and gentle transitions to whatever comes next and…
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(Audiode 66 Epilogue: Maybe)
I'm changing my mind. We're still in Audiode 66 here. I've really been reflecting on the previous Audiode. I've thought about deleting it. I'm fine. I'm not in a hospital in Gaza so what do I have to complain about? It's getting ridiculous. I have to retreat and reassess. We're all complete...
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Audiode 66: Hope
Big news! Some decisions have been made. Audiodes as we have known them are going to undergo a fundamental change. I want to connect with people. I miss the livestreams. Character is destiny. Is enough enough? I have failed by nearly every possible metric humankind can conceive of to measure...
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Audiode 65: Me in a car for a week
Me in a car for a week.
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Audiode 64: Presidential Candidate Special 2024
Are disasters better than catastrophes? Absolutely. But are disasters disasters? Absolutely still. We Didn't Start The Fire. The American people are hurting right now. We're all in this together. Kids from small towns they know how to work, they know how to get stuff done, they know how to solve...
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Audiode 63: Euroreview
"Are you trying to do this pro, though?" You gotta really wildly open your expectation to how much money and the sliding scale. "You live very simply and I've done that for years..." Pros and cons to everything. RPG odyssey. Reflections, thoughts, feelings. The touring without motor vehicles and...
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Audiode 62: American Travelogue
April 2023: Waco, San Francisco, San Antonio, Ukiah, Austin.
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Audiode 61: Audio Liner Notes
This very special Audiode contains the audio liner notes to accompany the new album, After All This Time. It features voice memos, early demos, and alternative versions of the album's songs. Perhaps these recordings should remain unheard. But in the spirit of the journey being the destination and...
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Audiode 60: Water Rabbit
Love and joy and happiness all around. Full-sized Ziploc bag of several pieces of chocolate cake. Might as well. Use small squeezes of dish soap because it'll last you longer. There is not an inch of rust on Titanic. 2023, the place to be: Water Rabbit. Hope in life, longevity, peace, prosperity…
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Audiode 59: Time Got Away
2022: How did it go? It's way more powerful than you'll ever be. So much let go. So much surrender. Consciousness of sensitivity. Sedentary, end of the year, solstice, dark, cold, hearth fire moment. I never want to leave a three mile radius again. Tidings of comfort and joy. After all this time....
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Audiode 58: Wrap Up
Herschel Walker. Knocking at the door of December. A Flilogy? A Flilogy of Flaudiodes? 0-6. End of a unit. Defeated Dow Chemical Heiress. Off the charts Amtrak experience. Financial energy. Coziness & blueberry pie.
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Audiode 57: Midterm Election Special
Flaudiode follow-up + midterm election special! The Obama Hug. In America, capitalism is not going away. Charlie Crist vs. Ron DeSantis. Bernie supporters are responsible for the end of Roe v Wade. Ebola. Losing is not fun. After reviewing all of the facts, we are going to rate this thirty second...
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Audiode 56: Florida
A very special Audiode...a Flaudiode. Travelogue of the Florida tour: Miami, Deerfield Beach, Ft Lauderdale, Ft Myers, Orlando, Gainsville, and Pensacola. Register to vote at vote.gov.
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Audiode 55: Stay Alive
Emily D. Jones. The Wellness Center. Second grade was the pinnacle of existence. Communal consensus-building experience making rules for the slide. We're so much more interesting than a list of symptoms. Identity. Bruce Springsteen is a successful musician. Ambition vs. Contentedness. The Middle...
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Audiode 54: Pride
June gloom. Pride. Anti-Freedom/Freedom. There are a lot of folks that are full of love. What's wrong with this? Why is this threatening? (Huntington Beach interlude). What's the problem? Fabulous people of all ages, colors, income brackets...it's a sliding scale. Ten years. 70 square feet.…
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Audiode 53: Supremacy
Education. The real owners. Truth seekers. Horrible crime. A racist according to his own writings. "I can't breathe." Statistics. Optical illusion. We turn our eyes away. Replacement. "Legacy Americans." A twilight zone of misinformation and disinformation. "Election integrity issues." Open...
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Audiode 52 (Part Two): Wellness
Content Warning: This Audiode contains discussions of suicide and depression. Car-free JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park! Bobby Jo Valentine. Tell me about your gallbladder. Storage facilities. Mistranslations. Earthbound. You're so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good. Pancakes. Fear is…
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Audiode 52 (Part One): Wellness
Content Warning: This Audiode contains discussions of suicide and depression. Car-free JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park! Bobby Jo Valentine. Tell me about your gallbladder. Storage facilities. Mistranslations. Earthbound. You're so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good. Pancakes. Fear is…
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Audiode 51: Objectivity
The back fifty is the new back nine. Matt the Electrician. "We Imagined An Ending." Each person involved in a co-write has to give up a little bit for it to work successfully. Objectivity. Bruce Springsteen and U2 are objectively awesome. "When It's Time To Go." Experience absolutely affects the...
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Audiode 50: Recommitment
Content Warning: This Audiode contains audio that some listeners may find disturbing. Golden anniversary. Exclusive Bonus Content: patreon.com/johnelliott. Re-imagining, Re-engaging, Re-committing. Kitchen table issues. Time Machine to 2000. We must reverse the silent, rising tide of global…
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Audiode 49: Let It Be and Set Yourself Free
No hurries or worries. The Water Tiger. Clown World. Viral sensation. Insanity. Success is ours. Let it be and set yourself free.
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Impressionistic audio collages. Reflections and meditations on American culture, news, and events. Released monthly.
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Audiodes is created and hosted by John Elliott.
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