Standby in translation
by Michele Battistella
#standby is a podcast designed by Creativa. I am Michele Battistella and I will take you on a journey into the doubts, questions and reflections that arise when you go into #standby, with or without a goal, because what we are actually interested in is just getting in the direction of something? No? #standby is a condition that we activate, like an airplane mode, a state in which we are ready to learn, to reflect, to download. I put myself on standby mode every day and wake up with new ideas. Good, ugly, useful, useless ideas? Old and new, ideas need a #standby time to be able to start their journey. This podcast is the time we need to get new ideas ignited. You will be able to listen to current reflections, considerations, points of view. Outbursts and declarations. Ceremonial carpentry or refined creations. You just have to go to standby, listen, get back up and running.
Episodes
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Ep. 124 The "H"
I have recently, or a long time ago, started to reflect on the fact that h is a really important letter. But precisely stuff that changes the meaning of things, that changes the understanding and judgment of what you hear or read, which then when you listen is silent, it makes little difference,...
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Ep. 123 Push
I have asked myself several times if there is a way to get a move on when you don't feel like it, I have also done more than a few episodes on the desire to do things, perhaps criticizing others but I admit that I too am not a proud representative of doing things in advance . In short, I have…
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Ep. 122 Weight
There are stories that freak me out. Not the great magician, the magic meant as a lump in the throat. Those things that you can't digest, that create digestive dysfunctions that you would like to be able to eliminate, but since you can't, your body reacts in another way, perhaps by crying or with...
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Ep. 121 Along the way
For me, leading the way has always been a fundamental criterion of living the day. Maybe it's because I come from places where even 50km away you are a neighbour, not like in big cities where 500m can cause a change in time zone due to traffic and geographical positions and neighborhood identity....
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Ep. 120 Self dreaming
I have recently, yes sometimes it takes me a while too, understood, or rather received an epiphany, an epiphany. Which isn't the one that all the holidays take away, that we've forgotten about it for this year and we'll talk about it again next year. I had an epiphany regarding something that I...
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Ep. 119 Right and left
When I was younger I didn't have much difficulty distinguishing left and right, I wasn't one of those who had to look at their hands to understand which side was on which side was which. And of what I was, and am, one of those who started at a disadvantage because I was damascan, I remember well...
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Ep. 118 I was washing floors
We've been here for a while now telling ourselves what problems we can have if we dedicate ourselves to anything but the order of what concerns ourselves. The dishes that need to be washed more than daily that generate an order of which we are natural bearers or enemies. The clothes that are...
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Ep. 117 I was washing clothes
Once they called me to propose that I end up behind a mixer as an engineer. I was washing clothes and I got particularly nervous because in reality I wanted to end up in front of the mixer, on stage, singing and playing like any teenager who wants to tell a little about himself and who has been...
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Ep. 116 Different needs
Each of us undoubtedly has different needs throughout our lives and even during every single day. This often translates into trying to share one's needs and trying to understand those of others, often. Not always though Sometimes our need consists precisely in not worrying about the needs of…
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Ep. 115 Respect time
We have been in doubt about what respect means for too long now. Using the words Time and Respect in the same sentence is not at all a random choice, especially coming from someone who is not exactly a master of punctuality and yet I believe and recognize that there are dimensions in the concept…
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Ep. 114 Transparent needs
We face things day by day that don't allow us to fully share what we think because otherwise we miss out on the possibility of realizing what we dream of because being transparent puts us out there and makes us vulnerable. Trust is the tool with which we become transparent with someone, which...
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Ep. 113 Knowing
How do you get to know us? I am not who I say I am and I am not even what I think I am and I am not even what others think I am. I am not the profession I do. Before I did it I wasn't, I do it but I'm not. So what are they? Who I am? If you are looking for a word to define yourself and the word...
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Ep. 112 911
The number 112 makes me think about how interesting the mental process through which our brain stores information is and how difficult it becomes for it to modify information rooted over time.
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Ep. 111 Wish for static moving
Having the desire to move, to feel the thoughts running, the flow of events. Having the desire to stay still while running, in the oxymoron of static nature on earth, the earth's rotation. Having the desire to run on the spot, without a place, without a destination, with your eyes fixed on an...
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Ep. 110 I was washing dishes
I was washing the dishes when I got a message, and it always takes me a while to realize that the message wasn't one of those visible on a screen. But anyway I was washing the dishes and I wanted to finish what I was doing, so I missed it. The second time it arrived I was, again, washing the…
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Ep. 109 Not discounted sharings
Each sharing has its price, non-deductible and non-reducible. Every time we decide to share something it brings with it an effect on us and on others that we cannot help but take into consideration. When we are in a group of friends we can share information from our personal work life and…
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Ep. 108 Creation time
We find ourselves in times of creation without having any idea of ending up in it. We have a problem with creative energy when we set a deadline and then involuntarily when the time is not right, everything we needed or wanted to create comes out. Emotional swings and particular conditions of our...
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Ep. 107 The sugar choice
There are parameters that for each of us have a greater meaning than the gesture itself. Perhaps connected to the meaning that that action has for us, indeed that is almost certainly the key point for an action that has great value for me and I am ready to give it the same value if done by…
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Ep. 106 Take care
Some time ago I wrote, as a contribution to the research of a friend, a reflection on caring in the theatre. That time I considered the theater as a parameter to be taken care of from various points of view, with the need not to lose any of it along the way otherwise everyone would have suffered....
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Ep. 105 The show must go on
It's been a fundamental theme since well before Queen wrote the famous song about it. For those who work in the theater field it is one of the fundamental axioms to be able to say in some way that you brought it home. The meaning is that whatever happens we must always move forward. It always...
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Ep. 104 Over Limits
For someone, crossing some limits could mean letting go, for someone else it could mean being able to hold back. Of course, a lot of it is connected to our fears generated by the experiences and relationships that we observe around us, but perhaps the trick can, for everyone, be to allow…
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Ep. 103 Limits
If you have at least once wondered how to push your limits, this podcast is about you. It's about all those times when you've found yourself straddling a dividing line and a vibration that starts from the soles of your feet and reaches your split ends, pushing you backwards and forwards at the…
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Ep. 102 Stories from terrace
For a smoker, balconies have significant importance. Especially if you live in a place where smoking is not a common habit inside buildings, that is, it is prohibited in public places and even in homes, especially those of non-smokers, smoking is not allowed in the home. Then there are countries...
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Ep. 101 The cutting of lime trees
I liked this play on words and used it as the title of this episode. I will have to make a premise to understand it and also to discover that we are not talking about trees, or at least not directly. This premise tells the story of a series of lime trees that have become the center of a public...
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Ep. 100 The "So What?"
I announced it, I continue to reflect on the generational categories that accompany us in rhetoric in every place, environment, situation, communication, universe. This is the case with boomers, with millennials, with those who come after and those who come before.
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Ep. 99 Celebrations
It's an important episode because the next one is an obvious celebration, but this one is a fundamental celebration. It's a bit like when you remember to celebrate someone only on their birthday or only during a specific occasion. It's like when you only remember Human Rights on World Human…
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Ep. 98 The Load
It's been about a year since I started writing the lyrics for this podcast and almost by chance I'm writing this episode reflecting on the fact that in a year many things have changed in my way of podcasting, but above all in my knowledge of podcasts. Reflecting and rethinking the path taken in...
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Ep. 97 Turning point
There are moments that are turning points, and perhaps they are marked by something other than a mark... or by a mark itself. You see the new walls in Central America which are recognizable by a series of orange buoys interspersed with strange barbed wire, almost like a circular saw I would say.…
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Ep. 96 Professions
The series of reflections continues that lead me to try to understand what I do. Or rather, explain what I do. Because I know what I do well, and despite the fact that it might not even be your problem to know what I do, that I'm not interested in what you do, but if you explain to me what you do...
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Ep. 95 we can think
Original podcast link: Ci possiamo ragionare ep95 Spanish version: Modo de espera ep95 Some time ago, at the top of the political debate it seemed that the only problem we are forced to face is that of migration, immigration, in short, the people arriving. In the debate, where and why this...
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Ep.94 Round bill
You may ask, why a round account episode in a position that is not a round account? Because standby arises precisely from the reflection that begins in me every time my brain interprets information close to the round account as a round account. Original episode in Italian Spanish version Other...
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Ep.93 Once upon a time
Fairy tales always start the same way, once upon a time. And if I want to tell a life like a fairy tale, I start the story the same way, once upon a time. There are two things with which I reflect on once upon a time and are: once upon a time and once upon a time. Original episode in Italian...
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Ep.92 Massacres
I don't know if by chance I'm getting carried away with these episodes dedicated to the year or to events, but they are opportunities to bring up reflections that deserve their own space and therefore, even if I'm getting carried away, I continue like this, once again that we are at episode...
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Ep.91 N1g3r inside
I went to the theater recently, one of many times, and enjoyed a stand-up comedy show that was both surreal and brilliant, surreal genius. Original episode in Italian Spanish version Other podcast projects from Michele Battistella and C Reattiva Sono una Fenice IT Soy un fènix ES They're a…
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Ep.90 World citizen
I like to stop and think that being citizens of the world is the solution to the presence of borders and limits in the movement of people, but then I quickly realize that it is not true that thinking this is the solution, because there are a thousand other steps to take in between , even at a…
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Ep.89 The Wall
There are two main reasons for dedicating episode 89 of this long journey to a wall, which we all know well, at least in terms of fame, of which many ignore the background that makes it one of the walls on which our history is written, that of Berlin and why, as those good in mathematics may have...
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Ep.88 M.O.K.A.
Since in the space and time of social media new words and slang are always born, I decided to create my own neologism, which maybe won't go anywhere and I really hope it won't be recognized, otherwise the logic of all my criticisms would be lost which I also did in this podcast. But I wanted to...
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Ep.87 Compromise
I have never been a supporter of compromise. I find that the combination between two positions, which in the specific moment represent the antipodes of a concept, of a conflict, is the defeat of both sides and the absence of a real victory, if both sides lose it is a defeat, not a competition. A...
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Ep.86 Fluidity
Now if we talk about fluidity it is very easy to refer to gender issues, to those who recognize themselves in one genre rather than another and to that fluid part which finds gender as an extra construct, which can be understood as superfluous or which we just can't do without it, at least that...
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Ep.85 Inattentions
There are few things that deeply annoy me, one of them is inattention. However, obviously the why and how must be explained, above all because I am not exempt from being inattentive and a little distraction can happen to everyone, wait a moment though. Sometimes when I complain about the...
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Ep.84 Old youngsters and young elders
I'm old inside, I'm young inside, paradoxical definitions to say I'm young or I'm old. Practically saying that we are young inside or that we are old inside we are saying the exact opposite and not only that, we are also telling our interlocutor that he is old or that he is young, too old, too...
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Ep.83 Pets
To continue the reflection begun in the previous episode, it was necessary to praise pets. You will say, why praise pets who basically do what we want, who are dependent on us, who wouldn't live without us. Well, first of all because this is our anthropocentric way of seeing things and which…
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Ep.82 Wild animals
The concept of wildlife, for everyone, I believe leads to open the drawers of memory in which the scenes of white tusk, balto, the lion king, the jungle book and another series of films and TV series are enclosed where the protagonists are animals immersed in a hostile environment, for us…
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Ep.81 Full days
A full day that we normally call full, because using the Italian word disgusts us, or rather, it makes us feel that the fullness of the day is less legitimate or boh, but oh well, it's not a standby on neologisms and English terms, it's on the days full, then if you want to define them full, go...
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Ep.80 Unspoken comicities
There are things that come to your mind that you don't say. There are jokes that make you laugh thinking about them and that you don't say because you're afraid they're out of place or that they're only funny to you. Speaking of the fear of saying things out of place, we must objectively consider...
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Ep.79 Cringe
I who am a subject who according to the definitions belongs to generation Y, more or less, also called "millennials" and on which I have recently recounted my reflections on the matter and who have defined what happens as "cringe", having repeatedly spent some time reflecting on the strange words...
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Ep.78 Millennials
In my memory, until a few years ago, the age of a person was identified according to the year of birth and from that one could deduce some cultural references and habits that belonged to that person and his peers. Which then, is exactly the same thing we do today, only that instead of referring…
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Ep.77 Drammatic
There are dramatic things all the time. Every day there are chilling news that I honestly wouldn't want to be part of everyday life or even the extraordinary, that is, come on, if there weren't so many negative stories in the world everything would be much better. Similarly, if we opened the…
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Ep.76 Listlessness
While at a national level an increase in employment is being celebrated and the apparent victory against unemployment which, as we all know, cannot be resolved in a backlash made up of short contracts which will then be used to obtain new access to social safety nets for unemployment and for the...
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Ep.75 Listening
Listening is certainly one of the most difficult and useful things among those that we should learn to do effectively in our daily lives. I say we should, not surprisingly, it's a necessary conditional because let's be clear that we don't know how to listen. Even those who believe they know how…
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About this show
#standby is a podcast designed by Creativa. I am Michele Battistella and I will take you on a journey into the doubts, questions and reflections that arise when you go into #standby, with or without a goal, because what we are actually interested in is just getting in the direction of something? No? #standby is a condition that we activate, like an airplane mode, a state in which we are ready to learn, to reflect, to download. I put myself on standby mode every day and wake up with new ideas. Good, ugly, useful, useless ideas? Old and new, ideas need a #standby time to be able to start their journey. This podcast is the time we need to get new ideas ignited. You will be able to listen to current reflections, considerations, points of view. Outbursts and declarations. Ceremonial carpentry or refined creations. You just have to go to standby, listen, get back up and running.
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