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The B&P Realm
by Bryan Winchell
The B&P Realm is a broad-minded, wide-ranging podcast covering, among other things, personal growth, current events, astrology, music and culture with some comedy thrown in! In addition, the first 40 episodes feature two chapters of me reading my 2015 novel, "The Teacher and the Tree Man."
Episodes
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Crossover From The Daily Bryan Podcast, Ep. 213: The Juicy Details of Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s SHADY Rise To Power (As Best As I Know Them)
I’ve been getting some requests to explain why I hold Pete Buttigieg, current Secretary of the Department of Transportation, in such low regard considering how well-spoken and thoughtful he appears in his various media appearances promoting to the Harris campaign over the past few weeks. This...
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70: Nothin' New Under the Sun? We're All Right, and There's Nothing Left
This is quite the Mercury-in-the-final-degree of Pisces park bench rambler, folks, so good that, three hours after recording, I forgot all I said. I know it was about populism, the author Thomas Frank,questioning if it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun, noticing echoes in history, and...
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Bonus: Reading of My Blog Post, "2023's Eight Lessons For Me"
This is an audio reading of my annual "What the year taught me to post" for 2023. Of the past four years of doing this post, 2023 was, by far, the most impactful on my life, because I went through a difficult legal challenge, spending 45 days in a local Japanese jail, and then lost my father a…
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Daily Bryan Experiment 11: 2023, It's Been, Umm, Real!
What a year! Two major events in my life---a legal kerfuffle that put me in a Japanese jail for 45 days in spring, and the death of my father in the summer---plus four months in the furthest reaches of Beelzebub's buttcrack---otherwise known as summer in the hottest part of Japan---well, this…
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Daily Bryan Experiment 10: “Leave The World Behind” vs “The Teacher and the Tree Man.”
Having just come out of a Zoom call with my community on the Netflix movie, “Leave Then World Behind,” I got inspired to read the beginning of the novel the film is based upon, and there was an uncanny and clear difference in the two. Can you spot it? Let me know!
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Daily Bryan Experiment 9: What Would Happen if We Trusted Each Other Again?
The Five of Pentacles in the Tarot shows two beggars in the snow, walking with their heads down past a well l-lit church. The meaning is: Help is here, if you reach out for it, but you have to notice it first. This means we’ve got to trust each other. There’s plenty of evidence showing how people...
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Daily Bryan Experiment 8: : On Intuition And How Tarot, MBTI and Astrology Understand it
I drew the King of Wands today for my daily Tarot drawing where I ask “What should I focus on today?” So because the Wands is connected to Fire in the 4 Elements of Astrology and Fire is connected to Intuition (N) in the Meyers-Briggs (Personality) Type Indicator (MBTI) system, I decided to talk...
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Daily Bryan Experiment 7: In General, We’re All Unique
This one was delivered with the intention of not only accepting the uniqueness of ourselves and others, but appreciating and loving it. I had fun sort of talking myself into a corner and then playfully excavating myself, which you can see in the tongue-in-cheek title, “In General, We’re All...
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Daily Bryan Exp. 6: Balancing Ourselves with Nature , ENFP Stuff and Why I’m Summery in Winter
How getting into Nature can balance us, on why being an ENFP means verbally brainstorming works really well, on being a winter baby and how that makes external winter like my summer, an imitation of astrologer Christopher Renstrom’s intro to his weekly podcast, a bit about a course I took with…
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DB Experiment 5: Going Deep and Wide
Day 5 of the Daily Bryan Experiment explores the concept of going deep into the roots of a moment, using an example from my day with some of my creative writing about a fun experience I had with some pals on a Zoom call. https://support.spotify.com/au/podcasters/article/sending-voice-messages/...
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The Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 4: My Multi Mind, Improv, Being Canceled in the Future for Our Past
Still in quick talkin’ mode (blame Mercury Retrograde on my natal Mercury!), I share about the wild way my mind wanders, improvisation and how it plays a big role in my life and being canceled from the future for what we say now, even when we are the Future Ones doing the cancelling!
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The Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 3: On My Cover Art Selection Process, Trump, and Big Picture As
Phew, I think it took me longer to thumb-type that title than it did to record the episode, ha ha. Today I’ll share more about how I’m experimenting with this “audio journal” with regards to how I choose each episode’s cover art, before heading into a quick-talkin’ take on the Colorado Supreme...
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Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 2: Teaching, Learning and My Relationship With Them
I’m a 24/7 teacher and learner, and I teach and learn via my relationships. This orientation may or may not work for you. No matter, I think it’s interesting and worth sharing.
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Experiment: The Daily Bryan
I’m thinking about publishing a daily “audio journal” every day of 2024. This episode is both an intro to why and an experiment with actually doing it. The experiment will run for 10 more days as we finish 2023. I’ll then decide whether to go forward with this project. After my intro, you’ll hear...
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Ep. 43.21 (BONUS): P is for Total Lunatic Lunar EclipseCast!
Yup, this is just me sitting on my balcony here in central Japan taking in the Total Lunar Eclipse of November 8, 2022 and sharing my experience of it, yakking a bit about astrology, current events, ya know, the usual stuff you get from this crazy show! A few laughs, too, I think. At least I...
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Ep. 38: P is for Phire Starter Season (The Aries Season Episode)
Yes, the topic is the archetype of Aries, the first sign in the Zodiac, and the purpose is not only to elaborate on this archetype, but to fire you up. Thus, not only will you get my distillation into the archetype, you’ll get a personal pep talk about why we are all bad asses, music from two…
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Episode 36: P is for Passionately Pontificating During Pisces Season.
Some of the topics I cover in this episode include, but aren’t limited to: My Friday, March 11, 2011 story relating to Japan’s Great Tohoku earthquake where I talk about tedious Japanese public junior high school graduations and how the way I handled that tedium led me to an amazing experience…
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Ep 35.22: Stand Alone Reading of "A Love Story For These Treacherous Times"
This is strictly the reading of my astrological short story, "A Love Story For These Treacherous Times." It's also included near the end of episode 35, "Pondering the Paradox of Pisces Season." In addition, you may read the story on my Medium blog here. If you want to connect with me, find me at:...
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Ep 35 P is for Pondering the Paradox of Pisces Season (The Pisces Season Episode)
This episode covers: the basics of the astrological sign Pisces, including keywords; why one of those keywords is paradox and how it expresses itself in Pisces, how Pisces relates to disillusionment yet how the other side of disillusionment is new understanding, Pisces and its connection to...
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Episode 34, P is for Pfighting For Freedom With Neil Young and Two Truckers
Yes, he’s still finding ways to zap himself to our park bench here in Japan, probably to avoid the overcrowding of his ranch because of his virile chickens, but whatever the reason, The Godfather of Grunge and the Mistress of Soul, Canada’s own Neil Tortilla Young, is back and this time he’s for...
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Ep 33.22 (BONUS): This Ain't Sugar Mountain, Is it? (Exclusive Interview with Neil Young)
Long-time guest of the B&P Realm, the Godfather of Grunge Neil Young, has gotten himself into a kerfuffle with Spotify over what he labels vaccine misinformation being promoted by Joe Rogan. Fortunately, Neil was gracious enough to give us an exclusive interview where he discusses why he's so...
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Ep 33: B is for Blasting Off with Aquarius! (The Aquarius Season Episode)
Yes, this is the episode where we talk about all things Aquarius! Among the topics covered are: the basics of Aquarius; differentiating between the Air signs; why the Air of Aquarius is outer space “air”; the eccentricity of Aquarius; why Aquarians like forming groups; how Aquarian Truth can…
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Ep. 32: P is for Pontificating on the Past, the Present and the Future and A Few 2022 Predictions
This episode consists of two separate riverside ramblers with a similar topic: Where have we been as a collective, where are we now and where are we going. The first clip starts with the present, life here in Japan during COVID-19, the moronic response to COVID before broadening out to a…
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Ep 31.22: B is for "Don't Look Up", An Instant Reaction Podcast
This bonus episode is my--SPOILER HEAVY--instant reaction recorded, umm, instantly after I watched the new Netflix movie "Don't Look Up." Nothing more needs to be said, except, yes, this is FULL ON SPOILERS episode so you've been warned. I do recommend this fascinating movie as I think it's not...
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Ep 31.21, BONUS: B and P Are For Biking and Putting Nonsense Into Your Ears!
Recorded as I road slowly north on a beautiful winter day here at the start of January 2022 in Japan, this one is just me yakking about all sorts of stuff. Now, there are some sounds of wind into the mic, but folks, it's a bonus episode, which means I don't spend all that much time in...
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Ep. 31: B is for Belatedly, It's Capricorn Season! (The Capricorn Season Episode)
This episode briefly touches upon some of the meanings of Capricorn Season before joining three, umm, friends, on a park bench to ramble about how Capricorn Season relates to current events, listening to a reading of an upcoming blog post of mine titled "The Two Questions I'd Ask Bill Gates," and...
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Ep. 30: P is for Sagittarius Season, The Both/And Episode (The Sagittarius Season Episode)
This episode is a playful, rambling exploration of Sagittarius season, this episode finds me doing a deep philosophical dive into both/and, the unity behind the duality. A few details: I look at how astrology has two major schools and how we can use both lenses to understand our chart; I talk…
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Ep. 29: P is for Scorpio Season and Parapolitics! (The Scorpio Season Episode)
Whoa nelly, do we have a doozy of a show for you all this week as we dive into the many meanings of Scorpio season! As a fixed water sign, I suppose it makes sense that I went so deep to penetrate the mysterious wisdom of this transformative, often misunderstood sign of the zodiac. The show…
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Ep. 28: B is for Dissecting My 2020s Mantra
Today's show is one where, on a bike path babbler, I dissect my 2020s mantra, which is, "I don’t know/we’ll see/adjust accordingly/everything is OK." I'll be telling you what this mantra means to me and why I think it can be useful for you as we navigate these stormy seas. Enjoy! Media Links…
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Ep 27: P is for Persephone's Descent Means Libra Season (The Libra Season Episode)
This episode is the first of a series I plan to do where, at the start of an astrological month, I'll discuss the archetypal meaning of that month and share some other thoughts about it, while perhaps sprinkling in some info about the astrology of the upcoming month. Thus, this one is about Libra...
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Ep 26.21 (Bonus): College Rhymes With Knowledge, Not Arrogance
A shortie, but a goodie where I challenge the "thinking" going on today among the so-called educated "elites" such as CNN's Don Lemon who are de-humanizing people and call them to raise their game by listening and empathizing with those they think are stupid (but who may actually have wisdom…
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Ep. 26: D is For Diving Deep Into the Meta-Narrative Matrix
I'm going super deep on this one. You might wanna listen on 1.5 speed...but I was being very deliberate in my language because this is a very important topic, where I do my best to explain what I think the consciousness is that is behind the tomfuckery we have been seeing in our world for many...
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Ep 25: B is for Bugger Off With Your Vaccine Mandate, Biden
Why the sound of crickets is more pleasant than the sound of cicadas; discussing the dichotomy between freedom and safety; the relevance of Plato’s allegory of the cave for our times; questioning some of the vaccine narratives; why my reasonably accurate 20-year track record of predicting where...
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Bonus Ep. 24.21: Walking and Waxing Poetic (?) About the Woo-Woo (Aliens, Q Anon and Bad Singing)
Recorded on a night walk with a flat tire, this episode is slightly different from the usual riverside ramblers because, well, it was recorded at night as opposed to the morning. Which means after a 15-minute opening bit about how I ignored my intuition regarding the flat tire (and how that might...
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Episode 24: Warring Worlds (On Rebel Wisdom’s Investigation of The Dark Horse Podcast, Ivermectin and Vaccine Safety)
This episode is an hour-long riverside rambler where I speak to my participation in the Rebel Wisdom community and discuss a question I asked host David Fuller about how he was coming to his conclusion that Covid-19 vaccine side effects are (quote) “typically exceedingly rare.” As you all know…
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Episode 23: B and P are for Balance, Play and Work and the Usual Quantum Babbling
This episode playfully rambles through: childhood recollections about the dog days of August, the unreliability of memories, the power of the mind, hanging out at a Japanese shrine and wondering if I’ll get struck down by lightning for it, the unspoken rules of Japanese culture and how we...
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Ep. 22: P is for Parenthetically Rapping About Intermittent Fasting, English Pronunciation and the Ivermectin Controversy
Recorded on a typically hot Peak Summer day with a background of chirping cicadas here in central Japan. I spend about 25 minutes detailing my detox efforts, from intermittent fasting to better discerning what to feed into my head from the media, before a few brief asides about the travails of...
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Ep 21: A TRUE Quantum Rambler, If Ever There Was One!
No show notes, suckers! Ha ha. Seriously, this is just a podcast where I catch you up on what's been going on with me for the past two months and the things I've been pondering. I had fun recording it, and think you'll have fun listening to it. Beyond that, you're just gonna have to jump into the...
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Ep.19 B is for the Boys (And Girls) Who Cried Wolf and The Lab Leak Hypothesis (And Why My 2020 Mantra Still Works)
Topics include: Clip 1. Aesop’s Fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf;” who the boy is in the lab leak hypothesis media story; a dictionary definition of hypothesis and theory; should we really trust fact-checkers and social media outlets to decide what the truth is?; why the Founders were so smart to...
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Ep. 18: P is for Storytelling To Make Sense of Our Lives and Our World
Topics include: What's the best Japanese convenience store?; Japan convenience stores and fast food vs. US ones; Rebel Wisdom community new storytelling; the buoyancy of green Nature this time of year; why Taurus season is green; what is yhe basic Purpose of storytelling; Taurus season is room...
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Ep. 17: P is for Propaganda, The Pure Stuff (The CJ Hopkins Episode)
This episode is focused has three segments but it's focused on the work of one man, American playwright, novelist and fellow ex-pat CJ Hopkins who is an erudite, outspoken critic of the New Normal totalitarianism and who is someone I am very excited to share with you. The first segment is my...
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Ep 16: P is for Feeling Groovy for a Few Days At Least
Topics Include: The nature of spring; comparing climate in Los Angeles to Tokyo, and how it speaks to misperceptions; how the Coronavirus crisis has chilled out Japanese culture some; why my communication seeks a balanced, holistic perspective; why there aren't many Renaissance People in Japan…
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Ep. 15: P is for a Podcast Hodgepodge (Spring Cleaning Three Episodes Worth of Shows)
Pt. 1, April 12th: “Integrating the Masculine and Feminine Archetypes in Our Culture Wars” Topics include: Lex Fridman’s American Dream as engineering and how it relates to masculine archetypes; the positives and negatives of that archetype; do the Titans of Technology have good blueprints to...
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Ep. 14: B and P are for Baccine Passports (And So Much More)
This is a big one, folks. It might be the last from me for a bit. Or it might not. Regardless, I have devoted a lot of time into this topic over the past week so figured I'd pour some of that effort into a podcast episode. Some of the many topics covered include: Why fact-checkers on Facebook may...
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Ep 13: B and P are For Being Peacemakers in a Time of (Culture) War (A chat with my pal Dan in Japan)
Yes, at long last, the B and P Realm is doing what any proper podcast should do, which is get someone else on to do some of the darn talking! All jokes aside, I had a blast connecting with a guy I've known for several years and chatting about a variety of topics. The topics (but are not limited...
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Ep. 12: B is for Bye Bye to the B and P Realm? Not so Fast! (And Addressing Collective Trauma and the Power of Collective Healing)
Topics include: A chat about why this podcast will be evolving toward including guests; on Information Overload and why I don't want to contribute to it; why re-connecting with old friends is great and inspires me to have conversations with with regular fascinating people on this podcast…
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Ep 11: P is for the Planet Neptune conjunct the sun in Pisces (an Astrology-heavy episode)
Topics discussed include: Sun conjunction with Neptune this week and its meaning; where I’m at in my interpretation of astrology now, how it relates to the geometry of the spheres; why I relate to Neptune, and why contentment helps keep me sober; Dr. Carl Hart’s attempts to de-stigmitize drug…
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Ep. 10: B is for Being Connected to Nature Keeps Me Connected to Humanity (And More Thoughts on Clubhouse)
Topics covered: feeling into the comfort of the Earth’s gravity; sports on other planets; a fascinating, boring gravity-on-planetary-bodies website (see link); why I find it easy to fall asleep to people chatting; how our disconnection fuels things like Q Anon and our inability to understand it…
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Ep 9: B is For Back to the Future? No, Back to March 2020, A One-Year Reminiscence on the Coronavirus Crisis
This episode is a look back on the experiences I’ve had and the things I’ve learned since the Coronavirus Crisis began in Japan one year ago. I focus on the personal for much of it, but tie the collective into the picture in the latter half of the episode. Among the topics covered are: becoming...
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Ep 8: B is For Being Reborn and Being Silly (And An interview with a Rock God)
Welcome to Episode 8, Being Reborn and Being Silly (And an Interview with a Rock God) Hi folks. There are three clips to this episode: first, an opening rambler where I touch on a possible writing project, among other things; second, a soon-to-be-published blog post titled How Grieving Over Trees...
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The B&P Realm is a broad-minded, wide-ranging podcast covering, among other things, personal growth, current events, astrology, music and culture with some comedy thrown in! In addition, the first 40 episodes feature two chapters of me reading my 2015 novel, "The Teacher and the Tree Man."
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Bryan Winchell
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