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Will to be Weird
by Josh Cunningman
A humorous exploration of normalcy, weirdness, and the courageously curious. Also...Short storytelling excerpts about the most peculiar characters in our communities. They’re weird, it’s wonderful, and they need to be shared.And...Anything that happens to amuse, enthuse, excite, or confuse.Watch video formatted episodes of the podcast YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOiaW2srB8jvIqGFMXXoH_QVimeo:https://vimeo.com/cunningman
Episodes
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Working Class Heroes
This episode focuses on the concepts of work, retirement, creativity, and artistic expression. It is the first episode I’ve produced while in South Korea 🇰🇷 during a 14 day mandatory quarantine. Plenty of time to create, learn, and share ideas. That’s supposing that I manage my time wisely 😆
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Emotionally Massaged
This episode focuses on my experience with Holo-tropic breath work. I give a short explanation of the practice from a technical standpoint and then dive into my own personal exposure and experience. It’s been a very transformative and positive addition to my journey toward self improvement so I’d...
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Stairway to Heaven
This episode focuses on the the attribution and distribution of value. We as individuals are presented with a choice. Where do we place our value? In people, things, or in the immaterial? I believe that we have the ability to periodically reallocate our base store of value into a variety of…
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Say no to FOMO
This episode focuses on my experience of being quarantined and how it became a blessing rather than a curse.
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A Long Strange Trip
This is my first episode back after a six month hiatus. The focus is on the budding rise of the psychedelic mental health industry. Several of the points spoken about are in direct response to an episode of another podcast I follow called “Rebel Wisdom.” The specific episode in question is called...
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Please don’t stop the music
This episode dives into the musical experience and its ability to create connectedness,synchronicity, and unity between ourselves and other people. Also included are two stories of my own alongside the first submission of listener experience via a good from friend of mine, Geneva Diaz. Big shout...
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Don’t stop until you get enough
This episode investigates the experience and perception of Michael Jackson’s music. Specifically before and after public disclosures about aspects of his personal life through legal proceedings as well as the documentary, “Leaving Neverland.” I also explore the concept of separating artistic and...
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“Don’t look, I’m naked!” Part 2
This is a continuation of the previous episode discussing nakedness and vulnerability. The second part focuses on the physical aspect of these concepts as well as the relationship between nudity and sexuality. Also included are investigations into perceiving and being perceived, concealment,...
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“Don’t look I’m naked!” Part 1
This episode is part one in a two part series investigating nakedness and vulnerability both psychologically and physically. Part one discusses primarily the psychological aspects while in part 2 the investigation culminates in the discussion of the physical. By this attempt to put my…
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Dolphin style
This episode focuses on the work of John C Lilly, a psychonaut whom I admire for his exploration of the limit of the mind. I hope to separate the controversy from the aspects of Lilly’s work which of great value in my opinion. Also included is a short story of a weird experience I recalled...
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Who do you love?
This episode investigates the relation ship between identity and society, utilizing sexuality to illustrate this relationship. Sexuality being one aspect of the identity totality. I also speak about classification, categorization, and discrimination as it relation to society and identity. As a…
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You can’t leave, your too weird!
This episode explores my experiences with altered states, intoxication, and sobriety. Specifically I share a story about an occasion where I took “too much” LSD. I also speak on the pain of being a man, escapism, pain, pleasure, death, and forms of enlightenment.
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Fuck Distancing
I speak about my frustrations with social distancing and the importance of hugging your friends. This episode also includes a short story about the essays myself and a few friends wrote for a college course we took together. https://anchor.fm/josh-cunningman/message...
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Are you guys here for the broccoli?
This episode focuses on a variety of topics. To include inspiration, it’s comings and goings, expression of creativity, art, it’s definition both in a traditional/non-traditional sense, subliminal manipulative influence, selfishness vs selflessness, and insatiable desire for satisfaction through...
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Is this work essential?
Explorations of various topics with the categories of work, money, value, self awareness, and emotional intelligence.
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The Catharsis of Talking to Yourself
I speak about the idea of sitting in my room alone, essentially talking to myself, in the process of recording an episode of the podcast. Touching on the idea of podcasting specifically but also as a means of self criticism or therapy. Introducing a new segment titled “Rabbit Hole” in which I…
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What a time to be alive?
A chronicle of the experience of being alive during this global pandemic. How could and should we respond? The contrast between moral and ethical dilemmas. Explorations of the concepts of freedom, unity, balance, ignorance vs awareness, chaos vs order, intuition vs logic....
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“Have you made contact with a turtle?”
This episode focuses on tourism, globally, domestically, within the island of Hawaii where I live, and beyond earth, into space. Speaking about the positive and negative impacts of tourism on economy, culture, and ecology. Also investigating normalization, sameness and the juxtaposed polarity of...
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Network marketing: suiting up and selling the dream.
An in depth look at the culture and concept of network marketing based upon my experiences. Satisfying my curiosities through firsthand investigation.
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“Lower City”
An exploration of the term “Lower City.” A place, real and physical. Also a concept, originated in the experience of converging personalities within the confines of the modern urban environment.
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Weird Neighbors
We live together. As cohabitants of this earth we call home we are faced with living in varying proximity to one another. The closer you get the richer the experiences can sometimes be. This episode explores the memories of neighbors I’ve had over the years. I also introduce two new segments....
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Insecurity guards
If your like me you have developed a problem with authority throughout your life. Part of that problem may stem from an internal desire to rebel, but I believe it has also come from the experience of having authority pushed upon us. This episode focuses on the experience of dealing with security...
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“He real smart, he read a lot”
Out first episode ever! Offers a more in depth description of the theme and format of the show. Also features out first storytelling segment about the weirdest person I’ve met recently.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A humorous exploration of normalcy, weirdness, and the courageously curious. Also...Short storytelling excerpts about the most peculiar characters in our communities. They’re weird, it’s wonderful, and they need to be shared.And...Anything that happens to amuse, enthuse, excite, or confuse.Watch video formatted episodes of the podcast YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOiaW2srB8jvIqGFMXXoH_QVimeo:https://vimeo.com/cunningman
HOSTED BY
Josh Cunningman
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A humorous exploration of normalcy, weirdness, and the courageously curious. Also...Short storytelling excerpts about the most peculiar characters in our communities. They’re weird, it’s wonderful, and they need to be shared.And...Anything that happens to amuse, enthuse, excite, or confuse.Watch...
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Will to be Weird is created and hosted by Josh Cunningman.
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