{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"Ordinary Mind","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2953,"description":"0:25 Being an article head (news junkie)\n15.00 - Wanting to feel alive and awake. Risk taking behaviour. Sketchy people. Guns \n18.00 - Ordinary mind. Do the dishes. Thanks to Sean for the episode image \n28:51 - Parents, being a scared kid, loss, addiction, therapy, abandonment. It'll be okay in the end though. \nSend a voice msg\nSend us ye olde email\n\r\n Alain de Botton - The News - A Users Manual \nThe News: Worst Show on the Internet. Let's agree. Emotional reactions. Pretending to be above the News/make useful comments\nLooking for a hit of fear: The Age, The ABC, New York Times, Washington Goddamn Post + coffee\nThe Economist: magazine okay, online not so much. Speculations about escalation, nuclear war, the apocalypse. It gives Joe nerves\nPutin is the Devil/Messiah/just a naughty boy/a rational actor. Depends who you ask (don't ask Alex Jones). \nRead wikipedia instead. I use the app\nNews/adrenaline junkies just wanna know reality. Doesn't matter. Real reality is waiting. Take a walk. Bill Hicks tells you how it is re: the News \nMany smart people don't read the news. And they could tell there wouldn't be a nuclear war. \nExcitement and possibility = flip side of anxiety and fear. To feel a threat is to feel alive= = riding a bike through traffic on high alert can feel quite life affirming\nIt's ok to want to feel alive. If you're not nervous, you're probably not emotionally engaged\nPermission to play cricket. Go the Royal Park Reds, Australia's only socialist cricket team?\nChores ain't necessarily bores - Alan Watts says you only ever do one dish, so stop hating it, put on nineties hip hop, mate, and enjoy reality, there's kind of nowhere else to go. Doing chores mindfully helps feel okay with life, and feel sane. Clean your environment, clean the self\nChaitanya, gender bending Hindu mystic from 500 yrs ago - let's abolish caste, class, religion, ethnicity, gender etc \nThe apocalypse is not for 5000 years (no, soz 426,877 years left in Kali Yuga). \n\"Two old men with...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JAtfDhLe02gUO4tZQPGVO8knrF2fc46Ed_F40DCEtk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNzU5LzE2OTEw/MjExMTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}