{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"Ordinary Mind","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/20557dbf\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2953,"description":"0:25 Being an article head (news junkie)\r\n15.00 - Wanting to feel alive and awake. Risk taking behaviour. Sketchy people. Guns \r\n18.00 - Ordinary mind. Do the dishes. Thanks to Sean for the episode image \r\n28:51 - Parents, being a scared kid, loss, addiction, therapy, abandonment. It'll be okay in the end though. \r\nSend a voice msg\r\nSend us ye olde email\r\n\r\n Alain de Botton - The News - A Users Manual \r\n The News: Worst Show on the Internet. Let's agree. Emotional reactions. Pretending to be above the News/make useful comments\r\n Looking for a hit of fear: The Age, The ABC, New York Times, Washington Goddamn Post + coffee\r\n The Economist: magazine okay, online not so much. Speculations about escalation, nuclear war, the apocalypse. It gives Joe nerves\r\n  Putin is the Devil/Messiah/just a naughty boy/a rational actor. Depends who you ask (don't ask Alex Jones). \r\n  Read wikipedia instead. I use the app\r\n  News/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 \r\n  Many smart people don't read the news. And they could tell there wouldn't be a nuclear war. \r\n  Excitement 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\r\n  It's ok to want to feel alive. If you're not nervous, you're probably not emotionally engaged\r\n  Permission to play cricket. Go the Royal Park Reds, Australia's only socialist cricket team?\r\n  Chores 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\r\n  Chaitanya, gender bending Hindu mystic from 500 yrs ago - let's abolish caste, class, religion, ethnicity, gender etc \r\n  The apocalypse is not for 5000 years (no, soz 426,877...","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}