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My Life in Show Business


Feb 26, 2020

John Allen returns with what is. He talks about:

0:00 The car.

4:00 Conversations can be tiring.

8:00 Acting out of awareness not conditioning.

11:00 Living in a world of labels.

14:00 Proselytizing.

15:30 Childhood forced him to question a lot of stuff.

22:00 When he first got married it felt like one of the low points in his existence.

26:00 Preferring to spend my time in the basement.

32:00 His Dad's romance about the movies. The Allen theatres were the only theatres in North America. Huge distributors.

36:00 Why dentists commit suicide.

40:00 How Freud and Jung were horny guys.

43:00 How we never have a serious cultural conversation about sex

45:00 How not knowing is the only creative place.

47:00 The car getting towed away makes him want it more.

49:00 Selling his mother's ring and sobbing in front of the jewelery store.

51:00 Guy pals always come through.

54:00 Suburban women will dictate US election.

1:04:00 Democratic race is almost done.

1:19:00 The pharmaceutical industry tries to co-opt you first before they come after you

1:21:00 Taking the subway to dancing.

1:23:00 Looking around for the pills. For an exit.

1:27:00 Interchanging driving the kids with driving the girlfriend.

1:32:00 Looking forward to the car returning from the shop.

1:39:00 This is virtual reality.

1:42:00 Big John’s anger at the Leafs losing to a Zamboni driver.

1:46:00 The Harvard notion of “leadering”. Mourinho getting lost in technical solutions - coaching like he did five years ago.

1:48:00 Deconstruction for everything is how we see.

1:56:00 Depression - writing it down and pulling on the thread.

References:

The Tao

Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy

Krishnamurti

Joseph Campbell

The Last Waltz

Jordan Petersen

Jung's Princeton Letters

Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow

Freud

Saving Private Ryan

Camus' L’Etranger

Samuel Coleridge