Pinkie and the Ben

Oh hello! Bet you thought we couldn't see you behind that mask. Why do you still wear it when you're clearly hiding in plain sight?

Right, well...you've been wearing that thing for some time and likely forgot you had it on in the first place. The job title, the familial position, the assertive stance when talking your way into returning that dickey that was long past the store's policy. This getup has been the reason why you've survived or at least that's what you've believed.

We hide behind masks in life, but this can be constraining. You have a plethora of options for how to face the world, why this arrangement??

The world is our playground; we've come here to play! So lay back and listen, as we catch up on our pimping, and freak this duet just like Ashford and Simpson.

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world!

It’s a bird!—it’s a plane!—it’s a spandex-clad man flying approximately one inch off the ground! Or perhaps you prefer your superheroes to have exact change when making a purchase. 

Did you know that we’re all super? It’s true! While we can’t all teleport anywhere in time and arrive five seconds too late, we are all imbued with a gift. 

The soul’s journey unlocks these hidden gifts. From the esoteric, like gifts of the spirit, to the mundane, like deft and skill in your field, you were born to express a shine that glows radiant and can be seen off into the cosmos. 

Whether you can play the kazoo like nobody’s business; wrestle alligators with aplomb; or your suspenders game is on point, we have a real adventure for you supers ahead. So slap on your favorite utility belt, comfortably arrange your codpiece, ‘cause we’re about to save humanity! 

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world!

Dawn breaks, a new day unlike no other. Our hero closes the door to his chariot, taking a preliminary step into renown. He is no ordinary man; he is a man of destiny. 

A curious vest covering his crimson T-shirt faded from wear. Is he a character from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon or a reinvented Marlboro Man? One so befitting of these times. 

Instinctively, he locks eyes with his target. The object of his desire: a cylinder of processed meat, tantalizingly rolling on cylinders of brushed metal. To the untrained eye it resembles an out-stretched wizard finger, pointing to the horizon—to the future! 

The store swirling like the meat amalgamate. He reflects unto himself, “Truly a realm of convenience!” Time and space collapsing, a mischievous grin washes over our hero. The moment has finally arrived. 

In a dash, the wizard finger transfigures to a nub. A trail of grease sliding down his cheek, the only evidence of this misdeed. Magnetic attraction, like the accretion of planets, our champion now stands in queue holding a fraction of the once great marriage between feats of modern science and what barely meets a passing definition of food. Protein...straight to the gut. 

A crowd forms around the exhibition. Clerk and patron alike left without context to the wanton tryst between man and meat. A tear runs down his cheek, forming a tributary to the oily river. “Satisfaction,” he muses, “comes at the expense of social conventions.” 

Off in the distance, somewhere far away, a bird carries upon its wing a hope. In the eyes of lovers, the seed of a propitious future plants into a fertile womb. To the onlookers, serving as witnesses to both, he stands before them as Zeus looking down from Mount Olympus. He’s not the hero they deserved, but the one they needed. 

Is this tale fiction or fantasy? Or is this the realest thing ever to occur inside of a Quik-Trip? It all depends on your level of creativity. 

Join our heroes as they wrangle these existential quandaries. No lies we promise!—we are but humble purveyors of truth…

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world!

What's your inner truth? It is said that, “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

 

How can you move in this world if you don't know who you are? Luckily, we've brought a friend along for this journey to bring us into our understanding. And not just any friend...a God among mere mortals, Luap is his name!

 

Join the gang as they share wisdom, laughs, and their hearts!

 

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

 

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

 

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Summary: We see you there. Pinchers flexed, ruddy hardened exterior, yet profoundly soft underneath your exoskeleton. Like our aquatic friend, the lobster, we too have fought the fight of the introvert.

Why the shell? We didn’t feel safe, so we hid inside. Deep down within—leagues below the sea where we sought refuge from judgment from the outside world. Unlike the extrovert who gallivanted around, seemingly unaffected by the setting that brought us into peril.

A wild idea, but what if introverts and extroverts were really two sides of the same coin? What if it was environment or the perceived state of safety in one’s milieu? The lobster is at home at sea, yet alien in the desert.

We ask that you place your pinchers in a relaxed position. Soften your exterior so that we can reach the buttery soft, open space within. The space that longs to embrace the world as the world holds reciprocal embrace. Come up for air, lending your ears as you listen on!

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

Summary: Eye contact. Step forward, engaging. Arms spread out like airplane wings, ready to enfold. A plaintive gaze as you approach, hesitation from the object of your affection. A thought arises: which came first, the chicken or the hug?

Tremulous as we’ve been, we were once the chicken. The person who looked away, unable to make eye contact. The one who shied from the love that was offered. It was the day, wasn’t it? Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Off kilter, out of sorts...disconnected.

The hug, the human equivalent of jump starting an engine. This time we are connected. This time we are ready to engage another. To dissolve away the implied separation we experience in human form. To realize the unification that occurs so readily when two engage becoming one.

Come, allow us to give you an auditory hug. To connect with the parts of you that so desperately want to feel loved. To erase the illusion of what was never truly separate. Two hearts paired become one heart; through love. We won’t chicken out this time, we promise!

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

Summary: There’s ‘affront’ a comin’! Winds from the South blustering. Up ahead emerges countervailing winds from the North. The two forces collide, a cyclone ensues!

In opposition, neither budge—running hot and cold, little to no ground ceded. Weather remaining inclement, we appear to be lost in translation. 

You bristle—how could they be so insensitive! Your partner recollects an ancient peccadillo, reminding you of an unforgiven sin. The cyclone expands!

Two languages, two fronts...two beings communicating from two vantage points. The lens of consciousness holds the key. It’s here where we find the Rosetta Stone. Here where languages spoken are of a common tongue. 

Hearts open, no gust, but pause. Two friends share in this pause together. A common vantage point through the lens of understanding. 

Listen onward and bring your rain slicker. The clouds are parting and we’re nearing the approaching sunrise my friend. 

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

Alright stop!—collaborate and listen! Pinkie and the Ben are back with a brand new invention. Something grab a hold of us tightly? Why, it's the topic of course!

How we perceive something determines the value we glean from it. You may've heard the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Understanding this is understanding how love can be found in all things, including discarded duct work from an old restaurant or a mysterious box of computer cords listed on Craigslist. It's all a matter of the perceiver and what is perceived; the lover and what is loved. 

So tune in to find out: Will it ever stop? (Yo—we don't know!). Turn on the podcast and we'll flow...like a river with its embankments mirroring the poetic flow of our lives. Listen to our funky fresh rhymes as we break it down. Word!

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

Summary: Yar and ahoy mateys! Have ye been expectin’ life to be treatin’ ye a certain way only ta’ find the situation be treatin’ ye like a scurvy dog? 

Ok—that’s all the pirate talk we can muster! Better yet...an applicable quote would be: Life is neither good nor bad, but the mind makes it so. Life can be 'tumulturous' (sic) at times, but the filter by which we perceive what is happening, the filter of our mind, ultimately determines how we move ahead. 

Join the gang as they drive through this issue like an enlightened bus driver with a load of feral children. We’ll make sure to drop you off at your destination, cleaning the windshield of perception, taming the wild youngsters along the way.  

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ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥

- SUMMARY - 

To quote Forest, “Life is like a pile of rocks.” Ok, we’re not entirely sure if that was Gump or Whitaker that said this. Either way, life is like a pile of rocks. “How is life like a pile of rocks?!” (You might be asking yourself in an exasperated tone) 

Well, we are all presented with something in our lives that stands in the way; a situation that looms as a great obstacle for us to overcome. How can we ascend these boulders that encumber our hero’s journey, taking us to the summit of deeper understanding and inner awakening? 

Listen onward intrepid spirit and you will lay to rest this age old question! 

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- ABOUT PINKIE AND THE BEN -

Are you pondering what we're pondering? Two beings of a scale much larger than your average mouse, Pinkie (James) and the Ben (Dr. Ben) talk enlightenment, fantasy, various and sundry musings of everyday life, natural health, mindfulness, pirates and living life from a place of love and connection. Bringing humor and depth so that you can one day take over your world! ♥