The B&P Realm

By Bryan Winchell

The B&P Realm is a broad-minded, wide-ranging podcast covering, among other things, personal growth, current events, astrology, music and culture with some comedy thrown in! In addition, the first... more

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The B&P Realm episodes:

December 24, 2023 The Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 4: My Multi Mind, Improv, Being Canceled in the Future for Our Past
Still in quick talkin’ mode (blame Mercury Retrograde on my natal Mercury!), I share about the wild way my mind wanders, improvisation and how it plays a big role in my life and being canceled from the future for what we say now, even when we are the Future Ones doing the cancelling!
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13min
December 23, 2023 The Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 3: On My Cover Art Selection Process, Trump, and Big Picture As
Phew, I think it took me longer to thumb-type that title than it did to record the episode, ha ha. Today I’ll share more about how I’m experimenting with this “audio journal” with regards to how I choose each episode’s cover art, before heading into a quick-talkin’ take on the Colorado Supreme Court’s recent decision to keep Trump’s name off of their Super Tuesday primary ballot, where I’ll sometimes put on my astrologer’s glasses to put things into a centuries-long Big Picture perspective (Jupiter-Saturn conjunction cycle and our current beginning of an Age of Air, and the US Pluto Return of the past several years (or two decades)). The long and short of it is: Be careful you don’t take the action you fear the Other might take.
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12min
December 22, 2023 Daily Bryan Experiment, Day 2: Teaching, Learning and My Relationship With Them
I’m a 24/7 teacher and learner, and I teach and learn via my relationships. This orientation may or may not work for you. No matter, I think it’s interesting and worth sharing.
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10min
December 21, 2023 Experiment: The Daily Bryan
I’m thinking about publishing a daily “audio journal” every day of 2024. This episode is both an intro to why and an experiment with actually doing it. The experiment will run for 10 more days as we finish 2023. I’ll then decide whether to go forward with this project. After my intro, you’ll hear ten minutes of a reflection on Time and my relationship to it. As a guy who always loved a good time travel take, a Terence McKenna talk about time and as a budding astrologer, if I do this 2024 audio journal, Daily Bryan, I’m certain this won’t be the last, umm, time to you’ll hear spending time talking about time. Okay, time’s up! Enjoy.
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15min
November 08, 2022 Ep. 43.21 (BONUS): P is for Total Lunatic Lunar EclipseCast!
Yup, this is just me sitting on my balcony here in central Japan taking in the Total Lunar Eclipse of November 8, 2022 and sharing my experience of it, yakking a bit about astrology, current events, ya know, the usual stuff you get from this crazy show! A few laughs, too, I think. At least I remember laughing! Bark at the moon.....

Note: Normally, I spend a lot of time putting together my podcasts, but occasionally I like to just throw something out there and that's what this one is! I explain more after the intro music. Anyway, I figured I'd get it out while the time is ripe and it'll basically be a snapshot of history and a brief glimpse into my life as the moon turned red. I'll likely get back to some sort of regular podcast, but still figuring out just what, when and why!
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55min
August 28, 2022 Ep. 43: P is for Perfecting the Process with Virgo (The Virgo Season Episode)
And so here we are: the last of our 12 astrological signs in this series (because, yes, I started halfway through in Libra last fall).

And what a way to finish, with that sign of refinement and integration so we can step out into the great wide world and be of Service. That's right, Leo, move aside, it's Virgo's turn on the stage!

I pulled out all the stops for this final episode. This means you'll get: a correction from our favorite MP Officer, "Fuckin'" Neil Young, about a mistake I made on the Leo Season episode; our usual playful-yet-in-depth run through the Virgo archetype, with assistance from "The Astrology Bible," my teacher, Kaypacha and astrologers Rick Merlin Levine, Christopher Renstrom and Monika Bravo; music from my Pacific Northwest pals, the Virgo Neko Case and the Seattle grunge rock gods Soundgarden with Virgo guitarist Kim Thayil and Virgo bassist Ben Shepherd; a dive into why I think Virgo can be mapped onto the stage of life that includes our Saturn Return of our late 20s, and how it may connect to the infamous 27 Club; some more tunes, from Virgo Richard Ashcroft and Oasis' Liam Gallagher, a Virgo, and, then, some closing thoughts on this series and what I may or may not do with the podcast now.

Okay, folks, climb into your tractors and pick up your hoes, there's a harvest to get to before another fall is upon us, let's celebrate Virgo in all of her maiden glory!
Time Stamps

Intro: 0:52
Virgo Archetype, Part I: 15:18
"Last Lion of Albion" - Neko Case: 29:55
Virgo Archetype, Part II: 33:33
"Never Turn Your Back on Mother Nature" - Neko Case: 47:07
"Head Down" - Soundgarden: 49:22
The Stages of Life, the Virgo Archetype, The Saturn Return and the 27 Club: 55:32
"Like Suicide" - Soundgarden: 1:12:32
"The Needle Has Landed" - Neko Case: 1:19:36
Closing Thoughts: 1:23:23
"Paradise" - Richard Ashcroft: 1:28:06
"C'mon People" - Ashcroft and Liam Gallagher: 1:33:43

If you want to connect with me:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod

Email: [email protected]
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true

Media Links

Neko Case - “Hell-On” (Live on KEXP)
Neko Case - “Last Lion of Albion”
Neko Case - “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Nature”

Neko Case - “The Needle Has Landed”

Soundgarden - “Head Down”
Soundgarden - “Like Suicide”
Richard Aschroft - “Paradise”
Richard Ashcroft (with Liam Gallagher) - “C’Mon People”
Rush - “The Trees”
"Saturn Return"

"Nice Try, IHOP" - Lance Reddick (short comedy)
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1h 46min
April 29, 2022 Ep. 39: P is for Patiently Awaiting The Taurus Season Episode (The Taurus Season Episode)
In a fashion befitting Fixed Earth, this Taurus Season episode covers a lot of ground and, if nothing, else is sure to get you up and shakin' your booty. Not only will we do the usual rundown of our monthly archetype, but we'll dig into the groovy soul and funk of Taureans Stevie Wonder and James Brown, while also lightening the mood with a bittersweet ballad of requited love brought on by a lack of perceived funds from my personal mid-spring house band, the Grateful Dead, with one of their excellent covers of the standard, "Peggy-O" from their phenomenal May 1977 run.

We'll also have a chat about what having the nodes of the moon in the Taurus-Scorpio axis is inviting us to pay attention to. In short, get grounded, be sensual and focus on self-sufficiency. We live in an abundant Universe says Taurus season and, if you're like me and you simply love getting out and about in these days, with all the flowers blooming and bodacious bees buzzing around, it's hard to deny that fact.

I'll also read a blog from Monika Harris titled “The Real Reason Why We’re Moving to a Cashless Society” because with Uranus conjunct this weekend's solar eclipse in Taurus while squaring Saturn, it won't be any surprise to us astrologically aware folk if we see some pretty shocking changes to our financial systems, if not in the next week or two, within the next six to 14 months. But you'll have to listen to the podcast to understand why I used that time frame.
And last, just when you might think things are getting a bit heavy, we'll close the show by getting our trucker Jacques/Jock back on-line to follow up with some burning questions, such as just how does this particular Jacques/Jock spell his name, and what his predictions are for the AI truck drivers when they hear the Dead’s “Dark Star” as they are out roaming the roads. It could spell the end of civilization, folks!

Fortunately, this podcast won't end civilization---at least not yet, so if you make it to the end there's one more surprise Taurean musical guest who I put on as a tribute to one of my favorite Taurean friends and also to recognize the notion of "cuspers," those people born as a sign is changing. As I said it's a packed episode, with probably more music than I've ever shared on a show, so put on your dancing shoes, or, better yet, take off your shoes and find a grassy field somewhere, and let's feel the beat of Taurus season!

Media Links

Essay: Monika Harris, The Real Reason We're Moving Into a Cashless Society"
Home Page: The Ice Age Farmer
Music: The Grateful Dead, "Peggy-O" (5/11/1977)
Music: James Brown, "Superbad" (Long Version)
Music: James Brown, "Funky President (People It's Bad)"
Music: Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke"
Music: Stevie Wonder, "I Wish"
Music: Van Halen, "Intruder/Pretty Woman"
Music: Talking Heads, "Mr. Jones"

Find Me Links

If you want to connect with me, find me at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod

Email: [email protected]
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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1h 28min
March 25, 2022 Ep. 38: P is for Phire Starter Season (The Aries Season Episode)
Yes, the topic is the archetype of Aries, the first sign in the Zodiac, and the purpose is not only to elaborate on this archetype, but to fire you up.
Thus, not only will you get my distillation into the archetype, you’ll get a personal pep talk about why we are all bad asses, music from two bands that fire me up, Jane’s Addiction and the Disco Biscuits, some media about the Information War that is being waged upon our species, and then to lighten things up, a fun, improvised chat at a park with–ahem–Mr. Nughuffer himself, Disco Biscuits bass player Marc Brownstein about music that fires us up and other topics before I close the show with an epic song and an epic jam from those aforementioned bands that are sure to get you up and moving.
If you’re at all like me, you’re finding that sometimes you just don’t want to get out of bed and deal with the heaviness of these times and that’s where, I hope, this episode can perhaps be an antidote to that feeling. Enjoy!

Time Stamps
0:26 - Introduction
4:56 - Aries Archetype
16:24 - Embodying the Aries Archetype
20:00 - You are a Bad Ass, We are All Bad Asses
22:28 - "Mountain Song," Jane's Addiction
26:36 - Overview of the Information "Air" War
30:27 - Russell Brand Reads Bit from Matt Taibbi's "Orwell Got It Right"
31:59 - "Hunter Biden's Laptop is Back, This Time We'd Better Pay Attention" essay by Monica Harris
43:48 - Improvisational, Light-hearted Chat with Brownie about Music That Fires Us Up
1:03:34 - "Three Days" by Janes Addiction
1:14:23 - "Digital Buddha Jam" by the Disco Biscuits (Red Rocks 5/25/2019)
Media Links
"Orwell Was Right" by Matt Taibbi
"Hunter Biden's Laptop Is Back. This Time We'd Better Pay Attention" by Monica Harris
"Mountain Song" by Jane's Addiction (official video)
"Three Days" by Jane's Addiction (just audio)
"Digital Buddha" by the Disco Biscuits, Red Rocks 5/25/2019 (Video of whole concert, but link brings you straight to the Buddha!)
"42" by The Disco Biscuits, Philadelphia, 4/18/2009 (No video but great sound)
The Disco Biscuits, New Orleans, 4/27/2019, The "Naeba" jam I opened the show with is the second song

Find Me Links

If you want to connect with me, find me at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod
Email: [email protected]
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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1h 37min
March 19, 2022 Ep 37 ... No ... It's Episode #100, Baby!: A Hodgepodge Humdinger
I can't believe it! In just over two years, I've recorded and published 100 of these suckers. Hard for me to believe. Anyway, the idea behind this episode was I would use all of the methods I’ve used in the first 99 episodes to create the show and in the process, cover what seems to be the most common topic of this show: current events and personal growth from a Big Picture perspective with some improvisational comedy, music, poetry and astrology thrown in.
Thus, you’ll get: monologues a la my riverside ramblers of season 2; a return of my improvised “The Downside of” radio show from season 1 (and wait until you hear about “The Downside of Freedom!” It’s positively dreadful!); some clips from a podcast I enjoy; a written piece commenting on one of those clips; a poetic interlude from yours truly; an improvised conversation on the park bench with some of our old friends and a great tune to send us out. There’s a lot packed into just over an hour of media with perhaps only one or two wasted words or gusts of wind.

I really don't want to say any more, other than I believe this one is special and speaks to the unique-ness of the B and P Realm Podcast. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it and, as always, I thank you for being a part of this journey with me. Enjoy!
Media Links
"Supply and Demandate: Bret Talks with Dr. Julie Ponesse" (The Dark Horse Podcast, March 11, 2022)
"Trees Mend Us," a poem by your host, Bryan Winchell
If you want to connect with me, find me at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod

Email: [email protected]
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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1h 14min
March 13, 2022 Episode 36: P is for Passionately Pontificating During Pisces Season.
Some of the topics I cover in this episode include, but aren’t limited to:

My Friday, March 11, 2011 story relating to Japan’s Great Tohoku earthquake where I talk about tedious Japanese public junior high school graduations and how the way I handled that tedium led me to an amazing experience that gives me a foundation for questioning scientific materialism’s position on consciousness; the implications of Whitley Strieber’s book “A New World” and what it means about the elasticity of consciousness among species; Dean Radin’s research on pre-cognition and the collective conscious as it relates to 9/11; more 3/11/2011 earthquake aftermath memories and how my wife and I were able to make it a fun experience for my son; why responding to care for each other during crisis is a human thing, not only a Japanese thing; asking why we can’t both express compassion for those suffering from the tragic outcomes of current events and discussing them from a more meta perspective to determine how we got here so we don’t repeat it again; feeling livid about how our more positive emotions are being used to control us; diving into Integral Theory and whether critiques that it’s too elitist are correct, and how I see a mature understanding of and using Integral Theory as being one that humbles a person and gives them great respect for everyone; why PostModern/Green/Level 6 in Integral Theory has its own form of authoritarianism; and why true Integralists can’t be authoritarians.
Media Links
My most recent blog post, "I Don't Know What's Going to Happen and that Scares the Shit Out of Me"
"The Pursuit of Happyness," the Will Smith movie
"A Paradise Built in Hell," a book by Rebecca Solnit
The Daily Evolver podcast
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55min

FAQs about The B&P Realm:

How many episodes does The B&P Realm have?

The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.