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 podcast currently has 119 episodes available.

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July 21, 2021 Ep 21: A TRUE Quantum Rambler, If Ever There Was One!
No show notes, suckers! Ha ha. Seriously, this is just a podcast where I catch you up on what's been going on with me for the past two months and the things I've been pondering. I had fun recording it, and think you'll have fun listening to it. Beyond that, you're just gonna have to jump into the deep end this time...if you dare! Enjoy the show!

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
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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57min
June 03, 2021 Ep.19 B is for the Boys (And Girls) Who Cried Wolf and The Lab Leak Hypothesis (And Why My 2020 Mantra Still Works)
Topics include:
Clip 1. Aesop’s Fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf;” who the boy is in the lab leak hypothesis media story; a dictionary definition of hypothesis and theory; should we really trust fact-checkers and social media outlets to decide what the truth is?; why the Founders were so smart to make Freedom of the Press an essential right; why the argument that Facebook and other social media companies aren’t governments so they can’t censor doesn’t make sense for the times we live in: why such arguments are similar to right-wing arguments using the Founders perspective to argue for the right to own crazy-ass guns; why the politicization of the Coronavirus crisis has been so costly; how advocacy journalism in the Trump era created the conditions to get the lab leak hypothesis story wrong; why media outlets are losing credibility; my 2020 mantra and why it’s an effective antidote to these times; the certainty is arising from the fear; why have progressives rehabilitated the “boys who cried wolf” over WMDs 20 years ago?; why that experience 20 years ago raised my suspicions this time; maybe the solution isn’t more censorship, but less crying wolf by the media.

Clip 2.: Heather Heying’s useful frame for understanding how we limit discussions such as racism and Covid-19; Bret and Heather discuss the danger of the virus of fear; “fear enhances our ability to see things in a binary way”
Clip 3.: Using the cycles of the seasons as a frame o understand why we should do our best to be asking questions as though we are a child, rather than standing on the top of Mt. Self Righteous shouting “The Truth;” the evolutionary astrological lens of the cycle of the nodes of the moon and why it can help us survive the Information War; “intellectual authoritarianism" and more!

Links
The Meriam-Webster.com distinction between hypothesis and theory page
The Dark Horse Podcast, Episode 82 "Dodging the Buzz Saw" (May 30, 2021)
The Dark Horse Podcast, "COVID, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century" (June 2, 2021)

Contact Me
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.winchell2/ https://www.facebook.com/TheBandPRealmPodcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BandPRealmPod
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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1h 3min
May 24, 2021 Ep. 18: P is for Storytelling To Make Sense of Our Lives and Our World
Topics include:
What's the best Japanese convenience store?; Japan convenience stores and fast food vs. US ones; Rebel Wisdom community new storytelling; the buoyancy of green Nature this time of year; why Taurus season is green; what is yhe basic Purpose of storytelling; Taurus season is room temperature season; an improvised Story about Humanity’s relationship to Nature; what two qualities must exist in philosophers for me to pay attention to; the binary nature of the Science Story; Integral Theory reflections on the narratives of the major worldviews of our culture; some advice for ENFPs and how it relates to the style of this podcast; explaining the context of the improvised story and how I tie in my daily experiences into Storytelling and, for non-storytellers, we can grow from reflecting on the stories of our lives; how all of this relates to pt. 3 of my 2020 mantra, “adjust accordingly,”; an anatomical anecdote and why I want a bungalow with a gazebo. And ending with two, ahem, classic kids books!

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
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true
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49min
May 16, 2021 Ep. 17: P is for Propaganda, The Pure Stuff (The CJ Hopkins Episode)
This episode is focused has three segments but it's focused on the work of one man, American playwright, novelist and fellow ex-pat CJ Hopkins who is an erudite, outspoken critic of the New Normal totalitarianism and who is someone I am very excited to share with you.

The first segment is my reading of Matt Taibbi's piece "Meet The Censored: C.J. Hopkins, Critic of "The New Normal." In the piece, Taibbi introduces Hopkins to us and then conducts an interview.

The second clip is my reading of Hopkins’ most recent column on his blog, Consent Factory, titled “The Criminalization of Descent.”

And last, an abbreviated riverside rambler where I speak about the following topics: Describing a pleasant new spot while risking snakes on a warm evening; a great Mark Twain quote; a note from a “woo-woo” about how this week has an energy of feeling a fresh start and why it resonated; how the danger of expecting 2021 to be better may have made it harder for me; environmental conditions in Japan this time of year and how it’s all relative, man, etc.

And lest I forget, here's the link to that absurd article about McDonald's promoting the vaccine agenda! All for our health, right?
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
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanwinchell?fan_landing=true

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58min
May 05, 2021 Ep 16: P is for Feeling Groovy for a Few Days At Least
Topics Include: The nature of spring; comparing climate in Los Angeles to Tokyo, and how it speaks to misperceptions; how the Coronavirus crisis has chilled out Japanese culture some; why my communication seeks a balanced, holistic perspective; why there aren't many Renaissance People in Japan; why getting into Nature has kept me healthy since I was a kid; my summation of the two main camps in the COVID crisis; some very helpful advice I learned from an astrology podcast in spring 2020 and some good advice for now to let people do what they gotta do to survive; the sci-fi / cri-fi book set in 2040 I’m reading; reflecting on bipolar and how it relates to connection and disconnection; and after some strange Japanese on a discarded bottle diverts me, ending with a hilarious story about a lewd mistranslation from Google Translate.
Links:
Book recommendation: A sci/cri-fi book set in 2040, "Nexus" by Rameez Naam

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50min
April 27, 2021 Ep. 15: P is for a Podcast Hodgepodge (Spring Cleaning Three Episodes Worth of Shows)
Pt. 1, April 12th: “Integrating the Masculine and Feminine Archetypes in Our Culture Wars”
Topics include: Lex Fridman’s American Dream as engineering and how it relates to masculine archetypes; the positives and negatives of that archetype; do the Titans of Technology have good blueprints to engineer the New World?; the rising power of the feminine archetype; why we need both; the Sun/day as masculine, the Moon/night as feminine; why my perception of America has changed by living outside of it; why “Here Comes the Sun” expresses how lack helps us appreciate abundance; how Cancel Culture is an expression of Toxic Femininity; “Wall-E” and how it relates to the Bezos/Musk/Gates worldview; if humanity survives at the cost of the Earth’s biosphere, do we really want that?; “Ad Astra” and asking can we slow down enough to care for the planet we already live on; is humanity splitting into two or even three?; why I’ve no issues with the split as long as we don't go to war against each other; the good side of Postmodernism pushing back on how both sides fall into either/or thinking; are we experiencing a dark AI consciousness that is polarizing us?
Pt 2 April 19th, “What is time and how does it impact our experience?”
Topics Include: My college-era attempts to change the length of the day and the week; Jordan Peterson’s great advice on who to compare yourself to; why I feel disconnected from my family; why I’m unsure about my vocation/contribution to the world; why I use the spectrum of connection-disconnection to understand bipolar and addiction; the challenging feelings of wanting to check out; how short-term distractions don't work; how we can't judge someone from the outside; why I realized it’s hard to suddenly live off the clock on one’s own schedule; how deep my doubt goes; how simplifying one’s schedule might be a good starting point; why my natal chart suggests that structuring time is important for my growth; how the slower pace of life in Japan feels more aligned with my rhythm; why I want the Tokyo Olympics to go forward (with a caveat); why the effort is the point.
Pt. 3: April 25th, “Can We Love Those in Other Camps?”
Topics Include: How 2020 was about finding camps we could be comfortable with; pondering what I'm doing on social media with people hardening into their camps; humanizing folks in other camps; the importance of relating to each other as unique individuals not as caricatured members of a group; why I think Facebook may go the way of the dodo bird; Georgia mom’s plea for an end to the mask requirement, is it selfish?; what do you feel when you hear her?; what is the point of a country (or a marriage) if its people don't love each other?; did I play it too safe in 2020 by staying in Japan?; why I’m finding Facebook less engaging in 2021; an example of the closed-minded in-my-camp thinking.
Links, Pt 1:
Lex Fridman “Tyler Cowan” 4/11
"Day and Night" from Pixar
"Here Comes the Sun"
Astrology Hub “Transhumanism and the Age of Aquarius”
Pt 2:
Russell Brand with Jordan Peterson podcast
Pt 3:
Georgia mom questions masks for kids
"Fantastic Fungi"
UCSD mushrooms for CV19 study
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2h 6min
April 08, 2021 Ep. 14: B and P are for Baccine Passports (And So Much More)
This is a big one, folks. It might be the last from me for a bit. Or it might not. Regardless, I have devoted a lot of time into this topic over the past week so figured I'd pour some of that effort into a podcast episode.

Some of the many topics covered include: Why fact-checkers on Facebook may be only "partly true" in revealing who they work for; why these vax passports are a slippery slope; how vaccine passports are being framed as innocent when they aren't; what we are missing when we focus on "the science" regarding mask mandates; why we should be concerned over simplifying this complex topic; cognitive dissonance in how progressives view the racial justice issue and the CV19 one; the scientific materialist bias of Wikipedia; Naomi Wolf and the tiresome politicization of everything; killing the messenger; why using “may” rather than “will” to speak about the future is better; my choice as of now about whether to get vaccinated; why vaccine passports feel threatening to me; why we can't say scientifically the vaccine is “safe”; my nickname for Dr. Fauci; why vax passports are a potential gold rush for Big Pharma; why this all seems to be leading to more human division; how Human Design’s understanding of time ties into this; why I may change my mind on getting the vaccine; is this vax passport a tool for social control?; why we need to talk about these issues.
Links
"Journalism's Gates Keepers" from the Columbia Journalism Review
"How Vaccine Passports Might Work In the U.S." from Politifact
"Anecdotes Trump Data" From the C-Realm Podcast
"Why Vaccine Passports Equal Slavery Forever" by Naomi Wolf
"Vaccine Passports - What It's Really About" by Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen
"Covid Vaccine - Scepticism or Trust?" by Russell Brand
And a newer one from Russell, which I only hinted at in this podcast but is definitely worth your time, "Vaccine Passports - A New Start or the End of Freedom?" by Russell Brand
"Krystal Ball: Pharma Greed and Biden Cronyism Risking Our Lives" by Krystal Ball, The Hill Rising
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57min
March 29, 2021 Ep 13: B and P are For Being Peacemakers in a Time of (Culture) War (A chat with my pal Dan in Japan)
Yes, at long last, the B and P Realm is doing what any proper podcast should do, which is get someone else on to do some of the darn talking! All jokes aside, I had a blast connecting with a guy I've known for several years and chatting about a variety of topics.

The topics (but are not limited to): the shifting sands of identity, and how living for over a decade in Japan colors the lenses we use to view the world; the fascinating cultural differences between life in Japan and the US; how those differences have impacted how Japan has handled the Coronavirus; public schools during the COVID-19 Era; how having a peacemaking personality is challenging during a time of culture wars; some thoughts on how Stoicism can help us navigate these times and last, but not least, Dan tells us how he finds solace checking out from the madness by driving virtual big rigs across the many regions of Europe.
So climb on into your cab, buckle up, don’t forget your pee jug and join us for the journey!
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1h 20min
March 22, 2021 Ep. 12: B is for Bye Bye to the B and P Realm? Not so Fast! (And Addressing Collective Trauma and the Power of Collective Healing)
Topics include: A chat about why this podcast will be evolving toward including guests; on Information Overload and why I don't want to contribute to it; why re-connecting with old friends is great and inspires me to have conversations with with regular fascinating people on this podcast; pondering Gabor Mate’s model of addiction as being a result of childhood trauma and wondering how collective trauma fits into it; reconciling my idyllic childhood and my adult addiction with this model; how learning the people’s history postmodern model tuned me into collective trauma and white guilt, leading me into drug addiction; Thomas Hubl’s work on collective trauma and how to heal it we need to slow down to allow the trauma space to heal; my experience from last summer supporting this idea of Hubl’s and the amazing, healing experience of being a part of him working with a person in the Rebel Wisdom community doing this; why we shouldn't feel shame for needing to go into a shell in order to survive life’s many challenges; the fascinating, challenging experience of doing emergence work; why being quiet in a group is hard for me as an ENFP; how hustle culture both creates trauma and makes it hard to address past trauma; the Smith College story; some final thoughts on how the economic realities many face are creating these traumas.
Links:

Thomas Hubl's website
James Howard Kunstler's blog post about the Smith College story
The Go-Fund me page (and videos from) Jodi Shaw of Smith College

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57min
March 15, 2021 Ep 11: P is for the Planet Neptune conjunct the sun in Pisces (an Astrology-heavy episode)
Topics discussed include: Sun conjunction with Neptune this week and its meaning; where I’m at in my interpretation of astrology now, how it relates to the geometry of the spheres; why I relate to Neptune, and why contentment helps keep me sober; Dr. Carl Hart’s attempts to de-stigmitize drug use; a Neptunian poem on the power of actual prayer; how I define astrology and how it connects to Nature’s cycles; some basic astrological terms and why “planet” includes the sun, moon and Pluto; why spring is the real New Year and how the Japanese school year reflects that; moon cycles and how they may impact our mood; Pisces and how it connects to the end of life and cycles; on conjunctions, focusing on last year’s challenging Saturn-Pluto and the more positive sun-Neptune conjunction this week; covering the positive aspects of Neptune; why I believe the modern mind too quickly dismisses astrology; how re-connecting to Nature and my body helped make astrology feel embodied and natural to me; what Uranus was originally named (hilarious!); and why rocks must taste like babies to gods!

Links to Media Referenced in the Episode:

Krystal, Kyle & Friends, Episode 10 with Dr. Carl Hart
“I No Longer Pray," a poem by Chelan Harkin
"The Paradoxical Happy/Sad Impermanence of Sakura," a blog post by yours truly
B and P Realm, Season 1, Ep. 38: B and P are for Beyond the Pale and Into the Great Unknown, the NDE episode
"The Discovery of Uranus and How It Changed Everything," Astrology Hub Podcast with Gemini Brett
"Mythos," audiobook by Stephen Fry
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45min

FAQs about The B&P Realm:

How many episodes does The B&P Realm have?

The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.