The Troubadour Podcast

The Troubadour Podcast

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The Troubadour Podcast episodes

  • A Noiseless Patient Spider by Whitman - With Local Poet Rohn Bayes

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    I had the pleasure of sitting down with local San Antonio poet, Rohn Bayes.We talked about Whitman's great, short poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," and how its metaphor "takes you places."That, after all, is the etymology of metaphor--to take you some where. This particular metaphor is special to poets, writers, and creators of all sorts. Anyone who has every created "filament, filament, filament!" can sympathize with the meaning of this poem.Stay tuned till the end for a special performance of an unread poem by Rohn Bayes.
    1 hr 42 min
  • Epithalamium by Pablu Neruda - With Guest Cristina Sanchez

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    Epithalamium is a song you would sing outside the doors of newlyweds - love poems.Today I discuss the nature of poetry, romantic relationships, cheating, and the secret life of Pablo Neruda with guest, Cristina Sanchez.She introduced me to this poem, and I really enjoyed it. If you haven't read Neruda before, it's worth your time.
    1 hr 53 min
  • Invictus by Henley - With Halelly Azulay

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    I believe that wisdom comes through suffering not smiles. Today I talk with the host of the TalentGrow Show, Halelly Azulay. Halelly is an author, speaker, facilitator, and leadership development strategist and an expert in communication skills and emotional intelligence.We talked quite a bit about emotional intelligence and how poetry could improve one in that area. We also delved into this wonderful poem by Henley.
    1 hr 42 min
  • Peterson's 1st Rule, Ayn Rand, and the poem Horatius by Thomas Macaulay

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    Buck up Buckaroo!
    I love Westerns. I often wonder if the death of the western has led to some of our confidence problems today.
    In this episode I compare Jordan Peterson's Rule Number 1 "Stand Up Straight WIth Your Shoulders Back" to the westerns of the 1939 to 1969 era as well as to the poem Horatius by Macaulay.
    I'll discuss Ayn Rand and the mind/body integration
    How the wester American hero illuminates Peterson's number one rule
    A full analysis of the rule with reference to movies like Rio Bravo, Red River, The Searchers, Hondo, True Grit, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid and why Clint Eastwood is a horrible human being for creating High Plains Drifter.
    The second half of the program is a reading of the poem Horatius followed by an in-depth converse with verse where I lay out the story and analyze it from a Petersonian perspective.
    Enjoy!
    1 hr 50 min
  • Jordan Peterson's #1 Rule - With Guest Ken Briggs

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    We discuss rule number one in Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's book "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos." The rule is "Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back."
    it seems simple, but there is a lot to discuss in this chapter. What do lobsters have to do with human confidence? Do men need to be dominant to get the girl? What about women? And most importantly why do we need to to follow laws and rules in the first place? What if we just "live and let live."
    In this we will bring up a famous poem by AE Housman, "The Laws of God, The Laws of Men,"
    The laws of God, the laws of man,
    He may keep that will and can;
    Now I: let God and man decree
    Laws for themselves and not for me;
    And if my ways are not as theirs
    Let them mind their own affairs.
    Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
    Yet when did I make laws for them?
    Please yourselves, say I, and they
    Need only look the other way.
    But no, they will not; they must still
    Wrest their neighbour to their will,
    And make me dance as they desire
    With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
    And how am I to face the odds
    Of man's bedevilment and God's?
    I, a stranger and afraid
    In a world I never made.
    They will be master, right or wrong;
    Though both are foolish, both are strong,
    And since, my soul, we cannot fly
    To Saturn or Mercury,
    Keep we must, if keep we can,
    These foreign laws of God and man.
    2 hr 34 min
  • Dulce Et Decorum Est - With Guest Aziz Mejia

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    Is it honorable to die for one's country?War has always been sold to the public as an honorable and glorious thing. Is there anything honorable about death? Wilfred Owen in his famous anti-war poem draws a terrifying description of the realities of war in order to counter the propaganda urging young men to fight for their country. After all "it's the honorable thing to do."
    3 hr 41 min
  • The New Jerusalem by William Blake - With Guest Eric Robert Morse

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    So an Atheist and a Catholic enter a podcast studio...I had a great time and a great conversation with Eric Robert Morse, author of The Juggernaut: Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save it."This poem by William Blake was great fodder for a much larger discussion: What is the ideal society and how does one build it.What I found most interesting in this discussion was that eventually we got to the point where we were discussing out methods of thinking. This is the most critical aspects of coming to conclusion. If one person see the world as concretes disconnected from abstractions or vice versa or somewhere in between that makes it hard to converse. Yet we figured it out and by the end came to some interesting conclusions on how an atheist and a Catholic can come to some serious agreements.Enjoy.
    3 hr 6 min
  • Sean Doherty: "I saw a man this morning who did not wish to die"

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    My friend Sean Doherty and I discuss the famous WWI poem "I saw a man this morning" by Patrick Shaw Stewart.Hopefully no one listening to this podcast, including the men reading it, will ever have to go to war. Yet, it is an activity that is apart of us. It was once believed that war was necessary to bring out our deepest virtues.Sean is a man of peace. He wrote a peace poem campaign and sent it to every US Senator in the hopes of spreading the message that war is not the answer.Our discussion is challenging and deep as we converse with this verse. We ask questions like when is war necessary? Should we be in the Middle East? What are the justifications of war? And, once there, what do we do?
    1 hr 14 min

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