This week I dive deep into my first ever trip to New York City, which ended with me falling off a 6 story roof on the Upper East Side and landing me in the hospital (and a pile of debris) for 10 days. And then I get into back pain, karma, and creating your own luck.

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This week I ramble about my experience at the Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival, and all that entailed, being away from home in McCalm for my longest stretch since I moved here, and how to reconcile "being in the now" and also making sure to plan for the future.

This week I ramble about another week of adventures in Yellow Pine, and how I walked into what I thought was going to be an enormous ass kicking by a bunch of roughneck ruffians trying to steal my motorcycle from my campsite in the middle of the night. But I didn't back down. And Im still here, dammit. I also reflect on the importance of perspective, and the how it can make all the difference in the world when you choose to understand you don't HAVE to be in your situation, you GET TO be in it.

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This week I ramble about my bum knee, hospitals, meditation, my own personal aversion anti-depressants, accessing your whole brain, and just slowing the whole thing down. this one went long, but for me it felt like it passed in an instant.

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This week I ramble how life isn't supposed to be a straight line. Curveballs, hills, peaks, valleys Those are the things that make life worth living. After being a successful concert promoter for 23 years, and working in the rock n roll biz for 35 years, I finally admit to myself, and by extension to the listeners, that Im over it and don't want to do it anymore. And about how OK that all is. 

This week I ramble about the mostly positive effects of a mental health "coming out", a phone free weekend adventure ride and camping trip in the Back Country of Idaho, and the timeless lessons learned from a couple of 19th century texts - Tom Sawyer and Walden. This was one of my favorite episodes to record, even if it was in the blazing hot sun. Climate change is rad! Oh, and I kick it all off with the origin tale of my long and ongoing international pretty crime spree!

It's been a weird week. Last week's episode was a huge release and led to a lot of catharsis but also the reopening of old wounds. I received a lot of outpouring of support yet it's all been tough to process. It was a bit tough to organize my thoughts, so please bear with me. This week I work through some of that and recount a few adventures of white water rafting and a trip to a tiny town called Yellow Pine. 

This week's episode was supposed to be interviewing my friend Toby Morse. Instead he flipped the script and interviewed me. This one is 3 hours long. And it's deep, raw, intense, emotional and we both cried a lot. And it turned into an episode go Toby's One Life One Chance Podcast, as well as an episode of Tuesdays With Jakey. Enjoy. I guess?