Episodes
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S01E11 She Is My Bodhisattva
Well if you listened to the previous episode, I explain all about the meaning of “She Is My Bodhisattva.” So go listen to that episode if you haven’t already.
This episode is about relationships. I have a conversation with my very wise older sister. We outline the things that make relationships succeed or fail, dopamine and oxytocin. We also discuss self awareness, humanity, and spiritual growth.
Unfortunately, I say family members' real names over and over again. So there are a lot of bleeps. I’m sorry for that. I’ll do better in season two.
Appropriateness: There are one or two F-words in this. Everything else is pretty tame. No graphic discussion takes place. So you can listen with whomever can handle that.
Glossary: The term LDS refers to a person who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
I can’t wait to speak with you again in Season 2. Season 2 will trounce season one, just FYI. I mean what we have coming up will rape your ears, and have you laughing in tears. It will shock the junk out of your trunk. The theme is… Well you’ll just have to wait for it. Hint, I’m hiring an investigative research team. And yes, the genre is still comedy.
That’s all folks. Listen now, listen hard, and please please share the show.
I love you. Sincerely, I love the shit out of you all.
Bye.
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S01E10 Penguin Teeth
You don’t have to read this.
In an uncharacteristic of the Digital Spirit maneuver, I’m going to explain the meaning of the title. Have you ever seen a picture of a penguin’s teeth?
I know what you’re thinking! “Birds don’t have teeth.”
Wrong! Chickens don’t have teeth. Some birds do have teeth. And the penguin’s teeth are absolutely terrifying! Not as scary as anaconda teeth, but a close second. Rows and rows of teeth all pointed inward. Okay, you just need to take a second and do an image search. Not with Google please. Support another search engine that doesn’t take political sides or track you, please.
While you’re at it, look at a picture of anaconda teeth just for fun.
Anyway, the reference is that, as I describe in this episode, I put myself in a situation that just sucked me down into the depths of insanity. I was like being attacked by something with rows and rows of teeth, all pointing toward its filthy throat. I am NOT comparing the woman I talk about in this episode to penguin teeth. I am describing the situation. The one that I caused.
Anyway, you should stop reading now and start the episode.
TV-14. This episode has one or two swear words in it. So if you’re comfortable with them hearing the word “boobs” and me saying that I had sex, without getting descriptive, you can listen to it with whomever that is… so long as it’s not my daughter you’re listening with. You’ll find out why I never want her to hear this episode.
Download.
Press Play.
Regards,
The Digital Spirit.
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Missing episodes?
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S01E09 Still Running
The saga and pain continue. Very offensive. You’ve been warned.
Love you.
TDS
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S01E08 Running Through the G-Hole
This is a two part episode. Or rather, this is part one of a two part story. This episode and episode 09 are the most offensive of the season. Do not listen to this with your children. Or, if you are easily offended, don’t listen at all.
Thanks. Share the show… not necessarily this episode however hahaha. Maybe share 02 or 07. Let the fresh fish get broken in before you turn something like these two episodes on them.
This is the story of one of my best friend’s relapses. Unfortunately the next relapse landed him in prison for a number of years.
Peace.
TDS.
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S01E07 All Purpose Adhesive
This just might be the best episode of the season. It’s in the top three. At least if you like stories. I’m not going into what stories we tell. Just crack open the episode, and pour it all over your dancing body. Then send me some pics!
Please share the show.
I love you.
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This is an episode of stories. I hope you like them.
That’s all.
Just kidding. Did you really think I could resist rambling on even just a little bit? Could I pass up this opportunity to draw attention to myself? No, no, and a third no for good measure.
If you want some foreshadowing about what stories this contains, then just listen to the intro at the beginning of the episode. They’ve all got one, so dive in. No, here I am going to tell you what makes this episode special. My guests make this episode special. I am blessed to have my older sister, with whom I could not disagree with more politically, and whom I could not love more without it being a little weird. See folks, you can have differing opinions and still love each other. That’s a golden truth our bat-nuts-crazy society has convinced us is false. The “tolerant” people in society have become anything but, and the rest have decided to remain silent because they want people to like them. Sad, sad and disgraceful. I hope that in some small way I can make a change in this. Listen to episode three. You’ll get what I mean.
But the thing that really makes this episode special is that my greatest ally in the world, my wife YoYo joins us for the beginning of this one. YoYo is my only constant. The one thing I could trust and believe in if everyone else in my life disowned me and they turned to ash. YoYo and I have spent many lifetimes together, and that’s not just conjecture. I know it for a fact. If you listen to this whole season right on through to the last two episodes you’ll learn all about that.
This is appropriate for anyone you might want to listen with. There might be a curse word or two, but nothing serious. And the stories, although shocking in many ways, I don’t believe are offensive. Even to the “tolerant” people who might be listening.
Listen long and listen hard.
The Digital Spirit loves you. Even if we disagree.
If you want to help the show, Share the show. Period. That’s the most important thing you can do. I’d rather that than have any kind of donation. What matters to this show is a loyal group of followers who will answer a call to action if needed (wait until Season 2).
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Nick’s story continues. The title to this episode and the one before it are meant to be combined into one sentence. My Grandma Just Died, Bring Some Meth. Hopefully that makes sense after listening to the last episode.
Please see the glossary from the show notes for S01E05 My Grandma Just Died. If you liked the last one, you’ll like this one.
I love you guys and Gals.
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This is another recovery episode. And man, this guy has the second most insane story I’ve ever heard. Well, that’s a tough call. There are so many insane stories in Alcoholics Anonymous that there’s not judging who has the best story. This one is very good. This guests story is a mixture of insanity and a spiritual awakening.
What this episode needs is an AA glossary if you will. A lot of jargon gets thrown around in here and it’s important that you understand what the words mean and how those affect one's ability to stay sober.
Home Group - Gotta have a home group. You can go to meetings anywhere, but you must attend your home group. Some home groups meet once a week. Some meet every day. The purpose is that you go somewhere often enough that when you relapse and go missing, people will notice, and hopefully reach out and pull you back to safety. There is also a lot of power in a room full of people who are rooting for you. Who know you are new and are filled with joy each day that you come back, because you haven’t died yet like most newcomers do.
Service Commitment - my guest mentions having a “service commitment.” This means you show up and do something for the meeting that you are responsible for being there to do at least once a week. Typically chairing a meeting.
H&I - a hospitals and institutions meeting. A meeting that is brought into a rehab or a jail, or the nut house or something. And just so you know, I’m completely allowed to say “nut house” because I have been locked up there, twice.
Triple C’s - Coricidin Cold and Cough. Little red pills that contain dextromethorphan hydrobromide. The same class of drug as ketamine, but with very different effects.
Digging - desperately doing whatever it takes to either feel something, or nothing at all. Digging for complete oblivion is the worst state one can be in. One can also dig because they feel nothing inside and they want so badly to feel something again.
Spice - synthetic cannabinoids. A synthetic marijuana that, until recently, was undetected on a drug test.
Bath Salts - Synthetic amphetamine that would make you absolutely flip the out. But it wasn’t detectable on a drug test.
Halfway House - A house filled with addicts who are supposed to be sober. Sometimes they are not. Tenants can pay rent on a weekly basis. The rent is ridiculously high, but it’s easier for them to make weekly payments of $170 than pay $450 all in one go. That’s $170 a week to share a small bedroom.
“Per Page…” - Any time my guest or myself simply refers to “page” something, we are talking about a page/passage in the book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Tweaker - A crystal meth addict/user.
If you want to help the show, Share the show. Period, that’s the most important thing you can do. I’d rather that than have any kind of donation. What matters to this show is a loyal group of followers who will answer a call to action if needed (wait until Season 2).
That’s about it. Hope you dig it.
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You don’t have to read all of this.
See how many zeros there are before that lonely “1” up there? That’s because I know a thing or two about having a bangin’ physique. I’m currently kinda fat, and I get winded super easily. So let’s just get that out of the way. I had a donut hole addiction for some time.
But I’ve been there. I was 7.16% bodyfat for most of my late 30’s. I started lifting when I was 22. My point in telling you that, is that it took 15 years of educating myself to get there.
I had to learn how to train properly. How to lift heavy, and not injure myself. More than anything, I had to learn how to eat. All the performance enhancing drugs in the world won’t make you 7% bodyfat if your diet isn’t on point. Trust me, I’ve tried. Diet is everything. And this is more true the older you get.
And while I’m on this spiel, let me tell you the most important lesson of all when it comes to diet. It’s not about getting it 100% right and never cheating. It’s about getting it 90% right at least 90% of the time, FOR YEARS! It’s time that wins that race. Now here comes a rant. I see so many fat people denying themselves anything but lettuce and greens. Anything that might give them the actual calories they need to get where they are trying to go. And in one month when they don’t look like Jamie Eason, they totally relapse for about a month, maybe more. Then they pick up the salad tongs again.
While I’m really slaying dragons with this sermon, let me ask you all a question. Because I truly do not know the answer. Where did the idea that salad will make you look like a physique competitor come from? Eating salad will make you look like a GD vegan. Vegans don’t even look healthy, let alone like they slay dragons. So put down the tongs. Pick up a steak knife and eat like a lion. That’s what humans are. We’re predators. Our eyes face forward. They are not on the sides of your head, like a cow. So stop eating like a cow, unless you want to be one.
If you want to look like a lean, mean, gazelle killing machine, then eat like one! Fast, then gorge on meat. Period.
And now I’ll tell you the most important fitness lesson you’re ever gonna hear. This is the gold that only the elderly bodybuilders know. Are you ready? Here it is: It’s only going to get harder and harder. The longer you sit there being the fat, less than what your significant other deserves piece of dying dreams, the harder and higher that bar is going to go. The more it becomes a dream and less of a reality, the harder it’s going to be to get out of the couch, over that damned full sized ottoman, and go do something to achieve those dreams.
You’re only getting older.
You’re only getting weaker.
Your endurance is withering.
Fasting won’t be easier on Monday.
You’re not going to get up at 4:30 and hit the gym. You’re sure as not going to eat right starting on Monday.
So go do it now.
Please share the show. Right now.
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“Death to You All!!”
This is a very special episode to me. We were never able to capture a real live “blue-hair” like we talked about in the last episode, but in this episode I have an even more specialer guest. I have a conversation with my friend Kyle. Kyle is of course not his real name. Anonymity is a must for me and all my guests. Especially me. And if you haven’t figured out why, you will in the episode after this one.
Kyle is a real live muslim drug addict. I know him from Alcoholics Anonymous. An organization and a way of life that has saved my life. More importantly, it has given me a life worth living. Kyle, to your surprise, made it through the entire episode without yelling “kill all the jews” or “death to the infidels” even once! So that’s death to how you previously thought about muslims isn’t it?
In all seriousness though, we have a beautiful conversation about spirituality. Mostly the AA kind, but I learn a good deal about his spiritual way of life, Islam. You’re also going to learn a little about my sorta bizarre beliefs. Kyle gave me a copy of The Clear Quran and it is one of my most prized books.
You can totally listen to this one with your kids. Unless you think stories about smoking heroin are inappropriate for children.
Carry on.
The Digital Spirit Loves you.
If you want to help the show, Share the show. Period, that’s the most important thing you can do. I’d rather that than have any kind of donation. What matters to this show is a loyal group of followers who will answer a call to action if needed (wait until Season 2).
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This is an episode of stories. I hope you like them.
That’s all.
Just kidding. Did you really think I could resist rambling on even just a little bit? Could I pass up this opportunity to draw attention to myself? No, no, and a third no for good measure.
If you want some foreshadowing about what stories this contains, then just listen to the intro at the beginning of the episode. They’ve all got one, so dive in. No, here I am going to tell you what makes this episode special. My guests make this episode special. I am blessed to have my older sister, with whom I could not disagree with more politically, and whom I could not love more without it being a little weird. See folks, you can have differing opinions and still love each other. That’s a golden truth our bat-nuts-crazy society has convinced us is false. The “tolerant” people in society have become anything but, and the rest have decided to remain silent because they want people to like them. Sad, sad and disgraceful. I hope that in some small way I can make a change in this. Listen to episode three. You’ll get what I mean.
But the thing that really makes this episode special is that my greatest ally in the world, my wife YoYo joins us for the beginning of this one. YoYo is my only constant. The one thing I could trust and believe in if everyone else in my life disowned me and they turned to ash. YoYo and I have spent many lifetimes together, and that’s not just conjecture. I know it for a fact. If you listen to this whole season right on through to the last two episodes you’ll learn all about that.
This is appropriate for anyone you might want to listen with. There might be a curse word or two, but nothing serious. And the stories, although shocking in many ways, I don’t believe are offensive. Even to the “tolerant” people who might be listening.
Listen long and listen hard.
The Digital Spirit loves you. Even if we disagree.
If you want to help the show, Share the show. Period. That’s the most important thing you can do. I’d rather that than have any kind of donation. What matters to this show is a loyal group of followers who will answer a call to action if needed (wait until Season 2).
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Here We Go Ladies and Gents
Like any good deranged person this is very hard for me. I’m writing a description of this episode.
What if I get it wrong?!! What if it’s not the perfect description?! Nobody will listen if I don’t get this perfectly right.
And it’s my first episode! What if I chose the wrong episode to go first? Oh heavens, I’m going to ruin everything!
That’s just how my head chews on me. You? If you were doing the thing that matters most in this world to you besides your family. Something you are indeed doing for your family’s future, how would you deal with the fear of failure?
“If you are ever going to succeed at anything, you must always be willing to fail.” That’s how Arnold has apparently dealt with this all too human emotion. So here I go. This is me being willing to not get this right, so that I can finally give this episode to you. Trust me, it’s been a long time coming.
This episode is a conversation with my very good friend who shall be known as Lunchbox. Lunchbox has been in the emergency medical field for close to 20 years. As an EMT, as a firefighter, as a paramedic and as an educator. But more importantly than his astounding resume is the fact that I would trust this mother-of-pearl with the lives of my family. If they were in a traumatic accident, he’s who I would pray shows up on scene. Through and through he’s a badass, and more importantly for you folks, he’s entertaining as all the curse words in the book.
This is not an episode for children, merely because there are some curse words, and there are some war stories that are very graphic. I’m talking a human being disemboweling himself kind of graphic. If you’re listening companions can handle all that plus the occasional sexual comment then make it a party.
Have fun!
The Digital Spirit loves you.
