How To Tickle Yourself
How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about finding your true purpose, your true self, your happiness. It's where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and once you find that, the rest will take care of itself. Hosted by Duff McDonald & Matt McPherson About Duff: Duff McDonald is a New York-based journalist and author. He has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Fortune, Business Week, Conde Nast Portfolio, GQ, WIRED, Time, Newsweek, The New York Observer, and others. He is the author of several books, including: Frictionless, co-authored with Christiane Lemieux (Harper Business, June 2020) The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite (Harper Business, April 2017. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (Simon & Schuster, September 2013) Last Man Standing, a biography of Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase (Simon & Schuster, October 2009) The CEO, a satire, co-authored with Owen Burke (Simon Spotlight) He lives in Hurley, New York with his wife, Joey; his daughter, Marguerite; ten chickens and three cats (The Sherriff Steven Wondrous, Princess Steven Buscemi, and Corey Feldman, Esquire). About Matt McButter: Matt McButter is the podcast nickname for Matt McPherson. In his work life, Matt has worked with many early stage tech companies over the years, making disease surveillance tools, game systems and most recently - virtual humans. He teaches the odd entrepreneurship class to grad students at the University of Toronto. Annoyingly curious, some of his obsessions include: maps, classic arcades, hockey, sci fi and any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic. His latest preoccupation includes tickling himself with long-time pal, Duff McDonald and recording the music technology podcast ‘Beatseeker’ with his buddy Mike Weider. Matt lives in Toronto.
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How to Become More in Touch with the Body
01/03/2023
How to Become More in Touch with the Body
Our relationship to our own body is, in a lot of ways, mediated by a pervasive sense of shame that our culture perpetuates. What insights about the body does this shame prevent us from seeing? Today’s guest, Kim Vopni, has built an unconventional career and she’s done it by fearlessly breaking these taboos and creating a dialog about things like incontinence. More about Kim Vopni Now when I think of the word coach, hockey comes to mind. Other people might think of coaches they’ve had for various sports, or perhaps a life coach or an executive coach. But have you ever met a vagina coach? Well today’s guest is Kim Vopni and she is a vagina coach. Now while a vagina coach is not something Duff or I are likely to ever need, we have both wives, mothers, sisters and daughters - along with many of our women listeners who can benefit from breaking the taboo of talking about their… vaginas. I was going to say hoo haas or some other euphemism for lady parts, because that’s what we tend to do because it’s uncomfortable to talk about… but I’ll just say vagina here because I feel like part of breaking the taboo is speaking frankly about it. As a vagina coach, she has programs for women in pregnancy, motherhood and menopause, she does one-on-one coaching for pelvic fitness and can help you find your Kegel mojo, whether or not you’ve had any kids. She’s a sought-after speaker, giving talks at health and fitness events internationally and you’ll find her in magazines, newspapers and TV segments talking about pelvic health. She is also the creator of Kegels and Cocktails, which sounds like a party… and maybe there’s a mocktail available… for the non-drinker? Well, let’s find out…
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What the Stories Behind Tattoos Reveal About Our Inner Lives
12/27/2022
What the Stories Behind Tattoos Reveal About Our Inner Lives
This week we learn about tattoos and the stories behind them. Ad man Drew Plotkin is covered in ink, and each tattoo tells a story about an important moment in his life. More about Drew: Drew Plotkin has spent the majority of his adult life helping to build brands that sell beauty and personal care products to the masses: weight-loss systems, workout devices, skin and hair care products, hair loss prevention, and cosmetics. The founder of his own ad agency, he has directed commercials starring the likes of JLO, Cindy Crawford, Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, and a who’s who of Olympians and fitness gurus. He’s made infomercials, and he’s proud of them. During COVID, he launched a podcast – just like us – called As Not Seen on TV. And he’s just written an autobiography. That gets us to one of the most interesting things about the guy: He’s covered in tattoos. $125,000 worth, give or take. His book is the story of his life, as told through tattoos. It’s called Under My Skin. Get it? 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 Check out Storic Media for more: 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: Spotify: Google Pod: 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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How to Bake Your Way to Self-Realization
12/20/2022
How to Bake Your Way to Self-Realization
The holiday season is upon us and this week’s guest, Clare Gustavsson, says that the best gift we can give is ‘one hour of nonjudgmental listening’. We learn more about how this expression of curiosity not only allows others to express themselves without holding back but allows us to look at ourselves in a more honest way. But you could also just buy yourself some of Clare’s mouth-watering baking creations () More About Clare Gustavsson: Clare has toured and performed as an opera singer and actress worldwide, including roles on roller skates, and in multiple pieces with the Mark Morris Dance Group. She’s been an artist manager, a teacher of voice, dance, and fitness, and is the founder and chief baker of a custom baked goods company. She’s worked in a range of fascinating industries, with a unifying passion to help, entertain, and guide people to live their best life and perform at their maximum potential. Ultimately these varied interests and experiences led her to group and individual coaching and psychotherapy. She’s a certified professional coach, a certified Gestalt therapist, and a licensed psychoanalyst in the State of New York. She has worked with everyone from homeless youths in New York City to women leaders in Saudi Arabia. Follow Clare on Instagram 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 Check out Storic Media for more: 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: Spotify: Google Pod: 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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What the Act of Creating Music Teaches Us About Life
12/13/2022
What the Act of Creating Music Teaches Us About Life
How does the act of creating music help inform us how to live in harmony with our body and soul? Duff and Matt interview Marco Benevento to learn about the process of creating a record. Duff speaks about Aurobindo’s thoughts on the discipline of music as education for the soul. More about Marco Benevento Benevento is a hallucinatory keyboard wizard, songwriter, and all-around musical artist. An accomplished solo artist as well as a member of the Grateful Dead tribute band Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Benevento released his latest album this spring. Check out Marco Benevento’s music: 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 http://bit.ly/storicYT Check out Storic Media for more: http://storicmedia.com/shows/ 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MtbjNk... Google Pod: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtotickle... 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: https://www.instagram.com/picpherser/ →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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How to Find the Center of Your Own Existence, with Jazz Musician Jonathan Kay
12/06/2022
How to Find the Center of Your Own Existence, with Jazz Musician Jonathan Kay
This week we learn about how the pursuit of musical knowledge transformed into a spiritual journey. Jonathan Kay an internationally recognized cross-cultural jazz multi-instrumentalist. In search of non-western ways of musical knowing, he moved to Kolkata, India for 10 years and formally studied North Indian Raga music, innovating its expression on the saxophone as well as the rare 21-stringed instrument, the bora israj. Kay’s time in India, however, did not just transform his thinking about music but also his thinking on being. At the moment, Jonathan is a PhD student in the department of East-West Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco under the mentorship of none other than Dr. Debashish Banerji, who we’ve already interviewed on this podcast. He’s been studying East-West psychology and philosophy, specializing in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga as well as the non-classical western philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 Check out Storic Media for more: 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MtbjNk... Google Pod: 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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How Chunk the Groundhog Teaches Us to Keep An Open Mind
11/29/2022
How Chunk the Groundhog Teaches Us to Keep An Open Mind
Jeff Permar went from trying to evict Chunk the Groundhog from his garden to raising funds for his family’s dental work on social media. Yes, you read that right! It all started a few years ago, when everything in Permar’s organic garden was getting eaten. He suspected that the culprit was living under his shed, so he installed a motion-detection camera to find out. It turned out it was a groundhog. Who seemed to know that Permar was watching. Because he would grab whatever he was going to eat and then eat it, staring right into the camera. Everything Permar tried to keep the groundhog – who he named Chunk – out of the garden failed. Everything. Chunk even started bringing his girlfriend, Nibbles, to join him at mealtime. And then it hit Permar: he’d build Chunk his own garden. Chunk and Nibbles loved the new set-up so much that they decided to raise a family. Permar set up a picnic table for them, and, naturally, began setting up their own social media accounts. The entire experience has opened his mind while also opening the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Chunk’s fans. We think Chunk is one of the greatest things that the Internet has ever given us. Follow Chunk on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCV8EscIh3Lhbf51g8MsF9mg Follow Chunk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chunk_the_groundhog/?hl=en #howtotickleyourself #hiddencamera #groundhogs →WATCH more How To Tickle Yourself! ← Is The Future Analog? | David Sax | How to Tickle Yourself - https://youtu.be/5Vn0xe9H5Bc 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 http://bit.ly/storicYT Check out Storic Media for more: http://storicmedia.com/shows/ 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MtbjNk... Google Pod: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtotickle... 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: https://www.instagram.com/picpherser/ →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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Living with a Death Sentence
11/22/2022
Living with a Death Sentence
On the same day in 1985, the following three things happened to Andy Cumming, in this order: He found out that his testicular cancer, for which he’d been undergoing chemo treatments for five years, was gone, for good. He proposed to his girlfriend. He’d been waiting until he was in the clear, because he didn’t want to saddle her with a dying husband. That afternoon, he found out that he’d gotten HIV through a blood transfusion he received for his hemophilia. How does your worst day stack up against that? But that was almost 40 years ago. Today, he’s still alive and even survived a liver transplant. Duff and Matt speak with Andy about how constantly being told he was dying has informed the way he has lived. Check out Storic Media for more: 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MtbjNk... Google Pod: 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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Is the Future Analog?
11/15/2022
Is the Future Analog?
For years we were promised a digital utopia, where technology or the algorithm would allow us to optimize ourselves into a state of permanent satisfaction. After spending some time being shut in during quarantine with all the digital tools we wanted, it seems like people are more eager to unplug than ever. To quote this week’s guest, David Sax, “The digital future was finally here and it f****** sucked”. Duff and Matt speak with Sax about where human interaction is more important, the convenience of technology and his new book, The Future is Analog: How to Create a More Human World.
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How To Find The Funny In Everything
11/08/2022
How To Find The Funny In Everything
Today’s guest comes to us courtesy of Tinseltown. The funny side of it. The REALLY funny side of it. Owen Burke is a comedian and producer who has worked with Comedy Central’s Drunk History and FunnyorDie. He tickles people for a living. He's pretty much a tickling expert. Owen talks about how doing improv comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre helped unlock his creative freedom, what it was like to pitch “The Art of the Deal: The Movie” to Johnny Depp and how to find the funny in everything.
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The Near Death Experience: Jeremy Down
11/01/2022
The Near Death Experience: Jeremy Down
For the first part of his life, you would have described Jeremy Down as an artist, musician, and creator. He fronted bands, traveled with the art collective DrawnOnward, and lived a good life. But a near death experience in 2001 - after a canoe capsized during a winter paddle, he got hypothermia and his brain pretty much shut off – revealed the layers of consciousness and spiritual balance needed for happiness, and he has spent the last few decades taking deep breaths and seeking deeper truths. Check out Jeremy Down's Website: https://www.jeremydown.com
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Empowering Students With Bob Osborne
10/25/2022
Empowering Students With Bob Osborne
During almost twenty-three years of teaching, Bob Osborne has mentored and taught well over a thousand kids. He’s taught 1-3 grades, 7-12 grades, and graduate students. Mr. O, as his students call him, starts every year by establishing a basis for respect. Then he tries to show them how to take ownership of their own learning. The formula works, and Mr. O’s story is so inspiring they should make a movie about him.
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Consciousness and the Mind of an Addict with Joe Schrank
10/18/2022
Consciousness and the Mind of an Addict with Joe Schrank
When Duff was struggling with alcoholism, Joe Schrank stepped forward and offered to help. So don’t let Joe’s gruff demeanor, which you’ll get a full dose of in this episode, deceive you. He’s got one of the biggest hearts around. Schrank is a Social worker, an interventionist, a community advocate, and the cofounder of TheFix.com. We speak with Joe about marijuana, the drug war, alcohol tax justice and more.
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Consciousness and the Audio Book: The Voice Actor’s Challenge with Sean Pratt
10/11/2022
Consciousness and the Audio Book: The Voice Actor’s Challenge with Sean Pratt
If you listened to the audiobook version of TICKLED, you were listening to Sean Pratt’s award-winning voice, which has won him 9 “Earphones” awards from AudioFile Magazine, 5 SOVAS nominations, and 5 “audie” nominations from the Audio Publishers Association. Sean is also the author of To Be or Wanna Be – The Top Ten Differences between a Successful Actor and a Starving Artist, an actor’s how-to book that talks about approaches and behaviors that separate a thriving actor from a starving artist. When Sean isn’t narrating the 1,101st book, he’s coaching other performers on audiobook narration technique. We’re excited to talk to him about how he finds the tickle in all the stories that he tells. #howtotickleyourself #audiobooks #acting →WATCH more How To Tickle Yourself! ← Sobriety and Self Realization | DeDee Pfeiffer | How to Tickle Yourself - https://youtu.be/ftpHDJ95xDg 👉Click here to Subscribe! 👉 http://bit.ly/storicYT Check out Storic Media for more: http://storicmedia.com/shows/ 🎧 👉Listen to the How to Tickle Yourself Podcast here:👇 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6MtbjNk... Google Pod: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... 🎨Follow How To Tickle Yourself 🖌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtotickle... 🙋♂️Follow Matt and Duff! 😅 Matt: https://www.instagram.com/picpherser/ →ABOUT How To Tickle Yourself← Why do we exist? What are we supposed to do while we’re here? What is the nature of reality and what is the Self? How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about the miracle of existence. It’s about spirituality, self-realization, and most of all – the joy of being a seeker. It’s where self-help meets philosophy, where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and you will discover your true purpose. And once you find that, the rest will take care of itself.
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Songwriting and the Death of the Ego with Anna Mernieks-Duffield
10/04/2022
Songwriting and the Death of the Ego with Anna Mernieks-Duffield
Our guest today is nothing short of a rock star. Her name is Anna Mernieks-Duffield, and she is the lead singer, banjo player, and guitarist of the Toronto-based band BEAMS, as well as the guitarist and backup singer of the band Ace of Wands – we’ve had drummer Jodeye Brummel on the show – as well as the sometime guitarist and backup singer of a third band, The Fern Tips. She’s also an arborist. She collects information about trees, around development sites and which trees should be saved and protected. In other words, she’s doing God’s work, both on stage and off. We speak with Anna about songwriting, BEAMS' most recent album, Ego Death, and their next one, Requiem for a Planet, which they recorded right here in the Catskills.
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Meditation and the Self-Realization Fellowship with Brother Satyananda
09/27/2022
Meditation and the Self-Realization Fellowship with Brother Satyananda
This week on How to Tickle Yourself we learn about the Self-Realization Fellowship, an organization that teaches meditation and the philosophy of the Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. We asked Brother Satyananda, who has been a monk of the SRF monastic community for over 40 years, how the teachings of Yogananda can help us find the tickle.
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The Tickle of Bob Dylan with Steven Jenkins
09/20/2022
The Tickle of Bob Dylan with Steven Jenkins
We invite a special guest on How to Tickle Yourself this week. His name is Steven Jenkins, and he is director of the recently opened Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the perfect guest to help us explore the unbelievable artistry and playful nature of Dylan’s incomparable craft.
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The Sri Aurobindo Episode with Debashish Banerji
09/13/2022
The Sri Aurobindo Episode with Debashish Banerji
We have mentioned Sri Aurobindo in almost every episode of this podcast. The reason for that is that the Indian philosopher, yogi, poet, journalist, and nationalist is one of the most profound thinkers in all of human history, and whatever your topic, whatever the conversation, it is highly likely that he has had something insightful to say about it. This week Duff speaks with Professor and Author Debashish Banerji about Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy.
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Sobriety and Self-Realization: DeDee Pfeiffer
09/06/2022
Sobriety and Self-Realization: DeDee Pfeiffer
This week we speak with the wonderful DeDee Pfeiffer who plays Denise Brisbane in ABC's "Big Sky". The role is a return to acting for Dedee, who spent 10 years away from Hollywood to earn a master's degree in social work from UCLA, concentrating in mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness. Some of that subject matter is close to home: Dedee is sober and an advocate for the long overdue open dialogue about addiction. Oh, she also believes in the paranormal and alien life forms. So we can talk to her about Hollywood, sobriety, self-realization, and aliens. Are there any other topics that matter?
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The Laughing Gut Episode with Adam Benziger
08/30/2022
The Laughing Gut Episode with Adam Benziger
While we try not to play favorites here on How to Tickle Yourself, we’re going to make an exception this one time. The best commercially available kombucha in the New York region is Laughing Gut Kombucha. Brewed by today’s guest Adam Benziger just down the road from here, in Poughkeepsie. Adam has figured something out about the delicate balance between flavor and subtlety that makes for a great kombucha. This guy is following his tickles, all the way to deliciousness. Duff and Matt sit down with Adam to learn more about the art of brewing Kombucha and the rapidly evolving and growing commercial kombucha industry.
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A Time for Color with Thomas and Landa Peniston
08/23/2022
A Time for Color with Thomas and Landa Peniston
While we’ve had a few authors on this show, one thing we have not had is the author of an illustrated book. This week’s guest, Thomas Peniston, is the illustrator and writer of A Time For Color: A Book About Joy. While it may seem to be a children’s book on the surface, one thing Thomas and his wife Landa, who wears the editing and marketing hats in this duo, are here to report is that they’ve got a lot of interest at the other end of the age spectrum, too, in nursing homes and retirement communitie
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Retirement and the Present Moment
08/16/2022
Retirement and the Present Moment
Steve Lopez is a longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times. A four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he’s checked off a lot of boxes in his nearly fifty-year career. At 67 years of age, Steve has been pondering the question of retirement. In search of an answer, Steve talked to dozens of people about their own retirement-related decisions and found that there are about as many answers to the question as there are people. He documents this experience with his new book Independence Day: What I Learned About
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Tickle Time with Joey Moss
08/09/2022
Tickle Time with Joey Moss
Duff McDonald and Joey Moss discuss the special things in life that bring them one step closer to the tickle of existence.
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Peter Shapiro and the Magic of Live Music
08/02/2022
Peter Shapiro and the Magic of Live Music
Great live music can tickle the soul. To find out how and why, this week Duff and Matt speak with Peter Shapiro, legendary concert promoter and author of The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic.
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Peace of Mind with Luke Froude
07/26/2022
Peace of Mind with Luke Froude
What are some steps we can take to find happiness and peace of mind. This week, friend of the podcast Luke Froude guest hosts the podcast to interview the tickle master himself, Duff McDonald.
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Consciousness and Kombucha: Hannah Crum
07/19/2022
Consciousness and Kombucha: Hannah Crum
This week Matt and Duff talk with Hannah Crum about everything Kombucha. People love this fermented, lightly effervescent, tea drink. In The Big Book of Kombucha, Crum puts it this way: “Something magical often happens when kombucha comes into people’s lives. That moment of Kombucha Kismet is often a bright dividing line between a life ruled by inertia and a path of conscious choice.”
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Consciousness and Culture: David Robertson
07/12/2022
Consciousness and Culture: David Robertson
This week Duff and Matt speak with David Robertson, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of Brick by Brick: How Lego Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. David is also a member of the Cherokee Nation, and he recently began exploring that heritage in earnest. His father, James Robertson, was a great Cherokee innovator himself, inventing the language computers use to divide. According to David, Cherokee Community Values are actually a thoughtful and n
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Consciousness and the Body: Adolphus Holden
07/05/2022
Consciousness and the Body: Adolphus Holden
Today’s guest is one of Duff's oldest friends in New York. His name is Adolphus Holden. A former professional basketball player, the latter part of Adolphus’s career has been as a personal trainer. Adolphus speaks with Duff and Matt about the role your mind plays in physical fitness.
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Consciousness and the Department of Love: Deepa Patel
06/28/2022
Consciousness and the Department of Love: Deepa Patel
When you’re looking to solve a multi-dimensional problem such as climate change – trying to triangulate different groups with different values and goals - we need a new way of thinking with a new language. Duff and Matt speak with Deepa Patel about ways we can change corporate and political governance - a Department of Love.
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Consciousness and Sound: KamranV
06/21/2022
Consciousness and Sound: KamranV
Arts Technologist KamranV builds bridges between the real and the ideal. He makes cutting edge technology, like holograms, automation, and quadraphonic sound recording, accessible to artists who want to push the boundaries of their work. Duff and Matt talk to KamranV about how new technology changes the way we interact with sound and music in our lives.
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Consciousness and Mathematics: William Byers
06/14/2022
Consciousness and Mathematics: William Byers
Philosopher of Mathematics William Byers speaks with Duff and Matt about the deeper relationship we have with numbers. How mathematics is a tool born out of intuition that our mind uses to create a deeper understanding of the world around us. His book, The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty, had a huge influence on Duff, in part inspiring the writing of his book Tickled: A Common Sense Guide to the Present Moment.
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