My Life in Show Business
John Allen and what is.
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Suffering Is Not a Glitch- Part One
08/17/2020
Suffering Is Not a Glitch- Part One
John Allen is back to face what is.
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Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again
07/24/2020
Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again
John Allen makes a deal with "what is". Once again 'what is" pulls the football away.
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The Dogs Bark and the Caravan Moves On
07/20/2020
The Dogs Bark and the Caravan Moves On
John Allen loses yet again to what is. This time he doesn't even make it to the end of the round.
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Moooooooomy
07/10/2020
Moooooooomy
John Allen losing to what is..
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Not Dead Yet Part 2
06/25/2020
Not Dead Yet Part 2
John Allen survives yet another battle with "what is".
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Let Your Indulgence Set me Free
06/24/2020
Let Your Indulgence Set me Free
Prospero and what is.
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The Hollow Men
06/23/2020
The Hollow Men
John Allen and what is.
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Snitch Culture
06/15/2020
Snitch Culture
John Allen and what is.
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Babylon- The Looking Glass Self.
06/09/2020
Babylon- The Looking Glass Self.
John Allen takes on what is. Its a draw. Nah. What is always wins.
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Not a War When You Can Get Take out
06/01/2020
Not a War When You Can Get Take out
We gots no balls... no offence to eunuchs
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Not Here. Not Now.
05/25/2020
Not Here. Not Now.
John Allen and what is
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Not Dead Yet
05/22/2020
Not Dead Yet
John Allen and what is.
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By the Way...
05/16/2020
By the Way...
John Allen and " what is" fight it out again. Same result
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The Book of Job
05/15/2020
The Book of Job
John Allen argues with what is all by himself. So what else is new?
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No Thing
05/08/2020
No Thing
John Allen returns with what is: 0:00 Vertigo 4:00 Losing teeth. 12:00 Pointing to the future. 22:00 The opposite is true. 31:00 Mutation. 40:00 Michael Jordan. 46:00 An Imperfect Union. 57:00 I’ll do it when I do it. 1:03:00 Going all in. 1:05 The end is here all of the time.
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Taking Away the Picnic Tables
05/04/2020
Taking Away the Picnic Tables
John Allen returns with what is: 1:00 Cleaning stuff up. 3:00 Paternalism and taking away the picnic tables. 13:00 Doctors. 22:00 A good handyman. 40:00 Submissive fantasies raise the ante of illicitness. 51:00 Michael Lewis. 59:00 Unknowingly caught in a loop. 1:03:00 Out of control growth is cancer. 1:09:00 Moral issues are now front and centre. 1:14:00 Decision Trees: Football Manager vs Proust.
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Your Destiny Is A Mystery To Us
04/30/2020
Your Destiny Is A Mystery To Us
John Allen returns with what is: 3:00 Eating big steaks and fucking some girls. 11:00 Epidemiologists breaking out in smiles. 12:00 Letting the fastball go into the old folks home. 14:00 Jailed in our houses on a beautiful spring day. 16:00 Working on the pyramids. 21:00 The future is always now. 25:00 Belief - another fucking mythology you can grab on to and drown with. 29:00 The computer game where something random doesn’t happen is not much fun - Allan Watts. 35:00 Bob Dylan and projecting through Kennedy. 41:00 The things we thought weren’t going to change are changing. 50:00 When I’m at my best I’m a passenger. 55:00 Eisenhower’s warning. 1:07:00 A future full of minefields, betrayal and self-interest. 1:10:00 Mornings are for crying. 1:13:00 Death - Guaranteed. 1:19:00 Chief Seattle.
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Happy Ducks
04/26/2020
Happy Ducks
John Allen returns with what is: 0:00 Low flying ducks. 2:00 Don't need airplanes anymore. 3:00 People are the problem. 8:00 Trump walks away. 11:00 Yahoo protesters. 19:00 No issues. 26:00 Henry Ford and the birth of the consumer economy. 32:00 Discovering the little moments in life. 38:00 Volleyball beach takeover. 45:00 Going inside. 51:00 Zoom ruins the day.
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Going Inside
04/22/2020
Going Inside
0:00 With Mum and Dad at Google Home. 8:00 The Inner Guru will take you where you need to go. 18:00 The peak is a good sign. 24:00 Eastern people are the nicest. 33:00 We are a product of the things that rub up against us. 34:00 All men are misogynists at heart.
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A Good Actor Dying
04/18/2020
A Good Actor Dying
0:00 Our kids are going to grow up in hell. 3:00 Trump’s "Liberate" tweets are Machiavellian genius. 4:00 Like Trump - getting away with everything. 10:00 The numbers keep going up in Canada. 14:00 Pandemic haves and have-nots. 21:00 We live in a monarchy: private business runs things and we don’t have a say about it. 34:00 Hitler’s Birthday. Gotta know your enemy. 37:00 Why Shakespeare? He’s the best. 39:00 Immediacy.
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Let Slip the Dogs of War
04/16/2020
Let Slip the Dogs of War
0:00 The American election truly begins. 3:00 Elites can work from their computers. 6:00 The worst time to be alive is the time between empires. 8:00 Mask fashion. 11:00 Kicking in the TV. 21:00 Obama in the backroom. 27:00 The Federales. 32:00 Trump has had no obstacles in life and so can’t handle them now. 35:00 The Chinese know how to govern. 38:00 Going to live like sheep. 39:00 Eat your plants kids and the coronavirus will spare you.
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Our Revels Now Are Ended
04/14/2020
Our Revels Now Are Ended
John Allen returns with what is: 0:00 The life we’ve created for ourselves as a species. 11:00 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. 18:00 Validation - there is no you except in reflection from someone else. 28:00 One more kick at the can with the babes - all I ever wanted. 34:00 This is a pandemic, not a war. 40:00 Words and consequences. 45:00 Instead of unravelling during the pandemic people are doubling down. 49:00 We are in our loops. 52:00 Gatsby > Prospero. 54:00 Act 4 Scene 1
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Goodbye to Everything
04/12/2020
Goodbye to Everything
John Allen returns with what is: 10:00 Being happy with the pandemic. 33:00 You have to say goodbye to everything - including yourself. 44:00 A terrified population that’s never had anything bad happen to them in their lives. 48:00 The things we feel out there are always about us. 53:00 I should not be in a pandemic. 56:00 One more blow job. 1:04:00 We grew up on ice. 1:07:00 Proust’s prose gun. 1:11:00 Pretty damn liberal.
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Amateur Lesbian Porn
04/08/2020
Amateur Lesbian Porn
John Allen returns with what is. 1:00 Becoming more and more of a commie. 4:00 The guy who goes to work every day. 7:00 Virus has been out a long time. 9:00 Does the virus have a mind? 14:00 Everything is a transaction. 20:00 No wonder you’re tired. 23:00 Right now there is no virus here. 24:00 Moving toward authoritarianism. 26:00 Real problem is the Depression that is going to come after. 28:00 Trump is tactical not strategic. 34:00 Amateur Lesbian Porn. 36:00 The point of case in point teaching. 42:00 Not having Covid is going to make you a second class citizen. 44:00 We don’t want to live just by numbers. 46:00 Happiness isn’t a commodity. 47:00 Interesting times.
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Maybe, Just Be Less of An Asshole.
04/03/2020
Maybe, Just Be Less of An Asshole.
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This Insubstantial Pageant Faded
03/31/2020
This Insubstantial Pageant Faded
John Allen returns with what is.
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I Guess We're Fucked
03/22/2020
I Guess We're Fucked
John Allen returns with what is.
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Shelter in Place
03/17/2020
Shelter in Place
John Allen returns with what is: 0:00 Not releasing pods. 1:00 Practice. 2:00 Good conversation is what people like to listen to on podcasts. 4:00 Each play took 7 years to write: a perfectionist. 8:00 10 second gap - NOT AN EDIT ! WE NEVER EDIT ! 10:00 I know when I hear it whether it works. 13:00 I don’t mind not putting them up because I know I’m getting better. 15:00 That’s Canada: apologizing in the sex clubs. 16:00 I like getting up in the morning. 19:00 The brain is a predicting machine. 23:00 Pay attention. 26:00 Is anyone checking on you? 29:00 Killing your parents. 30:00 I called my mother from all over the world. 33:00 Isn’t it better just to build the ramp for the wheelchair guy and not give a shit what you call him? 34:00 We have to worry whether we are connected or it’s not going to work. 37:00 1929? We don’t know. We’re making up stories. 38:00 My data is listening to it. 40:00 I’m unsophisticated. I don’t have emotional granularity. 41:00 Proust so dense. Wants to give you an entire life. A mommy’s boy. 46:00 These days there’s only one guy for me - Bill. 48:00 It’s not like I’m in the middle of a pandemic. 50:00 Shakespeare’s thing: the pulling out of rugs: Lear. 53:00 Bad things never happen the way you think they’re going to happen. It always comes in the side door. It’s your brain thinking this is the best thing for survival.
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The Distance Between Us
03/14/2020
The Distance Between Us
John Allen returns with what is: 1:00 Sitting two metres apart. 4:00 Vitamin C. 6:00 You don’t want to discuss it because we might have to do it. 8:00 Judging the toilet paper and hand sanitizer hoarders. 13:00 In America everyboy’s got a gun. 16:00 Esselstyn Diet: off of diabetes medication in five days. 20:00 Tom Hanks has Corona Virus and Diabetes 2 (underlying condition). 21:00 Virus is an excuse for practice. 22:00 If I was President of the USA. 23:00 No sports: Guys are just going to drink and punch out their wives. 26:00 Culling the tribe. 29:00 It needs a host. 32:00 Counselling: Checking in. 34:00 Transparency and telling the babes I just want to bang them. 36:00 Just wake yourself up once a day. 37:00 Wake up and just realize you’re here. …
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O Canada
03/12/2020
O Canada
John Allen returns with what is: 0:00 Canada is one of the first countries to test CoVid19 early and aggressively. 5:00 This beautiful thing we’ve created: Government. 11:00 Thieves Oil. 14:00 Coffee Break: Batman mug. 15:00 Talking about your day. 18:00 What Would John Allen Say? 21:00 Vitamin C. 24:00 One Look Over the Coffee Table in the Morning. 29:00 Joe’s going to be presidential on CoVid. 33:00 We didn’t take the guys at the railroads and shoot ‘em. 35:00 The Model and the Snake. 40:00 Aristotle, Chekov & Art. 41:00 The People in the Funny Jackets. 45:00 To dream and fill in the blanks. 47:00 I can finally be me. My whole life has been a waste. 50:00 Can you be funny without telling jokes? 51:00 How to reduce suffering. 55:00 Battle of Britain: Make peace with this God Moment. 59:00 Right now is a perfect moment. 1:00:00 The reason I counsel is that I’d rather not work on myself. 1:04:00 When I broke down doing the dishes. How wonderful it was to be alive. 1:11:00 Ozymandias. 1:12:00 Dying is happening all of the time.
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