BREATHE N BOUNCE

The Emotional Backdrop: Music & Resilience If you’ve listened to the show, you know we don’t just talk: we use music to ground the narrative. There’s something about the right song that makes you feel like you aren’t the only person on the planet feeling this way. When I’m doing my 5-minute ritual, I usually have something playing in the background. It helps drown out the unnecessary calling out crap that people do online. Last week, when I was having one of those "depressing moments," I put on a playlist featuring artists like Bon Iver and Gregory Alan Isakov . It’s music that feels like a cold morning: a little bit lonely, but beautiful in its own way. We have to learn how to let the moments guide us, rather than fighting them all the time. In the episode Michael in the Raw , Michael talks about that raw honesty of just being human. It’s not always pretty. Sometimes, the "ritual" is just acknowledging that life is hard right now and not being too hard on ...

Today I talk about the damage I have caused to people and for whatever reason, there is no good reason.  I talk about what made me become an angry person who didn't care about how I treated people and when did I finally decide that enough was enough and I had to hold myself accountable. MUSIC FROM THIS FROM THIS EPISODE MONSTER - Kanye West, Jay Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj A MANSION IN THE DARKNESS - King Diamond FALL APART - Twiztid DARK SIDE - Skydxddy BASTARDS - Machine Head OTHER SIDE - Illenium

Last weekend, I finally got the chance to see Steven Spielberg’s latest,  Disclosure Day . I walked out with so many feelings that I knew I had to write about it immediately. The movie deals with the cover-up of alien life forms and the few special people brave enough to expose it, showing the world that we are definitely not alone. As an 80s kid, Spielberg was the benchmark for my creativity.  E.T.  was one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater, and Spielberg still has that special kind of magic. Even with a few "stinkers" in his filmography, when he hits, he hits. The score and the themes of  Disclosure Day  brought me right back to being that 10-year-old kid sitting in the dark, eyes wide at the screen. I won't give too much away, but there are some great car chases, a wild scene involving a train, and plenty of that dystopian sci-fi I love. The movie is set against the backdrop of a looming nuclear war—the news is obsessed with it, totally unaware ...