An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 2
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10/20/22 • 30 min
In part 2 of Assholes, the immersive story of the Mediclub experience continues with three more fugues.
The Asshole co-hosts review the similarities between meditation, marijuana and the right hemisphere of your brain.
Then you'll see if 12-step programs fit or (don't fit) into the event.
Most importantly you'll find out what Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” has to do with the most under-appreciated part of your brain.
All culminating in a new and surprising ASS score.
See how deep these assholes go!
This is part 2 of 3.
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Credits:
Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo
Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
Script editing by Melissa "Monty" Montan
Logo design by Justin Montan
Follow Fugues: Substack | X | Instagram | Threads | TikTok
References:
- Jill Bolte Taylor TED talk - “My Stroke of Insight”
- Weed and mindfulness, being present
- Carl Sagan on THC and brain hemispheres
- The history of 12 step programs
- Synchrony creates social bonds (Scientific American)
- Your (Tiny Dancer) Cerebellum
- More on cerebellum anatomy and function
- Private Dancer (Tina Turner)
- Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
- Audience choir from Jacob Collier
In part 2 of Assholes, the immersive story of the Mediclub experience continues with three more fugues.
The Asshole co-hosts review the similarities between meditation, marijuana and the right hemisphere of your brain.
Then you'll see if 12-step programs fit or (don't fit) into the event.
Most importantly you'll find out what Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” has to do with the most under-appreciated part of your brain.
All culminating in a new and surprising ASS score.
See how deep these assholes go!
This is part 2 of 3.
--
Credits:
Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo
Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
Script editing by Melissa "Monty" Montan
Logo design by Justin Montan
Follow Fugues: Substack | X | Instagram | Threads | TikTok
References:
- Jill Bolte Taylor TED talk - “My Stroke of Insight”
- Weed and mindfulness, being present
- Carl Sagan on THC and brain hemispheres
- The history of 12 step programs
- Synchrony creates social bonds (Scientific American)
- Your (Tiny Dancer) Cerebellum
- More on cerebellum anatomy and function
- Private Dancer (Tina Turner)
- Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
- Audience choir from Jacob Collier
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An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 1
Ever been to a group meditation? How did you feel? Third eye open and a blissful permagrin? Or awkward and self conscious?
Fugues is back with a new talk show that measures gullibility and skepticism using a powerful scale. This new spectrum is defined by Larry David, Woody Harrelson, Betty White, Bill Murray and cats (not the musical).
Gabe and his Inner voice co-host discuss the neurological and psychological mental phenomena activated during a Brooklyn meditation retreat.
Find out what a Burger King Whopper has to do with our experience of time, and why getting picked last on the dodgeball court explains our cultural divide.
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series.
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Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo
Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
Script editing by Melissa "Monty" Montan
Logo design by Justin Montan
Follow Fugues: Substack | X | Instagram | Threads | TikTok
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An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 3
The Reveal.
Find out how this Mediclub experience ends.
The Assholes push the outer limits of the ASS scale. (What geminis!)
They stumble on unexpected terrain, questioning the very nature of reality.
This is Part 3 of 3.
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Credits:
Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin.
Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo.
Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
Script editing and voiceover by Melissa "Monty" Montan
Logo design by Justin Montan
Follow Fugues: Substack | X | Instagram | Threads | TikTok
References:
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