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the Way of the Showman

Captain Frodo

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/13j. Total Éps: 174

Philosophical and esoteric perspectives from a modern day Showman.
Each season is different in its approach. S1 is essays. S2 is one book length attempt at Understanding Showmanship, S3 is conversations with remarkable Showfolk. The brand new Season 4 explores the relationship between Showmanship and Play.
The host, Captain Frodo, internationally renowned circus performer, director, writer, husband and dad lays out, in great detail, his practical performance philosophy for performers who seek to deepen the conversation with their audiences and themselves. You can find him, and more of his writing at: www.thewayoftheshowman.com

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115 - Why Are We Born so Helpless (Showmanship & Play 14)

Saison 4 · Épisode 115

mardi 3 septembre 2024 • Durée 37:58

Why are we born so helpless. The answer will takes us through the history of human evolution and into the dualling biological need of a growing human head and the anatomical changes coming from our upright walking.

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Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.
You'll find the store here: https://thewayoftheshowman.printdrop.com.au

If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.
If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.com
or find out more on the Way of the Showman website.
you can follow the Way of Instagram where it is, not surprisingly thewayoftheshowman.
If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

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114 - Play as Self Creation (Showmanship & Play 13)

Saison 4 · Épisode 114

mardi 20 août 2024 • Durée 01:00:15

In this episode I talk about

Peter Gray and his book Free to Learn - Why unleasing the instinc to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life.

We talk about how play is learning.
how we today think about play as something which is dont to children. Not something they actively participate and even lead.
for 10.000 years + kids have been learning all by themselves - THROUGH PLAY
Kids play themselve into useful members of their communities.
When we play we are FREE in a way we arent in other aspects of life.
Chimpanzees learn by looking, not by being taught.
The amount of things infants needs to learn is almost insurmountable
Playfully participating in life gets imbedded in us and helps us emotionally able to deal with life.
WIthout playing in childhood you can get difficulties in your emotional connections with others as an adult. ANd many other problems become more prevalent.
Kids has the strongest desire to play because the have the most to learn.
Playful aproaches to the world affords more possibilites. It increases your degrees of freedom.
The colonialisation of childhood by others.
Abusing play as a tool for teaching.
BUT play needs to be self motivated. It needs to be voluntary.
Adults think play is useful only when it can be harnessed to teach something from the decided upon by adults from the curriculum.

Learning happens INSIDE the school and play outside. This is a subtle indoctrination.
The serious that happens inside the classroom is of value. The time wasting play happens outside in recess.
Play is learning as nature intended it for us. Driven by enthusiasm and not to do well on a standardized test.

Playing teaches each of us how to be ourselves! It shows us who we are!
Learning is not JUST what happens in schools.
its not something you buys. Its what you do in the process of developing yourself as a human being.

Biology does not give us built in answers to what it means to be a human. It has given a method to aquire answers. This method is play. This way of being in the world is HOW evolution has equiped us to find ourselves and our WAY.

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Genes and biology isn’t giving us readymade answers hardwired to solve the difficulties of becoming and staying human. Instead of giving us answers which, as all answers, can be right or wrong, or useful or useless, nature has given us a process to aquire answers. Evolution gave us a method, or an approach to generate answers, not individual answers. This process is play. Perhaps schools

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105 - Don't Be Afraid to be Modern with the Birdmann Trent Baumann

Saison 4 · Épisode 105

mardi 28 mai 2024 • Durée 02:02:43

In this episode I catch up with an old friend, a unique and philosophically inclined comedian and clown Mr Trent Birdmann. We talk about our shows together, our thoughts on our past, present and the uncertainties about the future. We share stories and insights about our lives as Showmen trying to make it in the modern world.

You can find Trent Baumann on Instagramm and Facebook by searching for his name.
You can find out more about him on his website.

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15 - the Imaginary Circus

Saison 1 · Épisode 15

mardi 15 septembre 2020 • Durée 01:01:52

After I began releasing the episodes about the Mythopoetic Carnival I discovered a concept within the field of sociology which maps uncannily well onto our own project. I explore these similarities. The concept is the Collective Imaginary or social imaginary as its also called. One of the interesting things we learn from this is that it can change which excites me as I see us Showfolk as potential agents of change.
We then have a look at how circus has changed in the popular imagination in the barely three hundred years it's been around. We take a quick glance as to how this reflects, in a funhouse-mirror kind of way, the Way of the freemasons.
To wrap up the episode we look at how Sherlock Holmes became realised, made more real, when a bank hired the imaginary detective a secretary to answer his mail for 70 years.

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14 - the Kingdom of Childhood

Saison 1 · Épisode 14

mardi 8 septembre 2020 • Durée 44:37

This time we take a short break from the Mythopoetic Explorations and instead take a look into the strange and beautiful Kingdom of Childhood. We try to understand the denizens with their peculiar vocation of play. Kids, as the inhabitants of the Kingdom are called, play for a living. Their weird, but also wonderful. I used to be one you know. I don't know when I left, but I know that I can't return.
We have to sneak a peak over the walls and through the keyhole of the gates since us adults have lost the ability to re-enter. Come join me on this trip to the exotic geography of Childhood.

Show notes:
Mitch Jones' excellent article.

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13 - Get Into It (Secret Doorway)

Saison 1 · Épisode 13

mardi 1 septembre 2020 • Durée 56:37

The concept of the carnival of dreams seems so abstract. This is the opposite of a real world carnival. Today we explore the tarot as a possible tool for creating a mental midway, a carnival that comes to your town as you lay them out on the table, and thus by looking at them we can take a more concrete walk down a manifestation of the Mythopoetic Midway.

I want there to be some more practical aspects to this project. This is one such attempt.

Show notes:
Jung and Tarot
Jung's lecture on tarot
Alejandro Jodorowski on tarot
Jung's collective unconscious
T S Eliot Four quartets

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Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.
You'll find the store here: https://thewayoftheshowman.printdrop.com.au

If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.
If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.com
or find out more on the Way of the Showman .you can follow the Way of Instagram where it is, not surprisingly thewayoftheshowman.If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:

12 - Strange Loops

Saison 1 · Épisode 12

mardi 25 août 2020 • Durée 50:15

The path we walk in todays episode goes from the gutters and all the way into sacred, religious territory. We start with the lowbrow, in the trash stratum, we explore the gutter, dreaming of the stars. We then explore dreams and the night, and its transformative powers, before morphing from the dream landscapes into transcendent experiences and how they have the power to change your life and your view of the world.
Before we start our main walk we try to understand what a metaphor is, and what kind of metaphors are the most fertile. We also get another poem by The Australian Master Showman turned poet, Shep Huntly, called the Reprobates Lament.

Show notes:
Scott Nery's blog - A daily source of ideas, and inspiration.
Shep Huntly - poet and Showman. This is his website, but if you want to find his poems look him up on Facebook.
Art inspired by dreams
Freud - the Interpretation of Dreams
Mircea Eliade Interesting dude, philosopher and historian of Religion
a chapter from Eliade's book the Sacred and the Profane, on homogeneity of space and hierophany.
Johns Hopkins study - on trancendental experiences drug induced and non drug induced.

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Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.You'll find the store here: If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comor find out more on the Way of the Showman .you can follow the Way of Instagram where it is, not surprisingly thewayoftheshowman.If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:

11 - Sexual Selection of Carnival Attractions

Saison 1 · Épisode 11

mardi 18 août 2020 • Durée 52:15

Strange days are upon us. Some are calling for the abolishment of 2020, others are asking for their money back and are refusing to add this year to their sequence of birthdays. But I am asking for a radical rethinking of the time given to us by the Pandemic. Get cracking with the creating!
Revolution, evolution, sexual and other selection as how the female of the species shapes the males to their liking.
The Carnival is an organism subjected to the same laws of nature the rest of biology struggles under. Like the constrictions placed on us Showfolk by the current pandemic there are various selection processes working on the carnival, both the Outer and the Inner. We learn one of the great secrets of Illuminated Showmanship, how it came to mirror the human soul.

Show Notes:
Alan Watts - What if money was no object.
Austin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist
Before and after shots of clean air in India.
Tolkien quote "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Little Egypt article with links to clips.
Little Egypts filmed by Edison
Darwin's letter to Asa Gray where he says: "The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!"
Evolution of Whales - 2nd episode of an excellent PBS documentary. - Dog-like whale ancestor

10 - the Carny & the Circus Princess

Saison 1 · Épisode 10

lundi 10 août 2020 • Durée 41:00

We try to understand what this special carnival is, what's its nature? It is not your regular down and out collection of rides and crooked, rigged carnival games. One way of looking at it is by comparing it to Plato's Theory of Ideas. We also take a look at the real world inspiration that lead me towards the idea that the carnival would be a fertile place for our mythopoetic seeds to grow. This place was a homegrown carnival Showgrounds in Adelaide, South Australia called the Garden of Unearthly Delights. So come with me on a journey to better grasp the nature of the Mythopoetic Carnival.

Show notes:

The Space Cowboy
Plato's Theory of Ideas or Forms
Nancy Rommelmann's article: Lives of the Carnies
Garden of Unearthly Delights - The nature of this garden has changed now from the pioneer days, but its still amazing.
The Happy Sideshow
the Tiny Top
Trent "Birdmann" Baumann
Captain Frodo's Can Balance - Follow Your dreams
Circus Princess - The concept is well known throughout Scandinavia and as this link shows has made it into the danish dictionary.

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Now you can get t-shirts and hoodies with our wonderful logo. This is the best new way to suport the podcast project. Become a proud parader of your passion for Showmanship and our glorious Craft whilst simultanously helping to gather more followers for the Way.You'll find the store here: If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to contact me about anything, including wanting me to collaborate on one of your projects you can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comor find out more on the Way of the Showman .you can follow the Way of Instagram where it is, not surprisingly thewayoftheshowman.If you find it in you and you have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at:

9 - Mythopoetic Carnival

Saison 1 · Épisode 9

lundi 3 août 2020 • Durée 56:23

Mythopoetic means myth making. A grand voyage is undertaken, a quest is begun, we set sails on the Showmanship and seek a mythic continent, a land of tales, and characters, manifestations of the Showman's Craft. We seek a firm foundation in the lowest of the low. Arguments are made that this low ground is the Carnival. In all unearthing of meaning there is some digging needed, things will get a little dirty, but when the discoveries are resonant and fertile enough to plant a mythopoetic seed then perhaps we can grow an entire mythology of Showmanship. A mythological underground for the Circus and the Carnival.
This theme of myth creation is so expansive it will follow us for the next few episodes.

A few Show notes:

Joseph Campbell - Hero with a thousand Faces. Influence on Star Wars (& others).
Imposter Syndrome.
Owen Barfield - Evolution of Consciousness and words as fossilised reflections of consciousness.
Mythopoeia - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Inklings.
Freemasonry's two histories
Midway
Chicago World Fair
Bikini Kill - Carnival
Ferris wheel

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