Episodes

  • THE DIVINE JOKE.
    Apr 26 2024

    Mark and Eric talk about the upside-downside, good/evil encompassing nature of divinity and how to keep faith while being in on the joke. This one is all about why it is okay to admit you cannot know everything and are free to hold life with levity.

    We hope you love it! Be good to each other!

    Heart, Mark and Eric

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    24 mins
  • CASUALTIES OF EMPIRE (WELCOME TO THE REBELLION).
    Apr 16 2024

    Mark and Eric talk about how to think about fast changing times and cultural systems which often feel out of our control. We hope you love it!

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    25 mins
  • PARENTING AGAINST CULTURAL PRESSURE.
    Mar 14 2024

    Mark and Eric talk about how to parent kids towards their natural gifting and talents and away from cultural pressure. We hope you love it!

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    14 mins
  • PLANETARY MYTHOLOGY.
    Mar 3 2024

    Mark and Eric talk about how religion has changed in human intellectual evolution and what kind of mythology has its place in the post-modern world. So small potatoes...

    We hope you love it!
    Mark and Eric

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    26 mins
  • FOLLOW YOUR BLISS.
    Jan 31 2024

    Mark and Eric chat about a quote by Joseph Campbell, one of the first to popularize comparative mythology, and introduce a new poem called FOLLOW YOUR BLISS (you can read it at www.textandrock.com/poetry). We talk about how many people feel caught between their passion and just trying to make it...and how to hold it all at once. We hope you love it!


    Text and Rock On.

    Be good to each other,
    Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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    20 mins
  • SNAKE BITES AND HOLY ROLLERS.
    Jan 31 2024

    Mark and Eric talk about how having an internal authority and a righteous mind means having inner peace no matter what life throws at you. We hope you love it!


    Text and Rock On.

    Be good to each other,
    Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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    18 mins
  • WIND DOWN OF THE WEST.
    Nov 17 2023

    Mark and Eric talk about the worrisome trends of western production and consumption, and introduce the poem Corporate Future. This is the second of two episodes we filmed at the Dubuque Street skate park in Iowa City. We hope you love it!


    Text and Rock On.

    Be good to each other,
    Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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    17 mins
  • PEACE PARADOX.
    Nov 9 2023

    Mark and Eric jam on the power of peace in an age of un-creative violence, asking whether we gave everything around us its living essence, and whether or not we have any right to take it away. This episode suggest the most powerful peace is capable or violence and retaliation, but makes a choice to stand down.

    Text and Rock On.

    Be good to each other,
    Mark Shaffer and Eric Madison

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    12 mins