Beauty & Mr. B

About Beauty & Mr. B

The world today continues to disintegrate, and so … this attempt to examine the true nature of reality through the widest possible lens. In this podcast Mr. B explores ways through which we can begin to see all the radiant beauty of this world, inspiring us to live with greater meaning and purpose.

Publisher

Robert Blecher

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Mar 2020

Latest episode

22 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Emerging from Darkness...

   Today is a new day, and a new way for me to podcast. Instead of sharing a piece I've written, or structuring a conversation with several guiding questions, I thought it might be time to experiment with sharing an open-ended conversation I recently had with a close friend whose life experience and knowledge I truly value. His name is Kye Kyllean and, among the many other things he's done with his life, Kye has written a book, "Self-Importance and Bullshitty: Question Everything". We started wi...

2. 

   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Edu in the Age of AI? TBD...

   I participate in a number of education spaces, places designed to rethink the very foundations of learning and teaching. In these spaces, I sometimes receive the pleasure of meeting people who are truly knowledgeable, experienced, and just plain fun to talk with. One such new friend is Jerry Prochazka, who's particularly engaged in probing intersections between education and artificial intelligence. We've had a number of conversations, filled with the excitement of new insights, and it just s...

3. 

   27 Nov 2025

   Rethinking Educational Purpose, A Beginning...

   I taught in the public school system for more than 20 years, and not once do I remember ever having an intentional conversation on the purpose of education. Looking back, this silence seems to be absolutely remarkable, since I honestly cannot think of any question more relevant to education today than this: What is the true purpose of education? In this episode I bring together a few friends, all with different levels of experience within the institutional structures of formal education, and,...

Inside a recent episode

Emerging from Darkness...

Published 22 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is really the trend. And what I saw, how that was expressed, say, when they would come to school, is that they were completely unable to deal with the challenge. They were completely unable to work through challenge, to work through adversity. It's not that they weren't capable of it or they weren't smart. It had nothing to do with that. It's just that those capacities were suppressed. The development of those capacities were suppressed when we're not allowing a person to experience something that may be hard, something that may be contrary to what they want. Right. It's that idea. And that's really interesting because I think it gets to something you also said, because you said, and I'm taking a little bit of notes, is right now you said we need problems. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

39 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings