The Airship

About The Airship

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Publisher

Dojo Earth

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2025

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026

   The Thickness Between Us

   Carmen Studer has spent six and a half years studying narcissism from the inside, and she arrives with a map: four ways it gets in — the slow fall, the false promise, the weak point, the sudden temptation. I arrive with a folder. A narcissist renders a thicker reality than yours. You don't fall for their cruelty, you fall for how they see you — and you want them to own the room, because being owned is the only way you've ever been that beautiful. Then you start owning the folder yourself, and the love bombing stops. Not because they turned. Because you got thick. From there: why the victim is love bombing the narcissist too, why Sam Vaknin is the charlatan of narcissism rather than its ninth level, why a black belt is a fraud, why you take up smoking so you're allowed to be alone, and why the wound that ruins your marriage is the one that makes you an artist. We end on what love might look like when the sovereign individual is strong enough not to need the old arrangement — and on the only advice worth giving: I trust you to fuck this up completely. Chapters 00:00 Afternoon land, and hell has levels 02:04 The Hall of Mirrors — you can't see the mask you're wearing 03:41 Narcissism is a spectrum, not a label 06:04 Carmen's six years, and the night the boundaries moved inside 07:35 A word from our sponsor: Divorce 08:50 Four ways it gets in 10:33 The narcissist renders a thicker reality 11:51 Innocence that owns the room, and the wish to possess it 13:09 Sam Vaknin, the dark triad, and the fourth thing 16:20 The slow fall is the overtaking of the folder 18:33 The victim is love bombing the narcissist too 22:03 Your suffering is a painting, not a testimony 27:16 Husbandry — "I am too much of a person to be a husband" 30:26 Bamboo dragons: the wound that paid better 34:06 Why the love bombing stops 38:35 Smoking as a boundary you couldn't hold yourself 45:45 Vapors of victimhood, and why a black belt is a fraud 47:20 Ignorance, fear, anger — the prana economy underneath 52:19 The future of love: sovereignty, matriarchy, clan 58:41 There is no greater wisdom than embodied wisdom Find Carmen: ⁨@CarmenSmithStuder⁩ Find @JamesTrue Theme Music by @jarue369 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkZkJ0F43o

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Church of the Sacred Fool

   In 2023 Jason broke his back and found out he has near end-stage osteoporosis. Since then he has been making paintings and music from a hospital bed, recording everything on his cell phone. He paints as PowerFOOL ThunderCLOWNS, a name he took from the Heyoka, the sacred fool who walks back into the village in disguise to shake it awake. We talk about pain as a practice rather than a problem: how limitation made the best work of his life, why the best songs are the ones too hard to listen to, and how the blues grew out of the field songs. We get into why unfair pain goes further than fair pain once you alchemize it, and why witnessing someone's pain beats trying to fix it. And maybe bliss is just pain we haven't practiced enough yet. Find Jason as PowerFOOL ThunderCLOWNS. Subscribe to the Dojo Earth podcast on any podcast platform or on the Dojo Earth YouTube channel. **Chapters** (fine-tune after the new transcript) 0:00 Intro 1:36 A broken back and a hospital-bed studio 5:00 The Heyoka and the awakening 9:29 What pain looks like in color 16:55 Screaming into the void 20:13 God as the most intense pain 23:44 The blues, field songs and Elvis 31:03 Everyone's pain scale is their own 35:06 The pain church 43:08 Choosing to stay 49:03 Christ and unfair pain 52:26 A new word for pain 58:58 Outro Find Jason El: Substack: https://powerfoolthunderclown.substack.com Insta: https://www.instagram.com/powerfoolthunderclown/ Find @JamesTrue on YouTube Theme Music by @jarue369 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkZkJ0F43o

3. 

   12 Sept 2026

   The Heart Must Be Named

   Lori spent seven years walking the rainbow, one colour a year, and got stuck on yellow. They taught her the yellow ray was love. She couldn't square it. Isn't the heart love? Maybe not. The heart has the fewest neurons of any organ you own — fewer than the gut, fewer than the retina. Love needs enough mind to grasp that something is precious; without that it's only attraction. So the heart can't quite do it. What the heart has instead is innocence: crucified between a cross of bones, electrocuted every second or so, bleeding for you over and over precisely because it is too simple to remember the last time. That stupidity is a compliment. It's the whole design. And it has never once been noticed by the only thing whose attention would mean anything to it. So: name it. Not as a metaphor. Give your heart, your gut, your lungs, your retina each a name, because the moment you name a thing it knows when it's being spoken to — and that's the first step to finding the levers inside yourself you haven't located yet. Along the way: why there are no green stars, and what a concrete mind has to do with living somewhere lush. Why the locals in a beautiful place get so strange about being local — and why surviving a hurricane makes you instantly native, a geographical trauma bond. Cajun names, a town with no one left in it who shares its name, and a heritage built on exile. The ostrich feather on the scale, and why the grounded bird is the right one to weigh a heart. Why heart transplants shouldn't work and do, and what donors leave behind. Why blue LEDs took three decades longer to invent than red, what plants do when handed blue light, and what an orca sees instead of colour. It ends somewhere neither of us expected: that we learned to value gold, then money, then time — and that what we were actually after the whole way was qualia. Five minutes of the real thing over a hundred years of the other. Find Lori: Substack: https://reclaimbelonging.substack.com Website: https://www.reclaimbelonging.com Find @JamesTrue on YouTube Theme Music by @jarue369 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkZkJ0F43o

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558

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

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Social presence

0

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64

Engagement

32

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