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Mojo: Finding The Groove

How to face the negative voices and the anxiety. How to move forward and find the groove.

Grace no more. Lost the groove, the stuff. It. The shot falls short. A step too slow. Mope at the end of that bench. What magic, we ask, when the body stumbles? Go swish without the net. Dunk when the rim is rust. This is where we tell you, you still got it.

BELT: A 2-Man Memoir is a podcast about masculinity by Joel Tauber and Eric Wilson. Dino Herrmann composed the music and did the sound design. For this episode, Mojo, we interviewed Dr. Keith Kaufman, Clinical and Sports Psychologist. Subscribe to BELT: A 2-Man Memoir and listen to it on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Podcast Index, Deezer, Vurbl, and here on our website. Copyright Eric Wilson and Joel Tauber. All rights reserved.

Mojo. Finding The Groove.

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Cock Mock: The Fall Of The Phallus

The Fall Of The Phallus.

Whither to go when the point man fails? Beyond the scrotum, find the fount.

How to stop measuring your mettle with your member. Someone is laughing at it right now, but you can live it down. Listen to our stories of downed love, and discover your inner peen, stranger to gravity.

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Zoo: Talk About Fatherhood

Talk About Fatherhood.

Where are you? Come back! Clueless fathers groan. Sons and daughters flee to the lemur pen, or the prairie dog’s. We yawp to our young, be wild and free, and then the next breath: abide the law. This is the talk about fatherhood. How to reconcile the frontier with the domicile, the crazed desert and the Sunday zoo.

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Joel’s article about intellectual sparring, comedy, and BELT in Impakter Magazine

Check out Joel’s article in Impakter Magazine that explores how comedy and intellectual sparring — like what Joel and Eric are doing in BELT: A 2-Man Memoir— can help us achieve a more enlightened form of masculinity.

WishBone: The Secrets Of Sport-Love

The Secrets Of Sport-Love.

We are pulled between aggression and affection. Take to the gridiron. Hit him helmet to helmet. Slap his ass all friendly. Man you beat down, your new best friend. Butt-pads for the bumpy world. Better: the forward pass, spiraling tightly over gravity, and the pigskin lands light in your open hands. Take off like a scalded dog.

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Raccoon: Return The Pelt

Raccoon, a podcast episode in BELT: A 2-Man Memoir. How do we become Eco-Men? Return the pelt. Eat a leaf. Bushwhack a new path.

Becoming Eco-Men.

Raccoon. Fronting the frontier. Our destiny is manifest. Daniel Boone learns a lesson. Crockett’s coonskin shrinks. Return the pelt. Eat a leaf. We unlink the chain of being. Melt down our muskets. Find animals our equal, bushwhack a new path: the eco-man.

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Eric’s article about comedy and BELT in Psychology Today

Check out Eric’s Psychology Today article on how BELT: A 2-Man Memoir is the ecstatic et cetera of generous improvisation. “How Melancholy Comedy Makes Us Happy: Comedy helps us keep our expectations closer to reality.”

UberMan: Man-Talk About Motors

Man-Talk About Motors.

Under the hood, we are over our pistons. Stick shift. Cylinders in the thousands. Sometimes a man’s got to walk away from what drives him. So ride on the bike at the back. Schwinn. Moped. Vespa. On what muscle will you grasp the driver?

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Hickory Stick – Male Violence Undone

Hickory Stick, a podcast episode in BELT: A 2-Man Memoir, grapples with male violence. Spare the rod. Restore the foreskin. Slip-slide away.

A podcast episode about male violence.

Tan the hide. Spare the rod. We etch with our awl the leather. Skin-poke. Violence bleeds from daddy to boy. Our wit sweetens the flow. Those dark voices—you are not strong enough—we hear and revise. Like when you pee, you heed the Bible on your willy. Circumscribed by circumcision. Restore the foreskin. Throw a shower party. Slip-slide away.

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