Tony Parsons

So people then feel this call for whatever reason, energetically, and they go down the rabbit hole.

Maybe they find Angelo's videos, maybe they find Rupert Spira or Muji, or maybe they find Jim Newman or Tony Parsons, or maybe they find any number of people on YouTube that are pointing in this way.

And they all point from their own experience in different ways and at different aspects of this jewel, which is not speakable.

It's a realization.

If you do an interview with someone, have an opinion, and you were allowed to put yourself in story, which was really unusual.

You know, I worked with astonishing journalists like, you know, Julie Birchall and Tony Parsons and some of the, these were the amazing, you know, I mean, you know, Jermaine Greer and just watching people write and being, surrounding yourself with people without experience.

It was enormously beneficial.

You had some amazing experiences as a journo on Fleet Street, in particular archive discoveries.

I'm not sure if this is where you get it, but there are teachings on the internet, a certain way of speaking that, that can be really potent and really powerful at the right time for the right person.

As far as I can tell, it pretty much started with Tony Parsons, and then, uh, Jim Newman does it, and some others.

But basically, it's like any th- it'll...

Ultimately, what they say will come down to this, like, the seeker itself is an illusion, which is true.

It's a really good film to watch.

It's all the boxes for me and set me off reading the Nick Hornby's and all these A Bird of Boys and things like that there and Tony Parsons.

All these slightly sad, not middle-aged men, but pre-middle-aged men wondering where did it all go wrong or maybe sometimes where did it all go right and yeah so those are my two recommendations Adrian Mole and High Fidelity Connor

High Fidelity will appeal to a certain generation which is definitely Gen X you know where you grew up with your list of music and you went down to the record store to see if it was available because you couldn't just stream a song yeah

So, um, I think my...

Let me give a shout-out to Tony Parsons, maybe one of my favorite oral historians, but many, many others, um, particularly people whose, who are writing in contexts that are not Western or not, not European.

So oral histories from, um, my part of the world in the eastern part of India and Bengal, oral histories from, um, many other parts of the world, Brazil, um, American pioneer history.

All of this stuff is told in language that is not schooled and, um, or maybe if it does suggest certain tribes or certain sort of, um, enclosures, that's the point.

Mm-hmm.

enemy, you know, as punk came along and so forth with Mick Farron and Julie Birchall and Tony Parsons and all those kind of people.

And of course, taking the piss out of everybody, which is great.

There's