What Helped Us Thrive in 2025

Welcome to Cosmic Clowns, a podcast about exploring consciousness, surviving chaos, and finding the comedy in it all. In this episode, we share cultural experiences that moved us in 2025. We don’t need to tell you that this year has been RUFF. And, of course, we know every one of us also found moments of joy, inspiration and love in the midst of this mayhem. Today, we each offer three things—including art, film, a podcast, reporting, and live experiences—that helped us thrive in 2025. As Jocelyn mentions at the top of the episode, the etymology of the word culture means to care for the Earth. We hope our cultural sharing brings you some end of year care, connection, and comedy. Here are the links to a few of the things that moved us this year:

• Jack Whitten: The Messenger at the MOMA
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• The Telepathy Tapes
• Real Men Don’t Drink Matcha
• John Beaulieu, Biosonics
• The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long

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Time stamps:

00:00 Introduction

06:00 Framing Our Year-End Reflections on Art and Culture

07:57 Jack Whitten at the MOMA

17:49 Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat documentary

25:51 Exploring The Telepathy Tapes podcast

33:25 “Real Men Don’t Drink Matcha” article

36:32 Crystals and sound with John Beaulieu

47:23 The Sound of Music Sing-a-long

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Links & Credits

Jocelyn’s Substack: radiate

Sebene’s Substack: remind me to love

Podcast website: www.cosmicclowns.me

Theme music: “Wow” by Charm School