HeyJaredDr. John A. King (Th.D.)
Indigenous Australian. 100% Human. Neo-Noir Novelist. Poet. Speaker. Rep @Talcottnotch. More than a Survivor. ⛳️ Terrible Golfer, Awkward Dancer🕺 🖤💛❤️
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Finally Friday, 25 Sep 2026: Tony Mantor and Matthew & Michelle Einsohn (opens the original)
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Mel and I had a good one this week. Tony Mantor joined us from Nashville. Our good friends Matthew and Michelle Einsohn of Wisdom OS came too. We meant to talk about creativity. We did. We also ended up in mental health and autism. I don't know how we got there, but I'm glad we did.Tony's podcast he never planned to makeWe started by congratulating Tony on one million downloads. He told us that was last month. He's now at about 25 million.It took him almost two years to reach the first million.
Finally Friday — Sep 18 Full Episode (Creative Momentum & Radical Left Turns) (opens the original)
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Creative momentumFull Finally Friday session — September 18. Hosted by Dr John A. King and Melissa King.In this episode, John and Mel talk about creative momentum: why “little and often” can be more sustainable than waiting for one perfect block of time, and how regular practice helps painters, writers, and other makers stay close to their work. A quiet week away gives Mel room to notice how quickly painting became easier once she returned to it each day, while John reflects on the longer runway
Book Review: Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall (opens the original)
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Hey. G’day again.So, you like health and fitness and stuff like that?Well, this’ll throw a cog in the works.Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall.It says right there on the cover:Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance.So it must be true.The book starts during World War II, looking at soldiers in Crete and the resistance fighters helping them. These young fellas are trying to keep up with older men who are running up and down bloody hills like it’s nothing.And that gets McDou
Book Review: Armor by John Steakley (opens the original)
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Right. G’day.Kicking it old school with another one-minute book review.This one is Armor by John Steakley.First up, Bollocks to Brilliant Meter?Full brilliant.Bloody good science fiction.This bloke is basically the original universal soldier.What Steakley does so well is that, for when this was written, he was way ahead of his time. He gets into the armor, how it works, how it changes the way soldiers fight, what happens inside it during battle, and what all that does to the bloke wearing it.Spa
Book Review: Troy by David Gemmell (opens the original)
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Book Review: Troy by David GemmellG’day, g’day.Another one-minute book review.This one is Troy by David Gemmell.Love Gemmell’s stuff.There have been plenty of modern takes on Troy, and some of them I thought were crap. Didn’t feel true to the story, didn’t grab me, and felt like somebody had decided they could improve on something that had already survived a few thousand years.Gemmell is different.If you’re going to read a fantasy writer having a crack at one of the great classical stories, you
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