Thought: Jim Breuer - A Message the World Needs Right Now

Jim delivers a mind blowing sermon

I must have seen or listened to hundreds of podcasts of some description in the last 2 years, sometimes 3 or 4 a day as I'm at work or pottering around. They have all shaped my opinion and paradigm to some degree I am sure, but there are probably less than 10 that I remember and take with me on a daily basis that were so powerful, or come with such a strong message of hope and clarity that they alter my perspective on life. I know that might sound a little over the top, but actually I'm sure you’ve all had that moment when someone says something so profound that it stops you in your tracks. It’s not always a new message, sometimes it’s almost preaching to the choir, but it’s delivered in such a way that it hits you square in the face and holds you to account. Jim Breuer did that to me today

In the UK Jim is not a big name, in fact I'd never heard of him until Ivor Cummins showed a snippet of his stand up, which led me to look up the rest of the routine. All I expected from Jim was to make me laugh, which he does. If you haven't seen his great stand up routine “Somebody Had To Say It” then I recommend you do so. 

But this is not about the stand up routine, I write this today because yesterday, while looking him up to see what he’s all about, I realised that he does a weekly podcast. One thing that I really liked about his stand up routine was the humanity that he brings to his humour, which was the main reason why I wanted to get to know him a little more. In the below Podcast Jim talks about his love for his wife and the way he coped when told that she had cancer and then goes on to pull the world apart that we live in at this moment with such wonderful emotion and clarity. I was so struck by the power of his monologue that I wanted to share it. So I'll stop analysing it and let it play. 

I actually wrote the below poem back in February, but as no one goes down that far in my stack history ;-) I thought I stick it here as it’s relevant.

Gonna

Unicorns gonna Unicorn

Climate gonna climate

Psycho gonna psycho

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Trying to control nature's worst

Is dangerous at best and impossible in the first

Too complex to fathom the full implications

Or too mentally deranged to change their machinations 

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Jackson told you to look in the mirror

For the answer, and it couldn't be any clearer 

You'll go crazy trying to control what's external

Nature's worst is fixed, uncontainable and eternal

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Let it all do what it's going to do

You need to focus on denying the you

Withdraw from the mind every second of the day

Discover the self and it all goes away