Jaymee and Lacee are back as YAWN & LOKO offering one of a kind relationship advice, mindfulness contemplations and homegrown spiritual practices (including nude prostrating) and the two cold call Raghu Markus on air and have an impromptu conversation about Neem Karoli Baba. Plus Lucky Jackson! INTERESTED IN MENTORSHIP W/ LACEE OR JAYMEE: email: [email protected] for a free consultation or visit www.loveistheauthor.com/mentorship LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: hosted and...

Scarlet Rivera is the iconic violinist from Bob Dylan's Desire album, a pioneer of the electric violin and a member of the legendary Rolling Thunder Review tour in 1976. This episode is the first long form conversation with Scarlet focusing on her unique relationship with Bob and fateful entry into rock and roll history. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: hosted and produced by Jaymee Carpenter.  SCARLET WEB: www.scarletriveramusic.com LITA WEBSITE: www.loveistheauthor.com SPONSORS:...

Tim Heidecker is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. He's a true living legend of modern comedy content creation, and likely one of your favorite comedians favorite comedian. Whether you know him from "Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!", the film "Bridesmaids", his weekly YouTube podcast "Office Hours Live" or a million other things, Tim's prolific output over the past two decades has played a major role in the architecture of the comedic zeitgeist. His new music...

Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publishing and one of Jaymee's mentors, returns for his 7th appearance on the podcast. Full of Buddhist teachings, insights, and personal experiences with legendary spiritual teachers Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Dass, and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, this episode is a tender and hilarious refuge from the "known" world, and an embrace of the great mysteries of life. Sam's contributions over the last 50 years to the worldwide accessibility and integration of...

Lama Tashi Norbu is the only known Tibetan Buddhist monk tattoo artist in the world, who originally served as a fine art painter for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Lama Tashi utilizes his art as a medium to deepen people's understanding of Buddhism and help them recognize their inherent virtues. He is the founder and Creative Director of the only registered Tibetan Museum in the world, The Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art based in the Netherlands. His paintings are exhibited in numerous...

Mikael Jorgensen is the keyboardist for Wilco and director of a forthcoming documentary on jazz legend Bob James. This is his first public conversation about the emotional components of his life story, as well as the arc of his entire music career including working with producer Steve Albini and the last 22 years in Wilco. MIKAEL WEB: www.mikaeljorgensen.com LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: hosted, produced, and recorded by Jaymee Carpenter.  INTERESTED IN MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/...

EULOGY (originally released: 7/14/24): a unique collection of home recordings of Jaymee's from the past decade (prayers, notes, ceremonies, dreams) held together by a sound collage of interviews with inspirational artistic deities. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, engineered and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter.  TO BOOK SPIRITUAL MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/ JAYMEE - email: [email protected]  INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor /...

Rain Phoenix is a multidisciplinary artist and creator of LaunchLeft podcast. She is the older sister of Joaquin, Liberty and Summer, and younger sister of River. Jaymee and Rain go deep discussing the potentially harmful aspects of applause, humble ways to create a generous mind, Ian MacKaye as a "near impossible" model of artistic integrity, how her solo album River was a way to open the conversation about loss and “the sledgehammer of grief,” and why service is the secret of life. RAIN...

Geneviève Medow-Jenkins, founder of Secular Sabbath who also had the unique experience of being raised at the legendary Esalen Institute in Big Sur, joins Jaymee in conversation live from the kirtan space of the Love Serve Remember Foundation in Ojai, CA. Topics include: - the normalization of nudity - being unafraid of confrontation - the value of boredom - the potency of not sharing everything on Instagram - her hyper-competitive side when it comes to board games - what it means...

Jaymee shares a free hour of spiritual guidance, offering his one of a kind teachings, tools and practices for sustaining mental health and cultivating emotional maturity. In this solo episode, you'll learn how he disrupts patterns of mind on a daily basis (and why), the importance of living a life of integrity, tips for parents attempting to redirect generational trauma, and multiple home recordings, including an excerpt of Jaymee and his mother on magic mushrooms. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR...

Marlon "Chito" Vera is an Ecuadorian mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The pride of Ecuador and already a legend at the young age of 31, little has been focused on Chito's spiritual side, which Jaymee explores throughout the entirety of this episode. You'll hear why he considers fighting a meditation, his love of Ram Dass's spiritual classic Be Here Now and how the Tao Te Ching has taught him to embrace the unknown. CHITO...

Mark Mahoney is a true icon of American Tattoo Art, a living legend of the craft. He is the owner of the Shamrock Social Club tattoo shop on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, CA., where he has tattooed everyone from 2PAC and Biggie Smalls, to David Blaine and Johnny Depp. This episode is a masterpiece of vulnerable storytelling, and a masterclass in authenticity covering the expanse of Mark's entire life and career. You’ll hear stories featuring William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper,...

Coulter Jacob's is a highly influential independent artist in Los Angeles who hasn't quit his day job. He's worked for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles for over 20 years, intentionally has no website, rarely takes commissions or sells his paintings. "I've just never wanted to live the life of a starving artist". He's a disciplined practitioner of the creative process who believes in the gift of mentorship (he was mentored by tattoo icon Bob Roberts) and now empathizes for his...

Dave England is an American stunt man and member of Jackass who's currently creating a documentary on the cult sport of fingerboarding. Jaymee and Dave take turns attempting to make the other do a "spit take", and cover a range of topics including David Bowie's bulge in Labyrinth, the massive influence early skateboarding videos had on culture, early childhood pranks and homemade zines, the genius of Spike Jonze, working with Tyler The Creator, raising children as a stunt man, and the strange...

Legendary ambient multi-instrumentalist Laraaji joins Jaymee for an uncommon conversation on the Universal Truths beyond religion, his original unconscious mystical initiation with sound, why he's worn the same colors for the past 5 decades, and production notes/spiritual practices from his iconic 1980 release Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance (produced by Brian Eno as part of his Ambient series). Laraaji also opens up about his "cadaver" themed ayahuasca experience, and how he learned to listen to...

Featuring memorable conversations with Juliette Lewis, Krishna Das, Jim James, Pete Holmes, Devendra Banhart, Sam Bercholz, Kim Krans, Sarah Hyland, Bob Roth, Nick Mulvey, YAWN & LOKO, Clive Langer, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, and many more. 00:40 NICK MULVEY 08:32 JULIETTE LEWIS 12:00 JIM JAMES 14:43 PETE HOLMES 21:46 SAM BERCHOLZ 34:04 KRISHNA DAS 45:50 DEVENDRA BANHART 55:49 ROBERT RYAN 105:19 MIKE "ONE SHOT" COULTER 123:00 TULKU ORGYEN RINPOCHE 130:13 YAWN &...

Barry Taylor is a former priest with a PhD in theology and pop culture, who was once a touring sound technician for legendary soul artists Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, and The Stylistics. But it was hilariously working on the Highway To Hell tour in 1979 with AC/DC that Barry converted to Christianity, ushering in a new immersive phase of his life. HIs book Sex, God, and Rock 'n Roll is a wonderful collection of essays based on the “random magic and mystery of life”, recently riffed upon by...

Jaymee and Lacee, who have lovingly referred to themselves as "YAWN + LOKO" in partnership on this podcast, invite you into their most sacrificial spiritual act yet... the death of their romantic relationship! "Trauma is a great involuntary spiritual schoolhouse" - LOKO "You can't sit shiva for your ego dying." - YAWN LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: hosted, produced, engineered and edited by Jaymee Carpenter. INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor + @unconventionalgardener BOOK SPIRITUAL...

Jaymee shares teachings on the artistic spirit, embracing the unknown, and how to develop genuine communication with your loves ones in this solo episode. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, engineered and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter.  BOOK SPIRITUAL MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/ JAYMEE: [email protected]  INSTAGRAM: @loveistheauthor / @unconventionalgardener CONTACT: [email protected]

One of Jaymee's profound Tibetan Buddhist teachers Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche returns for his third and most potent interview with his student. Similar to witnessing the rare budding of a lotus flower, this conversation delicately unfolds a colorful assortment of easy to grasp Buddhist concepts, teachings and practices, including a guided mantra practice at the end of the episode. TULKU WEB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.odiyanainstitute.org/tulku-orgyen-phuntsok⁠ LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited...

Cody Montgomery of Totally Blown Apparel and The David Lynch Foundation returns for a transparent discussion about the Transcendental Meditation movement, what it was like growing up in the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram, and the unbelievable real life Darleeling Limited adventure Cody and his brother went on that mysteriously led them to front row seats for the Maharishi's funeral pyre on the Ganges. TOTALLY BLOWN WEB: www.totallyblown.us DLF: www.davidlynchfoundation.org LOVE IS...

Clive Langer is an English songwriter and producer, formerly of the cult band Deaf School, and half of the legendary UK production duo Langer/Winstanley, who over the past 4 decades produced iconic albums and hit singles for artists like Madness, Morrisey, Elvis Costello, Dexy's Midnight Runners, and Bush (to name only a few). Clive and Jaymee discuss the craft of music production, the origins of the “second wave” of Ska in England, the art of creative partnership, what it was like living in...

Jaymee shares notes from inner child work, building a relationship with the subconscious, and his recent posthumous spiritual connection with jazz music legend Sonny Rollins via the new book The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins by Sam V.H. Reese. The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins: www.nyrb.com/products/the-notebooks-of-sonny-rollins LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter.  BOOK SPIRITUAL MENTORSHIP SESSIONS w/...

Jaymee and the ascended homeless master Jesus Christ return with a wildly entertaining back to back episode, bursting with hilarity and wisdom, including Jesus's story of getting thrown out of Rajneeshpuram (Wild, Wild Country!) by Osho himself ("The Buddha was being driven in a Rolls Royce protected by an AK47!") Plus Jesus shares his vision for America as our next US President. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited and hosted by Jaymee Carpenter.  BOOK SPIRITUAL MENTORSHIP SESSIONS...