Conovision: The Spirit of Storytelling

Hit and Myth in the Modern Mind: Old Patterns in New Stories

A journey through myth, psyche, and prophecy, where old stories find new ways to tell themselves. The trail opens in old territory. A few ancient Greeks are already there, noting humanity’s curious habit of wandering into its own fate. Pride, blind spots, unseen forces—threads quietly woven long before anyone sees the pattern. The tragedians knew it. Philosophers named it. Humans kept walking into it anyway. Further down the road, a modern voice joins in. The reflections of Dr. James Hollis drift through the landscape, wondering where the gods went—and why something restless still stirs beneath ordinary life. Other guides appear along the way. Freud notices the psyche speaking sideways. Jung suggests the gods never really left—they are simply wearing new masks. The road widens. A falcon circles in the distance as William Butler Yeats watches the center strain to hold. The horizon shifts. Farther out still, riders from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian cross a vast desert where the land itself feels ancient, haunted, and quietly observant. A wandering route following the strange places where stories overlap and echo across centuries. Conovision: moving forward the same way meaning always has—one story at a time. Episode References: * James Hollis' Books [https://jameshollis.net/hollisBooks.html] Credits: * Robert Smart: Music/Sound Design  * Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound Design * Meg Griffiths : GGRP Studios * Caitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios   Chapters: * (00:00) - Introduction * (01:23) - The Meaning of Tragedy * (02:28) - The Greek Gods and Fate * (05:12) - Hubris and the Tragic Flaw * (08:11) - The Limits of Human Perception * (09:08) - Loss, Mortality, and Meaning * (10:03) - The Age of Anxiety * (11:05) - Freud, Jung, and the Unconscious * (12:56) - Where Did the Gods Go? * (15:33) - The Modern Meaning Crisis * (16:24) - The Culture of Sensation * (18:19) - Beware the Ides of March * (19:37) - Yeats: The Second Coming * (22:07) - McCarthy: Blood Meridian * (30:48) - Conclusion

Reality Check: How Our Stories Create the World We See

What if reality isn’t just something we observe—but a story we’re constantly helping to create? Reality is a slippery thing. The moment when the floor feels solid until it doesn’t. Observation alters what is observed. The harder you stare, the stranger it gets: Heisenberg’s uncertainty, Jung’s archetypes, Pauli’s synchronicity—ideas that suggest reality isn’t a hard-edged machine, but a living mystery with hidden architecture beneath it. Even Chesterton is winking at you with his “spiritual puns.” Reality slips further, into the shimmering borderlands of Julio Olalla’s essay on the overlapping crises of the Western mind, tracing its fractures and fallacies—knowledge without wisdom, progress without pause, connection traded for control. We learned to dissect the world so well that we forgot how to belong to it. The universe, once enchanted, now slips through our fingers like water. And into the crack between certainty and ambiguity slips John Good, broadcaster turned business man, risk-taker, market-maker, sliding down the winding path of his life shaped by luck, reinvention, and the restless art of making the next move without a crystal ball. Beneath it all is a question that refuses to sit still: what is real, what is imagined, and are we somehow both inside the world and looking out at it at the same time? Conovision: where reality isn’t unfolding—it’s slipping, and we’re part of the story Episode References: * The Crisis of Disconnection (and a New Path Forward) | Julio Olalla [https://newfieldnetwork.com/crisis-of-disconnection-and-a-new-path-forward/] * From Knowledge to Wisdom | Julio Olalla [https://fk319.infusionsoft.app/app/storeFront/showProductDetail?productId=19]    Credits: * Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound Design * Meg Griffiths : GGRP Studios * Caitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios   Chapters: * (00:00) - Introduction * (01:15) - Jung, Heisenberg, Pauli & Synchronicity * (04:29) - Crises Of The Western Mind * (05:38) - Scientism, Positivism, & Reductionism * (09:58) - Capitalism & Growth Obsession * (13:17) - Disconnection & Modern Loneliness * (16:11) - Self-Help Culture & Loss Of Passion * (19:11) - Education Crisis & Learning Reduced To Info * (21:00) - Reconnection: Balancing East & West * (23:22) - Enter John Good * (27:34) - Dyslexia, Leaving School, & Early Work Life * (34:04) - Broadcasting & Sports Page * (49:47) - Transition to Investor * (01:06:35) - Conclusion

Architecture of Connection: The Stories That Bring Us Back Together

In a world that’s forgotten how to listen, two voices follow stories like breadcrumbs back to human connection. Stories are strange creatures. They’re how we once found each other—moving slowly, making room for silence, carrying their meaning in the pauses. Stories curl around stories, language stretches its limbs, and sense quietly knocks from the inside. Cono responds, opening the door to Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham’s The Spirituality of Imperfection, and steps into the odd, invisible architecture of connection—where words bend, listening deepens, and storytelling does more than explain. He wanders through the places stories used to live comfortably, before speed, certainty, and perfectly optimized answers shoved them to the margins, and finally arrives in a living conversation. Russ Hamilton of Connection Lab appears like a cartographer of human contact, mapping the shifting terrain between autonomy and community, speech and silence, fear and presence. Stress loosens. Attention sharpens. Communication becomes less a performance and more a shared breath. As the room empties, language itself steps forward—ancient, restless, unfinished—crawling from gesture to sound, from mark to meaning, fracturing into thousands of tongues, then recombining into The Evolution of Human Language by Bruce William. It lingers like an echo, suggesting that words are not tools we control so much as living things we keep trying to ride. They change. We change. And somewhere between the two, connection keeps attempting to happen. Conovision: where stories don’t explain the world—they invite us into it. Episode References: * Russell Hamilton | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-hamilton-b0a98726/] * Connection Lab [https://connectionlaboratory.com/] * Welcome to Lab Notes [https://connectionlaboratory.com/welcome-to-lab-notes/] * The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham | Penguin Random House Canada [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/96307/the-spirituality-of-imperfection-by-ernest-kurtz-and-katherine-ketcham/9780553371321] * The Evolution of Human Language: From Ancient Roots to Modern Complexity [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387516707_The_Evolution_of_Human_Language_From_Ancient_Roots_to_Modern_Complexity]   Credits: * Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound Design * Meg Griffiths : GGRP Studios * Caitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios Chapters: * (00:00) - Introduction * (00:53) - Why Stories Matter * (04:53) - Enter: Russ Hamilton & The Connection Lab * (05:53) - Constant Change In The Tech Workplace * (07:31) - Poor Communication Inside Companies * (08:51) - When Companies Outgrow The Founder * (13:16) - Language + Tribalism + How Communication Began * (14:30) - Meaning-Making: Autonomy Vs Community * (16:35) - Stress Reveals The “Real You” * (21:50) - Competency Vs Outcome * (24:28) - Knowing When We Are Feeling Seen * (25:48) - Why Public Speaking Terrifies People * (27:06) - Audience Co-Creates Content * (29:45) - Breakthrough Story: A Participant’s Transformation * (33:20) - Connection Lab Plug * (34:02) - The Evolution Of Language * (35:56) - Conclusion

Messengers of Music: The Stories Hiding Between the Notes

How music becomes legend, and the stories hiding inside every beat. Long before we named it music, something inside us was already listening. Long before orchestras or amplifiers, before radios or records, before even the first instrument dared to vibrate. Cono slips between eras and instincts into Dr. Aditi Subramanian’s luminous essay on the evolution of music, reminding us that rhythm once lived in the body alone—a pulse in the dark, a survival chant in the bones, an ancient signal whispering us into harmony. From that primordial heartbeat, the story unwinds through the lives of those who lived it loudest—into the hands of those who transformed instinct into expression. Musician and producer Mark Holden journeys from frozen Winnipeg nights to European studios lit by malfunctioning heaters and impossible dreams. He chases sound across continents, into rehearsal rooms, onto stages, and finally into digital worlds where silence first learned to shimmer. Then the dial turns to three stewards of Vancouver’s musical past—Don Shafer, Frank Gigliotti, and Dave Chesney— gathering like storytellers around a radio-shaped fire. They recall an era when songs arrived as emissaries, carried into stations with care, fought for by believers, shaped by hands, breath, and tape. A time when Muddy Waters could fill a room with just one note, and Stevie Ray Vaughan could rearrange your heartbeat in an instant. An era rises and falls in the space between two guitar notes.  Conovision: where music remembers the stories, even when we forget the words. Episode References: * The Evolutionary Roots of Music | Psychology Today Canada [https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/parenting-from-a-neuroscience-perspective/202403/the-evolutionary-roots-of-music] * Mark Holden | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-holden-6b920868/]  * Dave Chesney | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-chesney-446bb53/] * Frank Gigliotti | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgigliotti/]  * Don Shafer | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-shafer-02435624/]    Credits: * Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound Design * Meg Griffiths : GGRP Studios * Caitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios Chapters: * (00:00) - Introduction * (01:18) - The Evolutionary Roots of Music * (06:32) - Enter Mark Holden * (07:48) - Learning the Studio and Early Lessons * (10:46) - Forming Boulevard and Creative Vision * (11:58) - The Music Business * (13:49) - Boulevard’s Breakthrough * (19:39) - The Call That Changed Everything * (21:46) - Lessons in Letting Go * (23:03) - The Birth of Digital Sound * (26:16) - Entering the Tech World * (27:49) - Instinct, Fear, and Reading the Room * (30:07) - Enter Don Shafer, Dave Chesney, and Frank Gigliotti * (31:02) - Bringing New Music to Radio * (35:04) - Breaking Artists: Canadian vs. International Bands * (41:07) - Top Bands and Performances * (48:48) - CFOX and Town Pump * (50:13) - How the Music Business Has Changed * (59:20) - Muddy Waters and Willie Nelson * (01:03:39) - Conclusion

Bards of the Booth: The Stage Where Voices and Stories Take Form

A journey through jazz-colored words, Bard-born rhythm, and the art of becoming someone else. In a world where every word has a shadow, this one begins on the stage of all stages — with Shakespeare, the original algorithm of the human heart. His quill becomes a mirror, his sonnets the circuitry of consciousness, still whispering in our memes and movies four centuries on — proof that great storytelling never really ages, it just changes costumes. Meanwhile, Ken Nordine’s “Ecru” paints the air with double-talking hues — a jazz-colored koan on truth and contradiction. And into this kaleidoscope two veteran actors step into the light: Garry Chalk and Ian James Corlett. Shape-shifters by trade, they slip between heroes, villains, robots, beasts, and the occasional Shakespearean spirit. Between the lines and the laughs, they reveal what it means to play, to pretend, and to keep believing in the voice behind the voice. Conovision: where the stage is never empty, and every story waits for its next line. Episode References: * What likeness . . . through yonder window breaks? - The Globe and Mail [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/what-likeness-through-yonder-window-breaks/article761323/]  * Ecru | Ken Nordine [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXsMAr8n7U]  * Garry Chalk | IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149942/]  * Ian James Corlett | IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003944/]    Credits: * Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound Design * Meg Griffiths : GGRP Studios * Caitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios Chapters: * (00:00) - Introduction * (01:13) - Why Shakespeare Still Matters * (06:21) - “Ecru, the Critic” by Ken Nordine * (08:30) - Enter Garry Chalk * (10:10) - Studio 58 & Becoming an Actor * (11:41) - First Roles & Discovering Voiceover * (16:18) - Trusting Your Talent * (22:14) - Acting Method & Building Characters * (25:27) - Entering the Animation World * (29:07) - Famous People: Best & Worst Experiences * (34:24) - Enter Ian James Corlett * (37:15) - Becoming an Actor * (39:20) - From Commercials to Cartoons * (47:48) - Moving to Los Angeles * (54:46) - Relationships & the Changing Audition World * (01:00:34) - Conventions & Cartoon Fandom * (01:03:34) - Luck, & Chance * (01:07:08) - AI & Authentic Performances * (01:10:10) - Conclusion