Best Richard Parton Podcasts (2025)

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AI Agents - what are they, can they make me superhuman, and are they after my job?? 33:25

2M ago33:25

33:25

In this episode of WARP Speed Leadership, host Richard Parton along with co-hosts Nikki Tugano and Darryl Wright delve into the world of AI agents. They discuss what differentiates AI agents from traditional chatbots, their potential benefits, and the challenges organizations face in adopting these technologies. From enabling more time for human-ce…

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EP03 - Should you be having fun at work? what does that even mean?? PLUS Welcome Darryl!!! 26:01

3M ago26:01

26:01

Episode Title: Should we be having fun at work? What does that even mean? PLUS Welcome Darryl! In this episode of WARP Speed Leadership, hosts Richard Parton, Nikki Tugano, and new co-host Darryl Wright discuss the concept of happiness and fun at work. They explore what it means to create enjoyable and meaningful workplace experiences, drawing on p…

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How to get your organisation aligned, plus working senior leaders with Sandra Davey 44:12

8M ago44:12

44:12

In this episode we're talking to Sandra Davey, an incredible product manager who has also served as a senior leader and board member at some of Australia’s most influential organisations. Sandy shared some great insights about working work with and influencing senior leaders — including what they are looking for from you, how to communicate effecti…

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What does it take to be a leader in a warp speed world? With Rob Baker 42:51

12M ago42:51

42:51

In this episode, we're talking about what it actually takes to be a great leader in a world that feels like its moving hyper-drive speeds. We'll be walking through some of the key themes and trends shaping workplaces right now with my co-host Nikki Tugano. And then I'll be talking to Rob Baker, he's the founder of Tailored Thinking in the UK, and h…

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Pilot Episode - What's our why? - Introducing the show, meet the hosts 39:18

1y ago39:18

39:18

By Richard Parton

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My Last 20 Summers In The Sierra: aka Happy Anniversary To Me 7:37

3y ago7:37

7:37

Just a few thoughts on defending my doctoral dissertation twenty years ago today. Dedicated to the memory of Michael T. "Timo" GilmoreBy Otis

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Walk The Earth 8:45

3y ago8:45

8:45

A bit of news about my decision to walk the Earth--at least while I heal from shoulder surgery.By Otis

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OBP Update and Wayne Thiebaud 8:20

3+ y ago8:20

8:20

Hey! Hope you are well. Here's a little update on the state of the Otis Brown Podcast!By Otis

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I Ain't Dead, I'm Just Busy! 2:00

3+ y ago2:00

2:00

A quick note to my listeners.By Otis

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Otis Brown Classic: Woodscrewed Two 21:52

4y ago21:52

21:52

This week on Otis Brown Podcast, I rerun an (unfortunately) still relevant Podcast from July 15, 2020 on the state of the pandemic and some of the ways our response to it continues to be cultural rather than medical or epidemiological. Hope you enjoy. If you remember this podcast and don't care to listen to it again, please be patient. NEW CONTENT …

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I'm Going Through Changes: the future of the Otis Brown Podcast 10:26

4y ago10:26

10:26

Some news on the podcast along with my apologies for (finally and inevitably) missing my (self-imposed) deadline. Thanks!By Otis

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The Memory of the Memory: an old friend makes a surprise visit 20:59

4y ago20:59

20:59

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I recount a chance meeting with an old friend and explore the complex feelings we have when new information does violence to old memories. Key words: J.D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye, Seymour: An Introduction Eugen Herrigel. Zen in the Art of Archery Looking Glass "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" Dixie Fire…

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Take Me In Your Lifeboat: or, put on the lifejacket 20:31

4y ago20:31

20:31

Wear your lifejacket! In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I tell only the latest story of having to help pluck someone out of a would-be watery grave. I also talk about a bunch of old dead New England writers and painters, just because I always do . . .By Otis

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Bezos Buys Moon: Let's All Eat Cake 21:49

4y ago21:49

21:49

Hey, what do you do if you get a tax break? Pay down your credit card? Go out to eat? Bezos and Branson build cool rockets that the rest of us can look at on our phone! What fun! In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I offer some thoughts on the centibillionaire space race and make the (rather obvious) observation that Jeff Bezos is no John Glenn. Key…

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Don't Be Fooled, It Really Is a Wonderful World 2:27

4y ago2:27

2:27

Just a little coda to the Wonderful World podcast. Image is Joe Everson's amazing "Louis Armstrong."By Otis

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Summer of Soul: the revolution is in your mind 20:33

4y ago20:33

20:33

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the new Questlove film Summer of Soul, which makes visible, for the first time to a large audience, the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. Dubbed the "Black Woodstock," the HCF was truly its own unique thing and its invisibility in the American cultural landscape has been a tragedy. The podcast is intende…

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Mighty Armstrong: wonderful world of live music coming your way soon 20:31

4y ago20:31

20:31

The Louis Armstrong of your time might be living in your town right now, and if you don't find him, you will still come out more than conqueror (just to be clear, a reference to Zora Neale Hurston and the great song of the same name by Estelle!) . In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I think about Ralph Ellison's assertion that there was a…

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Happy 4th of July 1:39

4y ago1:39

1:39

By Otis

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Truck Yeah: some thoughts on transportation and country music 20:42

4y ago20:42

20:42

An ad for Popeye's classic chicken sandwich? A rant about the Toyota Prius? No! It's this week's Otis Brown Podcast, wherein I think about my life behind the wheel of a pickup and the contemporary "list" country songs about trucks. Keywords: Blake Shelton "Boys Round Here" Tim McGraw "Truck Yeah" Jerry Jeff Walker/Ray Wylie Hubbard "Up Against the …

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A River Runs Through It 2:21

4y ago2:21

2:21

By Otis

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Standing in a River Waiving a Stick: a lifetime of fly fishing 20:17

4y ago20:17

20:17

This week's Otis Brown Podcast borrows a title from the great fly fishing essayist John Gierach's 1999 book of the same name. Gierach's humorous and insightful writing casts a long shadow over the podcast and his 1986 book Trout Bum provided a practical handbook for much of my early life. The text I engage most this week, though, is Richard Brautig…

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(Fisher) Friends of Mine 1:28

4y ago1:28

1:28

By Otis

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Bloomsday: you don't own the moon man 20:54

4y ago20:54

20:54

James Joyce's great novel Ulysses is set on today's date 1904; the date is observed around the world in what are called Bloomsday celebrations. In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I reflect on my experiences with Bloomsday and wonder out loud why so many people celebrate a novel that so few read.By Otis

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Arcanum Nexum: Mysterious Connections To Bob Pickering Expand 1:57

4y ago1:57

1:57

By Otis

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Listen To Bob Ross and Do A Terrible Job: don't poison your hobbies with a grade 20:48

4y ago20:48

20:48

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I think about why I get hung up on assessing my hobbies in terms of economics or A though F grading. I reflect on the toxicity of allowing academic or professional standards to rob us of the simple joy of doing something for its own sake. I also discuss the circus, Bob Ross and paint-by-numbers paintings. I hope y…

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Never Leave a Friend Behind: Why I Pick Up Junk On The Side of The Road 20:39

4y ago20:39

20:39

In this first full episode of season two of the Otis Brown Podcast, I reflect on why I picked up a shabby little cabinet on the side of the road and put more time and money into restoring it than I would have spent on making something good! Through a conversation about woodworkers James Krenov, Christopher Schwarz, Roy Underhill and Shakespeare's 1…

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OBP Year 2 Trailer 1:37

4y ago1:37

1:37

By Otis

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How I Started a Podcast and Found a Year 20:27

4y ago20:27

20:27

Reflecting on the first year of Otis Brown Podcast! Thanks so much everyone for supporting the podcast. It means so much to me that any of this has meant anything to you.By Otis

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Long Road to Fresno: Coming Up On One Year Of Otis Brown Podcast 1:30

4y ago1:30

1:30

By Otis

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Spring and All: How the Urban Chicken Movement Turned Me Into a Poultry Rustler 20:33

4y ago20:33

20:33

In this week's Otis Brown Podcast, I discuss the Urban Chicken Movement, William Carlos William's poem "XXII" (aka "The Red Wheelbarrow") from his 1923 collection Spring and All, as well as an earlier poem, "To a Solitary Disciple," the Allen Ginsburg poem "A Supermarket in California," the Taj Mahal song "Cakewalk Into Town," from Recycling the Bl…

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Fugetaboutit! Let the Unlearning Begin 20:37

4y ago20:37

20:37

Now that the Graduation season is upon us, let's think about unlearning, let's sing the virtues of resisting training, let us move confidently now in the direction of our dreams . I don't know. In this week's podcast, I tell a story about a friend who wouldn't throw a ball for a dog and reflect on a life spent mostly on a front porch playing a guit…

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Lies and Statistics: What Will We Be When This Is Over 20:39

4y ago20:39

20:39

In this week's podcast, I reflect on the early stages of what we are all hoping is the end of the pandemic and offer some thoughts on what we might become when we reach that point , as Katherine Anne Porter writes at the end of Pale Horse Pale Rider, where "there would be time for everything." Keywords: Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse Pale Rider, …

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I'm Gonna Kick Ya Till You're Dead 1:31

4y ago1:31

1:31

By Otis

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Anxiety: I Got Those Long Gone Anxious Lonesome Blues 20:50

4y ago20:50

20:50

Social anxiety, stage fright, glossophobia, lonesomeness, melancholia, I got 'em all. Yet, I persist. In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the perks of not being a wallflower and tell some embarrassing stories on myself, stopping along the way to explore paintings by Edvard Munch, the writings of Soren Kierkegaar and songs by Han…

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Something to Help You Deal With the Scary Part of Life 1:29

4y ago1:29

1:29

By Otis

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Live Music Are Better Bumper Stickers Should Be Issued 21:19

4y ago21:19

21:19

What is live music anymore? Does an autotuned, canned music high wire stage show even count? I don't really have an opinion on whether it does or does not, but I know for sure one performer one guitar and an audience still matters, no matter what the kids are calling it nowadays and there's still a lot of it to go around. In this week's Otis Brown …

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California Gold: Enjoying my one-week Spring here in NorCal 1:30

4y ago1:30

1:30

By Otis

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The Eyes Have It: Eye Gouging in American Literature 20:33

4y ago20:33

20:33

Pardon the bad puns--I can't help myself. In this week's podcast, I ask why de-oculation is solely the domain of the Greeks, the Bible, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, A. B. Longstreet, Davy Crockett, Cormac McCarthy, the TV show Deadwood--oh wait, everyone is obsessed with blindness in art! In an iteration that seems Biblical, but is unique to the America…

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Sunday Update--Keep an Eye Out 1:47

4y ago1:47

1:47

By Otis

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Son, That Man's A Bum: how my fancy east coast PhD allows me dress like a hobo 20:27

4y ago20:27

20:27

This week's Otis Brown Podcast takes its title from Peter Case's great "The Open Road Song." I seem to be obsessed with singing this song lately. I've also been thinking about what constitutes "professional dress" for me and how this period of isolation may be changing that. Though I'm in a position to flout expectations of professional dress in my…

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I Demand Satisfaction: the social rise and moral fall of the dueling elite 20:20

4y ago20:20

20:20

In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the culture of dueling in America and add some thoughts on Hamilton and Jackson--two of America's most famous duelists. Key Words: Dueling Alexander Hamilton Andrew Jackson Mark Twain The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! Thomas McGuane The Sporting Club Lin-Manue…

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Exciting Hatchet Duel at Trader Joe's: dueling podcast trailer 1:38

4y ago1:38

1:38

By Otis

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Monkey Armada: I dwell in possibility 20:49

4y ago20:49

20:49

In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the monkeys who explored South American 40 million years ago. If we all came from the same place--however you imagine that--how did we get to where we went? The answer, of course, is that we went by boat. In Monkey Armada: I dwell in possibility, I follow Emily Dickenson, from whom I borrowed …

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Monkey Sailors Make Exciting Landfall in South America 0:48

4y ago0:48

0:48

By Otis

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Loomings: what we see when we see the sea 20:44

4y ago20:44

20:44

In the opening lines of Moby-Dick, Melville describes the wharves of Manhattan, where "posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries." Why do people take vacations just to stare at the empty sea? What do they see when they see the sea? In this week's episode of Otis Brown Podc…

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The First Great Guitar I Ever Played: some thoughts on tactile memory 20:10

4y ago20:10

20:10

Most of us have shaped objects with our hands. I want to explore how objects have shaped us through our hands. Though scientists who study haptic or tactile memory are reluctant to make assertions about touch memory and personal identity, I'm more than ready to make that leap! In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I tell the story of the first gre…

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Loomings 2:06

4y ago2:06

2:06

Hey! Help me complete the map: I need some U.S. states! I would be eternally grateful if you would like, follow, subscribe and spread the word of Otis Brown Podcast. And, too, I'm already eternally grateful that you continue listening to my rambling improvised lectures. Thanks!By Otis

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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Freemasonry: cracking the code in Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow" 20:25

4y ago20:25

20:25

In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I explore the Thomas Cole painting "The Oxbow"(1836) and muse on its use of the signs and symbols of his life in freemasonry. Are they a secrete code? Do they get us closer to the heart of the painting? Are we all looking at the same world here? Through a reading of the painting, I hope to take us to a convers…

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A Dog Walks Into A Bar: Some Thoughts on the Western as a Genre 20:44

4y ago20:44

20:44

The Western is the most enduring American genre. In a perpetual state of revival, the western vanquishes all comers as the most important genre of American film. It has profoundly shaped who we are and how we are perceived as a people and I have a few thoughts on the subject. In this week's podcast, I discuss the Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly film High …

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Lost in the Dryer: Unlocking the Chief Mystery of the Universe 20:05

4+ y ago20:05

20:05

We all lose stuff, but where does it go? Is somebody finding it somewhere? In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I interrogate the lost and found game. Along with a reading of the Tom Waits song "Take It With Me," a Robert Earl Keen song, and novels by Frank Norris and Joseph Conrad, I offer some thoughts on what it means to possess an object. Tha…

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