Summary
Getting lost in childhood longings, the search for the home we carry inside ourselves and exploring true sexual desire in a world shaped by media and societal pressures. Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures that explore our desires.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, welcome to Shortcuts. I'm Jacey Long, and today's episode is a trip into desire. |
| 0:14.0 | And I found it really hard to reckon with the fact that I do understand that to eliminate desire is to eliminate suffering, but I also feel quite deeply |
| 0:23.0 | that to have desires and to suffer a small amount is kind of pleasurable. So I'm sorry because |
| 0:30.4 | I do not believe that I am an enlightened human being. |
| 0:43.8 | I want you to close your eyes, unless you're driving or operating heavy machinery, |
| 0:57.0 | and think about what it is you most desire. What is it that you think about night and day? When you close your eyes to go to sleep at night, when you open them again in the morning, |
| 1:02.0 | what comes to you? |
| 1:06.0 | Is it to be somewhere else, somewhere calm and beautiful and warm? |
| 1:13.6 | Is it to be leading a different life? |
| 1:17.6 | Something freer, more exciting? |
| 1:21.6 | Or is it just a chopping board that's really easy to clean? In-air headphones that don't |
| 1:29.6 | malfunction. I have an orange for a head. Simplety size. |
| 1:40.7 | I knew it was an utterly unreasonable thing to ask for. |
| 1:46.5 | This is Shookcuts. |
| 1:48.1 | But I needed that glove. |
| 1:50.4 | Unbelievable, she relented. |
| 1:52.7 | Brief encounters. |
| 1:54.1 | True stories. |
| 1:55.0 | I don't know if I wanted to be with these women or be them. |
| 2:01.0 | Radio adventures. Maybe them? Radio adventures. |
| 2:03.0 | Maybe both? |
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