Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 March 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Tony Dekker.Tony Dekker is the founding member, lead singer and the lead songwriter of the band Great Lake Swimmers. He has also recently released an excellent solo album, Prayer for The Woods.The Great Lake Swimmers, were founded in 2003, and have released five studio albums since. Their 2009 record, Lost Channels, was shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Prize, and their followup, New Wild Everywhere, was released in 2012. The band is working on a new album currently. In This Interview Tony and I discuss...The One You Feed parable.How important the natural world is in feeding our good wolf.His life growing up on the farm.The various places that he has recorded over time and the value of "place".The value of considering our own death.Our shared love of Leonard Cohen.The next Great Lake Swimmers record.His trip to Antarctica.Prayer of the Woods poem and song.Tony Dekker LinksGreat Lake Swimmers homepageTony Dekker homepageGreat Lake Swimmers Amazon PageSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of what has to do with feeding this good will has to do with the natural world for me
0:13.2	Welcome to the one you feed
0:15.3	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have quotes like garbage in garbage out
0:22.3	Or you are what you think ring true and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us
0:29.5	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do
0:37.1	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit
0:40.6	But it's not just about thinking our actions matter
0:44.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living
0:48.9	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction how they feed their good will
1:00.0	You
1:05.0	Hi, it's Elvis Durand on my new podcast thinking out loud with Elvis Durand
1:09.9	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life
1:14.8	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio like life loves success failure whatever else comes to mind
1:21.0	But all jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick
1:27.6	Listen to my new podcast thinking out loud on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts
1:36.9	Thanks for joining us today our guest on this episode is musician and songwriter Tony Decker and those who know Tony as frontman for the acclaimed Canadian band great lake swimmers
1:47.3	We'll be happy to hear his new solo album prayer of the woods
1:51.2	You can find out more about Tony Decker and this podcast in our show notes at one you feed dot net slash Tony
1:58.6	Hi, Tony welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me
2:01.9	I'm really excited to get you on. I'm a I'm a fan of your music and I was first exposed to you
2:07.2	In the mountains of Colorado, which is I will argue perhaps the ideal place to to hear your music
2:21.0	You
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