The Storymakers Institute with Joel Carnegie
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"A Rational Fear: Finding The Funny In An Existential Crisis" with Dan Ilic
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"A Rational Fear: Finding The Funny In An Existential Crisis" with Dan Ilic

"Oh, fuck, maybe I've got power. Maybe I can use my power. Maybe I can just know how to exercise it better."

Welcome of another episode of The Storymakers Institute - powered by you. The podcast where I take you backstage, behind the scenes, to reveal what really matters to storymakers all over the world.

Lingering in my thoughts is the AI-generated quote from last week's episode, "Each day is another chance to be dreadfully dysfunctional," delivered with a level of such unhelpful enthusiasm, that only a robot can deliver.

But at what point do we diagnose ourselves as being completely unhinged? So reluctant to change with such a deep preference for the status quo that it becomes our ultimate downfall?

These past few months, I have been moving personal mountains. Powering down the old, making way for the new. Unseen, undocumented, private transformation is bloody hard work. So imagine the challenge when the entire planet has to get its shit together, quickly #climatechange

Quote misattributed to Albert Einstein.

This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to the uproarious Australian writer, director, performer, and investigative humorist, Dan Ilic - who tells me how to find the funny in the midst of a global existential crisis, we’ll take a temperature check on the year ahead, and Dan floors me on what he’s just seen on X/Twitter.

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