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Conovision: The Spirit of Storytelling

Conovision is all about stories — and the storytellers who bring them to life. Stories about art, culture, and philosophy. Stories that inform, entertain, and inspire. Stories that invite us to reflect on who we are and where we’re going.
Hosted by Jim Conrad — a seasoned broadcaster and voice actor...

Recent Episodes

Hit and Myth in the Modern Mind: Old Patterns in New Stories
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March 18, 2026

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 drif
Reality Check: How Our Stories Create the World We See
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Feb. 18, 2026

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
Architecture of Connection: The Stories That Bring Us Back Together
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Jan. 14, 2026

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
Messengers of Music: The Stories Hiding Between the Notes
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Dec. 10, 2025

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
Bards of the Booth: The Stage Where Voices and Stories Take Form
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Nov. 26, 2025

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 wit
The Shadows That Skate Beside Every Story We Tell
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Nov. 12, 2025

The Shadows That Skate Beside Every Story We Tell

The strange friendship between ego and soul, still skating circles around each other. Somewhere between the mirror and the mask, the self starts to argue. One voice wants to lead, another wants to vanish, and somewhere in between — the truth clears its throat. Dr. James Hollis joins the fray like a calm storm, the Jungian interpreter of the unconscious, reminding us that the psyche never sleeps, it’s just translating the riddles the soul sends when the ego stops pretending. A drill sergeant appe