Episodes

Saturday May 03, 2025
Saturday May 03, 2025
The frugal princess takes only what she needs. Food is rationed out to her; she survives on nettles; she keeps only the gift given to her herself. Or this may be more about getting what is your right, vs. trying to hide who you are and getting what you desire.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday May 03, 2025
Saturday May 03, 2025
We talk about elements of the story: the places where she sings her ditty: the nettle bush, the bridge and the church doorway.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
It’s notable that the princess’s kingdom has been destroyed in this story and that her father is never heard from again. And here, two political marriages are thwarted and the beautiful young people get to marry for love, but only after years of suffering, work, and risk. The princess also escapes the tower without the prince’s help. The prince also goes undeceived several times.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
After Maid Maleen passes the third location, a church door, and sings her ditty, the prince gives her a necklace. When she returns to the ugly princess, she returns everything but that. The ugly princess conceals herself on the wedding night and the prince administers an identity test. He asks her about the locations and the princess dismisses the questions before going back to Maid for the answer, threatening her life the third time. But the prince is still suspicious so he asks about the necklace and reveals her true identity. She orders her guards to kill MM but the prince saves her.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
Maid Maleen and her servant travel from country to country, surviving on uncooked nettles, and finally find a castle kitchen that takes them in as maids. MM accommodates the princess, an ugly and wicked girl who is betrothed to MM’s erstwhile love. Wanting to avoid the opprobrium of the crowds, the princess gets MM to take her place in the ceremony. The crowds adore the beautiful, bejeweled Maleen, as does the prince, who thinks he recognizes her, but she denies her identity.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
A prince and Maid Maleen love each other, but she is betrothed to someone else by her father. He locks her up in a tower for seven years; time is kept by the diminution of their food stores. She cannot hear her love when he comes by. Eventually, they are able to make a hole in the wall, but they emerge to a desolate kingdom. No one of their compatriots is to be found, and she and her servant leave their homeland.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-wdupe-1899017
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Maid Maleen, denied her true love, is shut up in a tower. After seven years, she and her maid emerge to a destroyed castle and town. They wander the countryside, denied refuge and surviving on nettles. Finally, they are given kitchen work. This happens to be in her beloved prince’s kingdom, and he is to be betrothed to a princess whose heart was as ugly as her face. This one, ashamed, has Maid Maleen pose as her during the wedding. MM says a ditty at each threshold, catching the ear of the confused prince. These later serve to authenticate her identity and expose the other one, who tries to have MM killed, but who is executed instead. We think this story pits the political versus the truth and has the truth win out. How often among the high and mighty does it prevail?
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Things never repeat. I ask LL when she’s done the Last Time Meditation. We think of how there will be a last time we each talk, ever in our life. There will be a last time we do this podcast. We talk about meditations we do.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3thy-1893265
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
The Last Time (Clip)
Meditation and Stoic practices are just those – things to do. I talk about the Last Time Meditation.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3thy-1893265
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Marcus Aurelius’s morning reminder to himself. We talk about this in the context of a stressful job with a lot of sudden difficulties. It seems foolish to prepare for what you want rather than what is likely to be.
Please like, comment and subscribe!
For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-u3thy-1893265
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Becoming Human
I view having deep, open conversations as perhaps the primary way I explore my and others' humanity. I am looking for self-transcendence, knowledge, depth and love though exploration of experience, stories (such as myths and folktales), and ideas. I hope you enjoy these conversations for personal growth and happiness, and thank you for listening.