A podcast-style YouTube episode featuring Simon Mundie (host of Life Lessons From Sport and Beyond) who reflects on deep spiritual questions—"What am I?"—arguing that we are consciousness/awareness rather than merely mind or body. Interwoven are anecdotes from his sports-journalism career (encounters with Roy Keane, Frank Bruno, Usain Bolt, Ric Flair) used to illustrate points about identity, tribalism in sport, and everyday human pretence. The tone mixes contemplative spirituality with informal, humorous sporting stories.
It's the ultimate spiritual question. What am I? Am I this mind? Am I this body? And actually, if you trace it back, you're not.
Is the whole man. Academy Podcast Simon Mundy, host of Life Lessons From Sport and Beyond Podcast A picture of you with Roy Keane.
Genuinely, it was like being looked at by a great white shark. He didn't once acknowledge me, he didn't smile, he just looked at me like, with the look of, I'm going to chew your face off any second. Academy I think having uncomfortable conversations is one of the most important skills you can have.
What the fuck is Simon doing with Ric Flair?
Her eyes just went zing. Like compilations of him. Go, woo, woo, woo, woo. As a sports reporter for the BBC, started out on Radio 1, which was a lot of fun, Covered all the big events. I mean, sport is covered in a really shallow way and it could be a lot deeper. Sport is a good metaphor for life. Tribalism of football, that's at times very destructive, but also kind of encouraged. People have pretend to support football teams to sort of fit into this through.
One phone call and literally. Hello? Yeah, hold on, let me do that. Yep, 20 grand.
So I pretended to be a Chelsea fan for two years. So this. So I. I mean, I interviewed Usain Bolt at Old Trafford on the pitch. They may be good at something that happens to be valued by society, for example, kicking a ball. But that doesn't make them, you know, any different than you or me.
I was in a sauna with frat Bruno a while ago, so I leave it there. That's fucking Frank Bruno. Hello, Frank.
I would say we're not experience conscious. We are consciousness.
Right.
Have you been present throughout your life? So when you were five? We are that which is aware. In other words, we are awareness. In other words, we are consciousness. That's been the really interesting journey for me, is like wanting to fix myself and then recognizing that there's nothing to fix.
I'm networking and I took my dad and put down expenses as well, the kids to do it as well.
