This week I’m trying to make sense of love — loving yourself, loving other people without abandoning your boundaries, and that bigger sense of connection we sometimes find through creativity, nature and spirituality.

I also talk about 7 Hope Studio, discovering filmmaking, learning to be patient with myself, and why getting good at something takes time.

The episode ends with one of my own songs, The Silence in Between.

Thanks for listening.— Chaplin

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Callum is the writer and director (& more) of the short film Restless Mind, and we talk about what it actually takes to turn an idea into a finished film without a huge budget, a production company or anyone giving you permission. Restless Mind touches upon mental health, isolation and getting through and was created the support from the men's mental health charity: Pegasus.

We get into filmmaking, creativity, self-doubt, learning as you go, working with the people and equipment available to you, and why some ideas refuse to leave you alone until you make them real.It’s an honest conversation between two people trying to build creative lives, make work they believe in and figure the rest out along the way.

Restless Mind is expected December 2026.

Check out the trailer here:

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Pegasus charity link:https://pegasusmenswellbeing.co.uk/

Thanks for listening.

— Chaplin

I occasionally use AI myself — which makes this slightly ironic — but I draw a hard line around creativity. For me, art, music and design still need to come from human hands and human experience.

A slightly late, slightly tired episode about fear, showing up, ideas and keeping hold of the things that matter.

Be kind to yourself.

Chaplin. x

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I’m very good at being alone. I’m also very good at seeing a problem and immediately trying to fix it rather than stopping to ask what it’s actually doing to me.

Recently, those two things collided.

I’d convinced myself I was alone in some of the heavier parts of life, when in reality there were people around me who cared. I just wasn’t giving them much of a chance to see me.

So this episode is about connection, learning to be a bit kinder to yourself, and recognising when the story you’ve been telling yourself simply isn’t true.

Then we lighten things up with a new music segment and a record from The Lost Penguin: Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park — an album I completely overlooked when it first came out and now think is pretty much flawless.

Heavy thoughts. Great records. Still figuring all this shit out.

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I’m talking about Slipknot, how I went from not understanding them at all to becoming completely hooked, and why certain bands end up becoming part of who we are.

We get into Vol. 3, Corey Taylor’s voice, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison, the chaos and musicianship behind the band, and why heavy music can somehow make you feel calmer rather than angrier.

Then it drifts into my own years playing music, touring, recording, MySpace, the changing music industry, and the strange way music attaches itself to particular periods of our lives.

Even if Slipknot aren’t your thing, this one is really about connection, identity, memory and the stuff we love without needing to justify it.

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Have a great week. Stay true to yourself.

This week I’m thinking about the small things that can change everything — fate, James Cameron being an absolute lunatic, my auntie’s permanently unlocked front door. Explore kindness, cheap Slipknot records and somehow, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag.

No grand answers. Just a few things I’ve been thinking about.

Sometimes five degrees is all it takes.

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00:00 Cold Open Banter

00:09 Why Podcasting Spun Me Out

01:05 Creativity vs Inner Critic

01:47 Younger Me Had No Limits

02:55 Listening Back and Doubting

06:20 Authenticity vs Algorithms

08:30 Perfectionism and the Boulder

10:04 Spider Man 4DX Family Day

10:52 Unclosed Windows in the Mind

13:55 Toy Store Theft and Anger

16:36 Making Sense of Stealing

17:58 Trading Cards and Sundays Back

18:41 Toys R Us and Comic Shop Nostalgia

20:25 Final Thoughts and Sign Off

What happens when life hands you a bad hand versus when you sabotage yourself? This week, I’m breaking down a personal analogy:

Sour Grapes: The painful, random events outside our control. The key is how we respond without letting fear stop us from doing what we love.

Warm Milk: The problems we actively create through choices we can change. It’s about addressing the root cause rather than repeating self-sabotaging patterns.

At the end of the day, it's about staying true to yourself—even when the days feel heavier.

You've got this.

Chaplin. x

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - The Reality of Sour Grapes

5:00 - Are You Leaving Your Milk Out?

12:00 - How to Stop Self-Sabotage

18:30 - Staying True When Days Get Heavy

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Turning to the personal... What happens when our levee breaks? and is there a way to prevent our levee from bursting? Speaking from experience, I explore the possibility that there may be a better way.

This is a new podcast from a Brummie in Cornwall with a dream to bring a little light in this online space.

We've got this.

Chaplin.

Who the f!#k is Chaplin?

This isn't a slick podcast production. This is just a microphone turned on live on the floor of our combined print studio and coffee house in Bude, North Cornwall. I’m Chaplin, and this first session is just a raw check-in. It’s an open door to put down the heavy bags of life you’ve been carrying around all week and just breathe for twenty minutes.

No fake gurus, no structured scripts, and no polished lectures. Just the unfiltered reality of what it actually looks like to survive a complete personal crisis, battle through Complex PTSD, anchor down into three months of hard-fought sobriety, and manually rebuild a life from the floorboards up entirely on your own terms.

Thanks for listening,

Chaplin.