The ClearOut

By Dara Clear

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Welcome to the turbulence!


Join Dara Clear, a domesticated Irishman who is trying to work out the best ways to cope with what life throws at him.


Husband, father, actor, writer, teacher, karate instructor and sea swimmer, Dara wants to take the wuss out of wellness.


Mixing storytelling, philosophy, humour, psychology, and emotional honesty as a recipe for increased wellness, positivity, and resilience.


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Episode Date
The Version of You that Serves You Best
Oct 23, 2026
A New Masculinity - Reconstruction or Remembrance?
Oct 16, 2026
The Cornell 7, Rape Myth Acceptance, & Not Everything Happens Online!
Oct 08, 2026
Burned Again? Lean Closer with Nietzsche
Sep 25, 2026
Navigating Inner and Outer States
Sep 17, 2026
Moving Day! - Home is Where the Heart Is
Sep 09, 2026
Gloria! Tribute to a Feminist Icon
Sep 03, 2026
Dolly, Dolls, and Puppets - The Ageless Beauty of Female Icons
Aug 30, 2026
Musical Youth - The Albums That Took Me From Eight to Eighteen!
Aug 19, 2026
Glen Hansard and the Unquantifiable Wonder of Mojo
Aug 12, 2026
Christopher Nolan's Odysseus - Just Another Superhero?
Aug 05, 2026
Feeling It In Your Guts! Connection vs Fracture
Jul 29, 2026
England's World Cup Exit - Victims of Their Own Identity Crisis?
Jul 15, 2026
Do the Right Thing! Healing the Sins of the Past
Jul 03, 2026
The Instagram Detox! - Changing Habits, Changing Stories, Changing Pathways
Jun 25, 2026
Props, Struts, and Straps - the Scaffolding of Self-Support
Jun 17, 2026
Don't Look Now - The Scariest Movie Moments of my Life
Jun 10, 2026
Keeping It Lit - The Flame of Idealism
Jun 03, 2026
Lowering the Bar and Keeping Sight of What Counts
May 27, 2026
The Taste of Victory and a Life Worth Sharing
May 20, 2026
The Deceptive Exhaustion of Standby Mode
May 13, 2026
Nobody Asked For This! - the 250th Episode 'Celebration'
May 06, 2026
A Free Gift of Love - You're Welcome!
Apr 30, 2026
What is Your Happy Place?
Apr 22, 2026
The Wrestle for Selfhood - Maurice Hines, Carl Lewis, and Two White Boys in Scientological Love!
Apr 15, 2026
The One Good Idea Episode!
Apr 09, 2026
Holding Space for the Manosphere Confusion Vortex!
Apr 01, 2026
Games, Conditions, and Invisible Cruelties - Love According to Laing
Mar 25, 2026
Listen, Think, Talk - The Deeper Connection Toolkit
Mar 19, 2026
Dry Your Eyes, Mate - The Tears of Octogenarians
Mar 11, 2026
Don't Post That! - The Self-Sabotage of Online Misogyny
Feb 25, 2026
Napalm, Keeping Quiet, and Sweet Country Music - The Lovely Career of Robert Duvall
Feb 18, 2026
The Spectre of Mortality - Getting Older Ain't No Fun!
Feb 11, 2026
Dogs, Dogs, and More Dogs! The Epstein Files 2.0
Feb 04, 2026
Hamnet, Train Dreams, and the Dark Spells of the Natural World
Jan 28, 2026
Giving Value to Invisible Living
Jan 21, 2026
One Film After Another - Movie and TV Review of 2025!
Jan 14, 2026
The 2025 Christmas Special!
Dec 24, 2025
Saving Christmas and Other Miracles - Interview with Musician, Singer and Songwriter, Aengus Devine
Dec 17, 2025
Mari Lwyd, a Sugar Mouse, and a Rake of Christmas Poems!
Dec 10, 2025
Roses, Tears, and Paying for Lunch - a Multi-Millionaire's Masculinity Hack!
Dec 03, 2025
Flipping the Script and Messing with Expectations
Nov 26, 2025
Hand Me A Tissue, Somebody Just Scored a Goal!
Nov 19, 2025
Can Women Love Monsters? Guillermo del Toro says 'YES'!
Nov 12, 2025
You Silly Girl! Gender Roles from 1940s Hollywood
Nov 05, 2025
It's Autumn - Get Your A** in a Cave!
Oct 22, 2025
The Wisdom of Humanising the Enemy
Oct 15, 2025
AI Love Connections - The Charm of Asymmetric Ones and Zeroes!
Oct 08, 2025
PTA - One Brilliant Film After Another!
Oct 01, 2025
Charlie Kirk, Christian Insulation, and a Lethal Amendment Cocktail
Sep 24, 2025
Robert Redford - The Meeting Point of Hot and Cold
Sep 17, 2025
What Are We Looking For? Warm Blood and Sensory Connection!
Sep 10, 2025
Leaving the Room - Cheating Death, Solving Life, and a Planet Where Nobody Dies!
Sep 03, 2025
Reaching for the Tourniquet, or How to Stop the Bleeding
Aug 27, 2025
Surprised by Beauty, or The Art of Piercing Armour
Aug 20, 2025
Puppy Love - A Good Time, Not a Long Time
Aug 13, 2025
The Selling of Women's Bits, or Sydney Sweeney's Sassy Chest!
Aug 06, 2025
It's Emma Thompson, Stupid! (She's a Dame, Don't You Know...)
Jul 30, 2025
The Assumption of Imperfection, or Where Are the Serious Men?
Jul 23, 2025
Out of Sight, Out of Mind - The Cruelty and Arrogance of Power
Jul 16, 2025
I Am Not my Thoughts and Emotions! Or Maybe That's All I Am?
Jul 09, 2025
The Comfort of the Familiar, or Your Brain Would Like a New Pathway, Please!
Jul 02, 2025
Stop Laughing at Me, I'm a Very Important Person!
Jun 25, 2025
The Intimacy of Male Connection, or What Do Men Need to Talk?
Jun 18, 2025
Fathers' Day Episode - Stopping the Rot and Staying in the Lovelight
Jun 11, 2025
Monkey? What Monkey? - Catharsis, Fandom, and the Owning of Self
Jun 04, 2025
'Sinners' and 'Moonstruck' - Movie Pleasures of the Old and New School
May 28, 2025
Minimising, Maximising, and Getting the Balance Right - How We Deal with What Challenges Us
May 21, 2025
Have You Done Your Homework? Oppression, Conflict, and the Pursuit of Truth
May 14, 2025
This Is Not a Performance (It's My Life!)
May 07, 2025
"And Then I Ran Away to Call the Watch!" - Ten Shakespearean Monologues, Live!
Apr 16, 2025
Bulletins from the Frontline of Now! Reflecting on 200 Episodes of Existential Flailing
Apr 09, 2025
'Adolescence' - Harrowing, Topical, and No Easy Answers
Apr 02, 2025
I Object! Three Movie Treatments of Desire
Mar 27, 2025
All the Damaged Boys - Where's the Love At?
Mar 20, 2025
Hackman, Ingoldsby, and Toth - Masters and Medium
Mar 13, 2025
Underestimating Resilience and the Communication of Important Things
Mar 06, 2025
Abdicating Duty of Care and Living in the Age of Comedy Evil!
Feb 27, 2025
Reckoning with a Hustler, or What a Lucky Guy!
Feb 20, 2025
Speaking for Myself - The Challenge of Maintaining Focus
Feb 13, 2025
Lucky to be Here! Thoughts on Privilege, Doppelgangers, and the Unwieldiness of Emilia Perez
Jan 30, 2025
Probing the Ancient Dark - Interview with Children's Author Eilish Fisher
Jan 23, 2025
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Exhibition, or The Ether has Spoken
Jan 16, 2025
New Year's Inventory - Clearing Out the Stockroom!
Jan 09, 2025
The 2024 Review - Top Movies, Documentaries, TV and Podcasts!
Jan 02, 2025
The 2024 Christmas Special!
Dec 24, 2024
Dara, Meet Dara – The Story of How I Met My Sister!
Dec 12, 2024
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Ask Me Sponge Balls!
Dec 05, 2024
Men Need Not Apply - Women Who Leave Men Behind
Nov 28, 2024
The Anticlimax of Megalopolis, or What Would You Do With Coppola's Money?
Nov 21, 2024
The Humble Art of Reading the Room, or It's Not All About You!
Nov 14, 2024
Four More Years! Trump Restored and Gore Vidal's Presidential Writings
Nov 07, 2024
Staying with the Female Experience of Violence and the Power Imbalance - From Looking for Mr. Goodbar to Woman of the Hour
Oct 31, 2024
I Felt That, or Emotional Travelling with Fictional Characters
Oct 23, 2024
What the Hell Is That! The Audacious Grotesquerie of 'The Substance'
Oct 16, 2024
You Have It So Easy! Resentment, Ease, and Reaching for the Good
Oct 09, 2024
Too Old for This S**t, or Try Harder, You Silver Foxes!
Oct 02, 2024
How Does That Sound? - Testing Opposing Belief Systems
Sep 25, 2024
What Do You Do If You See a Space, Man?
Sep 18, 2024
Things Living and Dead, or The Strange Inertia of Nicole Kidman's Upper Lip
Sep 11, 2024
Readings from Brando and Durcan - Slimy Slugs and Penile Compasses!
Sep 04, 2024
Assembling the Broke Existentialist Army, or Who I Am is Who my Child Is!
Aug 28, 2024
What's So Great About It? - The Dubious Value of Nostalgia
Aug 21, 2024
Yes, Chef! - The Brilliance of The Bear
Aug 14, 2024
Set Down Your Honourable Load - Finding the Clear Path Ahead
Aug 07, 2024
Horizon, Other Recent Movie Turkeys, and Recommended Alternatives
Jul 24, 2024
Unifying Events, Sensible Ripples, and What If Trump Had Been Taken Out?
Jul 17, 2024
The Existential Toolkit to Approaching the Unknown
Jul 10, 2024
Scene from a Garden - Tall Trees, High Kicks, and Low, Low Wages
Jul 03, 2024
You're a Man - Do You Care About Women?
Jun 26, 2024
If You've Nothing Good to Say, Maybe Think About Shutting Up!
Jun 19, 2024
Character Identification and a New Short Story: David Has Been Great
Jun 12, 2024
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 5
Jun 05, 2024
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 4
May 29, 2024
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 3
May 23, 2024
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 2
May 15, 2024
What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 1
May 08, 2024
Caring Enough to Act, or Do I Really Need to Laugh at That?
May 01, 2024
Life Interrupted, the Comfort of the Familiar, and the Dangerous Habits of Avoidance
Apr 24, 2024
How To Make a Raspberry Cheesecake - From the Kitchen to a Religious Sect to 90s Hollywood Misogyny
Apr 17, 2024
Intentionality, Clarity, Self-Care, and The Belief in Positive Change
Apr 10, 2024
40 Years of Winning and Grinning - The Tom Cruise Episode!
Apr 03, 2024
Is That What You Believe? The Thoughts That Shape Our Reality
Mar 28, 2024
Is It Okay to be Vulnerable? Yes, it is!
Mar 21, 2024
That's Not My Life! or, The Elusive Human Study
Mar 14, 2024
Understanding Brotherhood, or Why 'Bro' is not a Dirty Word!
Mar 07, 2024
Was That Absolutely Necessary? or, Keeping Calm in an Age of Chaos!
Feb 29, 2024
Take Me To Church, or The Honesty of a Good Punch
Feb 22, 2024
Identifying The 'Write' Voice - The Joy of Creative Luxury
Feb 15, 2024
One Movie, One Concert, One Show - The Ineffable Magic of the Offer and the Receipt
Feb 08, 2024
Innocence, Sex, and Sophistication: Who Do We Connect With and Why?
Feb 01, 2024
The Absolute 'Ick' Episode - Going Granular on My War with Myself
Jan 25, 2024
Existential Framing: Pathways, Destinations, and Empty Spaces
Jan 18, 2024
Turning 50 - If I'm Calm, It's the Jedi's Fault!
Jan 11, 2024
2023: The Year in Screentime - Fantastic Plastic and Artistic Brutality
Jan 04, 2024
Maestro! Bradley Cooper's Bravura Take on Bernstein
Dec 28, 2023
The 2023 Christmas Special!
Dec 24, 2023
Sappy, Silly, and Sombre: Three Tales for Festive Consumption
Dec 14, 2023
The Value of Human Life, or A Strange Form of Diplomacy
Dec 07, 2023
The Dublin Riots: The Denial of Dignity and the Rage of the Unloved
Nov 30, 2023
Don't Come Out Until You're Sorry, or To Whom Do You Need to Atone?
Nov 23, 2023
Zionist Intransigence, Pop Star Isolation, and the Power of the Originating Wound
Nov 16, 2023
Don't Turn Off the Lights! or, Have You Made Room for Romance?
Nov 09, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon - a Haunting Tale of White Evil
Nov 02, 2023
Getting the Words Out, or The Things We Find Impossible to Say
Oct 25, 2023
Collective Heartbreak and Tears of a Clown, or How I Baptised my Baby Daughter
Oct 18, 2023
The Receptive Mind and Men Who Don't Talk
Oct 11, 2023
Sins of Omission, or Whose Stories Don't Get Told?
Oct 04, 2023
A Hat is Not a Personality, or The Fear of Not Being There
Sep 27, 2023
Billy Budd, Russell Brand, and the Dark Corners of Male Desire
Sep 20, 2023
Why You Shouldn't Bring an Axe to a Party, or How to Sit Down with Others
Sep 13, 2023
Critical Reaction and the Bestowal of Credibility
Sep 06, 2023
Chucking Original Sin in the Bin and the Pernicious Effect of Lifestyle Culture
Aug 31, 2023
Naked As The Day You Were Born, or A Question of Exposure
Aug 23, 2023
Stop Laughing, This Is Meant To Be Good For You!
Aug 16, 2023
Keeping Up With a Changing World, or Why Seahorse Dads Made Me Uneasy
Aug 09, 2023
The Voice of Truth and Anguish - Saying Farewell to Sinead O'Connor
Aug 02, 2023
July Miscellany! Movies, Weddings, and Reading the Signs
Jul 26, 2023
The Importance of Orientation, or Why the Loss of Bearings is No Joke!
Jul 19, 2023
Riding the Gere-Stick to the Worst Poem in History!
Jul 12, 2023
Don't Mind if I Do! Helping Oneself to Moral Failure
Jul 05, 2023
In Pod We Trust! Trying to Find Something to Depend On in Unreliable Times
Jun 28, 2023
Blips on the Grid - The Randomness of Human Interaction
Jun 21, 2023
Survival, Transcendence, and the Myth of Whatever Doesn't Kill You
Jun 14, 2023
Retreat! The Places We Escape To, For Better or Worse
Jun 07, 2023
The Process Before The Prize: The Qualitative Approach to Life
May 31, 2023
Safety First! - The Benefits of Safe Places, Safe People, and a Safe You
May 24, 2023
Hugs, Threats, Non-Transferable Skill Sets, and a Day Told in Reverse
May 17, 2023
We've Been Waiting Such a Long Time, and It's Still Not Here - Ireland's Eurovision Drought
May 10, 2023
May the Nerd be With You!, or Is That a Literal Lightsaber?
May 03, 2023
The Cost of Neglect, or For Whom Will You Wear a Yellow Flower?
Apr 26, 2023
The 100th Episode Stocktake, or Stick Your Teachable Moment Where the Sun Don't Shine!
Apr 19, 2023
Foundational Beliefs of Identity and Gender-Neutral Parenting, or How I Got Cool With Being a Girl-Father!
Apr 12, 2023
Embedding Gratitude, Controlling Sensitivity, and a Cult of Nullification
Apr 05, 2023
Curiosity, Aesthetic Engagement, and the Expression of Self as Anti-Fascist Statement
Mar 29, 2023
The Vulnerable Idealism of Living With an Open Heart, or There's One Born Every Minute!
Mar 23, 2023
The Cost of the Great Internet Giveaway and Why We All Need a Little Ronald Reagan in Our Lives
Mar 16, 2023
Singular Cinematic Visions - The Darkness of Polanski vs The Light of Spielberg
Mar 09, 2023
Elastic Time and the Love of Two Cities
Mar 02, 2023
Assassination Fascination and the Gun as Symbol of Cultural Psyche
Feb 23, 2023
Bent On Being Happy: Interview with Musician, Singer, Songwriter, and Music Therapist, Chiara Clear
Feb 16, 2023
Pillars, Pathfinders, and Dodging Space Trash
Feb 09, 2023
Stirring the Masculinity Pot and Countering Dubious Male Voices
Feb 02, 2023
Laughing at the Wrong Things, or Why Cat Stevens is So Funny to Me
Jan 26, 2023
The Attraction of Certain Instruments, or Oh, What a Lovely Wand!
Jan 19, 2023
Notes From a Funeral, or The Power of the Collective Experience
Jan 12, 2023
Goldfish Memory and the Things We Get Used To
Jan 05, 2023
A Year of Watching - Reviewing 2022 from The Beatles to The Ring to Rule Them All
Dec 29, 2022
The 2022 Christmas Special!
Dec 22, 2022
The Zero Sum Game of Loving Christmas
Dec 15, 2022
Calling All Pamphleteers! What's the Big Idea?
Dec 08, 2022
From Puppy Love to a Big Pash via the Front: A Mish-Mash Zig-Zag of an Episode!
Dec 01, 2022
The Trickiness of Tone, or Do You Ever Put a Knob of Butter in Your Porridge?
Nov 24, 2022
Speaking From the Heart: Three Righteous Preacher Men
Nov 17, 2022
Heading Fear Off at the Pass, or Oh No, Not Another Catastrophe!
Nov 10, 2022
The Helpless Gobshite Episode! A Defence of Men
Nov 03, 2022
How Fitching! The Fetishisation of White Beauty and the Erosion of the Black Face
Oct 26, 2022
The Insanity of Being Unable to Tolerate a Different Opinion to Your Tribe, or What Exactly Did JK Rowling Do Wrong?
Oct 19, 2022
Going Down in Flames - The Fall and Fall of Marilyn Monroe
Oct 12, 2022
The Hateful Power of Hipsters, or Today's Letter is 'H'!
Oct 05, 2022
Fractured Faith and Religion as Instrument of Terror
Sep 28, 2022
Looking Adversity in the Eye, or The Things That Make Us Stronger
Sep 21, 2022
The Death of a Queen and the Power of Totems
Sep 14, 2022
Honing the Eye, the Hand, and the Mind: Interview with Illustrator and Sculptor, Alan Clarke
Sep 07, 2022
Running Like Clockwork, or The Challenge of Slowing Down
Aug 31, 2022
The Face We Meet the World With, or The Pressure of Presentation
Aug 24, 2022
When the Vibe is Gone, or Peace and Love and Dollar Bills, Man!
Aug 17, 2022
Power Women On Screen, or What Does a Feminist Look Like?
Aug 10, 2022
Turning Travel Into Art: Interview with Sean Whitehill
Aug 03, 2022
Imprintable Human Clay, or The Challenge of Never Changing
Jul 27, 2022
Wiggly Bits, Jiggly Bits, and The Dangers of Penetration!
Jul 20, 2022
Two Twisted Love Stories and Dismantling Man-made Erections
Jul 13, 2022
The Pebble Girl Part 2: Interview with Author, Artist, and Abuse Survivor, Aisling Creegan
Jul 08, 2022
The Pebble Girl: Interview with Author, Artist, and Abuse Survivor, Aisling Creegan Part 1
Jun 29, 2022
Why Idealism Matters and the Proximity Principle of Enmity
Jun 22, 2022
The Art of Disarming Oneself, or How to Live with Defences Down
Jun 15, 2022
Barbaric Yawps and Righteous Howls - Cries from the American Poetic Heart
Jun 08, 2022
Blazing Baby Blues and a Killer's Grin - Saying Goodbye to Ray Liotta
Jun 01, 2022
The 1st Birthday Episode! - Receiving Transmissions of Joy
May 25, 2022
Dispensable White Men, or Who's Coming to Replace Me?
May 18, 2022
Stepping into the Breach, or The Quandary of Heroes
May 11, 2022
Conscience and the Stand Against Puritanism, or The Journey from Dip-Dabs to Hitler
May 05, 2022
Life Above and Below the Surface, or Listening to the Deep Respondent Self
Apr 27, 2022
The Merits of Tolerance, or The Wisdom of the Two Johnnies
Apr 20, 2022
The Four Agreements of Don Miguel Ruiz
Apr 13, 2022
The Attraction of Protagonists: Three Singular Selves on Screen
Apr 06, 2022
The Slap That Wasn't Mine, or The Puppetry of Persona
Mar 30, 2022
Where the Magic Happens, or Winning in the Empty Spaces
Mar 24, 2022
Platonism and Sport, or The Impossible Pursuit of Perfection
Mar 17, 2022
A Musician's Life - Interview with Gavin McCaffrey
Mar 10, 2022
Lovely Horse, Shame About the Tool on Top
Mar 03, 2022
The Cartography of a Small World, or It's Lovely to be Here!
Feb 24, 2022
The Things We Shouldn't Stomach, or The Violent Wellness of Expulsion
Feb 17, 2022
Defiance and the Autonomous Self
Feb 10, 2022
Girls in Love, Sex on Screen, and the Female Gaze
Feb 03, 2022
Snowflakes, Pain Storage, and the Power of Subjectivity
Jan 27, 2022
Scared women, Damaged Men, and the Crisis of Broken Masculinity
Jan 20, 2022
Living in the Human Zone, or Liminality isn't Criminality!
Jan 13, 2022
Restructuring Time and the Pursuit of Evolution
Jan 06, 2022
A Quiet Moment to End the Year, or The Wag of a Dog's Tail
Dec 30, 2021
The Christmas Special!
Dec 23, 2021
The High Stakes of Great Christmas Movies, or Why I Love George Bailey
Dec 16, 2021
Three Female Texts, or Art as a Response to Erasure
Dec 09, 2021
The Hard Sell of Christmas and the Triumph of Diogenes
Dec 02, 2021
Acting Out in the Extreme, or When Private Pain becomes Public Tragedy
Nov 25, 2021
Love, Wellness, and Creativity, or Getting Violent with your Process
Nov 18, 2021
The Bridges of Wellness and Bounty
Nov 11, 2021
The Fallible Smotherboard and the Fear of Being Seen
Nov 04, 2021
The Unloved Child, or Wielding the Blade of Creation
Oct 27, 2021
You wanna peace of me?, or The rocky road to reconciliation
Oct 20, 2021
Walking in the shadow and keeping her light
Oct 13, 2021
Big bad daddies! From Tony Soprano to my father in several easy steps
Oct 06, 2021
The thrum of the machine, or The beautiful irreducibility of character
Sep 30, 2021
Such big feelings!, or Learning masculinity from the movies
Sep 23, 2021
If I can't get love, I'll take acceptance
Sep 16, 2021
The weight of expectations and accepting loss of control
Sep 09, 2021
The travellator express to nowhere, or Put down that cereal, old man!
Sep 02, 2021
The nostalgia shark is coming for my squirrels!
Aug 26, 2021
Conflict and the place where you live
Aug 19, 2021
Why De Niro is a gangster, not a lover or The case for greatness
Aug 12, 2021
The here, the me, the now - the challenge of being present
Aug 05, 2021
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
Jul 29, 2021
Getting comfortable with chickens and ignorance
Jul 22, 2021
Drawing the line at madness
Jul 15, 2021
Wake up and smell the Rousseaus
Jul 08, 2021
Patchouli in the crow's nest, or The search for cool
Jul 01, 2021
Slurp! or How I learned to love licking (kind of)
Jun 24, 2021
A big slab of handsomeness
Jun 17, 2021
Am I a clown or an idiot, or both?
Jun 10, 2021
I don't want to fix the world, I just want to get out of bed in the morning!
Jun 03, 2021
What the hell are we listening to? The pilot episode!
May 27, 2021