We go deeper.

Tao and artist James Ostrer delve into murky waters of colonialism, white privilege, art, gentrification, addiction, and commodification.

See James' brilliant work at www.jamesostrer.com

Adam Freeland is an old friend, desert neighbor, and brilliant music producer and DJ. Adam & Tao wax philosophical about the nature of music and the music of nature.

Samir Tabar helps run one of the world’s largest publicly listed Bitcoin miners, Bit Digital. Before that he helped established one of the world’s first psychedelic venture capital funds, Noetic. Before that he was co-founder of Fluidity, a company extensively featured in the Harvard Business Review as being the first to tokenize New York real estate. He was also Head of Capital Strategy for Bank of America, and started his career as a lawyer for Skadden, Arps. He graduated from Columbia Law School and Oxford University. He has a book coming out later his year titled ‘Mission Matters’.  

He's also Tao's former girlfriend's new boyfriend...they discuss polyamory, Palestine, economics, politics, philosophy and more.   

Watch video on YouTube, or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere else podcasts live.

Dr. Patrick House and Tao discuss the last 8 days spent on the island of San Servolo, (former monastery, leper colony and insane asylum,) where they attended a conference on the neuroscience of consciousness.

Christof Koch is a German-American neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.  

Tao and Christof sit down at the tail end of an 8 day conference on the neuroscience of consciousness held on the island of San Servolo, off the coast of Venice, Italy.

Tao sits down with billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, Chairman of the Berggruen Institute, on the eve of giving his institute's Prize for Philosophy and Culture to Peter Singer. The $1 million award is given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.   

Tao asks some challenging political and philosophical questions, asking Nicolas if there should be billionaires in the world, notwithstanding the good they may be capable of doing, especially given how arbitrary and unjust allocation of wealth can be, and given Nicolas's own youthful flirtations with Marxism and his love of famously leftist philosophers like Jean Paul Sartre.  Video version available on YouTube.

https://www.berggruen.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen

Tao and Dulcinee (writer, director, editor, producer of both films and of the latest  Bombay Beach Biennale,) have an honest, open, and wide ranging conversation about their relationship, including what it's like to work and play together and how to integrate their love and sex life (including consensual power exchange and D/s dynamics,) with their creative and career ambitions and their social and political ideals.

A wonderful and unexpectedly coherent conversation, given very little sleep...I had a lot on my mind and managed to express it thanks in large part to Eamon's top notch interviewing skills. Be sure to check out his podcast, Life is a Festival.

A wide ranging discussion in Lake Tahoe with 2 of my favorite people...