Check Your Bias

We had a guest drop by just as we were set to record our 75th episode, and it turned into a fruitful conversation with a certified bad ass.

In one of our favorite episodes ever the gang talks about Queen Elizabeth, #MeToo, and the sexism in the mother effin' room. 

We discuss the media's handling of the FBI raid, the seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lag, and the narratives that take hold in the media and political landscape.

School vouchers, Roe, mid-field prayers, January 6 hearings, and squirting. We have a lot to catch up on.

Mark English, a Qigong energy practitioner under the Shaolin Kung Fu tradition joins us to talk about energy breathwork, breatharians, bodywork, fasting, celibacy, and the history of the Qigong practice.

Futurist Micahel Bruno climbs up in the Crow's Nest with us to see what the hell is on the horizon in all directions. We touch on Fukuyama's End of History, what that means given the situation with Russia and Ukraine, the global population crisis (not quite the narrative we've been taught to fear), balancing freedoms with control of misinformation, the hope of change millennials and gen z can bring about, and so much more. One of our favorite conversations with one of our favorite guests. 

Kirstin Olson, host of the Rational in Portland podcast and area trial lawyer, joins us to talk about issues affecting Portland, Oregon. Homelessness, ANTIFA, cultural clashes, race, political structures, and the growing pains of a city that went from a timber town to a national destination. Should Portland strive to be an international city, comparing itself to larger west coast cities? Or should it embrace being a human-scale city, more in the realm of Austin than Seattle?

Talking mind expansion and plant medicine with our favorite Fed.

We're familiar with birth doulas, but today death doula Tonya Abernathy joins us to share her deep experience of intimately being with people as they end this phase of life/existence.

Reposting this interview of Hoyt Richards that we did back in July because it seems more topical than ever. In it, Hoyt used his own intense experience as a cult member to highlight ways in which we all are designed to fall into cultish behavior.
When I spoke to Hoyt this week he said:
"What I endured and learned from my cult experience is more relevant today than even when I was going through it...our society is quite cultish by nature. So many of the masses have been indoctrinated in extremist narratives. Very black and white, binary, all or nothing thinking. Where are the shades of gray? And where is the critical thinking?"
Hoyt recently started his own podcast called "WhaTheFlok" in which he and co-host Chele Roland talk to people about their cult survival stories. There is no more engaging voice on this topic and we hope you check it out wherever you get your podcasts. 

WhaTheFlok Podcast