Divorces are at a high point, a covid related phenomenon...or perhaps the splits are occurring over disagreements over Joe Rogan and the regulation of conversation?

Amy Vandenbroucke of POLST (Portable Medical Orders) joins us to discuss getting our shit together, by which she means advance care planning in relation to end-of-life decisions. Whew! Starting the new year with comfy conversations that people don't stress about at all. Amy has some ideas that may make the subject more approachable and empowering for those of us that don't rush toward this topic naturally.

Links discussed:
POLST
The Conversation Project
Prepare for Your Care
Go Wish
Get Your Shit Together

John "Dubby" Dubin, founding partner of Pineapple Brothers Lana'i, joins us to discuss the ethics of hunting. Dubby run a deer hunting outfit out of the island of Lana'i, Hawaii and has hunted all over the world, always harvesting the meat of any animal he has killed. Does having a direct connection to our meals matter in a modern world? Is there a cost to losing this connection?
Dubby was also on the FBI SWAT team for many years and just so happened to be trained by our beloved Marty Gilvary upon entry to the Bureau. He came armed with stories and tap shoes.

The Supreme Court hears a case that essentially has aspects of Roe v. Wade in the balance. We talk about a variety of issues connected to and adjacent to the topic, as well as our own role in these conversations.

Referenced in the episode:

Hear the Supreme Court Proceedings

Why You're Wrong - and Right - About Abortion

The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate

We finally talk about #PornShoulders, then dip into college football before diving right into porn wholeheartedly, as one does.

"Julia" joins us to discuss a difficult topic through which she is still in the process of traveling: the limited conversation we have and allow about adoption.

20 Things Adoptive Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Declassified Adoptee
Anne Hefron

Author and healer Dmitria Burby joins us to talk about her journey of rediscovery, getting back in touch with an inner truth she had gradually wandered away from during a high-powered corporate career, and how she hopes to touch people in need of a similar rediscovery themselves.

Our friend Jay joins us from San Francisco to talk about the vast world of plant-based medicines, their role in the Great Awakening progressing through society, and his journey from devout Christian to student of spirit gardening (yes actual gardening) and plant-based guide.

A lively discussion on COVID vaccines, vaccine mandates, and the limits of persuasion.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is, in a manner, the seed of that which will be.
-Marcus Arelius