In this episode we take an in depth look at the Kanye West Jeen Yuhs Documentary. The Drug Abuse Resistance Program DARE calls out HBO’s hit show Euphoria. And lastly an opinion essay in The New York Times titled "Is Sports Gambling Gold Rush On"

2:14 The Drug Abuse Resistance Program D.A.R.E Calls Out HBO’s Hit Show Euphoria

3:50 Did D.A.R.E program actually work? 

5:35 There're so many avenues of entertainment that we consume with illicit content already. 

09:30 America's big drug problem, what is the root cause? 

10:50 Growing up without a parent can cause stress and imbalance & Drugs provide safe love.

12:55 The Kanye Documentary

17:00 Kanye represented confidence and being your own biggest believer

19:20 Kanye’s music was genuine. It was a true expression of himself and his vision

20:00 Kanye was the first vulnerable rapper

22:00 “I miss the old Kanye”

26:30 Kanye was recording his own documentary before he ever achieved anything substantial

28:15 An Opinion Essay from NYT "Sports Gambling Gold Rush On”

30:45 Chris’s personal experience with gambling and some of his co-workers experiences 

33:50 Is this a natural human consequence of human nature? Or is there  something particular about America's economic and cultural life that makes especially susceptible to problem gambling?

35:10 Many people already live in a fight or flight state

38:50 Stock & Crypto are no different than gambling. Crypto is growing and it’s important to learn how it works

43:15 Exercise caution when buying/trading cryptocurrencies. Do your research



Articles Mentioned:

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/dre-says-hbos-euphoria-glamorizes-drug-use-sex-violence-rcna13631

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/opinion/sports-gambling-superbowl.html


Music

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In this episode we take an in depth look at the rise of Animal Stem Cells Being Used To Create Animal Meat, The Potential of mRNA & DNA Vaccines Being Used In The Future To Treat Cancer, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic Diseases, and lastly Covid Reflections.

3:45 The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animals Cell.

8:05 Regenerative Agriculture As a Healthy Alternative To Creating Lab Grown Meat 

14:00 Voting With Your Dollar An Effective Way To Support Companies Who Share The Same Values 

15:50 How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune disorders and Genetic Diseases

24:40 David Suggest A More Holistic Approach Other Health Pandemics We Face As Humans

27:40 Awareness Has The Ability To Expand and Shift Consciousness  

31:30 Covid Reflections

34:00 Our Media New Outlets Don't Prioritize Informing Us As Much As Invoking Specific Emotional States 

38:00 Technology can be Hypnotizing and Used to Create a Narrative 

41:00 Covid Becoming an Endemic is Eminent 

41:40 Seeing Things as Half Full Instead of Half Empty

45:10 Most People are Doing Their Best

Articles Mentioned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/dining/cell-cultured-meat.html

https://theconversation.com/how-mrna-and-dna-vaccines-could-soon-treat-cancers-hiv-autoimmune-disorders-and-genetic-diseases-170772

Music

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In this episode we take a in depth look at the Decentralization Of Disinformation, Mental Health & Suicide in Urban Communities and a guest opinion essay titled Parents Need To Be Held Accountable In School Shootings


00:40 Weekly Check-In 

03:00 Decentralization Of Disinformation 

07:00 There is A Lot of Nuance to the Different Truths That Exist. So We Must Give Space To Ideas We Disagree With or That Trigger Us. 

08:00 How Can We Alter Our Approach to Limit Disinformation and Acknowledge Others Truth

13:45 The Validation of Mental Health Issues in Minority Communities (Death of Ian Alexander Jr. & Cheslie Kryst)

20:00 Overall Health Can Be Broken Down To 3 Components (Nutrition, Exercise, Mental & Spiritual) 

23:40 Adverse Effects of Social Media In Relation To Mental Health 

27:30 What’s Going On Internally Within Our Bodies When We Experience Stress 

31:47 It’s Imperative to Teach Children About Mental Health and Give Them Resources & Mechanisms to Help Combat The Challenges Mental Health May Present 

34:20 Parents Need to Be Held Accountable in School Shootings 

40:25 Where Do We Draw the Line When Gun Ownership Infringes on Our Children's Safety in Schools

46:00 Violence in Media Leads to Desensitization 

47:30 Other Countries Pale in Comparison to America In The Case of School Shootings 

Music

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In this episode we take an in depth look at New Technology that Infringes on Privacy, The Average Age of The People Who Run Our Country, Vegan Options on Friday's For NYC Public Schools


Show Notes

0:00 Weekly Check-In

2:15 TV show Scandal Reveals Prophetic Vision Of a Future Where Americans Are Spied on By Their Own Government

3:50 Facial Recognition Software (Clearview AI) is Rolled Out Without Public Knowledge, and Begins Being Used by 600 Law Enforcement Agencies

6:00 Israeli Firm Begins Selling Surveillance Software (Pegasus) On a Subscription Basis to Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies

11:30 Undesirable Outcomes As a Result New Technology and Misidentification

17:25 The People That Run The Country Are Too Damn Old

22:00 What is the best approach to tackle the problems of today when outdated approaches / ideologies don't work?  

28:30 NYC Public Schools Cafeteria Are Going for Vegan on Fridays 

31:30 The Importance of Kids Eating Natural Organic Nutritious Foods  

Articles Mentioned

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmvxb/senate-average-age-too-old

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-nyc-public-school-cafeterias-vegan-fridays-20220203-hnickonlf5hhfmvvgx4fvgzjbq-story.html

Music Credits

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In this episode we take a listen and learn the events and experiences that shaped Jihad and David

02:00 Jihad’s Origin Story 

04:40 Jihad struggles with having faith

09:00 Jihad’s Door to Spirtuality & Spiritual awakening 

11:30 Life begins to shift for Jihad 

14:40 Teachers

16:50 Jihad’s plans for the future 

19:26 David’s origin story

22:20 How David entered the the world of spirituality 

24:01 David’s introduction to Alan Watts & Abraham Hick

25:30 Covid and how David became a Helath Practitioner 

26:59 Jihad’s fitness journey and coming into balance

29:09 Jihads persepcitve of how David and Jihad met

32:12 David’s persepctive of how the podcast started

34:57 Sharing individual their truths is the goal of the podcast

In this episode we talk about Abundance Consciousness, UK 4 Day Work, Week Pilot, Spotify Coming Under Heat After 270 Medical Professionals Write Open Letter to Spotify Asking To Hold Joe Rogan Accountable for Potential Spread of Misinformation

Show Notes 

06:30  Abundance Consciousness, practicing the mentality of saying "yes, but" to things in life and the effects of it, and re-grounding yourself in your environment.

14:40  UK 4 day work week pilot , is a 5 day work week essential to getting the most productivity and creativity out of people, Old ideologies and values needing to be reassessed. 

25:50 270 Medical professionals write open letter to Spotify asking the streaming service to hold Joe Rogan accountable for potential spread of misinformation, mob mentality and cancel culture.

35:20  Are whistleblowers traitors and World Economic Forum’s Patriotic Millionaires.

0:00 -  1:50 (Weekly Check-In)

1:50 - 15:35 (Shadow Work, Developing Empathy for Others, Inheriting a Parent’s Shadow, Deprogramming Yourself) 

15:40 -  21:25 (NY Times article Where the Despairing Log On and Learn Ways to Die, Do we have Jurisdiction Over the Internet?)

21:25 - 29:40  (Michelle Carter Case, Legality of Free Speech & Technology, Section 230 Title 47, Adverse Effects of Social Media)

31:00 - 40:00 (Too Much Internet can Lead to Unrealistic Expectations About Life, Censorship, Corporations & Politics)

0:00 - 4:15 (Weekly Check-In, gaining momentum and clarity)

4:20 - 6:30 (Jihad’s experirence in regards to Philosophy & Thinking)

6:35 - 13:05 (The Frankfurt School, Georg Hagel’s dialectic, Karl Marx’s unfulfilled prophecy of a worker’s class revolution in the west)

13:05 - 18:30 (Discussion of individuality and freedom of choice granted to people who live within a capitalist society)

19:13 - 22:40 (Starving artist ideology starting to shift with the introduction of NFT’s)

22:41 - 25:00  (How do you balance having a dream and also needing to work to pay bills?)

26:00 - 34:50 (How do you unplug from the matrix or snap out of auto pilot mode? David & Jihad share their stratgeies) 

35:20 - 43:10 (What happens when we accept the things we cannot change and focus on what we can. Adding child-like sincerity to adult living) 

00:00 intro

00:27 Weekly Check-in

03:31 Thanksgiving (Seeing family grow up) 

05:38 Roblox and Nike collaboration

08:15 Growing up with technology and forecasting a future with technology. And current experience with technology and gaming

13:01 Our whole life is made out of code. Quantum physics (our world is made out of a spectrum of waves)

15:31 Resonate with whatever you want in life. It is often times done unconsciously. 

16:13 Children normally will be in resonance with their parents. 

17:42 Remember to slow down

18:52 Recent Meditations (Observing your mind create thoughts) Almost like a machine

20:00 Distracting oneself from sadness (instead of just sitting with it) And providing yourself with compassion and self love

22:00 “Wouldn’t it be nice” Abraham Hicks & The vortex

24:24 Can a machine learn morality? 

26:40 These technology is already available (AI Technology)

28:28 Crispr (Gene Editing technology) 

29:35 "Person of Interest" TV show 

31:50 Issue with AI is, where are the AI Developers in their journey of life?

32:53 America’s economy is based around advertising. Other countries have different goals with AI

34:18 Bill Gates breaking an Anti Trust law in 1999

36:02 Why are so many people comfortable with others making decisions for them?

38:26 The ripple effect of a life affirming actions and habits. 

00:00 intro

00:18 Weekly Check-in

01:37 Ghost guns

06:20 3D Printing 

10:00 Tech is a tool like everything else

12:01 Attitudes and values change generationally

15:40 Civilian trying to uphold law in Wisconsin 

19:32 Personal changes due to Covid

21:00 David’s journey to a career change and perspective on how covid quarantine  effected everyone

23:25 Jihad’s covid quarantine experience 

26:06 Go with the flow. Make the most out of the current situation 

27:42 Be yourself! 

29:35 Facebook (Meta) Campaign to remove disinformation 

33:00 Gov’t or companies shouldn’t be gate keeping opposing opinions

34:45 Living in interesting time. 

35:48 A lot of people don’t have the energy to sort through information & disinformation 

37:00 People need to be exposed to meditative states