Don't Worry, We'll Talk It Out

Today on Don't Worry, I have a conversation with Mr. Simon Drew on ancient philosophy and modern culture. Mr. Drew is a poet, musician, and philosophical mentor based on Australia. Simon and I discuss his musical background, the importance of theology and spirituality, cynicism in the modern world, safetysim, and many other topics. Simon is a wonderful philosopher who demonstrates love, curiosity, and wisdom on a number of topics. 

You can view his website at https://www.simonjedrew.com where you can listen to his podcast and order his book The Poet and the Sage. 

Today on Don't Worry...media psychologist Dr. Christine Marie discusses the psychology of Public Shaming, narratives created by the media, PTSD and Digital Humiliation, the Post Me-Too movement, and how her traumatic human trafficking experience has shaped her advocacy and research. 


Time Stamps: 
 Intro 00:00
Dr. Marie’s Background 2:25
Dr. Marie’s Story  4:00
Post Me-Too Movement  12:00
Tribal Battlegrounds  19:00
PTSD and Digital Humiliation  27:45
Why Rehabilitation is Shunned  45:00
Dr. Marie’s call for Empathy 1:00:00

Today, I talk with the incredible Dr. Calvin Mackie about his non-profit, STEM NOLA. We discuss the culture surrounding education, the impact COVID has had on our educational systems, and the ways his organization is working to reduce educational disparities in children across America. 

Dr. Mackie is a contributing writer for Forbes Magazine, former engineering professor at Tulane University and an internationally renowned public speaker. He is the founder of STEM NOLA, a non-profit organization which seeks to improve educational disparities in low income children and children of color. Since 2013, STEM NOLA has engaged over 75,000 students – mostly under-served students of color – in hands-on STEM project-based learning.

In 1990, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Morehouse College with a B.S. degree, as a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. Simultaneously, he was awarded a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he subsequently earned his Master’s and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996. 

For the season 4 premiere of Don't Worry, Randon speaks with Scott Gazzoli, host of Causing the Effect podcast.  Scott is the Managing Director for the Executive advisory firm, Quest Organization–located in the greater New York City area. 

They discuss the rise and future implications of digital currency aka cryptocurrency, the future role of government and financial institutions, the culture surrounding bitcoin, and whether NFT's will devalue the way we see art.



https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/causing-the-effect/id1515295067?i=1000541902505

Today, Randon is joined by writer, author, researcher, and public speaker Dr. Jeremy Sherman. A number of topics related to evolution, language, religion, spirituality, love, romance, and much more are discussed. 

Dr. Sherman received both his undergraduate degree and master’s degree in public policy from University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in evolutionary epistemology from the Union institute in Ohio. 

He teaches college courses across the social sciences and has been a contributing writerfor Psychology Today for the last 15 years, where his blogs on concepts like love, skepticism, evolution, and cognitive psychology have amassed over 9 million views. He has studied and collaborated with the famous Harvard and Berkeley neuroscientist and anthropologist Terrence Deacon for twenty years on the evolutionary origins of life. His most recent book was published by Colombia university press and is titled Neither Ghost nor Machine: The emergence and nature of selves. 

This is a past youtube video release a few months ago, but pretty much the entire podcast is still incredibly relevant as the push for nationwide vaccines reach a high point. 


In this episode I discuss the distrust in government sanctioned vaccines seen in the Black and Brown community, the skepticism directed at Big Pharma companies, anti-vaccine ideology, along with a simple explanation of what’s actually IN the vaccines! 

Today, Randon discusses the culture war regarding race, America's history, "wokeness" and the boogeyman of Critical Race Theory. 

Intro---00:32
What actually is CRT---1:50
CRT vs "Anti-Racism"---6:30
The "Conservative Activist"---11:00
CRT in K-12? Good or Bad?---13:45
Censorship or Free Speech?---17:00
Pushing back on BOTH sides---20:00

Today, Randon is joined by author Tom Beakbane. Tom is the author of the new book How To Understand Everything, with the subtitle Consilience: A New Way to see the World.

Tom and I have a nearly two hour conversation featuring a broad range of topics discussed in his book! These include psychology, the merits of science, the structure of modern language, critiques of american culture, biology, chemistry, and much more! 

You can check out and buy his book here on his website as well as Amazon ---> https://www.beakbane.com/how-to-understand-everything/

Tom Beakbane has spent his career as a marketer creating and promoting Fortune 500 companies like Pepsi-Cola as well as famous brands like Hershey's, Bacardi, and Lipton. 

His perspective is that of both a scientist – he has an honors degree in biochemistry and neurophysiology from Durham University in England – and an artist because the company he has been leading for 35 years, Beakbane: Brand Strategies & Communications, uses every aspect of the visual arts to achieve their clients’ objectives.

Today Randon has on hosts of the podcast Psychology after Dark, Dr. Jessica Micono, and Dr. David Morelos.

Dr. Micono is a clinical psychologist with expertise in forensic psychology, and evaluating, diagnosing, and treating criminal pathology. She has an M.A. in Forensic Psychology and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver. Dr. Morelos has spent the last 18 years working with criminal populations in both law-enforcement and substance abuse treatment roles. His expertise is in prisonization and men’s psychology. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (transpersonal concentration) from Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA.   

These two psychologists and I discuss America's intimate relationship with conspiratorial thinking. We discuss how conspiracy theories arise, the socio-political and existential factors involved in believing in them, "real" theories like MK Ultra and Cointelpro, as well as how generational differences play a role. 



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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychology-after-dark/id1464254263