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Justin Bua painted The DJ, one of the most popular art prints of all time, and created the look of EA Sports' NBA Street, a billion-dollar franchise. He grew up a latchkey kid in New York City, breaking in the streets beside Rocksteady Park and watching junkies and hustlers through the hallway of a single-room-occupancy building, while Rembrandt and Van Gogh hung on the walls at home. The conversation lives where hip hop art meets the sacred, in drawing as a spiritual practice and a channel from God, and in what happens when a commodified art world trades mastery for institutionally propped-up abstraction. Real rebellion, we find, can't be separated from authenticity.

(00:00) Pollock Is A Con

(00:39) Opening Conversation

(01:43) Meet Justin Bua

(02:57) NBA Street Origins

(04:44) NYC Roots And Hip Hop

(10:12) How Hip Hop Was Born

(15:35) Mentors And Street Survival

(18:32) Art Business And The DJ

(26:43) Modern Art, CIA And AI

(41:31) Uglification Economics And Architecture

(49:23) AI Art And Authenticity

(56:46) Natural Living No Chemicals

(01:02:51) Rebellion And Authenticity

(01:18:47) Trauma, Creativity And The Muse

(01:28:22) Closing Advice

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Ed Latimore walked into a boxing gym at 22 because, as he puts it, if he had died then, all anyone could have said was that he played football and drank a lot. He grew up in Pittsburgh's housing projects at the peak of the crack era with no father and no model of masculine authority, then built a 14-1 heavyweight career, got sober in the Army, and earned a physics degree along the way. The conversation lives in the ground beneath all of that, where difficulty is the price of self-worth and character shows up in who is still standing beside you after ten years. In an age that hands out every shortcut, choosing the hard thing on purpose is how a man earns a name worth keeping.

(00:00) Why Hard Things Matter

(01:53) Ed’s Origin Story

(07:32) Why Boxing Chose Him

(10:35) Lessons From The Ring

(15:58) Setbacks And Going Pro

(27:03) Boxing And Identity

(38:58) Boxing’s Dark Side

(48:33) Choosing Sobriety

(50:09) Growing Up in Projects

(58:18) Teaching Through Insecurity

(01:06:36) Seeking Difficulty

(01:12:41) Family Reputation and Integrity

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Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business — Book

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Brian Costello grew up believing life simply works out if you stick to the plan, and for years it did: a thriving CrossFit gym, a place on Team USA as a competitive beach sprinter, and a future that seemed to build itself. Then a betrayal split his life into a before and an after. What he found on the far side is a hard-won account of forgiveness, one that refuses every silver lining and demands the whole truth, and a power he never expected to find. That same honesty runs through The Primordial Code, his novel of a hidden society living by nature's laws, where every inherited belief gets questioned down to its roots. The dystopia is easy to picture in detail; the world worth building deserves the same clarity, beginning with how each of us chooses to live now.

(00:00) Real Forgiveness Intro

(00:36) Opening Conversation

(02:00) Meet Brian Costello

(04:42) CrossFit Gym Breakthrough

(12:23) Burnout Begins

(14:45) Betrayal and Dark Night

(25:40) How He Found Out

(29:40) Truth Sharing and Healing

(37:13) Accountability And Friendship

(40:11) Plant Medicine Breakthroughs

(42:09) Deciding To Write A Book

(49:06) Imagining A Better World

(54:48) Defining Higher Alignment

(01:09:45) Risks and Integration

(01:18:31) The Primordial Code

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The rabbit hole can wake you up, and it can also become the place you never leave. In this solo episode, we look at life once outrage, arguments and the need to be right lose their grip. Twenty-plus years into questioning the official story, Yerasimos offers a barometer: the state of your health, your relationships, your bank account and the person in the mirror. Joel makes the case that clear values decide where your energy goes, and that self-esteem is what lets you act on what you want. From the Greek refrain “what will people say?” to Napoleon Hill’s warning that the devil’s agenda is to keep you drifting, we keep returning to the preciousness of a finite life. Every person lives a myth whether they realize it or not, and the work is to live yours awake.

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This is one of the most moving conversations we’ve had on Here for the Truth, and among the hardest to hold. Kate Gladdin has taught resilience to more than 300,000 people, and she has no patience for the version of it that asks you to find the silver lining. Named one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, she came to this work through loss she would undo in a heartbeat if she could, and can’t. She rejects the idea that resilience means bouncing back; we’re not bouncy balls, she says, and there is rarely a way back to who you were. Her claim is bracing: there is often no good in what happened to you. The good is what you build from the pieces you’re left holding.

(00:00) Living With Loss

(01:29) Meet Kate Gladdin

(03:35) A Tragic Phone Call

(09:32) Grief Integration Lessons

(14:58) A Second Shattering Moment

(20:32) Reform The Law

(26:50) Courtroom Nightmare

(32:38) Family Aftermath

(34:07) Healing Not Happiness

(40:50) Rewriting Trauma

(48:44) Defining Real Resilience

(53:09) Anger, Love, And Meaning

(57:31) Action Based Healing

(01:06:13) Real Check-Ins Matter

(01:12:36) Messy Human Healing

(01:16:25) Telling The Story Publicly

(01:20:58) Signs, Spirituality And Mystery

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Satsang owns every master he has ever recorded, and building a career independent enough to keep it that way cost him more than any label deal would have paid. Drew came up through an abusive house, psychedelics at thirteen, addiction and sobriety, then spent every dollar he had on a trip to Nepal instead of the reliable car everyone was waiting for. The band took its name from a stranger's handwritten note outside a Kathmandu ashram. This one lives where ownership meets art — the predatory arithmetic of the record business, and his refusal to let AI near the part of being human that music exists for. What he aimed it all at is smaller and harder than a sold-out room: a son who is proud of him, and the kind of life that leaves people lining up for ten more minutes at the end of it.

(00:00) AI Songwriting Rant

(00:33) Opening Conversation

(02:20) Meet Satsang

(05:09) Musical Roots and Skater Influence

(07:18) Life Changing Nepal Trek

(14:11) Spiritual Influences in Lyrics

(18:45) Grinding to Breakout Tours

(35:05) Creative Process and Industry Beef

(43:31) Owning Your Masters / Social Media Pressure

(49:15) Never Quit Mindset

(52:11) AI Music and Fake Performers

(58:37) Service and Spirituality

(01:07:11) Streaming Money Myths

(01:09:58) Fatherhood and Real Success

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Ruby Fremon returns for her second appearance, a somatic practitioner and author of Potent Leadership who spent a decade coaching leaders before her own life came apart. When her dog was killed under the watch of negligent sitters and her public search for the truth was met with a million-dollar defamation suit, the hyper-independent identity she'd built collapsed into a full nervous-system shutdown. What she found on the far side reorders what the healing world sells: that catharsis and spiritual platitudes bypass the actual human being, that real repair happens in slow, subtle shifts at the edge of your capacity, that horses — who cannot lie and demand congruence — can lead you back to yourself. She comes out of it more human than she's ever been: cracked open, undefended, and more alive than ever.

(00:00) Tragic Dog Incident

(00:36) Opening Conversation

(02:08) Welcoming Back Ruby

(05:22) The Full Story of Her Tragic Dog Incident

(16:11) Shutdown, Trauma, and Identity Collapse

(29:22) Why It’s Not “Just A Pet”

(50:47) Trust After Pet Loss

(54:33) Living with CPTSD

(58:14) Healing Community Critique

(01:06:25) Healing Through Horses

(01:17:21) Supportive Partnership Shift

(01:27:46) Where To Find Ruby & Wrap-Up

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Chance Garton returns for his third visit to Here for the Truth, and his first in four years — biofield tuning practitioner, host of the Innerverse Podcast, and one of the rare researchers willing to take the Tartaria conspiracy seriously enough to check its claims against the primary sources. Once a believer himself, Chance traces how the “Old World reset” narrative of mud floods, buried cities, and buildings too beautiful for ordinary people to have built snowballed into a grand unifying theory that now operates like a religion inside truther culture. Underneath the debunking is the conversation that matters: how identity fuses with belief, why “they lied to us” becomes permission to believe anything, and what it costs to hand your discernment to a guru. A study in the one discipline every truth-seeker needs — the courage to hold no sacred cows.

(00:00) Tartaria Conspiracy (Cold Open)

(00:32) Opening Conversation

(02:58) Welcoming Back Chance Garton

(09:25) Tartaria Background

(15:22) Why Tartaria Hooks People

(25:36) Insane Asylums Deep Dive

(36:18) From Believer to Debunker

(45:35) AI Fakes And Viral Hoaxes

(51:13) World Fairs Debunked

(01:13:54) Donnelly and Comet Fires

(01:19:20) Atlantis Allegory Today

(01:42:02) Sacred Cows

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Eben Britton spent six seasons as an NFL offensive lineman, a body built for collision, before a ruptured disc, a dislocated shoulder, and a cabinet of painkillers left him shattered at twenty-seven. We meet the man underneath the armor, and ask what remains when the identity you built your life around is stripped away injury by injury. Eben reads his injuries as psyche made physical, the weight of a family he carried on his back with no foundation to hold it. He traces the road out through a men's twelve-step room, cannabis, yoga, and the years he and Mike Tyson spent shepherding each other through the reckoning. What emerges is a study in death and rebirth, and the reframe that freed him: stop trying to find your purpose, and make your life purposeful. One more breath, one more step, and the other side is closer than it looks.

(00:00) NFL Career Ends in Crisis

(00:44) Opening Conversation

(01:55) Show Start

(10:42) Eben’s Chaotic NFL Draft Day Story

(19:48) NFL Rookie Experience

(28:22) Back Injury and Painkiller Spiral

(42:19) Money Pressure and Bad Advisors

(48:44) Final Stage of Career (Cuts, Chicago Comeback, Failed Drug Test)

(01:01:30) Retirement and Rock Bottom Inner Work

(01:10:04) Mike Tyson (Meeting, Starting Podcast, Doing DMT)

(01:30:52) COVID Reset Yoga Coaching

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Dr. Richard Massey spent decades as an anesthesiologist before walking out of the operating room and, years later, losing his medical license — a rupture that led him to Recall Healing and Family Constellations. Natasha Nazerali came the other way, raised inside German New Medicine at her mother's kitchen table before her father's sudden death turned her toward the work fully. Together for the first time, they read the same body from different angles — Richard through a single droplet of blood and lymph under the microscope, Natasha through the conflict-maps of German New Medicine — and land on the same truth: every symptom is a love story, an inherited loyalty the body carries on behalf of the family line. What follows is a conversation about the head that rages at what feels unfair and the heart that already knows, about belonging over being the black sheep, and about grief as the doorway back to the ones we never got to finish loving. Healing was never meant to happen alone.

(00:00) Shamanism in Disguise (Cold Open)

(00:38) Opening Conversation

(02:24) Meet the Guests

(09:12) CT Scans vs Live Blood

(19:27) Biology as Sacred Code

(26:18) Beyond The Black Sheep Label

(43:59) Guilt Grief and Healing

(57:37) Enter the Cave You Fear

(01:02:00) Family Loyalty and Immigrant Kids

(01:11:40) Natasha’s Displacement Story

(01:17:44) Mixed Lineages and Healing Bonds

(01:25:40) Andropause

(01:40:17) Closing Thoughts and Events

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