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This is where we are going, why we are going, and how we are going. Discernable is all grown up now, and moving out of the parent's basement (social media). Sure, we'll visit from time to time, but we won't live here anymore.

OUR NEW HOME

SEGMENTS already made will air over the next few weeks and then no more will be created.

SOCIALS will serve as a bulletin board only to notify you of our new guest interviews and news shows.

Watch this episode in all of its comedic glory: https://discernable.io/all-grown-up-discernable-finds-a-new-home/

Discernable has given much coverage to the Freedom Convoy Truck Protest in Canada and the positive voices around the movement but with so many Canadians also against the protest, we felt it was only right to hear from their side as well.

Tim Van Winckle is a resident of Ottawa, Canada. Ottawa was the centre of the protest and is a very pro-government city, much like Canberra, Australia. Tim believes the protest was ill thought out, fragmented, hijacked at times, and overall ineffective.

If you follow accounts such as https://www.instagram.com/freedomconvoy2022 you would understand the protest in a very positive light. If you turn on the legacy media, you would perhaps see the protests in a similar light to what is explored here.

As always, make up your own mind and remember that we are all on the same team: #TeamHuman whether we like it or not.

Watch this episode at https://discernable.io/interview-with-a-canadian-who-does-not-approve-of-the-truck-protests/

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2:42 What is Ottawa?

In this episode of The People's Project:

FLOOD OF SUPPORT

The community of Northern NSW stepped up and saved themselves when their government abandoned them for over 10 days.

MASK THE CHILDREN

Incoming NYC Mayor tries to justify keeping masks mandated on just one group: young children. Channel 9 tries to do the same in Australia. Florida does the exact opposite and calls out the theatre.

HIDE YOUR CRYPTO

Governments do exactly as predicted and try to control your cryptocurrency

CIRCUS WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Emperor McGowan tries to keep WA rattled by fear when his PPE charade is unmasked.

Watch this episode: https://discernable.io/the-peoples-project-season-6-episode-2-floods-masks-crypto-and-fear/

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Matt's Trip to Sydney: https://discernable.io/escaping-melbourne-for-sydney

WORK FOR DISCERNABLE

To bring The People's Project into a weekly show we are hiring a news researcher/producer (1 day per week)! 

To apply, email us 

1. a list of where you consume news and information and 

2. why you choose those sources

[email protected]

*You must be able to travel to our eastern suburbs Melbourne studio on Friday mornings

SARAH GOSLING

https://www.instagram.com/sarah.gosling_

Andy Anderson is an entrepreneur who started a gym franchise in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. We discussed fitness, business funding and expansion models, and how he was thrust into Covid partisanship when he started to call out lies and bad behaviour by politicians who were destroying his business.

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ANDY ANDERSON

https://www.instagram.com/andy_i_anderson

https://instagram.com/contrariandaily

https://globalfreedomrally.com

https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-ultimate-you-andy-anderson/book/9781635766356.html

https://teethonferry.com

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2:36 Methodologies of fitness

We escaped Melbourne for Sydney! This is what we discovered:

1. Darling Harbour changes and being yelled at

2. Anxiety and PTSD in the supermarket

3. Masks? Community policing each other

4. Don't check in

5. Tourist vs Resident

6. Best cheap eats in Sydney

7. Political culture Sydney vs Melbourne

8. What they don't tell you about Sydney vs Melbourne weather

9. Visiting 'Our' ABC Headquarters

10. What Victorians talk about in cafes

11. Discernable staying in Melbourne or moving to Sydney?

12. Gold Coast legal win against mandates

Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/JmAocc8emkI

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Simon Hill is famous for his work in the plant-based lifestyle movement, his predilection for scientific evidence and his in-depth podcast where he interviews experts in nutrition, and other health disciplines.

We invited Simon to appear on Discernable as a ‘meta-analysis’ of all the studies he has read and reviewed, and all of the expert interviews he has conducted. Simon’s podcast is an excellent resource to dive deep into the details of a particular issue but we wanted to hear from him about the broad momentum of the plant based movement, healthy nutrition, and world agriculture.

As with all of our interviews, we were looking for the ‘why’ and explored Simon’s way of thinking, how to determine good science from bad, and whether he would hypothetically follow the science away from a plant-based lifestyle.

What we found was surprising and refreshing.

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SIMON HILL

https://www.facebook.com/theproofpod

https://www.instagram.com/plant_proof

https://twitter.com/theproof

https://plantproof.com/book

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4:18 Confusion: what is the ‘right’ diet?

5:45 The scientific approach: do not cherry pick your data

7:42 The polarised world of food

9:38 Plant dominant diets

13:15 Multi-variant analysis and healthy user bias

16:00 The demonisation of vegetable oils

17:59 Which oils are good or bad?

20:25 Should we demonise canola oil?

22:50 Are studies trustworthy?

25:29 The EPIC study and the need for multi-variant analyses

29:33 Simon’s journey to plant-based

30:45 Being aware of bias and avoiding echo chambers 

34:30 Long term solution to diet, not just short term

38:00 What about caloric reduction?  

40:37 Ancestral thinking - Paleo wasn’t the only diet!

46:40 The rise of ultra-processed foods 

48:25 The ‘Halo’ effect - hiding bad foods behind healthy catch phrases

52:00 Sustainable food production

56:02 Big corporates love profits more than saving the world

57:53 More transparency in food production

59:45 The future of nutrition

01:01:18 Animal welfare arguments

1:04:20 Ethical dilemma of eating animals

01:05:31 Would Simon change his view if evidence changed?

01:08:40 Simon’s future evolution

Why do people get cosmetic surgery? Is the trend increasing? How does this inform, enhance or distort our self-identity? With a special appearance by Dr Gemma Sharp (body image expert from Monash University), we delve into the world of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and explore exactly why Matt (and millions of others) went ‘under the knife’.

In this conversation we slammed together two worlds: the founder Australia’s largest hair restoration surgery clinic – Mikko Myllymaki, and Dr Ben Buchanan – a clinical psychologist and academic who specialises in Body Dysmorphic Disorder.

With mental health experts warning against the surging popularity of cosmetic surgery, and surgeons fighting to give the people what they demand, are these two worlds at war? Or do they rely on each other in the long run?

Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/cTwzuGsfqRw

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MATT’S SURGERY

https://www.instagram.com/gro.diary.matt

DR BEN BUCHANAN

https://foundationpsychology.com.au

https://www.benbuchanan.com.au

https://twitter.com/ben_buchanan

DR GEMMA SHARP

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/gemma-sharp

https://butterfly.org.au/chattokit

GRO CLINICS

https://groclinics.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/GroClinics

https://www.instagram.com/groclinics

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00:39 Introduction of Dr Ben Buchanan and Mikko Myllymaki

01:05 Dr Gemma Sharp’s message from Monash University

01:37 Is cosmetic surgery ‘medically unnecessary’?

03:40 Psychological benefits from cosmetic surgery

05:03 Restorative surgery vs surgical enhancement

05:58 Denying the natural process of ageing

07:15 Cosmetic procedures don’t save lives but change lives

10:00 Diversify the sources of your identity and value

11:38 Surgery clinics incentivised to perform more surgery

17:12 Psychologists and cosmetic surgeons – enemies or colleagues?

17:52 Body Dysmorphic Disorder

19:50 Surgery will not solve BDD

23:10 Perverse incentives to enable BDD

25:20 Getting surgery for someone else

29:10 Psychological assessment for surgery

31:47 Braces and orthodontics are pervasive. Why not surgery?

34:05 The cost of hair transplants

35:52 Society’s shifting standards for the ideal look

38:09 The evolution of cosmetic surgery

39:10 Is our self-identity evolving to prioritise image and projections?

41:50 Social media is a tool to fulfil a human need

46:40 How much is your self-identity based on appearance?

48:00 Victoria Beckham

48:30 Good looks matter – and confer advantages

50:40 Introverts, extroverts and their way to be socially excepted

53:45 Attractive people earn more money

56:00 Relationships with ourselves – punitive or kind?

57:59 Is “Beauty At Any Size” a destructive movement?

1:02:40 Fancy cars an extension of our value

1:03:25 Symbolic Self Completion Theory

1:05:25 Human brains are hopelessly biased

1:07:35 Shame before a cosmetic procedure, shame after the cosmetic procedure

1:09:38 Therapeutic value of transparency

1:11:04 Mikko’s message: losing hair is normal and living with it is just as ok as having restoration surgery

1:14:00 Dr Buchanan’s message: you are a person of value independent of what you look like

Nathan Finochio is a Christian teaching pastor, author, speaker, musician and founder of online seminary TheosU. I sought his thoughts on the Bible’s instruction to ‘obey the governing authorities’ in Romans 13 in light of increasingly authoritarian regimes. 

I also sought his review of how the Christian church has handled the response to Covid-19, especially when secular government directions and laws are challenging the historical separation of church and state (an idea that the church should no longer tell the the government how to govern, and the government should not tell the church how to church).

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NATHAN FINOCHIO

https://www.instagram.com/nathanfinochio

https://www.theosu.ca

https://www.instagram.com/theosuniversity

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2:25 Canadian vs Australian politics

4:41 Jesus – the good dictator? Why Christians should have a deep distrust of people in power

6:10 The real purpose of the 2nd Amendment (guns)

7:15 The last 2 years have been a lesson on tyranny

10:03 We need healthy skepticism

12:00 How a Christian should understand Romans 13 and civil disobedience

18:41 We deserve the type of leadership that we vote in

21:24 How Christians resist bad government

24:10 Getting the vax, faking the vax and protesting

25:51 Good laws and bad laws

28:15 Being in a good war

30:44 Australians love a nanny state

33:47 Australian Churches adopt things as ‘pets’ when they shouldn’t

34:36 The problem with unity amongst Christians

37:16 Australian Christianity needs a reformation

39:40 Don’t shrink back from politics

Last night we reported on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is 'keeping Canada safe' by freezing the bank accounts of people who are protesting in ways he does not approve of (watch at https://youtu.be/ztaeCN4a10c).

Tonight we take a dive into who the warring parties are - what are the truckers' demands? What is their motivation? And who exactly is Trudeau and the many leaders like him? Why do they press their populations so hard with progressive kindness?

Herein is a lesson for us all. When voting, beware those who come claiming 'salvation'. It's only ever on their terms. Do not fear devils, fear men masquerading as angels:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” C.S. Lewis

Part 1: Trudeau Keeps Canada Safe

https://youtu.be/ztaeCN4a10c

Part 2 (this episode):

https://youtu.be/onPyKWcNnug

The truckers' demands listed on Jordan Peterson's channel:

https://youtu.be/P8tzXazvyHQ

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In what seems like hyperbole from a dystopian nightmare novel, Canada has declared it will freeze bank accounts (without court orders) and cancel the insurance of protestors who do not protest according to what the government deems a 'legal' protest.

The widening of Canada's terrorism financial laws to control crowdfunding and cryptocurrencies in Canada will be PERMANENT and will not end at the conclusion of the Emergencies Act.

In a stunning display of double speak, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reassures Canadians that he will always support Canadian's right to protest, to express their frustration and 'anger' even against the government, and that he will always defend their freedom of speech.

Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/ztaeCN4a10c

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Our Town Hall on Ethics with Acting Senior Sergeant Krystal Mitchell: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learnethics

Our Town Hall on Fleeing Australia and Golden Visas: https://discernable.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/7180138/register