The slow food movement has discovered that decades of fast food has destroyed our bodies and a more conscious intake of natural ingredients and nutrients is the best solution.

The emerging slow media movement is a response to the realization that we've destroyed our minds and social fabric through decades of consuming fast media infotainment outrage soundbites. We're coming to realize that the best solution is a steady intake of longer, more thoughtful media content, slow conversation and nuanced information.

Additionally, despite the constant analysis that we are living through the chaos and destruction of the end times/end of empire/end of capitalism, we are actually living through the discomfort of metamorphosis and new creation. Welcome to the dawn of technological humanism.

After traveling through Appalachia and the Deep South, I return with some insights and opinions about rural and southern industrial America. Plus after my visit to Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, I ponder why the Church isn't prosecuted as the cult it truly is.

For the decades between World War II and the internet, confident bullshitting and monstrous ego were respected attitudes of the aspiring and accomplished before fact checking and infinite information complicated the story.

Grey and I talk thriving in an information dense environment, overcoming the neurotic sense of being aware of and complicit to ever worldly disaster, nuanced moral tradeoffs, societal actualization and the seemingly inverse cyclicality of crises with progress.

Investigative journalist and author Gerald Posner has been on the podcast before to discuss his latest book Pharma. This time we dig into one of his all-time classics, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.

If you think you know what happened, even if it's after years of research, Gerald's findings will challenge your sense of historical record, media reporting and speculation's role in contributing toward public distrust.

Fascinating and deeply relevant to the social and political climate of today, this conversation addresses the appeal of conspiracy theories. It also demonstrates what meticulous evidence-gathering can reveal. Vitally, this includes a profile of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man himself, a side note now brought to the forefront of the story.

Bonus: Check out this immersive virtual reality of Dealey Plaza combined with the Zapruder film. Best viewed on smartphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whBmXPaChh4

The data shows immense progress and many trends worthy of optimism but we're addicted to consuming dread and anxiety. Go figure. How distorted is our sense of reality?

White supremacy ought to be treated as terrorism just like Islamic fundamentalism. However, we must use cautious nuance so that overly broad and reckless use of labels doesn't alienate, creating more recruits.

How can we positively harness our need for narrative, validation, victimhood, superiority, heroism, redemption from humiliation, identity and self-worth?

I end my multi-part trip recap with the quirkier visits, offbeat conversations, profound podcast playlist and MVP travel companions.

We're shifting from an industrial to a technological society of abundance, meaningful experience, creative leisure and complex collaboration.

How can we ensure that we don't repeat the ignorance, arrogance, hatred, suppression, scapegoating, bigotry and violence that defined much of the transition from agriculture to industry 150 years ago?

My laptop survived being locked in the trunk of a black car in Death Valley, so the podcasts will continue.

This is my first recording since I returned from a month of solo driving 12,000 miles across the northern and southern United States. Why did I do it? What did I see?

If the twin liberal concepts of capitalism and democracy have always been fictional ideals, what is the system we actually have? What assumptions about the public supported these ideas? Do voters really have influence or is the citizen a cameo in an elaborately orchestrated hoax?

The changing world and its vastly improved knowledge will require 21st century notions of governance and its limitations. A new convention of compassionate thinkers will bring the blueprint together.

How is one supposed to set and achieve goals when everything is uncertain at the same time? Where is one meant to focus their time an energy when the playbook has been thrown out?