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Marcelo and I just shoot the sh*t about life and eventually death.

Not sure if we agreed on much but it was enjoyable. 

Marcelo goes off! We talk about the causes and effects of rising food prices and we argue at the end about the government response. 

Pretty unique episode this time.  Marcelo talks to the creator of the Book of Choyer, a large Warhammer channel on Youtube about how he got started, his creative process and how to build a following on Youtube.

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We talk about Elon's potential take over of Twitter and how it can possibly go wrong.  We get into how he got the cash, whether he'll actually support free speech and the new oligarchy of the internet. 

We talk about Peter Frankopan's New Silk Roads. We explore China's Belt and Road Initiative and what it means for member countries and the world.  We project the future a little and then argue about it. 

We talk about Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and how trade changed over the centuries.  We get deep on what makes a society successful and why the East didn't get as advanced as the West. 

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We talk about the clusterfuck that is Ukraine, what it means for military spending, NATO and how it might play out. 

Gets a touch heated but nobody slapped anyone. 

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I sit this one out as Marcelo and his childhood friend Rodrigo discuss the book Taiko and the history of Japan. I didn't read the book like a bad student. 

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We talk about Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent in relation to today's media and the attempt to cancel Joe Rogan. 

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Part 2 with Frankie. We talk about his experiments with Ketamine, his experience of ego death and whether or not religion comes from DMT. 

Part of this discussion is informed by Muraresku's "The Immortality Key"

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