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Jules speaks with a practicing psychotherapist named Daniel Barker. For reasons pertaining to confidentiality, that's about all the info we can disclose about him. Daniel and Jules agreed to not disclose his location, his practice, and honestly, Daniel isn't even his real name. All of this probably sounds strange, but the question they're talking about is 'Is Psychology a Pseudoscience"? Who better to talk to about this sort of thing, than a practicing psychologist?

Links / Books / Thinkers mentioned

Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty 

Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 

The Capitalist Unconscious by Somo Tomsic 

Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud

Articles

Why Psychology isn't Science by Alex B. Berezow 

The Psychology of "Psychology Isn't a Science" Argument by Michael W. Kraus Ph.D.

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In today's episode, Jules speaks with Michelle Acciavatti. Michelle is a funeral director and an End of Life Specialist working in Vermont. She is a board member of the National Funeral Home Alliance, president, and co-founder of Vermont Natural Burial, she is president of Green Burial Vermont, and she is a founding member of the Collective for Radial Death Studies.

She and I spoke about her role as a death doula, her role as a funeral director, and the general labor of death. As you'll hear in our conversation, we talk about death from many angles, from the arranging of a funeral to guiding people through their end of life transition, and there's even some radical politics thrown in there.

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Michelle's Links

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Following the capitol riots, social media platforms are cracking down on subversive accounts. With the threat of the surveillance state amplifying, and the Patriot Act 2.0 on the horizon, Rainer Shea joins us to talk about the events of January 6th and his recent banning from Facebook.

You can follow Rainer on Twitter, read his journal on his website , and listen to his podcast 'Revolutionary Socialist Review'

Call to action from Rainer: COMMUNICATIONS FOR REBELS

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Jules sits down with Professor Todd May and asks him questions about politics, philosophy, and the human condition. A sprawling conversation that spans from the indifference of the cosmos to why we should say hello to the cat.

Articles Mentioned:

Todd May interviewed by George Yancy for the New York Times

Books by Todd May

Books mentioned by Todd - Why Civil Resistance Works 

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Jules takes a broader look at death from a social perspective by comparing the plague of 14th century Europe and the American Civil War.  These time periods are seemingly incommensurate, but they're worth comparing to gain a perspective on the social effects of mass death.

Links for further reading

Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th century

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret, Covid-19: The Great Reset

Ars Moriendi Translation (the shorter version)

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust, The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying

Transcription of a letter by James Robert Montgomery

Videos

Death & the Civil War | Library of Congress 

Brad Harris – Context: Reflections from A Distant Mirror

Lerone Bennett Jr. C-Span Interview  (~snippit taken from around the 24 min mark)

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In a follow up to Episode 13 - "On Death", Jules' research leads him to a conversation with two End of Life facilitators from British Colombia.

Jo-Anne Huan and Karen Hendrickson are cofounders of the Death Doula Network of British Colombia.

Jo-Anne Huan is an End of Life Doula, Death Educator, and Licensed Willow EOL Facilitator. She is a member of the End of Life Doula Association of Canada and the National End of Life Doula Alliance. She provides educational seminars, workshops, and private Doula services through her company End of Life Alternatives.

Karen Hendrickson is a Life Coach, public speaker, End of Life Doula, Death Educator, and Licensed Willow EOL Facilitator. She is a member of the End of Life Doula Association of Canada, the National End of Life Doula Alliance, and the Death Doula Ontario Network. She offers private coaching, EOL Doula services, and digital legacy planning through her company Take The Journey, Coaching for Success.

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Jules ruminates on the topic of death, existential philosophy, and the afterlife. Intro / Outro Music by Samuel Thomas (Self-Taut)

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Introducing: Dr. Maximillian Alvarez and Working People  This is a crossover / collaborative episode between No Easy Answers and Working People. Follow Working People on Twitter: @WorkingPod Follow Dr. Maximillian Alvarez on Twitter: @maximillian_alv Working People Listen Now: Working People Music by: Self-Taut

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Overpopulation is a controversial topic with certain grim implications. These ideas were first popularized by economist Thomas Malthusin 1798 when the world's population was around one billion people. Although Malthus was clearly wrong, proven by the fact that our global population is currently around 7.6 billion and we already grow enough food for 10 billion people, his ideas persist and are resurgent in our society and national conversations.

Peter Coffin joins Jules for a conversation about all the ways a social critique from an angle of overpopulation is problematic, and ultimately promulgates a world view that is reductive, utilitarian, harsh, and inhumane.

Peter Coffin's Video: Overpopulation is Bullcrap

Follow Peter Coffin: Twitter @petercoffin, Low Society Podcast, Peter Coffin on YouTube, Buy his book: Custom Reality and You, Patreon

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*This episode was recorded during a rainstorm so there are some audio glitches that happen on Jules' end but they do not last the entire conversation.

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Today on the show is another longtime friend of mine, Brandon Villarreal.  He's a guy I met while I was still too young to legally drink or buy my own smokes.  This is the guy who took me to my first strip club while I was still underage.  He's like an older brother to me in a lot of ways.  He was always down to get into trouble, and he was sometimes a bad influence, but you need friends like that and aside from drinking and raising hell, he's also the person who first encouraged me to apply for a job in radi0 - and that was a step that would set in motion the rest of my adult life and career.    

He and I are long overdue for catching up, and of course, that's part of why I wanted him to come on the show.  The other reason is that Brandon received a new liver a while back, and being a transplant survivor, he's got a new lease on life.  He's taken up drone photography as a hobby, he's out in nature taking hikes, road-tripping, and I get the feeling he's really enjoying his life.  Brandon went through a seminal event that qualitatively changed him.  I wanted to focus a lens on his life and story because it's remarkable and deserves to be heard.   

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