No Simple Road

This week we tackle a couple articles starting with one from CNBC.com entitled, 'Hoka made a running shoe so big you can’t even drive in it' and follow it up wit a discussion about an article from The Motley Fool.com titled 'Forget Cannabis: Psychedelic Medicine Is the Better Investing Opportunity'.

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No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

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This week as part of our lead up to Skull & Roses Festival we're honored and excited to bring you the one and only Jeff Chimenti! Jeff's played with so many great bands like Dead & Company, Voodoo Dead, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog, The Dead, Furthur, JRAD, Colonel Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, and The Other Ones. We talk with Jeff about his early musical career, bringing people joy, having to learn an entire songbook, what Japanese Deadheads are like, how it feels to be in the Band Beyond Description, and a whole lot more!

Come join the No Simple Road Crew and Jeff as he plays with Voodoo Dead at Skull & Roses Festival April 2nd-5th at the Ventura County Raceway in sunny California! Tickets at skullandroses.com and nosimpleroad.com

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INTRO MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF:

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

ANDREW HENDRYX

When you're out there seeing your favorite artist, dance like nobody's watching. But dance safe, because your life may depend on it. To donate or learn more, visit Dancesafe.org - and look out for their booth at your next music event!

No Simple Road is part of OSIRIS MEDIA. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music

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This week we tackle a hard hitting story from CNN.com entitled 'A woman took 550 times the usual dose of LSD, with surprisingly positive results'. You aren't going to believe how this one turned out and neither could we! We talk about the psychedelic experience as therapy, what it has done for us, and where we see the clinical world fitting in with psychedelics.

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A chance meeting at Northwest String Summit last year lead up to this week's guest, Karen Lasher, coming on No Simple Road. Karen is a music fan with a passion for helping the musical community bring the vibe and love of the music festival out into the world at large! We talk to Karen about her musical roots, her vision for the community that we all love so much, how to keep ourselves healthy throughout the season, what we can do to bring the vibe home with us, and a whole lot more!

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INTRO MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF:

ANDREW HENDRYX

MARCO BENEVENTO

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

Did you know that music can accelerate child brain development and strengthen intellectual, emotional, and motor skills, as well as overall literacy? Bringing music into the classroom can help kids explore the mind-body connection and become comfortable with self-expression. Sadly, many children’s music programs are lacking in the resources they need to let kids explore this creative space. That's why Osiris is happy to partner with The Mockingbird Foundation. 

Founded in 1996, The Mockingbird Foundation is a volunteer-run non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to music education for America’s youth. Each year, the Foundation awards grants to dozens of music education programs, and funds those grants through a combination of fundraising, publishing, and the curation of Phish.net, one of the earliest Internet fan communities. 

Mockingbird is entirely volunteer, with no staff, no salaries, and no office - so every dollar really does make a difference in providing children’s music programs with the staffing, instruments, and support they need. The foundation gives over 100 - 150,000 dollars every year in grants. To donate or to learn more, visit mbird.org. That’s M-B-I-R-D - dot- org

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We tackle the hard hitting news this week with a story fro CNN.com entitled, 'If the governor signs this bill, Virginia will become the fourth state to ban hair discrimination' followed by a story from Time.com , 'Fist Bumps vs. Handshakes: How COVID-19 Does—and Doesn’t—Spread' just to give a little of the hysteria around the Coronavirus some perspective.

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Honored and excited this week to bring all of you Drummer Jay Lane as part of our series leading up to the incredible Skull & Roses Festival in April! Jay has such a huge list of bands he's played with including Primus, Rat Dog, Furthur, Bob Weir & Wolf Bros., The Rooster Conspiracy, The Golden Gate Wingmen, and many more! We talk to Jay about his journey into the world of the jam, what finally tripped his switch with Grateful Dead music, his life with Primus, playing with Bob Weir for so many years, what it means to be grateful for what you have been given, and much more!

Check out Jay at the upcoming Skull & Roses Festival playing with Rooster Conspiracy and keep an eye out for Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers shows!

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***THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE SHOP TOUR BUS & DEFYNE PREMIUM CANNABIS!!!!

INTRO MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF:

AMORAMORA

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

AMENDOLA VS.BLADES

When you're out there seeing your favorite artist, dance like nobody's watching. But dance safe, because your life may depend on it. To donate or learn more, visit Dancesafe.org - and look out for their booth at your next music event!

No Simple Road is part of OSIRIS MEDIA. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

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This week's Heads Talking is tackling the real news! We are joined this week by our friends Jake & Brynn from Earthdance Re-Evolution Festival and Vital Force Herbs to talk about a CNN.com article entitled 'Florida City Shuts Down Part Of A Park Due To Annual Snake Orgy' and follow that up with a deep conversation about health & wellness and what that means to each of us!

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Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify so more of us can find out about the show and this thing grows into a juggernaut of love, and laughs, and exploration of this long strange trip we call life.

No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

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We’re honored this week to have Visionary Artist Chris Dyer as our guest. Chris is a Peruvian-Canadian artist based in Montreal, Quebec. Chris parts straight from the vision of his heart with artistic themes that include oneness, consciousness, personal development, and kindness. He is known for his striking murals, logos, album covers, skate board decks, and illustrations, as well as cultivating a huge online following.

We talk to Chris about realizing that he’s always been a psychedelic person, his art as an expression of his higher/ultimate self, his experiences with Ayahuasca, the power of confidence, and much much more.

To purchase some of Chris’ art, clothing, or other merch and find out where he will be go to: positivecreations.net

INTRO MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF:

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

THE HIGGS

AMENDOLA VS.BLADES

When you're out there seeing your favorite artist, dance like nobody's watching. But dance safe, because your life may depend on it. To donate or learn more, visit Dancesafe.org - and look out for their booth at your next music event!

***THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE SHOP TOUR BUS & DEFYNE PREMIUM CANNABIS!!!! Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play so more of us can find out about the show and this thing grows into a juggernaut of love, and laughs, and exploration of this long strange trip we call life JOIN THE NO SIMPLE ROAD FAMILY! Become a Patron through Patreon.com

No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

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This week on Heads Talking we take on a hard hitting story from Reuters.com entitled 'Brain Freeze: Russian Firm Offers Path To Immortality For A Fee'. We get into some deep conversation around the nature of consciousness, immortality, The Singularity, and if we'd be okay with having our brains frozen to be brought back at a later date.

Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play so more of us can find out about the show and this thing grows into a juggernaut of love, and laughs, and exploration of this long strange trip we call life JOIN THE NO SIMPLE ROAD FAMILY! Become a Patron through Patreon.com

No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

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We're extremely honored to have the one and only Big Steve Parish on No Simple Road as part of our lead up to Skull & Roses Festival. Steve Parish has been a primary member of the Grateful Dead family for 50 years. Steve first joined the band as a roadie in 1969. It wasn’t long before he became Jerry Garcia’s trusted gear handler and began to manage the Jerry Garcia Band. Over the years, Parish and Garcia forged an unbreakable bond. Steve was Jerry’s best man at his wedding and was at his bedside when Garcia fell into a coma in 1986. Parish was the last friend to see Jerry before his untimely death in 1995. Steve has continued to maintain his relationships with the rest of the Grateful Dead family. As Weir once said to him “Blood is thicker than water but what we have is thicker than blood."

We get to hear some amazing stories from Big Steve and get down to the nitty gritty of what it means to be such an integral part of this amazing Grateful Dead Family for over 50 years.

INTRO MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF:

CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN - 'Babyman'

AMORAMORA - 'Diamon Philips'

AMENDOLA VS.BLADES - 'Lima Bean'

When you're out there seeing your favorite artist, dance like nobody's watching. But dance safe, because your life may depend on it. To donate or learn more, visit Dancesafe.org - and look out for their booth at your next music event!

***THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY THE AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE SHOP TOUR BUS & DEFYNE PREMIUM CANNABIS!!!! Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play so more of us can find out about the show and this thing grows into a juggernaut of love, and laughs, and exploration of this long strange trip we call life JOIN THE NO SIMPLE ROAD FAMILY! Become a Patron through Patreon.com

No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. To stay up to date on what we’re up to, visit our site and sign up for our newsletter. Osiris works in partnership with JamBase, which connects music fans with the music they love and empowers them to go see live music.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nosimpleroad.

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