Occasionally Interesting

Holland is an artist. What is an artist? What is art? 

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Lily is a woman of many hats, trades, dances, and boxes! We discuss: 

• lilybruns.com
• Growing up in two completely different worlds - Chiang Mai, Thailand and the Pan handle of FLorida, USA
• Never fitting in
• Hacking Cool
• Code Switching
• Anthropology
• Identity as a performance
• Chiang Mai
• Chiang Mai's community of misfits
• Chiang Mai vs Pai
• The modern family
• Negative population growth
• Retirement communities and blending of ages
• The village takes care of itself
• Robots and quality of life
• Psychedellics
• Feminine Energy & Masculine Energy
• Autism as hyper masculinity
• Neuro Diversity
• Spectrum of spectrums
• Mental Health
• Do unto others?
• Love Languages
• Life as a computer simulation
• Police
• Being better than our former selves
• The simple Art of not giving a fuck
• Social Anxiety and Cringe worthy moments
• 16 Personalities
• Pole Dancing

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• Ruwando.com
• Ruwando Podcast
• Neighbor Fund
• One Taste - Sex Cult
• TED Talk
• https://www.16personalities.com/
• Invisibilia
• Richard Bach - One
• Jitterbug Perfume
• Infinite Games

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• Anarcho Capitalism
• Trevor is potentially an anarcho communist
• Right wing libertarianism
• “You need a culture of people who respect each other’s individual rights and treats each other as if they own themselves before you can really have a free market society” -Eric
• Michael Mallace litmus test for determining if you are on the left or the right
• politicalcompass.org
• “shittiness begets shittiness” - Jen
• Communist test from the movie Trombone
• Tulsi Gabbard -  democratic candidate for president
• You should be paid to go to school - Trevor
• Globalization
• Socialism
• Andrew Yang democratic candidate
• Universal basic income
• Atheism
• Life as a computer simulation
• jordan peterson
• jordan peterson on sam harris
• “If anything that (believing life is a computer simulation) could only be empowering - then I know that there are these rules, that when adhered to, can produce an outcome, and therefore I can take that and live virtuously through that and gain what I want” - trevor
• Determinism
• Free will
• Carl Jung
• Josh Ritter on Religion
• “my ego is a little cunt” - Jen
• Psychedellics
• Post Traumatic Growth
• Book - King Warrior Magician Lover 
• The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
• https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state
• “Those dysfunctional energies in us, sometimes they just want to be paid attention to, and I think that’s what you’re doing when you’re meditating” - eric
• invisibilia - The secret history of thoughts
• wait but why taming the mammoth

• No Impact Man - Book
• No Impact Man - Documentary
• How to Be Alive
• Colinbeavan.com

It's a host-full podcast! Jen and Trevor go through a list of podcast conversation topics. 

• How do we make society use technology better?
• Oreos
• The importance of mindfulness practices
• episode 6 with AJ
• How many of our elected officials are evil?
• Understanding bad people
• Teaching critical thinking in schools
• The changing tides of social media
• The issues and manipulation of the public through social media
• The flaws in education
• Measuring success of education
• Alternative education
• Misallocation of resources in education
• We imagine what it would look like to wear suspenders without pants
• Should women be charged more for health care?
• Meditation book tik nat hon
• the invisible man ralph elision 
• Should you feel have children if you care about the environment?
• rituals and small talk
• Jitterbug perfume!
• Jen’s favorite compliment is “thank you for being so persistent”
• episode 8 with tashi

Full Episode Notes: http://www.occasionallyinteresting.com/episode-21-dan

We speak with Alex about:

Full Episode Notes Here.

• gridphilly.com
• During a wedding your sustainability ideals are put on trial
• Life being anti consumerism - how to deal with presents and customs
• Buy Nothing Day 
• Having children and trying not to be consumers 
• How to find subjects and topics for a Magazine
• Philadelphia and the changing landscape of sustainability
• Judy Wicks & white dog cafe
• Judy Wick’s book - Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer
• Michael Pollans Omnivores Dilemma
• Bill’s episode / carbon bill
• The Economic argument against sustainability
• Questioning the defaults of life
• Our attachment to our phones and chaos feeding into our need to feel significant 
• Mandatory vacation/ paternity time 
• Our future commune
• The four hour work week
• Taking a step back out of the system
• Your Money or Your Life
• Michael Pollan’s How to Change your Mind
• Dr Prash episode
• Psychedelics 
• Headspace
• Sam Harris meditation app 
• Subscribe & Contribute to Grid
• Social media - who is this for? what’s the ultimate goal?
• Does social media have potential for good?
• Childhood shame and punishment / obedience to authority
• Mental health from not paying attention to news everyday
• Palm oil and all of these environmental issues that people don’t know about 

Check out last week's episode for part 1! 

We speak with Fred about the sex work industry, compassion, human connection, the origin of trauma, taboo subjects and beyond!

Full episode description here: http://www.occasionallyinteresting.com/fred-part-1-episode-18/