Pull the Thread: The Wild Life

After seeing the transnational operation play out, Runako and team profile the local efforts of a Ugandan Wildlife Crime unit–all in the quest to understand why this trade remains so difficult to stop. Then it’s into the jungle to witness mountain gorillas who continue to survive and flourish. Has the team found a silver bullet, or simply dug through a can of worms?

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation

Introducing The 3 Things EVERY Human Wants with Esther Perel | The Oprah Podcast from The Oprah Podcast.

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In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, presented by Ulta Beauty, world renowned relationship therapist Esther Perel offers her profound insight on modern romance, and what we can do to feel more alive in all our relationships – not just the romantic ones.

With wisdom gained as a therapist and from her hit podcast, Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel, Esther offers frank sexual advice along with her thoughts on dealing with betrayal, life transitions and relational burn out. Couples and individuals will join via Zoom to hear Esther do what she does best: reveal the hidden truth beyond the stories we tell. She’ll also discuss her ingenious conversation-starter card game, “Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories by Esther Perel.”

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Introducing Deepak Chopra: How to Ask AI The RIGHT Questions To Grow, Heal, and Live a More Fulfilled Life from On Purpose with Jay Shetty.

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Do you ever feel like you're just going through the motions?

Do you ever feel lonely even when you're around people?

Today, Jay welcomes back the legendary Deepak Chopra after six years, to discuss the unexpected intersection of spirituality and artificial intelligence. Together they unpack the beautiful blend of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge innovation.

Jay reflects on his first meeting with Deepak and how their bond has evolved over the years. The conversation quickly flows into one of the most fascinating questions of our time: Can AI actually support our spiritual growth, rather than distract from it? Deepak shares his insights on the mysteries of the universe, the unseen forces that shape our reality, and why he believes consciousness, not matter, is the foundation of everything.

Jay and Deepak break down the fears surrounding AI, from misinformation to war, and why it’s so important for us to grow spiritually alongside our technology. They explore how storytelling, creativity, and love are deeply human qualities that no machine can replicate, and how we can use these gifts to shape a better, more compassionate world.

In this interview, you'll learn:

How to Ask AI Better Questions to Unlock Wisdom

How to Use Technology to Support Emotional and Physical Healing

How to Find Purpose Through the Art of Storytelling

How to Train AI to Reflect Inclusivity and Diversity

How to Embrace Consciousness as the Foundation of Reality

How to Create a Sacred Relationship with Technology

Deepak reminds us that the answers we’re looking for often begin with a better question. And with the right mindset, even the most advanced technology can become a tool for inner transformation and collective healing.

With Love and Gratitude,

Jay Shetty

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro

01:41 What If the Universe Is Just a Giant Digital Simulation?

12:36 How to Train AI to Unlock Ancient and Hidden Knowledge

13:39 Blending AI and Spirituality to Understand Consciousness

18:23 Could AI Really Lead to Human Extinction?

22:34 What’s Actually Holding Humanity Back From Progress?

23:37 How the Human Brain Transformed Over Time

26:11 The 2 Things That Set Humans Apart From All Other Species

27:16 Can Technology Lead Us to True Peace and Prosperity?

28:10 Will AI Replace Our Jobs or Unlock Human Creativity?

30:46 Do You Think AI Can Ever Have a Soul?

31:45 The Gender and Racial Bias Hidden in AI Systems

32:33 How to Build More Inclusive and Equitable AI Models

33:32 Why a Shared Vision Can Solve Any Problem We Face

36:13 Would You Trust AI to Know You Personally?

36:57 How You can Use AI to Get Better Sleep

37:29 Can AI Actually Give You Good Relationship Advice?

38:07 How AI Can Help You Find and Nurture Love

38:29 Why Personal Growth Solutions Should Never Be Generic

39:41 Your DNA Holds the Footprints of Human History

42:33 Rethinking the Big Bang: What Science Still Can’t Explain

44:31 Is Everything You See Just a Projection?

47:48 Why Fear of the Unknown Limits Our Growth

48:52 Want Better Answers? Ask Better Questions

51:41 The True Secret to Longevity Isn’t What You Think

54:30 How Your Brain Turns Experience Into Reality

55:08 Why Consciousness Is Still Life’s Greatest Mystery

56:28 The First Question You Should Always Ask AI

58:38 How ChatGPT Can Spark Deeper, More Intelligent Questions

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Wolf and team move closer to arresting their targets Mansour Surur, Amara Cherif, and Moazu Kromah. With stakes high, authorities strategize about how to put these traffickers in handcuffs–as all three men are based in different African countries. Working quickly and stealthily, will the arrests ensue or give the criminals a chance to disappear for good?

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

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It’s 2018, Wolf has forked out big bucks from government coffers to buy contraband from the syndicate, yet no rhino horn appears. While anxiously waiting he realizes his manipulation skills may be the only way the traffickers will finally deliver. Wolf, Runako learns, is constantly working to balance espionage and fatherhood, and she sees the toll this kind of work takes on his family.

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Luminary: @hearluminary

Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment: @dreamcrew

Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation

Runako’s producer Saskia visits Hamm, West Germany, site of the world's largest herpetology fair to uncover what types of people buy, or sometimes smuggle, animals and animal products–and why they do it. Whether seeking exotic pets, aphrodisiacs, or hangover cures, the global demand for animal parts persists, as do the shady legal loopholes that allow the trade to flourish.

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Luminary: @hearluminary

Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment: @dreamcrew

Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

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Some compare illegal wildlife trafficking to a war. On the front line are the poachers and the game rangers. Syndicates often rely on the corruptibility of these poorly-paid rangers to be information providers and protectors. Anton Mzimba, a guardian of rhinos and other big game in South Africa, refused to be one of them.

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation

With the operation underway. Wolf gains trust by playing a well-connected drug trafficker who is now dabbling in the illegal wildlife trade. But to get money into the traffickers’ hands, and capture them on tape, is more of a hurdle than he expected. Turns out, banks don’t like large, mysterious, international transfers. Wolf tries a more precarious solution.

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original Music Composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor - Nicholas Alexander

Sound Designer and Mixer - David Smith

Fact Checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

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Luminary: @hearluminary

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Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation

In 2016, Wolf, an undercover agent, was enlisted by a former DEA agent and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Officer to embark on his most audacious mission to date--to take down a top wildlife crime syndicate. The story of Moazu Kromah, East Africa's most wanted wildlife trafficker, is nowhere near as interesting as how he was taken out, and by whom.

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original music composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor- Nicholas Alexander

Sound designer and mixer - David Smith

Fact checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

FOLLOW:

Luminary: @hearluminary

Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment: @dreamcrew

Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation

Investigative reporter Runako Celina begins to uncover the dark and twisted world of wildlife trafficking and meets a unique character who is at the center of it all. On this season of Pull The Thread, The Wild Life takes an unprecedented look at the fascinating, corrupt, and oftentimes dangerous world of the illegal wildlife trade. [Content Warning: Contains description of violence to animals.]

CREDITS

Executive Produced by: Drake, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Maggie Gilbride (DreamCrew Entertainment); Coral Lee (Luminary); Max O’Brien (Novel); Mauricio Gris and Alex Farquharson (Thread Studios)

Host - Runako Celina

Producer -  Saskia Collette

Additional Production - Julian Manuguerra-Patten and Jake Otajovic

Researcher - Madeleine Parr

Editor - Mythili Rao

Original music composer - Jake Long

Music Supervisor- Nicholas Alexander

Sound designer and mixer - David Smith

Fact checker - Dania Suleman

Voice of Wolf - Ivan Ivashkin

Follow Pull the Thread: The Wild Life wherever you get your podcasts. To hear episodes early and ad-free subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts, or directly on Luminary

FOLLOW:

Luminary: @hearluminary

Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment: @dreamcrew

Novel: @novelpodcasts 

Thread Studios: @threadstudiosuk

Runako Celina: @runakocelina 

Focused Conservation:@focused.conservation