Archives from 2024

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  December 5, 2024: "Early Freaks" featuring Eden Ahbez. Illuminating counter-cultures and people "ahead of their time". Later, an exploration of older forms of communal work contrasted with modern alienated work, the war on sharing, and traces of communalism still with us. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  November 7, 2024: We explore myths and rituals that are shared across cultures. Also, how games influence the way power systems work today, our connection/disconnection with nature, a radical analysis of the film Easy Rider, and more! | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  October 3, 2024: A return to the alien topic, with a focus this time on those who have claimed close encounters with aliens. We discuss if we can learn anything interesting from these stories, regardless of whether we take them as literal fact. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  September 5, 2024: A discussion of the ideas of the french anarchist anthropologist Pierre Clastres and the essay The Shamanic Trace, which expands on those ideas in new directions. How can we track the anti-authoritarian impulse throughout history? | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  August 1, 2024: A discussion about tensions between different forms of knowledge, the capitalist influence on food, and examples of foods that escape control, as we might hope to do. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  July 4, 2024: We discuss the important case of Peppy and Krystal, who are facing severe repression over their alleged association with a protest in defense of the trans community. Later on, we explore a famous experiment investigating psychokinesis. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  June 6, 2024: A walk on Mont Royal while discussing the placebo effect, summoning spirits, the temporary autonomous zone of the Tam-Tams, different uses and expressions of authority, and some live updates from a McGill building occupation in solidarity with Palestine. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  May 2, 2024: The mystery of the placebo effect, explored through the lenses of western medicine, cynicism, psychedelics, revolution, shamanism, faith healing, and spirituality more broadly. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  April 4, 2024: Cannabis as understood through the lenses of Carl Sagan, cartoons, gift economies, graffiti, escapism, and more. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  March 7, 2024: Car culture, technology, and the spirit of play. | Playlist | Listen | Download

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  February 1, 2024: The first episode! A deep dive into the UFO question, with particular attention to events in 2023/2024. What does the UFO phenomenon mean for us politically, culturally, spiritually? | Playlist | Listen | Download