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Marcelo and I just shoot the sh*t about life and eventually death. Not sure if we agreed on much but it was enjoyable. 

Marcelo goes off! We talk about the causes and effects of rising food prices and we argue at the end about the government response.     

Pretty unique episode this time.  Marcelo talks to the creator of the Book of Choyer, a large Warhammer channel on Youtube about how he got started, his creative process and how to build a following on Youtube.   Check him out at: The Book of Choyer  

We talk about Elon's potential take over of Twitter and how it can possibly go wrong.  We get into how he got the cash, whether he'll actually support free speech and the new oligarchy of the internet.   

We talk about Peter Frankopan's New Silk Roads. We explore China's Belt and Road Initiative and what it means for member countries and the world.  We project the future a little and then argue about it. 

We talk about Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and how trade changed over the centuries.  We get deep on what makes a society successful and why the East didn't get as advanced as the West.    www.lowercasemagazine.com

We talk about the clusterfuck that is Ukraine, what it means for military spending, NATO and how it might play out.  Gets a touch heated but nobody slapped anyone.    www.lowercasemagazine.com

I sit this one out as Marcelo and his childhood friend Rodrigo discuss the book Taiko and the history of Japan. I didn't read the book like a bad student.    www.lowercasemagazine.com 

We talk about Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent in relation to today's media and the attempt to cancel Joe Rogan.    www.lowercasemagazine.com  

Part 2 with Frankie. We talk about his experiments with Ketamine, his experience of ego death and whether or not religion comes from DMT.  Part of this discussion is informed by Muraresku's "The Immortality Key"   www.lowercasemagazine.com  

We're late! Sorry.  It's a good episode though. We talk with Frankie about his journey with ayahuasca and how it helped him get off drugs.  It's a wild ride.

We discuss American Factory and the fate of the American blue collar worker, the importance, and ultimate failure, of unions and the irony of a company from 'Communist' China being against worker's rights. Overall an interesting pod.   www.lowercasemagazine.com

We talk about the future of crypto 2022, whether NFTs are bullshit and what the future of media will be.  Not a bad episode, stick around, it gets more interesting towards the end.   www.lowercasemagazine.com  

We list our top 5 books for the year and just have a great time reminiscing about great reads. Spoiler alert Marcelo can't pronounce one, I slacked off and just contributed 2 and we end up on psychedelics.   Happy Holidays!

We're in a commy pinko kind of mood this podcast so we talked about Evergrande failing and the dangers of speculation. Marcelo read Homage to Catalonia and couldn't stop going on about it so we included that too. Follow us!   check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com  

We go through the mechanics of the real estates disaster that is Evergrande and Xi Xinping's approach to it.  Pretty dece episode.    

We do a little news roundup and talk briefly about COVID, then BOOM! the big stuff: Colin Powell, Taiwan, and the Saudi takeover over Premier League's Newcastle team. Sorry it's late, we gotta get our shit together.   Check out www.lowercasemagazine.com 

We shoot the shit with Nico about AI, ancient ruins and living in Europe. 

We started talking about the Canadian elections but we couldn't help ourselves and ended up talking about Canada's energy, Quebec separation an hating the elites.    Check Hainsey out on twitter @integralrising   www.lowercasemagazine.com

Hainsey and I shoot the shit about the Canadian election, Quebec, and anti-intellectualism.  Also why are Canadian election so friggin boring? tweet hainsey @integralrising   Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com  

We're back! A lot has happened and we dive into the end of the war in Afghanistan and then we make Canadian politics a little less boring.   Follow us: Instagram: @lowercasemag www.lowercasemagazine.com  

My sister, Nadia (an actual real journalist), joins us to talk about the Pegasus leak which involved thousands of journalists, diplomats and politicians. We talk about surveillance and monopolies and whether President Biden's executive order will help bust tech monopolies.  www.lowercasemagazine.com www.instagram.com/lowercasemag    

Marcelo and I talk about some notable headlines including Canada's first indigenous Governor General, how millennials will never own homes, and the assassination of the Haitian president. Pretty cheery stuff.    www.lowercasemagazine.com www.instagram.com/lowercasemag

Marcelo and I talk to Maika Isogawa, a former acrobat, Stanford graduate in Symbolic Systems, and stoic.  We talk about what it means to be a stoic, stoic exercises, her time in Cirque du Soleil (Marcelo couldn't help it) and I eventually end the episode in shame.    Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com www.instagram.com/lowercasemag

We surprisingly talk about having kids and what that means and Marcelo finds out he's a liberal.   www.lowercasemagazine.com www.instagram.com/lowercasemag  

We talk about bullshit jobs and how they drain us of meaning and purpose.  Are you in a bullshit job? Do you want to leave it or do you love it? We're a little split. enjoy.   Our magazine Our gram

We talk about Ken Wilber and integral theory--a philosophy that is sneaking its way into self help, and a bunch of masculinity podcasts.  We're joined by Erik Haines (@integralrising), friend of the show.   Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com

We sit down with Miryama Abdulaziz to talk about cyber security and whether my nudes are safe. Actually more like, whether America's nudes are safe. We explore the Sunburst attack, Stuxnet, and whether we're in a cyber war. 

We finally sit down and shoot the shit about NFTs and their surprising pitfalls.  There's a lot of buzz these days around this new medium (?asset class) but there's also a lot of unknowns.  Marcelo and I talk about a recent interview we did with an NFT expert and a recent article in the Atlantic. To see our interview go to www.lowercasemagazine.com Follow us @lowercasemag

We're late. Marcelo explains why in this podcast but basically we're preparing something on NFTs.      

We're joined again by friend of the show Erik Haines (twitter: @integralrising) to talk about Jordan Peterson, post-modernism, conservatism and some other shit. It was a good time. Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com  

We're joined by Chris Latham today, an online marketer and coach, to talk about being an entrepreneur and what the millennial workforce is going to look like in its prime.    Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com Check out Chris at https://chrislatham.ca

We spoke to one of Marcelo's childhood friends, Nico Loy Rodas, who's a medical AI researcher. The stuff he's working on could revolutionize the way surgeon's operate and help us re-imagine medical education. It was doozy. 

Personally I think the term intellectual dark web is a little much for a bunch of eggheads with advanced degrees arguing about pronouns but alas here we are. It was a good discussion about why the IDW had such an appeal.  We're joined this episode by Erik Haines, friend of the show and raised our IQ by about 100 points.    Instagram: @lowercasemag Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com Follow Erik Haines: @integralrising Follow Erik Haines on twitter

Yeah it's early, we couldn't help ourselves, this was too juicy.  Marcelo explains what went on and we speculate what the future of investing may look like.  Nerds of the world, unite!   We also reference a previous podcast on income inequality, if you haven't heard it check it out at www.lowercasemagazine.com Follow us at www.instagram.com/lowercasemag

Matt Taibbi wrote an article about the need for a new system of media. We got so wrapped  up in talking about that, we forget our original topic. Whatever it was fun. I still can't remember what we were supposed to talk about.  

Who knew this episode would be timed so well?  We talked about Tim Snyder's On Tyranny and of course the storming of the Capitol Building. Sorry about the coughing and delay, I caught the VID. 

We go through our favourite 10 books so you don't have to read them (but probably should).  Happy Holidays! For more check out www.lowercasemagazine.com

This week we go through our round up of the most interesting articles this week. The one we get stuck on concerns whether or not art is as important as food. Really.  Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com Send us some feedback and tell us what you think! writing@lowercasemagazine.com

We talk about the rich/poor divide across the world and the craziness that's coming as a result.  We reference Picketty's book Capital (well Marcelo is, I didn't read it, I watched the movie because I'm cool like that).  We're joined by friend of the show Shayney B on this one. We had some technical difficulties so he only come in 1/3rd of the way in. Sorry. 

This post election podcast explores the potential future of the Biden presidency and discusses the circumstance of the election. We're joined by Alex Poulin who was kind enough to put up with us.  Don't forget to follow us and share this with your friends!

We talk about the elections.  This was recorded before the second debate but I think that the second debate was irrelevant enough that it doesn't matter. Oh and apparently Marcelo is spelt with 1 L and not 2 like I had previously spelt it, but when he starts editing and uploading and eventually advertising, he can spell his name however he wants.  For now, it's Marcello. 

Marcello and I talk about Kwame Antony Appiah's book The Honor Code and Breitbart's idea that politics is downstream from culture. We're getting less pretentious, I promise.   

This is part 2 of our episode on Surveillance Capitalism.  We talked about freedom, and how to escape the shackles of technology. If you haven't listened to part 1, you should. Oh and share it.  Marcello only name dropped twice in this podcast. Promise. 

Ever wonder what would happen if a company not only knew everything about you, not only could predict what you were going to do next but also influence it? Us too. This podcast is based on a book called Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It's one of the books behind Netflix, the Social Dilemma. We talk about what it is we're living through and how we go there.  There was so much to talk about this is just part 1. 

We talk about religion and our search to reach the buddha state. Nah Marcello's a religious atheist and I'm...well..I don't really know. We're on the search, that's all I'll say. 

We get a little personal on this one after watching Indian Matchmaker on Netflix.  Marcello tells me how great his marriage is and I pine after a woman.  Not exactly, but it sounds good.   But really, I'm almost ready for Aparna. 

Marcello and I gas about a Black Mirror episode, called ArkAngel (season 4 if you want to check it out). The premise is a mom wants to keep a closer eye on her kid and installs a microchip through which she can see anything if she chooses. It's surveillance parenting.  It's pretty creepy--but that's Black Mirror. We talk about what we would do with out future kids, managing stress and being comfortable choosing not to know. Cheers. 

As COVID drags on and people get used to wearing masks and social distancing, we wonder if this is going to change people forever. How much is health and safety going to become our obsession? We both think it'll be a while. Also enjoy our new theme music. 

We talk about whether the protests will change anything, what they want to achieve and whether it's achievable. Marcello also rambles about something, I still haven't figured out what he meant.  Maybe you can let us know.  We weren't feeling pretentious enough so we talked about John Rawls. Yup. We're the worst. 

We talk about the protests, why they happened, and if they'll change anything.  We touched on systemic racism; whether and how it can be addressed. This is part 1 of 2.  Part 2's even better. Cheers.