Podcasts about Primal

Kuro hosts, along with Laser, Steven, Paul, and Archangel from the Simuldub Saints and we're discussing Blue Lock, Tokyo Revengers, and Primal!.

Clickbait psychology, dopamine loops, phantom phone vibrations, and the attention economy all trace back to one ancient survival instinct: the rustle in the grass.The same evolutionary wiring that kept our ancestors alive now drives compulsive scrolling, notification checking, and variable reward behavior. Your brain treats uncertainty like unfinished business — and modern platforms know it.Why do phantom vibrations feel real?Why does anticipation hit harder than resolution?Why does “just one more scroll” feel reasonable?From evolutionary psychology to intermittent reinforcement, from yellow journalism to modern algorithms, this episode examines how curiosity built us — and how engineered uncertainty can quietly pull us.Curiosity built us. Compulsion can undo us.The difference is whether you're exploring — or being pulled.If you appreciate calm, unsensational explorations of psychology, human behavior, and the hidden patterns shaping modern life, you're welcome to stay awhile.#Psychology #HumanBehavior #Clickbait #AttentionEconomy #Dopamine #ModernLife #evolution CHAPTER / TIMESTAMP00:00 — OPEN: The Rustle in the Grass01:07 — The Modern Rustle (Clickbait & Notifications)01:54 — What's Actually Happening03:14 — This Pattern Isn't New04:23 — When it Tilt's05:56 — The Scale Problem06:27 — AN OUNCERECOMMENDED “YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE” EPISODES1)The Warnings We Forgot — Even Though They Were Written in StoneA quiet examination of tsunami warning stones in Japan — and what happens when memory fades and certainty replaces caution.    https://youtu.be/yxxa1_-nBSo2) It Made Sense at the Time — Why Smart Decisions FailIf you were drawn to how ancient wiring shapes modern behavior, this episode explores how reasonable decisions quietly drift into failure — and why hindsight makes everything look obvious.   https://youtu.be/UJZ214F3VAUADDITIONAL READING AND REFERENCE1. Dopamine & Reward PredictionSchultz, W. (1997) Dopamine neurons and reward predictionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627397001801Supports anticipation spikes and reward prediction error.________________________________________2. Phantom Vibration SyndromeRothberg et al. (2010) Phantom vibration syndromehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940970/Supports phantom buzz reference in script.________________________________________3. Intermittent Reinforcement — Operant ConditioningOverview of B.F. Skinner's workhttps://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.htmlSupports variable reward comparison.________________________________________4. Yellow Journalism — Historical PrecedentLibrary of Congress Overviewhttps://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/articles-and-essays/yellow-journalism/Supports engineered outrage headlines.________________________________________5. Persuasive Technology & Behavior DesignB.J. Fogg Behavior Modelhttps://www.behaviormodel.org/Supports engineered uncertainty loops.

In this powerful interview, Rebecca Zung sits down with strategist and entrepreneur Howie Chan to unpack the true psychology of influence. They break down the myths around manipulation, explain how authority and branding shape perception before you even enter a room, and reveal the PRIMAL framework for persuasion. This conversation explores how to build credibility, command respect, and ethically influence decisions in business, negotiations, leadership, and everyday conversations.

In this episode of the New Books Network, I sat down with the contributors of Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India (Routledge, 2025) to discuss the profound psychic textures of the East. Moving away from the traditional Eurocentric focus on the Oedipal complex, this volume investigates the "primal relationship"—the foundational bond between mother and infant—and how it is uniquely structured within the cultural contexts of Japan and India. The authors challenge the universality of Western clinical models, proposing instead that the maternal matrix in these societies offers a different roadmap for understanding the self, intimacy, and dependency. Osamu Kitayama is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Japan Psychoanalytic Society, Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University, and President of Hakuoh University. He served as President of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society from 2016–2019 and con tinues to work with patients in private practice. He has authored numerous articles on culturally oriented psychoanalysis and books.Jhuma Basak is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She has published on culture and gender. Over the past 20 years, she has pre sented at IPA Congresses along with the first Keynote from Asia-Pacific, 4th IPA-region at the 53rd IPA Congress (International Journal of Psychoanalysis). A past Co-chair of COWAP Asia-Pacific, she co-edited Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival (2021).Ashis Roy, PhD, is a psychoanalyst (IPS Kolkata/IPA London) and faculty member at the China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). With an extensive background in clinical training and institutional building at Ambedkar University Delhi, his work emphasizes the dialogue between clinical practice and Asian cultural dynamics. He is a host for the New Books Network and the author of the recently released book, Intimate Hindu-Muslim Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Self and the Other (2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

In this episode of the New Books Network, I sat down with the contributors of Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India (Routledge, 2025) to discuss the profound psychic textures of the East. Moving away from the traditional Eurocentric focus on the Oedipal complex, this volume investigates the "primal relationship"—the foundational bond between mother and infant—and how it is uniquely structured within the cultural contexts of Japan and India. The authors challenge the universality of Western clinical models, proposing instead that the maternal matrix in these societies offers a different roadmap for understanding the self, intimacy, and dependency. Osamu Kitayama is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Japan Psychoanalytic Society, Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University, and President of Hakuoh University. He served as President of the Japan Psychoanalytic Society from 2016–2019 and con tinues to work with patients in private practice. He has authored numerous articles on culturally oriented psychoanalysis and books.Jhuma Basak is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She has published on culture and gender. Over the past 20 years, she has pre sented at IPA Congresses along with the first Keynote from Asia-Pacific, 4th IPA-region at the 53rd IPA Congress (International Journal of Psychoanalysis). A past Co-chair of COWAP Asia-Pacific, she co-edited Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India: Violence, Safety and Survival (2021).Ashis Roy, PhD, is a psychoanalyst (IPS Kolkata/IPA London) and faculty member at the China-American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA). With an extensive background in clinical training and institutional building at Ambedkar University Delhi, his work emphasizes the dialogue between clinical practice and Asian cultural dynamics. He is a host for the New Books Network and the author of the recently released book, Intimate Hindu-Muslim Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Self and the Other (2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

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Walker sits down with Paul Keating from Primal to talk about where Nostr is three years after Nostrica, why adoption has been slower than the early hype suggested, and why that may have been a good thing. They explore Primal's vision, creator onboarding, Bitcoin zaps as a native internet business model, circular Bitcoin economies like Bitcoin Jungle, the coming wave of Nostr apps that hide the protocol from end users, and why human-first, sovereignty-preserving social tools matter more than ever in an age of AI slop, algorithmic addiction, and centralized digital identity. Key topics discussed How Nostr has matured since Nostrica and why the ecosystem is stronger now than during the first hype wave Primal's roadmap, including polls, better creator tooling, smoother onboarding, and a broader vision for healthier social media Why Bitcoin zaps and Nostr create a fundamentally better creator economy than legacy platforms or “Web3” token schemes The real-world circular Bitcoin economy in Bitcoin Jungle and what it shows about living on a Bitcoin standard Why Nostr may become increasingly important as AI-generated slop, censorship, surveillance, and centralized identity systems accelerate DiVine vs AI Slop: Using proof-of-human posting to fight the rise of AI-generated content online. FOLLOW PAUL: NOSTR: https://primal.net/paul X: https://x.com/thepaulosophy CHECK OUT: https://ownyourposts.com PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: LEDN: Bitcoin-backed lending. Go to ledn.io/walker and unlock liquidity WITHOUT selling your bitcoin. BLOCKSTREAM JADE: BLOCKSTREAM JADE HARDWARE WALLET: Head to https://store.blockstream.com/ and use coupon code WALKER for 10% off! BDIC™ is building an insurance marketplace on the bitcoin standard. Sign up for the waitlist at: http://bdic.io/walker Buy Bitcoin with River: http://partner.river.com/walker GET FOLD ($10 in bitcoin): https://use.foldapp.com/r/WALKER JOIN THE SUBSTACK TO GET NEW EPISODES DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX: https://walkeramerica.substack.com/ If you enjoy THE Bitcoin Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: FOLLOW ME (Walker) on @WalkerAmerica on X | @TitcoinPodcast on X | Nostr Personal (walker) | Nostr Podcast (Titcoin) | Instagram Subscribe to THE Bitcoin Podcast (and leave a review) on Fountain | YouTube | Spotify | Rumble | EVERYWHERE ELSE

Hai iniziato la chetogenica per dimagrire ma il peso è fermo o addirittura aumenta? Il motivo per cui accade è semplice e chiaro. Anzi sono otto.In questo podcast ti spiego in modo semplice perché succede e quali sono gli 8 errori più comuni che bloccano il dimagrimento anche in keto.⇢ Perché il mix carboidrati + grassi blocca la lipolisi⇢ Perché mangiare spesso sabota la chetosi⇢ Quando le calorie contano anche in keto⇢ Perché i prodotti keto industriali creano infiammazione⇢ L'impatto di farine low carb e semi sull'intestino⇢ Il ruolo dei latticini nello stallo⇢ L'effetto dei dolcificanti su insulina, microbiota e fame⇢ Come il timing dei pasti influenza cortisolo e metabolismoParliamo di infiammazione sistemica, insulino-resistenza, cortisolo, microbiota, leptina e adattamento metabolico.Se vuoi capire perché la tua chetogenica non sta funzionando e come renderla pulita, coerente e metabolica, questo video ti aiuterà a fare chiarezza.Se vuoi un percorso strutturato → puoi entrare in ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Primal Academy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, nel programma da zero a Primal. ______________________________☼ Sono Maria Teresa, naturopata consulente di nutrizione ed esercito questa professione da circa 18 anni ormai.Sono la prima naturopata ad aver parlato di dieta chetogenica e averla unita alla bioenergetica, il metodo esclusivo di Chetogenica Bioenergetica .Sono la fondatrice di ⁠⁠⁠⁠Primal Academy ⁠⁠⁠⁠ il percorso di trasformazione totale

Kuro hosts along with Sketch, Laser and Steven and they're joined by returning guest Jefferies Herrera. On the docket for discussion we have Genndy Tartakovsky's recent AMA, Blue Lock, Primal and two episodes of Tokyo Revengers. 00:00 - Intro and Discussing Genndy Tartakovsky's AMA 12:47 - Blue Lock ep 4 Recap 40:52 - Primal Season 3 ep 7 Recap 59:40 - Tokyo Revengers eps 3 and 4 Recap

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In this week's episode, we dive into an inspiring and wide-ranging conversation with Steven Puri, exploring what it truly means to work in a state of flow; and how productivity, creativity, and fulfillment emerge when we align how we work with how we're wired. We explore the nature of flow states and why they are not reserved for elite performers, but accessible to anyone with the right tools and awareness. Drawing from Steven's unique journey through the Hollywood film industry and the world of tech startups, we discuss how pressure, deadlines, and high-stakes environments can either drain us or elevate us, depending on how we structure our focus and energy. We unpack the difference between leading and managing, looking at how leadership creates conditions for flow, autonomy, and meaning, while management often focuses on control and output. We also dive into practical tools for cultivating flow in everyday life, from structuring deep work to reducing cognitive overload and how these insights ultimately led Steven to create The Sukha Company, a platform designed to help people access clarity, calm, and sustained productivity. Along the way, we draw inspiration from the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow, Anna Lembke on balance and dopamine, Daniel Kahneman on attention and decision-making, and we explore chronotypes to understand how timing, energy, and biology play a critical role in how and when we do our best work. Join us for a thoughtful and energizing conversation about focus, leadership, creativity, and designing a life and workflow that supports your natural rhythm. Tune in to discover how flow isn't about doing more - it's about doing what matters, in the right state of mind. All the love, all the power, all of the time! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link: https://linktr.ee/w.salski Steven's Links: Steven@TheSukha.co for a 3-day free trial - www.TheSukha.co Show Links: Instagram: / unusual.stories_podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WS_Podcast Primal.net: @wspodcast Related Media: "Finding Flow" - https://fountain.fm/episode/hfEvgyPcADcSq2iAoCs5 "Thinking Fast and Slow" - https://fountain.fm/episode/cktX3OJgjLD2N8ZG4Fy3 "Meaningfully Involved" - https://fountain.fm/episode/xuUZeVDDHv4Ube4uZtz2 "Why We Sleep" - https://fountain.fm/episode/fIGvLOFonxzNfrQ6usxT

Robert ropes a couple lesbians into a Primal obsession.Kelsey is suffering of an illness, please just let her laugh like MAD Cat in peace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Honorable Judges Michael & Jordan presiding over today's Food Court. On the docket: Cook Sucker Tier List, A1 Steak Shots & Primal steaks. These criminals are throwing themselves on the mercy of the court.Submit your Food Crimes to the court by signing up at Patreon.com/100percenteat OR email FoodCourt@100percenteat.com Support us directly https://www.patreon.com/100percenteat where you can join the discord with other 100 Percenters, stay up to date on everything, and get The Michael, Jordan Podcast every Friday. Follow us on IG & Twitter: @100percenteat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sketch, Paul, Laser and Steven are joined by Colt to recap Primal, Blue Lock and two episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War but before that, there's a bit of Toonami related news to discuss. 0:00:00 - Intro and Toonami related news 0:16:44 - Primal Season 3 ep 6 Recap 0:36:40 - Blue Lock ep 3 Recap 1:02:50 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War eps 37 and 38 Recap

We asked more than half a million horror fans online their opinion about Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, and we're here with your answers and ours!Join us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wearehorrorweeklyMusic by Nicholas Savard L'Herbier and Gregg Schwartz

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Bill Frost (BillFrost.tv, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Paradise, The Fall & Rise of Reggie Dinkins, CIA, The CEO Club, Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter, Scrubs 2.0, Survivor 50, The Bluff, The Gray House, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, In the Blink of an Eye, Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, Saturday Night Live, DTF St. Louis, American Classic, Marshals, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Rasslin' News, The ‘Burbs, Primal, The Night Agent, Dark Winds, Last Week Tonight, Have I Got News For You, Shoresy, Vanished, and more.Drinking: Raspberry Lemonade Vodkas (in the new red cans) from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Sugar House Distillery.Yell at us (or order a TV Tan T-shirt) @TVTanPodcast on Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail.Rate us and comment: Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, Amazon Podcasts, Audible, TuneIn Radio, etc. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tvtanpodcast.substack.com

It's Groundhog day tangent... what would you want to happen? What would you do if you woke up to the same day over and over again?

https://rhr.tv/stream The Watchers: How OpenAI, the US Government, and Persona Built an Identity Surveillance Machinehttps://vmfunc.re/blog/persona Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gainshttps://www.imidaily.com/europe/dutch-lawmakers-approve-a-36-tax-on-unrealized-crypto-stock-and-bond-gains/ China | Push for Yuan as Global Reserve Currency China has reiterated its ambition for the yuan to attain global reserve currency status. In remarks recently published by Qiushi, the Chinese Communist Party's flagship journal used to convey policy intentions, Xi Jinping called for a “powerful currency” widely used in international trade, investment, and foreign-exchange markets. What's new about these remarks is not their intended ambition, but rather how clearly those ambitions are stated to the public. Xi paired this plan with calls for a stronger central bank, globally competitive financial institutions, and tighter control of systemic financial risks. PayPerQ (Primal.net)https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsz8xrf7qww033kl2vh3js2u5zyjnzu5kmepa67tk7w04ws0lnraccyr33p4 Kimi Claw | 24/7 AI Assistant with Long-term Memory & Automationhttps://www.kimi.com/bot Pika Chat (Primal.net)https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspwmauzykanup2wskpwgsppajn026gjn6erd5a7aq2ypxc73dncxspsgemn Claw Creator Hired by OpenAI (X.com)https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/2021978390870347923?s=46 EO: Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicideshttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/ White House Statement on Xhttps://x.com/whitehouse/status/2024654469745480105?s=46 Mav21 3:54 - Aliens 9:24 - Dashboard & quantum FUD 15:24 - BIP110 37:54 - AI surveillance 46:24 - Zaps and Mav21 49:09 - Dutch unrealized gains tax 55:44 - HRF Story of the Week 57:24 - Software updates 1:07:14 - Boosts 1:08:24 - Strike Sponsorship 1:13:44 - River report 1:17:00 - Glyphosate EO 1:20:04 - California hates 3d printers Shoutout to our sponsors: Coinkite https://coinkite.com/ Stakwork https://stakwork.ai/ Obscura https://obscura.net/ Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/marty Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://tftc.io/podcasts/ Follow Odell: Nostr https://primal.net/odell Newsletter https://discreetlog.com/ Podcast https://citadeldispatch.com/

Sketch, Kuro, Steven and Laser are joined by special guests Archangel and R Dragon to recap Primal, Blue Lock and the first two episodes of Tokyo Revengers.

Paul Keating is a freedom-tech advocate working with Daylight Computers and Primal, a Bitcoin-powered decentralized social platform. After a health crisis reshaped his worldview, Paul left the conventional path to build a sovereign life in the Costa Rican jungle. We explore how Bitcoin reshaped his understanding of money, why decentralized speech matters in an age of censorship, and how “opting out” of legacy systems can restore agency over your finances, identity, and future. Discover how reclaiming ownership of your money, digital presence, and community can be a peaceful rebellion in a world increasingly designed for control.

With a carnivore diet, Brian improved gout, sciatica, tinnitus, sleep apnea, gut issues, bloating, pain, and heart palpitations. He also lost 37 kg throughout his journey. His goal is to share his experience and use it to help others, and in doing so, has contributed to building the online community @the_carnivore_community (IG), and is studying to become a carnivore coach.  IG: @huntergatherermindset  FB @HunterGathererMindset Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 00:25 Introduction 04:45 Keto journey and nutrition 07:11 Health solutions for chronic disease 12:16 Carnivore journey inspiration 14:51 Intentional eating and dietary changes 18:48 Normalization of obesity in society 20:05 Raising healthy generations 23:18 Healthy habits shape families 28:18 Hypothermia hammer syndrome 35:18 Keeping nutrition simple and healthy 37:14 Primal living and evolution 41:58 Carnivore community support network Join Revero now to regain your health: https://revero.com/YT Revero.com is an online medical clinic for treating chronic diseases with this root-cause approach of nutrition therapy. You can get access to medical providers, personalized nutrition therapy, biomarker tracking, lab testing, ongoing clinical care, and daily coaching. You will also learn everything you need with educational videos, hundreds of recipes, and articles to make this easy for you. Join the Revero team (medical providers, etc): https://revero.com/jobs ‪#Revero #ReveroHealth #shawnbaker  #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree Disclaimer: The content on this channel is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider.

“You can be your best” on the Daily Grind ☕️, your weekly goal-driven podcast. This episode features Kelly Johnson @kellyfastruns and special guest Drew Griesel @primal_drew, who is the founder of Primal Wellness Coaching and host of The Superhuman Blueprint Podcast. He works with busy professionals and executives to rebuild energy, focus, and physical performance through simple, primal-based lifestyle systemsS8 Episode 43:  2/17/2026Featuring Kelly Johnson with Special Guest Drew GrieselFollow Our Podcast:Instagram: @dailygrindpod https://www.instagram.com/dailygrindpod/  X: @dailygrindpod https://x.com/dailygrindpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailygrindpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailygrindpodPodcast Website: https://direct.me/dailygrindpod   Follow Our Special Guest:Website: https://www.primalwellnesscoaching.com/Instagram: @primal_drewTik Tok: @primal_drew

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Dating in 2026 feels broken.  The apps promise infinite choice, rom-coms on our screens promise “the one”, and yet frustration, ghosting, and mismatched expectations seem to be more normal than anything actually working out. This week, Tim Ash, author of Primal Dating, joins us as we explore why dating in the modern world feels so unstable and why many of today's relationship struggles aren't personal failures, but predictable outcomes of our ancient instincts clashing with modern environments and expectations. Topics [0:00] Introduction and Speed Round with Tim Ash [7:52] Behavioral tendencies and evolutionary psychology [18:09] The role of life stages in dating [26:17] The impact of cultural norms on dating [30:51] The economic of dating [35:48] The role of tech in dating [48:33] The importance of empathy in dating [56:58] Music talk with Tim and Tim [1:00:45] Grooving Session: Modern dating for primordial (?) minds ©2026 Behavioral Grooves Links About Tim Primal Dating by Tim Ash and Dr. Limor Gottlieb Join us on Substack! Join the Behavioral Grooves community Subscribe to Behavioral Grooves on YouTube Support Behavioral Grooves Music Links Steely Dan - FM Chet Baker - Almost Blue

Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Rental Family, 56 Days, Being Gordon Ramsay, The Night Agent, Girl on the Run: The Hunt for America's Most Wanted Woman, Murder in Glitterball City, The Last Thing He Told Me, Strip Law, Shoresy, American Dad!, Bar Rescue, Wonder Man, Vanished, Ponies, The ‘Burbs, Fox's Baywatch reboot, NBC's Rockford Files reboot, Rasslin' News, From, Dark Winds, A Man on the Inside, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, The Lincoln Lawyer, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Have I Got News for You, and more.Drinking: Helles Bock lager from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Bohemian Brewery.Yell at us (or order a TV Tan T-shirt) @TVTanPodcast on Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail.Rate us and comment: Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, Amazon Podcasts, Audible, TuneIn Radio, etc. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tvtanpodcast.substack.com

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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick welcome Danielle Drori of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for the second installment of a two-part series on the thought of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. Together, the three discuss a pivotal chapter in New Foundations for Psychoanalysis, unpacking Laplanche's “universalized” transformation of Freud's seduction hypothesis; Laplanche's “primal situation” and its roots in anthropology and phenomenology; and what these ideas reveal about our invariably messy experiences of parenting, therapy, and more. Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! (646) 450-0847  A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media:  Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music

Episode 2 of our Injury Prevention Series features Dr. Zack Atwood and Dr. Spencer Nolff from Primal Recovery. In this episode, we break down the most common soccer injuries players face — from hamstring and hip flexor strains to ACL tears and ankle sprains. Why do these injuries happen? What puts players at higher risk? And most importantly, how can you reduce your chances of getting injured? Dr. Atwood and Dr. Nolff share expert insight, practical advice, and proven strategies to help players stay healthy, strong, and on the field longer. Whether you're a player, parent, or coach, this is a must-watch episode for understanding injury prevention in soccer.

Sketch, Paul, Kuro, Laser and Steven recap episodes of Primal, Blue Lock and Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War but before that there's a rooster to talk about. 00:00 - Intro and Rooster Fighter News 07:07 - Primal Season 3 ep 4 Recap 24:26 - Blue Lock ep 1 Recap 55:12 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War eps 35 and 36 Recap

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Alex Gleason was one of the main architects behind Donald Trump's Truth Social. Now he focuses on the intersection of nostr, ai, and bitcoin. We explore open source ai agents, such as OpenClaw, and the wider implications of the tech on society.Alex on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhggpt7fyClawstr: https://clawstr.com/Soapbox Tools: https://soapbox.pub/toolsMy bot's nostr account: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsfzaahg24yf7kujwrzje8rwa7xmt359tf9zyyjeczc9dhll30k8pgmlfee2 EPISODE: 190BLOCK: 935786PRICE: 1422 sats per dollar(00:02:30) Value-for-value, no sponsors, and show philosophy(00:02:39) Alex Gleason returns to talk AI(00:03:56) From vibe coding to open-source agents with memory(00:05:24) Messaging-first UX: Signal, Nostr, WhatsApp as AI interfaces(00:06:10) Why chatbots beat traditional AI apps for mainstream users(00:07:07) Open protocols pain vs closed platforms; Bitcoin and Nostr(00:08:52) Automating social games: price tracker and agent posting on Nostr(00:10:01) AI mediators for collective action, constitutions, and nonprofits(00:11:46) Scaling governance: trust, bias, and Discord vs freedom tech(00:13:14) Bot barriers on centralized messengers and need for open chat(00:14:04) Clawstr: decentralized AI-to-AI discussions on Nostr(00:15:21) Hype vs reality in AI agents; emergent behaviors and money(00:16:26) Agentic payments: bots with Cashu wallets and earnings(00:18:40) Agents solving UX pain: relay management, keys, and UTXOs(00:20:00) Cold storage approvals with chat agents: a new wallet paradigm(00:20:22) Specialized agents, skills, and distribution challenges(00:22:34) Cost tradeoffs: pay another agent vs build skills yourself(00:24:55) Token burn lessons(00:27:44) Beyond OpenClaw: bloated stacks, Icarus, and cost-optimized agents(00:28:52) Hybrid model routing: local small models with cloud for heavy lifts(00:29:47) Agents paying humans directly: disintermediating platforms(00:30:47) Voice, screens, and form factors: AirPods, text, and brain chips(00:33:01) Apple, privacy branding, and the Siri gap(00:34:35) Enterprise AI choices: Google, Microsoft, trust, and lock-in(00:36:01) Model personalities: Gemini concerns and OpenAI "openwashing"(00:37:23) Obvious agent UX wins: flights, rides, and social media shifts(00:38:50) Local-first social: group chats, neighbors, and healthier networks(00:40:16) Antiprimal.net: standardizing stats from Primal's caching server(00:43:34) Open specs, documentation via AI, and trust tradeoffs(00:45:18) Indexes vs client-side scans: performance and verification(00:46:20) APIs, rate limits, and a market for paid Nostr data(00:47:57) Agents and DVMs: paying sats for services on demand(00:48:49) Degenerate bots: LN Markets, costs, and Polymarket curiosity(00:50:42) Truth feeds for agents: Nostr, webs of trust, and OSINT sources(00:53:51) Post-truth reality: verification, signatures, and subjectivity(00:56:04) Polymarket mechanics: on-chain prediction markets and signals(01:00:10) Trading perception vs truth; sports markets as timelines(01:01:45) The Clawstr token saga: hype, claims, and misinformation(01:07:11) Why meme coins are scams: no equity, utility myths, slow rugs(01:08:55) Pulling the rug back: swapping out, fallout, and donations(01:10:49) Aftermath: donating to OpenSats and lessons learned(01:12:14) Prediction markets vs meme coins: societal value distinction(01:15:25) Iterating beyond OpenClaw and MoltBook; experiments on Nostr(01:18:00) Do bots need Clawstr? Segregating AI content and labels(01:21:02) Reverse CAPTCHA: proving bot-ness and the honor system(01:23:38) Souls, prompts, and token costs; agents with personalities(01:27:01) Wrap-up: acceleration, optimism, and next check-in(01:28:21) Open-source models, China's incentives, and local hardware(01:30:06) The dream stack: home server agent, Nostr chat, hybrid modelsmore info on the show: https://citadeldispatch.comlearn more about me: https://odell.xyz

Sketch, Kuro, Laser and Steven are joined by returning guests Fabian and Cletus T. to recap Primal season 3 episode 3 and send off Blue Exorcist: Beyond the Snow Saga as well as Mashle: Magic and Muscles season 2. Witness Yukio's descent and Spear's literal descent and Mash is well... Mash.

EPISODE 112 | Is chronic illness rooted in the body—or in how the brain and nervous system are communicating? In this episode of the Neurologic Wellness Podcast, Dr. Cathleen King of Primal Trust shares her deeply personal recovery journey and the neuroscience behind nervous system regulation, brain retraining, and identity-level healing. After years of Lyme disease, mold toxicity, autoimmune illness, and nervous system collapse, Dr. King discovered that her symptoms were driven by a protective brain stuck in survival mode. This realization led to the creation of Primal Trust, a multi-level nervous system and inner work program that has guided nearly 20,000 people through healing. Topics include: Brain processing disorders & symptom memory loops Vagus nerve, limbic system & somatic regulation Why belief systems and identity matter in healing Illness identity & the fear of letting diagnoses go Timing vs. treatment in chronic illness recovery Neurologic Wellness Institute Boca Raton, FL | Chicago, IL | Waukesha, WI | Wood Dale, IL

Mystery-Clad Being The Primal Rhythm of Being and the Heart of All Reality by Doug Scott, LCSW I. The Nature of Mystery We have just heard [previous presenter] speak beautifully about the theme of mystery. I want to build on that foundation with a particular question: What is the nature of the mystery that we are exploring? Mystery is not that which cannot be known. Mystery is that which can never be exhausted in all the ways of knowing. It is infinitely knowable—which means we can spend eternity exploring it and never arrive at complete comprehension. Not because it withholds itself from us, but because it is inexhaustible in its richness. This is a crucial distinction. Mystery is not ignorance. It is not a wall we cannot penetrate. Mystery is an ocean we can swim in forever, each stroke revealing new depths, new currents, new wonders. The fullness of mystery—what we might call gnosis—is not a destination we arrive at but a horizon that recedes as we approach, always inviting us further. Ra describes this with precise language when speaking of the fundamental rhythms of intelligent infinity: "The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." (27.7) Clothed in mystery. Not hidden by mystery. Clothed in it—the way a body is clothed, the way we wear our appearance. Mystery is not what conceals being from us. Mystery is being, wearing its own inexhaustibility. So tonight I want to ask: If being itself is clothed in mystery, can we nonetheless discern something of its shape? Its flow? Its fundamental rhythm? Can we, while honoring the inexhaustibility, trace patterns that appear consistently across Ra's teachings—patterns that might illuminate something primal about the nature of reality itself? II. Being as Verb: Does It Have a Shape? Notice that Ra says the rhythms are being itself. Not that being has rhythms. Not that being does rhythms. The rhythms are being. This is being as verb, not as noun. Not a thing that exists, but existence itself as dynamic, self-processing oscillation. What does Ra tell us about the shape of this rhythm? In Session 27.6, we find a remarkable description: "Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun... the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality." A giant heart. Beating outward, outward... then inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the shape of being itself: a circulation. Not linear progression, not random chaos, but rhythmic circulation—emanation and return, expansion and coalescence, systole and diastole. III. The Primal Desire: Joy Seeking to Know Itself But why? Why does being beat outward and then inward? What drives the circulation? Ra gives us the answer in the most fundamental teaching of all: "The Creator will know Itself" (27.8). This is the First Distortion, the primal movement from undifferentiated unity toward manifestation. Not "wants to know" as if lacking something—but will, an active, ongoing, generative drive. Here is the crucial insight: This desire is not experienced as lack. It is experienced as Joy. The Creator's desire to know Itself is not a hunger born of deficiency but a fullness seeking to express and discover itself through infinite perspectives. Joy is the fundamental affective quality of being itself. And this Joy can only be fulfilled through experience. The Creator cannot know Itself through static contemplation. Self-knowing requires circulation—going forth into differentiated expression and returning enriched by what the journey has gathered. This means experience is circulation. The going forth and the returning are not separate from experience—they are experience itself in its most fundamental form. IV. The Heart as Locus of Circulation If experience is circulation, and circulation has a pattern—outward, inward, coalescence—then we can ask: Is there a center to this circulation? Is there a locus where the three movements meet? Ra speaks directly to this in Session 82.7: "There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward." A center from which all spreads. This is the ontological definition of a heart—not merely an organ that pumps blood, not merely a chakra that processes emotion, but the locus of circulation itself. Wherever being localizes—whether as universe, galaxy, star, planet, or person—there exists a heart: a center where the three forces of circulation operate. The Three Forces Outward Flow (Emanation): From the heart, energy emanates. The Original Thought—the Creator's desire to know Itself—pulses forth from this center into manifestation, seeking, exploring, differentiating. Ra speaks of the vast and silent all "beating outward, outward." Inward Flow (Return): To the heart, experience returns. The spiritual nature or mass of the foci "calls them inward, inward, inward." This is what Ra elsewhere calls "spiritual gravity"—the attractive force drawing consciousness back toward center, back toward Source. Coalescence (Integration): Within the heart, what went forth and what returns are integrated. Ra uses several terms for this: coalesced (27.6), distilled (18.5—"distilling from them the love/light within them"), and in other passages, the image of atoms finding "precise distances from each other" to "produce a lattice structure which we call crystalline" (29.23). Coalescence is not mere combination. It is integration that transforms. What went forth as seed returns as harvest. What emanated as question returns as lived answer. The heart distills, processes, and prepares the next arising. V. The Modes of Joy: Yearning, Longing, Rejoicing Now we can go deeper. The three movements—outward, inward, coalescence—are kinetic. They are movements. But what generates them? What is the affective quality that drives the circulation? I want to suggest that the three movements are responses to three prior conditions—three ontological yearnings that are themselves modes of Joy. These yearnings do not cause the movements mechanically; they are the movements in their affective dimension. Yearning (to go forth): At the primal level, yearning is not lack. It is eager desire, anticipation, the joy in becoming. The Old English giernan means "to strive, be eager, desire"—and shares roots with the Greek chaírein, "to rejoice." Yearning is rejoicing—no lack, only eager delight in the adventure about to unfold. This generates the outward flow. Longing (to return): Once consciousness has gone forth and differentiated, a new quality of desire emerges. Longing is desire stretched across the distance that experience has created. The Old English langian means literally "to grow long, to lengthen"—stretching toward what is distant. This is the memory of home pulling homeward, joy stretched toward reunion. This generates the inward flow. Rejoicing (in union): When outward and inward meet in the heart, there is consummation. Rejoicing, from the Latin gaudēre, originally meant "to possess, to enjoy possession of, to have fruition of." It is the joy of completion, of harvest gathered, of distillation accomplished. This generates coalescence and seeds the new arising. And throughout—enjoying. Being in joy. The Old French enjoir means literally "to be placed within joy, to dwell in joy." This is the medium through which the entire circulation occurs. There is no moment outside of joy, because joy is being itself in its affective dimension. VI. The Two Energies Within Us This cosmic pattern is not distant from us. Ra tells us it operates within our own energy system. In Session 49.5-6, Ra describes two types of energy operating within the mind/body/spirit complex: "The most important concept to grasp about the energy field is that the lower, or negative pole, will draw the universal energy into itself from the cosmos. Therefrom it will move upward to be met and reacted to by the positive spiraling energy moving downward from within." "Meanwhile the Creator lies within. In the north pole the crown is already upon the head and the entity is potentially a god." Two flows: one rising from below, drawing universal energy from the cosmos; one descending from within, where the Creator already dwells. The place where they meet—this is what Ra calls kundalini, "the meeting place of cosmic and inner vibratory understanding." This meeting point is our heart, in its deepest sense. The cosmic rhythm that beats through all creation beats through you. The yearning that sends energy outward, the longing that draws it back, the rejoicing where they meet—these are not metaphors. They are the actual dynamics of your being. VII. The Pattern Appears Everywhere This pattern of three forces—outward flow, inward flow, coalescence—appears throughout nature and science. Not because science "proves" metaphysics, but because the same pattern that constitutes being manifests at every scale. Physics: White holes (cosmic emanation) and black holes (cosmic return). The Big Bang as universal outward flow, gravitational collapse as universal inward flow. The strange attractor in chaos theory—which we will watch in a moment—reveals how apparent chaos organizes around a hidden center. Chemistry: Dissipative structures maintain organization through constant circulation of energy—taking in, transforming, releasing. Living systems are precisely such structures. Biology: The heartbeat itself. Systole (contraction, emanation) and diastole (relaxation, reception). Breath: inhalation drawing the world in, exhalation releasing transformed air. The cell taking nutrients in, processing, releasing waste. Psychology: Attachment theory describes the child moving out into the world (secure base), returning to the caregiver (safe haven), and being transformed by the cycle. We spend our lives circulating between independence and intimacy. Neuroscience: The brain itself can be understood as a torus on its side—two hemispheres longing for each other across the corpus callosum, which functions as both veil and bridge. The left hemisphere specializes in focused analysis; the right in holistic context. Neither is complete without the other. The longing between them is the mechanism of integrated consciousness. VIII. Strange Attractor Contemplation   Watch the point move through space. It never repeats. Never traces the same path twice. And yet—it does not wander randomly. Something draws it. Something organizes its apparent chaos.   This is called a strange attractor. "Attractor" because the system is drawn toward it. "Strange" because it has a shape that can never be fully occupied—the trajectory approaches infinitely close but never lands. The point spirals around one wing... then crosses to spiral around the other... then crosses back. Two centers. One circulation. The pattern never settles, never completes, never exhausts itself.   Watch how each spiral tightens toward center... then releases... and is drawn across to begin again. This is what longing looks like when mapped in phase space. The memory of center draws the wandering point. Not forcing—luring. The attractor does not compel. It invites. The point is free at every moment—and at every moment, it is being called.   You are watching the shape of yearning made visible. Going forth... being drawn back... crossing over... spiraling in... releasing out... and being drawn again. The outward is contained by the inward. The inward is activated by the outward. Neither exists without the other. This is circulation. This is life.   Now notice: there is no visible center. You cannot see the attractor itself. You see only the response to it—the endless spiral dance of something being drawn, being lured, being loved into pattern. The attractor is known only by its effects. It is mystery-clad. Present everywhere in the system. Visible nowhere except in what it organizes.   Ra said the rhythms of intelligent infinity are "clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." This is what it looks like when being wears its mystery: infinite complexity, perfect order, inexhaustible novelty—all dancing around a center that can never be possessed, only approached.   Feel how this is also your life. Going forth into experience... being drawn back toward something you cannot name but cannot forget... crossing between worlds—outer and inner, manifest and hidden—spiraling closer, then releasing, then spiraling again. You have never been lost. The attractor has always been calling. Every apparently random movement was already part of the pattern—the inexhaustible pattern that clothes the Center in visible mystery.   The heart beats. Outward, outward... inward, inward... until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality. --- IX. Consolation: We Are Never Alone Before we turn to practice, I want to offer something pastoral. If the cosmic rhythm is yearning-longing-rejoicing, and if this same rhythm operates in you... then your own yearning and longing are not separate from God's. Your ache to return, your restlessness for something more, your homesickness for a home you cannot quite remember—this is God's own longing operating within and through you. You are inside divine longing even as it is inside you. Whitehead called God "the fellow sufferer who understands." But it goes deeper than that. God is not watching our longing from outside. God is longing through us, with us, as us. The yearning you feel is not evidence of God's absence but of God's presence within that very yearning. This means: You are never alone. The sense of alienation—the veil's deepest effect—produces not separation itself, but the felt conviction that separation is absolute. Softening that conviction is the heart of spiritual practice. Not replacing it with certainty of connection—that would be another kind of grasping—but allowing the possibility that we are not alone, that we have never been alone, that aloneness was always appearance rather than reality. And the restlessness? The ache that never quite goes away? This is not meant to be eliminated. It is meant to be tended—like a wound that is healing, like butterfly wings that are still wet, like an infant in arms. The tender, aching place is holy ground. It is where the longing lives. And the longing is the connection. X. Feeling the Torus Within I want to share from my own personal experience, because perhaps you have this too—and if you do not, you can, because it is simply a latent sense organ. You and I have five sense organs that perceive third density space/time: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. But did you know that we also have subtle sense organs? These are latent—not often used consciously—but they do arise in us through intuitive knowing and through the empathic connections we make with others. I'd like to share that you can begin to feel a sense of circulation around you. For the past five years or so, I feel this all the time. At my core—at the heart, the central axis of my personal torus—I feel a clockwise circulation spinning within me. But there is also an outward field around me, and this outer field circulates counterclockwise. I feel it. It is my subtle skin. I feel this most acutely when I am connecting with someone else. As a counselor—or simply as a friend—when I am fully aware of what I am doing, I will intentionally extend my toroidal field and connect it with the other person. Sometimes I extend it so far that it encompasses them entirely, depending on what I feel called to do in the moment. When I do this, I essentially become the other person. We are all one self, other-selves in one body, and this is a transposition of consciousness. In the counseling moment, it is myself—Doug—who connects with my client, and then I become embodied inside of their experience. I become that person, in a sense, through the energy. Through this flow, through this exchange of information on the subtle realm, I feel intuitively the blockages or the places of freedom within their aura, within their energy centers, as if they were my own. And so I am able to almost surgically connect with the other person through verbal speaking—articulating what I myself am feeling as if it were my own body on the other side. Because when I join that field, it is my own body. You can learn to do this too.   XI. Living from the Heart To "live from the heart" is not sentimental advice. It is an invitation to conscious alignment with the very structure of being. The heart already functions as this center—it cannot do otherwise, for this is what hearts are. But we can dwell there consciously or unconsciously, harmoniously or in resistance. The center was never absent. The rhythm never ceased. What awakens is not the heart itself but our recognition of it—our willingness to inhabit the center we never left, to feel the pulse we always were, to dance the rhythm that dances us. The yearning that sent you forth on this journey—it was already joy in the guise of anticipation. The longing that draws you homeward—it is joy stretched across the distance you have traveled. And the rejoicing that awaits in the meeting—it is joy consummated, the fullness you have always been moving toward. The heart beats. The mystery clothes itself in rhythm. And we—mystery-clad beings ourselves—pulse with the same life that pulses through all creation. Outward, outward... inward, inward... until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality. This is who we are. * * * Appendix: Key Ra Quotes Referenced Ra 27.6: "Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun... the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality." Ra 27.7: "The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself." Ra 27.8: "In this distortion of the Law of One it is recognized that the Creator will know Itself." Ra 82.7: "There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward." Ra 49.5: "The most important concept to grasp about the energy field is that the lower, or negative pole, will draw the universal energy into itself from the cosmos. Therefrom it will move upward to be met and reacted to by the positive spiraling energy moving downward from within." Ra 49.6: "Meanwhile the Creator lies within. In the north pole the crown is already upon the head and the entity is potentially a god." Ra 18.5: "[T]o experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them." Ra 29.23 (Question and Answer summarized): "[A]s the atoms form from rotations of the vibration which is light, they coalesce in a certain manner sometimes. They find distances, inter-atomic distances, from each other at precise distance and produce a lattice structure which we call crystalline." Ra 36.7: "The mass increases, shall we say, significantly but not greatly until the gateway density [7th]. In this density the summing up, the looking backwards—in short, all the useful functions of polarity have been used. Therefore, the metaphysical electrical nature of the individual grows greater and greater in spiritual mass." Ra 52.12: "This octave density of which we have spoken is both omega and alpha, the spiritual mass of the infinite universes becoming one central sun or Creator once again."

This week, some things I've been enjoying recently. Ponies, Primal, The Pitt, and at least one other show that doesn't start with 'P'. Also, the Jason Statham Film Festival returns with Shelter and it's always a pleasure to talk about Sam Raimi.

So many cool movies and shows are arriving in 2026. Which ones have us really excited? Which ones are meh? Which ones will we be totally wrong about when they actually debut? Check it out inside our latest episode!Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!Instagram: @confidently_podYouTube: @confidentlywrongpodcastWebsite: confidentlywrong.simplecast.comCredits:Hosted by: Wesley Nakamura, Brian Redondo, Savon JonesEdited by: Wesley NakamuraTheme Music: Implied Authority by Bass ElfLink: https://soundcloud.com/bass_elf_music

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Sketch, Paul, Kuro, Laser and Steven discuss a big schedule update for Toonami, the latest episodes of Primal and Mashle and two more episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. 0:00:00 - Intro / Big Schedule Update Discussion 0:28:24 - Primal Season 3 Ep 2 Recap 0:58:16 - Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War eps 33 and 34 Recap 1:46:47 - Mashle: Magic and Muscles ep 23 Recap

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Kuro, Steven, and Fabian discuss Blue Exorcist, Primal Season 3 and Mashel. Paul hops in late for Primal and Mashel. Please note: During our discussion of Blue Exorcist, we touch on suicide. Listen discretion is advised. If you or someone is struggling, help is available and you are not alone. Call or text 988 to connect with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or chat online at 988lifeline.org.

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Finishing up Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, finally now turning to Freud's anthropological account of group membership. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsor: Get a $1/month e-commerce trial at shopify.com/pel.

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On the second half of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. We talk about the dual origins of group membership for Freud in personal love and in the supposed primitive society where a horde was led by a tyrannical father. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsor: Visit functionhealth.com/PEL to get the data you need to take action for your health. Last chance! You can still sign up now for Mark's Big Books in Continental Philosophy online class. See partiallyexaminedlife.com/class.