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I am really excited to be doing a Virtual Full Moon Ceremony with all of you. Tonight I will be sharing some collective readings with you to begin the night. If you would like a general reading I will do them for around 45 minutes. For specific questions please make a donation either here on FB or to my paypal sjc81591@gmail.com or Venmo @ShanShine and let me know in the comments you are here and did so. I will also be making a few big announcements that I am REALLY REALLY REALLY excited about. We will end the evening with a group meditation and closing thoughts. Go grab some cacao or tea, your journal, favorite crystals, and get comfy and join me. Please hop in the chat and let me know you are here.For more on me and my big announcements check out my website at www.shantasticshine.com/elementalmusic

This episode's guest is the one I've known the longest of any (so far), Wolfe Macleod of Wolfetone Pickups in Seattle WA. Wolfe and I grew up in the same small town and both left early in life, even as beautiful of a place that Granite Falls is. Wolfetone Pickups are hand built by Wolfe in his shop in North Seattle where he also houses his collection of swords, fantasy art, and Porsches. He's quite the fancy lad! Be sure to check out Wolfetone's Black Friday sale this year, spanning from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. If you're enjoying Couch Riffs Podcast please be sure to leave a rating and review! And, also check out couchriffs.com where you'll find every podcast episode as well as our video performances with many guests and a link to our Etsy store to buy shirts, hoodies, truckers hats, and other rock delights! If you REALLY REALLY REALLY love me you can pledge as little as .99/month to help support and grow Couch Riffs and that's just really really really nice. Thank you, everyone! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/couch-riffs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/couch-riffs/support

Hey there Burpers, we're on time - two weeks in a row! We must be sick or dying or something.You can show your appreciation with money or boobs or moobs.This week we have stories about women in the UK putting ice lollies in their vaginas just to cool down on the heat wave that is still trying to convince some people of global warming, and a Kentucky man's eye that nearly popped when a doctor removed a tick from it.What a world we live in.As always thanks so much for listening and if you follow us on here you'll get notifications every time we go live, which is nearly sometimes!If you want to get in touch with us, do so on :twitter.com/newsburpfacebook.com/newsburppodskwod@gmail.comIf you like what we do, feel free to share us around and if you really like what we do, a subscription wherever you get podcasts would be amazing. If you really REALLY like what we do, then a review on Apple Podcasts works wonders in getting us up in the charts and if you REALLY REALLY REALLY like what we do you can support us over on www.patreon.com/newsburp and get exclusive content for your support!However you support us, even if it's just by giving us an hour of your time each week, we love you all for it.Thank you and we'll catch you next week.Jump to your favourite segment:Weekly Weird Wupdates: 12.10Weekly Was Wupdates: 43.14Back to the Wuture: 1:09:38Good News: 1:17:06

Hey there Burpers, we're on time - two weeks in a row! We must be sick or dying or something.You can show your appreciation with money or boobs or moobs.This week we have stories about women in the UK putting ice lollies in their vaginas just to cool down on the heat wave that is still trying to convince some people of global warming, and a Kentucky man's eye that nearly popped when a doctor removed a tick from it.What a world we live in.As always thanks so much for listening and if you follow us on here you'll get notifications every time we go live, which is nearly sometimes!If you want to get in touch with us, do so on :twitter.com/newsburpfacebook.com/newsburppodskwod@gmail.comIf you like what we do, feel free to share us around and if you really like what we do, a subscription wherever you get podcasts would be amazing. If you really REALLY like what we do, then a review on Apple Podcasts works wonders in getting us up in the charts and if you REALLY REALLY REALLY like what we do you can support us over on www.patreon.com/newsburp and get exclusive content for your support!However you support us, even if it's just by giving us an hour of your time each week, we love you all for it.Thank you and we'll catch you next week.Jump to your favourite segment:Weekly Weird Wupdates: 12.10Weekly Was Wupdates: 43.14Back to the Wuture: 1:09:38Good News: 1:17:06

Hey there Burpers, guess what we're here early for once! I know, not like us at all.But hey, life and all that.This week we have stories about a pastor who was caught giving blowjobs to his male congregation and came up with the excuse that he was exorcising demons - from their cocks. And a Florida man who cut off the penis of his wife's lover with a scissors.What a world we live in.As always thanks so much for listening and if you follow us on here you'll get notifications every time we go live, which is nearly sometimes!If you want to get in touch with us, do so on :twitter.com/newsburpfacebook.com/newsburppodskwod@gmail.comIf you like what we do, feel free to share us around and if you really like what we do, a subscription wherever you get podcasts would be amazing. If you really REALLY like what we do, then a review on Apple Podcasts works wonders in getting us up in the charts and if you REALLY REALLY REALLY like what we do you can support us over on www.patreon.com/newsburp and get exclusive content for your support!However you support us, even if it's just by giving us an hour of your time each week, we love you all for it.Thank you and we'll catch you next week.Jump to your favourite segment:Weekly Weird Wupdates: 8:48Weekly Was Wupdates: 44:50Back to the Wuture: 1:08:47Good News: 1:14:30

Hey there Burpers, guess what we're here early for once! I know, not like us at all.But hey, life and all that.This week we have stories about a pastor who was caught giving blowjobs to his male congregation and came up with the excuse that he was exorcising demons - from their cocks. And a Florida man who cut off the penis of his wife's lover with a scissors.What a world we live in.As always thanks so much for listening and if you follow us on here you'll get notifications every time we go live, which is nearly sometimes!If you want to get in touch with us, do so on :twitter.com/newsburpfacebook.com/newsburppodskwod@gmail.comIf you like what we do, feel free to share us around and if you really like what we do, a subscription wherever you get podcasts would be amazing. If you really REALLY like what we do, then a review on Apple Podcasts works wonders in getting us up in the charts and if you REALLY REALLY REALLY like what we do you can support us over on www.patreon.com/newsburp and get exclusive content for your support!However you support us, even if it's just by giving us an hour of your time each week, we love you all for it.Thank you and we'll catch you next week.Jump to your favourite segment:Weekly Weird Wupdates: 8:48Weekly Was Wupdates: 44:50Back to the Wuture: 1:08:47Good News: 1:14:30

A couple +1s ago, while celebrating Yuval Noah Harari’s lack of a smartphone, I mentioned the fact that we don’t need to become smashing Luddites in response to the tsunami of technology that hammers us all day every day.   But… We ALSO want to make sure we don’t become addicted users.    The best solution? Be an Optimizite. Let’s make the best use of technology to sculpt the best possible version of yourself. (Recall that Optimize comes from the Latin optimus which literally means “the best.”)   That’s the central theme of Conquering Digital Addiction 101—which might be my favorite master class so far.    Here’s the deal.   You know how Facebook and Instagram and Google make money?   By, essentially, hacking and then selling your attention.   They work REALLY REALLY REALLY (!!!) hard to make sure you spend MORE and MORE and MORE time on their sites and apps.   Then they SELL your attention to (literally) the highest bidder.   Now, of course, there’s nothing inherently evil about this per se. These companies often provide astonishingly cool and equally valuable services.   But the way they’ve set up their business model essentially REQUIRES them to, as this must-see 60 Minutes exposé called “Brain Hacking” puts it: HACK your mind.   Now, we often say we watch stuff like that for “free” but, technically, we typically pay for it via xx seconds of your attention (which is sold to a sponsor who shows us their ad).   Alternatively, you can upgrade your YouTube account and NOT watch ads—which is a really compelling alternative business model that doesn’t require a company to focus so much on mining your attention.   Saving the bigger picture business model discussion for another time, get this: That whole economy is called the “attention economy” (and could be called the “mind-hacking economy”).    You know how much money is made hacking your mind every year?   Some researchers put the number at $7 TRILLION dollars.    S E V E N.  T R I L L I O N.  D O L L A R S.    $7,000,000,000,000!!!   That’s a lot of zeroes. (12 in fact.)   And… That’s a lot of hacking.   And… A lot of addicted users.   Which brings us to another point of the class and of this +1. Technologists refer to their customers as “users.” You know who else refers to their customers as “users”? Drug dealers. (Hah. And d’oh.)   Seeing that our smartphones and emails and apps light up the same addiction centers of our brains as cocaine and alcohol and other drugs, it’s a fitting parallel.   It’s also why Bill Maher refers to “social media tycoons” as “tobacco farmers in t-shirts.” Only, he says, the tobacco guys only wanted your lungs. Tech titans want your SOUL.   Again. I’m NOT saying we should all go smashing our phones and computers Luddite style.   But I AM saying that you’ve gotta wonder why Steve Jobs wouldn’t even let his own kids use the iPad he was so excited about. And why so many tech execs follow his lead and RADICALLY limit their kids’ use of the very products they build.   As Adam Alter says in Irresistible: “It seemed as if the people producing tech products were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply. This is unsettling. Why are the world’s greatest public technocrats also its greatest private technophobes? Can you imagine the outcry if religious leaders refused to let their children practice religion?”   All of which leads us to the practical point of Today’s +1.   On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “Not at all! I’m 100% Optimizite, baby!” and 10 being “Oh… yikes! I’m a 10 Addicted User!” where are you on the addicted-user spectrum?   1 ----------------------------------------- 10   And… Most importantly: How can you take a step or three toward the Optimizite side of that spectrum today?   Here’s to wisely unplugging from the $7 trillion mind-hacking economy long enough to become all that we’re capable of being!

A couple +1s ago, while celebrating Yuval Noah Harari’s lack of a smartphone, I mentioned the fact that we don’t need to become smashing Luddites in response to the tsunami of technology that hammers us all day every day.   But… We ALSO want to make sure we don’t become addicted users.    The best solution? Be an Optimizite. Let’s make the best use of technology to sculpt the best possible version of yourself. (Recall that Optimize comes from the Latin optimus which literally means “the best.”)   That’s the central theme of Conquering Digital Addiction 101—which might be my favorite master class so far.    Here’s the deal.   You know how Facebook and Instagram and Google make money?   By, essentially, hacking and then selling your attention.   They work REALLY REALLY REALLY (!!!) hard to make sure you spend MORE and MORE and MORE time on their sites and apps.   Then they SELL your attention to (literally) the highest bidder.   Now, of course, there’s nothing inherently evil about this per se. These companies often provide astonishingly cool and equally valuable services.   But the way they’ve set up their business model essentially REQUIRES them to, as this must-see 60 Minutes exposé called “Brain Hacking” puts it: HACK your mind.   Now, we often say we watch stuff like that for “free” but, technically, we typically pay for it via xx seconds of your attention (which is sold to a sponsor who shows us their ad).   Alternatively, you can upgrade your YouTube account and NOT watch ads—which is a really compelling alternative business model that doesn’t require a company to focus so much on mining your attention.   Saving the bigger picture business model discussion for another time, get this: That whole economy is called the “attention economy” (and could be called the “mind-hacking economy”).    You know how much money is made hacking your mind every year?   Some researchers put the number at $7 TRILLION dollars.    S E V E N.  T R I L L I O N.  D O L L A R S.    $7,000,000,000,000!!!   That’s a lot of zeroes. (12 in fact.)   And… That’s a lot of hacking.   And… A lot of addicted users.   Which brings us to another point of the class and of this +1. Technologists refer to their customers as “users.” You know who else refers to their customers as “users”? Drug dealers. (Hah. And d’oh.)   Seeing that our smartphones and emails and apps light up the same addiction centers of our brains as cocaine and alcohol and other drugs, it’s a fitting parallel.   It’s also why Bill Maher refers to “social media tycoons” as “tobacco farmers in t-shirts.” Only, he says, the tobacco guys only wanted your lungs. Tech titans want your SOUL.   Again. I’m NOT saying we should all go smashing our phones and computers Luddite style.   But I AM saying that you’ve gotta wonder why Steve Jobs wouldn’t even let his own kids use the iPad he was so excited about. And why so many tech execs follow his lead and RADICALLY limit their kids’ use of the very products they build.   As Adam Alter says in Irresistible: “It seemed as if the people producing tech products were following the cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high on your own supply. This is unsettling. Why are the world’s greatest public technocrats also its greatest private technophobes? Can you imagine the outcry if religious leaders refused to let their children practice religion?”   All of which leads us to the practical point of Today’s +1.   On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “Not at all! I’m 100% Optimizite, baby!” and 10 being “Oh… yikes! I’m a 10 Addicted User!” where are you on the addicted-user spectrum?   1 ----------------------------------------- 10   And… Most importantly: How can you take a step or three toward the Optimizite side of that spectrum today?   Here’s to wisely unplugging from the $7 trillion mind-hacking economy long enough to become all that we’re capable of being!