Barbarian Noetics Podcast: Go Fungal not viral™
346 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe podcast dedicated to the Activation of the Human Spirit and to resisting the status quo. Barbarian Noetics tracks the stories, struggles and triumphs that connect us all across the rabbit holes of time and space. Join host Little Raven as we deconstruct divisive mainstream narratives, transcend dualistic thinking and come together in a good way as conscious animals on a shared planet. Deprogram from the matrix and reinvigorate your psyche with Barbarian Noetics, where everyone is invited and diversity of thought is cherished. Authentic conversations with real people about crafting a better and more egalitarian world. Go Fungal not viral™ ~~~
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The Sun is the Source
January 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBWhat's up to my electromagnetic elephants and luminescent ladybugs! Welcome back to another effulgent edition of the BNP y'all! Good news: it's time to worship that white hot ball of fire in the sky. This week's topic is near and dear to my heart. It's a concept and system of belief that exists universally across all cultures and across all ages. .. Sun Worship. I am a proud and pious Sun worshiper. The Sun is the literal Source of all life. The Sun has certainly saved my life (in addi...
The Sun is the Source
January 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBWhat's up to my electromagnetic elephants and luminescent ladybugs! Welcome back to another effulgent edition of the BNP y'all! Good news: it's time to worship that white hot ball of fire in the sky. This week's topic is near and dear to my heart. It's a concept and system of belief that exists universally across all cultures and across all ages. .. Sun Worship. I am a proud and pious Sun worshiper. The Sun is the literal Source of all life. The Sun has certainly saved my life (in addi...
Visualize Utopia #5: Hit Refresh On Collectivism
January 17, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBWhat's up to my Labyrinthine Lava Monsters and Frisk-chinned Finches! Welcome to another riveting edition of the BNP y'all! Today's episode constellates around the idea of collectivism as an organizing principle, especially as it stands opposed to the hierarchical systems of patriarchy, corporate structure, systems of State sponsored militancy and the undemocratic rigmarole of the Criminal Justice system. Tune in for some nomnom brain munchies related to principles of collectivism, cha...
Visualize Utopia #5: Hit Refresh On Collectivism
January 17, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBWhat's up to my Labyrinthine Lava Monsters and Frisk-chinned Finches! Welcome to another riveting edition of the BNP y'all! Today's episode constellates around the idea of collectivism as an organizing principle, especially as it stands opposed to the hierarchical systems of patriarchy, corporate structure, systems of State sponsored militancy and the undemocratic rigmarole of the Criminal Justice system. Tune in for some nomnom brain munchies related to principles of collectivism, cha...
Pecan Intelligence
January 10, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWhat's up to my witchy white throated woodrats and winning warbling red squirrels! Welcome to the first BNP ep of 2021 y'all! It could be called the pecan butter installment, or the magic chocolate installment, or it could most certainly be called the sauna installment. I am now in love with and obsessed with saunas. If I could sauna every day I could take over the world. (But I'd be too cosmically vibed and chilled the eff out to fucks with that kind of noise.) This episode constellates ...
Pecan Intelligence
January 10, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWhat's up to my witchy white throated woodrats and winning warbling red squirrels! Welcome to the first BNP ep of 2021 y'all! It could be called the pecan butter installment, or the magic chocolate installment, or it could most certainly be called the sauna installment. I am now in love with and obsessed with saunas. If I could sauna every day I could take over the world. (But I'd be too cosmically vibed and chilled the eff out to fucks with that kind of noise.) This episode constellates ...
A Very BNP New Year's Eve
December 31, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBWhat's up to my celebratory sycamores and rejuvenating rhinoceros! Yes, the plural of rhino is rhinoceros, and yes, we are expanding the tree of episode summary intro species to plants and trees, and high time we did it. New Year's rez: keep loving up on all things that photosynthesize. Check. This special holiday micro ep is a labor of love, churned out today before I leave town for new year's festivities. Today's topic constellates around lesser known New Year's Eve traditions, celebratio...
Visualize Utopia #4: Biomimicry feat. Naomi Cadena
December 28, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBWhat's up to my etheric emus and lustrous lucky lionesses~ Welcome back to the BNP, y'all! Thank you for listening and supporting the pod. I appreciate you all. The desert skies are cloudy, but the BNP is comin in clear with another dose of thought candy and idea gum. This week, I have an intriguing utopian topic and a very special guest to teach us about it. Naomi Cadena holds an MS in biomimicry from the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. Naomi was kind enough to j...
Visualize Utopia #4: Biomimicry feat. Naomi Cadena
December 28, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBWhat's up to my etheric emus and lustrous lucky lionesses~ Welcome back to the BNP, y'all! Thank you for listening and supporting the pod. I appreciate you all. The desert skies are cloudy, but the BNP is comin in clear with another dose of thought candy and idea gum. This week, I have an intriguing utopian topic and a very special guest to teach us about it. Naomi Cadena holds an MS in biomimicry from the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. Naomi was kind enough to j...
Let the Music Come to You
December 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBWhat's up to my lovely lively llamas and amicable alchemical alpacas! You've been navigating steep mountain passes with your malleable lil hooves, my lucky camel cousins! I see you. You are valid af. Welcome to another rollicking weekly romp of those BNP vibes you know and love. This episode is ...ahhhhhhh... a chill, lowkey, feel good ep. You have permission to take deep breaths. You have permission to feel amazing. Permission to see the big picture, and permission to stay cognizant of ...
Visualize Utopia #3: Life After Cops
December 13, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBWhat's up to my weird (in that good, quirky, fun kinda way) walruses and spectacularly speckled sea lions! This episode is Part 3 of the BNP's Visualize Utopia series, and its aim is to envision a reality without cops as we know them. Last episode described the depth of the problems with modern U.S. law enforcement. This episode imagines real, tangible, achievable solutions. A world without police is not only possible, but inviting and rewarding. We can bind together as communities and de...
Deconstruct the Police
December 05, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBWhat's up to my optimistic octopi and impish illustrative ibexes! You've been scaling old dams lately for mineral salts, my dear Siberian ibexes. I see you. You are valid. This episode is a bit of a heavy one my lovies but it was what my soul was called to do. 52 years and 1 day ago, the great visionary, orator and revolutionary Fred Hampton was murdered by the FBI in Chicago. He was shot in his own bed after being drugged and betrayed by his police informant bodyguard. Fred Hampton woul...
Visualize Utopia #2: Clean Oceans
November 29, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBWhat's up to my savage servils and feisty flowerpeckers! Welcome back to another sizzling portion of that weekly BNP stir-fry of top shelf content, plus savory herbs and spices. Always made with coconut oil y'all. To keep it smooth. You know. This episode is installment #2 in the BNP series Visualize Utopia. In this ep we dive into a topic that's near and dear to my heart and essential for the health of the planet and its occupants, including mammalian occupants like us. So, come with ...
Visualize Utopia #2: Clean Oceans
November 29, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBWhat's up to my savage servils and feisty flowerpeckers! Welcome back to another sizzling portion of that weekly BNP stir-fry of top shelf content, plus savory herbs and spices. Always made with coconut oil y'all. To keep it smooth. You know. This episode is installment #2 in the BNP series Visualize Utopia. In this ep we dive into a topic that's near and dear to my heart and essential for the health of the planet and its occupants, including mammalian occupants like us. So, come with ...
Ricardo Vaz 2! Venezuelan Elections, MAS Victory in Bolivia and the Biden Admin's Attitude towards Latin America
November 22, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBWhat's up to my Lemurian Libertadoras and Juice Cleansing Jaguars! Welcome back to the BNP y'all! It's a hazy morning here in S. Phx but the BNP is coming through clear and direct for your listening pleasure. And this is an episode I've been looking forward to for a minute, the return of Ricardo Vaz to Barbarian Noetics! Ricardo Vaz is a journalist, artist, researcher and translator. Ricardo writes for Venezuelanalysis.com (the best english language media nexus for real news about Venez...
Ricardo Vaz 2! Venezuelan Elections, MAS Victory in Bolivia and the Biden Admin's Attitude towards Latin America
November 22, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBWhat's up to my Lemurian Libertadoras and Juice Cleansing Jaguars! Welcome back to the BNP y'all! It's a hazy morning here in S. Phx but the BNP is coming through clear and direct for your listening pleasure. And this is an episode I've been looking forward to for a minute, the return of Ricardo Vaz to Barbarian Noetics! Ricardo Vaz is a journalist, artist, researcher and translator. Ricardo writes for Venezuelanalysis.com (the best english language media nexus for real news about Venez...
Visualize Utopia #1: Vertical Farming
November 14, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBWhat's up to my polymath panthers and purposeful porpoises! Welcome back to the BNP y'all, another episode of splendor and glory. It's late and I'm tired, so this summary is gonna be short and sweet. Let's learn about vertical farming! This episode is the first installment in a series that aims to meander down the forest trail of... Utopia. What would Utopia look like? What factors would need to be prioritized in a Utopian society? How would Utopia utilize agritecture to feed its people...
Visualize Utopia #1: Vertical Farming
November 14, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBWhat's up to my polymath panthers and purposeful porpoises! Welcome back to the BNP y'all, another episode of splendor and glory. It's late and I'm tired, so this summary is gonna be short and sweet. Let's learn about vertical farming! This episode is the first installment in a series that aims to meander down the forest trail of... Utopia. What would Utopia look like? What factors would need to be prioritized in a Utopian society? How would Utopia utilize agritecture to feed its people...
Legalize Consciousness with Pete Koeneman
November 07, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWhat's up to my enchanting elephant seals and ergonomic echidnas! What are echidnas, you ask? Click here. Thank you for listening and supporting the BNP yall! I'm sending oodles of soft sandy love from a warm and windy Saturday in the desert. My Meowzers and I are cold chillin on the Persian rug in my back greenhouse (that yes, does really tie the room together). So. Here we are. Just a few days after the polls officially closed, and after some sketchy dark money wrangling, we finally know...
Legalize Consciousness with Pete Koeneman (*Glitches Fixed*)
November 07, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWhat's up to my enchanting elephant seals and ergonomic echidnas! What are echidnas, you ask? Click here. Thank you for listening and supporting the BNP yall! I'm sending oodles of soft sandy love from a warm and windy Saturday in the desert. My Meowzers and I are cold chillin on the Persian rug in my back greenhouse (that yes, does really tie the room together). So. Here we are. Just a few days after the polls officially closed, and after some sketchy dark money wrangling, we finally know...
¡Samhain-Halloween-Full Moon! Mini-Sode
October 31, 2020 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBWhat's up to my merry mirthful meercats and ferocious fennec foxes! Welcome back to the BNP! Thank you for tuning in and spending some time. You are appreciated. It's Samhain y'all! And Halloween! And it's a full moon. First off: this is some delicious ambience for spellcasting. Don't let this trio of thinning veils between worlds go by without setting some intentions and sculpting that subtle spirit road to your goals and dreams ~~~ Secondly, this is a mini-sode labor of love, a testame...
¡Samhain-Halloween-Full Moon! Mini-Sode
October 31, 2020 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBWhat's up to my merry mirthful meercats and ferocious fennec foxes! Welcome back to the BNP! Thank you for tuning in and spending some time. You are appreciated. It's Samhain y'all! And Halloween! And it's a full moon. First off: this is some delicious ambience for spellcasting. Don't let this trio of thinning veils between worlds go by without setting some intentions and sculpting that subtle spirit road to your goals and dreams ~~~ Secondly, this is a mini-sode labor of love, a testame...
Final Rock Bottom: Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Five
October 24, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBWhat's up to my Bolivarian Bearcats and Zesty Zooty* Zebras! This episode is the fifth installment of the Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism series. If you're still with me on this journey, thank you for persisting and sharing this endeavor of recollection and reflection with me. I appreciate every one of you. This episode will wrap up my personal story of achieving freedom from the bottle through blood (quite a bit of blood really), sweat and tears. To be totally honest with ...
Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Four
October 16, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBWhat's up to my playful plucky pikas and ardent aardvark enthusiasts! Welcome back to another riveting episode of the BNP y'all! The devil's ivy in my back room is insinuating itself down the shelf on which it's perched and, across the carpet, my Meowzers is snoozing happily atop her refrigerator box and I am here, right where you want me, delivering that handmade weekly content directly to you, my beloved listeners. This week's installment of the BNP is Part Four of the series Crafting ...
Second Rock Bottom: Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Four
October 16, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBWhat's up to my playful plucky pikas and ardent aardvark enthusiasts! Welcome back to another riveting episode of the BNP y'all! The devil's ivy in my back room is insinuating itself down the shelf on which it's perched and, across the carpet, my Meowzers is snoozing happily atop her refrigerator box and I am here, right where you want me, delivering that handmade weekly content directly to you, my beloved listeners. This week's installment of the BNP is Part Four of the series Crafting ...
Reconnecting the Family Tree with Sam Proctor
October 11, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBWhat's up to my talismanic tribal tamarins and familial flocking flamingos! Welcome back to your wondrous, enthralling and enchanted weekly dose of the BNP y'all. This episode I decided to take a hiatus from the Sobriety series to feature the brilliant and cogent Sam Proctor, Phx-based holographic artist and ambient electronic music producer. Sam has an amazing story to tell, and I feel so blessed and grateful to be able to share it with you all. Sam was conceived via artificial inse...
First Rock Bottom: Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Three
October 04, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBWhat's up to my cacophonous crows and mellifluous magpies! BNP here, serving up a hot course of that weekly content you know and love. My Meowzers is snuggled up against a lucky bamboo, my mini fountain is gurgling, pressing water past my full moon-charged quartz, citrine, aventurine and tourmaline, and I am perched upon my elliptical, huffing and puffing beside my hanging Pothos plants, scribbling digitally to get this summary out. Scribbles making scribbles making scribbles... This epis...
First Rock Bottom: Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Three
October 04, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBWhat's up to my cacophonous crows and mellifluous magpies! BNP here, serving up a hot course of that weekly content you know and love. My Meowzers is snuggled up against a lucky bamboo, my mini fountain is gurgling, pressing water past my full moon-charged quartz, citrine, aventurine and tourmaline, and I am perched upon my elliptical, huffing and puffing beside my hanging Pothos plants, scribbling digitally to get this summary out. Scribbles making scribbles making scribbles... This epis...
Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Three
October 04, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBWhat's up to my cacophonous crows and mellifluous magpies! BNP here, serving up a hot course of that weekly content you know and love. My Meowzers is snuggled up against a lucky bamboo, my mini fountain is gurgling, pressing water past my full moon-charged quartz, citrine, aventurine and tourmaline, and I am perched upon my elliptical, huffing and puffing beside my hanging Pothos plants, scribbling digitally to get this summary out. Scribbles making scribbles making scribbles... This epis...
Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part Two (featuring Marta Orozco)
September 27, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBWhat's up to my Universalist Umbrellabirds (it's a real thing) and Mirthful Magnanimous Magpies (ka kaawww cawww)! It's your BNP here, dishin' out that weekly dose of top shelf paradisiacal content, mere days after the Autumnal Equinox and Pagan Sabbat of Mabon. Mabon is a good opportunity to take stock of one's current situation, both individually and collectively. One thing that's indisputable: it hasn't been boring. Regardless, this is an auspicious time to take note of and appreciate th...
Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part One
September 19, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBWhat's up to my Amethystine Cormorants and Silver-scaled Riptide Gliders! (Amethyst is the gemstone of sobriety, for those striving to make contextual motif hay with that imagery. I don't know what a riptide glider is, truth be told. It just sounded right in my domepiece.) Welcome back Beloved Barbarians to another episode of the BNP! This is an ep I've been wanting to do for a minute and frankly putting off. Not that I didn't want to put it together, I think I have just been subconsciously...
Crafting Sobriety from the Chaos of Alcoholism, Part One
September 19, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBWhat's up to my Amethystine Cormorants and Silver-scaled Riptide Gliders! (Amethyst is the gemstone of sobriety, for those striving to make contextual motif hay with that imagery. I don't know what a riptide glider is, truth be told. It just sounded right in my domepiece.) Welcome back Beloved Barbarians to another episode of the BNP! This is an ep I've been wanting to do for a minute and frankly putting off. Not that I didn't want to put it together, I think I have just been subconsciously...
Demystifying Anarchism, Honoring David Graeber and a Chat with Karma Chick about Spells
September 12, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBWhat's up to my telegenic trouble makers and bright billowy bliss cats! Welcome back one and all to the BNP, delivering that cream of the crop content come rain, snow, sleet... or smoke. The desert sun this September Saturday is a liminal copper coin in the hazy smoky sky. I spritz the tropical plants in my apt and send wishes of rain to the West Coast. What is there to do but move forward with our projects, persist in pursuing our passions, and persevering in following the promise of our d...
Liberation Theology: Lotus of Indigenous Latin American Cosmology Emerging from Imposed Colonial Catholicism
September 04, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBWhat's up to my moon-kissed mellifluous humanists and earth-eyed ocelot idealists! Meow. Mew. Mmrrrow. Welcome back to the BNP y'all! Conan here, comin' in hot with some minty fresh BNP content. And, I'm also quite hot. Like, from a temperature perspective. Sweating balls really. But I digress. This episode is an exploration of the 20th century grassroots Latin American political and spiritual movement known as Liberation Theology. Liberation Theology emerged as an improbable outgrowth ...
Liberation Theology: Lotus of Indigenous Latin American Cosmology Emerging from Imposed Colonial Catholicism
September 04, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBWhat's up to my moon-kissed mellifluous humanists and earth-eyed ocelot idealists! Meow. Mew. Mmrrrow. Welcome back to the BNP y'all! Conan here, comin' in hot with some minty fresh BNP content. And, I'm also quite hot. Like, from a temperature perspective. Sweating balls really. But I digress. This episode is an exploration of the 20th century grassroots Latin American political and spiritual movement known as Liberation Theology. Liberation Theology emerged as an improbable outgrowth ...
Jonathan Glowacki of Portland Peppermills talks Adobe, Pecans and Reactionary Parables
August 30, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBWhat's up to my pecan munching pelicans and vociferously veritable victorious vibe squad! This week we welcome back to the BNP the God-King himself, Jonathan Glowacki. Jonathan is the founder of Portland Peppermills and purveyor of provocative thought-provoking ponderances and pithy pontification. Ok I'm done with the P alliteration now, I promise (Ha get it- Promise with a P). Join in for relaxed and raucous romp (can't help myself, my bad) through these past few months of personal transf...
Jonathan Glowacki of Portland Peppermills talks Adobe, Pecans and Reactionary Parables
August 30, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBWhat's up to my pecan munching pelicans and vociferously veritable victorious vibe squad! This week we welcome back to the BNP the God-King himself, Jonathan Glowacki. Jonathan is the founder of Portland Peppermills and purveyor of provocative thought-provoking ponderances and pithy pontification. Ok I'm done with the P alliteration now, I promise (Ha get it- Promise with a P). Join in for relaxed and raucous romp (can't help myself, my bad) through these past few months of personal transf...
Throwback Sunday: Mama Tanner Recalls Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962
August 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBWhat's up to my salubrious space racers and mercurial Motor City mastodons! (That's gotta be a Roller Derby team btw) It's October 14, 1962 in Suburban Detroit. John Glenn has just months earlier become the first American to orbit the Earth. John F. Kennedy in May has asked Congress for $531 million dollars (equivalent to $4.6 billion today) to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The first Walmart discount store is opened up in Bentonville, Arkansas. Andy Warhol paints a can of ...
Throwback Sunday: Mama Raven Recalls Living Through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962
August 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBWhat's up to my salubrious space racers and mercurial Motor City mastodons! (That's gotta be a Roller Derby team btw) It's October 14, 1962 in Suburban Detroit. John Glenn has just months earlier become the first American to orbit the Earth. John F. Kennedy in May has asked Congress for $531 million dollars (equivalent to $4.6 billion today) to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The first Walmart discount store is opened up in Bentonville, Arkansas. Andy Warhol paints a can of ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Part 5 of Revisiting Fidel and the Cuban Revolution, a BNP Original Series
August 16, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBWhat's up to my nuclear non-proliferation posse and the diplomatic love bomb squad! Its the Cuban Missile Crisis ep y'alll! This episode is Part 5 of the BNP Original Series, Revisiting Fidel and the Cuban Revolution, covering 13 days of global pins and needles intensity from the 16th to the 28th of October 1962, where the world's two superpowers came within a hair's breath of cataclysmic nuclear war. At the peak point in this crisis, millions of lives, untold ecological devastation and th...
Elegance of Existence Duet, Pt. 2: Spiritual Dark Matter and the Boundlessness of Mind
August 08, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBWhat's up to my kinnickkinnick pouched rowdies and fervent lidded luck ducks! Welcome back to the BNP, and thank you as always for joining and supporting the show. This episode is Part 2 of an impromptu duet reflecting on cosmic vastness and the elegance of existence. Part 1 tackled the outer vastitude and sheer mind gurgling scale of the Universe out there. Part 2 is an impressionistic nose dive into the inverse: through the gigantic boundlessness of inner life in all its multifoliate h...
Ineffable Vastness of Space, Delicate Elegance of Existence
August 03, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBWhat's up to my silver horned ibexes and starry nosed komodos! This episode is a long exhale. It's the welcome mineral bite in a drink of pure spring water off the mountain. It's the first cool drops of a monsoon rain. Everything has felt so damn serious lately. That includes my own psyche, and seriousness is no vacation home from which to watch the mountains peak through slow moving cumulus clouds. What I need right now is a crisp alpine peak with views of deep still cold lakes. So. Th...
Elegance of Existence Duet, Pt. 1: Ineffable Vastness of Space
August 03, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBWhat's up to my silver horned ibexes and starry nosed komodos! This episode is a long exhale. It's the welcome mineral bite in a drink of pure spring water off the mountain. It's the first cool drops of a monsoon rain. Everything has felt so damn serious lately. That includes my own psyche, and seriousness is no vacation home from which to watch the mountains peak through slow moving cumulus clouds. What I need right now is a crisp alpine peak with views of deep still cold lakes. So. Th...
Modern Monetary Theory: What It Is and Why It Matters
July 26, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBWhat's up to my fly hip humanists and rugged renegade reformers! Welcome back to the BNP y'all, and thank you as always for listening and supporting the pod. "How you gonna pay for that? And how you gonna pay for that?" It's a mantra you hear repeated over and over again by pundits, politicians and debate moderators, every time government spending for basic social programs such as Medicare for All gets brought up in conversation, especially around election season. "It would be nice to ha...
Revisiting Fidel and the Cuban Revolution Part 4: The Bay of Pigs
July 18, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBWassup to all my Andromedans in exile and fly fugitive idealists! It's the Bay of Pigs episode y'all, Part 4 of the BNP Original Series, Revisiting Fidel and the Cuban Revolution. In this installment series we dive in to the CIA and State Department's oddly imagined and chaotically executed Bay of Pigs invasion in April of 1961. The mission was to invade Cuba, assassinate Castro, and spark a national revolt against his government. The plan failed abysmally, and in fact it achieved the op...
Reckoning with the CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest)
July 11, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWhat's up to my benevolent rabble rousers and nimble-footed rumble muffins! Thank you all for listening, supporting, and joining the BNP. This episode attempts to reckon with the recent and improbable Black Lives Matter-inspired phenomenon known as CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, in Seattle. As a direct response to excessive police violence unleashed on the neighborhood during massive Black Lives Matter protests, the people of Capitol Hill came together to establish an autonomou...
Ricardo Vaz on Venezuela's Popular Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Imperial Aggression
July 06, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBWhat's up to my mellifluous collectivists and marvelously barbarous Bolivarians! I'm quite stoked this episode to introduce you all to esteemed writer, editor and political analyst at Venezuelanalysis.com, Ricardo Vaz. Ricardo's articles have appeared on Mint Press News, Monthly Review, Truthout, Counterpunch, and many other alternative media sites. Ricardo joins us all the way from the northernmost range of the Andes to talk South American geopolitics, regional Populism and the Venezue...
EDM Artisan Dykotomi on Making Beats, Dropping Bass and Finding that Sacred Flow
June 28, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBWhat's up to all my Wub wombats and Whomp Goblins! This episode I'm pleased to present Phx-based multi-genre EDM artist, musician, and, crucially, the resident Bass Blaster for the BNP, Eric Thrasher aka Dykotomi. Dykotomi joins the pod and discusses his journey into the world of electronic music, his cultural and musical influences, how to craft the perfect synthetic **Untz** and the really critical question of whether extra-dimensional spirits communicate with EDM producer humans via MI...
Teafaerie Talks Psychedelic Synchronicity and the Benefit Enhancement Arts
June 22, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBWhat's up and solar shout-outs to all my sibilant psychonauts and rainbow serpent surfers! This episode I am quite jazzed to present the legendary Teafaerie, who kindly graced the BNP with her time, wisdom, experience, semantic turquoise meaning reef and dialectic borealis. We talk all things Teahouse-style shop, from plant medicine personalities to psychedelic benefit enhancement technology. Teafaerie is a unparalleled energetic leveler, head-space healer and subtle practitioner of the ...
Insurrection Update: Taking Stock 18 Days In
June 12, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBBlessings to all my Riotous Barbarians and Loot Liberating Hell Cats! Much love as always comin' at ya from the open air bread oven that is Phoenix in June. Lots to discuss in today's episode so let's get right into it. Reform, defund, abolish. We've heard these terms being thrown around lately in the national discussion around holding police departments (and the politicians who govern them) accountable for their brutality and violence towards Black people, people of Color, and poor peop...