Yvette Young | Everything At Once
The Cosmic Nod
The amazing multi talented multidisciplinary artist/musician Yvette Young joins me for a long conversation about life & creativity. I feel so lucky to make friends like her through this podcast. You will love this one, strap in!
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Daniel Shankin | What's So Hard About Psychedelic Integration?
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Daniel Shankin of Tam Integration stops by the Nod and we have a blast!
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Ashe | Being Joy In Times Of Sorrow
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Ashe & I discuss the bizarre experience of her musical career exploding in the middle of a global pandemic, her love of songwriting, staying mentally healthy as a public figure, the mind fuck of hit singles & so much more.
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Stephanie Lepp | Deep Fakes & High Hopes
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In late September Stephanie Lepp and I had a great conversation about her Deep Reckonings project, the concept of making room for people to change, the value of accountability & apologies in our polarized society and how art has the power to create the world we want to see.
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Izzy Fontaine | Music, Memes & Meaning
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Musician, producer & instagram meme lord; Izzy Fontaine and I talk about shifting from a life on the road to being more studio bound, focusing on technology and how to interact with it creatively, memes and humor as a means of connection, healing trauma through therapy and self reflection, psychedelic experiences and more.
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Jimi Forever | Grief Is A Mirror Of Love
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This soloish episode is a tribute to my best buddy Jimi who we unfortunately had to say goodbye to on 11/6.
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Greg & Dana Newkirk ( Of Hellier ) | Going Weird Full-Time
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Greg and Dana Newkirk (Hellier, Planet Weird, The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & Occult) come get strange with me on the Nod. (Recorded In Jan )
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Ramin & Colin Vs The Nazis Of Zoom (Patreon Preview)
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Artist, Comedian, Podcaster Ramin Nazer and I attempted to do a live call in show. Instead we got Zoom-Bombed by Nazis. We then moved the party over to instagram live for an epic 3.5 hour chat about everything and nothing. There was game of thrones scotch, bong hits, conspiracy theory, trivia and lots of laughs.
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Rania Woodard (of LANNDS) | Inward and Upwards
The Cosmic Nod
Rania Woodard is the singer/founder of the amazing Jacksonville based psych pop duo LANNDS.
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Esao Andrews | Haunted Universe
The Cosmic Nod
Esao Andrews is a great friend of mine ,one of my all time favorite artists & responsible for every Circa Survive album cover to date. Beyond his massive fine art career as an oil painter he has painted murals all over the world, done 30+ covers for the Vertigo Comic Book series "House Of Mystery", as well as dozens of designs for skateboard companies Deathwish & Baker.
info_outlineSophia is an ultra kind new friend and a wealth of information on plants, medicine and amazonian shamanism.
Topics touched : cultural whiplash, collaborations, her new book "When Plants Dream" , life in the amazon , sustainability & ayahuasca tourism, critique vs cynicism, new rituals, romanticizing all things old, finding a connection to the land, walking barefoot, facing your own end level bosses and leveling up, why we should leave the shire, becoming the medicine vs becoming an evangelist, and how personal transformation = global transformation. Sophia places a mysterious seed into the Cosmic Time Capsule.
Sophia Rokhlin is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer from New York City. She holds a BA in anthropology and religious studies from The New School and a MSc in Ecological Economics from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). She is a Program Coordinator at The Chaikuni Institute and currently directs the sustainable ayahuasca cultivation program at The Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional plant medicine retreat center in the Peruvian Amazon. She is the co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019) on the global spread of ayahuasca. She has worked with several psychedelic harm-reduction programs including KosmiCare, and serves as an advisor on the Ayahuasca Community Committee for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is currently based in Peru.
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