Barbarian Noetics Podcast: Go Fungal not viral™

Send us Fan Mail What'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. He...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 so...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 a...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 hand...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 Po...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 c...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 b...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 wit...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 im...

Send us Fan Mail What'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...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 b...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup 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, ass...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 neighbor...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 join...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 **...

Send us Fan Mail What'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 enha...

Send us Fan Mail Blessings 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Friends, This solo minisode is an off the cuff expression of hope, grief and determination. It's an attempt to articulate and square up to this seminal moment in American history, from the perspective of my own eyes.  Tonight will be the 7th evening of nationwide demonstrations and rebellion against the police murder of George Floyd, the police murder of Breona Taylor, a...

Send us Fan Mail What's up to all my nimble mutineers and artful subversives! Welcome back for Part 3 of the original BNP series, Revisiting Fidel and the Cuban Revolution , covering 1956 - 1961. This episode we first retread a little bit of ground, from 1956 - 1958, to pick up some important pieces that were left out in Part 2, particularly relating to the extraordinary human character, effo...

Send us Fan Mail What's up to all my renegade frondeurs * and owl-eyed wunderkind! Welcome back everyone to the second installment of a BNP Original Series about the life of Fidel Castro and the macro-history of the Cuban Revolution. Part 2 covers Cuban history from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 (and subsequent ceding of Cuba from Spain to the U.S.) to New Year's Eve of 195...