Barbarian Noetics Podcast: Go Fungal not viral™

Send us Fan Mail What's up exquisite people! Hope y'all are hanging in there. Much love always, beaming out from the hot and sunny Sonoran desert to wherever you may be. Thank you for tuning in and supporting the BNP. This episode it's an honor to introduce y'all to Afghan War combat veteran Stephen the Infantryman. Stephen served as an Army Infantryman in Kandahar Province in...

Send us Fan Mail What's up to all my Barbarous Revolutionaries and Insuperable Love Bugs! This episode is the first installment of a BNP Original Minisode Series about the life of Fidel Castro and the history of the Cuban Revolution. Open your mind and let go of preconceived notions as the BNP revisits Fidel Castro's singular legacy, and we take a deep dive into the makings of the remark...

Send us Fan Mail What's up all you beautiful rowdy scoundrels and scandalously salubrious scalawags! The BNP here , comin' in hot with a mind-melter and horizon-dilator of an ep featuring not one, ladies and gentlemen, but two PhD's together in studio, speaking concurrently but with therapeutic flow and amiable cadence about the current wild and woolly goings on in the world. (By in...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Beautiful Humans! Barbarous Love Beasts! Clever Rogues and Roughnecks! Creative Solar Nexus! Sleek Servils! Dynamic Dolphins! ... ~~~~ ... Welcome back and thanks for listening and supporting the BNP! This episode it's my absolute pleasure to share a mind expanding and thought provoking conversation with renowned medium and angelic lightworker Josie Grouse . Josie is an...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup to all my Barbarianx Philosopher-Ruffians! Pop! Pop! Pop! You hear that? It's the sound of cactus blossoms bursting forth like popcorn on a hot pan, creating a kaleidoscopic cascade of color and elegant form along the Phoenix canals, on the Rio Salado riverside trail, and even amidst the corporate desert xeriscaping in eerily quiet strip mall parking lots. Nature has t...

Send us Fan Mail What's up my beloved Barbarian Servils! (Servils are adorable mid-size wild cats . Servils are dope.) Let's start things off with a haiku: April 2020 Bird song and spring rain Humans exist separately Also together Hope everyone is take care of themselves and each other. Take this time to consider learning about mutual aid and creating a mutual aid network in your communi...

Send us Fan Mail What's up Radiant Barbarian Love Doves! Another lil micro-sode comin' at ya, where I share some recent thoughts around the colonial devastation wrought in the name of Old Testament barbarism and organized evangelical Christianity, which in my opinion is patently blasphemous against the ideas of the actual Gospel. I also reminisce about what it was like living through a h...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup Barbarian Warrior Love Doves! We are only 3 weeks away from Administrative Professionals Day! Which also lands on Earth Day! Earth, the ULTIMATE Administrative Professional. Except instead of a recycling bin beneath Her desk, She has an endless reservoir of world-destroying lava at her core! Now that's gonna cut through red tape. And concrete, and forests, and cities,...

Send us Fan Mail What's up beautiful 99%-ers! This is a special 'micro-sode' edition of the BNP . I don't have a ton of time today because I gotta scamper off to work soon, but I had to voice my thoughts regarding the medicinal benefits of tonic water for fighting off Covid-19 (and malaria to boot!), as well as the ugly truth behind this supposed "rescue package" our...

Send us Fan Mail What's up heroic people. All the love comin' at ya, straight outta the desert city named after a mythical bird that rises from the ashes... KAW! Ka KAW!! A crow alights upon a telephone wire, as a wild pack of chihuahuas gallivant about the empty street. Refrigerators hum inside apartments. Tap tap tap: the sound of human digits typing, conveying thoughts across the air....

Send us Fan Mail What's up strong, beautiful people! The sun continues to rise and set. The moon continues to wax and wane. The sparrows continue to dart upon the wind catching bugs. And the BNP continues to post new eps for you, my beloved listeners. This solo episode is a series of vignettes that track the current glitches in the reality simulation, and attempt to make some sense of, or at...

Send us Fan Mail What's up all you fabulous ruffians and trend-setting dandies! This episode is the 2nd installment in the BNP' s Current Events Kernel series. We explore the shady past of Attorney General William Barr in light of his recent threat of "sweeping crackdowns" and "significant escalation" against sanctuary cities for undocumented migrants living in the U....

Send us Fan Mail Wassup beautiful humans! Pete cheated! Pete the cheat. CIA Petey pie did a psy-op. Ok there's your summary. But if you want you can read the rest of the summary. This is the first installment of what will be periodic "current events consolidation" mini-sodes. These eps are gonna be the place where I break down important stories in plain english, for busy people who...

Send us Fan Mail Whats up beautiful people!  This episode is a quilted menagerie of brain tidbits and mind morsels.  We begin by journeying back to 1967 for an iconic speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community. This is not the speech you heard in school. Dr. King speaks frankly and powerfully about class struggle and the need to radically restructure America...

Send us Fan Mail What's good beautiful humans! I'm very excited to share this mind-melter of an episode with you all! My guest this week is Dr. David Glowacki: scientist, artist and cultural theorist. Dr. Glowacki has appointments as a Research Fellow at the Royal Society scientific academy in the UK and as a Philip Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Bristol. Dr. Glowacki was so grac...

Send us Fan Mail Hei kaunis maailma! (That's Finnish for "Hello beautiful world!") Happy New Year everyone! It's 2020: the year of clarity and perfect vision. "Hindsight is 2020." May we all realize our dreams and accomplish our goals this year with copacetic efficacy, for the benefit of humanity and the planet. Gaia needs each one of us to show up with the real real...

Send us Fan Mail Beautiful radiant world! What's crack-a-lackin? This episode it's my absolute pleasure to introduce y'all to an amazing yoga instructor, healer, shamaness, friend, and person- the fantabulous Dani Solomon. I met Dani through taking her dynamic, fun and deeply healing hot yoga classes in Phoenix, and ever since that first class I've wanted to interview her for t...

Send us Fan Mail Hello beautiful world! Episode 28 of Barbarian Noetics features Terry FitzPatrick, Communications and Advocacy Director for Free the Slaves. Free the Slaves is an international NGO and lobby group dedicated to ending modern slavery. The mission of Free the Slaves is to liberate slaves across the globe and work to end conditions that lead to slavery. I've been hugely impressed...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup beautiful people! This episode of Barbarian Noetics features writer, speaker and mental health advocate Michelle Yang. Michelle is the Lifestyle Editor and Contributor at Mochi magazine , and she's been published in the Huffington Post , InStyle, Hello Giggles and The Temper. You can find all of Michelle's articles, her bio and more at her blog: Living Well, Happi...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup radiant world! I'm super stoked to share this episode of Barbarian Noetics with y'all, featuring comedian, podcaster and reluctant mystic Jessa Reed. Jessa burst on the comedy scene with her hilarious and harrowing story " Meth Pee " on Comedy Central's This Is Not Happening . She has a fantastic solo podcast called Soberish, as well as one she co-s...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup beautiful people! This episode of Barbarian Noetics is of the special ceremonial variety, where we cleanse space, center, set intention and pull runes together in order to shed light on the current state of our collective psyche. Human, animal, planetary. Have a pen and paper handy, take a hit of the peace pipe (if you want, or damiana, or mugwort...), and steep some mint t...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup Beautiful World, This solo episode is a prayer for lasting global peace and an invitation for us to collectively liberate our imaginations from the shackles of fear and limitation. Everything is permitted in our imagination. Realizing our power to dream any dream is the first step to realizing our power to make the world a better, safer and more joyful place. Laughter is Go...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup beautiful world!  This episode is a solo compilation of tidbits and meditations on existing gracefully in the working class of modern day America. One tidbit is a lil bit ranty, but what can ya do? I also recount my recent trip to fabulous Las Vegas and share a few stories and observations from Sin City.  Also discussed are ideas and pontifications constellating around how...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup glorious listeners! This episode features the 3rd and final installment of Mona Morsy's moving tale of coming out and coming of age within the context of a conservative religious family that ostracized and ridiculed her for being who she is. We pick up where we left off last episode, with Mona navigating her experience at the "sinner's camp" for girls, w...

Send us Fan Mail Wassup beautiful world! Strap in for the 2nd installment in Mona Morsy's inspiring tale about coming of age and maintaining personal integrity under very trying circumstances. Before we get back to Mona's story however, I begin this episode by playing two clips from a recent JRE podcast featuring the great Dr. Cornel West. After that we waste no time getting back to Mona...