It's Now or Never Jeremy & Friends
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- Society & Culture
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Climate crisis, anthropogenic extinction, societal collapse – oof. Join our ragtag emotional support group (AKA "friends") as we imagine a better future, talk lefty politics, and get real nerdy.
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When the Beer Gets Warm
Guest: Daniel Hennessy from Extinction Rebellion Oakland
Hot goss about Extinction Rebellion America. Fighting fires. NGOs. Filling jails and working with police. Jem Bendell‘s Deep Adaptation paper. Arctic sea ice. Social collapse. Alien archaeologists.
“If it’s the truth, you have to say it.”
Note: Daniel speaks on behalf of Daniel. His opinions do not, and are not intended to, represent XR America. This isn’t a friggin press release, just two dudes chatting about their own feels.
Music by Martin H. Emes plus “B U R N O U T” by Anonymous420 (CC BY 4.0) and “Air” by Lolique (CC BY 3.0).
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Enlightened AF, Part 2
Guest: Jody from Guruphiliac, @Kalieezchild on Twitter
In part 2, Jody gets personal about his history with gurus. The significance of significance and the red herring of ego dissolution. Magick and imaginal spirituality. Psychedelics. Jody’s path to realization. Oprah. The Aquarian Age. Climate change anxiety. The Church of the Subgenius. And burnt almonds: the secret of life, the universe, and everything.
The Alan Watts talk I reference is on YouTube, or you can read the transcript at AlanWatts.org.
Want to listen to Part 1?
Closing track is “For R & S” by Density & Time.
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Enlightened AF, Part 1
Guest: Jody from Guruphiliac, @Kalieezchild on Twitter
The dirty secret of spiritual enlightenment. The problem with gurus. Rolling your own religion. Dreams and the unconscious in spirituality.
Music by Martin H Emes plus “Cycles” by Density & Time and “Soveja” by Minus (CC BY-SA 3.0 RO).
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Interlude: Rest Stop
Dreaming about RV life. Social media stigma and technology in intentional communities. Comfy clothes and nudism. Northern lights pics from Twitch.
Closing track: “My Luck” by Forrest Keller (CC BY 3.0)
Photo by Sindre
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Secret Agents For the Future
Guest: Kim, a mod at the Collapse Support subreddit and Discord server, longtime doomer, collapsenik, ex-lawyer, ex-clergy, and “non-breeding housewife”
New Thought meets collapse. Doing good on behalf of hypothetical futures. The origin of water. We’re all extraterrestrials. Dystopian shopping malls. Helping the normies. The Coronavirus and predictions of doom. Living in captivity. XR Australia is fighting an extremely uphill battle. Zoomers are smart. The metaphysics of humor. Good Grief Network. The fires (and waters) of Australia.
Music this episode by Martin H Emes and “Soft Rain” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0).
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Oilent Green
Sarah and Jeremy talk anti-civiliation, Derrick Jensen’s A Language Older Than Words, peak oil, Tar Sands, ocean floor mining, alien belly slugs, rock bottom Hell, the utility of shaming in civilization, mirror universe synchronization, the “Millennial Spectrum of Millenniosity,” and more than a little bit of Star Trek. End on another bitchin’ track by Glass Boy, sip a nice cold beverage, call it a day — you’re in bed by 10:00.
Intro music by Martin H Emes plus “Power Glove” by C. Scott (CC BY 3.0). Closing track is “UnMartin” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0).
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Customer Reviews
5 stars, would recommend
Superb podcast of facing eco-anxiety with wit and authenticity. It just keeps getting better as the seasons continue. 👌
Personal / Global Synthesis
Discussion and reflection on anxieties and possibilities around climate crisis and collapse. Really good mix of micro (personal lived stories, anxieties and hopes) and macro (utopias, political imagination) through conversations.
Personal fav: ep 9. The production and bits are very good 🌞
Jeremy and Friends are Delightfully Dark
I enjoy this podcast thoroughly - Jeremy and his guests are intersting and funny, even when the thing they're talking about is a little (or a lot) dark. They're also mindful of what they're saying and how in a way that is inclusive. Episode 9 was particularly moving and I conneted to it in a way that I have with very few podcasts. Highly recommend for millennials and xennienls and those of other generations who would like to understand what our whole deal is as generations.