69: Fascism Down Under!!! (w/Dr. Izzy Smith)
This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom rode sane pandemic messaging to victory against the Republican-led recall election by a huge margin. Unsurprisingly, voting patterns perfectly matched the s...
16 Sep 20212h 16min
Bonus Sample: Mikki Willis Rewrites History
In June, Planedemic creator Mikki Willis appeared on Living 4D with Paul Chek to discuss what “really happened” at the Capitol on Jan 6. During the long-ranging talk, Willis took some time to attack a...
13 Sep 202110min
68: The Jordan Peterson of Fitness Bros (w/Antonio Valladares)
Paul Chek will tell you how much he’s influenced the fitness industry. He’ll tell you that he popularized Swiss Balls, and about his time working with the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls and then the champio...
10 Sep 20211h 13min
Bonus Sample: Hollow Men: The QAnon Roadshow Flop
A QAnon-themed Stop The Steal, anti-vax, Covid-denial roadshow came to an untimely end in mid-August with their fearless leader succumbing to COVID pneumonia on a ventilator in Florida. He denied the ...
6 Sep 20216min
67: The Promise & Peril of Psychedelics
Psychedelics are all the rage in the investment world, with hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into research-based startups in the hope of finding interventions for addiction, depression, PTSD, e...
3 Sep 20211h 27min
Bonus Sample: I Don’t Know Who My Friends Are
After watching the Almost 30 podcast hosts bond over Zach Bush’s Jesus-like qualities, Matthew explores the barren friendship landscape of wellness gigworkers.From the transcript: We engage with frien...
30 Aug 20218min
66: Spirituality & Status (w/Will Storr)
Spirituality, ill-defined a term that it is, often implies both an emptying out and an addition. What leaves is the vacuous clinging to achievements that are supposedly preventing us from seeing our t...
26 Aug 20211h 13min
Bonus Sample: The Question of Consciousness
One of the most debated topics in spirituality (and beyond) involves the origins of consciousness. Most neuroscientists agree that it’s emergent—the physiological systems of the body create what we ca...
23 Aug 20218min
