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Are generations legit as a way to categorize people’s experiences and expectations of life? Is there a resonance between historic events and planetary transits? Will authenticity be valued more as AI sweeps away tangible reality?
726 - Mehran Seyed Emami (Iranian therapist)
2026-06-03 | 1h 22 mins.
Mehran Seyed Emami is an Iranian therapist, podcaster, and founder of Ravannama (Persian Psychedelic Society), a community focused on psychedelic education, awareness, and harm reduction for Farsi speakers around the world.
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Chris and Anya Live
2026-05-28 | 1h 13 mins.
Thank you Bejinha, Midwest Timecapsules, John Climenhaga, david price, Ryan Hichens, and many others for tuning into this live video with Anya Kaats! Join us for our next live video in the app. Check out the documentary I mention. It’s awesome.
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725 - ROMA 109
2026-05-21 | 2 mins.
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What are some of the potential unintended positive consequences of this shitstorm we’re all living through in 2026? Is there a way to question the US/Israel relationship without being accused of anti-semitism?
724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)
2026-05-19 | 1h 51 mins.
Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals across two separate academic disciplines. All this misguided, insecure early-life ambition mostly just taught him how disappointing and anticlimactic status-driven accomplishments can be. (His words.)
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