Best Claudia Rodriguez Podcasts (2026)

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a calm presence - uplift 52:28

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uplift here are some uplifting words for the new year drawn from 9 episodes of conscient podcast et 3 extraits du balado conscient This posting of a calm presence was designed as an audio listening experience though it also exists in written form, here. Ceci est un episode bilingue. Afin de faciliter la compréhension des extraits en anglais, j’ai a…

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e243 francisco rodriguez – amazon awareness 22:37

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Take care of the earth. We have grandsons and great-great-grandsons, and we have to, we, our generation, has to teach the young people what we lived, the beauty of the world that we lived, not the disaster we have today. Hello conscient podcast listeners, Many of us do international travel, probably a bit too much. When I travel, I consider it a pr…

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e242 roundtable - dissolving boundaries 55:48

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In an era where pressures on climate and environments grow even stronger, we should not underestimate the transformative power of art. (Ambassador of the European Union to Canada Geneviève Tuts) When you do the trigger, the emotional part, you can go down hope and fear both. Both lead to action but ultimately, we need to transform being passive int…

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The Juicer Podcast Episode #67: Bella Nicoletti 38:13

4M ago38:13

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I talk with my lovely friend Bella about music and the future of SDA. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/arjun-lakshman.

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The Juicer Podcast Episode #66: Checking In. 10:00

5M ago10:00

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Soooo..... Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/arjun-lakshman.

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e241 roundtable – everyday habits for transforming systems 1:28:58

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The question the book asks is obviously transforming the system is not an individual task, it's a collective activity. But it still begs the question, if we're trying to contribute to that, what do we need to do? Not every four years when we vote, not every year when we go to a strategy workshop, but what do we do every day? And so the title is ver…

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e240 claudia salguero – community, beauty, nature 15:01

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To me, there's three key things and it's community, beauty and nature. I think if we connect with nature and if we produce beauty, that is something that we as humans I think is our biggest gift. And I'm not just talking about creating art : speaking beauty, listening to beauty, creating beauty, opening our hearts to beauty in community. Because if…

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e239 roundtable – imagining in public e2 - artist perspectives on social impact 2:17:12

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I love policy because it allows for surrealism, it allows for creativity, it allows for dancing, it allows for all the skills and disciplines and interests and tools that as artists we have gravitated towards. We need to enter it with both the courage and the fear that all bets are off, that the house is on fire, that the dominant narratives of - w…

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e238 roundtable – sonic research group - low tech 58:57

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This is a special edition of conscient roundtable featuring Aaron Lui-Rosenbaum, Barry Truax, Jacek Smolicki (for more on Jacek’s work also see conscient e113 part 1 and e133 part 2) Kathy Kennedy, Lindsey French, Natalie Dusek, Sabine Breitsameter (all see conscient e175) Vincent Andrisani and myself. We are part of the Sonic Research Group out of…

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e237 helen yung – art as refuge 15:01

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Artistic practice, cultural traditions, cultural practice, folk traditions… These are all places where we have where wisdoms that might otherwise have been lost have been protected, sheltered or found refuge. And like, artists have this like hoarding tendency sometimes, right? Like maybe not all artists, but a lot of us, you know, we look for, for …

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e236 keiko torigoe – the power of listening 12:11

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The environmental issues currently at hand, including global warming, are related, but I believe that at their root lies the decline of our listening ability and the power of listening as humanity. This decline is not merely a matter of our listening ability weakening as we age, but rather it encompasses what we choose to listen to, how we perceive…

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e235 lallan – art from the soil 15:01

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My advice to artists would be drop every garb that you have, drop every piece of knowledge that you think you have. Head to the jungles, head to the rural places. We are living in a time of crisis. We need artists more than the scientists. We need artists more than the healers. We need artists more than anything because arts connect everybody. We n…

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e234 emily marie séguin – a sense of community 15:01

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Alongside the responsibility of holding people accountable and calling out what they see as unjust, I think that there's also an element of hope with artists, even when we're maybe a little bit melancholic, or even when we're in heavier periods in our lives, the act of creating denotes hope, because why would you create something if you didn't beli…

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e233 andrew freiband – care as artistic practice 15:01

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If we start to pay attention to what we pay attention to then we start to naturally slow down. We disconnect from the urgency, the crisis, and we start to realize that care, and I don't just mean care for one another, although that's a piece of it, but care also for our surroundings, care for our time, care for those nearest to us. That is where it…

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e232 meghan moe beitiks - angles of consequence 15:00

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Even being confronted with something that is weird or uncomfortable: it’s character growth. You have to ask the question: why is this person doing this weird thing? It's a good exercise in empathy, to be perfectly honest. Why is this person doing this thing? Why does that make me uncomfortable? What, what is it about my perception that has shaped t…

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e231 kelly wilhelm – what can we contribute? 15:01

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Part of the answer to that question lies in the arts and culture understanding the role it can have in a time of collapse or crisis, and to understand that itself is not in crisis. I think that's a big point because we hear a lot right now around the crisis that is happening in cultural institutions and in the arts. And in fact, the crisis that is …

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e230 sarah peebles – how can we reciprocate? 15:01

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How can we reciprocate since the world keeps us alive on the one hand, and on the other hand, all these things, birds and you name it, right? Fish and moose and beaver, these are things we love. So, if this is the world we love, we're going to have feelings about how we might want to do positive things to keep this world we love as nurtured as poss…

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e229 don hill – amplifying voices 15:01

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There are a lot of people that don't have the kind of talent that you do, Claude, or for that matter, I do and they have voices, but you can't hear them. So our job in the art world, I would say, is to amplify those voices in a way that's comprehensive and understandable by the folks who should be paying attention to what's going on around them and…

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e228 rafael zen – artists as dreamers 15:01

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The role of artists is the role of dreaming. I've worked as a poet, as a multimedia artist, sound artist, storyteller. I think we hold the capacity to shape the narratives that build our present, our future, reshape the narratives that inform our past. I still believe in that role. I do believe that we have a call to work on the episteme, this epis…

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e227 judith marcuse – spiritual strengthening 15:01

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In a time when it's easy to become defeated, when one can succumb to despair and negativity, a question I use when I reflect on the state of the world right now is what gives me energy, what animates my imagination, and what do I need to defend in that context? So many, many questions. A lot of self-reflection, but then reaching out, looking for co…

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e226 roundtable - listening in relation 1:36:00

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This is a special edition of conscient roundtable featuring Lara Felsing, Adrian Avendaño, Hildegard Westerkamp, Toni-Leah C. Yake as part of the Listening in Relation gathering at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on March 21-23, 2025 on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamis…

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e225 hildegard westerkamp – when we were young 15:00

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The first thing that comes to mind is my young activist in me that says, of course, let's just fight. Let's just do what we can to speak out against, be revolutionary, be, you know, like we were when we were young in the 60s, 70s. Now I think that my response is to stop and to slow down and to do some deep listening and some meditation and to groun…

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e224 sarah heynen – food as a solution that invites people in 15:01

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The approach of the Canadian Centre for Food & Ecology (CCFE) is what has been so attractive to me. It's a conviction around joyful, immersive experience and it starts with the conviction that until someone has experienced the sensory joy of experiencing food in a new way, there's little interest in understanding the facts or the cognitive issues s…

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e223 anonymous - #downtowncritters 15:01

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I think there's a lot of roles for art generally, and one of my favorite ones is kind of imagining that art helps you imagine, even if it has nothing to do with it. It helps. You can be a springboard to help you dream and stuff like that. The project that we're going to talk about today has a lot more to do with the kind of solace or companionship …

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e222 wendalyn bartley – restoring our connection with nature 15:01

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How do we restore our connection with nature? Because I think that part of the crisis that we're in, especially with the climate, stems from the fact that we've been disconnected from our relationship to nature. And so how do we restore that? How do we get back in touch with non-human beings? You know, with these trees in front of us here we're sta…

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e221 annais linares and ben finley – arts-based kin making 15:01

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People maybe are used to being bombarded at this point with the news of what's happening. And that's the reality. And we need to face that. I think alongside that, we need to make moments of grounding, of rootedness and remembering our real belonging to this earth. Because without that, we don't quite have the energy. I think we're really zapped of…

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e220 tina pearson – what is art anyway? 15:00

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What is art? What is art anyway? It's a new term, really. I think we need to go a little bit beyond that. I think of myself as a sound practitioner, so what can I offer? If someone has a visual acuity, if someone has acuity with body and movement and voice, you know, what is it that we can do in our communities to help people to listen, to be in th…

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e219 adam kahane – radical engagement 15:00

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Radical engagement with the system doesn't mean participating in that system, distractedly resigned, knowing it all hierarchically at arm's length, with arms crossed, superficially, impatiently. Saying take it or leave means taking part in it alertly, with hope and curiosity, horizontally, leaning forward, hands on, digging deep, persisting, and ab…

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e218 roundtable - surviving the future 1:12:55

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Hey there faithful, brave and patient conscient podcast listeners, Welcome to the 3rd conscient roundtable. Live radio style again. First take, only take, kind of thing so please bear with me. This is an exciting and unique episode coming up, with an international scope. It was recorded on Thursday, March 20, 2025 on Zoom with participants Kashee i…

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e217 devora neumark - sitting with emotions 15:00

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What can I do to support the grieving? There's so much to grieve. Whether we think about the crisis of climate, whether we think about the political crises, the issue of displacement, which is around the world. Forced displacement, such a huge crisis. How do we manifest the kinds of spaces that people need to be able to individually and collectivel…

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e216 roundtable – in memoriam tracey friesen 1:10:00

9M ago1:10:00

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Hey there faithful and brave conscient listeners, Welcome to the second conscient roundtable conversation. This one was recorded on Sunday, March 16, 2025 in Vancouver. In a minute you’ll hear an acknowledgement about the original stewards of these lands followed by a minute of silent contemplation. Normally, conscient roundtables feature a group o…

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e215 chris creighton-kelly – optimism of the will 15:01

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I would say that while there's absolutely no question that we're in a crisis, there's no question about multi crisis. I'm not sure we're in the state of collapse. And I think that methodology, that vision, that understanding of the world can lead to... You were talking about it a few minutes ago, doom scrolling and just doom. I find that that can c…

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e214 roundtable – this moment in canadian culture 1:16:30

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I think, as has already been mentioned by a number of you, that we need to slow down, not speed up. This is a moment for really slow thinking and to be listening and to be doing deep listening. I like this concept that we use, again in Primary Colours. Instead of thinking of outreach and trying to convince people and tell them about how great the a…

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e213 stephen huddart – so much to do 15:01

9M ago15:01

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The arts have that capacity to be powerful broadcasters, conveyors of messages, invitations to celebration, reflection, storytelling, narrative building and so on. There's a vital role here for the arts. But like the rest of society, frankly, whether it's the banking system or government we're simply not doing it well enough that we could say we're…

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e212 max wyman – taking action 15:01

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There's been a real lack of positive action and response from the arts community to these existential questions that confront us. And I really wonder whether that's not because they're simply bewildered by what's been going on. They're terrified, most of them. A lot of the conversation that goes on that I'm aware of has to do with the precariousnes…

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e211 azul carolina duque - art as medicine 15:01

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I think there is a responsibility we have as artists to relate to our artistry responsibly. And that has to do with sensing into our artistic sensibility as a medicine or a gift that we were given to come into this embodiment, to become the people that we are and share this medicine with the people in our community around us. And I think it's about…

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e210 roundtable – art and science 1:38:54

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Hey there Welcome to the first conscient roundtable conversation recorded on Saturday March 1, 2025 in Tiohtià:ke (also known as Montreal). This episode features local artists, activists and cultural workers Alyssa Scott, Devon Hardy, Jimmy Ung, Katrine Claassens, Sophie Weider, Sébastian Méric de Bellefon and myself (I’m actually from Ottawa) talk…

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e209 robert and peter janes – telling the truth through art 15:00

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I think that the first thing artists have to do is to start telling the truth. You know, just like climate change five or six years ago, you just didn't really want to talk about it. You got shunned in polite company if you talked about it. Now we have the c word, right? We've got collapse. But the conversation hasn't started yet. And I think just …

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ENCORE e01 terrified - climate denial bubble 19:53

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What triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability crisis and searching for a path forward… This is an ENCORE episode of the conscient podcast from season 1, episode 1, first published on April 30, 2020. K…

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The Juicer Podcast Episode #65: Madeline Bennett 57:12

11M ago57:12

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I talk to one of my best friends Madeline about shows we've done and what shows we will be doing in the future. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/arjun-lakshman.

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ENCORE e85 tracey friesen (in memoriam) - narratives of resilience 40:09

12M ago40:09

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What's starting to interest me is stories of resilience for a post-carbon world. What are we going to need for our emotional well-being? It's going to be a different world, not long from now. If we do this, and we must do this, this transition has to happen and there's going to be a sense of loss and sacrifice and challenge, not just with what's ha…

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The Juicer Podcast Episode #64: I'm Back...Sorta 9:29

1y ago9:29

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Hello there, it's been a minute. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/arjun-lakshman.

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e208 clara schryer - science as story 58:56

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My interest in science is quite poetic. The things that I find the most interesting about science are when it can be woven into a story that makes sense and I think that's kind of artistic in a way: you take the scientific knowledge and make it into a more abstract kind of poetic thing. Note: I'll be back during the winter of 2025 with season 6 on …

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The Juicer Podcast Episode #63: Claudia Bennett 56:16

1y ago56:16

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After a month long hiatus, I talk with one of my best friends Claudia about something that has taken up both of our time: She Loves Me. Links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/arjun-lakshman.

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e207 kenneth newby - living with grace 49:52

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The planet's not dying. Our place and our version of it may be dying. So how do we deal with that? How do we accept and live with the knowledge that our version of it is dying. It's not something to panic about in the sense that the whole thing's going away, hopefully. We don't know, but I think that notion of living with grace, living without fear…

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e206 arno kopecky - art as an inexhaustible resource 1:07:56

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I think if we can reimagine what matters to us and pursue that, then perhaps there's a chance that we can stop this truly self-destructive pursuit of infinite more, and in material terms, become happy with enough, without giving up the idea of personal growth and evolution, because I do think that is core to what it is to be human and even just a…

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e205 sheila james - create, heal, love 53:08

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In the face of destruction, we should create. In the face of hurt, we should heal. In the face of hate, we should love. That's my feeling and figuring out how to do that is everybody's job. I’ve known Sheila James for 25 years as an arts funder colleague, artist, filmmaker, writer, but also her work as an equity expert, social activist and as a fam…

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e204 sophie weider - hearing young voices through art 43:39

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I'd like to use art more as a tool to get people thinking, get people involved, especially young people, and hopefully, help them process the emotions of climate change and move towards a space of action and hope. At least for me, as a young person, art felt like the way to have my voice be heard, and I hope to help other people experience that as …

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e203 leslie reid - climate as art 1:05:26

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All artists have to be aware of climate because otherwise it's not art (and that's going to piss some people off - Claude Schryer). I think it will. Climate infuses all our responses to everything, to relationships, to our culture, to our history. You can't ignore the climate that it's happening in, and that's why it has to be somehow in the art th…

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e202 coman poon - what are you doing with your life ? 1:43:04

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We're going through a crash, the sixth extinction, climate collapse, geopolitical collapse, economic collapse, all types of overlapping, interlaced cycles of destruction. And like on planes, what you can do, at best, is to get ready for a glide as opposed to a hard landing, because that means some will survive, and those that survive aren't necessa…