Elucidate No. 70 - G Talk

We all go to them, we kinda HAVE TO go to them, and I just realized "You know what? I don't like this f**king place. Jiffy stores are awful!". I also talk about the increasing ubiquity of weed, and the already ubiquitous Holidays.

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Elucidate No. 69 - Evan

Evan joins me for this podcast and we talk a little about living at sea. We talk plenty about books, historical perspectives, "tribes", and the internet as a drug.

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- Book: Tribe by Sebastian Junger https://www.amazon.com/Tribe-Homecoming-Belonging-Sebastian-Junger/dp/1455566381

- Science in the age of selfies: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/9384.full

- Discussion about "Science in the age of selfies": https://redd.it/5h7sh6

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Elucidate 68 - G Talk 3

In this episode I carry over a little bit of the last podcast and elucidate further on original thought and choices. I also discuss the contrast of my minimal social media life (A few years ago I was on it constantly) and those around me who use the internet far more than I do. Lastly, I talk about the mass insecurity I've witness and have taken part in when it comes to being a consumer in a consumer based society.






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Elucidate No. 67 - G Talk 2

In this short episode I talk about what's real and what's not. Happy Thanksgiving cabrones (Y cabronas. Can't forget the cabronas.)

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Elucidate No. 66 - G Talk

In this episode I talk about personal stuff. Not personal "personal" stuff, but about my month basically. This includes cops, Dia De Los Muertos, and some other observations.





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Elucidate No. 65 - El Trump

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- Can you believe that shit?? I mean really!

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Elucidate No. 64 - Andre Gruber

In this episode we talk about politics and society, and discipline, and of some of the challenges that artists have in plugging them selves into the marketplace.








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- Andre Gruber's twitter: https://twitter.com/angrub89

- Andre's Magazine: http://www.lustapemagazine.com/

- El Boo, Andre's new graphic novel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/el-boo-pt-1-law-6629074hic

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Elucidate No. 63 - Lenny Thiesen

Lenny is in the business of flowers, how cool is that? He's also an actor, father, and of a scholarly mind. In this episode we talk a little history of the Huns and Khans, politically correct language and censorship, and a couple of other things. My dog chimes in for a minute too.




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- St. Johns Flower Market official website: http://www.stjohnsflowermarket.com/

- St. Johns Flower Market on Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/st-johns-flower-market-jacksonville

- Wrath of the Khans: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-of-the-khans-i/

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Elucidate No. 62 - Andre Gruber

In this episode Andre and I talk about the socio-political situation regarding the current farcical yet menacing presidential election. And, we talk some about our views on the music world and what Andre is up to in his crafts.






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An article about Andre Gruber: http://eujacksonville.com/2016/09/13/10-questions-with-andre-gruber/

Andre Grubers twitter: https://twitter.com/angrub89

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Elucidate No. 61 - Political Election (From Space)

I'm someone whose freed himself from the many constraints of our "profit before all" hyper-capitalist society. Not by getting rich, but by carving a unique way within it. This has allowed me ample time to take a good look at society, and come face to face with deep philosophical concepts and questions. Politics is something I've avoided for much of my life, mainly because I'm a musician and artist. Yet. I've consistently made commentary on society through my art, and sometimes that has included the stagnant topic of politics. 

I believe that in America, being able to affect the political system in any meaningful and positive way takes a career politician, except in highly anomalous cases. In this episode I speak a little on my overall view of national politics.


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- Presidential election controversy of 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000

- Presidential election controversy of 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_voting_controversies

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Elucidate No. 60 - Schmooze 2

In this episode I talk about what I call the false continuum of technological progress, Edward Snowden, and the origin and way we may be viewing emerging technology.

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- Citizen Four documentary about Snowden: https://citizenfourfilm.com/

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Elucidate No. 59 - Schmooze

In this episode I have a heart to heart with you. And I say heart to heart because all my talks are in earnest. So, I'm calling these non-scripted monologues Schmoozes. This episode is mostly about Jacksonville FL as an entity, and more specifically Riverside/The Urban Core.



 

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Elucidate 58 - Steve Piscitelli

Steve Piscitelli is a public speaker, and author currently on the topics of professional and personal development. We talk some about his work, his podcast, music (of course), and society.

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- Steve's official website: http://www.stevepiscitelli.com/

- Steve's podcast portal: http://www.stevepiscitelli.com/podcasts

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevepiscitelli

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevePiscitelli

Things we talked about:

The Shallows book: https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750



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Elucidate No. 57 - Job

Job is a singer songwriter whose album is up for release soon. If you’re a music fan or musician you’ll certainly appreciate this episode. We talk about various music and musician related things including gigging.

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- Sam Cooke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke

- Bill Withers - Hope She'll Be Happier: https://youtu.be/NYog2KV_yOU

- Reggie Watts (looper): https://youtu.be/UXyHf_SpUUI

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Elucidate No. 56 - Denny Leroux

Denny Leroux is a skilled musician, songwriter, and producer whose played with people like James Brown and many other legendary musicians, as-well as for presidents of the United States. In this podcast we talk about his awesome musical career, the evolution of—and current state of the music industry, and more.

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- Storm of the Century Music, Denny's web portal: http://stormofthecenturymusic.com/

- Denny's facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Storm-Of-The-Century-Music-134408869954631/

Things we talked about:

- Otis Blackwell wrote some legendary songs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Blackwell

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Elucidate No. 55 - Melissa Ross 2

Melissa Ross is the host of First Coast Connect which is a community oriented talk show. You can find it at 89.9 on the FM dial, or listen to the podcast archive of her show in case you can’t listen at 9am. We talk about raising kids, Generation X and Millennials (I personally think Generation X sounds way cooler, no offense Millennials), and about what it’s like to be the host of FCC.






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- Melissa Ross's show on WJCT: http://news.wjct.org/programs/first-coast-connect
- Melissa Ross's bio: http://news.wjct.org/people/melissa-ross
- Melissa Ross's show on NPR: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/381443735/first-coast-connect



Things we talked about:

- Ron Chambline: http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/arts/2016-07-19/story/four-decades-later-ron-chamblin-keeps-selling-buying-books





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Elucidate No. 54 - Saura Johnston 2

Saura Johnston is a motivated entrepreneur and business owner. We talk about patronizing local businesses, the internet, technology, and society. - My daughter makes an appearance towards the last few minutes of this podcast, she’s a toddler and wanted my attention bad. If you’re a parent you’ll understand and maybe even appreciate it.

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- Dave Chappelle, Dancing In Different Culture: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0cc0bac3ce/chappelle-show-dancing-for-different-cultures

Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed it and Fled: http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

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Elucidate No. 53 - Eli Bajalia

Eli Bajalia is a permaculturist as well as a musician and cool dude. Although the episode is over an hour long, we still just brush the surface of this agricultural art of permaculture, which has the potential to transform natural landscapes to serve humanity. We also talk a little about his banjo and music playing (The first ten minutes we talk music, the rest permaculture).

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- Permacutlure on Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

- Eli and Val videos: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Eli%20and%20Val%20permaculture

- Greening the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk

- Kora, ancient instrument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora_(instrument)

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Elucidate No. 52 - Social Media Stranglehold

In this episode I talk about logging into facebook for the first time in three years, and how social media is supposed to be here for our benefit.

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Richard Stallman's Anti Facebook Post: https://stallman.org/facebook.html

And a discussion about that post: https://hubski.com/pub/336976
One of my barely surviving social media communities: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCommonRoom/new/

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Elucidate No. 51 - The Whaleship Essex

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 Here's an episode about the whaleship Essex of the 1820's. It involves sailing ships, whales, and a torturous journey for survival. I became interested in sea-faring through books, subsequently the idea of being out at sea without modern technology fascinates me.

    My wife says that this story is not for women. 

    I decided to make a historical podcast episode while waiting for DanCarlin to release his next episode. I probably won't be doing like this again for a while, unless some financial realities can be met with it. It's more time consuming than the conversational "interviews" I do. And, I'm really a professional musician, not an orator.

    Nonetheless, this history related podcast differs from others in that I scored a soundtrack for it, and I hope you enjoy it! And I'm not talking about just queuing a tune in the background, I actually scored it like a movie.

    In this episode I stood away from people's names, and dates. I'm not good with those, never have been. I'm interested in story and the sci-fi like quality of historical events. I say "sci-fi like" because we can't live the way people of the past lived, even if we wanted to. It was literally a different world!

   

Indirectly related to this episode, a good friend said that humans were built for adversity. I'd never considered that until he said that to me. But, in regards to this episode, and life. Unless you're going through a life-or-death situation, if you think that whatever you may be enduring right-now is impossible to get through, think again! 

For a great read and far more details that may answer many of your questions I recommend even implore you to read the book In The Heart of the Sea.

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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- Pablo Valencia, article about thirst: http://www.desertusa.com/desert-activity/thirst.html

- Desert Thirst, The Ordeal of Pablo Valencia: http://www.eebweb.arizona.edu/Courses/ecol414_514/readings/thirst.pdf

Elucidate No. 50 - Scott A. Grant

Scott A. Grant Esq. is a historian currently focusing on the US civil rights movement, and history of racial segregation and race relations in N.E. Florida. We talk about these things, social media, and the internet.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/z2ccZbbHqC0

Audio of this episode can be downloaded here: http://off.li/4ZSMp

Things we talked about:

- Bob Hays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hayes

- Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in St. Augustine FL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96516146/

- The Beatles in Jacksonville FL: http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/11/live-gator-bowl-jacksonville/

- Axe Handle Saturday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jacksonville,_Florida#Ax_Handle_Saturday

Elucidate No. 49 - R.J. Jojola

R.J. Jojola is an author of dark fantasy. With the life experience of being a body builder, middle school teacher, and sociologist. She gets quite personal in this introductory episode, which is just fine with me. Her no nonsense style is appreciated and is executed with class.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/Ihnysg4bW3M

Audio of this episode: http://off.li/4hcJp

Show Notes: 

R.J.'s Website and portal to all her social media: http://www.rjjojola.com/

Elucidate No. 48 - Recording Music

I haven't released an official, bonafide “Goliath Flores” CD in about ten years. In this episode I talk about that as well as a couple of other related branches to the topic.

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Things I mentioned: 

- California Winter original music by yours truly: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1826627/

- The Convert original film music by me too!: https://vimeo.com/40595463

- Dreaming Uphill, more of my film work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWsR4XGwsk

Articles:

- David Byrne - 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world': http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world

- Prince Hated What The Internet Was Doing To Music: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-internet-music_us_5719264ae4b0d4d3f722b567

- Revenge of the Record Labels - How The Majors Renewed Their Grip On Music: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/

Elucidate No. 47 - Look At the Bright Side of Evil

The slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman is replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the twenty dollar bill. I've thought for some time that how it's long overdue that money, which we're all exposed to many times a day reflect the ACTUAL better light of history.




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Harriet Tubman: http://www.harriet-tubman.org/
Andrew Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
Trail of Tears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

Elucidate No. 46 - Drew

Drew is the administrator of a hospital mental health department. We talk about books by George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut, society, politics, and the medical system.



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Things we talked about:

- Harrison Bergeron - Film Kurt Vonnegut's based on : https://youtu.be/XBcpuBRUdNs
- George Orwell down and out in Paris and London: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79d/
- The Cathedral, Radio Lab podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/
- Homestead Strikes and Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
- Terry Prachett - Shaking Hands With Death: https://youtu.be/90b1MBwnEHM

Elucidate No. 45 - Andre Gruber 6

Andre Gruber is the creator of LUST/APE magazine, is a graphic designer, amateur music historian, worthy musician, and most recently artist and producer of his original animated series The Muckrakers. - We talk about the current presidential election, and social issues.



Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/V2GtovcZvpY
AUDIO of this podcast can be downloaded here: http://off.li/Rk7cp

Show notes: 

- Andre Gruber's magazine and animated series: http://www.lustapemagazine.com/
- Andre on twitter: https://twitter.com/LUSTAPE

Things we talked about:

Classical Social Theory, Roberto Unger nails it!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYOOwNRFTcY
- Why Africa Is Poor: https://youtu.be/BT6tKDCone0

Elucidate No. 44 - Gabie Ruiz 2

Gabie Ruiz is a yoga and zumba instructor, and public school educator. She's also a music, arts, and philosophy enthusiast. - It's Valentine's Day, so we talk about relationships, marriage, and sex. And, Osho the philosopher.




Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/AX6HePdhk34
Audio of this podcast can be downloaded here: http://off.li/q88Nn



Show notes: 

- Gabie's Yoga 4 Change page: http://www.yoga-4-change.com/people/gabie-ruiz/
- Gabies facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ProyectosRuiz

Things we talked about:

- Osho: https://youtu.be/otGQqO2TYMI
- Valentines Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day