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The Banana Bread and Circus Republic Podcast’s objective is to explore the ethics of humanity’s course of evolution. We intend to unify intelligent minds and heal the wounds of discord, with emphasis on the humorous aspects of humanity’s technological obsessions, and the current pitfalls in between. This gives us the opportunity to think outside the box, and explore with a light heart, which speaks to the humanitarian values and comedic outlets we live by. This sense of levity gives us hope ...
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49. Practical Cannibalism and “exceptional, my ass!”
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This episode was recorded in mid-August of 2024 when we discussed dietary choices, cultural affiliations, and virtue signaling. Life will test our inner monster, and it's our job to discern artificial propaganda from what's truly real. It comes down to resilience: our ability to get back up and keep going. Champions are not defined by winning, but …
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In this episode, we had Benji join us for the fourth time to discuss approaches to various concerns and new risks on the horizon. We talked about how the power of belief, adrenaline, and will are tools we can wield to exercise abilities that we have yet to harness fully—things like Breathwork, harmony, and the coherent rhythms that align with our s…
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47. Freedom from the artificial noise
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This episode was recorded in mid-July 2024, when we sat down to chat, after a brief gap from being able to do so, about conspiracy, security, liberty, and nature versus nurture. In today's bustling world, AI is simply a gimmick for the powers that be to distract us from allowing us to figure "it" out for ourselves. Our specialized human ability to …
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46. How much execution of planning is luck?
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This episode was recorded in late June 2024 when we sat down to nerd out about various philosophical topics, such as the creation of one's own fortune or misfortune, as well as the obvious and subtle differences between British humor and Canadian humor. Shout out to the creators of Monty Python, Norseman, and Baltimora. We hope you all have had a f…
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45. The costs of free resources
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This episode was recorded in mid-June 2024 when we had Benji back on to unpack what the credit bubble is doing to our work ethic. Our willingness to work for our prosperous future continues to be in question. Please enjoy! Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Ver…
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44. Balancing the physical with the spiritual
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This episode was recorded in the fall of 2023 where we sat down to nerd out on the (corresponding and conflicting) spiritual aspects of the physical and biological world. We touched on the story of Milarepa, and the theories of Alfred N. Whitehead's Process Philosophy and Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance. Don’t forget to comment, share, and sub…
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In this episode, we go deep into the mysteries of existence and the nature of why we are here to experience and learn something about ourselves and our world. The monetary system is breaking down, the global dollar standard is running its course and now is the time to prepare for the great reckoning. We continue to investigate this through the lens…
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42. A swarm story of "things work out"
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In this episode, we sat down on the back deck to discuss a recent turn of events that reinstilled our faith in the creative process. Things work out when we let them unfold in their own right. Providing just the right amount of intervention, and knowing when to step back and get out of the way, is a crucial part of the process coming to fruition. A…
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41. Hashgraph and heart-mindfulness
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This episode was recorded in mid-September 2023 when we sat down to discuss where things are headed these days with the new distributed ledger technology (Header Hashgraph) and what it can do to achieve levels of consensus no one had believed was possible. It puts timeless fables such as The Byzantine General's Problem into full perspective as we b…
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This episode was recorded in early September 2023, when we talked about the survivalist priority rooted in hope and proliferates to greater and greater necessities for life to thrive in the field that surrounds us and that which we are intimately woven into. We talked about Alfred North Whitehead's Process Philosophy (the philosophy of an organism)…
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39. Freedom and the watercourse way
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In this episode, we discuss how our freedoms are in jeopardy due to the financial system constantly trying to manipulate market dynamics. We have forgotten that our founders had forsaken the taxation and control tactics that the government of the time had ruled over the people. The people represent the real wealth in the economy, and prosperity com…
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38. Human services in a more-than-human world
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This episode was recorded in late January 2024, where we discussed a variety of topics related to fungal intelligence, the evolutionary aspects of mycelial networks and the fungal kingdom, and the symbiotic roles that plants play with human neural receptors, specifically the role cannabis plays on human memory receptors. Our co-host, ChrisP took th…
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37. Do free markets still exist?
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In this episode, we raised our glasses to toast cinco de mayo, in honor of a holiday that originated out of a culture that revolted against another culture's domination, or at least attempted to dominate...nice try French. Naturally, the conversation evolved into questioning the roles of government, and how money plays a role in a tyrannical takeov…
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36. Living with it, not on it
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In this episode, we assess the dilemmas of our time. And explore how we can use our abilities to have a sense of self-directed behavior modification when we recognize that we are headed toward a waterfall in a raft flowing toward it. Like the ability to live with the land instead of on it. We are solar beings at heart, we need to just let our heart…
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35. Remember who your friends are
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This episode was recorded in early September of 2023, where we discussed the dangers of the banking system, in that we have lost our way as a social species. Our primary survival mechanism has been to work together as a team, and not allow the bankers to dictate our means of survival for us. With the advent of the Federal Reserve, and the banking s…
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In this episode, we discuss some pretty heady implications of what dreams mean to our sense of consciousness in our journey through life. Like revitalizing the mind and domesticating it at the same time. But how do you stay in touch with the past and simultaneously keep the future in focus, while enjoying the present at the same time? Don’t forget …
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33. Commodity cycles and cool (or at least okay) movies to watch
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In this episode, we acknowledge the commoditized preferences leading to economic cycles that boom and bust over time. Gold is trending up, and banks are starting to fail on their balance sheets again... What does this tell us? And what can we do about it? Just remember, the creditworthiness of the fiat-based system is not for the people, but for th…
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32. Doing more with less in a fiat-based system
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This episode was recorded in late August of 2023 when we discussed the dangers of central banking and what we can do for ourselves when the day of reckoning comes along. This conversation was a tribute to consciously recognizing how we may be inadvertently self-sabotaging ourselves by trusting such a volatile and broken system of trade when we deva…
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31. Eclipse totality, turbulence, and trust
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This episode was recorded before and after the solar eclipse of 2024. We were lucky enough to be in the line of full totality, and it was an ineffable cosmic event. And we discussed both the beautiful eventualities of it and some of the dyer possibilities of it. It was a monumental celestial event that has helped us remember how profound it is to b…
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This episode was recorded in late February 2024, where we discussed a variety of topics surrounding empathy as a dynamic of our species and how our four-legged friends can help us improve our ability to possess and exercise it. Forming a bond with pets is a key component of this, and one of the reasons it's important for us to not tune out our conn…
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29. Questioning corporate agendas
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This episode was recorded just before Daylight Savings time, in early March of 2024. We discussed how to navigate challenging relationships with those who know where our buttons are, so to speak. And maintain a sense of dignity and empathy. As beings with souls, we have to work to retain our animal qualities; and question the corporate global takeo…
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28. Music memories and more with Tom
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In this episode, Tom joined us for the third time on the podcast to discuss a variety of topics, mainly about music. It was a blast catching up with a good friend, talking about good art. Please enjoy! Be sure to check out the Sessanta Tour with Primus, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer from April 2nd through May 4th 2024. It's going to be an ePic Par…
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27. Our St. Patty's Special on Spring Cycles
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In this St. Patty's day segment, we celebrated with some good eats, humbiont mead, and that dank 78 sauce. We discussed how the dominance of monotheism and monocultural practices creates a lack of appreciation for the biodiversity we need to not only survive but thrive in the turbulent times ahead. This dominant society model represents a short-sig…
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In this episode, we reflect on the relevance of adjusting to daylight savings time, the flow state, and how we spend our time wisely. By being the creatures of habit that we are, it's important to still make room for expecting things to make less and less sense. With having to navigate the times and the weather, we should be prepared to increase ou…
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25. Pruning the BS branches from our brains
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This episode was recorded in early February 2024, when we discussed matters related to the unrelenting AI monster making our decisions for us and the backlash that comes from a society that has tuned itself out. Didn't get too serious, we left room for laughs and discussed some flicks along the way, too. But at the same time, it's important to ackn…
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24. Philosophically exploring industrialization with Tom
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In this episode, we sit down with Tom to shoot the shit about life and the pitfalls of industrialization, including nefarious plots, the ups and downs of organized religions, and probably being wrong about the origin of apples. As well as the importance of moving past the fundamentalism of stories in our course of development, and gaining perspecti…
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23. Are we creatures of rhythmic evolution?
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This episode was recorded In mid-August 2023, where we talked about some of the nuances of augmentative/alternative communication support for people with developmental challenges in that department, and what this can teach us about ourselves, and how varying autism spectrum disorder can be from one individual to the next. We get into some fun topic…
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22. Tending to the soul's health
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This episode was recorded in late October of 2023. We talked about how living in the world means living with each other, and that every individual needs to find a way to summon their own unique capacity for work ethic, in a way that supports sustainable co-habitation. One of the ways we explore the possibilities for healing and resolution is throug…
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21. Before and after a TOOL show
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This episode was recorded as a two-parter. The first half was recorded on November 9th, 2023 before we attended a Tool concert in Manchester, NH. The second half of the episode was recorded on November 19th, a week after the show, when we debriefed how incredible it was, what the band's work has meant to us over the years, and what it means to have…
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20. Are we okay with being alone?
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This episode was recorded on the back deck during a breezy day in mid-August of 2023. We discussed a wide range of topics from chronic back pain, to being mired as a species in the constant loops of virtue-signaling, to exploring a means of how to play the game of life with confidence. "Offense wins games, defense wins championships" as the saying …
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In this episode, we interviewed ChrisP's mom, Kumari Patricia about her work and practice. Nothing weird. Just a good old-fashioned conversation with an elder who knows some shit. Kumari Patricia is a painter, and the author of Manifestation of Self Within Place: A Love Story in Pictures. You can follow her on Instagram @kumaripatricia_coaching. An…
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In this episode, we discuss how muscle memory differs from cellular memory, such as leaving one’s valuables on top of their car. We also discuss heart intelligence, morphogenesis, heart transplants, memory transference, the marshmallow test, self-reliance, and simulation theory. We would like to thank Benjamin Hoff for his brilliant book, The Tao o…
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In this episode, we discuss the follies of governments in general and attempt to find our sovereignty. It starts with redefining a sense of control itself. We hope you enjoy it. Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region. For a list of those retailers pl…
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16. Laughter, friendship, and high voltage
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This episode was recorded in mid-August of 2023. We talked about the different forms of electricity and its circulatory delivery system and scale...during a thunderstorm, no less. Being surrounded by a storm, we appreciated just how powerful this realm is, and how it can come down at any time. This is humbling to know, and humiliating to think we a…
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15. Heads out of the sand and popping echo-chambers
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This episode was recorded in early August of 2023 when we were still working out the audio kinks for quality sound. (Apologies for the poor sound quality.) Please enjoy this conversation about the extremism of the anti-racism movement and the virtue-signalist mentality that comes with it, our lack of true meritocracy, and how this consumes society.…
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14. Maintain equilibrium and tame the beast within
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In this episode, we started by paying tribute to the great Chris Farley, one of our favorite comedic actors of our generation. We miss you, Farley! R.I.P.... We discussed ways to maintain equilibrium and how important it is to acknowledge the monsters that live inside us, how to tame them, and take responsibility for neglecting to do so. "Fuck arou…
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In this episode, we started the year off in a relatively heavy manner, topically speaking. We discussed strange magnetic phenomena on opposing southern and northern hemispheres and somehow ended up talking about how the field we are part of is listening to what we have to say. Sometimes it pays to listen to how those reverberations come back around…
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12. Closing thoughts of 2023
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In this episode, we reflected on some takeaways from the last year of nonsense, including our questionable agricultural practices in the United States, our inability to self-reflect on our mistakes, and our egregious obsessions with war that have accumulated from years past. We went down the fungal rabbit hole, talking about how magical the mycelia…
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11. Holiday bread and circuses pt.2
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In this episode, we explored new ways to celebrate the holiday season, as a means of retaining what sanity we have left to be present with our loved ones and get in touch with what the holidays are truly all about. Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont reg…
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10. Holiday bread and circuses pt.1
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In this episode, we dove into some reflections on our Thanksgiving holiday and the holiday season to come. Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region. For a list of those retailers please follow and DM us on Instagram @harmonic_homesteading. And be sure …
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9. Encounters with a black bear
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This episode was recorded in early July 2023, which is when we reflected on some recent adversity that ChrisP experienced with a black bear. Nature can be brutal, and we should all remember not to hang our hat on any artificial plans we may have - cause unfortunately Nature doesn't care about our silly plans. Rather than being a hubris prick, too c…
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8. Navigating food laws and corporate control
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This episode was recorded on July 9th, 2023 when we sat down with our good friend, Tom to discuss some topics related to food systems, hunting, and self-reliance. Some of the big takeaways from this episode revolved around how good art, in whatever medium, is the remedy to get back in touch with the biological world we are entangled with. And stand…
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This episode was recorded in late June of 2023, and we talked about some of the parallel dynamics of economic forces and energetic ecosystems. Where equilibrium is sought across environments and kingdoms of life. Within this intersection of ideas, we speculate on how this applies to our true potential to confront our tendency to conform and learn h…
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6. An asset for skill building and self-reliance
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This episode was recorded in mid-June of 2023. Benji joined us for another opportunity to reflect on practical skill-building, the economy of bartering, and what we can do for ourselves during our time of extremes - from a world-based monetary system to weather manipulation and climate change. Now is the time to join hands and work together to recl…
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Bread and Circuses: Episode 212
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Crow engages in a lot of heavy breathing this episode. Is it because he is so dedicated to exercise that he is co-hosting while astride his wife's Peloton? Is he just so damn excited to be back with Rooster after an unexpected hiatus? Or is he just all up in the microphone's business with the gain turned up a tad too high? Astute listeners may be a…
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5. Our First St. Patty’s Day Special
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In this episode, we chillaxed on the front porch enjoying an array of goodies, including pigs in a blanket with that dank 78 Spicy Ketchup, and Humbiont Mead of course. We touched on some cool topics, from our hidden histories to the ethical qualities of accounting and business, and met some friendly neighbors and their lovely pooches along the way…
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4. Skill building and future technological hurdles
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In this episode, Benji joined us to discuss life growing up, skill building, the downward trends that we're facing through certain technological challenges, or the possibility that this all might be a simulation...And how we don't need to eat bugs if we don't want to...(pardon the intermittent buzzy background noise). Don’t forget to comment, share…
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3. The art of sport, the information matrix, and conflicts with mothers
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In this episode, we cover a lot of ground on digital forces such as Hashraph, digital currency, the DLT, and other artificial intelligence prospects. In a world dominated by the information age, the question inevitably becomes, is the information we're consuming an asset or a liability? Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont bevera…
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2.Our favorite comedians and types of comedy
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In this episode, we unpack an unstructured rundown of our favorite comedians and the different types of comedy that have influenced and nurtured us. What's your favorite kind of comedic material? Who and why? Don’t forget to comment, share, and subscribe! Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region. F…
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1. Future possibilities and why not to fear them
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In this episode, we discuss a variety of topics, including therapy, thought as a politically divisive weapon, spiritual warfare, China as a petri dish, as well as social media versus real skills; joy being one of them. Disclaimer: Don’t use DMT on a roof, or while operating strange machinery (which includes vehicular devices). Also please do not at…
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