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🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 180 minutes
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Don is one of the most well-traveled, thoughtful, talented men I've met in a long time. Join us for a few beers as we talk about his time in the Marines, what it's like to sleep on a cot hanging thousands of feet above the ground, the plight of orphans around the world, and the challenges of photographing beautiful women.
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0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
0:02.3 | anov啊 |
0:27.2 | Yeah, hi, good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. What other options are there? I've been |
0:38.3 | sitting here all day organizing research for this book. I've been talking about forever. |
0:46.0 | And as much as I bitch and complain about it, I have to admit I get a chuckle every once |
0:50.9 | and a while going through these papers and the stuff because it's such a privilege to work |
0:57.7 | on things that interest you and especially when your interests are all over the fucking |
1:02.6 | place, the way in mind are. So I just read, I just got a pile of papers here. And these |
1:07.9 | are things I'm organizing. This one's called Myths about Hunter Gatherers, Nomadic Forage |
1:12.9 | or War and Peace. Here we have children educate themselves, the wisdom of hunter gatherers. |
1:19.8 | Why has human progress ground to a halt? Poverty affects genetics. Play as a foundation for |
1:29.6 | hunter gatherer or social existence. This is about old people dying in hospitals. Then |
1:40.6 | we have child rearing practices of distant ancestors, foster morality and compassion |
1:46.6 | in kids. And then we have Hutsa fecal transplant. What happened the day I replaced 99% of the |
1:56.0 | genes in my body with those of a hunter gatherer. And then we have a guaranteed basic income. |
2:02.5 | What if everybody didn't have to work to get paid? How the political system affects happiness |
2:08.4 | and more on basic income. Here's something on hearing voices and how different societies |
2:14.9 | around the world frame the hearing of voices. Interesting point that I read in that article |
2:22.9 | was that even deaf people hear voices in their heads. That's kind of cool. Welcome to another |
2:31.0 | edition of Tangentially Speaking. I feel like I'm barging into your day so maybe you could |
2:36.9 | barge into mine. That's what's going on over here. This episode is with a guy named Don Mira. |
2:43.6 | It's one of those serendipitous episodes that I love bringing you so much because it's, I don't |
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