EP 245: A Political Discussion About the Health Crisis, Foreign Wars, the Future of Democracy, and More | ft. Kaizen Asiedu

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Kaizen Asiedu is a Harvard graduate in philosophy, an Emmy winner, and a life coach. We talked about our political backgrounds and values, what happened to RFK Jr, the health crisis in the US, foreign wars, how the coming election could affect the future of democracy, mainstream media, censorship and free speech, abortion, the steel man case for Kamala and Trump, and much more.

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0:00.0	feeling ready any questions any questions for me before we dive in uh no i guess just uh to help
0:08.9	you feel safer with this because i recognize that you know this is you taking a leap both with
0:14.6	your podcast um shifting into talking about topics that are not strictly climbing related and also with
0:20.6	inviting me on who's not a climber. So first, I just appreciate the trust. I also want to let you know, I'm totally unattached. I'm here to just be in support and help get the message out. So if after this, you're like, you know what? This is not right for me. That's totally totally fine no hard feelings um i want you to feel like
0:38.4	totally free to like treat this as an experiment so i appreciate that man yeah that's that's very
0:43.3	kind of you to give me your time and yeah that does make me feel great i appreciate that
0:48.5	well man well man i'm honored to have you here and uh yeah like you just said this is a unique conversation for a number of reasons. You're not a climber. And we're going to get political today. I don't normally get political on the show, at least not overtly. People accuse me of being political sometimes. But that's because everything's been politicized. But that's not the only thing that makes you unique. I have never had an Emmy
1:13.2	winner on my podcast before. I saw that in your bio and I just was very curious. I haven't looked
1:18.8	into it on purpose because I was curious. I wanted to ask you myself, tell me about being an Emmy
1:24.8	winner. What are you an Emmy winner for? Yeah. Well, not only have you never had an Emmy winner, I bet you've never had an Emmy winner? What are you an Emmy winner for? Yeah. Well, not only have you never
1:29.4	had an Emmy winner, I bet you've never had an Emmy winner for video games.
1:32.8	Yeah. All right. Yeah, so I, before what I do right right right now, which is life
1:41.8	coaching and helping people become more empowered and courageous
1:45.0	is I used to work in the video game industry.
1:48.3	Specifically, I worked at a company called Riot Games to make a game called League of Legends,
1:53.0	which I was obsessed with before I actually started working there,
1:57.1	continue to be obsessed with it while I was working there too.
1:59.8	And I worked on the e-sports team.
2:02.1	So for those of your listeners who don't know,
2:04.1	e-sports is professional competitive gaming.
2:06.9	And in the time that I was there,
2:08.8	it went from this niche thing to this gigantic phenomenon.
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