Episode 5: “Where Does It Come From? Where Is it Going To?”

An audio exploration of some profound, irreverent, unforgettable and unforgivable events of 2023 that continue to forcibly shape the psychic landscape of ’24 and beyond. Fragments of music by some of the artists we lost last year have been interwoven throughout this episode to pay tribute to their brilliance and invite their spiritual energy to invigorate and enrich the context of the information within.

Topics included:

  • Buddhist meditation advice form Mary Finnigan from the Off The Record: David Bowie Podcast

  • My dad retelling his famous tastycake/dog turd story

  • Train song collage into news coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment

  • News coverage of Fukushima radioactive wastewater release into the Pacific

  • Far East Nuclear Net Zero goals

  • Nuclear Fusion breakthroughs

  • US expands nuclear weapons arsenal

  • Barbie/Oppenheimer films

  • Pro Nuke “influencer” Madi Hilly on the Decouple Podcast

  • Radiation leak cover up in Minnesota

  • Trump legal woes

Music fragments included from artists who passed in 2023:

David Crosby, Damo Suzuki, Tina Turner, Wayne Kramer, Sinead O’ Connor, Andy Rourke, Tom Verlaine, Jamie Reid, Robbie Robertson

Andrew Hurst