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#29 Dr. Tro Kalayjian
On this episode, Jake and Maren interview Dr. Tro Kalayjian and talk about his weight loss journey as a medical doctor and discovering the efficacy of low-carb animal-based diet. We talk about the importance of animal foods in diet, the fallacy of “calories in, calories out”, the true culprit of obesity and diabetes - processed foods with high amounts of sugar and vegetable oils, and why the medical industry so often fails at helping people lose weight.
#26 Dr. Mordecai Ogada (Part 2)
On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we share our second interview with Dr. Mordecai Ogada which we obtained during the Our Land, Our Nature Congress in Marseille, France. we go deep into speculating about the more nefarious side of the global climate change narrative, including the obsession with the fertility of African women, the prospect of protected areas being refuges for elites, the establishment of decentralized colonies headed by colonizing NGOs, and conservation being a smoke screen for extraction and industry.
#24 Will Falk
On this episode of “Death in The Garden” we interview biophilic author and attorney, Will Falk. Will explains the details of his case against Lithium Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the ecological and cultural devastation that will occur if this mine is given clearance to be created, the challenges of being attacked by both environmentalists and capitalists, the importance of direct action, the problem of civilization, a phenomenon called “shifting baseline syndrome”, and we end by discussing the true costs of defending the Earth, and the price we may have to be willing to pay.
#22 Death with Dignity
UPDATE: Jake and Maren talk more about being robbed in Ecuador, the Ancestral Health Symposium that we attended in Los Angeles, the protest against the proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, the Our Land, Our Nature counter-congress to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in France, our time at Fjällbete in Sweden, and deeply personal encounters with death and grief that have punctuated the last month, which have informed the rest of our lives.
#13 Unpacking Cultural Memes About The World
On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren talk about the cultural memes and mythologies that permeate every aspect of modern life. Drawing inspiration from Ishmael and The Invisibility of Success by Daniel Quinn, we discuss the narratives and fallacies that have driven our culture to devour planet Earth, and we challenge our audience to confront the mythologies that dominate our world views.