The Banana Bread and Circus Republic Podcast

50. To react or not to react to societal challenges?

In this episode, we discussed various topics about dealing with life and relationship challenges. How well can we simplify our work and our energy allocation to optimize our bandwidth, creating a tolerance for others and broadening our patience? It's up to us to seek harmony within ourselves and our circumstances. Or don't; and see how far that gets you. We also discussed how these bandwidth optimizers can provide a deeper sense of how we farm our lands, and why this matters for creating balance in our lives. Please enjoy our 50th episode!
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ChrisP & Tono
  

49. Practical Cannibalism and “exceptional, my ass!”

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 from how they recover from a loss. Please enjoy!
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And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono

48. Backups for the backups

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 soul's work. Life is music. We should appreciate our ability to tune into what the melodies are orchestrating. Please enjoy!
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Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region, including The Beverage Warehouse (The Bevi), Crossroads, The Local, Morrisville Beverage (MoBev), Coburn's general store, Commodities, and The Stowe Public House. Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono

47. Freedom from the artificial noise

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 attune to each other is meant to unite our talents as individuals and harmonize as a cohesive whole, so we can override the futility of the system we currently live in; and possibly create and build a better one. Please enjoy!
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Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region, including The Beverage Warehouse (The Bevi), Crossroads, The Local, Morrisville Beverage (MoBev), Coburn's general store, Commodities, and The Stowe Public House. Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
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And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono
 

46. How much execution of planning is luck?

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 fun summer! Happy Fall! (Except you. you know YOU are..)
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Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
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ChrisP & Tono
 

45. The costs of free resources

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!
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Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono
 

44. Balancing the physical with the spiritual

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. 
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Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono
 
 

43. Speculating reality

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 of monetary history, defining the true meaning of capitalism, and how money is entangled with individual freedom.
We vote with our dollar. Voting for sound money represents personal prosperity. When we come to terms with the reality at hand we can see clearly how the system as a whole is designed to enslave the working class and transfer all the wealth we work to create to those who own the system.  We invite everyone to research what's happening for themselves and make their own choices with the hand they've been dealt so we can build a much better system that puts the con artists out of business.  
Big shout out and thanks to Mike Maloney for his Hidden Secrets of Money series on YouTube. Check that out! His Episode 3: From Dollar Crises to Golden Opportunity features Jim Rickards, a best-selling author of numerous books including, The New Case For Gold. Thank you Jim and Mike for all your hard work educating the public about what's just around the corner for the world monetary system. Reality is not as dandy as people wish to believe. 
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Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region, including The Beverage Warehouse, Crossroads, Morrisville Beverage (MoBev), and The Stowe Public House. 
Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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Cheers!
ChrisP & Tono

42. A swarm story of "things work out"

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. As humans, it isn't easy to work with natural forces and allow Nature to take its course, especially when we think we are in charge of the outcome all the time. So we feel it's necessary to celebrate humility as a human trait that knows how important it is to take action as well as to take non-action because Nature is far smarter than we are whether we realize it or not.
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Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to get a copy of Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
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ChrisP & Tono

41. Hashgraph and heart-mindfulness

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 begin to wake up and realize what our monetary system (and the internet itself) is in its truest nature: a network of agreements in the form of interactions. 
What this technology is capable of can either enslave us or liberate us to the highest degrees of individual sovereignty and prosperity, if only we could synchronize our heads with our hearts and learn how to laugh a time or two, remembering that at heart we are spiritual beings first and everything else second. We hope you enjoy this episode. Cheer folks! 
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Humbiont beverages can be purchased at select retailers local to the central Vermont region, including The Beverage Warehouse, Crossroads, Morrisville Beverage (MoBev), and The Stowe Public House. 
Be sure to check out our website https://www.humbiont.com/
Feel free to follow us on Instagram @humbiontfermentary and @harmonic_homesteading. 
And be sure to check out Cognitive Liberty wherever books are sold!
Thank you for listening and for all your support!
ChrisP & Tono