Grandpa's Travelogue

Grandpa’s Travelogue #40 Shane Dodson

Gyrotron Geothermal energy & the lava you thin crust surf on!! Right below our feet is all the energy we'll ever need.. at 6-8 feet down is at least enuff to keep the temperature in your living room steady. Shane Dodson is a certified heating/cooling man who knows his heat pumps, loops, & evaporators. cool stuff! or warm.. depending on the season! lol.

Grandpa’s Travelogue #39 Alex Heffner

Organizational principals of humanity.. It's always been a conundrum. Alex Heffner jumps on to talk from a well read position of the many types of experimental societies which would be a lot of fun to test out! We all get so incredibly locked into the narrative of this one in a million, drop in the bucket, resource management system that we forget there are millions of others that we have all the time in the world to try out! Let's build some worlds!!

Grandpa’s Travelogue #38 Bella Burdella

Lighthearted songwriters talk about the craft of creating songs. Bella Burdella who is famous for her amazing voice & soulful lyrics is a powerhouse of deep philosophy as well. If you'd like to get your mind off the world for a moment & onto more enlightening concepts, this is your next stop on Grandpa's Travelogue!!

Grandpa’s Travelogue #37 Josh Holmes

Blockchain, ai, quantum computing, teleportation, what more do you want from a podcast with Josh Holmes!? Great conversation going into depths about crypto, encryption, web 3.0 decentralization, the crossroads of sci-fi & reality.

Grandpa’s Travelogue #36 Ryan Ruegg

"Don't shoot the piano player" in Leadville Colorado, Oliver Wilde, the highest city in America & a local legend musician Ryan Ruegg! How does music effect society? It's a very curious operation.. Music is science. Music is mathematical. Music is history. Music is a foreign language. Music is Physical Education. Music develops insight & demands research. Music is all of these things, but most of all music is life.

Grandpa’s Travelogue #35 Tom Zocolo

Water conservation, currency, crypto, WWII, historical timelines, Tom Zocolo is along for the ride of point & click conversation which is the hallmark of the travelogue experience! We're both musicians at heart so it's fun to relate musical structures to generalize the manifold world at large & even at a metaphysical level this podcast slaps.. It's a journey of hypotheses to which we speak truth to fiction.. which is an easier box to point fingers at right? if we can compartmentalize or create a fictional narrative for a space.. a Space we can make analogous examples in that function amazing in those thought experiments. Truly it's no difference then how we construct our society writ large. Cheers!

Grandpa’s Travelogue #34 Michael Scelsi

Rock climbing, jack of all trades vs. specialization, colorado vs. flordia, Michael Scelsi is a great guy to hang out with & talk about all the light hearted ideas.  the kind of ideas that don't need a marketplace of ideas to talk about them.  ideas that aren't for sale.

Grandpa’s Travelogue #33 Andrew Schaffer

Film, sports announcers, horror movie scripts are all on the chopping block as me & my old friend Andrew Schaffer deep dive into the moving art medium while simultaneously being filmed doing so!! lol.

Grandpa’s Travelogue#32 Sarah Steel (Hypnotism)

Hypnotism is a topic that grabs the subconscious mind & asks kindly to see the "self" behind the curtain, so to speak. Sarah Steel has provided context in ways which I'd never heard of before. Confrontation with one's self can be the most productive moments in one's life. To streamline & rid one's self of confusion can allow a person to accomplish more in one year then all previous lifetimes combined. Depending on what exactly you think needs to be "accomplished".. It's important to remember than social constructs can do damage, parents can do damage, you're reaction to unsurmountable odds can cause trauma, relationships can cause stress, work that is meaningless & underpaid can project a feeling of self worthlessness. It is very important to take a strict catalogue of self reflection in addition to therapy & hypnotism.

Grandpa’s Travelogue #31 Ryan Gillespie

E Bikes. If you ever rode an electric bicycle you know you'll smile a big grin at least once. I visited Ryan Gillespie in Winston Salem North Carolina the other day to discuss the many variations of transportation & ramifications for society that e bikes will provide. It's a really interesting talk. Behind us in the shot are a bunch of Organic Transit electric bikes in different states of disrepair. As you'll find out on this podcast e bikes are slowly gaining traction as we figure out the best designs & as new tech develops to regulate batteries. The field could change rapidly if a new light weight battery develops in the near future! But it the meantime, they're still a blast to ride! and a real solution for transportation!