On Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin, we seek to find answers to some of life's most profound and deeply complex questions:
How do we understand ourselves, each other, and the world we live in?
What does it mean to be human in the modern age?
What's worth knowing?
A task like this requires us to look through many lenses, such as:
• Mental Health, Addiction, and Relationships
• Education, Politics, and Social Issues
• Personal Growth, Success, and Entrepreneurship
• Science, Technology, and Psychedelics
• Art, Philosophy, and Wisdom
Buckle up and prepare for an expansive and fun ride into the Unapologetically Human condition!
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In this episode, I share my conversation with Canadian political commentator and content creator, Liam DeBoer.
Liam creates high quality content featuring razor sharp commentary, analysis, and critiques of political and social issues, public policy, and corporate and government corruption in all of its manifestations.
• Liam's work championing heroes, roasting villains, and trying to figure out what makes us one or the other
• How everything became hyper-politicized in the lead up to the 2016 election of Donald Trump
• My political awakening during the 2008/2009 global financial collapse
• How governments are the real enemy of the average person because they are utterly corrupt and controlled by corporations for the benefit of the rich and powerful, as well as special interest groups, rather than normal people
• The reasons why the ever-increasing growth of government and consolidation of power is bad for society
• Regulatory capture and the revolving door between government and the corporations and industries they are supposed to regulate
• How governments use propaganda to manipulate their populations to believe certain narratives and act in ways that are beneficial to those in power rather than in their own interests
• Naive utopian idealism vs understanding human nature, the history of our species, and political and economic systems
• How the current far-left political activism in Western nations mirrors the cultural revolution in communist China, which led to the murder of millions of people
• How ideology is like a mind virus that parasitizes people and how it's actually the ideas that have people rather than people having the ideas
• How Marxism and Communism has shifted its ideology from primarily economic and class issues to critiques around identity politics
• The necessity of unplugging from the news, social media, and being online in order to take care of yourself
• How the powerful always go after the intellectuals and dissidents who try to warn everyone what's going on, what those in power are actually doing vs what they lead you to believe with their propaganda, and where it's headed
• Mattias Desmet's analyses of Mass Formation Psychosis and the psychology of totalitarianism
• Douglas Murray and Uncancelled History
• Psychologist Jordan Peterson
Books: • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl • Confessions of An Economic Hitman by John Perkins • The White Pill by Michael Malice • The Parasitic Mind by Dr. Gad Saad • Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning • Maps of Meaning by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Great movies about the global financial collapse: • The Big Short • Margin Call
Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.
023 - The Truthful Therapist with Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 • Duration 02:00:23
In this episode, I share my conversation with Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, aka, The Truthful Therapist.
Pamela has become well-known in recent years for pushing back against the claims of gender ideology and so-called "gender-affirming" medicine. In her work and advocacy to protect those struggling with gender dysphoria and distress, she leans into what the scientific evidence does and does not say. Pamela has been featured in multiple documentaries on the subject and has testified both for and against many bills across the US related to gender medicine.
Please reach out with feedback/comments, or questions and to let me know what you'd like to hear or learn more about!
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022 - An Absolute Clusterfuck with Vijay Maharaj
Sunday, February 11, 2024 • Duration 02:37:28
In this episode, I share my conversation with friend and fellow artist, Vijay Maharaj, who I met during some leadership trainings we both did several years ago.
We talk about many things going on in our society and our world today—circa 07/22/23 when this conversation was recorded—and the absolute clusterfuck of it all.
• How I lost the recording of our previous conversation
• The rise and fall of empires through history, cycles of stability and integration and instability and disintegration
• Listening to our inner voice, setting boundaries, and telling people to fuck off
021 - Just Sayin' It with Missy Morris
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 • Duration 02:39:40
In this episode, I share my conversation with a behavioural analyst who's been working with autistic patients for over a decade, Missy Morris.
Missy is also the host of the podcast, Just Sayin' It, in which she shares deeply personal stories about her life, her beliefs, what she sees going on in the world that not enough people are speaking up about, using her voice to follow her divine path, and many other topics.
We talk about the timeless human experience of good vs evil and how it relates to our world today, being authentic and true to yourself, using your voice, and finding your people.
020 - The Stories, Identities, and Values That Orient Us with Andrew Choflet
Tuesday, July 4, 2023 • Duration 03:16:40
In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrew Choflet, about how our beliefs, values, and identities inform the stories we tell about ourselves, each other, and the world, and orient how we show up in all areas of life.
• The consequences of the loss of religion and spirituality in Western society, and the need for a unifying belief system
• The conflict between and compatibility of scientific thought and religious beliefs, and figuring out what we actually believe ourselves on our own terms
019 - Our Digital Soul with Bob Hutchins
Monday, May 22, 2023 • Duration 01:22:41
In this episode, I share a conversation with digital marketing exec. and behavioral and organizational psychologist, Bob Hutchins, about his new book, Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma, and a Path Toward Recovery, which he co-authored with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Jenny Black.
• How modern media and tech are making us addicted, traumatizing us, and a pathway to healing from it
• Why we need to stop viewing our "phones" as simple tools and recognize the true power they represent, both good and bad
018 - What Makes Us Human with Iain S. Thomas
Friday, April 21, 2023 • Duration 01:05:37
In this episode, I share a conversation with world-renowned poet and author, Iain S. Thomas, about his recently released book, What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions, co-authored with technologist and philosopher, Jasmine Wang, and GPT-3 (before it was released to the public).
• How they went about training GPT-3 to generate the profound questions and answers contained in this book
• Being on the brink of a new creative revolution on par with the invention of language
• Former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine's, claims that Google has already developed a sentient AI (AGI)
017 - Staying Aligned with Our Values Through Life's Adversity with David Denys
Thursday, April 13, 2023 • Duration 02:14:27
In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, David, a mental health professional, musician, and one of the most genuinely caring and insightful people I know.
• David's Christian upbringing and later conversion to Islam, including some of his favourite stories from the Koran
• Examining your life's trajectory, including some of the most important questions in doing so, and standing up for what you believe in against the violent mob
• Living in a post-secular world and how people are adopting new religious-like ideologies and pseudo-religious belief systems
016 - Challenging + Transformational Times with Andrei Arkhanguelski
Friday, January 20, 2023 • Duration 02:05:16
In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrei, a Russian immigrant who studied political science at the University of Toronto.
Andrei and I have connected over the past few years on a number of shared concerns, including the erosion of social norms and institutions in our societies, as well as the breakdown in so many people's ability to establish common ground in communicating with one another, particularly those they disagree with, and the dangers these issues pose to all of us and our democracy.
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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode:
• The story of how Andrei was let go from 2 volunteer roles coaching entrepreneurs because a stranger didn't like a comment he made on Instagram, and proceeded to hunt him down to get him fired
• An article Andrei wrote after the murder of George Floyd about (which sealed his fate in the aforementioned witchhunt)
015 - Open Brothers with Colin Cummings
Saturday, November 12, 2022 • Duration 02:17:19
In this episode, I share a deep and wide-ranging conversation with my friend, and men's coach, Colin Cummings.
Please reach out with feedback/comments, questions, and to let me know what you'd like to hear or learn more about!
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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode:
• The importance of community
• Navigating identity changes, being true to ourselves, and becoming secure in who you are
• Cultivating a mindset of gratitude
• The policing of masculinity on men by other men
• My experiences coming out as bisexual to my family and friends, and how this relates to common challenges people face outside of anything to do with sexuality, such as coming out of the "God closet"
• The need to heal the divide between science and religion, the importance of having things that are sacred, and how we are now living in a post-secular world
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Other things mentioned/to check out:
• Stoic philosophy (such as from best-selling author, )
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• Pamela's background and the issues in the counselling profession, particularly when it comes to gender ideology and the legislated demands to unquestioningly "affirm" a patient's new identity
• Activist claims about trans suicides vs reality
• Progressive politics on several topics, how people have good intentions, where they go wrong, and how it leads to bad/counterproductive policies
• How many of the challenges being positioned as unique to the trans community are, in fact, mostly normal human challenges many people struggle with, especially during puberty, trying to find/create your identity, and becoming an adult
• How there are many potential motivations influencing people to adopt a trans identity vs the simplistic narratives being pushed
• The multi-billion dollar industry interests pushing and financing this movement, and how progressive activists are unable or unwilling to acknowledge the complexity of these issues
• The social clout of reinforcing victim identities
• Internal Family Systems and how many useful concepts have been twisted to the point of being pathological
• The WPATH Files, which show through leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that the narratives and interventions for gender medicine are not scientific, not medicine, nor backed by evidence. They also show that many practitioners know that they are not getting proper informed consent from patients or their parents and know that they are causing great harms to them
Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.
• The trial of Socrates
• The horrific massacres that happened in the 20th century and the ensuing (and continuing/escalating) standoff of mutually assured destruction
• How deeply people have been traumatized and manipulated with fear and propaganda these past few years
• The importance of having people in your life who you can have conversations with where you disagree and not have it threaten the friendship
• The problems with text-based communication, and how the filters we listen through affect how we perceive communication
• The importance of filling your cup up first and stopping people pleasing
• The need for us to find ways to live with each other despite our differences and to actually cultivate tolerance
• The controversy surrounding Jordan Peterson, compelled speech, what he and his actual philosophies are about, and how we cannot have free societies without free speech
• The history of psychological epidemics and how they disproportionately affect women due to biological and psychological vulnerabilities
• The systematic reviews done and stepping back from the so-called "affirmative model" of gender medicine by Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the UK due to the poor quality of evidence for its efficacy and clear evidence for its dangers and long term repercussions, especially related to minors
• How people get wrapped up into ideologies because they attach their own identity to a set of beliefs and ideas leading people to attack and demonize those who disagree with them
(I forgot to mention the increase in autism from 1 in 10,000 in 1970 to 1 in 36 today. If it's not vaccines, then we've got to have discussions to figure out what has caused this insane increase.)
• How Missy has pushed through the fear of potential social and professional repercussions to speak out in the way that she is
• How differently people think about the exact same subject simply because of tuning into different sources of information cause them to live in different realities
• The mass manipulation of people causing them to turn on each other. (former director of the CIA in 1981, William J. Casey, once said, "We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ...something to think about.)
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Other things mentioned/to check out:
• Dr. Vinay Prasad's The Free Press article about what RFK Jr. got right and wrong in his conversation with Joe Rogan
• Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago
• The Tuskegee Experiments and Unit 731
• After Skool's video on how individuals and societies spiral out of control into a state of Mass Psychosis
• Matias Desmet and Hannah Arendt's work about the history and psychology of authoritarianism and totalitarianism
• Autistic Letterboarding
• Ed Dowd's research on the excess deaths and massive amounts of disabilities that all signs are pointing to being caused by the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
• The lack of empathy in those misinterpreting and misrepresenting people they disagree with, and the importance of finding common ground to move conversations forward
• The cultural baggage around religious language and stories vs modernity and secularism
• How the use of story and myth to pass down knowledge is what makes us human
• My trip to Miami to see a modern-day prophet, Dr. Lovy Elias, and my Messiah complex
• How humanity is a superorganism
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Other things mentioned/to check out:
• Determine your own hierarchy of values with the help of Dr. John Demartini
• Actualized.org's amazingly in-depth podcast episodes, What is God? Part 1: A No Bullshit Explanation for Smart People and Part 2: Clear Answers to 70+ Commonly Asked Questions
• The Social Dilemma on Netflix / Tristan Harris' work educating about the issues with tech addiction and online media driving polarization and conflict in our societies
Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.
• Being a slave to part of yourself it seems like you can't control, the differences between the prefrontal cortex and the brain stem, and how important it is to learn to have conversations between them
• Saying you believe in God, but not having a relationship with God
• That we are spiritual beings but that we try to feed our spiritual needs through physical means and how it fails us
