Category: TBFY Blog
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Episode 70 – Lucky Enough To Be Vaccinated (Be The Wet Wood)
The notes for this episode will be somewhat short as a lot of what was covered was my personal thoughts on the state of COVID-19 vaccinations. Essentially the message being the vaccines are working and go get vaccinated. The inspiration for the episode however was some of the, in my mind, bad coverage of vaccines…
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Episode 60 – Vaccines, Billionaire Astronauts, Male Pregnancy
Just a few notes on this episode as it was mostly opinion based. Touching on the vaccine hesitancy stuff. There is already a lot written about this but I wanted to link to an article that attempts to get across the message we felt was missing. Essentially that vaccines are the best thing we can…
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Episode 68 – Ivermectin, Global Conspiracy? Probably Not
Let me begin by reiterating that this episode was less about whether ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID and was instead meant to address the hyperbolic claims surrounding this drug. Those claims are that ivermectin is a miracle worker when it comes to prevent illness and death from COVID-19 and to a lesser extent…
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Episode 67-Freaky Research and Questions from the Mail Feed
Episode 66 was kind of all over the map. I touched on several bits of weird research that all have ethical concerns and answered a listener question about psychedelic therapy. First up was the discussion on brain organoids that mimic infant brain development. The story cited was from FierceBiotech.com and can be found here. Other…
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Episode 66 – Leaky Labs, Lockdowns and Revived Ebola
I’ve been having a lot of conversations about both the lab leak and are lockdowns harmful questions recently and also found some interesting new takes on both, meaning we had enough for a pod. Plus there was some fascinating new Ebola news that needed to be shared. Here are the references and some thoughts on…
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Episode 65 – Corona Variants, Ebola and Crap Fueled Rockets
Well, we took a short break mostly because Brad and his wife had a baby!! Thanks to everyone who reached out with congratulations. While we were on this break, we received a listener question via Instagram regarding the new coronavirus variants. In short, the listener was wondering if aggressive travel restrictions might in fact create…
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Episode 63 – Coronavirus mRNA Vaccines Real Talk
If you don’t want to read the whole post, scroll directly to the bottom for all the references. I was hearing questions and concerns from some listeners, friends and family about the new coronavirus vaccines and mRNA vaccines in general. These were all valid too. It’s important that we can chat about this stuff and…
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Episode 61-We Aren’t Culling Humans…Yet
I clearly missed the opportunity at the obvious Shakespeare quote for this episode as there are 15 million things rotten in the state of Denmark. They are of course mink carcasses In this episode we talked about the new strain of coronavirus that appeared in Danish mink, spread to humans, leading to the culling of…
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Episode 60-Corona Vaccines, Big Pharma and DIY’ers
The goals of this episode were to talk about why a vaccine trial may be halted, as one of the big one’s recently was, highlight why it is important to adhere to these protocols (ahem, Russia, China) and to explain a bit about the somewhat new technology being used in the COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners. Oh,…
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Episode 59-Emerging from the Internet Chrysalis
Episode 59-Emerging from the Internet Chrysalis When I suggested to the boys we talk cyborgs it was because of two stories that crossed my desk. The one about hacking into biological communication networks and the new organic polymer coatings for neural implants that reduce interference in the signal. The idea of tapping more directly…