And the The one and only Douglas Rushkoff joins us this week. The man the legend himself, how are you sir? I'm okay a lot of life transitioning different things going on and

this is a moment I feel like we're we're living through some crack in the cosmic egg moment some heightened novelty thing over the lip of the strange attractor into the whatever this maelstrom is but I'm actually kind of okay with it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one's relationship, it's very Bob Wilson I suppose, but one's relationship to novelty at the moment is you're aware of how you feel about newness right now.

It's like, does this upset me? Does this excite me in what percentage does it in either direction I suppose?

Right and I realize just how much I am responsible for my experience of what's happening.

You know?

It's a problem with magic,

which one?

Am I the cynic?

Am I the spiritualist?

Am I the, you know, the psychedelic? Am I the writer?

Who's gonna do this one?

Yeah. In my healing modality we do a lot of parts work and and parts work is definitely the like the modality for this moment for that reason it's like all right who's who's at the wheel

Who's at the wheel today where are we going I've just read this guy's book it's the internal family yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah is that what you're talking about with parts yeah it's it's it's like it

it changed a whole lot for me that that I realize there's this seven year old

that I've been neglecting for 50 years, you know, you know, and boy, boy, it's sure

interesting to welcome him back and get the others to take care of him a little bit.

Yeah.

That's good because I'm modifying the first question.

Maybe he can answer it for us, which is in retrospect, is there a childhood book or other media that when you look back

I guess it influenced me more than more than I realized to say is there like a

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