Hey, Empire Babies, this is your host, Abby Martin. If you didn't hear already through social media, I have a brand new weekly podcast called Dost. While it still covers some of the deep political topics you're used to from us, it's also very different where I'll be interviewing scientists, artists, philosophers, and other fun and enthralling topics that don't normally fit into our Empire Files content.

The show is on a very cool new app called Colin, where every week I'll go live with a super interesting guest and be able to take calls from the audience.

Everyone who wants to engage should download Colin, subscribe to the show, and join the discussion.

But if you want to listen on other platforms, every episode will be on Spotify and Apple Podcasts after we end the live show.

So make sure to search for DOST with Abby Martin on those platforms and subscribe there too.

Our debut episode explains much more about what this new project is and why we're doing it.

But our second episode, with our first ever guest, is what you're about to listen to.

Because dozed is all about topics and conversations that have been mind-altering moments,

I thought it would be fitting to have

on Peter Joseph, who dozed around a billion people with his ultra-viral film, Zekegeist.

So this is just a long sampling of the episode. For the full conversation and the audience

calls, you can only listen through the dozed channel on Colin, Spotify, or Apple.

We won't really be posting dozed episodes here on the Empire Files channel,

but I just thought this discussion was relevant to our usual content,

and I wanted to make sure you all knew about this new project I'm really excited to be doing.

So I hope you enjoyed the discussion, and join me to get DOST every week.

Welcome to Dost, everyone. This is your host, Abby Martin.

For those who didn't tune in to the first episode, this show is slightly different from my other work.

Mike, can you hear me? Okay? My audio just dropped a little bit. Yep. You know, for those who know me from

Empire Files and MediaRoutes Radio, yeah, Empire Files is very enlightening. It could also be very heavy.

Media Roots Radio is more of a cathartic outlet for me.

And for the last few years, I felt really siloed off, honestly, into this kind of dark black

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