Author Peter Bailey, president of the Prouty Project in Minneapolis, discusses formative travel and life experiences that shaped his leadership work and book, "The Epic of You." He recounts teenage journeys to India and a six-month overland trip across Africa featuring malaria, scarce roads in the Sahara, forged passports, wildlife in Tanzania and Kenya, and a flash flood. He describes early struggles with low self-esteem, addiction and sobriety at 22, risky subway riding, and later adventures like a Wyoming rodeo fall and learning polo at 55. Bailey explains using Joseph Campbell’s heroic journey to reframe adversity, details his 13-minute TEDx talk including his wife’s cancer “power and purpose” mindset, shares practices on names, mindfulness, and resting, and emphasizes community and discernment amid AI.

00:00 Meet Peter Bailey

00:33 Early Travel Roots

02:04 Six Months Across Africa

03:21 Hard Lessons and Journals

05:09 Crossing the Sahara

08:03 Safari Parks and Floods

10:10 Iran Riots at Sixteen

13:14 Book Origins and Identity

15:25 Subway Demons and Risk

16:07 Rodeo Wipeout Story

19:34 Learning Polo Later

22:01 Outward Bound and Dogsleds

24:10 Staying Warm and Prepared

25:02 Lonesome Dove Quotes

26:32 Prairie Stories and Brotherhood

28:02 From Hardship to Heroic Journey

28:46 Mapping the Heroic Journey

30:45 Leadership Work and Gifts

31:11 Crafting the TEDx Talk

32:08 Power and Purpose in Cancer

33:29 Owning Your Epic Life

34:44 Learning from Adversity and Nature

36:48 Remembering Names with Intention

40:38 Mindfulness over Multitasking

42:37 Rest All the Time

45:29 Anchoring Mindset in Sports

46:55 Everyday Epicness and Service

49:26 Next Chapter Aging and AI

52:11 Closing Thanks and Farewell

https://www.peter-bailey.com/

“The Epic of You” on Amazon: https://a.co/d/00P4YyVK

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Tom interviews British doctor Clare Craig about her new book (including a newly released audiobook) and her involvement in a European Court of Human Rights case. Craig describes being smeared and censored during COVID, alleging UK information operations involving the 77th Brigade and a Counter Disinformation Unit, and cites claims of UN/UNICEF-funded influencer campaigns and problematic WHO priorities. She argues COVID policies (lockdowns, masking, distancing) and vaccines failed to stop infection, severe disease, or death, critiques scientific publishing and peer review, and recounts a dispute with The Lancet over a myocarditis paper she says misused data. Craig discusses ethical drift toward utilitarian public health, revisits historical narratives on smallpox vaccination and the 1918 “Spanish flu” (including a possible aspirin-toxicity role), and outlines the Finnish “Mika” case over vaccine restrictions.

00:00 Meet Clare Craig

09:26 Losing Trust In Institutions

18:42 Ethics Nuremberg To Helsinki

24:51 Smallpox Vaccine Origins

29:10 Crude Early Vaccines

29:58 Pushback and Belief

30:49 Smallpox Vaccine Reality

31:59 Monkeypox Emergency Politics

33:57 Spanish Flu Numbers

36:02 Two Pathologies Explained

38:12 Aspirin Toxicity Theory

42:24 Covid Wave Math

45:00 Aerosols Everywhere

48:05 Household Data and Vaccines

52:18 Where Did Flu Go

54:03 Dashboards and Modeled Data

56:20 Human Rights Case Closing

https://x.com/ClareCraigPath

Spiked: A shot in the dark: https://a.co/d/4W8P2JD

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David Dilley, a former NOAA and Air Force meteorologist, says climate is driven by natural “climate pulse” cycles from Earth–Moon–Sun gravitational/electromagnetic interactions, not human CO2. He argues warming and cooling have repeated for centuries and claims Arctic ice loss since 1990 is mainly from periodic surges of warm Atlantic subsurface water about every nine years. He critiques NOAA temperature averaging and ice-core CO2 estimates, citing fossil leaf stomata to claim CO2 often exceeded 300 ppm and that most post-1850 CO2 rise is natural. He forecasts a global cooling cycle starting around 2030 lasting 60–75 years, with shorter growing seasons, possible food shortages, and greater energy needs. He advocates shifting climate research funding and expanding thorium/molten-salt nuclear power.

00:00 Shorter Growing Seasons & Food Shortage Warnings (2030s)

00:31 Meet Meteorologist David Dilley + Climate Pulse Tech Overview

03:49 CO₂ Since 1850: Challenging the “All Fossil Fuels” Claim

05:05 Historic Warming & Cooling Cycles: Medieval Warm Period to Today

07:44 Why Arctic Ice Melted (1990–2025): Warm Atlantic Surges

10:52 How NOAA Calculates Global Temps: Oceans Skew the Average

13:39 Earth–Moon–Sun Cycles: The “Climate Pulse” & Long-Term Rhythms

17:49 Gravitational Peaks & the Coming Global Cooling Cycle

21:55 CO₂ Proxies Explained: Ice Cores vs Fossil Leaf Stomata

27:36 Correcting the CO₂ Record: Natural vs Human Contributions

33:10 CO₂ in the Atmosphere: What the Numbers Actually Are

35:30 Ocean Cycles 101: The Atlantic’s 65–70 Year Warm/Cold Pattern

38:42 ENSO Shift Ahead: La Niña to El Niño and ‘Erratic Weather’ (2027–2030)

40:27 2030 Arctic Freeze-Up Forecast: Cold Water ‘Plunges’ and Europe’s ‘Beast from the East’

41:40 All Oceans + Solar/Geomagnetic Cycles: Why the 2030s Could Flip to Cooling

43:16 Energy Crunch in a Cooling World: AI Power Demand, Heat Pumps, and Grid Risk

44:39 Next-Gen Nuclear Pitch: Molten Salt & Thorium Reactors vs Wind

51:39 Sudden Stratospheric Warming Explained: Jet Stream ‘Rubber Band’ Break

55:54 Food & Society Impacts: Shorter Growing Seasons, Europe Cold, and ‘Year Without a Summer’

01:02:54 Wrap-Up: Call to Refocus Research Away from ‘Political Science’

David Dilley’s March 2025 appearance on this podcast (episode #284): https://youtu.be/DKNP_LXp0o8

https://www.globalweathercycles.com/

http://www.globalweatheroscillations.com/

https://x.com/WeatherCycles

https://www.youtube.com/@DilleyGlobalWeatherCycles

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