The Penguin Latte Podcast

Jake Wiskerchen is a Marriage and Family Therapist and National Certified Counselor from Nevada who owns and operates a mental health outpatient practice, Zephyr Wellness. In this episode we discuss the psychological case against mask mandates in schools, the relationship between gun ownership and mental health, frameworks for battling anger, emotions and what they mean, Carl Jung and why he was an utter genius, and much more. Please enjoy! Like coffee? Like creativity? Why not try a a bag of Flow State Coffee? Enter code PAUL at checkout for 10% off.

Dr. Z, or Patrícia E Zurita Ona, is a psychologist specializing in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Exposure Response Prevention. She is the author of "Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behavior," and the Playing-it-Safe newsletter. Dr. Z on Twitter Dr. Z's newsletter

No one knows to what degree work sucks more than Matt Harriman (@MattMHarriman), entrepreneur and founder of Pod2, whose mission is to make work not suck so much. In this episode we discuss relationships, professionalism, LinkedIn vs Twitter, philosophical fiction, capitalism, virtue signaling, self-censorship, anger, The Midnight Gospel, and much, much more. Please enjoy! SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Jack Caunter is the creator of the blink-182 spongebob patrick video (this), a video which has wasted 2 minutes and 46 seconds of over 2.1 million people’s lives. In this conversation we discuss memes and creativity, compare and contrast old internet culture with new internet culture, and wax nostalgic about Bill Wurtz, Filthy Frank, and Neil Cicierega.   SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Anthony Eichberger is a gay, millennial, pagan/polytheist, disabled, rural-born, politically independent writer with a focus on American politics and culture war issues. His Medium articles have been read by thousands of readers on some of the most popular political columns on the platform. What I love about Anthony is that when we disagree politically it never feels like we’re trying to shove each other’s heads up a donkey’s ass. I hope to have him back on the show many times in the future. In this episode we discuss gay mayonnaise, the hypocrisy beneath the radical left’s anti-racism ideology as perpetuated by Robin DiAngelo, our disagreements about political correctness, gender equality, cancel culture and Dave Chapelle’s ‘Closer’ Special, whether or not kids should be allowed at pride parades, and much, much more. Please enjoy! Connect with Anthony on Twitter Read Anthony’s thoughtful articles pertaining to topics of which we discussed on today’s riveting episode of the pod. This episode is brought to you by Music and Meme! For $5 a month, every Monday and Friday I’ll deliver to your inbox a pairing of the world’s finest music with the Internet’s best memes, plus tasting notes. Click here to subscribe.   We’re also sponsored by Flow State Coffee! If you’ve ever wondered how I maintain my creative energy to write a blog post everyday, record a podcast every week and make those dumbass anime review videos, the answer is: I cheat. I cheat by drinking Flow State Coffee. Not only is it absolutely delicious, it’s also brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao to promote creativity and mental clarity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Eyal Shay is the host of the Deep Dive Podcast, featuring conversations on philosophy and matters of the heart. He also provides personal 1-on-1 sessions on dialectic – the art of arriving at truth through sound reasoning. I had a ton of fun with this conversation. We discuss mental performance in everything from creativity to competition, the art of dialectic, making a living doing what you love, the finer things in life, pathological liars, and so much more. Connect with Eyal: Eyal on Twitter Check out the Deep Dive Podcast for more Eyal This episode is brought to you by Music and Meme! For $5 a month, every Monday and Friday I’ll deliver to your inbox a pairing of the world’s finest music with the Internet’s best memes, plus tasting notes. Click the picture below to subscribe. We’re also sponsored by Flow State Coffee! If you’ve ever wondered how I maintain my creative energy to write a blog post everyday, record a podcast every week and make those dumbass anime review videos, the answer is: I cheat. I cheat by drinking Flow State Coffee. Not only is it absolutely delicious, it’s also brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao to promote creativity and mental clarity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Clo S. is the founder of This Too Shall Grow, a one-person UX design studio and coaching practice to help technologists build digital products that help to improve people’s mental health and wellness. In this episode we discuss best digital mindfulness practices, the impact of social media on mental health, building the perfect social media app, the “cozy” web, ethical social media software design, and much more. Please enjoy! Clo S. on Twitter This Too Shall Grow Clo’s digital mindfulness newsletter read by over 700 people every 2 weeks. SUPPORT THE SHOW! Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

  Shreyas Prakash (@pablomuralo) is a product manager at Noora Health, working to improve at-risk patients and disabled people's lives with design. He's the co-creator of Clarity, an app for easy notetaking on YouTube. Previously he led dVerse Labs - designing products to reduce the risk of infections in hospitals - and dHive Labs - designing apps to assist online education. He is also the host of the podcast Shake Up The World, featuring conversations on design, technology, and optimism.   In this episode we discuss the problems Shreyas faces when designing products for vulnerable populations, cooperating with A.I instead of competing with it, bitcoin and the traps of crypto-optimism, the traps of techno-pessimism, building products and software to assist in learning and quality of life, conscious criticism, languages, the nature of creativity, and much more. Please enjoy!   Shreyas on Twitter   Shreyas' writings and podcasts on design   Check out Clarity on Product Hunt: Shreyas' Notetaking app for YouTube   SUPPORT THE SHOW!   3 ways to do it:   Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!    

Craig Burgess (@craigburgess) is a graphic designer and Conscious Content Creator from the UK. Wearing many hats, Craig is the creative director at design firm Genius Division, creator of the Real Fake Turnips NFT, and is most widely known for his podcast The Wednesday Audio: the 230st Improv Podcast in Great Britain according to Carlos. With these accolades under his belt, Craig is the perfect candidate to solve political polarization, climate change, and world hunger. Step aside, Greta Thunberg. In this episode we discuss Nicola Sturgeon, artful podcasting, Craig’s self-censor button, design mentality, Craig’s controversial tweets that’ll certainly get him cancelled, conscious content creation, how Craig built the 230st Improv Podcast in Great Britain according to Carlos, Work Life Balance, books, self-awareness, Hideaki Anno, technocrats as politicians, money, following your dreams, virtue signaling, the dangers of Clear and Simple writing, diminishing attention spans, Woke-Ism, and Craig’s plans to fix political polarization, climate change, and world hunger. Please enjoy! SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Dejen (Pronounced Cajun with a D) Tesfagiorgis (@Dejen45) is a super cool comedian, comedy sketch writer, jazz saxophonist, and former entrepreneur from New York, New York. He runs the Deja Deja Comedy YouTube channel, featuring sketches on Black music, tech companies, and code switching. Their video Niggardly: Free Workplace Codeswitching app for Black Employees, has garnered over 600,000 views since November 17th, 2020. In this episode we discuss life lessons from improv classes, standup comedy vs internet comedy, Dejen’s foray into tech entrepreneurship, his comedy writing process, the benefits of a sense of humor, a healthy disagreement about political correctness, and much more. Stick around to the very end for a special freestyle rap about Fyodor Dostoevsky. And as always, please enjoy! (Sorry about the dogs barking in the background) Dejen on Twitter Dejen’s comedy YouTube channel Dejen on Instagram (also funny) Dejen on TikTok (also funny) SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

David R. MacIver is the author of Overthinking Everything, a Substack newsletter covering the ludicrously difficult arts of decision making and being human. In this conversation discuss the psychology of Twitter alts and anonymity, losing and finding one’s Self on social media, the joys of self-inflicted public embarrassment, and try to make sense of our digital performative selves. Please enjoy!   SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Benjamin Boyce (@BenjaminABoyce) is the pleasant and witty host of Calmversations, a podcast featuring lucid and nnnnnnnnnnuanced conversations on all things triggering (read: complicated). In a Nietzschean attempt to transcend the burdens of terminology, in this episode Benjamin and I reevaluate the woke vs anti-woke debate. We discuss how Benjamin built trust with his YouTube audience of more than 70,000 subscribers, how he handles conversations on race and gender without grifting, Benjamin’s artistic inspirations, the dangers of the Diversity Inclusion Equity ideology, media literacy, literature literacy, coffee literacy, critics, fame, the most productive thing to do when western civilization dismantles itself, and more. Enjoy!   Benjamin on YouTube; Calmversations Podcast on Spotify Benjamin on Substack   SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Jake Orthwein (@JakeOrthwein) is the creator of Frame Problems, a YouTube video essay channel covering philosophy, politics, art, science, and culture. Jake is currently working on Part 3 of a series titled How Politics Became Pro Wrestling, which explores Eric Weinstein’s ideas on American political discourse and economic stagnation. I recommend watching at least part 1 of the series before indulging in this 2-hour conversation. In this episode we discuss Jake’s creative process to video essays, the encroachment of nihilism by proxy of faux-meaning via political activism, how to engage in culture war discourse without grifting, the recent Dave Chappelle protest fiasco, the targeting of innocent people by the corporate press, Adam Curtis, Christopher Lasch, that new Fauci documentary nobody watched, and much, much more.   SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Michael Ashcroft teaches the online course ‘Fundamentals of Alexander Technique’, helping more than 400 students across the globe to revolutionize their experience of themselves and improve performance in business and life. If that sounds like woo-woo self-help guru Ponzi scheme nonsense, I promise you – no hot coals, no upsells, no celebrity worship, no influencer marketing bullshit. In this conversation we discuss the modern classic on Neuropsychology ‘The Master and His Emissary’, consciousness, mindfulness, the dangers of hustle culture, fame, success, social media as a force for good, meditation, the pitfalls of daily habits, and more. Please enjoy! Does The Penguin Latte Podcast remind you of fresh presents on Christmas morning? If so, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes all of 60 seconds (61 if you’re feeling extra spicy). Reviews make the podcast 1% better. If 500 of you leave reviews, the podcast gets 500% better. Plus, I love reading all of your juicy comments. Thanks! SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

“Who’s Rich Hebron (@RichHebron) and why should I care?” Answer: At 22 years old, Rich Hebron lived on the streets of Chicago, homeless, just to see what it would be like. In this episode we talk cities, sociology, thrift stores, books we’re reading, fantasy and philosophical fiction, Kanye West, running, human greatness, sports as a metaphor for life, and so much more. Enjoy! SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

From the blog: https://penguinlatte.blog/2021/10/06/criticism-when-and-when-not-to-take-it/

Mike Harlow is what you’d get if Ben Shapiro and Elle Woods had a baby (his words, not mine). He’s a super cool guy who’s standing up for everyone’s right to standup for themselves. Mike Harlow is an actor, speaker, Social Media “nonfluencer”, and master of the Momofuku milk bar cake. We discuss: Gay representation in media that doesn’t suck Love Dating Men’s fashion (Mike’s opinion on my monkey-themed button-up shirt) A date that almost ended in Mike’s head getting chopped off by a machete What the woke movement gets wrong about…everything What the republican party gets wrong about…everything and so much more. Please enjoy! Cheers to your good health, Paul   Does The Penguin Latte Podcast remind you of fresh presents on Christmas morning? If so, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes all of 60 seconds (61 if you’re feeling extra spicy). Reviews make the podcast 1% better. If 500 of you leave reviews, the podcast gets 500% better. Plus, I love reading all of your juicy comments. Thanks! SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Carson Alworth is an anarchist I met on a Discord server. In this conversation we discuss how certain constituents of ordinary society would work – or not – in an anarchist society, political polarization in America, misconceptions about anarchy, Big Business, Small Business, capitalism, cryptocurrency, lockdowns, names of people I don’t know, and how despite being an anarchist Carson has never heard of Michael Malice. Please enjoy! Watch on YouTube SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Will Steiner is the CEO of Big Later, a company doing what public education has failed to do for centuries: teach kids about personal finance. In this conversation we discuss why we’re not teaching kids about personal finance, the failing education system, history, Big Tech Censorship and why it stinks, bitcoin, literature, online courses, networking, marketing, the power of pondering, and more! Spotify | Apple | Watch on YouTube SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!

Daniel De la Fé is an artist and cohost of the podcast ‘Dangerous Rhetoric’. In 2020 he published a book of poetry called “The Manhattan Poems,” documenting the borough amidst the lockdowns. In this conversation Daniel and I raise the middle finger to America’s infatuation with censorship, vaccine passes, lockdowns, kids books about Fauci, woke, while raising a glass to creativity, art, spirituality, and freedom. Daniel also reads me some of his poetry, so stick around for that. SUPPORT THE SHOW! 3 ways to do it: Show your support by buying a Penguin Latte of $5, $10, or more! Buy some MERCH Greg makes coffee: Grab a bag of Flow State Coffee — Brewed with L-Theanine and Raw Cacao, Flow State Coffee is designed to promote mental clarity and creativity. Visit noowave.co and apply code PAUL at checkout for 10% off!