Incident Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting the media circuit big time, and after his Rogan appearance, I have a bit to say. We also talk about the Titan submersible and take YOUR comments LIVE (with zero f*cks given, cuz it's Friday)

A revisit to a classic early 2021 interview on the nature of reality that has prompted many to question, well, EVERYTHING. Here's the full video, transcript, and more. Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo’s most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for th

This episode from way back in May 2020 bolstered my sense that I've already expressed pretty much everything I want to say about COVID

Author and storytelling expert Johnny B. Truant returns for a discussion on the nature of reality itself: is there an objective world out there that we can directly experience, or is everything we know to be "real" simply a construction...a story? We discuss how sense data is converted into a "world" complete with labels and beliefs, how we might modulate our story to see aspects that are more conducive to happiness and human flourishing, going on a news diet, the nature of the subject of our stories (i.e., no-self realization), why social media and NextDoor in particular can be poisonous to our story-world, and MUCH more. Here's our earlier interview on his book The Story Solution. And here's a deep dive we did on creativity and flow states. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zd

How do you "wake up" when there's no you, it isn't an event, and everything needed is already here? Hmmm

It's pretty much impossible to change our systems without first changing ourselves. But what is our "self" anyways? Here's how to use a simple question to add rocket fuel to your meditation practice and wake up from the dream that we are separate, struggling beings apart from the rest of life. Video and transcript here. Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo’s book on awakening, Awake: It’s Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo’s YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo’s email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here. Topic List: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Meditation Vs. inquiry, what’s the purpose of inquiry 05:10 Who are you?  08:41 Hitting the fear barrier, the doubt barrier, the thought trap 16:50 Inquiry and the identity shift of awakening, dissolution of ego 19:53 Resistance & shadow 24:27 Obstructing beliefs/thoughts common to the process 27:35 Self-inquiry vs. surrendered inquiry into the nature of reality post awakening

Netflix's season finale of BEEF shines a light on the dark places we're *most* afraid to look...and that may just be the key to awakening from the dream of shame and separation. Check out the video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed live on Instagram and reposted on YouTube, we talk Nurses' Week, system change, authenticity, and waking up from the dream that we are separate from each other and from life itself. And here's that Gobble meal prep offer just for ZDoggMD listeners! (PS I get no commissions from this, but they did send me some free meals, which is really cool): https://gobble.com/zdoggmd Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Astin is a professor of psychology, author, teacher, and musician. He returns to do a deep dive into appreciating THIS moment as all there is. Originally streamed live with audience Q+A on YouTube. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS. The implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality and our place in it. Take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes… Here's the original video and transcript of our interview. We dive into the Interface Theory of Perception (how evolution hides the truth about reality in favor of a dumbed down user interface that only shows us “fitness” payoffs that help us survive), the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” and how we simply have no idea how consciousness could emerge from physical matter, the theory of Conscious Realism (how reality is really a mathematically-definable social network of conscious “agents” and our perceptions are simply the interface by which we exchange experience with other cons

When Doc Vader goes live to YouTube for a q+a, you never know what Dark Side madness might emerge

Streamed LIVE to YouTube with Q+A 3/10/23. We talked about vaccines and the nature of belief, public health messaging challenges, moral foundation theory, dealing with anger and boundary violations, dropping into the body sense and out of the head, emotional repression and the make believe world of thought, kundalini energy, the nature of negativity bias and how we can shift to positive, Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), body as sensor, shame and its roots (particularly in medicine), self inquiry, the nature and trickiness of ego, the nature of mind-identification and the house of mirrors of thought, empaths and sensitivity to others’ emotions, the excess death question, guilt around setting boundaries, letting go, dealing with fear and more. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5QkTpx3x8 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal

In this episode – originally streamed live to Instagram – I take viewer comments on the topics of healthcare transformation, burnout, identity, and more. We talk about left brain vs. right brain thinking, the absolute vs. the relative world as well as practical solutions and insights for personal transformation. Video here: https://youtu.be/NKH5a-wuJEI Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in June of 2021, I recently revisited this amazing conversation with Dr. Angelo DiLullo, a physician, author, and teacher of non-dual realization (sometimes called spiritual awakening) and felt compelled to share it again for a newer audience who may be deeply interested in awakening and the end of needless seeking and suffering. The original video and transcript are here. Read Angelo's book on awakening Awake: It's Your Turn here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel here. 0:00 Intro: Eckhart Tolle and “The Three Pillars of Zen” 6:44 Disclaimer/Warning: why you should ONLY watch if you’re deeply interested 10:17 The possibility of transcending the ego and subject-object duality 12:10 The paradox of free will/agency on the path to awakening 16:36 Experiencing the present moment as a kind of flow state 20:59 Understanding what “presence” is and its relationship to thought 27:54 The sneaky ego and how it relates to awakening 34:52 The roots suffering in desire, striving, and egoic constructs

Famous docs who can’t process evidence, prior authorization in healthcare and care variation, private equity and gray areas in medicine, the decline of academic medical centers, indoctrination in education, does Paxlovid actually work in populations that matter and the biases of observational trials, fake twitter medical experts, why hospital maintenance workers have more common sense than healthcare leadership, Cochrane mask review, CDC director masking comments and ivermectin, politics in science and why politicians simply can’t be honest, and more! Video here. Subscribe to "The VPZD Show" on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/vpzd Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Vi

Parasitic middlemen and others in the healthcare industry are gouging patients who can't afford live-saving medications. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky of Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company teaches us who they are (oh yes, we name names) and how we can fight back to make meds affordable again. A must-watch for patients and caregivers struggling with the high cost of prescription drugs. Here's the full video of the interview. Here's our prior interview with Alex from 2021. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky is the Founder and CEO of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder at the age of 18 with a BA in Biochemistry. He went on to earn an MD at the Duke University School of Medicine and a PhD at Oxford University in Mathematics as a Marshall Scholar. Alex completed a surgical internship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. He went on to a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Alex then serve

Meditation questions, what it's like on meditation retreat (virtual and in-person), thoughts on thoughts, emotion shadow work, reactivity, truth-realization, and more in this Q+A originally LIVE on Facebook. Watch the video here. Future retreats with Dr. Angelo DiLullo can be found here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can healing happen when we shine a light on the dark places in medicine? Dr. Emily Silverman is a UCSF hospital physician and host of the popular podcast The Nocturnists. We dive into shame and emotional repression in doctors, healthcare professionals, and beyond. Check out the entire Shame series here. Learn more about Dr. Silverman here. Donate to her nonprofit here. Visit The Shame Space. Here is the gun violence article we referenced. Watch the video of our interview here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's a Sith Lord and burned out physician, more machine than doc now. YOU asked him ANYTHING, LIVE! Full video version here. Topics covered: 00:00 Intro 00:09 Pronouns 01:40 Damar Hamlin 03:37 Vaccines 08:57 Fairness 11:44 Societal fails 16:37 Shame 19:18 Universal masking 20:26 Bret Weinstein 22:36 Colonoscopy 23:44 Vaccine induced myocarditis 24:38 Naming your baby 26:54 Champagne 27:55 Lightsaber Vasectomies 29:08 Male nurses 31:15 Clinical leadership 32:07 Power of the Dark Side 35:14 Medication side effects 37:33 Perfect families 40:26 Dark side philosophy 42:13 Personality disorders Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avoid the pitfalls of your online "second self" by recognizing & navigating criticism, parasocial projections, audience capture, social media addiction, and creator burnout/metric obsession. Reference courtesy of The Stoa here. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices