Consilience with John Onate

Alex is a Composition undergraduate student at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. You can find his music on Sound Cloud and YouTube:

On this episode I catch up with the extraordinary yet humble Tony Lymon. He is a polyglot of talents and interests who grew up in one of the poorest areas in the USA. I was so fortunate to know Tony and become his friend during college. I was a huge fan during his Jam-Rock phase with King Konga. This is a long one but there are so many gems to learn from Tony. We talk about race and classism. We also go in deep on high school band and its critical role in education. Tony's non traditional path to completing his education is also enlightening.  To reward those who listen to the entire podcast Tony gave me permission to add a track from King Konga's album Something Good! 

We overcame zoom and internet gremlins to produce a conversation on how she uses a combination of humor, friendship, medical advice and compassion to overcome injury, aging and now the pandemic.  I really appreciate Nikki taking the time to join the podcast. There is a lot to learn from her, enjoy!

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Susan Clinard is an award-winning artist who exhibits extensively.  She is an artist in residence at the Eli Whitney Museum. Susan has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts. She has received substantial public commissions, and her sculptures can be found in many private collections worldwide. She has been the awardee of the 2019 MH Hammerschlag Award, and the 2018 Art by the Northeast Award for Sculpture.

Dr. Raymond Young is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. He is the Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare.  In his role Dr. Young is responsible for development and expansion of psychiatric consultation liaison services for Emory Healthcare. 

Along with his position as Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare, Dr. Young is the Program Director for Emory Healthcare’s Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program.  His clinical interests include telemedicine, geriatrics, organ transplantation, and functional neurological disorders. Dr. Young is a Fellow of Emory’s Woodruff Leadership Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.

Dr. Young joined Emory’s Department of Psychiatry in August of 2003. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1998 and completed a combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luks Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is board certified in Psychiatry with added qualifications in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.

The Hosts of Dirt Church Radio, New Zealand's # 1 Trail and Ultrarunning Podcast

Matt Rayment lives in Riverhead outside of Aukland with his wife and three children. He is Consult-Liaison Mental Health Nurse . He also was the editor of Kiwi Trail Magazine,  and Good People Run. 

Eugene Bingham is a journalist at stuff.co.nz, (with 30 years of experience as an investigative journalist) 

In this episode we discuss the story of how the podcast began, their approach to podcasting, the background of Matt and Eugene. We then move to talking about their experience with the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and what they see their podcast evolving into. I really appreciate Matt and Eugene taking time juggling significant time zone differences to record with me. I have been on 2 episodes of their show and I am fortunate to call them friends. We also talk on the process of podcasting and interviewing. 

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Taylor is a trail and ultra runner based in Washington, DC where his lives with his awesome wife, Sarah. He spends his days working with media companies as a Management Consultant, and his nights and weekends running, traveling, learning new things, and advocating for Mental Health.

Taylor and I first met at the inaugural Rob Krar Trail Running Camp in Flagstaff 5 years ago. Today we recall the camp and then talk about his background, how he got into running and his journey to becoming an advocate for suicide and mental health awareness. We recorded this at the end of of May before the national outrage about institutionalized racism in police and legal institutions. I hope we can move past the defensiveness and accept responsibility so we can institute change that will allow all Americans to trust and work with law enforcement. I support protesting and I urge public health, law enforcement and other civic agencies adopt policies to allow safer protesting during a pandemic. I hope you are all well and thank you for listening. Please subscribe and leave a review and comment, it really helps! I hope my conversation inspires you to support reducing stigma and support suicide awareness, suicide hotline and reducing the barriers to effective mental health care.

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Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD works in private practice Sports and Spine Medicine with Northern California Orthopaedic Associates. She is also a voluntary assistant professor at UC Davis Department of PM&R. She is an active researcher with UC Davis and Stanford and works as a journalist for UltraRunning Magazine. She has four children and is married to Rasmus Hoeg, MD. They live in Kings Beach, California.

We have a wide ranging discussion on her education, research and experience. The pandemic so far and a deep dive on ortho-biologic medicine (aka Regenerative Medicine) including PRP and stem cell soft tissue injections.

Tracy and I recorded this a couple of weeks before the tragic death of George Floyd and in the introduction (first 6 minutes or so) of this episode I express my thoughts on the murder and fallout. I hope change and healing will come from this and I hope it does not impair our ability to contain the Coronavirus Pandemic that continues to rage on.  Here is the link to Peter Attia's conversation with his daughter on his podcast that I mention during my intro.