Welcome to the ReWild Yourself Podcast! I'm Daniel Vitalis, and I'll be your guide through the world of human zoology and lifestyle design. We'll explore the strategies that ancient apes need to thrive in a modern world, awakening our instincts, and freeing our bodies –– and minds –– from the degenerative effects of human domestication.
After six seasons hosting WildFed and more than two decades spent exploring nutrition, rewilding, human domestication, and personal transformation, Daniel Vitalis is launching a brand-new podcast.
The Daniel Vitalis Show will explore the forces shaping our rapidly changing world — from artificial intelligence and technological acceleration to health, culture, nature, and what it means to remain fully human in an increasingly complex age. Through conversations with leading thinkers, scientists, healers, and visionaries, Daniel will be seeking not just the causes of the chaos around us, but the antidotes — offering practical insights for cultivating resilience, vitality, meaning, and freedom in the exciting years ahead.
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13 Dec 2017
North America's Forgotten Fruit - Andrew Moore #177
North America’s Forgotten Fruit — the Pawpaw — is an excellent reminder that adventures in wild food are still available to us! Andrew Moore is here to share his journey seeking out the largest edible fruit native to the United States. In Andrew’s book Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, he explores the past, present, and future of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello; canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit’s own “Johnny Pawpawseed”), but also regular folks who remember eating them in the woods as kids, but haven’t had one in over fifty years.
Andrew’s hunt for the wild pawpaw led him on quite the adventure, and in this episode, he gives us the lowdown on the pawpaw, its history and its modern-day revival. We take a look at pawpaw culture and discuss how it’s being cultivated and used today. Andrew certainly inspired me to hunt down the wild pawpaw, and I hope you’ll consider pursuing a wild food adventure of your own in the new year! Enjoy, and I’ll see you next week for the final episode of our podcast season!
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
Show Introduction
Introducing Andrew Moore
How Andy became acquainted with the pawpaw
What is a pawpaw?
The history
The pawpaw revival
Uncovering the mystery of the pawpaw
The varying personalities in pawpaw culture
Historical cultivation and use of pawpaw
Growing pawpaw
Origins of the name
Hunting the wild pawpaw
Where to find Andrew
7 Dec 2017
How Old is Fishing? - Brian Fagan #176
Brian Fagan — one of the world’s leading archaeological writers — is back on the show! Brian was born in England and studied archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum (Zambia) and, during six years in Zambia and one in East Africa, was deeply involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation. He was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1967 to 2004, when he became Emeritus. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading archaeological and historical writers and is a widely respected popular lecturer about the past.
In this episode, Brian talks to us about his latest book Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization and shares the fascinating insights he uncovered on the history of fishing. In his research, he found that fishing (for sustenance, not sport) rivaled agriculture in its importance to civilization. We discuss the historical timeline of fishing, early fishing equipment and how fishing became a commodity. Brian also shares his thoughts on the future of wild fisheries and the ocean ecosystem. Enjoy!
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
Show Introduction
Introducing Brian Fagan
Brian’s prolific writing career
A history of fishing
Defining fishing - recreational vs subsistence
Establishing our timeline
Early fishing equipment
Fish as a commodity
The loss of large-scale fisheries
Future of wild fisheries
The future of the ocean
Will recreational fishing and hunting be a realistic practice in the future?
Brian’s prognosis for the future of the human species
Inside a recent episode
Silver for Financial Survival - David Morgan #31
Published 27 Jan 2015 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Can we just pause that? I want to draw that out. I want to make sure people understand that. What you're saying is essentially, you know, your dollar would represent some portion of gold, which theoretically you could go exchange at some point. And I mean, I have, and I have some old bills that say I have an old dollar bill that says it's exchangeable for silver. So, so initially dollars weren't the money themselves, but a representation of the money that was supposedly sitting there, which you could then go exchange this paper for, correct? Absolutely. And just to be very clear, because it might, you know, be some real, you know, people in your audience that know a lot about this, you could exchange internationally, you could exchange for gold. […]
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