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Outside The System

Outside The System

By: Neil Soni
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It's easy to doom scroll on social media and complain about corrupt institutions, broken systems, and incompetent leaders. But this show isn't for complainers. Outside The System is an exploration of ideas, technologies, and people that are building alternatives to traditional systems. The podcast explores media, money (crypto/web3), music, culture, and much more.

2025 Neil Soni Social Sciences
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  • 11: Bringing Back the World's Fair and Inspiring Millions Along the Way with Cam Wiese

    11: Bringing Back the World's Fair and Inspiring Millions Along the Way with Cam Wiese
    Nov 10 2022

    In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Cam Wiese, a dreamer with a grand and ambitious vision - to bring back the World's Fair. The original World's Fair was an exhibition for companies and nations to come together to showcase their inventions and grand vision for the future. Cam believes that re-creating this event and telling better stories about the positive power of technology will get us out of our collective dystopian technology vision. While your initial reaction may be skepticism (mine certainly was), Cam makes a great case for how bringing back the World's Fair will inspire millions to dream, build, and ultimately create a better future. I left the conversation with a sense of wonder about technology and the future - something I hadn't felt in awhile.

    During the episode, we got into:

    • The purpose the original World's Fair served
    • How the stories we tell create the future we build
    • How science fiction helps expand the realm of possibility
    • Why Walt Disney deserves credit for the moon landing
    • How technology can be utopian, dystopian, or somewhere in between - depending on how it's used
    • What the new World's Fair will showcase
    • How you can get involved and help build the new World's Fair

    Notes and Links

    • World's Fair Co website
    • World's Fair Co Twitter
    • Cam's Twitter
    • Top US grocery chains by share of dollars spent
    • Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
    • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
    • Isaac Asimov
    • World's Fair posters

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • 16: Building a Cooking Club On Twitter, Creator-Led Brands, and Good Home Cooking With Myles Snider of Mother Tongue Cooking Club

    16: Building a Cooking Club On Twitter, Creator-Led Brands, and Good Home Cooking With Myles Snider of Mother Tongue Cooking Club
    Feb 1 2023
    In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Myles Snider, founder of the Mother Tongue Cooking Club. Myles is one of my favorite follows on Twitter, mostly because I love eating and he shares a lot of pictures of amazing meals. During our conversation, Myles shared a masterclass on creator-led brands, the food industry, becoming a better cook, great ingredients, and so much more. You don't want to miss this episode! Timestamps (03:25) How Myles got into the professional cooking world and how that led to what he's doing now (13:44) Mother Tongue Cooking Club and what Myles is building now (17:00) The compounding effects of doing something you enjoy (18:20) Creator content vs brand content (20:37) Starting a brand from scratch or partnering with someone with an audience (21:37) Starting a spice company and what led to its failure (24:36) Building on Substack vs Ghost and the advantage of using a less customizable platform (33:58) The difficulty of physical products vs digital products (40:30) For those interested in cooking, pick 3-4 meals that you want to get really good at and can eat a lot of (1:04:06) How to eat high-quality meat for health, sustainability, and budget reasons by using alternative cuts (1:11:10) Myles' thoughts and advice on salt, the most important ingredient in cooking (1:15:38) Myles' thoughts on cooking fats, what he uses, and differences between various fats (1:23:27) Some resources and ideas on fermentation and brewing Resources and Links Myles' Twitter account Mother Tongue Cooking Club (Myles' Substack) Masienda Masa Seed-oil Free Tortilla Chips Tacos Ruben's in Mexico City (as seen on Netflix's Taco Chronicles) Sonora Flour Anti-bacterial properties of wooden cutting boards Athena Skillets Cantillon Brewery Venezuelan Beef Liver and Onions recipe Darina Allen Hank Shaw's Nose to Tail Recipes Redmond Real Salt Beef Tallow (Epic Provisions) Olive oil podcast episode on Mitolife with Tony Kasandrinos Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner Radical Brewing by Randy Mosher The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz Related episode: Calley Means of True Medicine How You Can Support The Show You can support Outside the System and thousands of other podcasts using Fountain or any other value-for-value enabled podcast player. If you found value from this episode, consider boosting the podcast or streaming sats as you listen. Another great way to support the show is to leave a review on Spotify and iTunes. If you have questions or thoughts about the episode, you can message me on Twitter.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 27: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons with Kris Newby

    27: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons with Kris Newby
    Mar 12 2024

    In this episode, I spoke with Kris Newby, the author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. You may be skeptical about the premise of this book but I promise there is a lot more here than a baseless conspiracy theory. Kris has top tier technical credentials and spent a large chunk of her career at Stanford. Much of her book is based on primary research, which involved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and interviews with individuals directly involved in the biological weapons program. Most importantly, her work shows that the tragedy of Lyme disease in our medical system isn't some movie-like conspiracy but instead, mostly made up of good people operating under bad incentives. I've linked to a lot of material in the show notes so check those out if you're inclined to dig deeper.

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    Timestamps

    (2:25) How Kris and her family were personally affected by Lyme Disease

    (8:30) Overview of Lyme Disease

    (10:30) Willy Burgdorfer and his connection with Lyme Disease

    (17:26) How the US bug-borne weapons program came about and what they worked on

    (25:00) The misaligned incentives in government funding that create opportunity for self-inflicted harmful experiments

    (32:00) The strange circumstances surrounding "The Swiss Agent"

    (36:58) How a change in patent law complicated the treatment of Lyme Disease

    (39:05) Lyme Disease as the prequel to COVID-19

    (41:05) Science, especially in Lyme Disease, is a small club that doesn't encourage thinking outside of the established paradigm. Similarities to Alzheimer's Disease research.

    (45:54) How the incentive structure of the medical-industrial complex discourages simple treatments. Similarities to COVID-19 vaccination incentive vs possible treatments.

    (49:44) The incentive structure that encourages the denial of chronic disease and even penalizes physicians who come up with effective treatments using cheap antibiotics

    (52:04) The suppression of Bitten by NIH and other influential groups

    Links and Resources

    The Bitten Files - Substack

    Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

    Project 112 - Wiki

    Plum Island

    Willy Burgdorfer

    The Swiss Agent

    Lyme Disease Cabal Primary Research Document Cloud (Part 1)

    Lyme Disease Cabal Primary Research Document Cloud (Part 2)

    Under Our Skin (documentary)

    Kris Newby website

    Cat Scratch Disease article

    Lead Poisoning article

    Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic by Pam Weintraub
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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