The Eclectic Folk Podcast
by Mr. Cat
Welcome to The Eclectic Folk Podcast, where I, your host, ‘Mr. Cat’, interview colourful characters from various walks of life, who might not otherwise be interviewed. Most of our guests aren’t looking to promote, and aren’t eager to be famous. They all have the option to use a pseudonym, if they so desire, as oftentimes people will speak more freely if they feel their anonymity is guaranteed. Heretics are welcome.
Episodes
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Mr. Salamander the Programming Wizard and Entrepreneur
Mr. Salamander is an old friend of mine, I met early on in my tech career. At one point we started an unsuccessful start-up together. Since that time, he's achieved success in other ventures. In this episode we talk a lot about his family, including his father (a very successful and complicated...
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Aurora Borealis the Plant Medicine Explorer and Master of Leisure
My guest today is going by the name Aurora Borealis. I first met her at an Ayahuasca ceremony I attended the year prior, and sensed then that she must be an interesting person with a story to tell. In this episode, we explore how doing some volunteer work in South Asia inadvertently led her to...
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Mr. Octopus the Eco-Village Activist & Systems Theory Engineer
In this episode of episode of the Eclectic Folk podcast we welcome an individual - going by the name Mr. Octopus - who has spent much his recent life doing activism for setting up eco-villages. At the start of the Covid pandemic he retrofitted a van and started exploring the Americas. He worked...
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Xue the Journalist, Writer, Meditator, and Spiritual Seeker
My guest today is Xue – and that is her real name, she didn’t feel the need to go by a pseudonym. Xue is originally from China, however I crossed paths with her in a mountain town in North America, where she now lives. She is a journalist by trade and used to work for publications such as the...
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Mr. Pink the Cognitive Psychologist and AI Researcher
This is a bit more of an intellectually heavy / academic episode than some of the ones prior. Our guest today, Mr. Pink, is a PhD student approaching the end of his studies in Cognitive Psychology. This episode is essentially divided into two parts on either side of a bathroom break. The first…
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Jessie the NFT Artist and Comedian
My guest today is a friend of mine. Unlike other guests, I actually have known him for a long time. He wasn’t interested in going by a pseudonym so we’ll call him by his first name Jessie. He’s an NFT artist, as well as a comedian. He actually was in China for a lot of the past ten years, doing...
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Acaisha the Sound Healer and Arcturian
Welcome to The Eclectic Folk Podcast. Our guest Acaisha - who is also going by the pseudonym here ‘Butterfly Bear’ (There seems to be a recent trend of guests going by something with ‘bear’ in their name) is a sound healer in the interior mountains of British Columbia. I participated in a couple...
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Fatty Bear the Spiritual Seeker and Wanderer
This is Episode 1 of The Eclectic Folk Podcast. Our guest 'Fatty Bear' is a former tech entrepreneur from China who sold everything in order to travel the world and learn more about spirituality, at one point becoming an ayahuasca shaman apprentice in the nether regions of the Amazon rainforest.…
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About this show
Welcome to The Eclectic Folk Podcast, where I, your host, ‘Mr. Cat’, interview colourful characters from various walks of life, who might not otherwise be interviewed.
Most of our guests aren’t looking to promote, and aren’t eager to be famous. They all have the option to use a pseudonym, if they so desire, as oftentimes people will speak more freely if they feel their anonymity is guaranteed. Heretics are welcome.
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Mr. Cat