Mitch Swenson

Host of @Redactedisland podcast | author, journalist, war reporter, astrologer, conservationist, aquanaut, game designer, button-pusher ♡

[VERA PR @vera___pr]

Tune in and get tf out. It's @deathofsubject on @redactedisland.

https://t.co/RNt4hvtSFw

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

During times of radical instability, it is always comforting to know that we can rely on Shen Yun coming to town. Thank you Shen 🙏

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

Lex embracing getting tf out. Exitmaxxing is entering peak zeitgeist

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I made it out of the jungle alive ❤

This was an adventure of a lifetime, from getting lost in dense unexplored wilderness to taking very high doses of ayahuasca.

I'll post videos about some of these adventures in a week or so. First, here's a 4 hour podcast conversation with Paul Rosolie that we recorded deep in the jungle.

This time in the jungle has deepened my gratitude for getting to exist on this beautiful planet with all of you. I love you all ❤

The podcast conversation is here on X and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:07 - Amazon jungle
4:25 - Bushmaster snakes
15:51 - Black caiman
34:11 - Rhinos
37:25 - Anacondas
1:07:42 - Mammals
1:19:48 - Piranhas
1:30:38 - Aliens
1:48:23 - Elephants
1:56:21 - Origin of life
2:09:40 - Explorers
2:22:57 - Ayahuasca
2:31:22 - Deep jungle expedition
2:45:29 - Jane Goodall
2:48:00 - Theodore Roosevelt
2:58:56 - Alone show
3:08:42 - Protecting the rainforest
3:24:55 - Snake makes appearance
3:33:06 - Uncontacted tribes
3:46:30 - Mortality
3:47:58 - Steve Irwin
3:55:38 - God

[Redacted Island @redactedisland]

New Redacted Island episode with Barrett Avner from the @con_tain podcast. We talk about Alaska, islands in Japan, Byung Chul Han, samurais, music, war, finding peace, and other sh1t.

https://t.co/PtkPzDHhfG

[merritt k (not really here anymore) @merrittk]

New short story: a reporter goes down to a ravaged Miami Beach to find the last known person from a bodybuilding forum who took a strange drug called scramp https://t.co/fErt2v35eA

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

Exactly.
https://t.co/znhZSMnVl6

[‎ ‎ ‎ ⊹ ོ @sighswoon]

Sometimes if you are addicted to freedom and escaping into freedom. You go into a situation that constricts you just so you can break free. You love to leave. To overcome. To rely on yourself again. Hand on your chest and Laughter in the alley Out of breath with the one you love

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

You're either a vampire and draw energy from humans in dark cities or a druid and draw energy from deep earth.

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

Actually pretty happy the MET Gala put JG Ballard on blast. Dude is the best.

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

One of the most honest captures of what happened at UCLA

[Contain @con_tain]

UCLA Gaza Protest Report w/ @MichelleLhooq live from inside the barricades, up now on all public platforms/feeds

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

You can feel the world starting to shift as Pluto moves from money-centric, careerist Capricorn into weird, harmonious, and egalitarian Aquarius.

Pluto stays in a single house for 30 years. Which is why we've seen the Capricorn world ethos since the Clinton administration. As we move into Aquarius, things will become more balanced as a result of a chaotic global leveling.

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

The Drake-Kendrick battle is a perfect storm for astrology heads. Drake, a Scorpio, wants to inflict the same pain on someone that he is dealt from them (regardless of intention). And Kendrick, Gemini, uses insults to constantly stay in the limelight. They are both super incompatible with each other. This is the same zodiac make-up of Hillary Clinton (Scorpio) and Donald Trump (Gemini)

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

The fastest way for someone to lose is to compare themselves to other people. Gotta make peace with yourself and go in having no expectations. Take every side quest and you'll eventually find hidden and imbued armor

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

@jhensonpogue @Granta Respect. Have you seen The Ambassador (2011)?

[James Pogue @jhensonpogue]

Belatedly posting: A few months ago I went to the Central African Republic, on what was supposed to be the first stop of a trip about small-time gold mining. This piece, out now in @Granta, is about what ended up happening

https://t.co/beKYSZFqYz

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

Back in my druid surf town

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

@merrittk Places of peace are few and far between in NYC. There's something to be said for that wooded lake joint... Save for the dearth of baddies

[Redacted Island @redactedisland]

New episode of @redactedisland

@liseman joins to talk about his project @MakeSunsets — an ambitious solar geoengineering startup that aims to cool the planet by launching reflective clouds into the stratosphere.

https://t.co/Y1B8R46ZI7

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

@YAgamben Respect

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

@redactedisland @ChloeNorgaard https://t.co/s50RIF9ph5

[Mitch Swenson @Mitch_Swenson]

New @redactedisland

I first met @ChloeNorgaard in 2009 while we were models in Tokyo (lol). That was pretty much where my modeling career started and ended. But Chloe went on to become a shooting star. She’s not only been the face of some of the biggest brands in the world, but has also been on a mission to add more life and color to it ever since.

In this episode we remember what it was like playing mannequins in Japan (in the era before the iPhone), as well as talk about Chloe’s quest to plant flowers in urban landscapes from New York City to Addis Ababa.