Joni McGary Talks with People
Joni McGary Talks with People
Podcast Description
A podcast exploring how to navigate life when trust in institutions, media, and conventional wisdom has faltered. Join me as I engage with guests across a wide variety of topics, all connected by a central thread:
In this chaotic landscape, how do you create a life of genuine happiness, health, and meaning? How do you move from cynicism to wisdom, from anxiety to freedom? jonimcgary.substack.com
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The podcast focuses on navigating life amidst declining trust in institutions, media, and traditional wisdom, with themes including personal freedom, the impacts of technocracy, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and misinformation. Episodes feature discussions around complex topics like the implications of the GENIUS Act and practical advice on cultivating happiness and meaningful existence in challenging times.
Joni McGary Talks with People is for anyone who’s lost all faith in institutional narratives and theatrics and is wondering how to actually live well right now. Host Joni McGary (co-founded No College Mandates) has real conversations with researchers, doctors, writers, artists, and independent thinkers about everything from medical freedom and pandemic policies to beauty, craft, community, and what it means to rebuild relationships and society when trust has been crushed. It’s thoughtful, relaxed, with no frenzied spin—just genuine talks with interesting people who know things.
There is a massive data center buildout exploding across America, and Indiana has become one of the industry’s biggest target locations. I invited Ben Inskeep, Program Director of the Citizens Action Coalition, to talk about the rapid expansion of hyper-scale AI data centers and what it means for local communities.
Ben reviews the huge energy and water demands of these facilities, the tax incentives and public subsidies attracting them to Indiana, and the pressure they’re placing on the electric grid and water supply. Ben also explains how recent legislation has attracted and accelerated development and what these projects reveal about the intersection of the tech industry, politics, and economic development.
Whether you live in Indiana or not, this conversation is relevant because data centers seem to be popping up all over the country at breakneck speed.
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