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The Return of Emmett Kai Jun 28, 2021
Musician Emmett Kai returns for the first time since October 2019 to trace what the pandemic years did to him: leaving Brooklyn for upstate New York, a soul-crushing first Patreon, quitting cigarettes, and the panic attacks that…
Opening The Flood Gates with Mark Pontius May 28, 2020
Foster the People drummer Mark Pontius traces his path from fame-numbed depression to inner freedom: reading Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and Bruce Lee on a tour through China, then solo five-gram mushroom journeys following…
Music Inception with Emmett Kai Mar 6, 2020
Musician and producer Emmett Kai treats his midday naps as astral-projection sessions, and he and Noah use Inception as a template for reality-as-dream: the hypnagogic half-sleep state as a place to implant scenes — like walking…
Cosmic Community with Sean, Cass and Joey Feb 15, 2020
Sean and Cass of the Very Ape podcast, with mystery guest Joey Lipstein, gather in Brooklyn on the eve of a Ween show for a freewheeling riff on "cosmic community" — how a shared band obsession, a candy-flip epiphany at Desert…
Life is Kwesi with Kwesi Jan 16, 2020
Podcaster and musician Kwesi traces his path from busking anonymously in Spain — where a stranger tossing a coin in his hat cracked open the realization that fun could be a livelihood — to LA's songwriting scene, making the case…
Step Into Your Role with Johanna Warren Nov 15, 2019
Musician and actor Johanna Warren traces synchronicity, deja vu, and branching timelines to a single idea: life is a script we are already writing, and the character profiles we carry — the abandoned one, the suffering artist,…
CANNASYNC + SYNCTAPE #01 May 2, 2019
A guestless, two-part episode: Noah reads and expands on his own tweet storm about cannabis policy, arguing that anti-legalization campaigns like Smart Approaches to Marijuana run on Koch-funded fear, tiny sample sizes, and the…
Love, LSD and Music with Colin Frangicetto Dec 27, 2018
Circa Survive musician and visual artist Colin Frangicetto joins Noah Lampert to trace an art life built on betting on yourself, from quitting the safety net of a day job to reframing health-insurance premiums as just another…
Exploring Epigenetics with David Krantz Nov 29, 2018
Epigenetic coach and musician David Krantz explains how the layer of control sitting between our fixed DNA and its actual expression can be nudged through diet, supplements, sleep, and timing.
Music, Polarization and Perseverance with Nick Lutsko Nov 16, 2018
Musician Nick Lutsko traces his path from a commercial-songwriting degree to viral Super Deluxe hits like emo Trump and the Alex Jones "Bonnie Bear" song, breaking down the convoluted, detail-obsessed process behind his musical…
Stories, Music and Social Action with Rena Jones Aug 16, 2018
Portland ambient musician Rena Jones joins Noah to trace how her concept albums (Transmigration, Driftwood, Indra's Web, Echoes) grew out of psychedelics, Eastern philosophy, and Brian Eno's idea of leaving open space for the…
Mother's Calling with Ambika Jun 15, 2018
Singer Ambika traces her path from Jewish punk-rocker fronting New York bands to devotional Kirtan artist, discovering Jivamukti Yoga and Krishna Das's Monday-night chants in the 1990s East Village before a 1998 pilgrimage to…
Synchrosomethingsomething Mar 8, 2018
A guestless mini episode where Noah, snowed in by a foot-plus of snow, reflects on why he's no longer stressed about skipping guests for a month and would rather wait for relaxed, real conversations than jam in interviews.
Happy New Year + I Love You Dec 28, 2017
Noah Lampert records a brief solo year-end message during a rare break while his mother watches his infant son Eli, reflecting on the exhaustion of new fatherhood and Synchronicity's exponential growth in downloads, subscribers,…
Ep. 97 - The Power of Sound + Music with Alexandre Tannous Aug 9, 2017
Ethnomusicologist and sound researcher Alexandre Tannous unpacks why nearly every mystical and religious tradition names sound as the primordial origin of the universe, and how the harmonic overtone series encodes the mathematics…
Ep. 73 - Tim Heidecker Mar 8, 2017
Comedian Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric, On Cinema, Decker) traces how his best work bubbles up through instinct and collaboration rather than conscious planning, from prank videos in film school to a movie-review podcast that grew…
Ep. 71 - Community, Curiosity and Optimism with Zach Mack Feb 22, 2017
Zach Mack, owner of the East Village beer bar ABC Beer Co., joins Noah for an in-person conversation on engineering community through shared food and drink, and on curiosity as a defense against closed-mindedness.
Ep. 70 - High Times with Sean Dunne Feb 15, 2017
Documentary filmmaker Sean Dunne (VeryApe.tv) returns for a stoned, in-person conversation at his Greenpoint apartment ranging from music as sacred vibration (Hazrat Inayat Khan's mysticism of sound) to learning instruments in…
Ep. 65 - Matt Xian [TIMEWHEEL] Jan 11, 2017
Matt Xian, co-founder of the San Antonio psychedelic art-and-music collective Time Wheel and frontman of the band Something Fiction, traces how a single altered-state breakthrough around age 18 dissolved his inherited life plan…
Ep. 46 - Matt Oestreicher Sep 8, 2016
Multi-instrumentalist Matt Oestreicher, trained at the New England Conservatory and Tufts, traces a career that runs from touring with Chester French, Blink-182 and Weezer to playing Clavinet alongside Stevie Wonder at Muhammad…
Ep. 41 - Jarell Perry Aug 4, 2016
Musician and songwriter Jarell Perry, founder of the Still Mind blog, traces his path from gospel-choir kid to UCLA grad to burned-out major-label songwriter, and how mindfulness became a survival strategy that reshaped his art…
Ep. 40 - Music, Life, and Fun with Lily Cushman Jul 28, 2016
Musician and yoga teacher Lily Cushman traces a winding path from Berklee music-production student to New York audio engineer to founder of the donation-based Brooklyn Yoga School and the Vanaras kirtan label.
Ep. 25 - Biet Simkin Apr 13, 2016
NYC meditation teacher and musician Biet Simkin traces her path from an eccentric Russian-immigrant childhood under her shaman-psychotherapist father, through the deaths of nearly her whole family and years of alcohol, cocaine,…
Ep. 17 - Danny Goldberg Feb 24, 2016
Music-industry veteran Danny Goldberg (Nirvana's manager, Led Zeppelin's publicist, former head of Atlantic Records) traces the spiritual practice he built under New York teacher Hilda Charlton, and how prayer more than…
Ep. 14 - Music, Life and Buddhism w/ David Nichtern Feb 3, 2016
David Nichtern, the musician behind the hit "Midnight at the Oasis" and a second-generation Western Dharma teacher, traces how he walked away from a rising music career to direct a meditation center as a student of Chogyam…
Ep. 13 - Noah Recommends #1 Jan 19, 2016
A guest-free solo episode where Noah Lampert shares his current recommendations across podcasts, music, film, and TV.