On this special One Year Anniversary episode, Celtic reconnects with the first guest of the series, Deandre Carroll, as they discuss treating books like heroin, missing the old routines of navigating the world, balancing social responsibility and personal mental health in the time of a pandemic, the limits of human understanding, pattern seeking and conspiracy theory, the advancement of vaccination, herd immunity, the global response to the murder of George Floyd, seizing upon the opportunity to advance discussions of race, the transmutation and minimization of important social issues, cancel culture and the incentive to act, voter suppression, anti-racism discussions within the Dance community, the multicultural influence of Hip-Hop, anti-Asian violence in America and the legacy of white supremacy, talking with white people about race and the white guilt phenomenon, post traumatic growth, and the process of change for the better.

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