{"podcast":{"title":"Here For The Truth","slug":"here-for-the-truth-4369027","podcast_index_feed_id":4369027,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/hereforthetruth/","website_url":"https://www.hereforthetruth.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2efcb1e0-8618-44f4-8753-7f081c29e8bd/Untitled-design-3.png","author":"Joel & Yerasimos","episode_count":325,"summary":"In a world awash with propaganda, censorship, and spiritual confusion, Here For The Truth is a refuge for critical thinkers and seekers of authenticity. Hosted by Joel Rafidi and Yerasimos, this podcast cuts through the noise to explore psychology, philosophy, spirituality, health, freedom, and the human condition with honesty and depth. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with thought leaders, researchers, and free thinkers from around the world, Here For The Truth challenges collective narratives and invites you to reclaim your mind, body, and the essence of what makes you who you are. If you’re tired of surface-level conversations and ready to confront reality with depth and courage—this is your weekly listen. Subscribe, follow, and join the movement of those willing to see, think, and live differently. https://hereforthetruth.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T10:17:52.584175+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-for-the-truth-4369027"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 303 - Ariana Victor | Just Look Up","slug":"ep-303-ariana-victor-just-look-up","published_at":"2026-06-28T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-for-the-truth-4369027/ep-303-ariana-victor-just-look-up","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-for-the-truth-4369027","url":"https://hereforthetruth.com/episode303","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/69c0668c-95b1-41e6-a0c2-330e3b5c378d.mp3","summary":"Ariana Victor is an investigative filmmaker whose first decade in this work has been one long act of refusal — at twenty, inside a treatment program for eating disorders, when a therapist took notes on her late-night creative sparks and reached for a bipolar diagnosis, she walked out and started asking harder questions. That refusal became a method: Carey Gillam’s Whitewash, the Bayer-Monsanto courtrooms, five years inside geoengineering territory, and Just Look Up, a documentary that just won Best Feature Documentary at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. The conversation lives in the territory underneath the film. Ariana names the activist’s trap directly — how unrelenting attention on the shadow can poison the nervous system of the people most committed to waking others up — and offers the mantra that kept her in the fight without destroying her: play is protection. We talk about the nocebo as placebo’s evil twin, nervous system regulation as the actual dividing line between healthy advocacy and ideological self-destruction, the ego path versus the soul path, and why she eventually laid down the sword and let the softness return. Underneath all of it is the simple truth she keeps coming back to: truth feels good. It doesn’t feel heavy. (00:00) Cold Open (00:36) Opening Conversation (03:06) Show Start (Health Awakening & Medical Doubts) (06:53) From Medicine to Filmmaking (08:38) Monsanto Roundup Trials Story (10:55) Corporate Capture Explained (20:08) Why the World Feels Inverted (24:57) Nocebo and Truther Burnout (31:36) “Playfulness is protection…” (42:02) “Just Look Up” Documentary (47:33) Meeting Filmmaker w/ Same Birth Chart (51:00) Geoengineering Explained (Contrails) (59:26) Whistleblowers & Fuel / Cloud Seeding & Fires (01:08:51) Intuit…","meta_description":"Ariana Victor is an investigative filmmaker whose first decade in this work has been one long act of refusal — at twenty, inside a treatment program for e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5296,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/here-for-the-truth-4369027/episodes/ep-303-ariana-victor-just-look-up/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-for-the-truth-4369027/ep-303-ariana-victor-just-look-up.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}