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This week, Adam and Faith are joined by Tobias Peggs, CEO of Square Roots, a company that has the mission to feed every consumer on the planet with locally grown food using hydroponics. Tobias will tell us all about the technology behind Square Roots, including the impact of AI on the growing of lettuce. How does growing with hydroponics compare to growing in traditional soil? What are the pros and cons of this type of indoor growing method? Find out the answers to these questions and much more on this week’s Jolty!

The first Jolty of 2023 is here! Faith and Adam are joined by Chloé de Ruffray to discuss everything about future trends. While many people are feeling like the world is in a constant state of crysis, many are also finding sanctuary in the regressive aspects of technology and culture. AI like ChatGPT are changing the industry, what jobs will be impacted by the introduction of AI into the workforce? Are things like ChatGPT and the metaverse a trend or a big part of the future? Chloé is one of the first futurists to come onto Jolty with us and we look forward to having more in the future!

On the last episode of Jolty for 2022, Adam and Faith take a moment to give their predictions on trends moving into 2023 and beyond. Will business owners ever be able to get their employees back into the office? Will Covid ACTUALLY end this time? What about Trump? We get you the answers and much more on this week’s Jolty!

This week on Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by Andrew Goldman. Andrew (Andy) is the Head of Programming at Grooveee, LLC and has also been a professor at NYU for the past 17 years. But before that, he got his big break working for HBO for nearly 30 years, giving him real world experience of the ins and outs of TV programming, pilots, screen testing etc. Not only is Andy a very Jolty guest, he’s the perfect person to talk to when it comes to the future of film and content in this discombobulated world we find ourselves in today. A world in which you aren’t allowed to make jokes, everything is polarized, and streaming networks are taking cinemas out to pasture. We hope you enjoy the conversation!

On this episode of Jolty, Adam and Faith have an excellent guest who will quell some of your anxieties when it comes to implementing artificial intelligence into robots. Bruce Duncan comes onto the podcast to talk to us about Bina48, a humanoid social robot based on a real life person named Bina Rothblatt. We find out the purpose of Bina48 and how it was created. We also dive into the ethics of AI and why Bruce is so optimistic about the prospect moving forward. We’ll also discover the idea of creating Mindfiles and how that could be utilized to bring loved ones back from the dead for a conversation in the current day. All this and much more on this episode of Jolty!

Burials and cremations are dead ends. Composting is a fitting, circular end to life. This is the mission of Katrina Spade, who built "Recompose" - the world's first sustainable, empathetic, spiritually-elevated facility where human life is gradually and honorably brought to its most natural conclusion. Join Faith and Adam as they discuss the future of "life after life" while struggling  - with limited success - to avoid the inevitable puns.

Long before we named this podcast Jolty, Lou Cooperhouse, founder and CEO of BlueNalu, started a peak jolty company. Imagine if you could use the natural cells of fish to create fish itself! Contemplate blue fin sushi that is identical to the tuna that is harvested in the ocean, and then brutally killed on fishing boats. That's what Lou is creating with BlueNalu - a world where we can derive all the health and sensorial benefits of eating fresh fish, without the mercury and microplastics found in the fish we eat today, in the most sustainable way imaginable. Join Adam and Faith as Lou explains the vision, the technology, and the economics of how he is jolting conventional wisdom and creating the future of fish.

This week on Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by Dr. Alex Box, an identity designer and futurist, who has some interesting ideas about human beings turning into entities and moving past their physical bodies. This obviously ties into one of Faith’s favorite subjects, the metaverse. How will the metaverse change how we look? What will the impact of climate change be on how we look in the physical world? This episode is particularly Jolty and we recommend listening to it at least twice to absorb everything Alex is talking about!

This week we have a Jolty healthcare service provider named Sesame, which aims to bring down the costs of doctor and specialist visits by negotiating directly with care providers rather than through insurance. Adam and Faith are joined by Michael Botta Hernandez, who is the Co-founder and President of Sesame. The sad truth is that over the last few decades, medical care has become a business model, and normal Americans are being subjected to astronomical prices. That’s why we brought Michael on the show to tell you all about how his company is disrupting the space. We definitely recommend checking out the website and comparing prices in your local area! http://sesamecare.com

On this week’s Jolty, Adam and Faith are joined by the CEO of the Female Quotient, Shelley Zalis. Shelley works with Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations to advance equality in the workplace. How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected gender equality in the workplace? Is there still a gender pay gap in 2022? Why can’t the gender pay be fixed faster? What’s it like to co-parent? These questions, and much more will be answered in today's conversation!