Emilio Miller-Lopez is an initiated bard of the Gaelic Order of Ulster. He also builds AI. This conversation is what happens when those two things sit in the same room. Rome hunted the Druids to near-extinction, and because the tradition was oral, an entire people lost the thread back to their own indigenous roots. Emilio found it — sent home by Native elders who told him that mending the sacred hoop meant recovering his own ancestry instead of borrowing theirs, then initiated through a student of Ben McGrady, the last of the old druids. From there we go from the oak groves to the data centers and find the same story told twice. Emilio traces the word dominion — over beasts, over land, over human beings under slavery — straight to Dominion Energy, the monopoly utility now sitting at the crossroads of the entire AI buildout in Northern Virginia. Along the way: why Merlin was a title rather than a man, why the fire festivals survived when the written lineage did not, why abstaining from AI isn't resistance, and why nothing has ever displaced a polluting incumbent except a more attractive alternative. https://greenseek.ai/get-started/signup?ref=3J91KVIU&promo=AUBREY This episode is sponsored by ►Metal Mark Gold Aurum Collectable Art | ⁠https://mtlmrk.com/⁠ ►Korrect Life | ⁠https://korrectlife.com/ | Aubrey Marcus | ►Website | ⁠⁠https://www.aubreymarcus.com/ ►Instagram | / aubreymarcus ►Facebook |⁠⁠ / aubreymarcus ►X |⁠ https://x.com/aubreymarcus ►Substack: https://www.aubreymarcus.com/blogs/su... ► Love To The Seventh Power: ⁠https://chakaruna.com/collections/books⁠ Subscribe to the Aubrey Marcus podcast: ►iTunes |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://apple.co/2lMZRCn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►Spotify |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://spoti.fi/2EaELZO ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠►IHeartRadio |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ihr.fm/3CiV4x3 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠►Partner with the Aubrey Marcus Podcast | https://www.aubreymarcus.com/pages/bo... ========================================­===== About the Podcast Founder of Onnit and modern philosopher Aubrey Marcus asks the important questions: How do we find our purpose, wake up to who we truly are, have a few more laughs, and human being a little better? The Aubrey Marcus Podcast brings in world-class guests from the fields of athletics, health, business, fitness, science, relationship and spirituality, and asks them to open up about the failures and successes that define their wisdom and character. Follow me on social to keep up with the latest, and meet many of the incredible guests we’ve been honored to have on the show.