Our Stepdad Dave: Recent Episodes
Sawyer Bressler
Our Stepdad, Dave is reportedly a podcast by two brothers - who aren’t really brothers - exploring space, time, and fungal growths. Together, Greg Suehr and Sawyer Bressler are having funny conversations about serious stuff.
For the internet. For free.
Sawyer and Greg discuss discipline, "drive", and daily schedules.
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Sawyer and Greg are back with a much anticipated episode about hunting!
Dive in deeper to an exciting piece of legislation, now signed into law:
- Official congress.gov listing for S.3422 and H.R.1957
- American Hiking Society's Great American Outdoors Act Primer
- Linda Bilmes' Analysis in the Harvard Gazette
- Economic Contributions of National Park Visitor Spending (2018)
- Congressional Research Service's Ten-Year Trends Report (2019)
Sawyer's friend Wyatt Lutz joins us to reminisce in Barbours, Pennsylvania.
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Buy "Snaggletooth Pumpkin" by Zaki: https://hellozaki.bandcamp.com/track/snaggletooth-pumpkin
Do it now! (or Greg might get in trouble)
A "sneak preview" of a careful introduction to a complicated structure: "substance" and cycles of abuse.
Show Notes
- Bruce Alexander: Addiction: The View from Rat Park
- Nir Eyal: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Notes from SWITZERLAND
- A public health perspective: Environmental Factors Contributing to Adolescent Internet Addiction (2019)
- Individual and Environmental Factors that Influence People’s Addiction Tendencies (2012)
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When we say "only when clinically prescribed", we really mean it - and Greg will tell you why.
But these clinicians will tell you what we know so far:
- MAPS (an association for Psychedelic Studies)
- https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
- maps.org/research/psilo-lsd/lsd-news-timeline/benefits-of-magic-mushroom-therapy
In this episode, Greg meets Sawyer's childhood friend and renowned author of "Bimble the Bear: The Case of the Missing Shoe", Andrew Akers.
Andrew is busy preparing for a new leg of his career working as a ranger and starting a third book instead of publishing his second, but he took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk to Greg about the art-making process, finding your voice, and Karl Jung.
Show Notes
- Buy Bimble the Bear! (do it now)
- Andrew's YouTube channel!
- Andrew's D&D podcast!
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More press for Mr. Akers
Greg and Sawyer talk about mushrooms, "folk knowledge", and the (feminist) philosopher Donna Haraway.
An "Alternative" History
- "Moldy Mary", the grapefruit story!
- Another history of Mary Kay Steven (nee Hunt)
- Another Mary (Agnes Chase)
- City Chicks (by Patricia Foreman, BEZOS WARNING)
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Sawyer talks about regenerative agriculture, information bifurcation, and complicated systems.
Show Notes
- The Salatin story: http://www.polyfacefarms.com/
- The Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifurcation_memory
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In this episode, Sawyer introduces sleep and it's relationship to learning and performance.
Greg counters with research by Claudio Stampi on atypical sleep patterns long distance boaters use to stay on course while at sea - then he rants about music and the subconscious:
- Claudio Stampi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Stampi
- More Stampi: https://www.outsideonline.com/1823431/miles-go-i-sleep
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