The Past Within: Recent Episodes
JT O'Connell
The Past Within is a podcast exploring the role of the history in our psychology and society. What are we responsible for in our everyday lives? How can we better understand each other across the spectrum? Can we become ambassadors to improve the national discourse? This podcast will help stabilize your mindset and expand your understanding of the disagreements that tear at the fabric of modern life.
Ryan joins us to speak about a UFO documentary, the movie Tar, the transgender phenomenon, and some foolish statements being made about vaccines.
A follow-up to the previous episode adding detail and examples of some slaves who purchased their own freedom, in their own words. We also talk about the corrupting effects of slavery on the institutions and character of American citizens before the Civil War (antebellum).
Florida's educational curriculum for history is reasonable, nuanced, and accurate. The slanders from the CRT crowd are increasingly more ridiculous.
Rian is back to talk about some cultural content that is worth checking out; Eric July's Rippaverse. Link below if you would like to check it out for yourself.
https://rippaverse.com/
What's the deal with elite people trying to leverage control over agriculture? It's not enough they can eat anything they want at any time and anywhere, they also have to determine what everyone else eats and how much and how it's produced. That impulse goes way back.
An old Abraham Lincoln quote slashes away the foundations for the modern woke movement.
How America got to playing this game with Taiwan and the CCP and what we should do about it.
Just an interesting bit of history. After the Louisiana Purchase, a VP lost his job in disgrace and tried to foment a revolution in both the trans-Mississippi West, and Mexico City.
This episode was recorded before the previous. Delivered as promised, and in a timely fashion considering the flopping of Lightyear in the box office. Maybe Disney will get the message, but probably not. Rian and J.T. discuss Disney's role in society throughout the lifetime of the company.
J.T. finds his way back to the microphone. It has been a while. He explores why he left and what has happened in the interim.
This episode is more of a rant about the morphing of the agreement between citizens and governments away from empowering the citizens and toward empowering the government on behalf of the 'safety' of the citizens, which would make them subjects. Yeah, if you can deal with that sentence, give the episode a listen.
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Short explanation as to why Just Another Bite went off the rails and what will be happening with The Past Within. Then I talk about the role that inflation plays in destabilizing society. It's not a conspiracy. But it does screw over most of the country for the benefit of the small few. There is indeed something wrong with the so-called 1% but it's not what the socialists think. We dig in.
This is the final episode from a podcast called Just Another Bite. Explanation in the introduction. This episode is a response to a common conservative take on the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets Society. I have never quite agreed with that critique. It's more complex. We explore.