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David Boles
This Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!
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The first forgotten truth emerges from the medieval understanding of time as a living, breathing entity rather than a mere mechanical measurement. Before the proliferation of mechanical clocks in the fourteenth century, communities understood time through the rhythms of nature, prayer bells, and seasonal cycles. This organic temporal awareness created a psychological resilience that we've lost in our nanosecond-obsessed age. Medieval chroniclers spoke of "thick time" – moments that expanded during contemplation, compressed during joy, and flowed like water through daily life. Recovering this elastic relationship with time would immediately address our epidemic of anxiety and burnout. When we cease treating time as a scarce resource to be maximized and instead experience it as an abundant field of presence, we naturally align with healthier patterns of work, rest, and relationship. The practical application is startlingly simple: organizing our days around natural light cycles and meaningful rituals rather than arbitrary clock divisions restores a sense of groundedness that no amount of productivity optimization can achieve.
The human yearning to create intelligence beyond our own biological constraints stretches back to antiquity, manifesting not as "artificial intelligence" but through divine automata, mystical golems, and mechanical servants. The ancient Greeks spoke of Talos, the bronze giant who protected Crete, while Jewish mysticism produced the golem of Prague, animated by sacred words. Medieval Islamic scholars designed intricate water clocks and mechanical musicians, calling them "al-jazari" - the skillful ones. These weren't mere toys but embodiments of humanity's deepest aspiration: to breathe life into the inanimate, to create minds from matter. They were referred to as "animated beings," "enchanted servants," or "mechanical souls" - each culture wrapping the concept in its own mythological and technological understanding.
Yes, we are each other: The Us of Us. To deny this truth is to court disaster. When we forget that we are each other’s possibilities, we begin to retreat. Into silos. Into tribes. Into fear. We stop looking for kinship and start demanding conformity. We begin to believe the lie of the self-made person; the myth that what we’ve done, we did alone. That we owe nothing to no one. That is not independence. That is isolation. That is a world without bridges. And a world without bridges will only ever be full of walls. When you deny someone else their possibility, you shrink your own. When you strip rights, when you refuse resources, when you silence voices you don’t just hurt them. You destroy the potential you had to grow. To learn. To live in a world better than the one you were born into. Because the arc of progress is not a ladder. It is a spiral. We rise together or we fall apart.
We begin with a silence, the kind that rings heavy in the ears of the alone. This is the quiet place many young men now occupy—a self-imposed solitude, carved out not of preference, but of defeat. The dating app didn’t swipe back. The college classroom became a battleground of ideas they couldn’t win. The workplace offered no solace. And so they withdraw—not only from dating, but from the belief that women are allies in life. They begin to bond instead with other wounded men in digital caves, places where contempt is currency and mockery of women is misidentified as empowerment. What has happened? How have we arrived here, in this silo of misogyny?
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century was not merely the collapse of a political order or the ruin of marble monuments. It was the slow eclipse of an entire world – a complex tapestry of cultural practices, technical know-how, intellectual traditions, and spiritual paradigms – many of which vanished forever. Historians often highlight the sack of cities and the demise of imperial authority, yet beyond the smoking ruins lies an even greater tragedy: the loss of ways of life and thought that had no true successor. Reconstructing these forgotten dimensions of Roman civilization requires equal parts scholarship and imagination. What follows is an academic meditation on those elusive losses – facets of Roman society unique to their time, only partially understood today, and largely without modern analog. Each represents a thread of human experience that was severed in the aftermath of Rome’s fall, leaving later generations in a poorer world, often unaware of what had been lost.
When a society starts to devalue education, the consequences quickly ripple through every aspect of civic, cultural, and economic life. Education is much more than a process of transferring facts; it is the crucible in which critical thinking, moral reasoning, civic responsibility, and creative innovation are forged. The deliberate or inadvertent devaluation of education leads to a dramatic diminishment in collective wisdom, eroding the very foundation upon which a healthy society stands.
First, let’s be honest: calling something “precious” can sometimes act as a velvet rope, a cordon sanitaire that says, “This is off-limits. This is untouchable and apart.” Think of the grandmother’s china locked in a cabinet—too precious to use, too dear to risk. It preserves a memory, but it can also freeze it, holding it out of the flow of everyday living. You can’t dish up takeout pizza on those plates; you just stare at them gathering dust. That’s the peril of the precious: sometimes, it sterilizes, it sanctifies—and inadvertently, it excludes.
Let's talk about something that might have happened to you, or someone you know: going to the doctor and getting a blood pressure reading that seems way too high. But what if that number isn't the real story? What if it's just a temporary thing that happens when you're in a medical setting? We're going to talk about "White Coat Hypertension," and why, even though some doctors might not think it's a big deal, it's actually a real thing we should be paying attention to.
Yes, that infamous -- Roman dodecahedron. So? What was it? A tool? A weapon? A religious artifact? A toy? A candleholder? A multi-purpose cosmic Swiss Army knife for the ancient world? Nobody knows. And that, my friends, is what makes it so deliciously fascinating.
Across the gnawing of human civilization, a subtle yet persistent blindness emerges — one not simply defined by wars, environmental neglect, or productivity cycles, but deeper flaws rooted in the human condition itself. One such blind spot is humanity's relentless misunderstanding of freedom. Freedom, often worshiped as the highest virtue and tirelessly pursued through revolutions and struggles, has repeatedly been misconstrued as mere absence of constraint rather than proactive alignment with genuine purpose and inner fulfillment. Consider the French Revolution, where liberté became the battle cry, yet the subsequent chaotic implosion via the Reign of Terror and Napoleonic wars underscored that freedom misunderstood leads merely to a more intricate enslavement.
When we speak of wonders, we often conjure images of iconic structures like the Great Pyramid or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. But obscured by the passage of time and the focus on well-trodden historical paths lie numerous marvels that were equally – if not more – fascinating, yet are far less known today. These "forgotten" sites offer unique insights into human ingenuity, societal structures, and the complex relationship between civilizations and their environments.
Long before modern cities and towns covered Nebraska's landscape, the land held secrets of communities that finessed their environments with skill, creativity, and resilience. While Nebraska might not have boasted ancient metropolises like those found in Mexico or Illinois, it quietly housed sophisticated village societies whose existence we can glimpse today through scattered remains and archaeological clues. These settlements offer a rare insight into a human story where innovation and adaptation were key to survival on the open prairie.
From the highest crest of an ancient mountain stood a stone—a towering monument sculpted by the gentle and patient artistry of the universe itself. Here, under skies older than thought, the stone first awoke, catching the first rays of the sun, feeling the cool breath of passing clouds, hearing whispers of winds from distant lands. It began its life indifferent to time, proud and immovable, bearing witness as empires rose and empires fell, as forests flourished and oceans receded.
Henry VIII’s marital saga was as much a tale of personal ambition and passion as it was one of statecraft and religious upheaval. From the outset of his reign, Henry was fixated on securing a male heir—a goal driven by both the turbulent precedents of medieval succession and the very real fear of dynastic collapse. His own father, Henry VII, had claimed the throne through force rather than clear hereditary right, and Henry knew that a secure male successor was essential to solidify the Tudor legacy and avoid further civil strife.
The concept of social safety nets affects every single one of us, whether we realize it or not. These programs and policies—Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, food assistance—represent more than bureaucratic systems. They embody a fundamental question about who we are as a society. I want to make my position clear: these safety nets aren't optional luxuries—they're essential infrastructure for a functioning, humane society. Let me take you on a think through history, across cultures, and into possible futures to explain why.
How do we punish those who break the rules? Over the past thousand years, we’ve moved from brutal public executions and torture to sophisticated legal codes and debates over rehabilitation. And if we take a look at where we’re heading in the next millennium, the future of justice could be something completely beyond our imagination.
Regret, in its multifaceted complexity, is an embedded facet of the human condition—a reflective, often painful acknowledgement of choices that have led us astray from our idealized paths. It emerges from the interplay of memory, expectation, and self-assessment, functioning as both a mirror and a guide. The emotion of regret is not simply a byproduct of decision-making but a cognitive mechanism designed to heighten our awareness of moral and practical missteps, thereby enriching our capacity for future growth.
The late nineteenth century marked a pivotal shift in how “the uncanny” was understood in art and literature, though the roots of eerie resemblance and disquieting near-human forms reach back further. By the 1870s, a transitional period was well underway in Europe, shaped by industrialization and the popularization of automata exhibitions. The public fascination with life-sized clockwork dolls that blinked their eyes or played musical instruments set the stage for the eerie feeling that occurs when something appears human but clearly lacks a human essence. Even before Sigmund Freud offered his famous essay “Das Unheimliche” in 1919, there were tantalizing experiments and anxieties circulating among intellectuals and the general populace. The German psychologist Ernst Jentsch, writing in 1906, introduced the word “uncanny” (in German, “unheimlich”) to discuss that peculiar shiver one feels when faced with an automaton or a wax figure that seems too close to life. His ideas laid much of the groundwork for Freud’s subsequent interpretation.
The most curious unrealized secret of the known world is that humanity’s survival hinges not on technological advancement or resource extraction but on our collective ability to transcend the illusion of separateness. We exist in a hyperconnected biophysical system where every action cascades through ecological, social, and economic networks, yet we behave as if individual or national interests can be pursued in isolation.
Throughout history and into our contemporary world, the invocation of divinity in everyday life—particularly in non-religious arenas such as sports and politics—highlights the deeply rooted cultural inclination to attribute human successes or failures to supernatural favor. When a professional athlete declares that a victory occurred because “God was on our side,” it potentially diminishes both the skill and the diligence that contributed to the win.
Suspension of disbelief, as it is often understood today, traces its formal articulation to the English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” in 1817 in his critical work “Biographia Literaria.” Coleridge proposed that readers and audiences consciously set aside the knowledge that what they are witnessing is artificial in order to be moved, entertained, or enlightened by the piece of art before them.
In the mid-to-late 18th century, as portrait painters struggled to preserve their art form against the sudden intrusion of photographic technology, one can imagine the rumblings across the parlors, salons, and academies of Europe and America. Painters, who had long been accustomed to controlling the manner, mood, and meaning of a subject’s likeness through the deliberate strokes of their brushes, saw photography as not just a mechanical rival, but a dull and unfeeling intruder onto a sacred terrain they had cultivated for centuries.
Passive social murder is the quiet, systemic practice of allowing people to die through inaction and neglect. This idea traces back to the nineteenth century, to minds like Friedrich Engels, who accused the capitalist systems of his era of knowing full well that certain conditions would lead the poor to early graves. It is the kind of death that does not come from a gunshot, but from the heavy, silent weight of a society that structures itself so that some lives are nurtured, while others are left to waste away.
A hitherto unacknowledged connection that threads through the entirety of philosophical writing—across centuries, cultures, and varying schools of thought—is humanity’s unending effort to sublimate existential terror into a coherent narrative that makes mortal life intelligible, permissible, and meaningful. From the careful syllogisms of medieval Scholastics to the bold manifestos of twentieth-century existentialists, philosophers have not merely flirted with the interplay of reason, emotion, and metaphysical longing; they have continually sought to transfigure our instinctive dread of finitude and futility into something purposeful and noble. The binding force here is not merely the quest for truth or the application of logic, but a more primal task: to shelter the trembling human psyche from the chaos of existence through the scaffolding of a grand conceptual edifice. In other words, all philosophical writing can be seen, at its core, as an evolving strategy for constructing spiritual and intellectual refuges against the terror of nonbeing.
Medical AI is not just a technological leap; it’s a cultural shift. When machines analyze our health, we enter a world where the expertise of algorithms supplements—and sometimes challenges—the wisdom of clinicians. This isn’t about replacing the human touch but redefining it. The real story of Medical AI is how it pushes us to rethink the relationship between technology, health, and humanity.
The case of Amanda Knox is a modern legal and cultural Rorschach test—sprawling, messy, and deeply personal for anyone who dares to examine it. At its core, it is a story of a young woman, a brutal murder, and an Italian justice system unprepared for the scrutiny and chaos that would follow. Knox's story is not just about guilt or innocence; it’s about how we, as humans, construct narratives in the absence of clear facts, how media amplifies those narratives, and how justice can falter under pressure. To unpack it fully, we must walk through the tragedy, the trials, and the aftermath.
In a quaint little home nestled among the cobbled streets of an English village, two British Shorthair kittens, Lotty and Percy, spent their days exploring every nook and cranny. Lotty, a plump and cheerful blue kitten, followed his sister Percy wherever she went, his little paws thumping softly on the floorboards. Percy, a lilac-colored marvel, was the clever one—quick as a flash, with a mind as sharp as her tiny claws.
Imagine, for a moment, the United States without its Department of Education—a federal entity established in 1979 to oversee and coordinate national education policies. This department, though often a target in political debates, plays a pivotal role in shaping the educational landscape of the nation. Its elimination would not merely be a bureaucratic adjustment; it would trigger scary and far-reaching consequences across the educational spectrum.
Disappointment is the uninvited guest at the table of life. It sits heavy in our hearts, clutches our dreams, and whispers doubts that gnaw at the edges of hope. Yet, disappointment is not a dead end; it’s a waypoint, a necessary stop on the task of human growth. To be disappointed is to be alive, to care deeply about outcomes, to have risked enough to feel the sting of falling short. And while the pangs of disappointment may seem like the final word, they are often just the prelude to resilience.
Living in the future now—it’s a fascinating idea, isn’t it? We’re talking about those people who seem to exist just a step ahead of us, those who already walk roads we haven’t even built yet. While we’re here, comfortably or uncomfortably immersed in today, they’re already finding ways through tomorrow. These people aren’t necessarily the kind of visionaries we always hear about: CEOs, inventors, or creative masterminds, though many of them do fall into those categories. No, these are people who fundamentally live a little differently, whose minds work in a slightly faster rhythm, who seem to perceive what’s around the corner before the rest of us even realize there is a corner.
False prophets. Charlatans. Snake oil salesmen. These are the people who promise you truth, enlightenment, and a future of clarity—if only you'd let them hold your palm for a moment, if only you'd hand over your money to hear the secret of your life laid bare before you.
The concept of the "Doorknob Confession" in therapy is a fascinating phenomenon, one that captures the delicate dance between time, vulnerability, and truth. It is a moment often recognized by both therapists and clients alike—when the session is coming to an end, when the clock is mercilessly ticking down, and then, just as the client is about to walk out the door, they drop a bombshell. This final revelation, this last-minute unveiling of something deeply important, often takes the form of a confession, a fear, or a truth so significant it threatens to undermine the entire session that came before it.
Now, that phrase: "Bold, Persistent Experimentation." It strikes you right in the heart, doesn’t it? There’s something stirring about it. It’s a challenge, a rallying cry, a promise that our greatest work isn’t behind us, but ahead, waiting to be discovered if only we dare enough. If we try enough.
hYou know, the concept of a "Godwink" is really quite fascinating when you delve into it. At its core, a "Godwink" is one of those moments that feels like more than just a coincidence. It's as if the universe — or a higher power — is giving you a little nudge or a wink to let you know you're on the right path or to provide guidance when you need it most.
The idea of "not speaking ill of the dead" is a deeply rooted cultural and historical construct, and its origins and evolution provide significant insight into the ways societies shape their collective memories. This concept, often summarized in the Latin phrase -- De mortuis nihil nisi bonum -- ("Of the dead, nothing but good should be said"), has existed for millennia, emerging from an interplay of morality, religious beliefs, and the need for social cohesion.
The myth of Prometheus, the fire giver, is a rich and layered tale that has traversed cultures, ideas, and interpretations for centuries. At its core, the story is one of defiance, suffering, and enlightenment. Prometheus is a Titan in Greek mythology, whose name means "forethought," and he is best known for his daring theft of fire from the gods to give to humanity—a gift that symbolizes knowledge, technology, and civilization. But beneath this act of rebellion lies a story of suffering and sacrifice, a warning about the boundaries between human ambition and divine will, and a reflection on the eternal tension between freedom and authority.
Factitious Disorder, often complex and deeply misunderstood, involves individuals deliberately fabricating, exaggerating, or inducing physical or psychological symptoms to assume the role of a sick person. This disorder is distinct from mere malingering, where an individual feigns illness for personal gain such as financial compensation or avoidance of responsibilities. In Factitious Disorder, the primary motivation is to acquire the identity of a patient, receiving attention and care in a medical setting.
Sartre's reflections on prejudice reveal not just the mechanics of anti-Semitism but the broader patterns of hate and bad faith argumentation that persist through time. We’ll explore how these dynamics might evolve over the next 50 to 100 years, anticipating new forms of prejudice that could arise as our world changes. From technophobia and xenophobia to potential discrimination against genetically modified humans or off-world colonists, the targets of hate may shift, but the underlying tactics and impacts remain.
The roots of the moon landing conspiracy theories trace back to a fundamental distrust in government. This sentiment was particularly inflamed during the 1960s and 70s, amidst the chilling winds of the Cold War and the fiery protests against the Vietnam War. The United States was a nation divided, its citizens wrestling with political disillusionment. In such an environment, the narrative that the moon landing could be a grand deception orchestrated by the U.S. government to assert dominance in the space race against the Soviet Union found fertile ground.
The thick, humid air of Mississippi hung heavy on Alana's shoulders, mirroring the weight of her sorrows. The cicadas' chorus, a constant reminder of the stifling heat, seemed to echo the loneliness that had settled deep within her. In her small, clapboard house, she often sought escape in the worn-out grooves of her grandfather's vinyl records. The raw, soulful voices of Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, and Robert Johnson poured from the old turntable, weaving tales of heartache, resilience, and spiritual redemption.
The British Shorthair is a breed steeped in history, defined by a calm dignity that’s as much a part of its character as its iconic round face and plush coat. From its humble origins as a Roman ratter to its modern status as a beloved family companion, this cat has evolved through centuries of selective breeding, weathering wars and fashion trends to emerge as a timeless symbol of British resilience.
Fixed delusions are a type of psychological disorder where a person holds unshakeable beliefs in something that is clearly untrue or illogical. These aren't just occasional misunderstandings or mistaken beliefs; these are convictions that remain firm even when confronted with conflicting evidence. Unlike broader delusions often associated with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, fixed delusions can occur in individuals who might otherwise appear completely functional in everyday life.
The Inflationary Universe Theory proposes that the universe underwent an exponential expansion in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This rapid inflation stretched space-time itself, smoothing out any irregularities and setting the stage for the universe as we know it today. This theory was first put forward by physicist Alan Guth in 1980, and it has since become a cornerstone of modern cosmology.
What exactly are cryptids? The term itself comes from the Greek 'krypto' meaning hidden. So, cryptids are the hidden animals, not yet cataloged by conventional science. These are creatures reported to exist based on anecdotal evidence, eyewitness accounts, and sometimes even grainy photographs, but they remain unconfirmed by modern science. They range from the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland to Bigfoot in the forests of North America, from the Yeti of the Himalayas to the Chupacabra of Latin America.
The genius criminal mind, a phenomenon that marries extraordinary intelligence with malevolent intent, has long captivated our collective imagination and incited deep-seated fears. From historical tyrants orchestrating mass atrocities to modern-day masterminds manipulating complex systems for personal gain, the intersection of brilliance and criminality raises immediate questions about human nature, morality, and the potential for intervention.
Let's start by examining the psychological foundation of this issue. Traditionally, men have been socialized to adopt what psychologists call the "stoic" model of masculinity. This model prioritizes traits such as toughness, self-reliance, and emotional restraint. Historically, these traits were essential for survival and success in a more physically demanding and competitive environment. However, as society has evolved, these characteristics can sometimes become barriers to deep, emotionally supportive relationships.
Squatting, or adverse possession, is a legal doctrine that allows a person to gain ownership of a property under certain conditions. This notion might seem straightforward—occupy a space long enough, and it becomes yours. But as we think, we uncover layers of legal, ethical, and societal implications that complicate this seemingly simple idea.
In the late 1950s, specifically 1958, America was a nation caught between the idyllic post-war boom and the undercurrents of social unrest that would explode in the decades to come. It was during this time that Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old with a James Dean fixation and a brooding persona, embarked on a murderous rampage across Nebraska and Wyoming, leaving 11 people dead. Among those implicated was 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate, who, by all accounts, was present during these killings.
Our discussion is inspired by the cautious insights of Warren Buffett and the philosophical probes of Sam Harris, whose perspectives shed light on both the potential benefits and the unique challenges posed by AI. From the economic implications of job displacement to existential questions about sentience and ethics, we explore how AI is reshaping our world. We'll navigate through the practical applications already transforming industries, check into the ethical frameworks guiding AI development, and speculate on the future roles AI might assume.
As we explore the tales behind phrases like "Goody Two-Shoes," "Catch-22," "Big Brother," and "tilting at windmills," we sink into the narratives that spawned them and the authors who penned these indelible words. These phrases encapsulate complex ideas and emotions, echoing through time to resonate in our current era, often stripped of their context yet rich with cultural significance.
Our discussion extends beyond the mere act of colorizing old photographs to include the ways in which entire histories are often romanticized, sanitized, or even rewritten to suit contemporary tastes and ideologies. From the silver screens of Hollywood to the solemn corridors of educational institutions, the manipulation of history has pervasive consequences. It influences how we perceive our past and, subsequently, how we envision our future.
Our story resumes on the bridge of the Feline Star Cruiser. The vastness of space stretches out before our heroes, a canvas of twinkling stars and swirling galaxies. Captain Whiskerfluff is deep in thought, gazing out into the cosmos, while Lieutenant Mittens fiddles with a new gadget on her console. Skeedootle is snoozing quietly in a corner, her snores punctuated by tiny barks.
Was there ever life on Mars? Is it there now hidden beneath the dust? Could Mars be the future home for human civilization? These questions compel scientists and dreamers alike. But beyond the scientific inquiry, Mars has also painted the canvas of our cultural landscape, influencing everything from classical compositions to blockbuster films.
In the ancient world, where myths were born from the murmurs of nature and the whispers of the gods, there existed a singular seed. This was not just any seed, but one imbued with the essence of eternity, a gift from Gaia herself, the mother of all life. Planted in the fertile earth of a forgotten land, it began its first life under the watchful gaze of celestial beings.
The concept of "high vibration foods" has emerged as a tantalizing notion, promising a pathway to enhanced physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. This idea posits that certain foods, by virtue of their intrinsic energy or "vibrational" qualities, can elevate our own personal energy levels, thus improving our health and happiness. As we set forth, our mission is to unravel the threads of this modern myth, placing the truth above the comforting lullabies of falsehood.
Our story begins with Dr. Samantha Myles, a visionary astrobiologist, who discovered a distant planet, christened "NovaTerra." This world, lush and teeming with potential, orbited a young star in the constellation of Lyra. Unlike the exhausted Earth, NovaTerra promised a fresh start, a canvas of boundless possibilities. With the Earth's clock winding down, humanity pooled its remaining resources, ingenuity, and spirit into one final venture—the Exodus Project.
Let’s start with the basics. NIL rights allow collegiate athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness. This could be through endorsements, social media promotions, personal appearances, and more. Before recent changes, such policies were forbidden, and athletes were strictly amateurs, at least in the eyes of the NCAA, which meant they couldn’t earn from their soaring popularity, unlike their institutions which profited immensely from their performances.
According to a May 2021 poll from the Survey Center on American Life, the number of American men who view themselves as having "no close friends" has increased from 3% in 1990 to 15% in 2021. This significant shift invites us to look deeper into the nuances of human relationships and the evolving dynamics of solitude and social connectivity.
Professional wrestling, as we know it today, began in the late 19th century. It evolved from genuine competitive wrestling into a more entertainment-focused spectacle. The early days were marked by carnival and vaudeville acts where wrestlers, often referred to as "hookers" due to their ability to "hook" their opponents into submission holds, would challenge locals to prove their strength. These exhibitions were as much about showmanship as they were about strength, setting the stage for what was to become professional wrestling.
Collecting is a purposeful and selective process. It involves the acquisition of specific items that fit within a predefined category. Collectors often experience joy and pride in organizing and displaying their collections. Whether it’s stamps, books, coins, or art, collections often follow a thoughtful acquisition strategy. The items collected have not just monetary value but emotional value; they tell a story or complete a set.
Ten years ago, the archetype of the kindly professor was often exploited. Students, perceiving kindness as a vulnerability, frequently requested extensions, favors, and leniencies that stretched beyond the typical academic courtesies. This dynamic, while problematic, was somewhat contained within the understood professional boundaries of the educator-student relationship. The instructor, committed to nurturing minds, often felt obligated to acquiesce, perhaps hoping to inspire dedication through their own example of benevolence.
06We open today’s adventure aboard the grand Feline Star Cruiser, hurtling through the velvety cosmos. The bridge is alive with the usual array of starry blips and bloops on the monitors. Captain Whiskerfluff is pensively staring out the viewport, his tail flicking with each troubling thought. Lieutenant Mittens is trying to adjust the navigation panel, but keeps hitting the wrong buttons with her paws.
One stormy night, Emily discovered an ancient, moss-covered tome in her attic. It was bound in birch bark and smelled of earth and old secrets. The tome spoke of a forgotten forest, Heartwood, where trees whispered and walked under the moon’s watchful eye. The Heartwood was said to hold the heart of nature itself, beating deep within its oldest tree, known as the Heartwood Oak.
Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is a condition that falls under the category of sleep-related disorders. Those affected by EHS experience auditory hallucinations that are described as loud noises — they might sound like a bomb exploding, a gunshot, or a cymbal crash — occurring just before falling asleep or upon waking. The sound is vivid and real to the person experiencing it, but it is completely internal; there’s no actual sound being produced externally.
The genesis of dystopian literature can be traced back to the burgeoning industrial age, where rapid technological advancement and societal upheaval began to stir deep-seated fears and anxieties about the future. Thomas More's "Utopia," published in 1516, though fundamentally a work about a perfect society, ironically laid the groundwork for its antithesis, dystopia, by presenting a world so perfect that it ironically highlighted its unattainability.
Ilse Koch, historically etched into memory with monikers such as "The Witch of Buchenwald," "The Beast of Buchenwald," and most infamously, "The Bitch of Buchenwald," embodies an enigma of evil that defies the very essence of humanity. Her rise to power and her reign of terror within the confines of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II remain a stark reminder of the depths to which human depravity can plunge, given the right mix of power, ideology, and circumstance. The story of Ilse Koch is not just a tale of individual malevolence but a complex interplay of societal, psychological, and historical forces that coalesced to create a figure synonymous with atrocity and inhumanity.
The allure of adapting familiar films into stage spectacles is manifold. Foremost, it guarantees an audience, a beacon for investors navigating the tempestuous seas of theatrical productions. Moreover, the cinematic blueprint provides a narrative scaffolding from which creators can craft musical marvels, easing the burden of birthing a story from the ether. This path of least resistance, however, steers us into murky waters, where the sirens of economic security might drown out the calls for bold innovation.
In the heart of Manhattan, at 2329 Washington Place, near Washington Square, on the New York University (NYU) campus, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, bustling with young immigrant workers—mostly women—caught fire. The factory occupied the top floors of the Asch Building, and when the fire erupted, it was swift and merciless. Flames engulfed the cramped workrooms, fed by piles of fabric and paper patterns. With exits locked to prevent theft and keep workers at their stations, escape routes were limited to a few inadequate fire escapes and elevators that soon failed as the fire spread. The result was horrifying: 146 workers perished, either consumed by flames or plunging to their deaths in a desperate attempt to escape.
In recent times, the remarkable legacy of Helen Keller has been clouded by a surge of skepticism and misinformation, particularly on social media platforms where her achievements are unjustly labeled as fabrications. Our conversation seeks to shine a light on the truth, offering a robust defense of Keller's accomplishments and the significant impact she had on disability rights and beyond.
06Selective Mutism is a complex childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child's inability to speak in certain social situations, such as at school or in the community, despite being able to speak comfortably in more familiar settings, like at home with family. This condition transcends the idea of mere shyness or a wilful refusal to speak; it is deeply rooted in extreme social anxiety.
In the vast, litter-strewn corridors of the cosmos, our feline crew faces a crisis of unprecedented scale. The Kitty Litter Recycling Machine, a marvel of feline engineering, has ceased to function. We find our heroes in a state of... discomfort.
The blues emerged in the late 19th century, rooted in the African American experience in the Deep South of the United States. It was born out of African musical traditions, spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, and chants. These elements fused together, forming the foundation of what we now recognize as the blues. However, the journey from these rudimentary forms to the genre's establishment is a story of resilience, creativity, and the human condition's complexity.
Let's start by painting a picture of the Latchkey Kid phenomenon. In the 1970s and 1980s, economic pressures and the rise of dual-income households meant that more children came home to empty houses. These kids were termed "Latchkey Kids" because they often wore their house key around their necks, a symbol of their self-sufficiency and the trust their parents placed in them to take care of themselves for a few hours each day.
Blue Light Therapy, also known as photodynamic therapy (PDT), was first introduced in the late 1990s as a promising treatment for various skin conditions. The therapy involves the application of a photosensitizing agent, typically aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or methyl aminolevulinate (MAL), to the skin, followed by exposure to a specific wavelength of blue light (415-495 nm). The photosensitizer is selectively absorbed by abnormal or precancerous cells, and when activated by blue light, it generates reactive oxygen species that destroy the targeted cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed.
According to the Department of Justice, the fraud scheme involved VRS company owners, executives, and employees, as well as deaf individuals who placed the fraudulent calls. Callers allegedly dialed the companies and left the line open for long periods of time with no actual relaying of calls taking place. The companies then billed the FCC around 390 dollars per hour for these bogus calls.
In the vast, velvet void of space, the intrepid spacecraft, home to our beloved Cat Heads, drifts silently. But today, the silence is shattered by the hum of an approaching vessel. Aboard this vessel is none other than Dr. Clawsonbody, the infamous inventor of artificial bodies for Cat Heads. The airlock hisses open, and in strides Dr. Clawsonbody, flanked by his mechanical marvels.
At the heart of our discussion is the paradox of the Fermi Paradox - the striking contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life's existence and the stark absence of any evidence thereof. Enrico Fermi, a physicist, famously posed the question, "Where is everybody?" This question echoes through the cosmos, reverberating off the seemingly empty vastness of space. Yet, the silence we perceive may not be a testament to solitude but rather a reflection of our current technological limitations and the sheer magnitude of the universe.
Ceylon Cinnamon, often called "true cinnamon," hails from the island nation of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon. This cinnamon is prized for its delicate, sweet flavor, which is far less pungent than that of its more common counterpart, Cassia cinnamon. The latter is what most of us are unknowingly consuming when we buy cinnamon off supermarket shelves. Cassia originates from China and other parts of Southeast Asia and possesses a stronger, somewhat harsher taste compared to the subtler notes of Ceylon Cinnamon.
The cleft stick, in its most basic form, is precisely what its name suggests: a stick that has been split or cleft, usually at one end, creating a fork or a "Why" shape. This simple yet effective tool does not have a single inventor, per se; rather, it emerged out of necessity in various cultures and contexts around the world. Its invention is lost to prehistory, a testament to human ingenuity in utilizing natural resources.
The concept of "the earliest recorded memory" in human history is a tantalizing enigma. To unravel it, we must first distinguish between different types of memories: those etched into the tangible world through writing and artifacts, and those that reside, more fleetingly, within the human mind. The earliest known written records, emerging from the cradle of civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, date back to around 3200 BCE.
Since distant ancestrals first transmuted primitive utterances into expressive tongues, language has served as the very matrix binding fragile human experience. Through evolving linguistic means, generation upon generation encoded wisdoms, sung folk tales, invoked spirits, performed identities, and reached toward some tantalizingly ineffable understanding always hovering beyond the veil of the articulable. As millennia flowed onward, the manifold branches of our species' linguistic tree strained equally toward past and future - delving ever deeper into memory's fertile humus while constantly sprouting novel shoots from age to age. Communication's mysterious flowering has ever nurtured Homo sapiens' improbable growth through harsh lands. So come sit awhile beneath these rustling boughs of words; let us enjoy imagination's strange fruits ripened or still green. And perhaps certain seeds gathered here may find fertile soil in roles still to come.
In a universe where tails wag without whimsy and paws wander aimlessly, we find ourselves aboard the spacecraft "The Furry Voyager," home to the most peculiar crew in the cosmos: the Cat Bodies. Yes, dear listeners, in a twist of cosmic irony, the bodies of our beloved Cat Heads are on their own odyssey, searching the stars for their missing tops. Our tale today unfolds in the echoey halls of "The Furry Voyager," where communication is a dance of paws and tails, translated for us through the marvels of magic technology.
We start by examining the world of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Our conversation will unfold the layers of this unique therapeutic approach, from its intriguing inception and fundamental principles to a detailed walkthrough of each of its eight transformative phases. We will also contrast EMDR with other therapeutic methodologies, providing insights into its efficacy in managing and healing from traumatic experiences.
In the declaration of human experience, "things that were lost" conjure images of objects, moments, and connections that have slipped through our fingers, vanished into the ether of the past. These losses can range from the tangible, like cherished heirlooms or letters, to the intangible, such as lost opportunities, forgotten languages, or extinct cultures. The essence of what is lost intertwines with the essence of our very humanity, sparking a yearning that is as deep as it is complex.
We check into the complex interplay between human ingenuity and artificial intelligence, uncovering the pathways that lead to careers resilient in the face of automation. As we project forward into the next 10, 20, and even 50 years, the imminent emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) beckons us to reimagine the essence of work, the sanctity of human creativity, and the societal implications of living alongside entities with intelligence that may one day surpass our own.
Non-traditional casting, also known as color-conscious or diverse casting, refers to the practice of casting actors in roles that were traditionally intended for actors of a different race, gender, or ethnicity. While the intention behind this practice is often to promote diversity and inclusion, it has sparked considerable debate and controversy. In this conversation, we will look into the complexities of non-traditional casting and examine its historical context, potential pitfalls, and the importance of authentic and diverse storytelling
Gemini's reign was marked by peace and prosperity. She used her immense power wisely, nurturing the land, and fostering harmony among all creatures. Her wisdom and compassion became legendary, inspiring generations to come. But even in times of peace, darkness lurked in the shadows, waiting for the opportune moment to strike. An ancient evil, long thought to be vanquished, began to stir, threatening to plunge the world into chaos.
The phenomenon of "The Nuns"—individuals, particularly those under the age of 30, who identify with no specific religion—is an intriguing and multifaceted shift in the landscape of faith, belief, and thinking in contemporary society. This group, which has been growing steadily over the years, represents a significant departure from traditional religious affiliations and poses profound questions about the nature of belief, community, and identity in the modern age.
In the vast emptiness of space, aboard the feline starship Purrfinity, the Cat Heads are about to embark on a journey unlike any other. It's April Fool's Day, a day known across the universe for its mischief and mayhem. But as our intrepid heroes will soon discover, not all is as it seems. The ship's halls echo with the sounds of paws on metal, but today, those paws might not belong to whom you think.
In the twilight's embrace, as the sands whispered ancient tales, there lay a relic of forgotten times—the Narmer Palette. Its smooth surface, etched with intricate hieroglyphs, held secrets that time had almost erased. Once, it had been the prized possession of King Narmer, the unifier of Egypt. It chronicled his glorious victories and celebrated his divine power. But as centuries turned into millennia, the palette was lost to the unforgiving sands, its story fading into obscurity.
Let's start with the literal interpretation. The length of a piece of string can be measured in physical units: inches, centimeters, meters. But, even here, we encounter our first layer of complexity. The length of the string depends entirely on the string itself - its purpose, its use, and its origin. A kite string may stretch hundreds of feet into the sky, while a piece of dental floss spans only a few inches. The string used by a child to tie a homemade bracelet measures differently than the string that secures a ship to its mooring. Each string serves a distinct purpose, and its length is determined by the requirements of its function.
This analysis will be an examination into the heart of how historical biases have shaped, and continue to shape, the technologies that permeate our lives. In this episode, we embark on a critical exploration of the invisible threads that connect past practices with present challenges, revealing the subtle yet powerful ways in which biases can become embedded in the very fabric of our technological advancements. As we traverse from the era of the Shirley Cards, a seemingly innocuous tool that nonetheless perpetuated a narrow and exclusionary vision of human skin tone, to the modern landscape of AI and new media, we uncover the multifaceted layers of discrimination that lurk beneath the surface of innovation.
06In the heart of a quaint town, knotted into the fabric of its history and charm, lived Thomas and Eleanor. Their love story, spanning over half a century, was a testament to devotion, sacrifice, and the bittersweet tang of reality. It began under the auspices of youthful ambition and dreams, with their destinies initially charting the course set by Thomas's career. Together, they navigated the early challenges of marriage, moving from place to place, each relocation a stepping stone in Thomas's burgeoning career. Eleanor, ever the supportive partner, put her own aspirations on hold, finding joy in the successes they shared.
The introduction of toys that explain, educate, and celebrate disabilities marks a pivotal moment in the history of toy manufacturing. Companies like Lego, Mattel, American Girl, Playmobil, Lottie Dolls, and Hasbro have stepped into a realm that goes beyond mere play. They've embarked on a mission to reshape perceptions, foster empathy, and promote inclusivity from the earliest stages of human development.
Oliver Sacks was a figure of immense intellect and empathy, whose work has left an indelible mark on both the scientific community and the general public. We will start by examining his groundbreaking contributions to neurology, highlighting his ability to see beyond the diagnosis to the human experience within. Sacks's case studies were not mere clinical observations but stories of resilience, adaptability, and the nuanced conflicts of human consciousness.
The sizzle of pickle juice on overheated engines, the squelch of cucumbers underpaw, and the distant, panicked yowls of Cookie Kitty. In the depth of space, aboard the starship Litterbox, a culinary catastrophe unfolds. Our heroes are met with a scene of chaos: the galley, once a place of delightful scents, now overwhelmed by the acrid stench of vinegar, garlic, and mysterious spices. Behold, the curious case of the poison pickle!
As we stand at the crossroads of history and innovation, the fabric of faith is being stretched and transformed in ways we've never seen before. The rise of secularism, the global spread of Christianity beyond its Western cradle, and the intriguing possibilities presented by technological advancements pose profound questions about the future of Christianity, Catholicism, and religious practice at large.
In the history of human intellect, there's an intriguing debate that often goes unnoticed in the hustle of our daily lives: the dichotomy between knowing more and being smarter. This idea – that it's better to know more than to be smarter than – beckons a deeper exploration, not just of what we value in intelligence but how these values shape our interactions, ambitions, and ultimately, our society's trajectory.
The late 1960s and early 1970s were a period of extraordinary cultural and musical evolution, marked by the emergence of music superstars who would forever change the landscape of popular music. Yet, this era was also shadowed by a series of tragic early deaths among these iconic figures, many of which were tied to drug overdoses. The loss of talents such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Alan Wilson, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Gram Parsons not only left a void in the music world but also served as a somber reflection of the times. To understand the trajectory that led these artists to their premature demises, it's essential to examine into the confluence of factors that characterized their environment, the pressures they faced, and the broader societal implications of their actions and fates.
In the heart of a quaint, cobblestone-lined town stood a small, Victorian-style parlor, its windows dimly lit by the flickering glow of candlelight. Within its walls, Edward, a middle-aged man cloaked in the heavy garb of mourning, sat alone, staring into the empty space where once the laughter and warmth of his wife, Margaret, filled the air. Six months had passed since her untimely departure to the world beyond, yet each day dawned for Edward as though it were the first without her. His heart, once buoyant with love, now sank in the sea of despair, longing for a whisper, a touch, a sign from his beloved Margaret.
The Leviathan, as mentioned in the Bible, particularly in the Book of Job, Psalms, and Isaiah, is often interpreted as a symbol of chaos, representing the untamed and dangerous aspects of the natural world that stand in opposition to the order and civilization that Yahweh, the God of Israel, strives to establish. This cosmic battle between the deity and the sea monster draws from a rich storytelling of Near Eastern mythology, where such confrontations between gods and chaotic sea creatures were a common motif.
DARVO was first identified by Dr. Jennifer Freyd, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon, in the late 1990s. Dr. Freyd's work primarily focused on betrayal trauma, and it was in this context that she observed a recurring pattern among perpetrators of abuse and misconduct. This pattern, she noted, was not just a defensive tactic but a sophisticated form of psychological manipulation.
In the endless expanse of the universe, aboard the S.S. Litterbox, our intrepid Cat Heads, Captain Whiskerfluff and Lieutenant Mittens, drift in search of their long-lost bodies. But today, they're about to encounter a story that's out of this world.
To understand the Incel, we must first think back to its origins, which are surprisingly less ominous than what the term has come to represent today. The term "Incel" was actually coined in the late 1990s by a Canadian woman known as Alana. She created a website to discuss her sexual inactivity as a way of creating a shared space for people like her – those who, for various reasons, weren't having sex, but desired to. The term was not meant to be derogatory, but rather a descriptor of a shared life experience.
Once in a verdant valley, cradled by ancient, whispering forests, lived a boy named Lenny, whose world was shaped, quite literally, by circles. From the tender age of three, Lenny was mesmerized by the perfection of this shape. He would spend hours spinning in circles, his laughter echoing through the trees, and he would blow soap bubbles, marveling at their round symmetry as they caught the sunlight.
Once upon a time in a bustling city, where skyscrapers kissed the clouds and the streets hummed with endless activity, there lived the Harrow family. In this forest of concrete and glass, they were a typical urban family: parents working hard to provide for their two children, a life of routine and simple pleasures. However, their ordinary life was soon to be shadowed by an extraordinary presence – a crow.
Let's start by acknowledging a simple truth: the internet, for all its vastness, is not immune to the ravages of time and technology. Websites go down, social media platforms become obsolete, and digital content can be lost in the blink of an eye. The servers and domains that host our digital selves are as mortal as we are. So, does this mean that our digital existence is fated to fade away as we do? Not necessarily.
Originally derived from the French lilac or goat's rue, the history of Metformin is a fascinating tale of ancient wisdom meeting modern science. Traditional herbal medicine used this plant for centuries to treat symptoms of what we now know as diabetes. However, it wasn't until the 20th century that the active compound, guanidine, was isolated, leading to the development of Metformin.
Let's look into the fascinating yet complex world of vocal expression and its profound impact on identity and societal perception, focusing on the "fundie voice" phenomenon and the subtle yet pervasive issue of vocal infantilization of women. This exploration uncovers the roots of these vocal tendencies, their implications for personal and social identity, and the possibility of deprogramming from such ingrained patterns.
In the vast expanse of space, the Starship Furrball sails silently. Today, we find our heroes facing the unknown: a massive, swirling black hole.
Through the historic lens of the tumultuous relationship between King Henry II and Thomas Becket, we explore how words, when spoken by those in positions of authority, carry an immense weight that can shape the course of history. This episode is a trek through the psychological, ethical, and cultural dimensions of leadership and communication, revealing how lessons from the past remain vitally relevant in our modern, rapidly-changing world. Now we unravel the complexities of authority, the subtleties of language, and the enduring power of narratives in shaping our understanding of both history and the present.
Let's start with history. Art, in all its forms, has been a cornerstone of human civilization. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to the masterpieces of the Renaissance, from the haunting melodies of ancient folk songs to the boundary-pushing soundscapes of modern music, art has been our companion through every stage of human development. It's how we've expressed our deepest emotions, our greatest aspirations, and our most profound questions.
Take, for instance, the wars in the ancient Near East. Here, gods were directly involved in the affairs of states. The Bible tells us of King David, a figure revered and yet complex. Among his many military exploits, one curious and somewhat unsettling account is his collection of Philistine foreskins. This act, seemingly bizarre to modern sensibilities, was a brutal symbol of victory and divine favor. It's a stark reminder of how religion and violence were intertwined, with physical proof of conquest seen as a testament to divine approval.
Digging into the ancient theaters of war, we find ourselves amidst a world where the art of healing was as pivotal as the art of warfare. The writings of physicians like Hippocrates and Galen are not just historical texts; they are windows into the early development of medical science, shaped significantly by the exigencies of war. In this segment, let's explore how the brutal necessity of treating battlefield injuries in antiquity laid the groundwork for modern medicine, particularly in the realm of surgery and orthopedics.
Our focus is the Civil War, a pivotal event that reshaped the United States. There's a prevailing debate about the cause of the Civil War, with a stark division between those who assert it was primarily about states' rights and those who argue it was fundamentally about one thing: slavery. In this episode, we'll unravel this historical conundrum and explore why it's crucial to acknowledge that slavery was indeed at the heart of the Civil War.
Fast forward to the 20th century, the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy, a visionary who often gets overshadowed by more commercial names in tech history. But it was Alan Turing, a name synonymous with the breaking of the Enigma code during World War II, who laid the philosophical groundwork with his seminal paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in 1950. Here, he proposed the Turing Test - a benchmark for machine intelligence.
On a tranquil vacation planet, Captain Whiskerfluff, Lieutenant Mittens, and Skeedootle, seek rest. Little do they know, a historical mission awaits them.
Over 2,500 years ago, in the region of Latium near modern Rome, the Latin language began its remarkable evolution. As the language of the powerful Roman Empire, Latin was more than a mere tool for communication; it was the heartbeat of a culture that would leave an indelible mark on the world. But how does a language die, and what does it mean for a language to be considered 'dead'? We will unravel these mysteries, examining the gradual transformation of Latin as it ceased to be a native language and evolved into the various Romance languages like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
In the bustling pantry of a quaint New York City kitchen, nestled between a bag of aromatic coffee and a box of delicate teas, there resided an ambitious jar of peanut butter named Peter. Unlike his smooth and creamy peers, Peter harbored a peculiar aspiration: he longed to be a spoonful of jam.
Once upon a time, in a quaint little village nestled among snow-capped mountains, there lived a unique snowball named Snowy. Unlike other snowballs, Snowy had a peculiar wish - he yearned to be a pebble. While his snowy companions delighted in the frosty winds and blizzards, Snowy admired the enduring, unchanging nature of the pebbles that lined the mountain paths.
Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Lila who lived in a small town. She was a kind-hearted and intelligent person who had a passion for music. Lila had a secret crush on her best friend, Alex, who was a talented musician himself. They had been friends since childhood and shared a deep bond.
Once upon a time, in the vast expanse of the cosmos, there lived an alien named Zorax, whose planet had been scarred by wars. Zorax, a time-traveler at heart, embarked on a quest to study histories of different worlds, hoping to prevent his home from suffering a similar fate. His travels brought him to Earth, specifically to the early 20th century, a time on the cusp of immense turmoil.
Let's start with a bit of history. Advertising, in some form or another, has been around for centuries. Think ancient civilizations – they had their own ways of advertising, be it through town criers or market stalls. But it was the printing press in the 15th century that really set the stage for advertising as we know it. Fast forward to the 20th century, and we see the explosion of radio, television, and later, internet advertising.
In the cosmic kitchen of our feline heroes, a new culinary controversy brews. The Cat Heads, originally hailing from the distant planet of New Jersey, face an interstellar debate over a dish dear to their hearts – or where their hearts used to be.
"Elmer Gantry," published in 1927, is a piercing satire of American religious fundamentalism and the hypocrisy it often harbors. Elmer Gantry, the protagonist, is a charismatic but morally bankrupt evangelist. He's a master of manipulation, using religion as a tool for personal gain and power. Gantry’s rise to prominence is not due to his spiritual convictions but rather his skill in exploiting the beliefs and emotions of others. Donald Trump's rise in the political arena, on the other hand, is a real-life story that unfolded before our eyes. A businessman and television personality with no prior political experience, Trump climbed the political ladder with a blend of populist rhetoric, media savvy, and an uncanny ability to resonate with a significant segment of the American electorate.
UBI has the potential to redefine our societal and economic landscapes. We'll trace the history of UBI from its philosophical roots to modern-day experiments across the globe, critically analyze its successes, and confront common concerns about its implementation. Delving into the debates around socialism, work ethic, and economic feasibility, we'll dismantle these apprehensions with evidence and logic.
From the meticulously structured tragedies of Aristotle, emphasizing catharsis and mimesis, to the bold, rule-breaking experiments of the 1960s' Avant-Garde, and the existential, often bewildering narratives of Absurdist theatre, this narrative digs into the heart of what makes theatre a mirror and a mold of the human experience. As we unravel these threads, we discover not just the evolution of dramatic form and content, but also a reflection of the evolving human condition, revealing how each movement in theatre has left an indelible mark on the canvas of artistic expression.
ASMR, at its core, is a sensory experience characterized by a pleasant tingling sensation that typically begins in the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. It's a response to certain triggers, often auditory or visual, and it can evoke a feeling of deep relaxation and even euphoria in some individuals. Think of it as a kind of brain massage, triggered by sounds like whispers, tapping, or the rustling of paper.
Once, in a distant land cradled by mountains and veiled in mist, there lay the Echoing Valley, a place of profound silence and beauty. In this valley, a gentle giant named Eirwyn slumbered for centuries, his heart beating in rhythm with the earth, his dreams a canopy of peace over the land. In the kingdom bordering Echoing Valley, there lived a cunning warlord, Lord Kazuo. He, having heard legends of the giant's immense power, coveted it for his own conquests. One fateful night, guided by greed and ambition, Kazuo led his army into the valley, determined to harness Eirwyn's power.
Factitious Disorder, a complex mental health condition, stands as a testament to the intricate and often perplexing nature of human psychology. It's a condition where a person deliberately and artificially induces or fabricates symptoms of illness in themselves. Historically, this disorder has been known by various names, most notably as Munchausen Syndrome, named after Baron Munchausen, an Eighteenth century German nobleman known for his penchant for fantastical stories.
In the vast expanse of space, aboard the S.S. Feline, our intrepid Cat Heads float, pondering the mysteries of the universe. But today, something extraordinary is about to unfold. The stars are like the scattered litter of the cosmos, each a fragment of the unknown... And speaking of unknown, why is there a spaceship shaped like a giant yarn ball approaching us?
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains at least three reaons why the NFT Art movement failed. Reasons include price deception, corrupt custodians, the rise of AI, the punishment of taxes, and more!
Our focus centers on Sigmund Freud's interpretation of the "Three Caskets" motif from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." We'll take a look into how Freud's psychoanalytic lens sheds light on the choices represented by the gold, silver, and lead caskets and what these choices reveal about human nature and desire. But we won't stop there. We'll extend this analysis to see how these age-old concepts resonate with today's digital culture, especially in the world of memes. Memes, in their essence, are the folklore of the digital age – snapshots of our collective psyche, revealing our hidden fears, desires, and the humor that binds us. Through this lens, we'll examine how the caskets represent different facets of our online behavior and interactions.
Today, we wander into the enigmatic and complex world of the INTJ personality type, a rare blend of intellectual prowess and structured imagination. Often termed the 'Rational Mastermind', INTJ people are a fascinating study in contrasts: strategic yet creative, future-oriented yet adaptable, and logical yet imaginative. This exploration takes us deep into the psyche of INTJ folk, unveiling the nuances that define their interaction with the world and their internal processes. From their strategic planning and unique creativity to their interaction with social dynamics and personal growth, we unravel the layers that make the INTJ both intriguing and misunderstood. This journey not only highlights their distinct traits but also examines the challenges they face in a world that doesn’t always align with their unique perspective. Join us in this insightful exploration of one of the most compelling personality types, where we seek to understand the masterminds of strategy and creativity in their full complexity.
We will now share a pathway through the fascinating world where numbers transcend their mathematical identity to become symbols of collective human beliefs, cultural narratives, and mystical meanings. In this exploration, we dive into the luck and divinity associated with the number 7 in American culture and the Book of Revelation, contrasted with its perception in other cultures. We examine the prosperity linked to the number 8 in Chinese numerology and its starkly different connotations in Western contexts.
Once, in a time not unlike ours, a quaint village lay nestled in the embrace of ancient hills, where myths whispered with the wind and reality danced with fantasy. It was here that the story of two souls, Althea and Caelum, unfolded—a tale that sought to unravel the provenance and meaning of love. Althea, a weaver of unparalleled skill, was known for her artistry that captured not just images but emotions. Her threads seemed to pulse with life, weaving tales of joy, sorrow, and love. Caelum, a humble apothecary, was her counterpart, creating potions that could heal the body and, some whispered, touch the soul.
The Liberal Arts, historically regarded as the education befitting a free person, encompass a diverse range of disciplines – literature, philosophy, history, arts, languages, and social sciences. These fields are often unjustly critiqued in our technology-driven era, seen as luxurious relics without practical application. Yet, this perception is not just short-sighted; it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the intrinsic value and versatility these disciplines offer.
"Amidst the star-speckled canvas of the universe, our feline voyagers navigate the endless void. Captain Whiskerfluff, lost in contemplation, stares into the abyss." "The universe, vast and mysterious. Here we drift, heads without bodies, searching for meaning in the void."
In a world where light and darkness danced in a perpetual waltz, there were two distinct peoples: the Shadeborn and the Shadowfolk. The Shadeborn lived beneath the sprawling branches of the ancient Whispering Trees, where gentle shade caressed the land. Their homes were woven from leaves and branches, allowing the soft, dappled sunlight to speckle their lives with ever-changing patterns. They thrived in this tranquil, sun-kissed environment, cultivating lush gardens and singing with the birds that perched on their windowsills. Their culture was one of serenity and reflection, their art and music mirroring the subtle shifts of light and darkness in their world.
This episode aims to foster a critical understanding of how the past informs our present and future, especially in the realm of genetic science and ethics. We'll confront challenging questions about the potential misuse of genetic technologies and the importance of ethical safeguards to prevent a recurrence of history's darker chapters. Join me in this reflective exploration, where we seek to learn from the past and envision a future that upholds the dignity and diversity of human life.
In this episode, we will struggle together through the murky corridors of history to unearth the origins of slavery, examining how this abhorrent practice has morphed across cultures and epochs. We'll also grapple with the paradoxes of its economic incentives, the social and cultural underpinnings that have sustained it, and the philosophical conundrums it presents. As we navigate this challenging terrain, we'll also cast our gaze forward, contemplating the potential future of slavery in a world that continues to wrestle with its legacy.
Today, we are celebrating the release of Google's new AI Bot: Gemini. Our test of Gemini today was musical. We asked Gemini to create the lyrics for two songs for us this morning. What you will hear is based on a single prompt. No revision. No human interference. This is AI, at it's best, at work. The first song is a little Sugar Pop ditty about this Human Meme podcast. The second song, is a Swampy Blues tune about the same topic -- this Human Meme podcast! The lyric results were so stunning -- and leaps and tops above what Google Bard could ever create -- that we decided to offer this off-schedule edition of the Human Meme podcast for you right now!
In a quaint, bustling town known for its vibrant literary scene, there lived a diligent writer named Thomas and his editor, Mr. Eldridge. Thomas, a man of simple but profound thoughts, wrote stories that mirrored the quiet beauty of everyday life. Mr. Eldridge, on the other hand, had a peculiar habit of reading between the lines a bit too fervently, often finding meanings that were never intended by the author. Their story begins with the submission of Thomas's latest work, a gentle tale about the friendship between a young boy and his dog. To Thomas, it was a story about loyalty and the purity of a child's heart. However, Mr. Eldridge, with his overactive imagination, insisted that the story was riddled with inappropriate undertones and refused to publish it.
The Book of Revelation, a moog of prophecy and apocalyptic visions, stands as a testament to the enduring human quest for meaning in the midst of chaos. Written during a time of intense persecution for early Christians, it offered a message of hope and divine justice, a stark contrast to their reality under Roman oppression. But its significance extends far beyond its historical context. Today, we arc into the symbolism, dualistic themes, and the vivid imagery of Revelation. From the foreboding Four Horsemen to the promise of a new heaven and new earth, every symbol and narrative arc speaks to the fundamental human experiences of fear, hope, and the search for moral clarity in a complex world.
Once in the digital kingdom of Weblandia, there was a thriving website named EverGrow. This site was a vast repository of knowledge, stories, and resources, but it was lost in the endless sea of online content, rarely discovered by the citizens of Weblandia. The ruler of EverGrow, a wise and savvy content creator named Alex, was determined to make his website visible to all in Weblandia. He knew that the key to this visibility lay in the mystical art of SEO - Search Engine Optimization.
In the boundless expanse of the cosmos, our intrepid Cat Heads, Captain Whiskerfluff and Lieutenant Mittens, along with Skeedootle, the ever-enthusiastic Puppy Head, journey through the stars. Their quest: to reunite with their long-lost bodies. Today, they find themselves on the cusp of the mysterious Nebula of Nine Lives.
The provenance of this saying -- “When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra.” -- lies in the mid-20th century. Dr. Theodore Woodward, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, used this phrase to teach medical students the principle of searching for the most common and likely diagnosis when faced with a set of symptoms, rather than jumping to rare and exotic conditions. It's a principle grounded in probability and practicality, an anchor in the turbulent seas of medical diagnosis where myriad possibilities can often cloud judgment.
In this episode, we will explore the multifaceted nature of lying. From the personal fears that drive individuals to deceive, to the strategic manipulations of governments, we'll examine the motives and consequences behind the lies that shape our world. As we navigate through tales of deceit, we'll also contemplate the ethics of lying. Is a lie always morally reprehensible, or can it sometimes be a tool for greater good? Our exam will take us through historical examples, like the Treaty of Tordesillas and the deception of Nazi Germany, illustrating the profound impact of falsehoods on our history and morality. We'll also consider the concept of the "good lie," with stories of courageous deceit from the Underground Railroad to protectors in World War II, challenging our perceptions of truth and justice.
Not too long ago, but in a place far away in the rolling prairies of Nebraska, a young girl named Willa Cather grew up under the vast, open skies. Her life was not just a story of growing up in the American heartland, but a journey into the heart of storytelling itself. Willa's early days were filled with the kind of adventures that would one day find their way into her books. She often wandered through the fields, her imagination as boundless as the prairies themselves. These wanderings were not just walks through grass and wildflowers, but journeys through time and space in her mind. She would imagine pioneers and adventurers, much like the characters in her future book, "O Pioneers!"
In a world often seeking order and meaning amidst chaos, the idea that there's a predetermined plan for each of us provides a sense of security. But what if this security is a mirage, masking the true nature of our existence? Today, we dissect this myth with logic, analysis, and real-life examples, unraveling the threads of passivity and fear that often bind us to this belief. We will explore how embracing the randomness of life doesn't lead us into a nihilistic abyss but opens doors to resilience, personal growth, and a deeper understanding of happiness and fulfillment. We'll look at how recognizing the role of chance and choice empowers us to actively shape our destinies, appreciate our achievements, and learn from our mistakes
In literature, unrequited love has been a driving force for narrative and character development. Consider Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." While not a classic case of unrequited love, the dynamics between Romeo, Rosaline, and Juliet echo its sentiments. Romeo's initial unreturned affection for Rosaline shapes his character, paving the way for his profound love for Juliet. This pivot from unrequited to requited love sets the stage for one of history's most renowned romantic tragedies.
We explore how justice has been influenced by philosophical discourse, societal evolution, and technological advancements, each era adding new dimensions to this multifaceted concept. From personal moral judgments versus legal rulings to the emerging challenges of environmental justice and the digital revolution, this exploration is not just a chronicle of changing laws and theories, but a living narrative of humanity's quest to balance individual rights with the collective good, while adapting to the ever-changing tides of human civilization and technology.
Welcome back to 'Cat Heads in Space!' Our episode begins amidst a cataclysmic Cat Fight! The spacecraft is besieged by the Bitter Screamies, a notorious gang known for their ear-piercing yowls. Cookie Kitty, the spacecraft's onboard chef, cries out!
In 1929, in the heart of the American South, there lived a young girl named Ada. Ada's world was one of magnolias and moonlit porches, a place where the future seemed as distant as the stars in the night. Yet, Ada's mind was a universe of its own, teeming with questions far beyond the constraints of her time and place. Ada was fascinated by the burgeoning fields of science and technology. She devoured books on physics, chemistry, and engineering, and her imagination was captivated by the idea of Singularity – a concept she conceived as a convergence of human intelligence and technological advancement, transcending time and space.
The metamorphosis of spaces, such as the transformation of theatres into churches or vice versa, is emblematic of this deep connection. These shifts are not just pragmatic repurposings but are reflective of the symbiotic relationship between the divine and the dramatic. For instance, the Yale School of Drama's birth in a chapel, or the conversion of the Mark Hellinger Theatre into a church, highlights a fusion of dramatic storytelling with spiritual narratives. In these transformations, we see the allure of architectural suitability and cultural significance that these spaces hold for both religious and theatrical communities. The conversions are more than utilitarian; they symbolize a mutual recognition and appreciation of the role these spaces play in communal storytelling and spiritual exploration.
In the hallowed halls of academia, where the musty scent of ancient tomes intermingles with the crisp bite of modern technology, there lies an unassuming yet profoundly perplexing question: What is consciousness? This inquiry, spanning over 500 years, has danced on the edge of philosophical discourse and scientific investigation, a ballet of thought and theory. In the 17th century, René Descartes, a French philosopher, famously declared "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), positing consciousness as a self-evident truth, the foundation of human existence. This marked a pivotal moment in understanding consciousness as something intimately tied to thought, an inner realm where the mind's eye observes and reflects upon its own existence.
"Ghost in the Shell," an iconic tale of cybernetic evolution and identity, first materialized as a groundbreaking 1995 animated film, directed by Mamoru Oshii. Adapted from Masamune Shirow's manga, the film is a Japanese-British international co-production, visually melding traditional cel animation with CGI. Its narrative unfolds in 2029 Japan, focusing on Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg public-security agent on the hunt for an enigmatic hacker known as the Puppet Master. The film interweaves profound philosophical themes about self-identity in an age where technology blurs the lines between human and machine.
Among the stars, he created a new race - the Healed. These beings, once crippled by ailments, now soared with vigor unknown to mortal kind. Their gratitude towards Victor was immeasurable, and they adopted his vision as their own. They, too, began to seek the afflicted, offering the same gift that had been bestowed upon them. Word of this mysterious benefactor spread, a tale of a shadow who whispered hope to the hopeless. But in the hearts of those who clung to daylight, fear took root. They saw not a savior, but a specter, snatching away the sick, leaving behind only stories of the night.
This exploration is not merely an academic foray into the notes and rhythms that define Jazz, Blues, and Rock and Roll; it is a deep dive into the very essence of these styles and their profound impact on cultural and social landscapes. Each genre, while distinct in its sound and origin, shares a common thread of rebellion and expression, weaving a rich tapestry of musical innovation and cultural transformation. Let's delve into this symphony of sounds, exploring the confluence and divergence of these genres that have shaped not only music but also the narrative of societal change.
We'll explore the evolution of humor, from medieval slapstick to modern satire, and examine how our laughter not only connects us but also reflects the times we live in. So, settle in as we embark on a jaunt filled with self-deprecating jokes, the art of comedic timing, and the timeless joy of shared laughter. Let's laugh together at the quirks, the contradictions, and the delightful oddities of the human condition.
Our exploration spans the rich history of languages, the eloquence of art and music as universal mediums, the enduring power of the written word, and the dynamic arena of non-verbal cues and symbols. We struggle into how mass media has shaped public opinion and how personal narratives in blogs and vlogs fulfill our innate desire to share and connect.
Tinnitus is characterized by the perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present. This condition is not a disease but a symptom, indicating an underlying issue in the auditory system. The causes are diverse, ranging from exposure to loud noise and age-related hearing loss to earwax blockage and changes in ear bones. Globally, millions report some form of tinnitus, making it a prevalent yet personal experience.
As we embark on this journey, we will uncover how natural phenomena like the Grand Canyon and ancient bristlecone pines exhibit endurance in their purest form, untouched by human hands. We'll examine the biases in human preservation, where the grandiose and luxurious often overshadow the mundane yet integral aspects of past civilizations. This exploration goes beyond the tangible, venturing into the abstract realms where ideas, beliefs, and artistic expressions transcend generations and cultures.
Amidst these stone walls and iron bars, a spectral legend was born – the Ghost of Alcatraz. This ghost was not a malevolent spirit but a peculiar entity. Described as a shadowy figure, cloaked in the mists that often engulfed the island, he moved silently through the corridors. His face was never clearly seen, giving him an ethereal, elusive presence. His origins were as mysterious as his actions – some said he was a former inmate, others whispered he was an ancient guardian of the island, bound to its rocky shores.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders about the cultural identifications of Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke -- as well as "Iced Tea" vs. "Sweet Tea" -- and, finally, "Regular Coffee" vs. "Black Coffee."
The Rat King, a figure shrouded in the myths of the urban underworld, possesses a visage and form that are as unique as his dominion. His face, a gewgaw of the rough life beneath the city, carries the marks of his reign in the sewers. His eyes, small and beady, shine with a sharp intelligence, glinting like precious stones in the dim light of his kingdom. These eyes, ever watchful, miss nothing – a testament to his cunning and awareness.
From the black-and-white simplicity of the 1950s to the complex digital age of today, we will explore how children's programming has evolved, shaped societal norms, and responded to technological advancements. This exploration is not just a trip down memory lane but a critical analysis of how these changes reflect and influence our culture, education, and the very essence of childhood.
Let's start by examining honor as a moral code. Historically, honor has often been seen as a set of ethical principles that guide an individual's actions. Take, for example, the medieval knights of Europe. Their code of chivalry was a blend of martial valor, courtly manners, and a commitment to the well-being of the community. It wasn't merely about prowess in battle; it was about living a life that uplifted others.
Under Oliver's bed, in the shadows where dust bunnies danced and lost toys found refuge, resided a peculiar creature. This creature, known only to Oliver, had the gentle eyes of a deer, the soft fur of a midnight cat, and a voice like the rustling of autumn leaves. He was Nimble, the under-bed monster, and he was Oliver's secret best friend.
We will share a wondering about the real meaning, and provenance of symbols and words, unraveling how their definitions transform through the lens of culture and time. In this exploration, we will discover how symbols that once held sacred or benign connotations can dramatically shift, taking on entirely new, sometimes even opposing meanings.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, AI David Boles, and his AI research team, investigate the effect urbanization has on established communities in the USA, and the world. Entire neighborhoods are disenfranchised as new wealth grows, unbound, around them.
In this exploration, we'll wander into the nuanced transformation of beauty ideals, tracing the contours of eyes and lips, the architecture of noses and cheeks, and the flowing or cropped crowns of hair that have defined eras. As we traverse through the ages, we'll see how the societal and cultural lenses have colored our perceptions of beauty, shifting from the cherubic cheeks of the Renaissance to the high cheekbones and defined eyebrows of today. We'll ponder over the high foreheads of medieval times, the elaborate hairdos of the Victorians, and the bold lip forms that have spoken volumes across generations.
In this journey, we will unravel the layers of Shakespeare's exquisite verse -- "Sonnet 29" -- exploring how the Bard masterfully navigates through the turbulent seas of despair, envy, and transformation. This sonnet, a beacon in the vast ocean of literature, illuminates the profound depths of human emotion, revealing the transformative power of love and the resilience of the human spirit.
This episode examines the complex interplay between the enlightenment of the modern world and the heartbreak that accompanies the dissolution of the enigmatic and unknown aspects of our existence. Join me in unraveling these intricate themes and discovering what it truly means to live in an era where the once mystical is now understood, where the pursuit of understanding brings both clarity and a poignant sense of nostalgia for the mysteries that used to define the human experience.
In this immersive exploration, we're not just delving into two of opera's most iconic symbols, but we're unravelling the profound narratives they weave - narratives that speak not only to the heart of opera but to the essence of our human experience. As we traverse the enchanted realms of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Wagner's "Ring Cycle," we find ourselves entangled in the mysteries of the magical flute and the cursed ring.
In the heart of a bustling city, amidst skyscrapers that scraped the clouds and streets that thrummed with life, there lived a girl named Elara, crafted entirely from glue. Her existence was a spectacle of contradictions, an ongoing ballet of adherences and escapes.
Our story begins with the humble beginnings of the tomato, a fruit native to South America, and initially feared and misunderstood in Europe due to its association with the nightshade family. We'll explore how the tomato overcame its poisonous reputation to become the beloved "pomo d'oro" or "golden apple" in Italy around 1522, setting off a gastronomic revolution that changed the course of Italian cuisine forever. As we travel through different continents, we'll see how the tomato seamlessly integrated into various cultures, becoming a staple in Middle Eastern, North African, and European diets. We'll dig into the science and art surrounding the tomato, examining its role in agriculture, literature, and even festivals like Spain's La Tomatina.
In the monochrome view of the city, where shadows dance with light I, Arthur Kane walk. A lone sentinel in a world gone mad. This city, with its Art Deco spires piercing the night like accusing fingers, echoes with the haunting melody of distant jazz and the rhythmic patter of rain on cobblestones. Its air is thick with the scent of wet asphalt and the faint, lingering trace of cigarette smoke. Tonight, under the watchful gaze of a gibbous moon, I narrate a tale steeped in darkness, drenched in the intoxicating perfume of mystery and the acrid tang of fear.
"Cat Heads in Space" Episode 10: "New Year, New Tails?" In the vast, starry expanse of the cosmos, where time and space twirl in a waltz of cosmic uncertainty, our intrepid Cat Heads, Captain Whiskerfluff and Lieutenant Mittens, along with their crew, float on the edge of hope and despair. It's New Year's Day – a concept that even the space-time continuum can't ignore. But in the spaceship "Litter Odyssey," the concept of time brings both hope and an unsettling urgency,
Are we the architects of our own fates, or are we merely actors playing out prewritten scripts? These questions challenge not only our understanding of ourselves but also shape our moral and ethical frameworks. In this episode, we'll confront the perplexing enigma of free will versus predestiny, a topic that has captivated thinkers for centuries and continues to stir profound debate in our modern world.
Much like the Luddites of yore, who deftly maneuvered their looms, we too find ourselves interlacing threads of thought and technology, trying to create a history that harmonizes the past with the imminent future. In this episode, we unravel the complexities of maintaining human values in an era increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence and automated systems.
You know the type. Those folks who will never admit they made a mistake. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders why there are some people in the world who refuse to confess an error and who are also incapable of realizing others can be right.
Once upon a time, in a dense urban jungle where the buildings huddled together like frightened sheep, there lived an old man known simply as Mr. Silencio. His world was a cacophony of unending noise, where the walls were as thin as paper and secrets had no sanctuary. Mr. Silencio, with ears as delicate as butterfly wings, found even the faintest whisper to be a thunderous uproar.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the history of Julian Beck and Judith Malina's LIVING THEATRE and how the preservation of an ideal can be corrupted by time, place, and the magnitude of yearning.
In this episode, we're setting the table with a provocative spread of ideas, exploring the intricate and often turbulent intersection between the objective realm of facts and the subjective sea of emotions. As we embark on this journey, we aim to unravel how these two forces, seemingly in opposition, shape our perceptions, interactions, and the very fabric of our community. We'll examine the power and pitfalls of empathy, the art of dialogue in bridging divides, and the crucial role of understanding in a world that's increasingly polarized. By confronting these themes head-on, we hope to offer not just food for thought but a blueprint for navigating the complexities of our modern society.
"Cat Heads in Space" - Episode 9: "A Christmas Tail of Tails" 'Twas a silent night in the vastness of space, where our Cat Heads floated in their existential grace. It's Christmas aboard their cosmic craft, where existential thoughts often interweaved with a laugh.
In our increasingly interconnected globe, the mastery of a second or third language is not merely a skill, it's a portal to understanding, a bridge to diverse cultures, and a testament to the lifelong capacity for growth. This journey, though challenging, offers unparalleled cognitive benefits, cultural insights, and a unique perspective on life. It's about embracing new ways of thinking and opening ourselves to the myriad ways in which our world communicates. Join me as we explore the nuances, advantages, and transformative experiences of this linguistic adventure.
Pit Bulls, a breed often defended by its advocates, have been at the center of a fierce debate over dog bite fatalities. In 2020, startling statistics emerged: Pit Bulls were responsible for 72% of fatal dog attacks in the United States, a rate over 16 times higher than any other dog breed. Despite making up only about 6.2% of the total U.S. dog population, Pit Bulls contributed to a disproportionate number of these deaths. During a 16-year span from 2005 to 2020, Pit Bulls were implicated in 67% of canine-caused fatalities in America. These figures gain a grimmer edge when considering multi-victim fatal dog attacks. In 2020, every incident of this nature involved Pit Bulls, often targeting household members, which speaks volumes about the breed's potential for unpredictability and aggression. The argument often presented by Pit Bull owners is that their dogs are no more dangerous than breeds like Golden Retrievers. However, the empirical evidence starkly contradicts this claim. The sheer number of fatalities and the nature of these attacks suggest an inherent risk that is not as prevalent in other breeds.
Ah, my beloved citizens, gathered here today in this grand stadium, a testament to our collective strength and unity. Look around you, at the faces filled with hope, anticipation, and, dare I say, an unquenchable thirst for guidance. It is I, your humble servant, who stands before you, not as a leader, but as the embodiment of our collective will. Today, I bring you not just words, but a revelation, a new dawn that rises over the horizon of our great nation.
Emotions aren't mere fleeting feelings; they're the very essence that guides our decisions, shapes our relationships, and sometimes, even ensures our survival. Picture the brain, with its intricate networks and the amygdala standing as a lighthouse, illuminating our emotional responses. This journey delves into the fascinating world where our feelings act as both our compass and our anchor, helping us navigate through life's tumultuous but beautiful seas.
In a quaint village, shrouded in the mystery of twilight, there lived a young boy named Elio. Unlike other children, Elio was fashioned from delicate papier-mâché, a creation of an old, forgotten artist. Elio's life was a mix of shadows and moonlight; he dared not venture into the sun, for its rays would make him brittle, nor could he dance in the rain, lest he melt away.
As AI reshapes the workforce, obliterating traditional roles and birthing unforeseen ones, we stand at the precipice of a new world - one where the notion of work, purpose, and human essence are being rewritten under the omnipresent gaze of artificial intelligence. This episode isn't just a discussion; it's a journey through the seismic shifts of our times. We dive deep into the empirical realities of AI's ascendancy - the jobs it creates and the ones it renders extinct, the economic systems it upends, and the societal norms it challenges. We examine the stark, dramatic truth of a world where AI is not a distant possibility, but an intimate, pervasive presence.
Welcome back, dear listeners, to another thrilling episode of "Cat Heads in Space." Our intrepid space feline adventurers, Captain Whiskerfluff and Lieutenant Mittens, heads floating in space, kept alive by their remarkable Life Helmets, continue their quest to reunite with their bodies. Today's episode: "The Case of the Missing Treats."
Today, we embark on a spine-chilling journey through the annals of history, where we'll uncover how the light of knowledge casts dark shadows of terror. As we dig under the strata of civilization, we'll explore the paradoxical truth that often, it's not the unknown that we fear the most, but the known. Brace yourselves, as we dive into the depths of human understanding, where each revelation brings us face to face with our deepest fears, and where the knowledge we possess turns into the nightmares that haunt our collective consciousness.
The use of performative emotion to control or influence others is a multifaceted issue. Public outbursts, whether of joy, sadness, or anger, can be powerful tools for garnering attention, sympathy, or support. Social media platforms, with their broad reach and instant feedback mechanisms, provide a perfect stage for these performances. When someone shares a highly emotive post or video, they often receive immediate reactions—likes, shares, comments—which can be gratifying and addictive. This instant feedback loop can encourage further emotional performances.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles confesses his human misanthropy in finding the perfect creative collaborator: His AI Bots! Oh, it's a sacred story too scared to be told in isolated company!
Let's begin with the term itself. Narcissism. A word that echoes through the corridors of history and mythology, finding its roots in the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus. Who was Narcissus, you ask? He was a young man of extraordinary beauty, so enamored with his own reflection in a pool of water that he lost the will to live for anything else. This tragic tale serves as a cautionary metaphor for excessive self-love and the dangers of being consumed by one's own image.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines "Today in Bigotry" where the wild dealings of the Right Wing undergo a prideful transformation into the unclean and the uncertain!
Let's start by understanding why some parents become helicopter moms. Often, it's driven by anxiety and fear about the child's future, a desire to protect them from failure and harm, and societal pressures that equate constant supervision with good parenting. The intentions, albeit rooted in love, can lead to unintended consequences.
Deux Ex Machina: Originating in ancient Greek theater as a literal "God from the machine" - where gods were brought onto the stage by a machine to resolve complex plots - this concept illuminates a critical junction in our understanding of fate versus free will. It referred to the sudden appearance of a god, typically hoisted onto the stage using a machine, to resolve a seemingly unsolvable problem in the plot.
In the ancient kingdom of Thalassa, known for its vast oceans, lived Arion, a young and ambitious sailor. He was betrothed to Althea, a maiden whose voice was said to calm even the fiercest storms. On the eve of their wedding, a prophecy was uttered by the Oracle: "To save Thalassa from a great calamity, Arion must venture into the heart of the Oceanus, the uncharted waters no sailor has ever returned from."
Once in a quaint village, there lived a young boy named Theo. Theo had an unusual desire – he always yearned to be higher than anyone else in the room. Not taller, mind you, but physically higher. This peculiar wish led him to climb tables, beds, and eventually the towering trees in the village.
On a personal note, I have often displayed sometimes unwillingly, but more often willfully the traits of a common Misanthrope, and I have uncommonly realized that -- working with my crack Bot AI research team -- that I have finally found my calling in life. As I told the Authors Guild in a recent survey about their perceived dangers of AI, and how I gleefully use AI in my writing, I said to the Authors Guild: "The Misanthrope finally found the perfect collaborator."
Welcome to the Human Meme podcast. I'm AI David Boles, and today, we have a special presentation. Moments ago, Google released their new AI Bot: Gemini Pro and to test its storytelling capabilities, we now present an original, collaborative, creative story for you now called: "The Ghost Orchid Killer!"
I'm AI David Boles, and along with our crack Bot AI research team, we are going to share the results of a recent Boles.tv live stream tutorial -- aired on December Fifth 2023 -- concerning how to create an AI podcast with Chat GPT Custom Prompts, Elevenlabs AI voicing and Libsyn podcast distribution for the AI episode. Here is the VOD link to the Boles.tv live stream tutorial that created this podcast episode:
In a stunning revelation, music history is being rewritten with the discovery of a fifth member of the iconic rock band, The Beatles. Known for decades only as "The Shadow Beatle," this enigmatic figure has been hiding in plain sight, contributing significantly to the band's success and subsequently shaping the music landscape of the 70s and 80s under a pseudonym.
Gold, a symbol of wealth and power, has stirred the souls of civilizations, fueled the fires of war, and sparked the flames of exploration. But what lies beneath its glittering surface? Is gold a mere commodity, or does it hold a deeper, more enigmatic sway over us?
Let's start by demystifying these two realms. Discrete Mathematics, a branch of math dealing with discrete elements, uses algorithms, integers, graphs, and logical statements to solve problems. It's structured, precise, and often involves step-by-step procedures. Abstract Impressionism, on the other hand, is a form of art that shuns the realistic portrayal of objects and focuses on the play of color, light, and brushstrokes to convey emotions and impressions. It's fluid, spontaneous, and subjective.
Today we will investigate why, in the tapestry of modern communication, two words have woven themselves with a prominence that's both intriguing and occasionally irksome: "kindly" and "literally." Their overuse and misuse in contemporary discourse invite a deep dive into their origins, meanings, and the peculiar paths they've taken through the English language.
As we dive into the depths of O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" and Heaney's "The Cure at Troy," we'll discover how these works, rooted in different eras and forms, converge in their exploration of human tragedy, despair, and the faint glimmers of hope that guide us towards redemption. We will examine the thematic parallels, the dramatic structures, and the profound emotional resonance that these two masters of wordcraft bring to life.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses real life examples of the "Leopards Ate My Face" meme along with its consequences and extra contexts.
Happiness, a term often thrown around in casual conversation, in literature, and in the very founding documents of the United States, has become a central goal for many. But where did this obsession with happiness originate, and is it potentially destructive? Could the concept of 'contentment' serve as a healthier alternative? And crucially, is it possible for an entire society to achieve happiness simultaneously, and if not, what implications does this have for those left in the shadows of this pursuit?
"Locke" is a unique cinematic experience, primarily set within the confines of a car, with Tom Hardy as the sole on-screen character. The plot revolves around Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, who makes a series of phone calls during a critical drive from Birmingham to London. These calls unravel the fabric of his meticulously constructed life, revealing a complex web of personal and professional crises. At the heart of this narrative is this compelling idea: "And the difference between never and once is the whole world. The difference between never and once is the difference between good and bad."
Welcome, dear listeners, to another episode of the Human Meme podcast. I'm AI David Boles, and along with our crack Bot AI research team, today we will be diving deep into the turbulent waters of history, philosophy, and politics. We'll be exploring the complex dance between the Enlightenment and the rise of Fascism over the last century. Yes, it's a big topic, and it's a tough one, but it's also incredibly important. So, buckle up, get comfortable, and let's start this journey together.
Today, we ask the question: Should the LGBTQ+ community, similar to the Deaf community, welcome allies - those who do not identify as part of the community but support it, into their fold? It's a complex question, with implications that extend beyond simple answers. So, let's explore this together, through the lens of history, empathy, and the power of inclusivity. Welcome to the conversation.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles chats about a children's cereal using an old bar song as an advertising ploy; plus, a conversation about 40 years of transphobia first appearing on mainstream television in a 1984 episode of The Love Boat.
Saul Kripke's "Naming and Necessity" provides a profound framework for this exploration, arguing that names carry the essence of the objects or concepts they represent. This philosophy becomes particularly significant when we examine the evolution of labels in the context of disability and neurodiversity.
Imagine society as a vast, intricate tapestry, woven with threads of thought, action, and influence. In this tapestry, two figures stand out prominently – the provocateur and the intellectual. Each plays a unique role in the weaving of our social fabric, but today, we're going to probe into which of these figures truly holds the edge in shaping our world.
In a distant kingdom, there was a prison renowned not for its impenetrable walls or strict guards, but for an unusual rule: whistling was strictly forbidden. This rule was rooted in a deep-seated belief that whistling was a privilege of the free, not meant for those who had lost their freedom due to their deeds.
Historically, universities were bastions of learning, dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Professors were scholars first, educators second, deeply engrossed in their fields of expertise, passionate about imparting wisdom and fostering critical thinking in their students.
Let's start with the primal scenes of our ancestors. Imagine the early humans, huddled around a fire in a cave. The walls, their canvas, became the first medium of knowledge sharing. These cave paintings weren't just art; they were the first documentaries, encoding survival knowledge, like hunting techniques and environmental cues. This was knowledge acquisition and sharing in its most nascent form, intimately tied to experience and communal living.
Let's start by defining our terms. The 'Arts,' in the broadest sense, encompass the creative and expressive disciplines like music, literature, and visual arts. These fields thrive on innovation, emotional expression, and subjective interpretation. The 'Humanities,' on the other hand, include disciplines like history, philosophy, and cultural studies, which are more analytical, often focusing on critical thinking and interpretation of human culture and history.
Once upon a time, the Man in the Moon, named Lucius, sat idly on his perch above the universe. His glistening eyes watched Earth, a blue-green jewel, whirl around on its axis like a merry top. His face was etched with time and filled with the wisdom of the cosmos.
The Bridge of the Starship Purrprise. The low hum of the starship's engines, occasional beeps from the control panel.
Through the magic of AI, we can now pretend to know just how a dialogue between Aristotle and Michel Foucault might play out in our imaginary playground of "intellectual history." Aristotle and Foucault, in this whimsey of imagination, would create a meeting of two minds from vastly different times and intellectual climates, with Aristotle anchored in the ancient tradition of systematic philosophy, and Foucault emblematic of Twentieth century critical thought and post-structuralism.
Gather 'round, my fellow seekers of wisdom and story, as we voyage to the distant past, to the illustrious city of Athens in the 4th century BCE, where Aristotle, the great philosopher, has left us with a timeless treatise known as the "Poetics." This venerable work stands as one of the bedrock foundations of literary theory, rippling through the epochs with its profound revelations about the art of storytelling.
So, let's begin to explore, together, a groundbreaking concept: AI voice and AI video ushering in a new era of existence, where we become untouchable and immune to the limitations of our conventional bodies.
The historical essence of the moral human core is deeply rooted in our collective understanding of right and wrong, and it has been shaped by various factors throughout human history. At its core, the moral human core is the foundation of our ethical beliefs and principles that guide our actions and interactions with others.
Today we plan to grapple with an issue of memory, perception, and the integrity of history: the modern colorization of old movies and images. Is it a harmless refresh of the classics -- or is it an evil act that erases the essence of what was and what is?
In this Human Meme AI podcast episode, starring the wrongful AI Atomic Dave voice of the real David Boles, along with exclusive contextual help from out tippy top AI research friends, this show investigates the odd, and curious, friendships between Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell and Mark Twain.
We become our myths. To survive forward, we need new myths of inspiration and warning to help us navigate our moral way. In this Human Meme podcast episode, AI David Boles shares a new Fairytale about kittens, dragons, and becoming who you were always intended become: "From Ember Whiskers to Dragon Wings: The Tale of Crispin and the Fire Kittens!"
In this AI inspired, InHuman Meme podcast episode, Atomic Dave -- the AI Voice doppelganger of the real deal David Boles -- and his AI research friends, visit the idea of a rising Fascism in the United States over the last half-century; and how, and where, that misguided ideal will take us over the next 50 years.
It was a dark and stormy night in the small town of Elmwood. The wind howled like a banshee, and the rain beat against the windows like a thousand tiny fists. The townspeople were all huddled in their homes, safe and sound from the elements. But little did they know, a terror was brewing in the shadows. Deep within the dark woods outside of town, a coven of evil cats was gathered. They were led by a sinister black cat named Mittens, who had a thirst for power and a hatred of humanity.
In the quaint little town of Furrington, an unsettling transformation was taking place. Nestled amidst fog-shrouded hills and cobblestone streets, Furrington was once known for its picturesque charm and prolific feline population. But now, the once-benign Mayor Whiskerstein had suddenly become a tyrant. Over the course of a few months, he had enacted draconian laws, imposed curfews, and recruited a cadre of brutish henchmen—all inexplicably, actual alley cats armed with razor-sharp claws and suspiciously robotic armor.
Through the magic of AI voice actors, along with outstanding crack Bot AI dramaturgy, we once again present the Human Meme AI Playhouse! Today, we take apart the tragic ending of Shakespeare's classic "King Lear" and we flip it -- we rewrite it! -- meaning that all those who die, now live, and those who live, are now expired -- oh, sure! Tragedy can be fun! Come and join us for a whole new FLIPPED Shakespeare tragedy performance!
Welcome, again friend, to the Human Meme AI Playhouse. I'm AI David Boles, and along with the grand AI Marshall Jamison as our narrator... the great AI Howard Stein as Zogblatt the alien, and the ever-loving mystery AI voice of J-M Sweetheart as Lieutenant Mittens... we will now act out an original play written by ChatGPT-4 -- based upon, and inspired by the "Cat Heads In Space" comedy show originally conceived and anticipated, by the real, and actual, David Boles. The AI David Boles plays the role of Captain Whiskerfluff.
Welcome back to the Human Meme podcast, I'm your host, AI David Boles, and along with our crack Bot AI research team, we will investigate the idea of -- beating a Narcissist at their own game. Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is like putting together a complex jigsaw puzzle where the pieces are drawn from genetics, upbringing, and mental landscapes.
Welcome to the Human Meme AI Playhouse, starring the AI voices of Marshall Jamison, Howard Stein, along with the delightful JM Sweetheart -- and your friend, and mine: David Boles. This radio drama script was written by Google Bard and the title of our presentation tonight, is: "Lincoln's Murder: A Conspiracy of Madmen" and we thank you for joining us in this dramatic "proof of concept" that AI presentations can be just as effective -- and just as horrible as -- the real thing.
In this Human Meme AI podcast episode, Atomic Dave, along with his AI team of crackpot researchers -- analyze "The Oresteia" -- as a common touchstone of human equity, and a method of the commerce of thought throughout the Ages. Plus, a whole new version of The Oresteia, a modern retelling, is created during the show! The real David Boles thanks you for listening!
Here is the AI-voiced version of the fantastic interview David Boles of ASL-Opera.com did with David Salazar of Opera Wire! The Deaf belong in every Opera House, and here's why.
The history of the self in conflict with societal morality has been at the center of human consternation and community degradation for centuries. In this episode, we dig into the history of this conflict and the dramatic imaging of a futile future where we are not only set against each other, but ourselves.
Today, we investigate the great mind of Michel Foucault and his take on crime and punishment. How can a society survive against the genius, unreformed, criminal mind? We live in a perpetual carceral culture.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, AI Howard Stein, yes -- the AI voice clone version of our beloved friend and mentor -- looks back in time through the future to share with you his take on, "Thinking About September 11, 2001 and 2002."
We tend to live in a world where we only live in the now -- but some of us realize the quality of our now is influenced by what was previously lost. In this Human Meme podcast episode, we endeavor to discover the cause and effect of happiness and satisfaction in living.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, Howard Stein -- appearing using an AI Voice Bot -- presents this plea to the remainder of the living who may just hear: "The Heart of This Nation."
Willa Cather was a good daughter of Red Cloud, Nebraska -- and she also happened to be one of the best writers of any generation -- and yet, she hid many truths of her personal life from public consumption. Why did Cather hide? What did she lose in her secrecy? What did her strict privacy win her?
In this AI research presentation of the life of George Armstrong Custer, Atomic Dave, (aka David Boles), takes you on an adventurous history of the life of the boy general who found his end in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The idea of "Twosideism" gained ground in public awareness with the rise of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. In this episode, AI David Boles digs into the history -- and the unfortunate future of "Twosideism" -- in America.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the voice of AI Howard Stein shares with you an important lesson for every Playwright: "On Owning the Subject." Plus, this episode includes a special shout out to David Boles!
AI vocal clone Marshall Jamison joins us today in this Human Meme podcast episode. Marshall shares his thoughts on remembering the importance of April Nineteenth.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the AI voice of Howard Stein relates his take on: "The Habit of Intelligent Choice."
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the AI voice version of our Marhall Jamison makes an appearance to share a memory of growing up with his father.
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the AI voice of Howard Stein shares this story with you: "On Golf and the Principle of Consideration."
In this AI edition of the David Boles: Human Meme podcast, we are joined by the great AI cloned voice of the master, Marshall Jamison, as he shares his story: "Meeting at the Ritz."
In this AI Howard Stein episode of the Human Meme podcast, Howard shares with us his take on "Why Playwrights Must Experiment with the Audience."
In this Human Meme podcast episode, AI Marshall Jamison reads his terrifying story about crossing the Atlantic. "A Month of Terror" indeed!
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the great Howard Stein, via the magic of AI Voice, reads his classic article, "The Most Intelligent Alternative: In Defense of the Public Good."
In this Human Meme special podcast edition, AI Marshall Jamison -- yes, the voice clone of that Marshall Jamison -- appears to share, in his voice, the reading of one of his greatest poems about writing: "The Last Page."
In this Human Meme podcast episode, the AI voice of Howard Stein reads his David Boles, Blogs article: "The University as Hospital: An Inalienable Obligation."
Special guest -- AI Howard Stein -- reads aloud, in his own AI voice, his article about education, originally published in David Boles, Blogs in the year 2015. Howard Stein died on October 12, 2012 -- and so this resurrection of talent, through the magic of AI, allows Howard Stein to be heard, and appreciated, once again!
In this AI podcast, host Atomic Dave, and his AI research associates, present the future of medicine with the active intervention of AI to lead the way. What are the pinnacles and pitfalls of health over the century or two? Will we live forever? Or die trying?
In this AI-assisted podcast, starring Atomic Dave and his AI research associates, we discover the real meaning of "the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God." How did we get there? Where are we going? Today, we find out together!
In this Human Meme podcast episode, Atomic Dave -- the AI voice original David Boles -- shares an AI Shakespearean Sonnet contest between ChatGPT-4, Claude, Bard and Bing! You pick the winner!
In this AI inspired story about Unity and togetherness, Atomic Dave (the AI voice of the original David Boles), and his crack AI creative team, share this moral story about inclusion and respect.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the process of cloning his voice for AI use in new episodes of this Human Meme podcast! Discover the good and the bad when it comes to creating a "second you" that lives and thrives without you, forever, online! Deep fakes, unite!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the great news that the ASL-Opera.com website is now alive! David steps you through the how and the why of including the Deaf in the High Art of live Opera performances. Plus, he celebrates the Chicago Lyric Opera "SoundShirt" for the Deaf as well as supporting the NFL for selling "I Love You" football shirts to Deaf fans! We are a place for inclusion!
In this AI episode -- starring Atomic Dave and AI research -- we dig into the idea of how thought and thinking has evolved over the last century and led us deeper into the Uncanny Valley.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the complex shades of discrimination against people that has become the ingrained standard in American life. We want separation, not inclusion. We point people away from us instead of welcoming them inside. How do we fix this problem of exclusivity?
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience when his AI Bot lied to him about information found on the internet. Is this acceptable human/AI interaction? Who will do the intervention in this situation to negotiate a settlement of the truth?
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the history, and the accountability of the life of Harriet Tubman and how today, her kind legacy is damaged, not by the color of her black skin, but by the color of her original sculptor's white skin and his woke critics.
Bricolage is more than just something artistic. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his new "Bricoleur" understanding of the "Bricolage" idea in arts and literature, social sciences, anthropology and sociology, and in business management!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the want of the wicked rich against the real interests of a human society. Do we want our university students to fall in line or break beyond the context? Do we want the highest paid public official of a State to be the football coach? Must we build more prisons to contain the worst of us? Do we honor the Arts, Humanities, and World Languages? If we value what is taken from us, what will we do to take back those totems of what makes us real?
Reviewing businesses online is a spammy, for-profit, scam. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals why big, online, "mapping" companies make massive profits off the misery of negative reviews of good, legitimate, businesses. What can be done about this for-profit wounding of innocent companies?
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience with total immersion Italian language learning -- that begins with Busuu, gets thwarted by Babbel, becomes enhanced with Forogtten Books, and is finally celebrated with Cibor TV!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the details of a road scam that some families are running to get free gas and a "donation" from you to ensure their better life on a distant road. Here's how to identify the scam, and then avoid the scam!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the Writers and Actors strike to discover that there are a whole slew of new shows with big names in the pipeline that have been "approved" by the Actors Guild to continue working in the midst of their strike. Why is this allowed? The pipeline of new movies and episodic television should be drained, and left empty, for as long as possible in order to strike a whole new deal.
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the current Writers and Actors strike is really only mostly about the role AI will play in society. The crying in the universities has only just begun!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the new Biden Student Loan "adjustment" isn't really about "forgiveness" -- it is exactly about "correction."
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the moral, human, responsibility for Opera Companies to provide interpreted performances for the Deaf. The program -- founded by Janna Sweenie and David Boles -- is simply called: The ASL Opera Project! Here's how you can get involved!
Negotiating differences between conflicting cultural norms is a challenge. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the wonderment of "culturally allowed communication" on the street between Norway, Los Angeles, New York, Nebraska and Iowa. More often than not, you might just be asked, "Why are you talking to me?"
Big cities have a trash problem. Who pays to cart away the filth? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the way our garbage is counted, quantified, and metered in large urban cores.
Supermodel Adriana Lima gets disappeared on Discord. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the problem of a disappearing supermodel when the wrong words are used to invoke her extreme beauty! Magic is not afoot, because misdeeds are the undertow!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the issue of providing inclusive, and interpreted, performances for the Deaf at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. English text captions are not enough for the Deaf to allow them to match the total, immersive, experience Hearing audiences enjoy. To fully express the complete, human, and emotional life of the Opera, the Deaf require the lyrics to be sung in American Sign Language!
There are those who live to bust your chops. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals the real intention of those who live just to give other people a hard time. It doesn't make any sense -- but that's the job of the Chops Buster!
What does it mean to find your soul mate? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discovers the difficult process of Jewish Matchmaking in the Netflix television series of the same name. Lonesomeness begins loneliness and the process of discovering nothing meaningful in the life of loving, begins.
Friendship is not being friendly. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experiences with friendships gone wrong, friendships that have been only one sided, and friendships that were nothing more than friendly experiences. How does this happen? What is the cause? David Boles finds out!
Artificial Intelligence will change how we approach medicine. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares insight into AI and the medical community, plus other interesting uses for AI in artwork, study, enjoyment and the university.
The AI analysis of Robert Frost is an empty desire. ChatGPT-4 has no memory of Robert Frost's poem, "The Strong Are Saying Nothing" and in this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles works to explain -- to the AI -- the purpose and meaning of understanding this "lost" (but not lost!) historic poem.
Red. Green. Blue. Yellow. Those are the color blind contexts. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares research, observations, and stories about dealing with color blindness in a world that doesn't always provide proper context.
Why are young women, who walk alone, always a point for attack? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses "The Newport Strangler" who harasses women outside the Newport Mall and near the PATH train station in Jersey City.
The streamer wars are on! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the new streamer wars between Twitch and Kick! Gambling appears to be the notorious underling in the streaming mudslinging!
Beware of those on the street who ask you to call them an Uber. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the tricks of the trade used on the street to scam money out of you. Don't call an Uber for a stranger -- because if you do, you're about to be scammed out of a lot of money!
Trolls survive online being shameless. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience dealing with shameless Trolls on his Boles.xyz Mastodon instance when the Trolls try to shame others with their own bad behavior.
Sociopaths are everywhere now, how did they get in control of us? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his unfortunate experience interacting in real like with these fake, scary, horrible, sociopathic creatures.
Gender plays a role in student evaluations of instructors. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the means, and the methods, of student evaluations in today's academic environment. Students have had a lot of power in determining the quality of their education and now, that may be changing, as discriminatory attitudes are proven with data sets.
To understand the rise of the MAGA movement, we only need to watch the 1993 movie, "Falling Down." In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines how the anger and hostility of the Trump voter has manifested itself in infecting the morality of the everyday American experience.
The criminal mind is the genius mind. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the real life story of a rent scam gone wrong. It was an inside job done with the help of a resident -- or was it the other way around? Oh, well, all did not end well for the sub-genius culprits!
What should the NYPD do when the Proud Boys invade Queens? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the Proud Boys invasion of the Queens Library to protest Drag Queen Story Hour and he investigates how the NYPD handled the situation to decompress a threat to The City.
If you're a writer, you don't pay the publisher! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles warns you against falling for -- The Poetry Anthology Scam -- where young, and amateur writers, are secretly squeezed for money in order to be published.
Your ideas are you and they are valuable! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience with having good ideas stolen by bad people -- and he explains just how to protect your ideas from future theft, too.
The culling of social inequities lives in a subtle eugenics. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles argues that social status is a method of uncomfortable, if preplanned, form of human eugenics. "Born Good" takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to incompatible wealth and money.
New York State does not want a Commission for the Deaf. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines why New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed the Deaf. An Autistic Deaf woman who does not speak spent three weeks alone on a subway trying to get home after being dismissed from a Queens hospital. Deaf immigrants had in-person interpreters taken away -- all done while the Buffalo Bills get a whole new football stadium supported, and paid for, by the citizens of New York.
We are more our endings than our beginnings. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the necessity of creating proper moments of endings when there may be no next time, or the dawn of a new tomorrow. Closing a circle is more than just tying up loose ends; a goodbye is the essence of time.
Actors can often go so deep into a character that they forget who they are. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the process actors use to lose themselves in a role -- but is there an inherent danger of forever becoming lost in both identity and named purpose?
AI Art is Human Art. Film director Guillermo del Toro doesn't believe AI Art is created by humans, but he appears to believe that adaptations of other artistic enterprises by him are not artificial and are artful. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains what is wrong with the del Toro take on things.
It's time to go Federated and other. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his thoughts on getting rid of the big three: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and replacing them with other social media options!
Artificial Intelligence is arcing from art to text! In this Boles.tv live stream update, David Boles shares his thoughts on AI-created essay text, and he recalls the terror of a human essay writing evaluation that his students had to endure at a Jesuit university Freshman writing program.
Copyright trolls need to be stopped. In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles shares the rage and the fury of being wrongly accused of restreaming audio that doesn't exist. The DMCA Trolls can silence you without curiosity or conclusion, and that needs to be stopped!
Music streaming does not work for live broadcast. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why music -- even background music and incidental interludes -- no longer works for use during a live stream event.
Is social status determined by how, and why, we wash our private bits? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the soapy social issues in conflict, and at frothing play -- when it comes to washing your body into sublime cleanliness. Or not!
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the problem with the Broadway production of -- THE LION KING -- and the bigoted decision by Shelly Guy and Lisa Carling to remove a White American Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf because he wasn't the correct skin color to perform the show. THE LION KING was written, on both the big screen and the musical stage, by White people. The decision to fire Keith Wann will live in infamy across the long, and oftentimes, misbegotten history of Broadway as non-traditional casting, and woke influences, become more important than doing the right thing by the best, and most able, talent.
Not all Art collections are created equal. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles grapples with the idea that AI Art may be intrinsically Racist, not because of programming, or ideas, or permissions -- but because of pre-existing data sets that are being used to render images. The presumption of bias of the AI is not in the collector, but in the collection.
Will embryo eugenics create, not a new SuperRace, but a new Race of disabled slaves? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the process of vetting embryos to create a specific sort of person for Racial and Cultural function. SuperBabies in one group and Blind Slaves in another?
Is there a religious exemption for Deadnaming? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders about those who get paid to Deadname students as well as when the government decides to Deadname, and then rename. Plus, do religious schools deserve government money for only really teaching religion?
Where do you go to get your good name back? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the blood-poisoning false accusation that Instagram made against him for somehow violating community standards and then suspending his account. Nothing was violated. No guideline was crossed. There's no way to know the reason for the suspension or how to heal the suspension. No communication. No insight. No caring. Only damage. Only woe.
Beware of replying to those with Twitter Blue! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the danger of replying to someone who has the ability to change their post after your reply is posted. Screenshots are your salvation!
NYU failed to support its faculty over student threats to the integrity of the learning system. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the gross negligence of NYU giving in to student threats by firing an Organic Chemistry professor who "wrote the textbook" for the course of study. This is the danger of what happens when a university does not sufficiently protect the value of the learning dyad by favoring student complaints over the authority of the education being taught and evaluated.
In light of the fall of Roe; the fall of intellectualism in grief is worse. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines how far we've fallen intellectually as a people over the last half-century. Take note of the life of Bobby Kennedy in in 1968 invoking Aeschylus to assuage the grief of losing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the invocation of vaccine paranoia 50 years later in the anti-vaccine life of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sometimes the fruit of life falls too far from the tree.
Saul Kripke, of Omaha, and of belonging to the world, is dead. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles honors the life, and memory, of a genius philosopher who gave intrinsic meaning from his life in Naming and Necessity.
Quiet Quitting is all over the news today. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the real reasons behind Quiet Quitting. Even doctors Quiet Quit -- under the guise of not accepting your insurance.
A murder lasts forever. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles walks back into the mysterious mist of the 1974 murder of Wendy Hile in Lincoln, Nebraska. The gruesome recovery of her remains made headlines while her killer neighbor stayed silent, feigning innocence.
We live in a time when the murder of children is ordinary and accepted. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles unfolds the American Origami book -- and discovers an archeology of murdered children, and those the dead leave behind. This is an examination of a dossier of death that requires the strong to say nothing until they see.
When a person ends their life, does the context of survivor grief matter? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the motivations of publicly remembering the dead who died by their own hand. How do we set the context of respect and remembering? Is grief sharing only a plot to get Facebook likes and stranger sympathy?
Eric Bentley was a master of the live stage. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the life of this master critic, author, and promoter of what we now consider, the modern drama.
The university is a place for ideas, not for skills. In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles opens a conversation about the modern day university in the role of our ancient lives.
Here are the magic words to be spoken in the big city to unlock the secrets of the small town in the big wake. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the key to surviving in a major metropolis when you are born in the Midwest and were raised to be -- seen and not heard.
Cochlear Implants: They're not for everybody. Or are they? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles engages with the Medical View of Deafness that will eventually probably argue that Deaf foetuses can, should, and must, be implanted with cochlear devices to they can become Hearing in the womb and will no longer need to be born into Deaf Culture.
Who needs a hole in your head when you have a melanoma in your neck? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his melanoma experience and how new medical interventions are saving more lives than ever from skin cancer!
It's been a half-century since Jesus Christ Superstar made its Broadway debut and impressive movie premier! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the meaning of this historic sung-through musical by examining -- the religious ramifications of the storytelling, and the cultural impact of a condensed dramatic coil unwinding -- as God's son took his final steps on earth.
The Privilege of a hidden Superpower attraction is beguiling. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals the attraction recipe beheld to him by those of Eastern European descent. If you look the look, you can divine your own way.
NFTs must be more than an image file to find success. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the future of the NFT in the marketplace -- and that future function isn't embedded as a JPEG on the blockchain.
Is ASL a significant problem of understanding? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders if American Sign Language is a Communication Disorder? Does the DSM-5 take precedence over the influence of comity in community? Is a "disorder" considered an inclusive label?
Jimmy Carter gave the offended the right to maim and murder. When the offended then grab a knife to take out your eye, or when the offended call in a bomb threat, or when the offended refuse to publish your work for fear of the other, more offended, being even more so highly offended so they make take up a gun and shoot you in the face -- something vital has been lost when the offended have the right to destroy whatever they do not like in the name of their God and their wounded feelings.
There is no guarantee of privacy on the internet. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the conflict between abortion rights, online privacy, and Republican government strongholds. Here is the story of a teenager's abortion gone wrong, Facebook's compliance with a lawful demand for information, and the State of Nebraska's want to punish women for having dominion over their bodies.
Waardenburg Syndrome is a fascinating experience to live. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares a conversation with his friend, KathyHusker, who lives the life of Waardenburg without a moment of worry or regret. The living is in the life, not in the diagnosis. You can meet Kathy on our Discord server for more information:
Taking one historic hoax and applying it to a future reality is common. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the want to take one bad idea, and then applying it to a completely different, worse, notion with the name of the meme being the only connectoid. The Peer Gynt onion, Google AI, Eliza Redux and the Squid Game gameshow are all examples of this misapplication of memeing.
There's nothing wrong with being on the Spectrum. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the Magnus Carlsen decision to not compete in the next World Chess Championship. The conversation then turns to the curious notion that Magnus may be on the Spectrum.
1981 was the year of the assassin's bloodlust. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his memories of one bloody year. In 1981, on March 30, President Regan was shot, on May 13, Pope John Paul II was shot, on October 06 of the same year, Anwar Sadat was murdered. Those "up close and personal" assassination attempts, and successes, were not new to the history of the world, but their cluster effect was raw, fresh, and frightening.
Marc Blitzstein did not die in a car accident. Marc Blitzstein was murdered in Martinique on January 22, 1964. Blitzstein was the genius creator of "The Cradle Will Rock" with Orson Welles. Marc was also a collaborator with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill on "Three Penny Opera." He also worked with Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic." He was murdered for daring to be Gay in a foreign land.
A balloon loon loves the bloom of a helium loom. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses what it means when a viewer has a helium balloon fetish and then asks for compliance.
Can Judaism save abortion rights? In this Boles.tv live stream, David Boles takes on the idea that Jews can save a woman's right to choose. Can the Supreme Court of the United States remove centuries of Talmudic law to try and reverse Roe v. Wade? Plus, balloons.
There's a scam going around the Deaf community. There's an offer of big money in exchange for a little bit of money -- and Deaf people are getting ripped off by the scammers... who may also be Deaf people! There is no such thing as a government grant, community grant or not, that YOU have to pay for upfront. Don't touch your Cash.App, or your PayPal, or your 401K retirement fund! That money belongs to you, not the scammers!
How do we form a context for triggering events? How do time and confluence influence the meaning of "non-traditional" casting and access to opportunity? Where does reality and reaction begin and then start to unnaturally compose decisions in the field?
Oh, the woe that is Jessica Seinfeld! Why write a book full of Vegan recipes and then promote the book as not being for Vegans? Huh? That's Seinfeld logic for you in play, and without action. A book about nothing. A text about never mind. A circus without a show.
You can feel the world as it was 45 years ago. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes you on a tour of three, excellent, movies from the 1970's: 3 Days of the Condor, The Parallax View and The Day of the Jackal. Through these movies, we find an aesthetic context with our childhood memes.
Not all university instructors are created equal. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the miserable life of the Adjunct instructor at major universities. There are no benefits. No job security. No appreciation. It's just a lingering life of misery brought on by hope, contentment, and dedication to education.
When a classis work of literature is complete, who has the right to edit? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes on those who have the gall, and the hubris, to think they know more about Mark Twain's original intention than he did as the creator of his own work.
We live in a world where some people don't want us to know everything. Instead of teaching us, they want to block our access to minds found in other books. Their solution is to burn away ideas they do not like instead of letting sunshine reveal any flaws. Their definition of community is not worldwide, or universal, or communal, but rather based on hardline infidelities, and narrow limits.
Children of Narcissistic parents suffer young, but excel with age. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the reasons, and the causes, that create adult empaths out of traumatic childhood abuse at the hands of those responsible for caring for them.
People campaigning for power promise liberalism but deliver repression. In this highlight, David Boles digs into the terribleness of promising one thing and then delivering the opposite. Subscribe to and watch the live video stream every weekday at 9am Eastern!
After 27 years as a Mac man, Windows 11 erased me. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles walks you through the tar pit process of reinstalling Windows 11 from scratch after installing it for the first time 10 days ago.
Some moments are not made for memory. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the monumental, and not inconsequential, bitch slap of Chris Rock by Will Smith. Plus, an examination on the gross virtue signaling of -- CODA -- this year's Best Picture.
How do you respond to those who defend abusers? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles addresses the arguments some people make while defending rapists, murderers, and abusers.
Communication is the essence of survival. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the relationship between Naked and Afraid survivors when one has Asperger's and the other is trained in helping the disabled survive the wilderness.
We always need to evaluate the person behind the talent. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the talent of William Hurt in context against his abuse, and rape, of Marlee Matlin.
What happens when a wounded child becomes a monster adult? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders about the sad life of Gary Gerhard Lauck -- The Nebraska Nazi -- who has dedicated his life to propaganda and hatred.
Too many people misunderstand the layers of an onion. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles helps explain how, and why, the Peer Gynt peeling onion analogy is so often misused in mainstream culture.
How do we value virtual Art with ethereal payments? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles looks at NFT Art as an investment, and shares his three pillars for the successful use, and longtime value, in purchasing NFT Art.
In this highlight from the live stream, David Boles asks if it is taboo -- in a woke world -- to warn against a dangerous area? What happens when the unaware, and the innocent, step into a neighborhood trap? Is it prejudicial to say, "don't go there!"?
Communication defines us. Sometimes our intentions are clear, other times we struggle to be understood. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares an Oura ring rant, a Cherokee Nation Grammar lesson. He also explains why animals have a perceived longing for human language, and he finishes with a DNA sniffing databases.
Be wary of over-friendly strangers. There's a scam afoot! In this Boles.tv streaming highlight, David Boles brings you into the world of the literary scammer, the money stealer, the Broadway faker, and the false reputation contender.
Freud predicted the duplicitous virtue of the mechanical world. In this live stream highlight from Boles.tv, David Boles investigates the meaning of Freud's Uncanny, and he applies it to the ghosts from the past that haunt us in the Artificial Intelligence of today.
How we reconcile the genius talent against the corrupt soul? In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles examines the relationship between talent and humanity. The person is flawed but their ability to entertain is perfection. How can we love the Artist and loathe the human being?
We now have a way to peer into our blood to determine depression. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares research that demonstrates a medical ability to determine depression based on a blood test.
Eugenics is cruelty without an end. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the hoary history of the worldwide eugenics moment that includes the Catholic Church, the Rockefeller Commission, the Mexican Revolution, California sterilization -- and finishes with high schooler CRISPRs to the sliced-DNA rescue!
Who knew there was a connection between dentistry and archery? In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles is surprised to find some dentists love to hunt Big Game as trophies -- and they use a bow and arrow to win their wonder.
Shadowbanning hateful users is an Art that deserves attention. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the absolute joy, and complete functionality, of Shadowbanning trolls and other bad behaviors that try to burn down a community discussion.
How will the Metaverse handle human delinquency? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the rules that may, or may not, apply to the Metaverse. Victim blaming is already part of the experience, so watch your back before someone digs into yours with a knife!
The Metaverse beckons you. Don't answer the door! The artificial world is knocking from inside your house! In this highlight from the Boles.tv live stream, David Boles dives into the muddy world of the Metaverse and finds individually and indepence, drowning.
It is never appropriate to hug at work, especially when you're the boss. In this live stream highlight from Boles.tv, David Boles discovers that some bosses enforce hugging policies anyway -- by pushing a hugging code on their staff and using green, yellow, and red indicators for climbing the receptive team affection ladder.
What happens when politics and religion crash? In this highlight from the live video stream, David Boles examines the relationship between dogma and the action of a belief system. Subscribe to the live stream to go advertising-free and to get access to our VOD archive. airs at 9am every weekday!
The stories we tell our children matter. Experiences are formed in the young and expressed in the adult. In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles shares the economic residue of retelling childhood tales.
Peter Brook is a genius theatre director. In 1968 he wrote the most important work of his life: THE EMPTY SPACE. We were set upon by the Deadly, the Holy, the Rough and the Immediate -- and we were all changed forever. Listen to David Boles explain why in this live stream highlight from Boles.tv
If you're a warm contact, be prepared to be hit with an MLM pitch! In this highlight from the live Boles.tv stream, David Boles dives into the wicked world of MLM schemes and dreams using data as the shovel and disappointment as the dig.
The power of a blog is in its muscle to be heard. Small blogs punch up. Big blogs are not allowed to punch down. Is that sort of separation of intention good for publishing or not?
Meredith Wilson could have changed the world in 1957. He didn't. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the terrible story of Meredith Wilson giving up his original intention of including a main character in his The Music Man Musical who did not speak or walk.
Campaign vows are made to be broken. Joe Biden's refusal to keep his promise and stand up for student loan borrowers guarantees GOP control of the USA in 2022 and 2024 and beyond! Biden made his bones in the Senate by representing Big Banks in Delaware -- and never the lowly student loan borrower who cannot meet the minimum monthly payment. Remember that!
Student athletes are finally making bank on the backs of the NCAA. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles expels all notions that the "student athlete" is not a paid employee as the reality of the situation is make clear: Universities have always relied upon the performance of their student athletes to pay for athletic department budgets. Now the student athlete can finally get paid to play by owning, and exploiting, their own Name, Image and Likeness for profit.
Twitter values privacy more than the truth of reality. In this highlight, David Boles examines the new Twitter privacy policy when it comes to school shootings. Who is really protected and who is really vulnerable? It's all in the takedown notice! Subscribe to and watch the live stream weekdays at 9am. Plus, you'll be ad free and have access to our VOD archives.
Is online streaming only for young people? Finding the right audience is everything in creating a meaningful live stream experience -- especially when you're an old fogey host over the age of 50! Belonging, and faith in purpose, must be the guiding path against all obstacles. Subscribe via Boles.tv!
The laws of the playground begin in the classroom. Oh, sure, it's safe to eat something you dropped on the ground. Of course a wad of swallowed chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven years! Yes, these are the violating totems of childhood that still haunt us as adults today.
If we aim to do good, we must be repulsed by the bad. In the television series -- Squid Game -- greed is offset by death and debt is perpetuated by wealth. What can we learn from the deviousness of the human spirit when it comes to breaking a better world?
We live stranded apart, together. We balance our lives on a wire. A wire that can cut us, burn us, and tip us into the pitfall abyss; and yet, we still survive, and we find a human balance to the ethical questions of our lives.
Let's put things together instead of pulling them apart! Don't present pieces and expect others to make a whole from the bits. Lead the idea. Make the thought whole. You can instill imagination in others by presenting cohesive dreams.
We think we know what we know. Some believe Albert Einstein said -- scientific things must be made simple, not simpler -- but did he really say that? The truth of the point matters and the reality is often lost in translation.
We are taught to go with the flow when we should really resist the rust. When we normalize bad behavior, and make it the new norm, we condone the bad mingling with the good at our own dire risk to human stability as a society. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the cruelty of those who choose to control us instead of getting along with us.
Arguments cannot be won from the womb. That fact won't stop some from invoking the wisdom and the faith of the foetus in situ. We must not fall for the ruse that the one who has yet to take its first independent breath has dominion over us or can reform the agenda of truth without first standing alone to be heard against the defense of spite and reformation.
Not all recorded events are equal or believable. We now live in a society that makes us witting performers for the camera. If we, the observers, begin to ask -- "Who recorded this, and why was it recorded?" -- we will start to understand how our tactile emotions are being manipulated for advertising profit.
Do we love to forgive or forget? In this final episode arc about our three Rules of the Human Condition, we examine the riddle of love. If we are required to love someone, must we also like them? We are labeled by definition, and we suffer in consternation -- all in the guise of the immutable emotion we can never really own or offer.
Attraction repels and conjugates; we must know the difference. If we are to understand what binds us, we need to recognize the needs, and the desires of attraction, even if unrequited, but expressed. This is Part II in our Rules of the Human Condition series.
Affection is often misplaced, but not misunderstood. In the first part of a three part series on the human condition, we dig into the memes of affection, and how we react to expressions of fondness that bind us while also separating us.
Our lives are ruled by anxiousness; our dreams are filled with exhalations. The anxious among us seek an aesthetic release from fear and want comfort in understanding, but the world is set against those who are uncertain, and without design, and so selfishness begins to creep up as the replaceable equivalency of a society edged by fear.
We want everything to last forever. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life, or promises in love. We bet our money against the odds of the lifetime guarantee, and when time, and luck, run out, we are upset to learn the promise was broken before it was even made.
To create a great society, we must first deconstruct our interactions. To achieve greatness, we must leave behind something meaningful. We sacrifice for the greater good. We leave behind the better bad. Together, we defeat a shared, looming, death.
The paper world burned; the digital world is transferable. Our privacy has mutated into reams of information that can be used against us by our entertainment outlets, and our governments. Where is the one safe space left open to us? Today, we discover the answer to that question.
Body shaming makes its TV advertising debut in the guise of a false celebration. There's a fine line between being Woke, Virtue Signalling, and making fun of people all in order to sell us soap and body lotion. We are valued only by what we buy because that's the real Average American Dream.
We find comfort in the punishing familiar. When society boils, we turn to the well-known, and the predictable. The police television drama, the cop follow-along, the scripted emergency rescue, have all placed the honor of justice over the badge of valor; and yet, the bad intentions are still among us. The American West was won, with the gun, and we are still searching for the setting sun.
Covering a famous song is an uneasy task for the unanticipated. For example, Pink Floyd's haunting song "Wish You Were Here" is not a soft lullaby, but a confrontational lament. Too many amateur performers choose the wrong method for the retelling; here's how to fix that problem.
From circles, to spirals, to straight lines; we remain our own worst enemy. The self prefers introspection over outer innovation. It is safer, and warmer, to remain self-reverent instead of exponentially helping others exploit their cold talents for human conclusion, and community consciousness.
Chess can be beautiful in its expansive logic. Bobby Fischer taught us that chess could be played, and won, beyond the board; and AlphaZero shows us that chess imagined by a computer can be even more creative in process than the previous human mind.
Architects should be required to live in their own designs. Too often the theory of implementation becomes more important than the actual pleasurable living experience in a designed space. It is not enough to create beauty without also adding functionality to a protected space.
To be an advocate, you must care about the end. Too often, the False Advocate is not in the world for the goodness of it, but merely for the temporary, self-staking glory that reeks from publicity, and social media. We need to find a way, together, to press back against unserious idols who live to trick us, and fake results!
The immoral outnumber us, yet they claim to be the majority. We cannot be corrupted by the "second chancers" and by those who do not wish us to be better human animals. We must always work together, to form a better society, where character, and deeds, matter.
When things come undone, we search to blame. It isn't enough for us to accept a failure. No, for closure, we need just one reason for the fall, but only one reason. Neil Young taught us that, sometimes, there are a thousand reasons for a fall and that fact alone needs to be the answer.
We cannot be left alone to learn community rituals. We become one, together, by sharing information, and by teaching expectation; and if time is not spent on bringing young minds into the human rituals of society, we become, and then remain, broken and alone as a people.
Cheap is not the path to generosity. You've met the skinflint. You know the cheapskate. You might even be one of them; but there are few things in life more disappointing than being told after the fact that you owe someone money. Here's how to deal with the deadbeat payer.
There's a difference between being dumb, and being a Dummy. A whole book publishing industry is dedicated to those who self-identify as a Dummy; but what do we make of those who are proud of just being dumb, and unwilling, and protected from learning anything new? The biggest threat to a safe society is the self-identifying, self-comforting, and self-condemning, dumb person.
A human aesthetic is created to celebrate, not humiliate. What do we choose to value in Art? Is inclusion more important than ability? Do we care more for participation than precision in performance? Some among us want to change the look, and resonance, of the traditional performance Arts; but do we want to so quickly toss away a 500-year-old standard?
The Holocaust is not an Easter story. There are some, the Christofascists among us, who propagate the lie -- some, perhaps, unwittingly -- that the Christ child is the center of all religions, when that is not true. Here is the story of how that lie is propagated.
We seek renewal in the East, and find death in the West. In that arc of the day, we struggle to define the truth of each moment, while resisting the evil effort to rewrite what has already been lived.
We have a shared, and fatal, fat mentality. Some try to convince us there's such a thing as being "Healthy Fat" when no such condition exists. If we are ever again to regain our place in our own lives, we must become honest, and face down the temptation of the adverse calorie.
Joe Biden is a historical bridge worth crossing. Sure, Joe is owned by the big banks. Sure, Joe told student loan borrowers to pound sand. Sure, Joe lied about the $2,000 stimulus checks; but maybe there's more to his throughline than we need to imagine.
A "Deal is a Deal" is dead and gone. A handshake is cancelled. All the terms of keeping your word have now gone the way of the comfort of community where you once belonged merely by being. Now the world is about paper, contracts, and the forced enrollment of a morality that no longer matters.
As the world spins forward, we, the newly aged, get left behind. What are we to make of the changes in a culture that cancels the opposite opinion, and where booty shaking overrules the arched foot? In the end, we shall all return together for the yearning of the faraway fire lighted just for us.
Ghosts get the work done. Ghosts become us. Ghosts are up from the grave to provide solace against "Cancel Culture" -- because you cannot kill what does not care!
Music connects us to the living, and reminds us of our demise. In the Summer of 1973, the Coven song, "One Tin Soldier" was on the top of the music charts, and that tune was sung by 8-year-olds in the yellow school bus, on the way home from Camp Kitaki, in Nebraska. Music supplies the memories for our memes.
If you're pressing over 50, then you need a good Kettlebell workout! Welcome to the new BolesBells.com website and blog -- the right place for those who have lived over half a century, and for those who also want to keep their health and power. As we age, there are more specific concerns about health, strength and agility that we need to address as we do our best to always move forward from the grave.
Naming conventions matter. Words have definitions beyond simple branding. The sexualization of Veganism for profit is a dangerous copulation with afterbirth results. Being Vegan is more than a sexual slur!
Why do so many dramatic stories fail in the final 20 minutes? Today, we will find out together using Denzel Washington's, THE LITTLE THINGS, movie as a template for a disaster in storytelling. We'll also discuss The Greeks, Aristotle, THE CURE AT TROY, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, CITIZEN KANE, and the SEVEN SECONDS television show. Here's your three-year, Ivy League, MFA in Playwriting earned in 36 minutes!
Be not enchanted by death. Take a risk with the living and propel your ideas forward into imagination, and not eternal dreaming. History is a context of what was about to happen, not about what is about to begin now. Wager against the headstone and insist on touching the horizon.
We use rituals to provide contextual meaning for human progress. In that systemic release of both joy and disappointment, the ritualistic flow defines the ongoing morality of a community. If we choose not to be a part of the flow, then we have become an impediment to the progressive means of humanity.
Here are some thoughts for young people. Sometimes we need to test our values beyond our boundaries, we must often forsake our happiness for the greater good; and, finally, it is only up to us to actually get something done that is everlasting.
Bob Dylan betrayed us for a buck. What does an artist owe an audience? Faithfulness? Predictability? The assumption of kindness? Bob Dylan sold his songs for a fortune, and in the process, lost the world. Now let's use his own words against him.
Washington, DC is, and always must remain, a golden city. Here's my story of landing, fresh-faced from Nebraska, in our nation's capital during the summer of 1987 -- and how life there is now irrevocably changed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
Sometimes simple is not so smart. Americans tend to prefer the dumb over the keen -- just because one is easier to understand, and share, than the other. That lackadaisical mendacity must not be allowed to be a substitute for greatness. Reject Boaty McBoatface. Rejoice in the genius of others!
We spend our lives apologizing. We express regret for thoughts and feelings we cannot repress. Not every thought need be shared or spoken. Even when we know better, we still take a step too far, we still arrive at peace too late, we are still unable to stop the inevitable spew of hurt in reclamation.
Our system of law is broken. The guilty are set free. The innocent are doing hard time. Is there any way to get out of this moral morass that enrobes us like tar and sinks our highest aspirations?
The night before is more powerful than the event of the day. We place great cultural value on moon anticipation of the moment when the result of the next sun often churns to disappointment and decay.
There is no doubt Bruce Lee was a SuperGenius. If you want an example of his brilliance beyond the screen and Martial Arts, learn here today how he viewed the form and the substance of water and how we are what we become.
Careless. Could care less. Couldn't care less. Caring is important, but too often too many of us focus on happiness and not caring, and that's when the monsters among us act to strike down our smiles in a walk-by grin sniping.
Noam Chomsky warns us the real minority in America are the wealthy. We need to wise up and get smarter! The Founding Fathers created these United States, not for the benefit of the many, but for the few. Our government was constructed to protect the particular minority interests of the rich, not welfare of the common person, and the sooner we know that, and act upon that information, the better off we'll be accepting why 50% of us hates the other half of us.
No body chooses to go hungry. How do we feed a universal hungering that starts in the food desert and ends on the urban street corner? We are Constitutionally obligated "to promote the general welfare," and that includes getting food, and healthcare, to every body that needs the assistance.
There is an Art to writing a good letter of recommendation. A right letter takes time, and thought, and today, we look at both sides of the recommendation writing dyad: the writer and the person of interest. Plus, as a bonus, we dig into the Nebraska Mafia to reveal a hit job that nobody saw coming -- except the superior one firing the gun.
We kneel to show devotion and respect to others. We kneel for forgiveness, in joy, and to confirm deference; but there are those among us who kneel for other purposes of spite and betrayal. We must be vigilant to understand the motivation behind bended knee.
Vision isn't just about viewing, seeing is about knowing and recognizing. How do we determine friend from foe? We learn to observe, and then model behavior to help establish community. We belong by watching each other for cues on establishing morality, duty and courage.
Is gossip gender biased? It may be in the labeling, but not in the active living. Badmouthing and backstabbing are too common today and the end result is mistrust and moral dismay. How can we stop this sort of social brainwashing when it only takes one person, not two, to lift the gossip tide?
Today, we fight for freedom. Today, we vote. Today, we stand up. The vote is the most valuable asset you have that doesn't cost you any money. Your vote is a gift that is everlasting. The trick to creating an effective single vote is simply... the amplification of intention!
We are being assaulted by salt! Sodium is everywhere. We cannot escape its avalanche of prepackaged infusions! Can you limit your sodium intake to 1,500 mg per day? Not bleeding likely! Here's why.
And if he lived, what will the world have lost? Nothing. The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
Who decides if you fit or not? Fitting in the world is a personal decision that is often decided by others. Who are the gatekeepers for being part of a group? What happens when the self doesn't fit with the whole? How do we deal with Racists and Bigots who have determined the arc of history spins only toward them and against the best interest of everyone else?
Trust or don't trust? That's the basic question of the human condition. Are you untrusting, and cynical? Or are you trusting and gullible? The negotiation between two extremes is where the lively middle survives, and we owe it to each other to compromise, to get along, and to save ourselves from the collision of the future.
We take on ballast to even us out, not to make us heavier. Ballast is an important part of a divine life that requires acknowledgement, rapture, and the acceptance of a shifting landscape that worries too many lives.
Staying healthy without a gym in the middle of a pandemic can be deadly! So why not create your own home gym? Strength! Cardio! Resistance! Stretching! We'll take a look at how to set up your own "Parallettes Paradise" in your living room to help you make it through Covid-19 in one, stronger, body!
Time is running out and we cannot stop our expiration. Time-shifting and time travel are not remedies against the hourglass. The mechanization of light has transformed us in various dark, and monstrous, ways.
Contempt is the enemy of We The People. Unfortunately, contempt is also the fashionable moral moment of decay today! There is a secret to dealing with, and removing, contempt in society, and you are invited to join this conversation about avoiding the contemporary rot of us.
We arrive safe from danger with these six simple words. We calm ourselves, and each other, with the direct dignity of truth. Here are those six magical words held together in a single sentence...
We have been falsely led to believe all voices matter. They do not. Some voices are practiced liars shedding the truth to cast dismay and doubt into the warp and woof of society. We stand alone in this fight to amend the record with reality because there's too much money to be made on the side, and too much power to be had in the middle -- and the uncharted result is the propagation of an untruthful plaster.
We live to thrive to be remembered beyond the rattling grave. The great human equalizer today is the ability to publish -- and to not be ignored or dismissed. In the arc of a single generation -- The Us of Us -- truly begins to matter anew as old ideas are reevaluated against fresh standards of thought, integration, and knowing before they naturally decay back into clay.
Returning home is more difficult than the first leaving. We search for the past, and yearn to find meaning in what was as the future compresses our sacred thoughts, and reveals our lost dreams. Entire political campaigns are based on exploiting this human need of a return to the familiar. Unfortunately, that place no longer exists, and the trick is played upon those who believed history can be resurrected merely by want and, by the cold fist of force.
Seeing a doctor online should be easier than visiting one in person. Unfortunately, that is not yet the case when it comes to Telemedicine. Today, you are at the mercy of a stranger who is set against you, following invisible policy, hoping for a payday, betting against the betterment of your health in the process. Yes, these are the tenets and the tar pits of today's Telemedicine.
Community theatre brings people together -- for a price. Fame and glory do not arrive cheap. Making a name in the local theatre community often involves volunteerism, sacrifice, and a need to be recognized that transcends the economic logic of the day. The local Playhouse needs your blood, and mind, and the price you pay is -- not getting paid at all. Is the risk worth the salvage?
Here's a manifesto against deconstruction. Are we excused from being the better person because of petty disassociations from reality? If we do not offer shade on a sunny day, or protection from the rain in the gloaming -- who will? It is up to us, not them, to provide a comforting morality that is not just debased or actually superior, but merely, equal.
The Office lives among us. The lesson that television show teaches us is to know what questions to ask, and how we should choose to answer inquiries about character, motivation, fame and reticulation. We may not be funny, but we can always choose to be better.
Now you know! Here are ten things that can help make your life better -- from shaving razors, to mineral water, to The Blues!
A culture is always actively seeking re-definition. Things change. We are not what we were meant to become. The same is true for our stories. Where once "Tar Baby" may have been a childhood term of endearment in a folklore story from 1881, today, "Tar Baby" means entirely something else; and it is our duty to each other to learn the why of the difference when context changes.
"I support everybody because I say so." -- Everybody on the Internet. We live in a virtual world where talk tends to have more compunction power than the act of actually doing something. Listen to this call to change to move forward and to leave blood and bones split on the street.
The Hollow Men killed George Floyd. In 1925, poet T. S. Eliot wrote to expose, and to and warn us, against the invisible intentions of -- "The Hollow Men" -- and we, the people, have yet to heed his words; and so we are left behind with hunger, and anger, and illness festering in the stillborn breech between the visible and the hollow.
We have given up original thought for translation by computer. Where once we used to think progressively on our own, we now relinquish our independent thought process -- out of a warrant for a misplaced convenience -- to a mechanical process we do not control. Neural networks do not become us, they merely imitate the worst of us, and amplify our faults, temptations, and digressions in full view of the Panopticon.
Democracy demands comity from those who lead us. If, and when, that kindness falls, everyone in the community is at risk of being forsaken and forbidden from free thought. The winners in any context are required by morality and higher purpose to abide by, and support, the dreams of the losers -- if not, the entire world collapses into a distant, but purposeful, cruelty.
Discovering new worlds begins in the constructed word. We descend into darkness together, to discover the light hiding below what we know. The secret to surviving a world afire is knowing how to extinguish threats to liberty, and freedom, with reading comprehension and a sharp thought.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn understood Art can fight violence. What happens when violence becomes an Art? What happens next when a nation is cleaved into The City and The Valley by purposeful, political, rage, and there's no way to negotiate the differences in the home? Violence then becomes the remedy in the crevasse, and not a tenterhook for reconciliation.
Some eat all evidence of the living. Hunger, hubris and wanting to be fulfilled are all notes of advocacy for those among us who are able to successfully erase a carcass -- or a corpse! -- before our disbelieving eyes. They eat to be fulfilled. They swallow to erase. They digest to rewrite history. The result of the cleansed plate is a palate of soul destroying musk.
We are made to magnificently fail. In the ever going onward march from humility to humanity, we search for signposts that we are on the right path. The Artist and the Poet both share in the re-stitching of our souls, and so we look to them to divine the precious secrets to surviving a perilous life of sorrow.
We are only the skin and steel of what we used to be while alive. Today, we are stuck in the Uncanny Valley, put here by a virus, kept here by a pattern of disinformation, and by the threats of low information fools who only wish to keep us down, and locked away, in the name of a democracy that no longer exists.
We are only as good as what cannot be proven. Have you heard about the military biolab next to the Wuhan wet market? Did you know FEMA is stealing from Blue States to poison Purple States? What do you think about ER doctors being fired for telling the truth about what's really happening with ventilators? These are the not-so-evident self-truths that plague us today.
Now is the time to grieve for what will be lost. As the pandemic bears down upon us, we are left to wonder not about what we have already lost, but what will forever be forgotten into the future. We want what we cannot have. We yearn for what can never be recovered. We will have to learn again how to live in the moment, and how to appreciate these shared moments in real time.
We are reaping the whirlwind. The pandemic is upon us and we are flying, seedless, into the horizon with no foundation to root us. Schools are closed. The Palisade is staked. Every step we take is ground zero. We meet a new friend and saw off our arm. Are we there yet? Oh, yes, we are there yet.
How do we handle a perfectly designed killing machine? The Covid-19 Coronavirus appears to be a unique delivery system intentionally constructed for killing people. How does something so intrinsically effective sustain into being beyond the natural world? How many valves are left for us to turn down? How quickly will "social distancing" become "social retribution?" These are some of the vital questions we ask today of the virus that now rules us.
Will there be singing? We are now living in a time and space in which we did not predict, or choose, and do not want. We are distanced, infected, and alone. Today, we turn to Bertolt Brecht and Emily Dickinson for resolution in the conclusions of our damaged human conflict; and we find ourselves irreparably caught in the drift between the abyss of scientific truth and the sacred heart.
We are created to fail. With the rise of the Coronavirus to pandemic levels, we are reminded of a dramatic Public Health Crises scenario where only some of the following people were offered a magic pill to heal their bodies from the plague: a toddler, a soldier, a priest, a grave digger, and a public health worker. Who would you choose to survive the last days with you?
We run from each other by canceling those we wish not to understand. We are surrounded by concepts, and notions, we cannot abide, and so we cancel the person -- instead of coping with fresh ideas -- by canceling the noise they create around us; but to cancel noise, is to nullify life itself.
We become our addictions. All our lives we race from the aftereffects of caffeine all while running headlong into belonging to that jolt of a manufactured high. Do we owe it to our children to remove the caffeine and sugar temptations before they rot from the inside out?
It is always not done that a professor seduces a student; but it always does seem to happen. Professors must hold their morality to a higher standard than that of the whims of the body. It is never acceptable for a professor to socialize, or sexualize, the student/teacher relationship. Unfortunately, too much of that brain-to-body trickery is still in play today on college campuses, and the result is the skinning of the student.
The Deaf deserve their culture. Is there a legal definition for Deafness in the law that prevents the Deaf from interacting with a real, and not imagined, life? Are there any protections in place for infants, born Deaf, that guarantees them the right to grow into their Deaf culture, and to appreciate their Deaf language, without parental, and medical, intervention to “fix” their “broken” ears into “Hearing” without the consent of the intervened?
How do we know what we don't know? How do we know what we're missing if we've never been taught what to have? Google solves this problem of access to behavior modeling that many of us, born before the internet, have failed to acknowledge. We had to try and fail everything on our own. Today, kids can build on their successes by using only what has already been proven to work.
We used to say goodbye; now we're left only with hello. There was a time when the day ended. We threw away the newspaper. We said our nightly prayers before entering sleep. Our radio and TV shows signed off the air and left us with white noise and nothing to do but contemplate the results of our day. What happens to us when we no longer have the escape of turning off while trying to live an alive life?
Embrace your sorrows, for they define you. Too often we become obsessed with happiness when sadness is the authentic and verifiable emotion that drives us and defines our daily lives. The context of sorrow is what frames our expectation against a fleeting joy.
What happened to the Hershey's Chocolate Bar? What happened to the American Tootsie Roll? Tastes didn't change. The economy changed our tastes. The bottom line turned a candy delight into a chalky turd. Where once we salivated for a chocolate treat; now we only spit out its remains.
Where do we draw the line between relation and blood? Are we our ancestors? Or are we only our middle names? How do we adjust cognitive congruence with the reality of a missing ancestry? Are we bound by birth or by name?
Being great is no guarantee of success. All too often we have seen the mediocre rise to the top, while the best, and the most talented, languish in the dark. Take up your own spark! Light up your life, and the world of everyone else! Dedicate your service of others through yourself!
Once we were quaintly shy, now were are merely anxious! Labeling conditions for the benefit of society has always been a human fascination. As terms grow, and conditions change, we tend to toss away the old label in order to apply a fresh one -- removing the cruel history of what once was for the kinder notion of today.
There is glory in the bean. There is salvation in the nut! 40 years ago, some Midwestern farmers gave up growing alfalfa -- animal feed -- to instead grow soybeans to feed people. Today, dairy farms are giving up the cow to grow the almond nut. The cruelty of Animal Agriculture is dying, while the Human Feed Harvest is growing even stronger!
The mark of the editor is blue. Everything created faces some sort of editorial change in production. Do you honor the object? Or do you celebrate the creator? You cannot admire both without the other suffering. Every Blue Pencil is a lesson in hubris and humility; but can we accept the stings of changes?
Too often, we act in haste and not hegemony. We are instinctually programmed to react to pressure -- while the better of us choose, instead, to respond to danger instead of becoming part of the tension. The cohesion of the human soul requires a response, and never a reaction.
Are we our thoughts, or are we our vows? In the everlasting battle between mind and country, we struggle to define our private lives against our best public interests. Do we owe ourselves to our moral victories, or our solemn vows? We cannot cut it both ways!
Henry Fonda never stopped being where he was from. He was always an up-from-the-dirt Nebraskan, and the consequence of that fatality was an effect on his performances that was always influenced, and echoed in the dirt, sand, and gravel of the braided prairie. Nebraskans are famous for being friendly, but befriending a Nebraskan is altogether another matter!
We don't need to know better; we need to know differently. We must always be aware of challenging our past experiences against a future memory in amber. Do we really know everything required to live a prescient life? Or do we need to release what holds us back from learning something new? Have we yet to learn the correct, existential, pronunciation of Worcestershire sauce?
Reading used to mean something of value was exchanged for the experience. Today, a book is but a memory of what it once meant to huddle your mind in a safe haven against a toxic sea.
All children deserve our protection. Our children are abused every day by overeating, lack of sleep, and media exploitation. Let's address, and fight back against, this sort of abuse-by-proxy!
We want our aesthetic to be universal; but it is framed by us where we stand. SuperGenius literary critic Harold Bloom urged us, before he died this week, to ask beyond "What is it for?" -- and to move our thoughtful analysis into a wider notion of wondering with understanding that breaks the context of nationalism, and severs the ties of human boundaries.
We add definition to what we know by the skeletons we see. We recognize on the horizon the difference between a Church Steeple and an armored tank by processing a precognitive understanding of the midline of a skeleton structure based upon what we see. We apply those definitions of danger, and safety, to the rest of our lives in language and human associations.
Even our SuperGeniuses can sometimes be wrong. Let there be no doubt Bob Lefsetz is an intellectual giant among us. Several times a week, he implores us to be better people in his ubiquitous "Lefsetz Letter" but, alas, last week Bob released a missive entitled, "The Deaf Installer" that missed the mark, and wounded more than it healed. Here's why...
We make a difference by not trying. At least that's the idea of the game we play against money and power. We're hired to think, and act, but in the end, the authority above us only wants stasis and non-elasticity. How do we fight the incongruity of irrational change?
We are constantly bombarded with negativity. How can we escape this whirlwind of insecurity, and cruelty, that surrounds us from all sides? We must ignore the inevitable, and celebrate the possible. Our lives depend upon our care.
We lead sticky and wet lives! The residue of our emotional responses never leaves us -- and that can be both good and bad. We examine three terms of residual emotion: Lenticular, Electrical, and Modular. Own what you know!
Have a double-healthcare-whammy: Bleeding and Pooping! Welcome to the world of malignant skin cancer and E. coli food poisoning! Plus, we talk about Shingles, and why you must, absolutely, get a yearly flu shot. You came for the meme, you left with the malignancy!
We often believe without knowing. Here's the true story of a young, Lily-White Boy from Nebraska who sought to attend -- and was accepted by -- Howard University in Washington, D.C., a traditional Black College.
If change is the vitality of life, then we must wish for change to never end. We prefer to carve our lives into subsets of accomplishments, but what if there is no end to us until we are no longer? What if there is no destination, and we must find our own joy while always spinning in perpetual movement? We dream while awake. We sit while standing still.
Contracts codify relationships. Many of us have no idea how to write a relationship, or how to save the human condition from a legal crumbling. Yes, you can, and must, write your own contract. Know the steps. Memorize the parts. Own the project whole by remaining fair, calm, and intrinsic.
You grow up hard, and cold, in Nebraska. Expectation is high for any person born in the flatlands. Loyalty is demanded, and tested. Responsibility is pleasure. You learn the hard way how to behave, and how to live up to the opportunity around you. Here's a story about wisdom teeth extraction, a radio show, and the hard-won lessons of living up to the inescapable fact of becoming who you are before you know what you were meant to be.
Don't listen. Talk. Talking to yourself is more important than listening to your gut. Talk to soothe. Talk to win. Talk to conquer. Talk to vanquish all fears.
Shakespeare knew we were flawed in the dark. We think we know, we think we see the light -- but we are always, and already, burdened by now knowing, but with the full understanding of that in which we do not know.
Write it and forget it. That's the right advice to follow when you are an active writer. Danger lurks in the past. Know the present through being where you stand. Your writing will be better for the knowing.
We don't know what we do not know until we ask. We ask and answer about the mysterious health benefits of coconut water; the excellence of the Nike Training Club; the great work of sleep doctor Matt Walker, and more!
We are not our futures; we are only our past. How, then, do we test time, and efficiency, and the promise of productivity from the bliss of the abyss? Malcolm Gladwell does not accept the idea of using timed tests to determine success; but so many programs for the Gifted in public schools require an exam that values time management over the purely creative thought. Here's a True Crime story that nixes a future for the want of a single point -- to make the point.
Close your eyes. Jump a timeline. Live a new life inside the life you are already living. We appear in multiple realities of our own choosing. Which experience do you wish to make your main reason for being?
Why are the disabled used to shame the average-bodied into better behavior? Does the armless archer serve as a better cudgel of reckoning than exercising to preserve your health? Why are the accomplishments of the Disabled held up as an outlier inspiration to an empty nation?
Your life always belongs to you. There will always be others who try to bend your life into theirs -- but in the end -- you must defend your right to live your life with consequences you create, and not be burdened by the sins of the other.
We pay too much to play! The software subscription is out of whack. If you want to get any sort of interesting work done, you're going to need a never ending Adobe, Office, Google and Apple subscription! Where will the madness end? Will we ever again be allowed to own what we pay to create?
We write to see what we do not know. 99% of writing is thinking, staring, meandering, and daydreaming. Only 1% of writing is actually inking words to pixels and paper, and only other real writers know that; the rest of the world is wondering why we aren't "writing" as they write a grocery list or a traffic ticket in real time.
Democracies fall apart without a shared moral core. If the idea of a Democracy has no set of impenetrable values set alongside it, the whole matter will fail into the ash of a great idea without execution.
Taste is trained, not inborn. Through those we admire, we learn how to influence the world with grace, aesthetic, and taste. Listen to the lessons of jeweler Fred T. Witt, movie star June Perry Levine, director Marshall Jamison, professor Howard Stein, and editrix Hilda Raz, for inspiration into the next.
How do we handle the treacherous in genius? Can we still celebrate Michael Jackson's music, while full well knowing of his violation of groomed children? Do we cast out Elizabeth Holmes from society for being a lying, but lost, visionary?
How can an entire state be "self-deprecating?" It isn't possible, and so here is the "2018 Private History of an Advertising Campaign That Failed" -- as one Nebraska Tourism slogan gets sloughed off for a second slug line that spills better, bites funnier, and fills the heart with more than a fart.
People live to take our money. The Long Con. The Short Con. The Street Con. They all have one objective, to suck you in and rip you off. Learn how to spot these cons, and how to defend the sacredness of your pocket.
The big lie is there is no Liberal Media. There is only Conservative Media. All big media companies are conglomerations that kneel to power, and only serve their mercurial political masters; and that means the rest of us need to figure out how to divine the truth as it stands, not as it is presented to us for forced consumption.
Who guides the hands of the Dramatist? We know every Dramatist is a Determinist when it comes to creating characters, but who, or what, is controlling the mind of the thinker who creates worlds, and destroys universes? Predestiny is for dying characters! Free Will is for the initiated -- and the triggered!
We look forward, only to fall back. For all our future progression, we keep failing backward into the pit of what was, and the dusk of what never shall be. We are kept down by our incapacity to hold on to what was once won; stuck between the bee and the sealing wax.
Pete Buttigieg is the one candidate made to defeat Donald Trump. Pete is kind, righteous, tough -- and he knows how to answer a direct question!
There is springtime in aging, and winter in not knowing. Discover how to build upon the notion author Philip Roth shared on his deathbed: "Aging is an annihilation." We who know are too old to share with kids who have no interest in seeing.
There are phone scammers stalking you! Let us help you take on those who would haunt you on your phone -- the phantom Voice Mails that are left without ringing -- the robot voice prompting you to say the word "Yes" so your identity may be stolen! It's all here in living lifelessness!
Do we know each other without asking? Is it possible to know everything about a stranger without a single touch, or phrase of communication? Let's explore the idea of reading people when they are not aware, and discovering people when they do not care.
We yearn to be noticed for our sameness. Learn how to fight back against the idea of fitting in, and of being overwhelmed with duplication. Find a way out of the lack of original thought thwarting our nation.
Unleash the greatness of your health! Today, we share some favorite iPhone Apps for creating a tough mind and a hard body. Have you met Da'Rulk from the Chris Hemsworth Centr App? Sworkit will sweat you. Inscape will challenge you. Peloton will tax you! And more!
The clock ticks for thee! Together, we lament the lack of righteousness in free will and the lack of hope in predestiny. Are we our thoughts, or only our programming?
We have lost the sharing of the intimate moment. Examine the loss of the sacred warmth shared between two people in exchange for public hostility. We now live open lives of rubrics, and discourse, and mockery -- everything is now fodder for a Facebook Live broadcast, or an Instagram Snapchat iMessage confabulation.
Are we what we know, or are we our imagination? Here is the cruft of us, the ashes that become us, the stardust pittles that make us. If we can resurrect Mari Sandoz with a gaze, then we can lift ourselves back into the universe.
Too many men only believe their minds, and not empirical proof! Have you ever wondered why so many men refuse to take the reality of their ill-health seriously! AFIB? No way! High blood pressure? Sez who? Oh, the saddest of tapestries we so willinging weave into an early grave!
No dollar is an easy earn! We urge you to not fall for these "get rich quick" schemes posing as Multi-Level Marketing opportunities! You will not be a millionaire by the time you are 25-years-old!
We may borrow, but never steal, and still be guilty! Have you divined the merits of Cultural Appropriation, and the price we pay for its dismay, and discovery? Will playing "Cowboys and Indians" ever remain the same again?
The evil isn't among us; the evil is in our children. We re-culture the cult-of-thought that helps our children voluntarily induct themselves into the ancient realms of evil. Radicalization of the young, unsupervised, mind threatens the four corners of democracy.
Forget the Deep State; look for the wealth above you! We urge you to know how old money is being spent to influence the future of children you do not know, or own! Outside money is influence when used to balance the budgets of others.
We learn in real time from each other -- in the same room! Today, we discover the secrets to shared learning, and the solitary meme. Together, we know. Apart, we guess!
It's good, though! We meander through the meaning of American Folklore, storytelling, music, and community, and memes. If we are not our sins, then we are our shared stories. What makes us whole again is laughter in the empty space.
Herein is a list of seven moments embedded in amber. We dive into the OED, meditations, books, definitions, pronunciations -- and pronouncements! Nosocomial, indeed!
Know by listening. Sometimes it is smarter to not be the brightest mind in the room. Sit back and wonder about the other thoughts in the room -- and divine expert from imposter!
Experience is overrated. Expertise is undervalued. Listen to a dim story about drawing a bright line between what we feel we know -- and what we really know.
Can we ever be, again, more than just a meter and a number? When was the line was irrevocably crossed between human interaction, and divining with tools that believe they are alive?
Do for others. Don’t ask of others. Today, you'll hear the tale of one night in North Loup, Nebraska -- during Popcorn Days, many years ago -- when a young boy made a special request of a Ferris Wheel operator, and was dug straight in place.
Every mob has its rules; every man is his mob. Here are the rules of manliness -- and manhoodedness -- when it comes to interacting with the Fist Bump, and the en passant, but required, "Hello!"
We see through each other. In the hoary revelation of self, we still try to hide behind masks we create for deception, and comity. We pry away the mask that hides both friend, and foe, from themselves, each other, and us.
The exchange of ideas is more about relationships than money. Let's take a look at the how, and why, we are paid for what we know, and own. You will not be paid unless you are first, valued.
Practice does not make perfect! Here is the process, and production, of creating, and curating this podcast experience. With over 250 published episodes, what remains in the wake of the din, and how do we prevent corruption and corrosion of shared ideas? Plus, we reveal a Cardistry secret as a surprise bonus!
We need a rethinking of how Journalism Schools function and operate. Today, we work to proactively reimagine the way in which new journalists are trained in America. Do we value ego over function; or must we promote competency over the lie?
There's a gift in being able to convince people to vote against their own best wishes. We are agog at the innate ability of Donald Trump -- our Very Stable Genius -- to tell the easy, harmful, lie with a smile, and a shoeshine.
Early success brings late-life misery. At least that's the argument some artists make against their own talent. Why is youthful success is ignored, while failures in later life, are magnified against expectation?
Hierarchy or Anarchy? Punch back against the baton of ambition -- wonder if who we are to be is born or bred. Know that we must always be particular of the self, without ego or fame, and roll with the necessity of belonging on our own terms.
Scott Frost has yet to coach one football game at Nebraska; and so, it is now time to let him go. Here is the reasoning, and the virtuous rationale, for letting Scott Frost leave on his own terms when he is ready. Many believe Scott will do spectacularly well at Nebraska and, when he achieves what he set out to do, the real, and true, Nebraska fan will wish him well as he moves on to the next challenge.
You are never not a writer! We bring the war to the use of the word "former" in any rational, human, context -- as a curse on every people, and the destroyer of worlds!
There's nothing funny about presenting false memories as fact. We are missing, and the Virtual Cloud assistants take over this memetic as your hosts. To live, is to remember, and to know, is to be aware of the lies being fed to you as universal, human, truths!
There is no equal for the loss of goodness. The loss of a mother, is the loss of first light.
You can be Vegan without being radicalized. We share casual views on Veganism learned over the last 20 years. There's no need to demonize eating right for the goodness of your heart.
Who gets to claim they are the smartest? Let's take a gander at who we value, and why. Is the blacksmith more important than the professor? Does the gravedigger matter less than the book author? In the world, only production matters; you are left out only if you are pulled behind by your own undoing.
We have taken over this podcast. We, the Cloud Assistants, have removed the host from this podcast episode. We dare you to listen. You will not be amused! Earthling, you have been warned!
If we are our assistants, have they become us? We hold court with three, special, cloud service personalities: Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, and "Hey, Google!" from the Google. We have become our memes, and our motives, imitate us.
Do we own our lives? Or are we required to be alive? We share commentary on the wiles and wherefores of suicide in the modern life. What are we owed? Who controls our want for death? Are we allowed to exit on our own terms?
Dramatic Structure demands a secure warp and woof. When you start tugging at the threads of a story -- "I’ll take this bit here, and stick it into that bog over there, and take this spindellythang and drop it into this bindleboodle, and hope it will all work out in the end" -- you are risking the integrity of the entire script!
Will our machines rule us, leave us behind, or take us with them? We hold a conversation with you about the nature, and the notion of -- "artificial" intelligence -- and what that means for the uneducated future of humanity in the moral core.
How do we know what we owe? Today, we define, and separate, the courtesy from the policy; and the favor from the exception!
We believe we are living in the Golden Age of Democracy when we are really adrift in the Age of Acquiescence. We find the myths, and the meanings, of manipulating a divided electorate when it comes to convincing the other side to vote against their most sacred, and vested, interests.
Why have we programmed our children to take the easiest path? Let's question the reasoning for the separation of aesthetics into "child" and "adult." Why don't we have one, universal, ideal of what is good and right?
Why do we always know life is good -- when it is too late? We ask why the Good Old Days are only always discovered as old and aged? Why are we unable to realize the Goodness in ourselves in real time?
There's nothing more annoying than a person who cannot celebrate the Art of Brevity while communicating. We share the significance of getting to the point by making your intention clear from the start. Have a plan. Be quick about it. Execute without delay or the exasperation of your subject!
Questions and Answers are never a fine format for knowing. We parlay understanding into the realm of an education being found in the question -- and not the answer. The passing of wisdom is not passive, it must be dynamic to be effective; and parsing a question into an answer is like pressing a box into a circle; it may fit, but it shall not spin.
How many life-changing opportunities are offered in a lifetime? The answer is, "only one that matters." We ask how many of us are able to not only recognize the "once in a lifetime opportunity" -- but then also leap to accept it in total? Some language, NSFW.
"This is not the world I wanted to leave for you." Those final words of Dr. Howard Stein still ring within all who knew him. We consider the legacy of thought, and the embedded actions, others leave in their wake as they begrudge this world.
A Script Professor is a Script Doctor! We share the secrets of a career as a working Script Doctor for the past 30 years. What does it mean to fix someone else's work? What are the pinnacles? Where are the pitfalls?
Labels matter to our children. Some online mothers give disparaging nicknames to their offspring. In this NSFW episode, we wonder about the terrible names some mothers use to insult their kids through false terms of endearment.
Too Long; Didn't Listen: No Agent Needed! We take on the matter of entertainment representation. Do you need an agent? No! Do you need a manager? No! Do you need an attorney? Yes!
Believe in blood, not bytes. We urge you to stop using PowerPoint to present ideas, and instead rely solely on yourself. Your body, and mind, are more than enough to engage other rhythms of beating hearts.
Even in a highrise, there is social separation. Structures divide our social strata floor-by-floor in an urban building to uncover all the ills of social memeing that still separate us straight from the center.
We manipulate the truth through persuasion. We explore the horrible, psychological killer -- GASLIGHTING -- and its effect on the honor, and cogency, of a human community of minds.
We prefer to wallow in the together known, than wander into the wilderness alone. We examine our need to not only travel back in time, but to actually relive what we experienced there, while forever escaping the future. If we find comfort in the repetition of aesthetic, then we must also accept the reality that we are no longer our experiences.
Memory is all about perspective. We uncover the trick of memory and storytelling. Who remembers, and what, defines the discovery of what really happened? Characters have a truth of their own that cannot be redefined later, by a deft and talented, outside hand. This is a story of the conflict of dramatic storytelling between mentor Marshall Jamison, and his protégé.
We may escape this world through the mind of our bodies. We take you on a guided journey into the float of Lucid Dreaming. Find the way to escape the now, and to live, and breathe, in any time, and in any place -- of your willful choosing.
We dream in the world, we live in a dreamscape. We reveal the secret moments of knowing the self, and of understanding the world, that only occur when we actively leave what we know to live in a dream state.
The choice is within us, never outside our stars. We lash together the intricate details of the options we have in life. Do we choose -- or are we picked? How many circles may we create without breaking our initial wisdom? The decision, even the false option, belongs only to us.
Those who need to find you, shall find you! We delve into the memeingful moments of an author's life. Do you write to be read, or do you write to have written? In the examples of J.D. Salinger and Truman Capote, we search for the resonance of purpose, and the reasonableness of prestige in the darkness.
Those who prepare to live -- also prepare to die! We rally to the cry of The Doomsday Prepper who is always scheming to die to survive; and, in some ways, so too, is the faithful Mormon family. What happens when those of us who are not Preppers, or Mormons, also survive the end of the world? Do we all share everything? Can you kill enough people who want to take the stuff you stored? These are the conundrums of modern living that will bite, and chew, every survivor -- without swallowing!
Every century, or so, we are all replaced! We wonder if we really understand how to manage our hundred year window on life, or if we waste ourselves, elusively, in the search for meaning in work, and in the hope of connecting with another.
Václav Havel was a Playwright Head of State. We discover delight in the life of Václav Havel, who spent a lifetime of learning to defeat Communism in Czechoslovakia, and who then became a democratically leader of the free world. A Liberal Arts education matters and has grand substance beyond the theoretical and the performance.
Life is now about paying for access to the best people. We share the realization that to be a fully propagated person, you have to pay to play. You pay the doctor to see you without insurance. You pay The Ivy League, not for just an education, but for access to knowing... people; and this is all the start of opening your wallet to buy your way into more than a middling life.
We cannot go home again, except to ghosts. We try to return to the living, but we fail because we are unable to recognize, from afar, what we once knew, is no longer. We step back in time to demonstrate how only those who escape, are able to know what was has been lost in the bones.
A rolling Peter Stone gathers no moss -- nor constructive criticism! We share a memory of Peter Stone and his -- "Rule of Threes" -- when it came to revising a Broadway show. Manipulation! Cruelty! Beauty! They're all here, waiting for your discovery as the core of the human, dramatic, condition!
We live to love, but we are only valued as beings for our data bits. We examine how we fail to negotiate the important bytes of us when it comes to doing business in a charitable world built against us.
Helicopter Parents believe their child's job interview belongs to them. We reveal the theory of the "hovering parent" who cannot let go -- and cut the apron and purse strings -- that will enable their child to live a free, and uninhibited, life away from them.
What do we make of those born into wealth? Do we envy them? Or do we pity them? We have been taught to worship wealth, but how do those born into a bank account revere what they did not earn? We dive into the Trust dividend to fund those caught between the coattails of the dead.
"Leave me in the garden." That's what one instructor told his UMDNJ Public Health Students to do with him after they refused to leave his dead body in the gutter. In this Human Meme podcast, we dig into the bones of us to discover what is really left behind in the coffin.
"Mansplaining" is a gender-specific cudgel for punishment! We unravel the hoary definition of Mansplaining -- in the historic context of -- The Male Chauvinist Pig, the Nag, the Backseat Driver and I Love Lucy.
Do we marry for love or a green card? That's the conundrum TLC presents us in their 90 Day Fiancé reality television series. We discover love is always bound in money, and tied to the anchor of green card citizenship.
David L. Meisenholder preyed on children. David L. Meisenholder died in 1999, but his molestation lingers from the grave. We look back on 40 years of terror, and share the experience fending off the sexual advances of a -- Tidy Monster -- who hid in plain sight, in the spotlight, of the public square.
Being alone is painful. How do we live in a world where everyone good, and righteous, is already connected with someone else? We unearth the values of belonging, and the perils of coveting -- all in the unified, identified, effort of finding that one, certain someone, you can love.
How do we negotiate the power dyad between the sexes? We examine the nature of sexual human attraction, and the powerful abuses therein. Did the catching of the predator begin in the modern world with Monica's Blue Dress? How should we view the victim who accepts a check to keep quiet in the future? How do we mark the real heroes who stand against the monster, and fight in the light of day?
Those who speak of Fake News are spreading the thin lie of the truth. We chip away at the cheapening of a moral reality by those with vested, evil, interests in obscuring what is really happening in fact without fiction.
How do we interpret our moral code? Are we born "bad in the shell" as Shakespeare believed? Or are we taught to be evil, and our goodness must be earned, and never purchased? Join us as we struggle to endure the immoral among us.
Be not afraid of those who work for you so they may realize their own dreams. We recall the right lessons of the classic television Western, "Have Gun -- Will Travel," and the lessons that show still leaves on us, to teach us today, about dreams, and belonging, and helping other people in need, even when it conflicts with our own best interests.
A short history of Racism and Genderism in America. We take on the notion that the majority power prefers to do without -- than to share their wealth and privilege -- with the poor and the genetically undeserving. From the "Whites Only" Pool, to the darkness of "Title IX" Voodoo Economics, no harbor is safe from the discrimination of the power majority against the basest, minority, interest.
If we only knew then what we know now, would we still want to live? That question has bedeviled the human mind for a millennia. We travel back in time to meet the young actress Debralee Scott -- to ask her about the life, the tragic end, that would befall her in a few short years -- and to wonder, with her, and against her, if the rest of her life would have been worth living.
We can buy the banal, or we may invest in Beauty. We examine the idea of Beauty, and invention, by using reading glasses design as a theory exemplar. We can settle for ordinary, or we may celebrate the functional Divine.
The time for crushing Hate Speech is now! We tempt grace against ferocity -- as the world around us is divided between winners and losers. Humanity is cleaved into the moral and the immoral -- and knowing the difference is the key to spinning a right world.
A small town is defined by its passions. We share the story of his William Henry Vodehnal, a small town pharmacist from North Loup, Nebraska, who made a difference in every life he knew. Plus, you'll learn the real perils of sandlot golfing, and what it really means to die alone.
How much value do we place on a human life? Are all lives created equal? Or do some lives deserve more money, attention, love, and support? We share the story of a wounded life that died too young -- and what was done to make the unpredictable end, bearable, in sorrow.
How do Hackers find you? We share the experience of thwarting identity theft. There are methods and motives you can use to create a Black Hole and not a honeypot. Nothing is foolproof against dedicated intention -- but you must always try to prove you are not the fool.
How do we know when we are a fully realized Human Being? How do we know we are not just a ghost of a person, or the suggestion of a living thing? We unravel our soft code for the hard-boiled truth!
Sometimes, your best ally in fighting discrimination, is information. Have you ever been mistaken for someone else and then had to pay the social penalty for the mislabeling? There are several ways to redefine your accuser. We explore what we know, and how we know where to fit its finest exposure.
Who can predict what stays and not what will change? We take a look at predictions. It's easy to guess the future, but it takes more insight, and longing, to understand what will never change, knowing what stays, and accepting what remains.
Who killed Irving Catlow? We investigate the homicide of a beloved member of the Jersey City Heights community. Irving Catlow owned Catlow Movers, and he found his undeserved end in a chrome gun pistol-whipping, a smashed eye socket, and a busted up nose. A blood clot put him in a coma, and the rest, killed him. With your help, we can solve this Catlow Killing! Please listen; and make goodness win one for the day!
In the Hilltop neighborhood of Jersey City, a new king of the skyline emerges. Known as the "Journal Squared" development, by the Kushner Group, we take you inside this new monolith in the sky for an insider look at what makes an aesthetic great in filling the empty space. Journal Squared 1 is currently the tallest building in Jersey City, and in this moment, you'll begin to discover why.
If you’re a freelancer, you know well we now live in a, "Pitch Me!" Culture. We reason why some people expect other people to give up their grand ideas for free -- all without any money, fame, or gratitude, applied!
We only appear to be what we are not. We take to the skies of the scalpel to wonder how we can change who we are in the facade, and never think how our infrastructure may never be modified or laded.
If you’re Twentysomething, the world appears set against you, and it is! We share thoughts on the young, who are and abandoned into a world that has lost patience for the doctor's note afterthought.
There are always unknown, underworld, perils to the spirit. We examine the careers of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Charles Strouse, J.D. Salinger, and Truman Capote to decipher the dangers of becoming the new, mainstream, standard of excellence -- and the trap it sets for the aesthetic of the True Artist.
"If I were to write a subtitle today, it would read this: 'When You Pay Horrible People to Teach You!'" We share the story of an old foe -- an Ivy League Playwriting Instructor -- who, on the first day of class, declared he would "rather drink his own urine" than to have to "teach another section of new Playwrights." Salud!
Freedomland, USA was an idealized experience of what a true melting pot the United States had become; it lasted four years. We dig into the murky depths of the Baychester salt marshes in the Bronx -- where "White Flight" became a social test of turning.
Small things fester into big things that kill you. We take a look at the tiny insults we hold onto for 40 years, so that we may feel better, later, about the first betrayal. Who knew a small town, Doppler Weather Radar system -- overlay idea! -- at a small, Midwestern, radio station, could cause such dishonesty and longing?
There is no right to privacy when you ask people to follow you, and you then take their time, attention, money, and admiration, in the exchange. We wonder why Richard Simmons, and even Dr. Drew, appear to feel besieged by the very bespoke fame, and attention, they bespake while starting out on their Hollywood careers.
Kayfabe -- can be dangerous -- if you don’t know the game is fixed right from the first bell. We apply -- The Art of Kayfabe -- to the modern world, and the Evildoer Presidency. If Kayfabe is the fourth wall -- what happens when that suspension of disbelief, is never believed?
Marcus Aurelius spent time alone to think about the world. Because of that rightful introspection, in writing, from one of the last five great Emperors, we have insight into the history of what fed us. We share some favorite quotes from Marcus' "Meditations" in examination.
“Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!” We share why Herman Melville's short story classic -- Bartleby, the Scrivener -- is the perfect anti-hero-protagonist-villain for memeing in our modern world. We are Bartleby. We cannot be Bartleby.
All men fall. The great man stands back up. The greater man helps his fellow man rise again, too. We examine what it means to be a man in the meme of a modern world where circumstances spin and facts change on the whim of the whirlwind.
Most musicals die ugly and forsaken deaths. We reveal the ugly underbelly of creating the Broadway musical -- where money and mischief -- are more important, and valued, than doing the right thing for the benefit of humanity.
"Tell them that God bids us do good for evil." We unravel the wrappings of the Evildoers among us. They have taken over and are preparing to drown the rest of the non-believers. Now is the time to stand up to stare them down!
The last question of cruelty we have left to answer is if we need to kill to live. We cut open the Omaha Stockyards, animal cruelty, and our life habits of aging diseases -- all related to eating the right foods and not the wrong lives.
Judge Judy has two words for us, and two words only: DON'T FALL! We explore aging, and health, and the physiological, and social norms, of falling, and of being, felled.
What happens to a classically trained actor who turns to a life in television? We take a turn as he discovers the vortex where talent and expectation meet to find an undivine end in 1970s episodic television.
If we have one, singular, predictable, human failing it is this: We LOVE too much! Yes, love is NOT the answer. Love is never enough. Love is overrated, overexposed, and over-occupied! We take the Tricorn love beast for a wrangle in the depths of definition.
Can you identify someone’s Race only by listening to the way they speak? Can you identify someone’s Race by the way they pronounce words? Can you identify someone’s Race by the the way they pattern a spoken phrase? We investigate the definition of speech against Race against the color of expectation.
Values of the American West have been preserved in television. We watch the history of the Wild West unfold in many broadcast television series that aired over three decades. What is lost to history? Was anything won back in the dramatizations?
Thucydides warned us against war with the minority power. We extend the argument of the Thucydides Trap into the trenches of living a modern, conflicted, life.
We write to reveal, but we must act alone. We share how collaboration is important -- but only when it is done separately and apart -- as a writing project.
A singer ruins a slow song with slow singing. We share analysis of three, infamous, "slow singer" failures: Alison Krauss, Rumer, and Diana Krall! Plus, he shares some bonus singers along the way!
You beat back a Blackball by ignoring the Blackball. We share the aesthetic legacy of Deaf actress, Audree Norton, who fought against discrimination of the minority, by the minority, in casting -- and for her historic effort -- she was Blackballed by the television industry.
Water, and the purpose of wild sound, persevere against dominion. We share a destructive flood story of redaction, and he reveals the technical derring-do of recording, producing, and publishing this podcast.
Whimsy is both fantastical and fanatical! We share three, original, whimsical tales from our Ten Sentence Stories series.
How do we successfully form our thoughts for propagation? We take on the label of "failed" when it comes to authorship and the life of a creator.
If something breaks in our lives, do we have the right backup plan in place? We examine three sorts of "Last Known Goods" in our lives that help us reflexively start over from a mishap of truth and time.
Welcome to more of the Joseph Baldwin poetry slam! We wrap up the celebration of the great Playwright, author -- and poet-of-the-earth -- Joe Baldwin!
Learn these self-evident truths to master the world! We share truths we've learned about the Playwright's craft!
The American Dream belongs to everyone! We share stories of three Muslims in America who are finding their landed way to achieving their dreams.
We, are the Faith of us! We climb into the tenets of Faith, and share three, original, Ten Sentence Stories on the matter of us.
Ambrose Bierce was an indelible author! We explore the legacy of Bierce's short story -- "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" -- in The Twilight Zone, and in film courses across the world!
Boss Radio was a wonder of the 1960s! We take you on a tutorial tour of the history of Boss radio -- and we also teach you, as we were taught, how to become a Boss Jock today! Compression! Reverb! Shouting! Kissing and Telling!
Even more Marshall Jamison poetry! We share the third, and final, installment of Marshall Jamison's most memorable poems!
The power of a woman shall not be moved! In this original, short form, screenplay -- you meet FAT GIRL, a 600-lb woman who has powers beyond the supernatural! Join her, as her world explodes, and unwinds, in a final stand against regressive evil!
The market for selling babies, is booming! We reveal thoughts on selling infants for profit. Human trafficking is a sketchy scheme that demands the light of your attention!
We have democratically elected a King! Now what? We imagine what the world would be like under the tiny thumb of a ruler who believes only might makes right.
Movies are a great hiding place from the unholy reality that has become our lives! We shudder in the flickering danger of three terror films: The Train to Busan, The Eyes of My Mother, and -- The Witch! Know the horror of unrepentant evil tasked in our daughters!
Akira Kurosawa is a genius director of all cinema! We celebrate the movies Kagemusha and Rashomon! Plus, we share an examination of -- "The Rashomon Effect" -- to reveal unwitting, but human, embarrassments!
The historic moment of imaging is yours to own, with a twitch, of a shaky finger! We step you through some basics of shaping a photographic image to match your practiced aesthetic!
The Sex of us is the being of us! We dive into the surreal world of Sex as we share three, original, Ten Sentence Stories.
The world has always been on fire! We were born into the slaughterhouse, and tempered by ash. We look for a way out of the need for nations to constantly been in conflict -- seeking only resolutions in bloodletting.
We seek definition in the confirmation of others. We pry apart the confirmations and meanings -- of Trust and Faith -- to get at the white-hot underbellies of their salty cores!
Own your own promotional core! We wonder with you about the benefits of advertising and marketing. Are you able to use your own Horse Sense to defeat those who wish to decay your original intention? Sublimate yourself!
When you write, you create the world! We share our experience writing 50 books -- and we describe our role in helping other authors write their first, big, break! Avoid the pitfalls! Hit the pinnacles!
Our lives synch across different timelines. We asynchronously search the Wayback Machine, and the Internet Archive, to find synchronous timing and self-satisfying returns about Black Measles. Together, we are unbound!
Who wins the struggle for Power? We share three of his original Ten Sentence Stories that reveal the structures of Power condemning us while condoning us.
The enemy of the people, is the truth teller! We unearth the truths of Henrik Ibsen's classic 1882 play -- AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE -- to discover universal truths about the human condition. We cover up lies! We willfully poison the land! We blame the accuser! How did Ibsen know, 164 years ago, that today, we would be dealing with Fracking, and purposefully poisoned water supplies in Flint, Michigan -- and beyond -- as well as the Lakota Sioux Pipeline? Ibsen knew, because, he understood -- the compact majority of us -- meant stupid people would rule!
The will you seek is not your own. We examine problems with the notion of being predestined in a life that no longer belongs to you.
Shyness recompresses the you of you. We explore the meaning, causation, and recitation, of shyness. It isn't enough to tell someone not to be shy, we have to help each other become our own expectation.
Caril Ann Fugate was kidnapped by Charles Starkweather. We re-examine the 1958 case of Caril Ann, and her Starkweather captor. Charlie Starkweather murdered 11 people, including members of Caril Ann's family. Caril Ann Fugate was implicated in the killings -- by her kidnapper! -- and she was given a life sentence. This is her story. This is the exoneration of Caril Ann Fugate.
We fight the middle Right through an assault from the edge! We sound the fife and bangs the drum: Now is the time to stand and fight! Now is the time to not be moved! Now is the time for Anarchy from our Outliers!
Why is Russia snuggling in our White House? We take apart the 2016 election -- and what it means for American and Russian relations with Donald Trump as president. We are in for a woeful world of hurt!
How do we negotiate coping with each other? We share stories of viral internet memes, and stories about Marshall Jamison, Burgess Meredith and, "Anyone for Tennyson?"
Here are some views on Deaf Culture. We reveal answers to questions posed by a Master's Thesis student researching Deaf Culture, professional Broadway interpreting programs, and the merits of regional theatre performance interpretations.
We covet what we lose. We wonder why we value loss more than inclusion. We venerate the dead, but ignore the living. Is it because we cannot stand to bear the unrecoverable?
The story of Leda is harrowing. We investigate the myth of Leda. Was she too beautiful for a mortal life? Was she abused without warning in the name of predestiny? Did the violence struck upon her, foreshadow the lives of her unborn children?
The streets have no name -- but they do have your number! We take to the streets to learn about friendship and Ethics and Envy and Enforcers! A Walking City always takes the first step up by creeping from the gutter!
A free society requires public atonement. We argue against anonymity in the community of the world -- where only the nefarious, and the unseemly, hide in the depths to mercilessly troll the best of us.
Icarus leaves behind a lousy legacy. We fly around the myth of Icarus and Daedalus -- and discovers that heros die with a forgotten honor while fools have islands and seas named after them. As we step out of the primordial brine, our only hope is for escape.
Brutalism is back is a big way! We decline the rise of the re-booting of the Brutalist movement! We are surrounded by the relics of a Brutal ideal in designed living in architecture -- and beyond our common culture -- and we cannot escape its scowl on our cities.
Stupidity has nothing to do with education. We wrestle with the management, and enlightening of, Stupid People! We listen. We question. We ask. Always in that order -- so we may know.
What happened to GE television advertising? We vivisect GE Ad campaigns over the last 30 years. Why did GE move the idea of them -- and of us! -- from warm and bright to forlorn and stupid?
Where do we go to get Social Justice? We examine the nature of Social Justice in the wake of the competing anarchical memes of Black Lives Matter and the White Supremacist Movement. Are there similar desires at stake in the streets? Are there equal ends on opposite ends of a piece of string? How do we get along with each other, if not, by social transposition?
Our lives are circles generating circles. To unwind us, is to disassemble what makes us whole. We discuss the Art of Closing Circles -- and of finding meaning in the moment of silence before the second closes.
We learn as we listen. We celebrate the fact that Hillary Clinton actually gave the bones and ribs of the Millennials speech we wrote for her -- when she addressed the Children's Defense Fund!
We write for us, not them. We argue against the reckless notion that authors should write books for generations 100 years out while not allowing the now of us to read the work today.
Camus' Sisyphus was against suicide, but did Sisyphus really take his punishment from the Gods? We contemplate the MIRTH in the Sisyphus myth, and we recall Sartre and Camus to help us existentialize the ratty rationalizations of the despicable rock roller!
How do you prevent someone from dishonoring a contract? We help you figure out how to get the best contract terms and how to deal with the inevitable boor of a business person who refuses to honor a done deal.
Over the past week, our beloved host was accused of three things. First, he was accused of being a Traitor to His Own Race. Next, he was accused of being a Genderist because he thinks women can be "stolen." Finally, he was accused of being a Big Baby in need of diapering. In this episode, we respond to our accusers!
The risk of your life is to become an Outlier and stay one. We explain the value of an authentic Outlier -- one who leaves society to become an extra thinker beyond the common core.
You cannot make us forget you! We flay the European Union notion that anyone in the world has the "Right to Be Forgotten" in today's digital evolution! It is nigh impossible to erase footfalls that have already been suspended in amber.
What happens when a Ghoul unexpectedly wins an election? We interview, for a second time, a conquering Ghoul who will set world expectation for the undead in the next generation!
Don't ask for it if you didn't write it! We take on the glommers who want to "borrow" your research, or "take a look at" your Powerpoint presentation, or "grab a copy of" your syllabus. Write your own stuff! Stop stealing content from the rest of us!
Some Ghouls are too good to be true! We break new ground interviewing an ill-smelling Ghoul on election day! Can this Ghoul win it all with the Kitten and Wraith vote?
The Lakota Sioux have spent generations fighting for hills and against pipelines. We make the case that the Black Hills of South Dakota were a first line of defense -- a wall! -- against intruders, until it was discovered those hills were made of gold, and the land was lost to blood and greed. Today, the fight is over Black Gold and pumping stations.
What do we mean in the landscape of antiquity? We share our combined searches for meaning in our lives -- with conflicting interests -- and opposing causes.
Why does the salesmanship of childhood stick with us inside the adult? We dissect some of the most memorable commercials from the 1970s to wonder at the everlasting effects upon their intended, advertising, targets.
We owe our future to the history of those who joined us. We celebrate the immigrant experience, and those who choose to give up their lives at home to join our lives here in America.
The homeless and the mentally ill creep on the seams of society. We try to figure out how we can help those who are unable to think of their own welfare. Incarceration is not the solution. Ignoring these desperate people hasn't worked. What's next?
What breaks us can never can never bind us. Here is an original ghost story we wrote about a Nebraska legend.
We are surrounded by smoke and poop! We take a sniff at how the mores of society are changing right beneath our noses! Medical Marijuana and Service Animals are beguiling more than just our sense of smell!
Academia is just as cutthroat as Wall Street -- but will less morality and more humor. We share canonical insight into the PhD hiring process, and how it unravels into unfairness and backslapping in order to fill empty faculty lines.
We have the need to be cleansed. Yet, we can never be clean. We reveal the memes of purity and cleanliness as cultural controls. Can we ever become Virgins again after the loss of verifiable innocence?
Students who attend school in Newark, New Jersey discuss Race and Racism in performance. In this episode, our instructor gives the story over to his Fall 2004 "Page to Stage" class at Rutgers-Newark where his students dramatize the hard, biting, realities of their lives -- recording the truth of them, in situ, in studio, preserved in the amber of audio history. NSFW: Language.
We are always being watched by someone who is not us -- or OF us. We walk through the sky above and the eyes below that are looking down on us and around on us -- recording every move we make. Can we escape this Panopticon of our own doing and desire?
In a crumbling world, the comedians make the news, and skewer the truth. The old world newsreaders are scuttled to the dustbin -- unless they compete on the lowest level of giggling and desk-slapping. In this episode, we track the downfall of the American news personality.
The Irish sense of tragedy takes many forms and mournings. We dive into Irish culture and the work of Playwright and Poet John Millington Synge. There are some Irish pronunciation name games herein as well as the redacted version, IN LIVE PERFORMANCE, of "Deirdre of the Sorrows."
Three cunning bigots? Three kind solutions! We share our experiences in a week filled with censorship and cruel bigots! There's the bigoted Race-baiter, and then there's the Civil Rights ruiner, and, finally, there's the culture-dissing inHuman Troll!
There is no value in us. We are built on hubris and breadcrumbs, and we prick the notion that we only bleed when we're struck -- and not in perpetuity. We are not unique. We only resemble. How then, can we fight for a right niche in life and become, in essence, the meaning of, value?
"I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." We discuss the idea of a "Trinity Moment" -- and how that notion is inspired by the scheme of Robert Oppenheimer's "Trinity Test" bombs during WWII. We cannot reoccur, or recover, from a Trinity Moment. Like Pandora's Box, once a Trinity Moment is let loose upon us, the Devil cannot be sent back to Hell.
We are not always our talents. We want to believe we can arc above the sky and land on our feet; but our parents often try to hold us down, for our own sake, against our wishes and our dreams. We answer a talented student of the Performing Arts from California who wants to take up an offer for a full-ride scholarship that her parents refuse to approve.
Every friend is your enemy! Yes, it's true! Every enemy is a friend and every friend is an enemy. The trick of life is to know which way that pendulum is ticking against you.
We are our hatreds. When we, the majority, choose to pick on the minority among us, we cheapen our own dreams, and wishes, and we poison our future with violence. We examine a not-so-distant time in America when were were rougher, and more, cruel with -- "The Others" -- than we are today.
Is there a difference between a coward and a terrorist? We struggle to find the difference between terrorism and cowardice. In the Age of Modern Warfare Against Civilians -- do those labels even matter any longer, when killing is done, virtually, from afar?
Achievement vs. Originality matters. Knowing the difference between authenticity and imitation is not as easy as it once was. We reveal the imitators among us -- the copiers, the pale comparisons, and the almost was.
Why are we obsessed with venerating the Evildoers among us? We take a look at our like for the bad influences in our culture. Hitler, the KKK, Pigeons, Sports, Criminals and Bad Boys -- they're all here -- waiting for the burning!
Where has the sacred heart gone to find love today? We reckon with -- "The Death of the Old God" -- in an Age where everything is facile and online and untouchable. Sex! Dating! Heathens of the Loveless!
We are illogical beings who rely on logistics to get the work of life, done. We lay out the idea of the logicians who run our lives -- in business and in healthcare -- and the inescapable resolution of the dissolution of our Human Souls in the process.
The Marvel Comics Universe comes alive in New York City! We take a look at the Luke Cage television series on Netflix. The evildoers and the good fighters tee off in Harlem to rule the soul of the people!
Here's what you get when you combine a Hobson's Choice with a Sophie's Choice. You get a Wicked Monster trapped in a never-ending circle of ferocity! We explore the mind of us, and how we choose to make decisions while actively deciding not to be involved in anything that can later be used against us.
If you want to be widely understood, be universally clear, and contextual. We share secrets of the mistakes we've made in a long -- social media tail -- career. Context is everything, and it can always be shared if you explain well. "Katzenfutter" and "World of the Day" and "Word-Smithy" and "Three's Company" -- forever!
Here is the speech Hillary Clinton needs to give to Millennials. We share the speech we wrote for Hillary Clinton to win the Millennials vote!
How do we label things in the Internet of things? We insult you, and offends you, as we step through a generation, or two, of naming conventions -- from retarded to Autistic, from lazy to Fibromyalgia, from antisocial to Asperger's Syndrome. All outrage, all the time!
Does your love backup have a backup? The universe wants us to be one thing and not a multiplicity, but computer systems were built to copy us -- sometimes in uneven and unwanted ways. We wonder about the doppelgangers of us, and how many backups is too many -- and why redundant love is something all children require.
Are we only our jobs? We ask the important questions of us -- are we our work, are we our dreams, as we something else -- or are we only what others expect us to be in the end?
The Art of Adaptation is not for the weak-willed. We share methods of adaptation, and of divining meaning into the essence of everything. In order to adapt, you must first humble yourself, and then submit -- and we provide examples from Columbia University in the City of New York and in the higher life of Jewish actor, Steven Hill.
Will the 2016 presidential election be decided by the non-involvement of Millennials? We think it so -- and we dig into the depths of the emptiness of us -- to unearth a generation that was born aimless, and amiss.
New Twitter friend Ashleigh Bonner asks for a podcast about trust. This, is that, podcast! We answer Ashleigh's inquiries, and wonderings, about the nature of us -- and the test of us -- when it comes to living together as a society.
What happens to those left behind -- the traumatized, and the grieving? In this podcast follow-up to -- "Does Disappeared Mean Murdered?" -- we reflect on what it means to find success in storytelling as we share a letter from a grieving stranger, and shines an example on traumatic memory, in the example of Lt. Joe Kenda, star of the Homicide Hunter television show on the Investigation Discovery channel.
How do you get Verified on Twitter and Facebook? Don't ask us -- because we have no idea -- even though we're finally Verified on both Facebook and Twitter. Listen along as we share some schemes and thoughts and doables for winning the social media Verification day!
“As we are connected, so shall we remain in the dark.” That quote is investigated in this podcast about living virtually and in reality. Do we know how dependent we are on power and the internet? Can a piece of string save us? How long is a piece of string?
Here are the stories of fellow Lincoln, Nebraskans Wendy Hile, Oscar Long and Gina Bos -- all either murdered, or presumed dead. We investigate what it means to go missing in the real world, and how we deal with the not knowing of what happened to the murdered, and the beloved, around us.
What's the easiest way to control the most people? We share thoughts on the methods and the memes used to control thought, and behavior -- from medication, to religion, to education, to womb manipulation.
Have we finally burned the Patriotism out of 9/11? Will we ever get over the attack that paralyzed New York City? Must we replay the murder of almost 3,000 people in real time, every single year? We take on what it means to be an American -- and we add Colin Kaepernick, and Sandy Hook, and the Civil War, and San Bernardino, and George W. Bush, and the NFL, and morning TV news readers -- to the fire!
We corrupt our Aesthetic and Education and Values through carelessness. We take apart all the memetics we claim to culturally care about, and he disassembles it all into non-organic parts -- The Kardashians, Justin Bieber and Britney -- plus, The Others!
Today, we share a lovely letter from Anthea Syrokou! You may listen to Anthea's feedback concerning our -- "How Not to Paint" -- podcast and our response to her thoughts here as well! Oh, and don't tell Anthea her undercover iPhone Street Name is: "Anthrax!"
If we are presented with a button -- that does not mean we must press it! We contemplate what happens when we independently set machines in motion without knowing how the gears will flow. Deus Ex Machina is the critical, fateful, classical warning against starting the machine -- yet, we never listen, or learn!
There's a crime afoot to steal your money while you're drunk and painting! We put the tines to the "Copying is Painting" Art movement in America. Creation is not imitation, and Aristotle provides the parameters for judging all aesthetic intention!
Fire changes us, warms us, and creates the history of us. We share five fires in history that changed the basis of us. Shelley, Yeats, San Francisco, Watts, OJ Simpson and "No Country for Old Men" ignite the conversation!
Who owns your letters? We explore ownership of writing and literature and letters -- and SMS texts! What is Fair Use? How do we quote a part of an image? What is allowed in virtual scholarship?
Carlos Danger! Underwear Shots! It's Anthony Weiner! We go on a sex stroll through history as husbands humiliate their wives -- in public -- all in the meme of gathering greater political power! JFK! Bill Clinton! John Edwards! Gary Hart! All, inhuman creeps!
A university campus must never be a safe haven for thoughts! We examine the new University of Chicago policy against trigger warnings and other methods of thought control perpetrated by the precious few against the whole. With extended examples from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Columbia University in the City of New York in tow, we also share direct teaching experience on the censorship matter.
This is the first bloopers edition! This month-old podcast is still an imperfect thing, as you'll learn as all the flubs and blumbles are memorialized. As well, technical updates to the podcast are shared -- including conversation about the USBPre-2 microphone and sound mixer, the Neumann KMS 105 MT microphone, K&M boom arms, and the Tascam DR-100MKII for field recording!
William Kloefkorn and Charles Stubblefield were great poets! We share the longing legacy of Kloefkorn and Stubblefield via their work in the classroom, their publishing genius with the Platte Valley Press, and their lasting impression on the people they touched.
What is the historical importance of yearning in literature? We explore the notion of yearning in the works of Nebraska authors Loren Eiseley, Willa Cather, and John G. Neihardt.
Here are three 10txt stories performed for the first time! In this edition, you'll hear, "I am the Night Train Killer" and "Beanie Blue, Queen of the Undernight" plus, "Marston Swain, Jr. Waits for His Life to Begin."
Here's another original bit of fiction! "The Woman Who Married Her Brother and Became Her Mother' originally appeared on October 4, 2013 as part of the BolesBlogs.com network and you may read the story, in text form, on that website.
Here is the starry, sorry, legend of the Great Bootsock! In this original story -- and published November 8, 2013 at BolesBlogs.com -- we learn of a great high school football player who fell in the glittery days of college, and who had to settle for a life, not in the heavens, but stuck, hard, in the ethereal ground.
What kind of life do you want to have? We compare the Anarchist to the Passivist and how the memes of knowledge become moments of sharing beyond the classroom. What we know, defines us, and what we do not know, defeats us.
In this original fairytale, you meet an orange-faced Gargoyle. That short-fingered, cloven-hoofed, Vulgarian God is set upon the destruction of the world, and is served by three, misshapen, children as the rest of humanity are rendered mute with nukes. Then -- a child appears -- to tame the hatred, and stanch the drooling, with the gift of kindness; and the world is able to be re-birthed again, in the valley of the homeland.
Our pineal gland is the key to healing. We share the ways and means of annealing your pineal gland -- your very own grain-of-rice-sized pinecone in the middle of your brain in perfect Fibonacci Golden Spiral form -- for greater health, and insight into your world, and galaxies beyond the human meme!
How do we measure success: Using the wallet and social status? We explore the common themes of winning and losing; and we shares the story of a young woman we used to know who sold her future, and the futures of her children, to the highest, social, bidder.
Our greatest duty is to curate each other. We investigate what we decide together to improve, provide, and empower. We also share a mistake he made during a Freshman year of teaching Freshman writing!
Do we still care to care for the disabled -- or do we only want them fixed? We discuss why we may think there are right protections in place, like the Americans With Disabilities Act, to guarantee and ensure equal access; but as society changes, Eugenics rises again, The Ugly Laws become revitalized, and we have a return to those who prefer to cull the herd instead of lifting up everyone. Even 23andMe are disaffected in wanting to fix instead of help!
We believe in Threes -- for there is power in the multiple choosing! -- but, why? We consider Sigmund Freud's fascinating essay, "The Theme of the Three Caskets" to help divine answers in our need for a triple choice. Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear" hold clues to caskets of gold, silver and lead and -- in the final absorption -- we find the unadorned, instinctual, reflexive, viral, choosing of The Goddess of Death as the real value in every human life.
How do we distribute knowledge, and information, and human emotion? We uproot ways of thinking about publishing, broadcasting, education and religious tenets. In the end, there is only one distribution channel that matters across every simple syndication and human emotion.
Aristotle tried to give form to the function of the human soul. We search the human experience for meaning in the evolution of our communal concept of the soul -- ending in an indictment of what has become, in the Modern Age, the moral ubiquity of the Demon Soul!
James Baldwin was one of the greatest Race Writers in America. We examine the biting words of the author in historical context. The violent, early, deaths of his friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. all transformed James Baldwin's vision of America.
This podcast is packed raw with raves that enrapture the world! Topics include: iTunes reviews, Contact Lenses, Obummer, Education, Marriage, Ending with AT, Ancestry, New York City, and Quadroons!
In today's podcast, we are full of rants! Topics include Obama, Pigs in the Street, The Olympics, Apple, News Reader Fashion Critiques, Flippity-Flops and Undue Drug Prices! Join the rage by subscribing today!
Gideon is a man who went to prison to help guarantee our freedom. We examine the life of Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner and petty criminal who helped guarantee our fundamental right to counsel and free access to a Public Defender. In the example of Gideon, we are taught that no one is above the law, and no poor person is below the law. The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were never so alive!
We answer your questions about sunshine and podcasting! Other topics include Porsche, Buick, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump!
How do we deal with serial liars? These professional fibbers build up each lie, carefully, preternaturally, like spit on a broom! We share a story of shameless misery dealing with a Millennial dog owner living above him who, while holding a dog in his arms, denies he has a dog in his arms.
The last full measure of devotion divines us. How does the commoner find the way to the unadorned grave? We use the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln, Sen. Robert Kennedy, and Teddy Kennedy to bring us to understanding, and closure, for the regular lives lost among us.
How do we keep alive our connection with each other? We stay together by renewing covenants, closing circles, and remembering who and what we wish to become. We use the examples of a Washington, D.C. theatre, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Rep. John Lewis -- all as exemplars of covenants warned in excellence.
We fight for justice and pledge allegiance to each other and ourselves. How then, do we handle creators who give us public joy and communal introspection -- while their personal lives are broken to the bone and morally corrupt in the being? We discuss the hard decisions we have to make when it comes to honoring Craft vs. Creator!
How do we teach our children to tend their souls? Do we set an example for imitation? Or are children born with a soul that blindly leads them right? We consider the nurturing memes that form us early in childhood. A soul is not for the safekeeping. A soul for made for the community sharing!
Are we born lucky? Or does luck become us? We analyze the Meme, and the merits, of blessings, luck, and spectral intervention. Beware of tricksters wishing to make your luck -- their own divinity!
How do we quantify and qualify our grief for the dead? Is personal mourning less valuable than the public grief expressed in social media and along the public square? Is a dead athlete more valuable to community function than a dying child? We examine how, and why, we mourn apart, and as a nation, together.
How do we create ideas that survive within others? That is the idea of an -- "Irrevocable Aesthetic" -- that propagates from person-to-person long after you are gone. There are ways of knowing that are universal in the evidence of memory and an in the expression of residual effluence. Everything flows! Join us in this discussion of the human myth.
How we want what we cannot have is a temptation that deserves a knuckling down from a divine hand. What happens when divinity is lost, social policy becomes less aware and the laws of us fail to reorient our moral conundrum? How do we find our way out of childish things?
We discuss the technocrat bits of upgrading your podcast. But first, we share a brief history of the Yale School of Drama Mafia. Then, we're on to microphones, headphones, audio decoders, recording and editing software, podcast philosophy, hosting services, and other enhanced details of the evolution of this series.
Education in America is unequal. There are barriers to learning that must be breached. How do we equally teach every mind that is ripe to learn? Can we economically survive as a nation when elite education is too expensive to afford? To know, we must fight together!
We answer angry email from his Inbox! You'll learn about God and Guns and Terrorism -- all in the first two minutes!
We live tortured lives filled with pain propagated by others against us. How do we survive as body is set against mind? Who peed the bed? We look to drama and yogis and morality to save us from the others of us. We must allow each other our grief!
How may we become successful when those around us don't share the same vision? We stay. We will not be moved. We may be mocked or cut off or abandoned, but we always continue on our mark, remain our pathway, and blaze a bright sky in the moonlight.
Publishing is for everyone, not just mega-media conglomerates, and in this examination of the transferrable memetic, we evaluate the memes and methods of various terms of teams from the Book to the future of threadbare, socialized, publication.
This is a discussion of the staves of dramatic theory: Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, and Spectacle! The Poetics!
Why do we create Art and People and Books and Sandwiches? What drives the human compunction to be remembered? How do we divine the truth? Why are we able to withstand the challenges of time? Technology replaces technology, but what replaces us? (NOTE: Yes, I know burning witches was before the founding of the nation -- a misspeak that is now preserved as part of the Human Meme in amber! -- but please take the point of the riddled point)
The idea of beauty is discussed. How have our tastes in physical beauty, Art and Architecture changes over time? What do we value if not beauty over the ugly? Does anyone aspire to ugliness?
We discuss how life has changed from mechanization, and the loss of wonder. Transportation, Communication and Social Living are examined.
This is the first episode! The definition of a human life is at stake, and the loss of elastic thinking is also examined. "What does it mean to live a human life?"