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Zach and Marko discuss transgender activism, gender fluidity, gender affirmation therapy and the documentary "What Is A Woman" by Matt Walsh.

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"Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication" is a book by Vanessa Van Edwards. Mrs. Edwards is a proclaimed behavioral investigator. In her book she covers the ins and outs of social interaction. How we humans articulate our social interactions with this knowledge. As well as how to detected, define it and even use it to our advantage. Zach and I had differing opinions on her studies. Find out what we had to say.

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We had the remarkable luck of sitting down with actor Dave Gordon. Dave is best known perhaps for his roles in the cast of Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament.

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Can we escape the cave? The echo chambers of our thoughts. Do we want to? What do our perceptions tell us about who we are or what we can do. Fear and wonder are powerful concepts.

Thank you to Music by ZakharValaha

How well do we really know the people we care about?

Productivity comes at a price. Giving up focus to manage responsibility is praised. The ability to multitask is a hirable attribute but is it really useful? In an effort to be good at many skills we lose being excellent in few or even just one. The 'samurai brain' becomes lost in a sea of unfinished ambitions.

A rousing cheer for those who boast

Their heart - their love - their fear.

And while we few are apt from most

Let no regrets command our tears.

For nothing given from this bar

Is stronger than this creed and hence.

The sweetest victories often are,

In equal measure with their absence.

Lose more than soul and flesh to wine.

Rejoice in memory of youth and vigor.

And stitch no sorrow in this quick decline

For your wings were never bigger.

Leadership.  What does that mean to you?  To many this word means authority.  The one in charge.  The boss.  Leaders are expected to demand the right solutions.  To provide the best outcomes.  To fight the greatest threats.  We cheer and sometimes beg for good leaders.  Believing it is the stagnancy of comforts or lack thereof that has brought us our current grief.  Unfortunately, none of these beliefs are what make up leadership.  Instead, the aforementioned is a childlike cry for a parent.  For someone else to push away the darkness and to do it - quickly.  These juvenile demands are not shared by all.  There is a mature want for leadership - but what does that mean?  As John W. Gardner writes in his book On Leadership, “When we ask a question countless times and arrive at no answer, it is possible that we are asking the wrong question - or that we have misconceived the terms of the query.”  Real leadership is like the sail of a boat.  It can be guided, it can be improved and it should be repaired.  It moves, not demands, the innovations that can solve our problems.  This is not the instruction we receive when we labor.  When we work at our lives or at our job. The laborer has been instructed that their leader is part of a hierarchy.  That he himself has a leader.  This does not make a leader, it makes a manager and a manager is just another laborer.

Shoshana Zuboff is a Harvard professor and author. She wrote the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. No, she's not our guest on the show (not yet). In this episode we tackle the discoveries Shoshana and other scholars have brought to light. We contemplate the loss of personal privacy in the modern world. The amount of data we pour into the internet and the ignorance that goes along with it.

Zach and Mark discuss The Drug Users Bible. A book by Dominic Milton Trott. The right medicine is the right choice but what makes the cut? Which substances are truly harmful and which provide untold health benefits? One man faced it all for science and the merits of discovery.