In this somber episode, Your Chancellor opines that getting older generally means getting more aware, which generally equates with questioning faith in people and losing hope. Fun stuff!

Being a maverick means living authentically as yourself and living your own dreams. But you can't do that if you're living on someone else's money.

Being a maverick means living authentically as yourself and living your own dreams. But you can't do that if you're living on someone else's money.

The Chancellor reviews the Paul Schrader/Ethan Hawke film "First Reformed". But he also lets off some steam about some of the negative, politically biased reviews being written about this movie by right-wingers on IMDB, and, in so doing, discusses his firm belief that climate change (like most science) is perfectly compatible and morally consistent with faith and religion.

Don't shut down Twitter, or you're shutting down America. People are crazy? Mean? Ugly? Sure. But people are complex too, with many layers. And the big picture, which should concern you, includes us all.

In his continuing learning series, The Chancellor reminds you to learn by asking questions. Ego and pride stifle learning. But humility frees the mind to wander, doubt, admit ignorance, and eventually to learn in-progress by asking those who might know for the answers.

Do you frequently lie in bed at night worrying about things that end up never happening? Stop it. In this episode, The Chancellor gives you the secret ingredient necessary to fight your anxiety & fears — information. Knowledge defeats anxiety, or at least recasts it into solvable realities you can address and defeat over time. So stop hiding from the possibility of bad news. The only bad news is no news.

Love is all that really matters. Yet we all often face a disconnect with one another in expressing and sharing it. And that's what can make sadness so hard to shake.

People are disappointing, and life is predictable and generally turns bad. But these things are both actually wonderful. Find out why.

Are you a woman who never forgives men? Who discards any man who has upset you with truth like a wad of used toilet paper? Who erases people with penises the moment they fail to provide you with your daily allotment of ass-inserted sunshine? Well, has Ray got a podcast episode for you.