Diary of a Senior Geek

Diary of a Senior Geek

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  • DOASG Episode 77 – Election 2020, Week 3! Trump Follies and How Can We Find a Way to Agree on Reality?

    Photo: Desert Sunset, Colorado River, 1973

    Source: Dean Fisher Photo Library


    Here’s the Up First podcast episode I captured some audio from:

    https://www.npr.org/2020/11/15/935212239/new-covid-restrictions-vaccine-distribution-u-s-troop-withdrawal


    Here’s a link to the Real Time with Bill Maher episode I quoted from. You’ll need an HBO subscription to watch it:

    https://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2020/11/11/guest-list-november-13-2020


    This podcast is available from:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diary-of-a-senior-geek/id1462192868?uo=4

    https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge, I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

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    15 min
  • DOASG Episode 76 – Election 2020, Week 2! With an Email Exchange with My Brother!

    Photo: Sedona 1988

    Source: Dean Fisher photo library


    NYT Article on the lack of Voter Fraud:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.html


    This podcast is available from:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diary-of-a-senior-geek/id1462192868?uo=4

    https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge, I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

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    18 min
  • DOASG Episode 75 – Election 2020!

    Photo: DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN LADY VOTERS TALK THINGS OVER. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 26 1939. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS GENERAL COUNCIL DINNER 'THE LIBERTY WE PRIZE' HAD AS ITS GUEST SPEAKERS THE OUTSTANDING LADIES OF BOTH PARTIES. L TO R: MISS MARGUERITE M. WELLS, PRESIDENT; MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, FIRST LADY; MRS. ROBERT A. TAFT, TOASTMISTRESS; AND JUDGE FLORENCE E. ALLEN

    Source: Library of Congress

    https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hec.47479/


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge, I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    6 min
  • Episode 74 - The One Where I Was Too Distracted by A Presidential Debate and the World Series to Get Much Done.

    Photo by Gary Fisher: Scott Johnson and Nerdtacular 2012, for no particular reason.


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    12 min
  • Ep005 - The One Where I Talk About My Birth and My Uncomfortable Relationship with Religion

    Photo by an unknown family member, probably Mom: Me at 5 months old.


    Tales of a Senior Geek is available from:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Diary of a Senior Geek is available from:

    https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t do that I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/3493fe34/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    12 min
  • Episode 73 - The One Where I Talk About the Senate Supreme Court Hearings, the ACA, Roe v Wade and…COVID-19

    Photo by Gary Fisher: The back of my phone with an I Voted sticker on it because…I Voted!


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    18 min
  • Episode 72 - The One Where I Talk About The Vice Presidential Debate, President Trump, Progressivism/Liberalism and…COVID-19

    Photo by an unknown family member: Grandpa Trulove in Sequoia, September 1962. What does it have to do with this episode? Absolutely nothing.


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    14 min
  • Ep005 - The One Where I Talk About My Birth and My Uncomfortable Relationship with Religion

    Photo by an unknown family member, probably Mom: Me at 5 months old.

    Tales of a Senior Geek is available from:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49

    Diary of a Senior Geek is available from:

    https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher

    Please send me an email:

    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49
    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/
    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37

    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!

    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek

    If for whatever reason you can’t do that I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.

    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/3493fe34/podcast/rss

    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help.

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    Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher/message
    11 min
  • Episode 71 - The One Where I Talk About Walking Away from Conversations, Socialism, and…COVID-19
    Photo by: Dean Fisher – Mom with a Movie Camera at Sequoia in September, 1962 What does it have to do with this episode? Absolutely nothing.
    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:
    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49
    The book “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A very Practical Guide” is available here:
    http://tiny.cc/DOASG002
    Here’s where you can find good information on COVID-19:
    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
    Please send me an email:
    [email protected]
    You can follow me on social media:
    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49
    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/
    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37
    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!
    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,
    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek
    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.
    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:
    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss
    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.

    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    11 min
  • Episode 70 - The One Where I Talk About Intention in Conversations, Communism and…COVID-19

    Photo by Joyce Fisher (I think), Dad, me and Uncle Leonard Trulove. Taken at Huntington Beach in August 1962. What does it have to do with this episode? Absolutely nothing.


    Check out my companion podcast, Tales of a Senior Geek. It’s stories of my life and my family’s lives:

    https://anchor.fm/seniorgeek49


    Plato’s “Meno”

    http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html


    The book “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A very Practical Guide” is available here:

    http://tiny.cc/DOASG002


    Here’s where I’m getting my information on COVID-19:

    http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america


    Please send me an email:

    [email protected]


    You can follow me on social media:

    https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49

    https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/

    https://www.facebook.com/garyf37


    If you like the show, please give it a 5-star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks!


    If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page,

    https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek


    If for whatever reason you can’t pledge I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is.


    If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link:

    https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss


    If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple’s Podcasts app it will really help. You have no idea how much.



    ---

    Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gary-fisher/message

    Get full access to Diary of a Senior Geek at seniorgeek.substack.com/subscribe
    15 min

About Diary of a Senior Geek

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Currently I'm mostly talking about current events and how they are affecting my family, friends, the world, and me. I also talk about my personal philosophy and things I've learned over seven-plus decades, and am still learning.