In which we discuss the complexities of personal values and how those inform what we should or shouldn’t do. Recorded October 24, 2024.

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Show notes:

Franklin Planner - Productivity Pyramid

Garbage Disposal - Wikipedia

Is-Ought Problem - Wikipedia

Is-Ought Fallacy - Texas State Univ.

In which we debate on the usefulness of being disappointed and disappointing other people. Recorded October 17, 2024.

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Tier 1: Nuclear family, immediate household

Tier 2: Extended family, close communities

The Business of the 21st Century, Robert T Kiyosaki

Will, Will Smith

1 Timothy 3:1-5

Colonel Harland Sanders, KFC

Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale, Age question

Russell M Nelson, LDS

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

In which we talk with another family member about the reasons a family may want to handle finances cooperatively rather than separately and independently. Recorded October 10, 2024.

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Show notes:

34 Ways to Make Extra Money - Ramsey Solutions

Why Communities Matter

Draft Horse Synergy

Genesis 2:18

1 Corinthians 10:24

The Little Red Hen

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman

Shirley Temple Staircase Dance

Malthusian Growth Model

The Starfish Tale

O Youth of the Noble Birthright, Brad Wilcox

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

Build a Better Mousetrap

7 Baby Steps, Dave Ramsey

Jacob 2:18, Book of Mormon

Philippians 4:10

Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 Ch IV-VII, Aristotle

Non-Violent Communication, Marshall Rosenburg

In which we explore the concepts of phenomena, productivity, and human capability. One claim we mentioned in this episode was that humans only use 10% of their brains. Actually, PET scans show that the entire brain is constantly active, even in periods of sleep: regulating, monitoring, sensing, interpreting, reasoning, planning, and acting. Even people with degenerative neural disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease still use more than 10% of their brains. Recorded October 02, 2024

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Show notes:

"Darwin" Selected and Edited by Philip Appleman

"Phenomena" Annie Jacobsen

Videos-

Jordan Peterson at the Rescue the Republic gathering, September 29, 2024

SpaceX rocket booster catch

Movies & Shows-

NCIS S14 E13 “Keep Going”

Grey’s Anatomy S14 E2-E4 Amelia Shepherd’s brain tumor

Topics-

Quantum Entanglement

Uri Geller, Illusionist and magician

Flight 327

“Change the World”, Eric Clapton

Unschooling

Interesting read on the “Factory Model of Education”

Elon Musk’s Gigafactory in Texas

East-Gulf Coast Port Strikes

Elon Musk “Universal High Income”

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

In which we try to find the significance of traditions in contrast to rituals and habits, and what they mean to us individually and communally. Recorded September 25, 2024

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Show notes:

Into the Wild (2007), story of Christopher McCandless

Article: Rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history - and we still need them

Top Gun (1986) “Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations.”

Fiddler on the Roof (1971) “Tradition!”

In which we discover what we think about moochers and other related types of people, and explore how we might keep our families from becoming that type of person. Recorded September 18, 2024

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Show notes:

Definition of Mooching

Les Miserables candlestick scene "I bought your soul"

Donald Trump wealth and trust funds

"The Strangest Secret" Earl Nightingale

The Ants & The Grasshopper

7 Baby Steps, Dave Ramsey

Entreleadership, Dave Ramsey

Christopher Reeves work after injury

The Ultimate Gift (2006), Jim Stovall

Peaky Blinders family meeting

In which we come to realize none of it really makes sense or perhaps isn't even valuable. Recorded September 11, 2024.

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In which we try to figure out what "well-rounded" means and if it's even something to be concerned about. Recorded September 4, 2024.

Thank you for joining us as we take part in the Great Conversation! (Robert M Hutchins, Mortimer Adler). We talk from our own experiences and perspectives, we hope we get some things right, and we know we definitely get a lot of things wrong. If you have thoughts you'd like to share, or topics you'd like to suggest, feel free to participate with us: [email protected].

Show Notes:

Well-heeled actually only relates to people who are considered to have plenty of money

Gandhi of India - his 3 longest hunger strikes were 21 days each

Jim Collins "Good to Great" Hedgehog concept

Shakespeare Authorship question - Wikipedia

Shakespeare Authorship "Oxford" theory

Actually Theodore Roosevelt coined the term of Bully Pulpit - Wikipedia

Andy Andrews "The Noticer"

Commonplace Book - Wikipedia

In which we discuss the results from our test for connection with the spirit realm. Recorded October 3, 2024.

Thank you for joining us as we take part in the Great Conversation! (Robert M Hutchins, Mortimer Adler). We talk from our own experiences and perspectives, we hope we get some things right, and we know we definitely get a lot of things wrong. If you have thoughts you'd like to share, or topics you'd like to suggest, feel free to participate with us: [email protected].

In which we devise a test for spiritual assistance. As a reminder, NDM is a believing and practicing member of the LDS faith, and LS has found her way out of that faith and into a general agnostic atheism. Recorded August 7, 2024.

Thank you for joining us as we take part in the Great Conversation! (Robert M Hutchins, Mortimer Adler). We talk from our own experiences and perspectives, we hope we get some things right, and we know we definitely get a lot of things wrong. If you have thoughts you'd like to share, or topics you'd like to suggest, feel free to participate with us: [email protected].

Show Notes:

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Canopy Theory

"Manifest" Romans 8:28

"The Secret" law of attraction

"The Strangest Secret" Earl Nightingale

Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence

Stephen the Irishman, Braveheart (1995)

Jordan B Peterson, Self Consciousness and Misery

Kurzgesagt "The Egg"

Interstellar (2014)

Contact (1997)

Cesium atoms vibrate over 9 billion times per second

Sonic Boom Speed is 750mph at sea level

Alma and the seed