EpiDoses

Screw you, elections. We want to get Olympic.  What 10 events would you want your potential leaders compete in? It’s the Triwizard Tournament (hedge maze and dragon fights), plus some Star Trek: Next Gen (Kobayashi Maru). Oh, did we mention each contestant would compete in a NASCAR inspired uniform, blatantly displaying their sponsors?  Ps - [...]

Ben’s hostile takeover of Future Educators of ‘Merica  Survivorship bias and never hearing about the hundreds of thousands who don’t make it. Theoretical dollars. Love for Adam Conover. Billionaires and Tech Guru Worship? (Enjoy!) The government, good and bad? (Boom!) A whole bunch of pluralistic ignorance on a host of topics? (You're welcome!) *** Topic [...]

The Sykes-Picot agreement was the sticky wicket Max mentioned.  (Though it’s not the sticky wicket responsible for this specific situation). Late-stage capitalism - are these, like, cancer-stages we’re talking here? Outsourcing the things that got you to the top isn’t a great long-term strategy. The Buddha must be stopped!  *** Topic - Afghanistan, graveyard of [...]

Lessons learned from board games: Choice is an illusion - Life How to perform surgery - Operation Keep on, keeping on - Shoots & Ladders Diabetes - Candyland The most complicated solution is the best solution - Mousetrap There’s never enough, leftover are for losers - Hungry, Hungry Hippos How to apologize without meaning it [...]

On this week’s castoid we’ve got two hard sciences squaring off.  Astronomy vs meteorology. The impersonal vs the in-person. Enjoy the heavy sarcasm font on the intro! “Look to the stars if the clouds aren’t in your way.” Ps - Mount Chimborazo and the link to the cars on different planets video *** Topic - [...]

Getting old is fun! Arcade entrepreneurship 101. We all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves. The troubles with binary, black-and-white, heaven-or-hell thinking. Hanlen’s Razor and micro-aggressions. The Cher Party. “What we’re missing now is empathy and grace.” *** Topic - Classical Liberalism from its conceptualization through now. From - Roscoe Tealeaf *** [...]

Do a podcast like this for long enough and you’re bound to get a repeat topic or two. Vintage Bowie and the Stones. Prince’s disappearing guitar. John Mayer’s mouth gymnastics. After parties and groupies? Was Mozart the first rockstar? Also - who knows what Ben did to piss off our overlords? PS- It was Nigeria [...]

3 middle-aged white dudes talking about the police. One person’s actions speaking for a whole community/population is dicey.  Qualifications, hiring, retention. The robots get mad at us near the half way mark. (Ben goes autotune!) Was Cops the first reality tv show? *** Topic - Are all cops bad? From - St, Jayospher *** Submit [...]

Geoff is the master of the one-to-four word answer.  Why Ben loves Plo Koon. Max fact checked and learned some things! Colorado is ranked 48th in starting teacher pay (here). 39th in per pupil funding (here). 24th academically, overall (here). Where the weed money goes is complicated. But it's not to the operations budget of [...]

Social media and the Supreme Court fall in the center.  Geoff goes with sweet potato pie and Peeps.  Ben questions the causality. Max gets out there. The difficulty judging history and historical figures. *** Topic - Which instills more fear in people: power of evil? From - St Coates, of Twitter *** Submit Your Topic [...]