For our very first guests, we've got two of my favorite people. Johnathan McEachin is a radical community organizer and underground brewmaster, and Derek Pelotte is a physics teacher and founder of Scientific Satanism.

Today, we talk about a bad day - perhaps a day when the events of the world seem really overwhelming, chaotic, and frightening - and from there, we go on to explore the entire meaning of all of life. We start with questioning whether Buddhism is legitimate, discuss the Myth of Sisyphus, ask ourselves if meditation sucks or is awesome, and decide once and for all if the machines can do it better than we can. Ultimately, we pose the question of whether or not personal and collective salvation lies somewhere other than the material and ponder starting our own cult together.

It's basically a Linklater movie, in a podcast.

Here's our episode notes: https://wizardofmonadnock.com/2017/02/02/notes-for-episode-3-on-a-day-like-today-with-johnathan-mceachin-and-derek-pelotte/

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