Are you stupid for not buying a home? Are you throwing away your money every month if you pay rent? Are your rent payments just making someone else rich? No, no, and no. Ron Stauffer debunks all these ridiculous myths of homeownership and shows how owning a home is not the ultimate aim of the American dream.

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A true story of how joining a Christmas caroling group completely changed my formerly rotten attitude on Christmas. The grumpy old Scrooge is now a changed man.

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For my final semester of college, I had to create a "capstone project" in order to graduate with my bachelor's degree in Storytelling. I decided to use the opportunity to fly from Colorado to Pennsylvania to discover who my Irish ancestors were. I visited churches, schools, birthplaces, and cemeteries, collecting dates and locations. But the best answers I got about who they were were and what their lives were like came from a phone call I had weeks later with a professor of Irish studies at NYU.

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Of all the marketing projects I've worked on, one that truly stands out from the rest is the one where I found myself one evening wearing a tie, sitting down at a table at a five-star hotel in the Rocky Mountains, eating salmon and steak and listening to a four-star army general singing a Frank Sinatra song. There I was, sipping on wine, seated next to my wife and some friends watching the highest-ranking military officer in the armed forces of the United States of America, General Martin Dempsey, sing pop tunes into a microphone.

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As a lifelong observer of the sport, an occasional participant, and sometimes a coach for my son's baseball teams, I've noticed that baseball (sometimes called one of "America's gifts to the world" ) has a lot to teach us. Through baseball, we learn about sportsmanship, teamwork, and athleticism, of course, but also about life ourselves, and how we can accomplish goals. Episode transcript: https://micronpodcast.com/episodes/play-ball-life-lessons-from-youth-baseball/.

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In 2011, I received two free tickets and backstage passes to see Weird Al Yankovic at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The concert was great, but the whole experience surrounding it was one of the strangest, most surreal experiences of my life. Episode transcript: https://micronpodcast.com/episodes/meeting-weird-al-yankovic/

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For the past decade or so, my facial hair has fluctuated back and forth between being neat and trim, and fully grown and bushy. As any man who's taken the time to grow a full beard knows, the strangest part about having a beard isn't your facial hair itself but everything else that goes along with it. Here are seven observations I made while undergoing a social experiment called "growing a beard." Episode transcript: https://micronpodcast.com/episodes/growing-a-beard/

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In this episode, we introduce the Micron podcast, explain what it is about, and more. Episode transcript: https://micronpodcast.com/episodes/podcast-trailer-introducing-micron/

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