Hey There Mogpies! Our environment has a lot of effect on our mental health. The noise and air pollution of a bustling city, to the silence of a rural town there are benefits to each, but there can be some detrimental aspects attached to these living conditions as well.  Many architects have been putting more focus on mental health and how our surroundings can affect it and there is one idea that keeps coming up. That is that we need to incorporate more nature into our lives. Nature can be used to break up the monotony of large buildings all looking the same. Giving our brains more external stimulation which in turn helps boost our overall mood. The ways in which nature is being incorporated is rather fascinating so lets talk about it!

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hey, hi and hello Mogpies! Crowdfunding is a tool that has been used across all facets of needs. From medical bills, funerals, vacations, to even making a salad people has used these platforms to ask for money from the masses. And inn most cases these are legitimate requests, but there is a dark side to crowdfunding. Wherever there is money involved there is someone out there trying to game the system and scam people out of their cash and crowdfunding is definitely not safe from this. In fact some of the most horrible lies are being told through crowdfunding in order to make a quick buck.  Exploitation of children, blatant racism, animal cruelty, what ever tugs at our heart strings someone has made a scam for it and has tried to get money off people for it. So sit back and listen in to some pretty bad crowdfunding stories. 

-------------------- 

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hey there Mogpies! This week wee are diving into the word of chatGPT, a new software developed by OpenAI.  You might remember us talking about them in our AI art episode. They developed Dall-E the ai art generator that is changing the art world. And now they created something else to rattle our cages. ChatGPT is able to deliver text based answers to questions, write papers and articles or hold conversations in real time.  It has a vast database from the internet to compose these answers. While this is an amazing thing to see yourself first hand it does raise some red flags. Like what if one side of an argument gets more attention online than the other, does that mean that the text provided by chatGPT will be biased? Well yes, yes it will. We have seen experiments in the past that have tried to accomplish what OpenAi has done here, but their attempt seems to be the most successful so far. Regardless of the outcome this really is becoming the year of AI so we are excited to see what may come next. 

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hey there Mogpies! Happy New Years to everyone! And with the new year comes resolutions. Each year we make them to try and better our lives in some way, but each year most of us fail to keep these new goals in mind. Why is that? This week we speculate on why so many fail to keep their resolutions going, and what we can possibly do to make them "easier" .  We discuss our own goals for 2023 and even come up with a theme for the year. Let 2023 be the year of the Crow, and let the crow guide you through your mind! 

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hello Mogpies! This week on Murder Of Gray we look into something that is a little difficult to discuss and can be triggering for some. Mass shootings are on the rise and there is a strange phenomenon attached to them. The killers are gaining a follower base. There are groups of individuals out there, specifically teens that look at these shooters and find things that they can relate to. Whether it is shared interests or a shared depression there is a common thread that they can grab onto. It is tough to think about and even tougher to think about how to resolve this issue. But it is a conversation that needs to be had in order to start the journey. to finding a potential solution. 

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hello Mogpies! This weeks episode is inspired by the new documentary on Netflix "Dont Pick Up The Phone". It tells the story of a hoax caller that convinced more than 100 managers to perform illegal strip searches on their employees, and in most cases it did not end there. Looking at this story it really is difficult to understand how people could fall for such a trick, but we are very trusting in nature. And based on the Milgram Experiment conducted in the 60's people are surprisingly obedient to who they perceive as an authoritative figure.  We can see the effects of that experiment in these calls, with how easy it was for the caller to get these people to do really anything he wanted. Well let's dive into this episode, so sit back, listen and enjoy! 

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hello Mogpies! This week we dive further into the word of fairy tale. Stories that have been passed down through generations to teach children basic moral rights and wrongs. On the surface they can seem rather simple, teaching an easy lesson for everyone to understand. But what if there is more beneath the surface? What if these stories show us how our minds work and develop rather than "don't talk to strangers in a candy house". Let's dive deeper into this thought in this weeks episode!

--------------------

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.

Hey Mogpies! This week we discuss real life superheroes. Many kids grow up reading comic books and wishing that there were real superheroes out there, or that they. can be one themself. But since we do not have super powers like our favorite caped crusaders what can we really do? Well there are a group of individuals that are trying to answer that question and show what it means to be a superhero in real life. Most are harmless performing community outreach and volunteering at food banks or toy drives, but some are taking the hero thing a little more serious. They actually try to fight back against crime. But the question is are they doing more harm by getting involved? Let's talk about it!

-------------------- 

Please help us out and leave a rating and review on the pod-catcher of your choice. Also, spread the word on the show because that helps us out more than you may ever know.