Kapil shares his thoughts and questions on alternative education, friendship, creating art for mass consumption, and device-addition among young people. Just one of the ideas we worth considering: “Far more university students are presenting concern that they have attention deficit, and looking for help with that . . . but it is very hard to tease out how much of that is because they are different, or because there is more awareness, or because they would prefer to enhance their ability to get school work done.”

Brad Wright has ideas about progress, community, nature, and attention. In this episode, you can find out a little bit of what he has to say about such things as immortality, barbecuing, canoeing, career planning, parenting, financial markets, and pesticides.

It is time to agitate the core, so Earl and I talk about regret, forgiveness, and agency in general.  Anyone who likes flirting with determinism should check this one out!

Brother/Sister banter about being judgmental, suspending judgement, and…..well….family.

 

Kelly Butler, one who has considered ‘end of life’ from many angles, both personal and professional, shares some different ways of looking at, coping with, preparing for, and leaning into the events and emotions surrounding the most certain and supreme of all transitions.–one we must face individually, yes, but also with and for those around us.

A Canada day conversation with Tricia Enns: friend, owner/artist at TriciaMade, and guide at Steel Pigeon Bike Tours , Ottawa. In this episode, her and Wes probe ideas around/behind/beside seriousness, silliness, the urge to have children, bicycling, and . . . stewardship, sorta.

A curiously curated tapestry of topics are bandied about with the industrious and genial Sebastian Chouinard.  We talk about extraterrestrials, gardening, free-will, and things that sting.  Note:  Unfortunately, minor technical difficulties (still learning the software ) result in a brief interruption.

Mathew Chisholm and I discuss forms and functions of sarcasm. This is the very first (kinda rough, and kinda brief) episode of Oh, ever. Matt is also the man behind adcbicycle, the name he uses when creating music, like the sick instrumental slow jam used for this podcast!

Eavesdrop on Ryan Davies’ and Wes’ conversation/love-in, wherein they discuss Ryan’s passion for problem-solving, candidacy for cyborgness, drive to learn, drive to teach, and drive to help.

Work ethic, trying to engender confidence, knowing oneself better, and being gobsmacked by buffoonery:  Wes and his dad, Micky Scheer-Hennings, probe these things and others in an episode that will probably prove to be more revealing (or misleading) than either of them can imagine. But hey…they did it!