--{"LateAmble Ramble"}--

When are Nick and Melissa finishing up C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength? Modernism, post-modernism and the Academy. Who were the Inklings and what was

C.S. Lewis' affiliation with them? George Orwell's review of this book. Spirituality and religion. What did Alan Watt say about the individual and religion?

--{"How 'bout those Jays?"}--

What does this time of year mean to you? Living inside your head and connecting with people - Sports? - Music that inspires and elevates - Bishop Williamson and modernism - Alan Watt on spirit and Christmas.

--{"Christine: After School Special"}--

Christine's large, Catholic family - a mix of security and feeling like an oddball. Studying art in school, becoming an artist, a teacher, then a wife, and a mother.

Hugh Hefner, Playboy, cultural warfare, Alfred Kinsey - What affect did objectification of women and pornography in mainstream culture have on Christine's psyche,

sense of worth as a woman, and her art? Howard Stern, Dana Plato's death - The story of Christine's first pregnancy and reconnecting to God.

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 3"}--

Nick and Melissa are matching again! Where did those beautiful scarves come from? - Judy! - What themes come up in C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man and how do they compliment those in That Hideous Strength? Thanks to all who are listening, reading along, and giving us good ideas.

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 2"}--

What choices do Mark and Jane make? What is C.S. Lewis saying about marriage and male and female attributes? Is the N.I.C.E. a not so nice institution?

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 1"}--

What are some male/female/marriage ideas we see in That Hideous Strength? - How does C.S. Lewis reveal and foreshadow with his use of names? -

Politics and academia: C.S. Lewis shows how the Delphi technique and the dialectic are used. What is telegraphing?

--{"AI Clones and Carbon Labels"}--

Why did Alan Hamel create an AI clone of his late wife Suzanne Somers? - Was the Red Father a forefather of ChatGPT? - What is an AI Friend? -

Should firms have to put carbon labels on all products? - Universal Basic Income - Whole Body Donation in Florida - Why are stillbirths in the

US higher? - Assisted suicide in Illinois.

--{"This is not a dress rehearsal"}--

Local sustainability updates - NEW!! Keir Starmer as the devil AI generated images - Nick and Melissa are reading C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength. - Talking today

with Adam who lives in Germany. - Digital IDs, scanning at the grocery store; blockchain technology. - Questions to Alan Watt such as "Where can we move that is not

part of the system?" - Countries like Scotland devastated by drug abuse. American cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, drugs and homelessness - Seattle is

Dying - Requiem for Detroit - The Scheme; intergenerational despair in Scotland. - Alan Watt, predictive programming - Artificial Intelligence, mind-reading technology.

--{"Perelandra: The Acid Trip"}--

Who is Greg Gorsuch and what is perichoresis? - Nick and Melissa revisit "the acid trip" in Perelandra. Was C.S. Lewis a pantheist? Does God want individuals?

The Christian Trinity - Carl Jung, Alan Watt, Soren Kierkegaard.

--{"AI Aye aye"}--

Is Keir Starmer literally the devil? Why are we left with so little that is 'real' and authentic online? Have you ever had a conversation with an online chat bot?