Story Time with Dave

This is perhaps the last installment of the Ralph Waldo Emerson series and one of the most important. In this episode we see the necessity of breaking the chain which binds you to your past self in order to become the person you can be.

In this episode we learn of the heroics of a white person unlike the rest....a white hero!

In this episode we hear one of the misadventures of an 11 year old and 9 year old brother who are able to infiltrate a piano bar thanks to ketamine.

Exploring other weaknesses of conformity and having someone else determine what your opinions are.

This episode focuses on the idea of nonconformity and also why making yourself better is a more effective way to change the world than just caring about things.

Continuing the journey through Self Reliance aka the most baller essay I've ever read. This episode focuses on why it's so important to not want what someone else has but to create something that is you. Something that can never be duplicated. For some reason the audio is a bit quieter, I'll figure it out but for now just bear with me.

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best essays ever and has taught me so much. It is a little hard to grasp...this is the first installment of me trying to go through it and make sense of it. The first 5 minutes is rambling, but stick around and we get philosophical in this piece.

This is an older one that I moved here from Soundcloud. Starts with a couple short stories, the last half is an epic tale; the story of when I execute the greatest and most justified teabag of all time while playing Battlefield 1. Enjoy.

Every time I think my dealings with the Yakuza are done, something new springs up. Here is the story of a recent encounter with some Japanese thugs on my way to work. This is the first installment of the newest Story Time With Dave mini-series: The Yakuza Chronicles.

Here is my first attempt at high philosophy. It's harder than I thought. In this episode we take a look at Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke.