Subject[of]Reality

What does it mean to love/hate yourself?  Is loving yourself the same  as being in love with yourself?  Some thought on the matter.

Fitting that episode 34 is about nostalgia as my childhood hero was Kirby Puckett, #34 for the Minnesota Twins.  This episode is about remembering the past and the power of how you think about it. 

It is a strange thing to be alive.  Does nothing mean anything or does everything mean everything?  I don't know and I'd wager you don't either.

My brother Scott was in town from Phoenix, AZ so we decided to have a conversation on what being a teacher is to him.  He shares some of the struggle and rewards of a challenging profession.

This show is about Uganda.  This landlocked country in Africa has a complex and ancient history.  Who better to tell me about it than two native Ugandans?  This show gets political and should serve to remind listeners from western nations how important it is to have a legitimate democracy.  The show caps off discussing the natural beauty of the country and the cultural beauty of its people.  Sit back and learn.

The spirit of Inspect Your Elders lives on in this show featuring United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Clayton Berg.  He is a veteran of World War 2.  He was a B24 bomber pilot and he flew 35 combat missions over Germany during the war including the Nazi stronghold of Berlin.  Now 96, I ask him to recall some of his memories of aerial combat operations during the war and what it was like.  This is living history.  Thank you to his grand-daughter Kelsey Anderson for arranging this conversation.

Dan is an old college friend of mine who now lives in NYC as a conflict journalist for Business Insider.  Among the things he has covered first-hand are the current conflict in the Ukraine as well as homicides in Chicago.  We discuss the toll it can take and why it is so important to illuminate the most grim parts of civilization.

The first official show under the new name! Two decades-old friends (Tom and mutual friend Jon) and I join each other via the magick of the internets to discuss something we experienced together growing up: the loss of our faith in Christianity.  The story isn't so simple however... We rethink what religion means to us as adults.

When I first met my guest for this show, it took me all of 30 seconds to know that I needed to get her on.  Rachel is funny, honest and a profoundly introspective thinker.  She has endured much in her young life, and we unpack how these events have shaped how she lives.  She has a unique perspective on life because she has stage 4 cancer and has no hesitation in discussing the impacts of that.  Together we explore what it all means while laughing at the abyss.

On a sunny St. Patrick's Day afternoon my friend Ian joins Tom and myself for a discussion that ranges from personal assessment to fatherhood.  In honor of the day, we drank Guinness to fuel our discourse.