Is the universe made up of matter or ideas? Are we all atoms and quantum bits, or are thoughts the building blocks of reality? Dave poses an old philosophical dichotomy, and the group discusses where each of them stand on the topic--Materialist or Idealist. This episodes guests are Garrett Harriman, Uncle Razo, and Colorful.

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Uncle Razo (Nick) asks us to consider the science fiction concept of uplifting animals to sapience. Together with Garrett, Dave, and Colorful, we embark on our most weirdly contentious subject yet: the ethics of making animals as smart as humans.

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Garrett asks Dave and Uncle Razo if Malthus had it right to think that overpopulation would lead to a dearth of resources and toward a high-scarcity dystopia. We discuss in terms of Thanos and his Malthusian take on things.

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Dave interviews Garrett about his two and a half year absence from social media, and the two engage in a critical discussion about the effects of social media after viewing Netflix's documentary, The Social Dilemma.

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Garrett, Dave, Jenn, and Nick explore what makes a cult a cult, and propose the efforts one might embark upon in order to create the Cult of Rock & Roll.

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Dave and the Brothers Harriman try to puzzle out what makes a human a human through a systematic approach of category elimination, until we actually come to a pretty solid epiphany. The answer may surprise you.

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Garrett poses this very question to Dave, and we bat around some ideas about the nature of the universe, what it might want, and why Garrett is woefully and hilariously a non-threat to the cosmos.

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Garrett and Dave discuss the pros and cons of Elon Musk's Neuralink (brain-to-machine interface) technology. Garrett takes the pro position and Dave dissents.

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Garrett, Dave, and Kirky discuss Jungian archetypes and how they manifest themselves in personality and societal structure.

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