Doug and Chris discuss the potential range of outcomes regarding the COVID-19 global pandemic. Spoiler alert: Even the best-case scenario is bad (but you probably already knew that). Also, Chris has launched a solo podcast with impeccably bad timing. Be sure to check out the link below and subscribe to the podcast before the social fabric begins unraveling. 

1.10 Doug's worst-case scenario

5.15 Doug's best-case scenario

8.00 How Americans view the threat

15.45 Can drug innovation save us?

21.00 Why South Korea and Singapore have done well

21.45 Trump's anger management issues

28.00 What kind of leadership are people looking for?

Link to Chris's new podcast:

Uncommon Stories & Coffeehouse Conversations

There is only one question before us now - can we get through a global pandemic with the least empathetic, most poorly organized, and world's leading narcissist running our country? Doug and Chris assess where we are, how we got there, and what the impact of the pandemic will be on human health and the economy.

0.45 Chris's answer: "ask the markets"

2.50 Doug's short positive note on what the Trump admin has done right

6.15 Is Trump actually relevant to how we get through this?

8.45 The coronavirus doesn't watch Fox News

11.15 What kind of leader do we actually need right now?

17.55 The testing debacle

21.00 The economic impact

24.20 Biden pretends to be president (and sounds convincing!)

27.15 The sports world goes quiet

32.15 What are we doing different personally in responding to the virus?

The Democratic Primary took a big turn on Super Tuesday with JoeMentum. Doug and Chris discuss what happened, why they think it happened, and the path forward to get Trump out of the White House.

1.30 Chris's take on Super Tuesday

2.40 Things change fast

4.50 Will it be Bernie or Biden?

6.30 Texas

9.30 What really drives Trump's approval/disapproval rating?

10.40 Doug's thesis on the race

16.45 Bloomberg revisited

19.15 Will Bernie's supporters vote if Biden gets the nomination?

24.00 What does Biden need to do now?

In this episode, Chris and Doug reflect on their daily struggle to consume troubling news and world events (like Trump and the coronavirus) in healthy and productive ways. Our cohosts also disclose some -- but not all -- of their obsessions and addictions. 

2.20 Cable news addiction and sensationalism

5.00 The media thrives on conflict

5.30 Processing presidential debates

13.10 Chris confesses to an obsession with news and politics

17.35 How Doug gets recentered 

22.00 Productively engaging in the big problems facing humanity

26.55 Chris plugs in to younger generations

Climate change activist Jan Krause Greene joins Chris and Doug to explore what actions individuals can take to combat climate change and global warming. Jan is extremely knowledgeable about this important topic and a living example of how to be part of the planet's ecosystem. She shares with Doug, Chris, and episode listeners her personal strategies for dealing with climate change in practical, everyday ways. 

1.15 Antarctica hits record highs

4.15 Getting involved: The big picture

8:35 Measuring your climate consumption: Project Drawdown

12.05 Why you've been chosen to save the planet

14.15 Sustainable investing

19.35 Emergencies and long-term thinking

22.30 Bringing down the temperature

25.50 Humans are part of nature (and not an invasive species)

31.40 Electric cars

35.20 Food waste

Links:

Jan's book, "I Call Myself Earth Girl"

Project Drawdown

Sustainable investing

Sustainability newsletter

In this episode Chris and Doug discuss the importance of visualization as both a way to focus the mind on successfully performing specific tasks and, perhaps more significantly, as a powerful tool and framework for how people can lead fulfilling lives. Our cohosts also explore how nuturing vision in employees is critical to an organization's culture. 

0.55 2 different kinds of visualization

1.55 Politics and vision

4.15 Fixing on your North Star

5.55 The path of least resistance

14.20 Getting beyond yourself 

18.10 Performance visualization

21.05 Why people leave jobs 

25.30 Making your vision real

Links

The Path of Least Resistance

Psycho-Cybernetics

In case Armageddon comes tomorrow, or somebody gets re-elected and our cohosts move to unknown locales, or the Browns never make it to the Super Bowl and it's too much for Doug to take, here are Chris and Doug's three messages to the whole world. 

0.45 Be tolerant

2.45 Growing up in a small town

4.50 Greed is not good

7.30 Set yourself free

11.10 Autocrats anywhere are a danger to people everywhere

12.50 Seek the truth

15.55 When in doubt, learn more

16.35 There is no Planet B

Doug and Chris assess the political landscape as they await the expected acquittal of President Trump by Republican senators who voted against hearing from any witnesses or reviewing evidence as part of the impeachment trial. Because who needs evidence and testimony in a trial? Our cohosts also discuss what to expect from Iowa voters in Tuesday's Democratic Party caucuses.

0.48 The current trial scenario

4.05 Susan Collins

6.35 Doug's semi-optimistic note

14.30 Can the Democrats turn the page?

26.30 Getting real about the Democratic primary

30.26 Are Republican senators ust trying to protect themselves?

33.30 Chris says one more thing

Chris and Doug create a historical record of one of their major competitions, the Race to All 50 States. Only one major crime is disclosed in the episode. 

0.45 The 50-state contest

3.55 Chris and Karen's honeymoon

4:45 Chris goes to Vegas

13.30 Fargo

15.40 The victory lap

24:30 Chris' logistical brilliance

In this episode, Chris and Doug take a deep dive into gratitude in all of its dimensions. The cohosts discuss research on gratitude as well as real-life examples of how to invoke and benefit from gratitude. They are greatly aided in this process by The Big Life Question Show's first guest, Chris's wife Karen, who runs a business called Gratitude Place.

2.15 What is gratitude?

4.45 Research on gratitude 

7.27 What happens when you don't feel gratitude?

15.40 Gratitude Place

16.40 The Success Principles

21.20 Abundance

24.00 Resilience

Links

Visit Gratitude Place on Etsy

Follow Gratitude Place on Facebook and Instagram

Success Principles by Jack Canfield