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- Episode 009 | End of the Good Intentions Podcast
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Chapters:- 0:54 - This podcast will not continue
Resources:5 min - Episode 008 | Jim Fay
Jim Fay talks with Dave Rael about mutual dignity, preparing children for the world, empathy with children and adults, and positive influence
Chapters:- 0:52 - Approach to this episode and getting to know Jim Fay
- 4:31 - Learning about dealing with children from education and parenting
- 5:27 - Dave's interpretation of Love and Logic and Jim's reaction
- 10:26 - The state of discourse in the world the relevance of preparing children for real interaction
- 11:28 - Jim on bringing empathy to interaction with children
- 15:21 - The primacy of simplicity and the fault in complication of life
- 16:28 - Quick win on setting boundaries with simple words and phrases to neutralize conflict and manipulation
- 21:31 - Influence, manipulation, and empowerment
- 23:52 - Love and Logic applied to adults as well as children
- 25:54 - The reasons children and other humans need boundaries and why they test them
- 29:02 - Healthy and unhealthy setting of boundaries and the communication of boundaries and expectations as behavior modeling
- 30:08 - The unhealthy swinging pendulum of adult focus vs child focus
- 33:10 - The problems with punishment and the virtue of delaying reaction
- 37:53 - A specific example of approaches to care and teaching
- 40:03 - Differences between mothers and fathers and between children and adults
- 41:55 - The moral case for
Resources:- Love And Logic (including signup for the Insider's Club newsletter)
- Jim's Bio on the Love and Logic Site
- Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) - Foster Cline
45 min - Episode 007 | Karen Straughan
Karen Straughan talks with Dave Rael about feminism, mens' rights, understanding people, gender relations
Chapters:- 0:52 - Karen, feminism, and mens' rights
- 8:36 - Answers to oppression
- 14:18 - Meaning of Equality
- 21:42 - Karen on humility, ability, attraction, and her draw to the mens' movement
- 35:54 - The power of words and the terms used by feminism
- 43:22 - The importance of sexual consent
- 45:31 - Harmful behaviors
- 47:54 - Reproductive choices
- 52:53 - Attempting to understand one another
- 56:13 - "Nice guys" and the "friend zone"
- 62:15 - Compassion for all parties involved in an unexpected and potentially unwanted pregnancy
- 64:26 - The types of fiction that appeal to women and what it reveals about their desires
- 72:20 - Privilege and empathy and the futility of seeking an ideal system
- 83:35 - Mating habits of animals and their relevance to humans
- 89:06 - "Seek first to understand, then to be understood" - Stephen Covey
- 91:35 - Power and the source of your voice
- 96:44 - Rape apologia
- 103:39 - Violence toward women and men
Resources:- Karen's YouTube Channel
- Karen's Blog
- The Red Pill
- Cassie Jaye
- Christina Hoff Sommers on the Good Intentions Podcast
- Custody of Infants Act
- Married Women's Property Act
- "Big Red" from "The Red Pill: Raw Files"
- Swedish Government Bans Affirmative Action
- James Damore
- James Damore on the Good Intentions Podcast
- James Damore on the David Pakman Show
- James Damore on Freedomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux
- James Damore on the Rubin Report
- Tactics Young Women Use to Resist Condom Use When a Partner Wants to Use a Condom
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Hypergamy
- Statutory rape victim forced to pay child support
- Goofus and Gallant
- Slate Star Codex
- The Street Harassment Experiment - 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman
- Bill Burr Comedy Including References to Tiger Woods and Access to Sex
- Pareto Principle
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
- Good Intentions Podcast Episode 1 with Andrea Goulet
- National Coalition For Men
- Conflict Theory
- Philip Davies
- If You See Jezebel in the Road, Run the Bitch Down (Paul Elam's article referenced in The Red Pill)
- Have You Ever Beat Up A Boyfriend? Cause, Uh, We Have (The Jezebel article to which Paul Elam was responding)
- I’ll decide if you were raped, not you - Paul Elam
- Commentary on Rape Statistics
1 hr 57 min - Episode 006 | James Damore
James Damore talks with Dave Rael about diversity, understanding, discourse, psychology, and differences
Chapters:- 0:52 - The story of James, the "Google Manifesto Guy"
- 5:21 - James on unconscious bias
- 7:57 - Biological essentialism
- 10:41 - Humility
- 13:24 - Sources of psychological differences between men and women
- 14:55 - Troublesome vocabulary and individual interest in software
- 19:56 - The nature of software development
- 22:20 - James on the value of diversity
- 24:38 - Psychological safety
- 27:30 - Growth mindset and asking for what you need
- 35:28 - Efficacy of diversity programs
- 37:28 - Disadvantages of diversity programs
- 41:25 - Support and interactions
- 43:07 - Judgment and de-moralizing diversity
- 45:52 - Alienation of conservatives
- 48:21 - Hostile work environments and a call for understanding
- 50:46 - Psychological traits and troublesome vocabulary
- 52:55 - James's suggestion to de-emphasize empathy
- 55:19 - Conscientiousness and green-field (building new systems) vs brown-field (maintaining existing systems) in software development
- 56:53 - Discrimination
- 60:19 - Downsides of being a "diversity candidate"
- 63:31 - Gender bias in hiring - also the difficulty of choosing science papers
- 66:30 - Understanding for the experiences of others
- 68:13 - James's experience with the response to his document
- 74:00 - A lawsuit toward Google
- 76:04 - Going to the source
Resources:- James's Site
- The Document in Question
- Implicit-association test
- Jordan Peterson
- James on the Rubin Report
- James on the Joe Rogan Experience
- Dave's Software Developer Podcast - Developer On Fire
- Pair programming
- Psychological safety
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
- Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines - Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, Edward Freeland
- A Way to Detect Bias - Paul Graham
- Matthew 7:15-20 - "You Will Know Them by Their Fruits"
- Virtue Signaling
- Big Five personality traits
- Paul Bloom
- Paul Bloom on Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Virtues of Cold Blood
- Thaddeus Russell - The Unregistered Podcast
- Glenn Loury on Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell
- James on Freedomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux
- James with Jordan Peterson
1 hr 17 min - Episode 005 | Nicole Lee
Nicole Lee talks with Dave Rael about being brave, living the life you want, international human rights work, parenting, understanding, and blame
Chapters:- 0:52 - Getting familiar with Nicole
- 8:19 - Nicole's experiences with defending human rights
- 14:10 - Interviews with violent criminals and the complexities of motivations for abhorrent actions
- 22:30 - Loving people with views inconsistent with your values
- 29:52 - Moving society forward requires action
- 39:26 - Preparing families for a multicultural world
- 43:42 - Nicole's ability to talk about difficult and uncomfortable topics
- 47:59 - The meaning of social justice and the good and bad of the call-out culture
- 62:14 - Recognizing threats
- 67:26 - Scapegoating vs calling for accountability
Resources:- Nicole's Website
- Nicole on parenting and sharing the ugly truths of the world with children
- Megan Phelps-Roper on The Joe Rogan Experience
- Martin Luther King Jr.: Revered More After Death Than Before
- Slavery in the United States
- Jewish Bolshevism
1 hr 15 min - Episode 004 | Matt Christiansen
Matt Christiansen talks with Dave Rael about moral self-righteousness, societal norms, government, and giving advice
Chapters:- 0:52 - The nature of disagreement and the moral superiority of modern disourse
- 4:22 - The power of "I don't know" and the virtue of alternative solutions
- 6:01 - The axes on which we describe worldviews
- 8:22 - Matt's evolving outlook
- 12:50 - Forced participation
- 17:43 - Gay marriage and the nuclear family
- 28:05 - Views of the human ability to make good choices
- 32:41 - Unsolicited advice
- 34:55 - Voting, Trump, and shutting down events by force
- 42:12 - The appropriate role of government
- 50:08 - The divisive Democrats
- 54:27 - Charlottesville, white nationalists, and Black Lives Matter
Resources:- Matt's YouTube Channel
- Socratic Wisdom
- "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
- 1984 (Signet Classics) - George Orwell
- Gary Johnson on forced cake baking
- Trump Cake
- A Story about Applying "Must Participate" to Sexuality
- 2016 Donald Trump Chicago rally protest
- Federalist 51
- Gary Johnson and Aleppo
- General welfare clause
- United States Bill of Rights
- Sally Boynton Brown on Shutting White People Down
- Uncle Tom
- Pepe the Frog
- Richard B. Spencer
- Non-aggression principle
- Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupt 'Shakespeare in the Park' Performance of 'Julius Caesar'
1 hr 3 min - Episode 003 | Hunter Maats
Hunter Maats talks with Dave Rael about education, perspective, science, reason, persuasion, and fundamentalism
Chapters:- 0:52 - Hunter's background and story
- 5:43 - Resources and resourcefulness
- 10:30 - Thinking and feeling are always linked
- 15:21 - The Straight-A Conspiracy, Mindset, and practical learning
- 21:56 - Aristocrats, eugenics, and Intelligence Quotient
- 25:40 - IQ research, the blind men and the elephant, and sectarian differences
- 35:01 - The relevance of "redneck culture"
- 42:20 - The meaning of "Mixed Mental Arts"
- 49:59 - Managing anger, engaging people with difficult perspectives, and challenging people
- 53:30 - Fundamentalism
- 60:47 - Identification of fundamentalists
- 71:58 - The difference between the message sent and the message received
- 75:21 - Susceptibility of humans to fundamentalism
- 83:50 - Shaking up echo chambers and rounding out worldviews
Resources:- Mixed Mental Arts
- The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World - Hunter Maats
- Jim Watson
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- The Mixed Mental Arts Book List
- Some Context on "You should never meet your heroes"
- Katie O'Brien
- William Kamkwamba
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba
- Good Will Hunting
- Carol Dweck
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain
- The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition - Charles Darwin
- Francis Galton
- Lewis Terman
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Heritability of IQ
- Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count - Richard E. Nisbett
- Richard Nisbett
- Mandi Ainslie
- "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein
- Thomas Sowell
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell
- Alvin Toffler
- "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
- Bryan Callen
- "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." - Bruce Lee
- Hamlet (AmazonClassics Edition) - William Shakespeare
- The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
- Sam Harris
- Richard Dawkins
- Atul Gawande
- Atul Gawande at Caltech on the nature of the scientist - "... an experimental mind, not a litigious one" - quoting Edwin Hubble
- "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
- Lena Dunham
- Richard Spencer
- Boggart
- Tom Woods
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Tom Woods on the Bryan Callen Show / Mixed Mental Arts podcast
- Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
- Fantich and Young
1 hr 34 min - Episode 002 | Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers talks with Dave Rael about subjects that matter including feminism, sensitivity, family, and common interests
Chapters:- 0:52 - Note on editing of this audio and the absence of video
- 1:51 - Christina, the "Factual Feminist"
- 3:23 - Christina's life and family and the benefits of working in a think-tank
- 5:46 - The theft of feminism and Christina's reasons for keeping the label
- 8:13 - "A healthy, evidence based women's movement will serve everyone, men and women ..." -Christina Hoff Sommers
- 10:43 - Division and politics
- 13:53 - What is privilege?
- 18:03 - Patriarchy and fairness
- 26:15 - Differences between men and women in approaching social interaction and the need for mutual understanding
- 37:39 - The self-appointment of the people who allegedly speak for subcultures
- 39:03 - Censorship, threats, self-censorship, fear to express opinions, and dehumanization
- 45:44 - Derision toward feminists
- 46:26 - Safe spaces
- 50:39 - Off-color humor and prudery
Resources:- The Factual Feminist YouTube Series
- Very Bad Wizards
- The Oberlin Incident
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B. Anthony
- Dave Rubin
- Do men need to check their privilege? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
- The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt - The Atlantic
- Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt - The Atlantic
- Evergreen State College Controversy
- The Charles Murray Event at Middlebury College
- Berkeley Riots
- Nobel laureate sees science education career collapse in wake of sexist comments
- Dr Matt Taylor apologises for controversial 'sexist' shirt worn after Rosetta mission comet landing
- Jordan Peterson
- Ben Shapiro Barred From Entering DePaul University!
- Wendy Kaminer
- Milo Yiannopoulos
54 min - Episode 001 | Andrea Goulet
Andrea Goulet talks with Dave Rael about subject that matter including government, race, empathy, understanding, and feminism
Chapters:- 0:10 - Who is Andrea
- 1:56 - Accusations of lacking empathy
- 8:33 - The intended audience of this podcast
- 10:10 - The fundamental problem of human discourse in the world today
- 14:12 - Politics - moderate and extreme
- 17:34 - Defining feminism
- 26:28 - Feeling alone in a crowd
- 28:16 - Seeking to understand and dynamics of power
- 34:23 - Confidence and the power of words
- 36:51 - The complexity of human interactions, biases, and jumping to conclusions
- 43:08 - Open-ended questions to open communication
- 45:23 - Perspectives on sexuality
- 49:35 - Objectification of women and the ways women can feel safe
- 54:08 - The importance of consent
- 70:16 - Validity of opinions and reciprocal understanding
- 75:41 - Common ground
- 76:35 - Context sensitivity of believing accusations - it's better to say they should be taken seriously than to say they should be believed
- 84:35 - Men's Rights Activism
- 86:37 - The power of government and the power of the people
- 95:19 - Conclusion
Resources:- Magic Card Game
- CorgiBytes
- Andrea on Developer On Fire
- Technical? Non-Technical? Both! - Andrea Goulet
- US Senator from Virginia, Mark Warner
- US Represetative from Colorado, Mike Coffman
- Lessons From The Women's Strike - Andrea Goulet
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
- Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies”
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
- The Confidence Gap
- Abigail Spanberger - Andrea's Friend and Candidate for Congress
- Men's rights movement
- Good Intentions Episode 0 - Dave Describing the intent of the show
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts - Gary Chapman
1 hr 40 min - Episode 000 | Dave Rael
Dave Rael articulates the intent of the Good Intentions Podcast
Chapters:- 0:00 - The name of the podcast and the nature of intentions
- 1:23 - Opinions, fear, and the nature of modern discourse
- 4:35 - An awkward formulation of Dave's outlook on the nature of evil
- 6:15 - Expectations, emphases, and intentions for the podcast
- 10:10 - The dire situation and fear of the consequences of speaking up
- 12:22 - A New Hope
- 13:23 - Expectations for Good Intentions and the approach
- 15:32 - Fellow travelers
Resources:- The Good Intentions Podcast YouTube Channel - Episodes will be Live Streamed
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” - William Goldman via Inigo Montoya
- Political Parties in Norway
- The Dream of Bill Gates and Paul Allen
- The Cold Civil War - Angelo M. Codevilla
- Dave's Other Podcast - Developer On Fire
- Andrea Goulet
- Andrea Goulet on Developer On Fire
- 6 Type of Empathy
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About The Good Intentions Podcast
From the publisher's feed
The Podcast that attempts to restore civil discouse and resist fundamental attribution error. It is too common that anyone with a different opinion is viewed "the other" and denounced as evil,…
stupid, and/or ignorant. This show is an attempt to discuss matters of importance and focus on restoring faith in humanity - all of humanity.