The Good Intentions Podcast

By Dave Rael

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... more

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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.

The Good Intentions Podcast episodes:

December 14, 2017Episode 009 | End of the Good Intentions Podcast
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Chapters:
0:54 - This podcast will not continue

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5min
December 04, 2017Episode 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
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45min
November 01, 2017Episode 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
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1h 57min
September 14, 2017Episode 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
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1h 17min
September 11, 2017Episode 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
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1h 15min
September 06, 2017Episode 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'
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1h 3min
August 21, 2017Episode 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
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1h 34min
July 31, 2017Episode 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
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54min
July 13, 2017Episode 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
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1h 40min
July 12, 2017Episode 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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21min

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