I've heard it said that when a soldier retires, they need to find a new purpose to replace the one they left behind. I think that need for a purpose applies to all of us. We have an inherent desire to play a valuable role in society.

Your purpose is the role where you use your unique skills and talents to provide value to the world around you. Join me this week as we discuss discovering our purpose through providing value. Tune in to hear more!

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I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about the show, its identity, and the value it has to offer. I stressed and thought over it until I needed to take a walk to clear my head. While I was on that walk, I had some revelations about gratitude, and about the direction of the show.

The show is going to be shifting its focus just a bit. The ideas are the same, the goal is the same, but the method and the focus are taking a somewhat new direction. I'm very excited for what the future holds! Tune in to learn more!

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The truth can be pretty uncomfortable sometimes. Unfortunately, not everyone gets to be a winner, and pain and unfairness are an unfortunate fact of existence. However, just because pain is a fact of life doesn't mean we get to write it off.

I'm afraid the right is in danger of growing callous to those who need help the most. We need to make sure that we don't forget that there are some who just need to be shown a better way. Join us this week as we discuss the balance between accepting the truth as it stands, while also caring for those dealing with a painful truth.

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As I've said before, freedom of speech is one of the most important freedoms we hold dear. But if we don't use our freedom of speech to speak freely, then we may as well not have freedom of speech to speak at all!

The trend of self-censorship we see more and more these days is very troubling. It move the conflict between bad ideas and good ideas from the battlefield of ideas to the battlefield of public policy and government force. Join us this week as we discuss self-censorship, and talk about how we can speak out and fight for our freedoms!

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2022 was, to say the least, a wild ride. As we look to 2023, if we want things to o better tan they did this year, I think we need to take some intentional steps to make it so. If we want next year to be better than this year, we need to do better than we did this year.

I think it's time we start taking action. It's no longer enough to just cast a vote every couple of years and doing nothing else. I think our New Years Resolution as a movement needs to be to take action. So join me this week as we discuss the need to take action this year, what the Idiot Intellectual plans to do about it, and what your part in all of this is!

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December 25 is the day we celebrate the birth of a Savior, born in a manger 2000 years ago. But there was something else born that day, a reason for celebration.

Hope.

No matter how bad things get, no matter how far gone things may seem, there is always reason to hope. Enjoy this Christmas message, and we shall return to our regularly scheduled shenanigans next week. Merry Christmas, and God bless.

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These days there seems to be a lot of focus on not offending people. There's a growing number of people that say you should be banned, or even arrested, based on what they call "hate speech". What happened to sticks and stones and all that?

But seriously, that seems a little extreme, and I think the negative consequences far outweigh any potential benefits. I think there may be a better way of fixing the problem of hateful speech. So what is hate speech, and how much should we be worried about it? Is there a better way to deal with it than censoring it? Tune in to find out!

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In case you can't tell, I like to talk. A lot. And whether you like to talk as much as I do or not, you should probably love the freedom of speech just as much as I do; without it, we would not have the other freedoms we enjoy today. This is truly a massive subject, so this will be one of several episodes dedicated to free speech over the next few weeks.

This we, we get down to the basics. What is free speech, and what is it's purpose? What benefits does it offer our culture? And what do we do when we encounter speech that we don't like? Tune in this week to find out!

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Does it ever feel like we can't say anything, even if it's true, because it may hurt someone's feelings? Even if the person may benefit from the truth, we are supposed to be nice to them and not hurt their feelings. But is that the same thing as being kind?

We tend to think of kindness and niceness as being one and the same, and they do often go together. But I think they are two different approaches to life, and they give different outcomes. So what are the differences between being nice and being kind? Can focusing too much on being nice be a bad thing? And how can the two work together? Tune in to find out!

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JFK! Moon landings! Election fraud! Oh my! While the 2022 elections didn't go the way of the right. As disappointed as some may be, I didn't notice a lot of conspiracy theories being floated around. This is surprising, considering all the controversy around the 2020 elections.

Beyond election meddling, does it ever seem like most conspiracy comes from the right? Why is that? What makes the right more likely to see a conspiracy, or at least think they see one? And could they be on to something? Tune in to find out!

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