The Sam LaCrosse Show

Pete Stamatis is a mechanical engineer and volunteer firefighter. In this conversation, we talk about the genesis and formation of values, the importance of role models, the degradation of traditional values in modern society. This conversation was recorded on April 14th, 2022.

"We definitely shouldn’t be starving and caving each other’s heads in with rocks, but we shouldn’t be injecting ourselves with Jeni’s ice cream and passing out in a Dopesick-esque stupor in the parking lot of an H-E-B either."

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"They’re perhaps the most important invention in human history other than the number system, organized religion, and White Claw."

"We don’t know what will happen when our boyfriend tries that move in the bedroom he’s been talking about for months, so we run through Alex Cooper monologues like Alan in The Hangover to try to ease our mental analysis."

Taylor Johnson is a Christian evangelist and a substance abuse rehabilitation specialist. In this conversation, we talk about empathy towards opposing value systems, the many forms of modern religion, and the narcissism that influences all of our bad decisions. This conversation was recorded on March 17th, 2022.

"This is not 1940s Nazi Germany. It’s more like Guy in his 40s who still attends his high school’s homecoming game with his ex-wife’s adopted child."

"I don’t hate anyone except for Randy from That 70s Show."

"There’s a reason why the phrase is 'step into the unknown' and not 'put your hand into a food processor.'"

Nader Zidan is a computer scientist and progressive policy advocate. In this conversation, we talk about the balance between empathy and sanity, the conflation of individual identity with political ideology, and the necessary evil of America's political divide. This conversation was recorded on February 18th, 2022. 

"It probably won’t get you a lot of clout on your video-sharing platform and/or metaverse of choice."