The Know-It-All and The Optimist

There are Bigger Truths in the Butterfly.


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After some lengthy follow up about the cars, video games, and trees, Walther gives an update from February on how he fared in the cold Weather without power. Then the conversation gets on to self-reliance and, in part, what role the government should play in our lives. There is of course some talk of video games Jason and Carl where playing back in February, don’t worry there is follow up to come, as well as what exactly is transcendentalism.

Season 2 - Episode 3

2/21/21

There are Bigger Truths in the Butterfly.
Show Opening / Intro

Spoiler Alert, it took a bit longer to get this episode out then I said it would.

  • M1 Macs, MKHB
  • Teachers Be Video Editors
  • The Podcast You Have, That a Reference
    • Runsfiled Clip
    • Wired Artical
    • 10 Best Phish Songs
    • Destiny
    • Eve Online
    • Follow Up © John Siracusa
      • Jason’s video of balancing the photosynthesis equation
      • Big Sky

        Walther explains to Jason, Why Saturn?

        • Pontiac Solstice / Saturn Sky -- Forgot to bring up.
          • Saturn Sky
          • Pontiac Solstice
          • Honda History
          • NUMMI
          • Life and Death of Saturn
          • Toyota / Subaru Sports Car Hybrid Baby
          • Game Talk

            Of course we talk about Cyber Punk and Zelda again.

            • So you like open world games, have you played BoTW?
              • StarDew Valley
              • Animal Crossing
              • CyberPunk 2077
                • Shadowrun
                • Skyward Sword
                  • Zelda
                    • Age of Calamity
                    • Skyward Sword HD
                    • Redbud, The Tree

                      I got me that tree moved and Snatch Blocks are great!

                      • Instagram Post on the Tree
                      • Pyramids and how they were made
                      • Move the World
                      • Truth of the Bible
                        • Could not Remember the Book Title I was thinking of, but here a List of Books
                        • Transcendentalism

                          Objects in our lives point to great truths.

                          • Transcendentalism
                          • What is it we know and don’t know, by D. Rumsfeld
                          • Common Core Math End

                            What math does common core say that every high school graduate should know. Walther also promises that we will have an education episode.

                            • Where does Common Core have math end up?
                            • Markdown
                            • Main Show Topics
                              Texas Weather

                              All ways timely with their content, Walther tells Jason of his experience of the big freeze in Texas

                              • Rolling black outs
                              • Short circuits
                                • Not the Movie
                                • Climate Change
                                • Practical Engineering, texas Power Failuer
                                • Wind Power in Texas
                                • On Self-Reliance

                                  Here is a topic that been bugging Walther

                                  • Market Systems
                                  • Health Care
                                  • What, Us, Political
                                    • A reminder to the audience taht part of Eudaimonia, living the good life, is to be political.
                                    • Closing The Bracket
                                      • Wrapping up the ideas presented here.
                                      • Walther's Cancel Culture
                                        • Walther rejects:
                                          • Moral Relativism
                                          • Postmodern Thinking
                                          • Talking in Absolutes

                                            The conversation shifts to the dangers of dealing in absolute ideas.

                                            • Aristotelian Virtues
                                            • Goldilocks
                                            • Talking in Absolutes
                                            • How to own a Machine Gun
                                            • The Second
                                            • Berry Goldwater
                                            • Social Contract
                                            • On-Line Education

                                              A quick story about how Online education is going in the Walther household.

                                              • Tyler Rablin
                                              • Closing
                                                Sign Off

                                                Spoiler Alert, it took two month to get this episode out.

                                                Aftershow

                                                Cats and Children, and the need for milk.

                                                Credits
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                                                • ## Host:
                                                • Carl Walther
                                                • Jason Aguilar
                                                • ## Music:
                                                • Mabel Bradly
                                                  • Chagne1511
                                                  • Macrocosm - EP
                                                  • Editor:
                                                    • Me
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                                                      The Know-It-All and The OptimistBy Jason Aguilar and Carl Walther