Co-Hosts:

Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint

Music by:

Nate Lieske

Three minutes of meditation has its first one week turn around in a year. Keep up with your random Wikipedia articles, meta-questions, and the ever-changing lives’ of our two hosts. There’s a more intimate tone to this week’s discussion as Brian and Rylan draw on their personal lives to discuss the past and future of personal lives and humanity in general. The episode also features the first time Rylan asks 2/3 meta middle questions, stay tuned for the wise questions of your second favorite co-host Rylan Flint.

Wiki Welcome:

1971 Gillette Cup

1971 Gillette Cup - Wikipedia

Millgrove railway station (England)

Millgrove railway station (England) - Wikipedia

Fatso the Bear

Fatso the Bear - Wikipedia

Meta Middle:

How much of success is due to luck and how much is due to hard work?

How do you keep goals from overwhelming you?

Should we be concerned that memory foam and other non-living things can have memory as the name memory foam suggests?

Current Conclusion:

Brian prepares to travel north.

The peaceful transition of power in America.

The current lifestyle of Brian and Rylan.

The constant rivalry of bears vs humans.

The colonization of Mars compared to the colonization of the new world.

The is a quote from the episode listen close to find out who says it.

Co-Hosts:

Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint

Music by:

Nate Lieske

Three minutes of meditation returns for season 2! Start your 2021 off right with your favorite podcast. This season still features your two favorite hosts, but with slightly better audio quality courtesy of a new mic. Our hosts have some trouble shaking off the nerves associated with the intense pressure of a second season but soon fall back into the classic tropes of every great TMM episode including sharp dialogue, crazy ideas, and a lack of commitment to the ever-elusive three-minute time limit.

Wiki Welcome:

William Milne (politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Milne_(politician)

Barnwell-Gough House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnwell-Gough_House

2004 NBA expansion draft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_NBA_expansion_draft

Meta Middle:

What is the proper timeline for the U.S. federal government to consider when making decisions? A month, a quarter, a year, 10 years, a century?

What should be done about food that never gets eaten?

Will there ever be another world religion?

Current Conclusion:

Rylan prepares to take on the might of Penn State and Rutgers in his first race as a varsity athlete in over a year.

To wear a buff or not to wear a buff while running.

The mystery of our global audience.

A proposition for President Pines

The Title quote is from the episode listen close to find out who says it.

Episode 6

Co-Hosts:

Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint

Guest Star:

Matt Stas

Music by:

Nate Lieske

Three minutes of meditation returns! After a long absence from the mike Brian and Rylan return to action with our first guest speaker Matt Stas. Matt shares a lot in common with the TMM team being a University of Maryland student and a roommate of the co-hosts. He offers up his intellectual capabilities and unfettered opinions to todays topics with Brian and Rylan, while together they fail to keep under the ever elusive three minute time limit.

Wiki Welcome:

Suffolk Coast and Heaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Coast_and_Heaths

Zvonko Buljan I kid you not a 25 word Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvonko_Buljan

The Mediterranea games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_(Aswad_song)

Meta Middle:

Event though the first idea is often criticized the most, is it the most crucial?

A friend of ours lent a bike to another friend of ours who then got 4 flats in a row. Was this just a simple stroke of luck? And more than that what is that cause of luck in general? We debate.

Are people afraid to change sides in an argument because they would be stupid or thought of less intelligent than the person they were arguing with?

Current Conclusion:

Matt crow bars a family eye sore making way for a beautiful continuous yard.

Rylan helps Brian move out of his ancestral home.

Rylan turns 21.

COVID-19 and its lasting implications on American culture and history.

The uncertainty of finals dates at The Great University of Maryland

Stay tuned for the ending with a classic line from Matt that captures the host listener dynamic of Three Minutes of Meditation.

Episode 5 comes after a two week break where  despite the extra time Brian and Rylan managed to continue their streak of minimal prepartion to deliver a normal episode in the sea of corona virus chaos that has changes our society immeasurably. Brian and Rylan come back to the mike in order to faithfully deliver 30 minutes of thought provoking conversation to our listeners favorite organ: the brain.

Wiki Welcome

Harold Peterman (politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Peterman

2016 Bermudian same-sex union and marriage referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bermudian_same-sex_union_and_marriage_referendum

Ivan Martic (pro soccer player)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Marti%C4%87

Meta Middle

Well prepared thoughts are boring to here. (posed by Brian)

Practice to perfection. (posed by Rylan)

Current Conclusion

The Corona viruses sweeping impact of our nation and the globe has caused topics of conversation to run rampant, including the all new rage of social distancing. But as always Brian finds a way to tie it to a deeper philosophical themes and so how the virus has made humanity re-confront  mortality becomes the center point of discussion for the virus. The topics then turn to lighter news as the neighbors downstairs have gotten a loud an anxious dog and Rylan will be turning the big 21 next month. The episode closes with a thought experiment on how the two host will survive if the outbreak becomes a full scale zombie apocalypse.

Hosts are Brian McCullough and Rylan Flint

Music is by Nate Lieske

Episode 4

Music intro and outro by Nate Lieske (boy chef)

Wiki Welcome

William Andrew Charlton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1155

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1155

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Andrew_Charlton

Manuel Seoane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Seoane

Meta Middle:

Will their come a point where humans can’t get fully educated before they die?

What do you think about compartmentalizing yourself into stereotypes?

What do you think is more mind boggling the really really big or the really really small?

Current Conclusion

The formula one driver Daniel Ricciardo’s optimism.

Our trip to Atlanta to watch the Men and Women  U.S. Olympic Trials for the marathon.

The title quote is again from our co-host Brian McCullough. 

This week Brian and Rylan test their mental concentration by implementing a new show format that limits the time spent on each topic to three minutes. The new format splits the show into three segments the wiki welcome, meta middle, and current conclusion. 

Wiki Welcome:

2003 Rugby world cup Statistics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Rugby_World_Cup#Statistics

Andy Scherrer saxophone jazz musician 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Scherrer

Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_of_the_Sea_Horse,_Boadicea_and_Lord_Melville

Meta Middle:

Are we alone in the universe (the only life forms)? [posed by Brian]

The binary aspect of life and nature. [posed by Rylan]

Do you think humanity has an overarching goal? and if not do you think their should be one? [posed by Brian]

Current Conclusion:

The success of Maryland Men's basketball.

If you had one hour to pack where would you go?

Title quote is from mark Twain

Brian and Rylan take to the mike to discuss various topics branching off from our random Wikipedia article on count palatine of Sulzbach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christian,_Count_Palatine_of_Sulzbach

The discussion rumbles on to cover the concept of royalty, and your favorite mode of transportation on campus: bikes, and our favorite sport, the pure sport of running.

We briefly discuss what the show will be about.