Thriving in Dystopia

By Bob and Dave

A show that brings light to the doom and gloom of the everyday dystopia that we are living in, but never shies away the hard reality. Two brothers striving to thrive, build community and stay connecte... more

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How many episodes does Thriving in Dystopia have?

The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.

Thriving in Dystopia episodes:

October 07, 2020 Ep22: Alone in a Forest. Solitude or is it Loneliness?
Dave and Bob bring some joy and laughter into the Studio and check in on the lifting veil that is October. They also check back in on the season theme, separation, and how they’ve been able to put their ideas into praxis or not. The theme of the week is trying to understand why sometimes being alone feels like solitude (nourishing) and sometimes it feels like loneliness (filled with sadness). They give a few stories of experiences in these states of being. They close wondering about the effects of technology on our alone time and the importance of being intentional around it.

Hot Seat Question: Are you going to vote? Who will you vote for?

Tuned In

Bake Off is back! (season 11)

Contact info
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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47min
October 01, 2020 Ep21: The Dystopian Present of Cinema, Part 2
The Thriving Crew welcomes Dave Harris back to the studio to complete their discussion on cinema and dystopia. This week they discuss movies that highlight mental health, climate, and racist dystopias. They find a lot of real gems (see below)! They end the show with a look at the current state of cinema with movie theaters that haven’t been open since March.

Climate crisis picks:
DM -Princess Mononoke
DH - Mad Max Fury Road
BM - Okja

Mental health crisis picks:
DM - The Lobster
DH - Synedoche, New York

Racism picks:
BM - Get Out
DM - The Deep by clipping (song)
DH - Strange Days

Contact info
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, outro is clipping by The Deep , the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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September 23, 2020 Ep:20 The Dystopian Present of Cinema, Part 1
The Thriving Crew welcomes the multi-talented and T.i.D. junkie Dave Harris to the show to discuss the state of cinema in the pandemic. They start with developing DH’s 5-colliding-crises framework (not to be mixed up with Kill Bill’s 5-finger-exploding-heart technique): public health, economic, racial justice, climate, and mental health. They then discuss great movies that fit in to each of these categories. This week delves into the public health and economic crises.

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD

Feld’s 3 crises that inspired Dave Harris’ framework of facing 5.

Public health crisis picks:
DH & BM - Children of Men
DM - Rams

Economic crisis picks:
BM - The Florida Project
DH - Metropolis
DM - Brazil

Hot Seat Question:

Contact info
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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September 17, 2020 Ep19: Moving On From The Unforgivable
This is the 3rd episode of a mini-series within a series: letting go, forgiveness, and moving on. But first, the listeners came through with a song request, and the Thriving Crew puts on a show to start the episode. The heart of the show is delving into the unforgivable and whether there are things that are simply beyond forgiveness. The answer to this seems to be contextual. Sometimes this idea of unforgivable is used to hurt people (e.g. lock a person up and throw away the key), while in other places moving on means not forgiving but keeping moving.

Beyond Survival is the great book that Bob spoke about

Some good news: Bill to give path for incarcerated folks to become firefighters upon release

Hot Seat Question:
If you could meet and have dinner with any person who ever lived, who would it be and why?

Contact info
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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September 09, 2020 Ep18: Exploring The Social Conditions for Forgiveness
In the intro segment reminiscent of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, Bob and Dave issue a moratorium on singing until listeners send in song suggestions (send them in!). The Crew gets into the theme of the week: forgiveness, which is a part 2 of the theme from last week, letting go. Although forgiveness can’t be forced, U.S. culture seems to teach children and everyone else the opposite. Based on psychological research, the brothers suggest that we might work on the social conditions that lead to forgiveness rather than simply pushing people to forgive.

Bob enjoyed Bear Lake so much it made him float.

Short article on forgiveness research

Hot Seat Question:
If you could get back one thing you’ve lost in the pandemic, what would it be?

Contact info
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
New website! - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrows Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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48min
September 01, 2020 Ep17: Letting Go and Separation for Self Care
New Season! This season’s theme will be separation. Separation means preparing apart, getting distance, releasing, and perhaps counter-intuitively deeper connection at times. For the next 8 episodes, let’s come together to come apart.
The show starts with a fascinating update on the classroom situation, and Dave flying the U.S.S. Enterprise with his 4th graders. The sub-theme of the week is letting go and psychological separation. Bob delves into a personal crutch that has gotten him through the pandemic and how to be able to let go of crutches when the time comes.
Did Dave read The Power of Letting Go? Only he knows.
Some solid apropos commentary on the sports walkout

Hot Seat Questions:
What is the worst purchase you ever made?
What is the best purchase you have ever made?

Contact info

Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
New website! - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrows Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro , the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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45min
August 25, 2020 Ep16: Education Has So Much To Learn, Part 2: “This Has Never Been Done Before”
Bob starts by updating Dave on the wildfire situation in Central California. Dave holds serve and updates Bob on serious fires in Colorado. The brothers are both teachers heading back into the classroom this week (well, Dave is). In part 2 of their mini-series on education, they give an up-close look at Dave’s classroom this week. They go deeper into the reflection that this combination of crises while having the modern technologies creates a new era in education and beyond. There’s excitement in that, but this also creates an enormous burden for teachers, students, and parents.

Picture of Dave gearing up for an overhead smash during last week’s tennis match.

Tuned in

Bob’s gearing up to do lectures on anarchism and reading Anarcho-Blackness.
Dave is jazzed for the new Serial podcast, Nice White Parents.

Contact info

Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
New website! - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, A Time for Action by Kennedy for our outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.

Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.
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55min
August 18, 2020 Ep15: Education Has So Much To Learn, Part 1: Restorative Justice Transformed
Dave and Bob are both teachers heading back into the classroom this week. They start a 2-part series on education with a look at Dave’s use of restorative justice and restorative practices in his 4th grade classroom. They discuss where the ideas of restorative justice come from and why educators would want to use them. The powers-that-be have attempted to co-opt restorative justice, and so the Crew discuss transformative justice and the need to bring a power-analysis and empowerment into restorative circles.

Dave mentions the 2012 documentary The House I Live In.
Good primer on the School-to-prison pipeline
Dave’s use of restorative justice in schools is grounded in Hacking School Discipline
A great video on putting circles together
For some history of restorative justice and transformative justice, see The Revolution Starts at Home and Beyond Survival

Tuned in

Bob really enjoyed Booksmart on Hulu
Dave loved Palm Springs also on Hulu

Contact info

Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia

Huge thanks to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, A Time for Action by Kennedy for our outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.
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46min
August 11, 2020 Ep14: There’s No Thriving Without Music #mindbodyspirit #thedigitalmusicclub
After a short check-in on the world of sports, Bob and Dave share songs they love with each other. For them, there’s no thriving without music, which enlivens our hearts, bodies, and minds. With these sentiments in mind, they each share a song that: (1) has helped them get through the pandemic, (2) given them a chance to dance, and (3) opened their mind toward revolution.

Huge thanks to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, A Time for Action by Kennedy for our outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.

Special thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.

Big shout out to the Dave Harris Music Club for its impact on our music history.

Heart songs:
“In Spite of Ourselves,” John Prine and Iris DeMent
“Hunger Strike,” The Temple of the Dog

Body-moving songs:
“Fancy Footwork,” Chromeo
“Hold On,” The Internet

Songs of revolution:
“Try Jesus” Tobe Nwigwe
“Sleep Now In The Fire,” Rage Against The Machine

Tuned-In:
American Horror Story’s 1984 is a great return to form
Mystery Science as as K-8 teaching resource, especially during distance learning
Zombies, Run! running app

Contact Us
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_in_Dystopia

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48min
August 04, 2020 Ep13: If Nuns Ruled The World #socialbiography #ladyinred
Dave and Bob are “blessed” to have their mom Helen on the show. Refusing to take for granted the stories held by their parents, they ask their mom to tell them stories about her life. She tells them about how she decided to become a nun and her rich life as a nun working for peace and justice. She does so in the framework of a social biography, or telling her story in the context of what was happening social and politically. She ends her story with wisdom for her sons, handling the Crew’s questions about living as a former nun in times of dystopia.

Huge thanks to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, A Time for Action by Kennedy for our outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.

For more on the Sisters of Mercy of Detroit have a great website

The statistics on women in religious orders referred to by Helen

Learn more about the nuns fighting and speaking out for justice

Tuned-in
The Last Dance has captured Helen’s attention.
Intersectionality and Astrology on The Astrology Podcast
Dave is loving Watchmen (so dystopian!)

Contact Us
Email - [email protected]
Twitter - @BMaze19
IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia
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FAQs about Thriving in Dystopia:

How many episodes does Thriving in Dystopia have?

The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.