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Episode 38: Detachment Jul 15, 2019

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Poverty, chastity, obedience: three facets of detachment. Its connection to Zen. How play let's us live an active life in the detached mode.

Episode 37: The Trappist Monastery Jun 24, 2019

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I took a silent retreat at Gethsemani Abbey, the monastic home of Thomas Merton.

Episode 36: Memorial Day Weekend, Drinking in Mexico, Catholic Church and Divine Corruption May 25, 2019

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Memorial Day Weekend: A tradition has come to a close: I’m not bacheloring it this holiday weekend. Please indulge this autobiographical note, with commentary on foreign intervention.

Lightning Segments. My oldest sons have been getting drunk in Mexico. I can (and in this segment do) relate.

The Crock Pot Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is like a crock pot: it can hold putrid gruel or cuisine, but it always holds its form.

Episode 35: Mental Exercise, Predictive Genetics, Hook-Up Software at Ivy May 18, 2019

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Mental Exercising: Everyone seems to agree: It’s crucial we exercise mentally, normally in the form of meditation. Meditation, even the most secular, focuses on taking yourself out of time and space. Why? Time and space are the realm of the bodily. By practicing meditation, by trying to escape time and space, is there an admission that there is, indeed, a spiritual?

Predictive Genetics: The genetics revolution is here. It’s scary, scary stuff, and the Chinese don’t find it scary at all. The curse of Communism (which compelled Mao to wipe out thousands of years of Chinese tradition and norms) might be preparing to bring its worse harvest of all.

Lightning Segments: Dieting and efficient drinking, Three Dog Night’s Chuck Negron at the Rose Bowl, gay Mexicans, more.

Education News: Senior hook-up software program at the Ivies, Detroit Diocese bans Sunday athletics, the farce of a bachelor’s degree.

Episode 34: Brian Sims and Nuts on Both Sides, Fleeing California, E.F. Schumacher May 11, 2019

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Brian Sims: Yup, he’s a hateful nut. Yup, the Right has hateful nuts too. The thing is, the Right doesn’t have them in positions of influence or power. Moreover, the postmodernist Left is, from its core beliefs, extremist and hateful.

Fleeing California: Dot com millionaires are fleeing California right before they realize their taxable income from their start-ups. Pretty funny . . . and a snapshot why beautiful California will wreck itself.

Lightning Segments: Toilet wine, transgender sports leagues, two Spotify recommendations, how to drink like an adult, Michigan in May, and Copts.

E.F. Schumacher: A Guide for the Perplexed is a great book, but it’s wrapped in the self-focused northern school of Zen instead of the southern school that rejects subject-object. The western spiritual tradition is wrapped in the northern school, but its two greatest spiritual writers, St. John of the Cross and St. Therese Lisieux, weren’t.

Episode 33: Noise, Max Picard, George Gissing, Cardinal Sarah, Stegall May 04, 2019

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Noise. Our culture is too tolerant when it comes to noise. I explore it.

Noise Part II: Silence and Russell Kirk, Max Picard, and Cardinal Sarah. The Eighth Capital Sin.

Lightning Segments: I address some listener feedback, treating hangovers, movie critic John Senior.

The New Pantagruel: My article, The Eighth Capital Sin, appeared in the defunct magazine New Pantagruel with Caleb Stegall. I discuss it here.

Episode 32: LGBTs in the Work Force, Easter, and College Loan Forgiveness Apr 27, 2019

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LGBT at Work: The Supreme Court has taken three LGBT discrimination cases. It’s evidence that Derrida has won: text with no context can be twisted however you want.

Easter: The Resurrection is an historical fact. Shocking claim? Hear me out. Also: Discussion about the Shroud of Turin.

Lightning Segments: Low calorie gin and tonics, Game of Porns, Staring at a Naked Woman, Staring down NOW at the Masters (Note: I don’t say “hundreds of thousands” when referring to the men’s counter-protest at the Masters . . . I say “hundreds or thousands”).

Loan Forgiveness: Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to eliminate student debt is a moral outrage. Her plan to throw even more money at the schools further compounds the problem.

BONUS EPISODE: Gnosticism Apr 22, 2019

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All five segments about gnosticism combined into one episode.

Episode 31: Tiger Woods, Seven Nation Army of Actuaries, Twitter's Narrative, Grand Narratives and Post-Modernism Apr 20, 2019

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Tiger Woods: Congratulations to Tiger and congratulations to golf.

Tiger and the Press: Tiger the Philanderer . . . covered up by the press. A small example of a much bigger problem: the press can’t be trusted.

Insurance Rates: Your credit history has nothing to do with your driving habits? Highly unlikely, the assertion of the leftist Arab congresswoman from Detroit’s assertion to the contrary.

Twitter’s Post-Modernist Narrative: Twitter has a narrative. If your narrative disagrees with theirs, you get banned. But they assure us: they’re objective and only look at context.

A Thought Experiment: What if Google et al have been taken over by the government? There’s evidence that they’re influenced heavily by government, but what if they’re actually controlled by the government? And they’re stomping on free speech, controlling the search engine results, etc. There’s evidence that they’re beholden to government (tax breaks, etc.) and, therefore, influenced by government, but not quite controlled. But if they were . . .?

The Grand Narrative: Post-modernism loves to overthrow grand narratives. It’s a related branch of revisionist history. Some of it is is a good thing, but when they want to shift the narrative from “America is great” to “America sucks and needs to be remade,” they’re ridiculous and evil.

Episode 30: The Healthy-Fat Binary in Postmodernism and Time Apr 13, 2019

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thism and a celebration of fatness. It’s an attempt to invert the binary. Joe Rogan helps explain it.

Time: Why is everyone so stressed for time? It’s because we’re so wealthy, there’s a ton of cool stuff to do.

Lightning Segments: Spotify music recommendations, big player on Rodeo Drive, moronic sports bars, gay admissions at the University of Michigan.

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