Jay and Mom talk about what ethical systems may lay common ground for healthy collaboration across party lines in city politics in America. Or at least, that’s what Mom was hoping for. Jay probably didn’t help. :) The Hopkins family arrives to crash the party, visiting for Christmas. snippets3.mp3 (36m 16MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.
Jay and Steph talk about religious upbringings, ADHD / depression diagnoses, and experiences with megachurches. Jay gets bit by Alfie the cat, who apparently loves him. snippets2.mp3 (54m 24MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.
Jay, Mom, and Dad talk about oneness / belonging / oceanic feeling / non-dualism while they were up visiting for Christmas. Oh, and Huey, the constant work-in-progress 100 pound dog. snippets1.mp3 (33m 14MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 1m: Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality by Ervin Laszlo. 11m: Thích Nhất Hạnh has published over 100 titles in English, ranging from classic manuals on meditation, mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism, to poems, children’s stories, and commentaries on ancient Buddhist texts. They capture the Zen Master’s lifetime of teaching, scholarship, creativity and spiritual discovery.
Chris (U.S. Army Veteran), Jay, and 4 dogs in the back yard with 2 lapel mics talking about this insanely disturbing TikTok graph of U.S. Military Deaths with shocking suicide counts. backyard5.mp3 (34m 16MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. Q: Is it back yard or backyard? A: If you barbecue in your back yard on Sunday, you can eat leftovers from your backyard barbecue on Monday. When you talk about your back yard as a place, use two words. If you’re describing a backyard activity or object, use one word.
Chris and Jay and 4 dogs in the back yard with 2 lapel mics talking about how scared we should / shouldn’t be about climate change. backyard4.mp3 (53m 25MB) 18m: During the past 25,000 years, the Earth system has undergone a series of dramatic transitions. The most recent glacial period peaked 21,500 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, or LGM. At that time, the northern third of North America was covered… 20m: Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth, NASA Study Shows 22m: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim - Lawrence Lessig 40m: U.S. Increasingly Imports Nitrogen and Potash Fertilizer 50m: Pascal’s wager If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. Q: Is it back yard or backyard? A: If you barbecue in your back yard on Sunday, you can eat leftovers from your backyard barbecue on Monday. When you talk about your back yard as a place, use two words. If you’re describing a backyard activity or object, use one word.
Chris and Jay and 4 dogs in the back yard with 2 lapel mics talking about these episodes of a much better podcast called Strict Scrutiny: Pigs, Prince, and Proven Innocence Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers backyard3.mp3 (1h 5m 29MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. Q: Is it back yard or backyard? A: If you barbecue in your back yard on Sunday, you can eat leftovers from your backyard barbecue on Monday. When you talk about your back yard as a place, use two words. If you’re describing a backyard activity or object, use one word.
Chris and Jay and 4 dogs in the back yard with 2 lapel mics. Chris talks about his Diversity and Inclusion training from work. backyard2.mp3 (37m 18MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. Q: Is it back yard or backyard? A: If you barbecue in your back yard on Sunday, you can eat leftovers from your backyard barbecue on Monday. When you talk about your back yard as a place, use two words. If you’re describing a backyard activity or object, use one word.
Chris and Jay experiment with a new format: 2 lapel mics in the backyard while running 4 dogs around. Jay asks a question from the excellent 80,000 hours podcast: Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists. (That link jumps to time mark 1h 21m in that podcast episode.) When is it better to “let” one person die than to inconvenience thousands, millions, billions, trillions of people? backyard1.mp3 (52m 26MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.
Chris and Jay talk about growing up with your dad as a small town police officer and how Chris joined the Army in response to 9/11. Chris talks about his years in Afghanistan, how he saw the US Army as mostly a pacifist organization. The good they tried to do in country and why our efforts, apparently, largely failed. 039.mp3 (1h 7m 32MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 38m: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 41m: 1992 Los Angeles riots 48m: “WEIRD Societies” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) 49m: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt 1h 3m: Illegal Firearm Possession: A Reflection on Policies and Practices that May Miss the Mark and Exacerbate Racial Disparity in the Justice System
Chris and Jay discuss this episode of The Daily podcast: Lessons in Gun Control From California “As a proportion of its population, California has one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the United States — 8.5 per 100,000 people, compared with 13.7 nationally. How did the state get that way?” 038.mp3 (1h 26m 37MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 2m: AntiFaux 1.0 on Bandcamp 1h 20m: Chris recommends these videos from the YouTube channel Active Self Protection Extra: An Interview with Deverick Woodfork The Aftermath with Deverick Woodfork What Is The Experience Of An African American Gun Owner Like?
Chris and Jay discuss the Death Tax / Inheritance Tax / Generational Wealth. Jay completely fails to understand the gap between their perspectives and gets pretty energized about his failure to find common ground. 037.mp3 (1h 39m 44MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.
Chris and Jay start a company and then things went wrong? And we need to address some inequities? How? Chris edited this one! How did he do? First ever episode where Jay didn’t do the editing. :) 036.mp3 (1h 12m 31MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 1m: Thomas Sowell: Affirmative Action Around the World
Chris and Jay discuss a podcast episode: Your Undivided Attention: The Dark Side of Decentralization. 035.mp3 (1h 39m 44MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Timestamps from this Jay Flaunts His Ignorance episode: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. Jay’s notes on the Your Undivided Attention episode: Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists by Audrey Kurth Cronin. Is decentralization a good thing? “Decentralizing the capacity for catastrophic destruction.” 3D printing weapons. Crypto currencies (Bitcoin, etc.) Would stop us from sanctioning Russia when they invade Ukraine? Twitter vs. Mastodon. Nazis using platform. Minority instances get abused? 5m: Alfred Nobel, invention of dynamite. Way more stable, powerful that gunpowder. Endowed Peace Prize partly because he felt guilty about dynamite (later used horrifically in WWI, WWII). 9m: Dynamite companies begging for regulation. 12m: Buy drones from Amazon, network them with AIs from github. Facial recognition, weaponized. 13m: Bowling alley analogy: gutter 1: People in their basements printing bio weapons killing millions. gutter 2: Living in a dystopian authoritarian surveillance state. TikTok meme: national shoot up your school day. Millions of people see that. Either nothing happens but millions of people are scared. Or school shootings happen. Either way terrorists win. 18m: Mobilization is no longer solely a power of governments. For good and ill. Napolean, French Revolution, invention of conscription, invented the central power of the state. Now individuals have that power on social media. 19m: Christ Church shooter: inspired by the Internet, live streamed to the Internet, contagion effect of people joining him. And copycats. Increase in violence, anger. 28m: Forcing ALL social media companies of a certain size to set aside externalities and cleanup funds. 36m: The way out is to care for each other. 40m: Surveillance vs Sousveillance 41m: Media coverage of train bombings making tons of money, driving more attacks. Many great media empires were built this way. Eventually editorial standards were created because they were a part of the problem. Which helped end the wave of dynamitings. Social contagion theory. JFK killing inspired more assasinations. Best predictor of plane hijacking is a previous, highly publicized hijacking. 45m: Some sort of required ethics training when you have X followers. Because lots of people on TikTok etc. have more followers than major newspapers had a few years ago.
Chris and Jay discuss Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), reacting to a couple of podcasts (links below) that are far better than this podcast. Maybe just listen to those instead? ;) 034.mp3 (1h 40m 46MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 1m: Pitchfork Economics: Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton): Modern Monetary Theory is an attempt to accurately describe how government debt and complex financial systems actually work and it can help us responsibly use our resources. No one is more knowledgeable on the subject than returning guest, Professor Stephanie Kelton. On this episode, originally released in 2020, Kelton explains the myths surrounding MMT and what a new understanding of the budget could do for our economy. 5m: The Problem w/ Jon Stewart: Jon Referees an Economist Battle: “When economist and Fed exec Thomas Hoenig told Jon on this podcast that printing money was a bad idea, economists Stephanie Kelton and Rohan Grey took to the internet to start an Economist Battle (it’s more fun than it sounds). Now they’re here to tell Jon about a new approach to economics called Modern Monetary Theory, and why printing money maybe isn’t so bad after all. But first, Jon discusses trespassing bears and the current situation in Ukraine with staff members Tocarra Mallard, Alexa Loftus, and Deniz Cam.” 31m: Gold Prices - 100 Year Historical Chart, inflation adjusted 47m: US Inflation Rates 1929-2024 57m: The Hoover Dam 1h 6m: Double-entry bookkeeping 1h 13m: Stagflation 1h 16m: History of the New York City Subway 1h 18m: Deflation is bad, right? 1h 20m: Census Bureau Releases Estimates of Undercount and Overcount in the 2020 Census 1h 34m: The dismal science: “is a derogatory alternative name for economics coined by the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century (originally in the context of his argument to reintroduce slavery in the West Indies)” 1h 36m: EconTalk 1h 37m: Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell 1h 37m: How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter D Schiff
Justin Hopkins returns to the podcast and tells us what it was like living in China when covid-19 broke out. Jay drags the conversation into wealth disparities and social safety nets. Again. Apologies to listeners who are sick of Jay yapping about this and nothing else over the last 4 episodes. :) 033.mp3 (1h 15m 33MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 2m: Flatwater Free Press hosted Flatwater Forum: The future of Nebraska news
Jay takes a 3rd swing at the ethics of American wealth disparities and probably fails to make any intelligent point again. :) 032.mp3 (1h 18m 31MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer.
The first hour Chris and Jay revisit the ethics of wealth disparities. Jay tries to find common ground, and finally does, with a “100 people on the moon” hypothetical. We probably need to revisit again. :) The second hour switches to affirmative action discussions. Jay was entirely unprepared, promises to launch a spirited debate next episode. 031.mp3 (1h 31m 39MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 1h: Pitchfork Economics (podcast) 1h 5m: Jay thinks affirmative action is a necessary evil in some cases. Chris thinks it’s always racism? Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools says Jay is wrong. And Jay feels very uncomfortable disagreeing with an African American on this topic. :) According to Walter, affirmative action has been doing more harm than good since 1965. 1h 6m: The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. 1h 16m: An Inconvenient Minority by Kenny Xu.
The first half hour, Chris and Jay talk about our high level “left vs. right” politics, and if those labels actually mean anything when reasonable people actually talk to each other. We touch on various charity experiences we’ve had, and the personal responsibilities people need to take on themselves. At 30-40m we talk about the Future of Work and what a healthy society looks like if a huge percentage of humans are unemployable due to automation. At 50m we abruptly pivot to gun legislation including so called “Duty to Retreat” and “Stand Your Ground” laws. 030.mp3 (1h 44m 43MB) If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 11m: Cult of Sloth podcast E1: Losing Faith w/ Chris Hoover 45m: Chris was right, Elysium is the movie Jay was trying to remember the name of. “In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.” 59m: Nebraska “Duty to Retreat.” “Nebraska’s self-defense laws are codified at Neb. Rev. Stat. secs. 28-1406 to 28-1416.” Florida “Stand Your Ground” Missouri SB666 - Modifies provisions on self-defense 1h 25m: Chris recommends YouTube channel Active Self Protection Extra
If you’re not familiar with Bitcoin and Cardano, listen to episode 28 first. Jay and Alex talk about last week’s launch of SundaeSwap on the Cardano network and how it’s impacted the entire Cardano ecosystem. For good and ill. SundaeSwap is a DEX (decentralized exchange) whose popularity has caused impressive backlogs (wait times) for the entire network. 029.mp3 (41m 18MB) To support Alex please delegate your ADA to NASEC! Jay recommends the ccvault.io wallet which is super lightweight, fast, and easy for delegation. It costs you nothing, your ADA is not locked, you can move it anytime. If charity pools are your thing, please delegate your ADA to BIO. For stronger security Jay recommends using Billfodl + Ledger Nano X hardware wallet. If you like this episode please retweet us on Twitter and consider giving us $1 a month on Patreon so we can waste your money instead of our own. :) Links: 0m: Musical intro by Skytrekg! Click to follow him on Twitch! An amazing traditional (oil, guache, etc) artist, guitarist, and singer. 0m: SundaeSwap is LIVE! The Cardano network is solid as a rock and demand is HUGE! Subscribe to Alex’s YouTube channel! 1m: Join the NASEC Discord Server 34m: Cardano Hydra the multi-headed scalability protocol 37m: 2017 Ethereum: The Inside Story of the CryptoKitties Congestion Crisis NASEC pool stats: adapools.org, pooltool.io We were warned, in advance that SundaeSwap was going to be interesting. We ran out of time for me to tell my story about BTC ATMs and Haiti remittances. For a future episode?
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