Episode 0128: Who Am I?

Recorded 14 February 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events.

This week our hosts discuss a couple of takeaways from an interview with Harrison Ford before turning the conversation toward a discussion about the portrayal of aliens.

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Episode 0127: Bloodsuckers

Recorded 08 February 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events.

This week our hosts discuss Vampire movies and television shows before discussing a really poor marketing campaign from the DVD days.

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Episode 0126: The Control Group

Recorded 01 February 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events.

This week our hosts delve into understanding how people latch onto misinformation and the psychological impetus for delving further into conspiracies.

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Episode 0125: It Looks Nicer, But Its More Shi**y

Recorded 27 January 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts discuss a handful of topics, mostly surrounding automation, UI design, and social media.

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  • Intro Intro

  • An Abstract Arrangement of Topics

  • The Twitter App Is Pure Garbage

  • The Move Away From Algorithm-Based Social Media

  • Everyone Has Classified Documents

  • Another Abstract Arrangement of Topics

  • Where to Find Us

Episode 0124: Backward Legislation and Forward Science

Recorded 19 January 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts discuss the strange approach to legislation being taken in Wyoming against electric vehicles and the really neat news about fusion energy out of California.

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Episode 0123: Individual Agency

Recorded 10 January 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts briefly mention another example of how America’s approach to health and medicine is broken before diving into a conversation about ethical dilemmas when parents and teachers are at odds over the proper way to address some early childhood behaviors.

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Episode 0122: Project Updates

Recorded 03 January 2023.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts take a break to discuss the state and direction of their assorted other projects for the next year.

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Episode 0121: Ok, But Why?

Recorded 27 December 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week sees a return to the wandering conversations you all know and love as Jesse and John discuss why step-person and sibling pornography is so prolific before discussing how delightful it is when actors break from being typecast.

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Episode 0120: The Platform Problem

Recorded 13 December 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts talk about the problem with social media platforms.

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Episode 0119: Shifting The Conversation

Recorded 13 December 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts talk about the needed shift in conversations that has to occur for our Society to make positive progress.

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Episode 0118: The Human Condition

Recorded 06 December 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts continue the discussion around what it means to be “manly.”

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Episode 0117: You Don't Understand Life

Recorded 29 November 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week we discuss the “major health crisis” affecting men.

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Episode 0116: A Brief Monologue

Recorded 22 November 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events.

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Episode 0115: He Who Shall Not Be Named

Recorded 17 November 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week Jesse and John talk a bit about T***p making his announcement for 2024 and whether it might be the necessary catalyst for America to move forward.

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Episode 0114: America's Election Problem

Recorded 08 November 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts reflect a bit on elections in general in the wake of the 2022 midterms.

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Episode 0113: Please, Vote

Recorded 01 November 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts discuss the state of political narratives and the need for calling out misinformation.

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Episode 0112: An Ethical Code and a Moral Dilemma

Recorded 28 October 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week Jesse and John discuss the difference between ethics and morals, and why it is so important to develop a personal code of ethics.

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  • PSA - Respiratory Illnesses in Late 2022

  • PSA - Iranian Climber Elnaz Rekabi

  • Strategies for Developing Your Own Ethical Code

  • Where to Find Us

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Episode 0111: That's The Secret

Recorded 18 October 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week our hosts talk about the attack on transgender rights and how it is so similar to other conversations.

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Episode 0110: Hate Is Hate

Recorded 11 October 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week Jesse and John discuss the simple fact that hate, in all its forms, is still hate, while trying to also determine what it is about labels that makes other things more nuanced.

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Episode 0109: The Middle Children of History

Recorded 04 October 2022.

(Devising) unqualified opinions; (Applying) filtered thoughts; (Discussing) distilled feelings.

Listen in to weekly conversations between Jesse and John about various topics, typically related to feelings about current events. This week Jesse and John try to place how threatening violence has become much more common in political messages and why people latch onto those messages.

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