Occasional rants about what’s happening in our world today. Suggestions welcome and I will try to present the most educated perspective I can. Studio locations include my car (cause try telling me you never have an interesting train of thought during your work commute) and my rec space at home.
Well 2022 is finally here and its time to take on this year with a new attitude and perspective. As the title suggests this year we should effectively not give a flying F&ck this year and make this year ours. Now I'm not talking about being indifferent to the things around us, I'm talking about caring about the really important stuff and letting the dumb stuff just fly away. Cause what is really doing the best of not giving a f&ck if we aren't advancing and achieving in the process. This practice will change how you handle people, your job, your habits, and so so much more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Sorry to say but we have some issues with Christmas. And not the caroling or the spirit of giving, but with those who subvert it for their own gains. Yep, capitalism is spoiling Christmas, and the culture war around Christmas is apart of the grander plan to keep us distracted from the real issues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Well what can I say? Due to decades of indifference towards working level and entry level employees, stagnant wages and management mistreatment has resulted in a "surprising" shortage of labor in certain industries. Now some may want you to believe that this is due to laziness and slacking. However, how long would you be willing to work for starving wages as others seem to just get more and more, and I'm refering to the Kochs, the Waltons, the Cargils, the Sacklers, and the Bezos and Musks of this country. They've played us against each other for decades, and now is the time to have a brief silence, ponder, look around, and realize who the real enemies of we the people are. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Obligations in relationships can be tough subject to navigate. Between monetary obligations, to emotional support, to some social obligations built into our culture: how do we know what to follow and what to leave behind? That's a touch postulation to contend with but doing so has untold benefits for your mental, physical, and emotional health. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Given how some ideologies can be overly vague, it is pertinent that people know how to take them to their logical conclusions. But of course this does come with the Rabbit Hole warning label. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Hello I'm back, and I'm ready to discuss all that matters in this day and age. This week I will be covering what I see in our current Education System and ways that I think it can be remedied. Of course this is no small feet and would require the effort of us all in order to achieve. Don't think that this will just fix overnight: there is much to be done. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
I've been in a rut the past few weeks and now I've decided I want to break it and move forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
We all may deal with a spectrum of pains and circumstances but nonetheless we all have some measure of power as to how we tackle it --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Just a collection of what I find to be ridiculous in what's going on in the world these days and in days past. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
What better thing to rant and rave about than the complexity of current systems as well as perspective realities and ideologies. Will this have all the answers, or course not, but will I talk about what seems to be ignant and unaware of what's really going on, come on are you new here? If so then welcome to the show --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
I dish on a process that I've gone through recently and I ponder the current state of housing in the country. Seriously I had no idea that I was going to muse about generational differences in lifestyles and economic conditions and trends. But here I am now and am now working on a bigger subject that may take awhile to cover. Hope you'll stick around for that dialogue. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
When ya see them they must be heeded. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
This is advice for the fellas --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
After a question from my mom I had to ask... What the hell are we seeing these days?! So I decided to look a bit at what extreme conservatives are doing as well as what we should do to fix this mess. Now frankly I know that any real solution to the issues we are facing today need to be done so in a comprehensive and effective manner, in no way like the Affordable Care Act was negotiated and rolled out. However, we need to actually give credence to a comprehensive examination of what's actually possible and what's actually happening. Did I get all this in this episode? Hell no, but ya can't fix things without at lease voicing the issues first. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
From Lord of the Rings, to Game of Thrones, to Harry Potter, to Star Wars, and all other media adaptations: there is a lot to be said about the process of making those adaptations and what the resulting products will end up being. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Complacency can make you blind to the types of behaviors that make you go nuts. But with education, self awareness, and an occasional perspective view ya might just be able to keep your head on straight --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Sometimes just observing someone's behaviors can tell us a lot about who they are and how they act in other situations. This week I'll be taking a light examination at how some behavior trends and patterns can tell you a lot about how someone may view the world, treat people around them, and even consider opposing viewpoints. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Getting old ain't easy, and damn are we never really prepared for it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Little nostalgia trip for you guys but I find myself missing the old days when Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Ratchet & Clank kept me entertained and made me compete against my own best times. With the rise of reimaginings, rebranding, and even remakes, I think we all would appreciate a rise in new original content and storylines that can distract and entertain us. However, there's a few things to unpack first... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
With national focus and even internet focus going around sex trafficing and sex crimes, I wanted to take a closer view at what we may consider a certain sector of sex crimes to be. Particularly I want to draw attention to context and intricacies around certain scenarios that may be less nefarious than the general view may think of them --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Effects, screenwriters, actors, and even the directors that lead everything: movies have an amazing effect on culture and representation as a whole. However, what tends to be overlooked and what may or may not be what makes some pictures flops or blockbusters? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Whether it's wardrobe, cologne/perfume, transportation, or even the small touches we do to prepare: getting ready for a night out should be taken seriously if you want to truly cut loose. Arranging transport for if you want to get tipsy, donning the right threads for the event, or even dressing in a way that lets you look and feel good: Prepping for success is the first step to achieving it, no matter what your goals are. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
This is a intro on how meditation can be helpful to your mental health as well as help keep perspective on what's happening in your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Just a little train of thought I had the other day regarding roommates and what one should consider when living in such a state of shared housing and various resources. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
As an avid motorcycle rider I feel I should inform you guys about the costs and situations that we riders have to deal with. This ranges from regular motorist maybe not being fully aware of us to even misconceptions and even behaviors done by other riders that gave the responsible ones like myself a really bad name. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
This will be the first in a series I am going to post regarding dating advice and even socialization advice. This comes after a year of social distancing and even analyzing some of the toxic social norms that make it difficult or even painful to want to open up to socialize and meet new people. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Much like Facebook and public roadways nothing is ever truly free. Facebook floods us with ads and our tax dollars pay to make sure the roads aren't fully littered with potholes. But what about the cost of free pornography? Well it turns out the cost may be a lot more severe than you may think, and if not to us the consumer then to those who are possibly forced to comply and create the content that you consume. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
With Covid-19 coming to a slow down in certain states and the warmer seasons upon us, recreation and enjoyment is sure to be on a lot of people's minds in the coming months. With that coming as well as the plethora of "nothing" we've been doing the past year, I wanted to think about when productive recreation can be and how we may go about achieving it. This includes vacations, weekends from work (hopefully not at Bernie's), and of course just times we have for ourselves. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Oftentimes we find ourselves caught wondering if our innate thoughts in response to observations are instincts of warning or toxic assumptions. The line of separation is logical reasoning: instincts are typically based on past experiences backed up by evidence, whereas assumptions are often cleared up with context. While too much second thinking may open you up to rationalizing behaviors you think at first blush as toxic, never offering up your thoughts to context will lead down a path of ignance (ignorance may be changed by choice of education, ignance is willing choice to never evolve). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Why is it that everyone has to somehow be a CEO in order to afford a decent living? We have politicians that are able to vote on their own salary increases but whenever minimum wage is debated they decides while we are left at their mercy. Don't buy the corporate excuses about how giving people enough pay to afford rent and food would "destroy" our economy. Me being paid $15 an hour to wash dishes didn't bankrupt the restaurant where I got my first job, so I'm sure the Sacklers, the Cargills, the Kochs, and the Waltons can afford the cut in profits. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
With the current issues we face as a country: Medical care being a deadly trap we all want to avoid, education not setting us up for success, and how economic and civic education can break oppressive systems. The question is, how can we take historic lessons, contemporary perspectives, and a collective consensus to action to make real progressive change? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Pets can be a rich source of support for us humans, as judges of character and for emotional stability. Certain games that I am found of have been rather helpful in keeping entertained and could get a huge boost. Also, is anyone else was ticked as I am that we still have people who don't want to learn from the spikes in Covid infection rates due to noncompliance with public health measures? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Tonight I want to talk about how hyper sexuality and gender norms tend to negatively affect opposite sex relationships. This is solely based on my opinions and meant to provoke further debate and conversation for in order to overcome negative stereotypes and negative culture norms we must be willing to talk to each other about such things. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Given how difficult it is to trust some people nowadays it may be helpful to know who you should invest your time and energy in and who you should avoid like the plague. This can extend from professional networking relationships to advance your professional career to familiar relationships that you may or may not want to keep as well as even romantic partnerships. This is only meant to show my personal opinions on things as well as even some things that I've seen and experienced in my life so I encourage you to take these points and even delve on them even further --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Sometimes we feel the need to push our opinions into conversations, however, sometimes that does much more harm than good. This episode discusses some examples of unwanted opinions and how to avoid them, and perhaps even improve upon them to become better rounded --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Being an employee or employer can be a pain, especially when good help is hard to come by. So here's some advice on how to deal with those issues I don't have to be specific on but we all get it --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
American healthcare is often touted by Americans as the greatest healthcare system in the world, I disagree. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
There are a lot of things that frankly should be known to people at a certain age unfortunately because of circumstances regarding education as well as home upbringing those things are not always taught. These things range from home maintenance to cooking to basic human education and many many more things. And it is this main concept that inspires the name of my show Uncommon Sense --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
And a break from the serious subjects that I usually cover up to this point I want to talk about the entertainment questions that have been on my mind recently. Before Covid I remember certain things that may seem innocuous but frankly they used to give me a good deal of joy to see to hear and to enjoy. Those things will be Comedy Central roasts which I've been watching since I was a teenager, Live studio audience is in talk shows on the late night, but I'm also flowed in the idea of a Marvel cinematic universe or actor roast with the Rosti either being Chris Evans (Captain America) or Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Considering what happened today with myself and my younger brother I want to talk about the importance of maintaining yourself emotionally and physically as well as always being aware of the direction you find yourself going and correcting it when it is not helping you as you feel that shit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Sometimes emotions can get bottled up to avoid pain. However, this is not dealing with the pain it is merely stockpiling it, and the higher the pressure the bigger the explosion. So here I am sharing my perspective on the benefits of closure and some methods on how to go about achieving it --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
So after talking to my brother recently I have a renewed sense about certain political tools like the Electoral College and the Filibuster. Both used to keep power but also used to dominate certain demographics depending on where you live and what you believe --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Sometimes you need to reflect to understand others. Not to mention having foundational understanding can help you navigate the shades of grey that color our country and even world --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
Common Sense it seems was once easy to come by, unfortunately it seems that it is getting harder and harder to find in others as well as ourselves. Join me as I ponder everything from politics, to economic trends, to culture, to even hypotheticals that just live in my head rent free. Suggestions always welcome and questions will always be answered truthfully and with the best research I can do. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
The start of 2021 I want to talk about how Covid denial, systemic problems, and lack of cohesive response has made us the worst place to be in the world compared to others. We could have done better, but the greater good isn't the common goal in America, it's individual gain and exoneration of public responsibility. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gregory-lane/message
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