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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: The narrator is invited by his father to go duck hunting as part of their bonding time. The narrator wants to spend time with his father, but expresses ethical concerns about hunting ducks. The father asserts hunting is a natural part of human evolution. The debate continues as the narrator decides to go on the hunt, but is undecided if he will pull the trigger. The story ends with father and son in the blind just at the moment before the narrator must decide if he is going to pull the trigger.DISCUSSION: This isn't really a story about sport killing or not, at least to us. The really interesting part of the story is about how family, and those emotional ties, and those we need to be loved by and respect, might cause us to do things that we find personally morally objectionable. Here, the father gives the son several chances to not participate in the duck hunt, but it's clear he will be disappointed, and that it might limit their future ability to have father/son time. This sort of unintentional (or intentional) manipulation happens not just with family members, but those in authority, or those who we respect and want approval from.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Jack Benson gives his child a prototype toy from his company as a Christmas present. When they check the toy battery compartment, they find a sad poem written in Chinese. Jack decides to fly to China and visit the factory where the toy is produced. He pays an employee to read the poem over the factory floor loudspeaker. A woman on the factory line stands up in acknowledgement, then humbly returns to her work. Later, after the shift, she slips him a book of her writings, presumably, expressing more thoughts and emotions about her life.DISCUSSION: The obvious question for this story is, of course, do we have an obligation to know more about where our products are sourced and the labor that is being used to build them? His child shows the very disposable way we look at products of cheap labor. Also, it may have been irresponsible on the part of the narrator to put the poem writer at risk. What if she had been fired? She didn't specifically ask for help. In some ways he seems trapped in his wealthy life as well, just trapped in a different way.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Martha dies. She wakes up three years later with her consciousness put into the body of an android. She did not ask for this, it simply happened. She is forced to accept that Martha is dead, and that she must live out her new life as Echo. As an android, she has limited rights. She cannot see her former family or friends. She can only work for minimum wage. She cannot interact with any technology. She cannot go to the same location more than twice in a week. She cannot meet other androids for prolonged periods of time. She is not even allowed to terminate her own existence. Her only friend is a journalist who is trying to get the “android story” out. He does this by using an override switch that paralyzes Echo and allows him to download her complete data set since her inception.DISCUSSION: Story brings up wonderful points about what rights you are born with and what it is about you that earns you those rights. Is it your body, or something else? Is it inevitable that there are always lower class people to do the hard work and have limited rights? She was perfectly happy to take rights away from the androids until she was one. Even the person that is helping her takes her memories without her permission. The question we are wholly not qualified to answer is, when is AI “alive?”BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

The irritations continue! A bed in the road, and no one will move it. Our tax dollars at work! Plus, Austin FC played its first home game and it was an exciting 0-0 DRAW! Highlights upcoming. Weather Map irritations. People answering the phone then saying they can't talk! (That's dumb.) MORE~ Listen, Rate, Review, and Support :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bill-flanigin/support

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Sienna is living with a “Monster,” in this case, her father. He does not hit her, but he does yell, and rant, and breaks things. Sienna grows up always on edge that the “monster” will lash out at her. Over time, she builds up equally toxic defense mechanisms. She learns to yell back and to be as hate-filled as her father. This all changes when she goes to college and meets her roommate Clara. Clara does not lash out. She does not accuse. She does not go into conversations prepared for battle. She listens, she is empathetic. She does not “keep score” in their friendship. Sienna assumes Clara has an alternative motive, and continues to be skeptical. Eventually, Sienna comes to see Clara for what she is, a decent human being. Armed with her new knowledge, Sienna heads home for Thanksgiving and confronts her father. Her father credits himself with “breaking the cycle” and being a good father by not physically abusing Sierra that way his father was to him. Sienna is frustrated, and resolves to never speak to him again. Over the Christmas holiday, Sienna decides to visit Clara's family. Sienna's mother asks if she, and only she, can come visit. Sienna reluctantly agrees. Her mother arrives, father in tow. The story ends with Sienna in jail, having killed her father.DISCUSSION: Interesting story that brings up outstanding questions about the cycle of abuse and what is “getting better.” Sienna's father is better than his father was to him, and it would be hard to expect much more from him outside of him independently deciding to get help. We already see Sienna taking on the horrible traits of her father and, were it not for her roommate, would probably end up just like her father. Perhaps everyone is the hero in their own story?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: (Not suitable for children.) Bill believes in the Tooth Fairy. He is 28 years old. His girlfriend finds this odd, and sometimes socially awkward, but otherwise harmless. This changes, however, when Bill has his wisdom teeth removed and places them under his pillow with the expectation that the Tooth Fairy will accept his offering and provide him her payment as her showing of appreciation. To appease his belief system, Bill’s girlfriend decides to take the teeth and leave Bill some money, but unknowingly does not leave him payment in the “right” amount. Bill interprets this to mean the Tooth Fairy is unhappy with his offering of teeth and tries leaving a tooth from a denture. The tooth fairy never comes. Frustrated, Bill knocks out his own teeth so as to make another, and what he sees as proper, offering. DISCUSSION: Interesting story about how we decide what belief systems are acceptable, and unacceptable. Why is a belief in the tooth fairy more or less valid than one in God, the Devil, or that professional wrestling is real. Do we have a duty to be permissible of all other beliefs? Should we work to actively dispel them? Is it enabling a belief when we say nothing or simply say all ideas have value?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Social Media has been the machine that has educated us, influenced us and inspired us for the past two decades. But social media also has a dark side to it.It can just as easily be used or interpreted to bring people down, make us think that we are not good enough and allow us to blame others for the problems we face. It can also paint a picture of the world, or our own country, that really is not a reflection of what is actually happening.So with that said, is everything really as bad as social media can make it seem? Are most people actually satisfied with the lives they are living?SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram linkBig Brothers Guide to Life on Facebook Intro Music:Nice To you- found on YouTube Music

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Simon is on trial for, literally, killing the devil. He did it by telling everyone he was going to kill the devil. Of course, the devil found out and came to visit him. Simon told the devil he was a cheap peddler of a product, fear, he had never personally experienced. To prove he feared nothing, the devil removed his immortality. When he did that, Simon shot and killed him. However, nothing changed in the world. Evil didn’t go away, or even get less.DISCUSSION: The story asks the important question where does evil reside? Are we tempted to evil, or is there simply evil inside all of us. Conversely, if our evil is from our own thoughts and actions, does that also mean our grace comes, not from God, but from inside us as well? Do we simply create an external person to relive ourselves of the burden of understanding we are the evil of the world? How can we create less evil in the world? Does anyone think they are evil? Aren’t we all the hero in our own stories? Should the killed of Satan be put in jail?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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In the western world, living the cookie-cutter life that our parents generation did had its ups and downs. for many people of this era, hitting a point in your life where you felt like there was nothing else to look forward too caused some people to lash out. We called this the Mid-life crisis. A response to the predictability of life. This usually happened around 40 years of age for our parents.The new generations are facing something different. A quarter-life crisis. A response to the unpredictability that comes when the path you chose for yourself was not what you expected. For us, this happens in our late 20's-early 30's.What does this all mean for us and can we learn anything from our parents generation about how to handle it?SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram link EPISODE LINKS:Professor Mark Jackson’s lecture to the Royal Society INTRO Music"Nice to You" found on YouTube music.

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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: After Dinner Conversation Editor, Kolby, answers questions from readers and recaps Season Three.DISCUSSION: Kolby answer reader mail and recaps Season Three. What are his favorite stories from Season Three? What does he consider to be the most quintessential stories After Dinner Conversation has published? Why did we switch from publishing short stories to a monthly magazine? How do you judge stories for publication, and what are the best ways to increase my changes of getting published? How can I help out/support the publication?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Nothing affects our young college-age members of society more that just how much their education is costing them. The systems that allow us at such a young age to even be able to take on this debt is a necessary evil. If you don't come from an affluent family who can afford to pay for your college, you will have to borrow the money that the colleges are charging if you want to get that prestigious degree. A degree that you envision will land you a high-paying job and set you in motion for a successful life. For the Millennials, we've had to learn the hard way how to deal with this. For the newer generations who are on the cusp of adulthood, understanding just how much your education can cost you is critical to you making the best financial decision to secure your future, post-graduation. Just how much debt are you willing to take to graduate from that one "big" school. Can you get the same education for a fraction of the cost and therefor set yourself up for a less-stressful future?SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram link EPISODE LINKS:National Student Debt Forgiveness CenterUS Census Data Center INTRO Music"Nice to You" found on YouTube music.

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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Peter finds out his partner Samir has been sneaking around behind his back to “try out dreaming.” According to Samir, he likes the way sleeping, and dreaming, makes him feel. And besides, he argues, it doesn’t do any harm; his work will never find out. Peter decides to break the law in support of their relationship and to stop taking the drug that makes sleep and dreams unnecessary, in order to better understand his partner. However, after one try Peter decides he doesn’t like the feeling of losing control and that sleep isn’t for him.DISCUSSION: The main question of the story is, are biological functions a necessary evil to be gotten rid of by science and, is sleeping one of those biological functions? Are cutting your nails, and going to the bathroom things we gain value from, or simple biological acts to be removed if possible? Does sleep service a purpose or is it just a biological act? If the ability to go without sleep was available, wouldn’t it eventually become necessary to stay competitive in a workplace? We all agree the government should not make sleeping illegal, but if given the chance, many of the group would do away with sleep for the extra time it provides. Would you be willing to do something illegal that your partner was doing, as in the story? What if the illegal thing went against your own values, would you still do it if your partner was? Is there a minimum age whereby you should not be allowed to made to go without sleep?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Roosevelt is a young black child who is obsessed with the life and philosophies of President “Teddy” Roosevelt. He is new at the school and due to an issue with other students is forced into the “Friends Group;” a social adjustment group for students the school have deemed at-risk. While in the group he meets Teddy, an overweight boy who has been in the group for years because he pulled an X-ACTO knife in art class on a fellow student who continued to bully him about his weight. The two misfit boys develop a friendship. Roosevelt teaches Teddy how to fight, as well as imparting bits of wit and wisdom from his hero, Teddy Roosevelt. Things go awry when they are caught swimming naked in Teddy’s pool. The school rumor mill spreads that they are gay. This leads to the school forcing the two boys to fight after school. Roosevelt decides that Teddy has more to lose and is less prepared to deal with the consequences of the altercation, so he allows himself to lose the fight. As Teddy Roosevelt said, “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body – to risk his well-being – to risk his life – in a great cause.” This story was the runner-up of the Fall 2020 After Dinner Conversation Writing Competition.DISCUSSION: This story is one of the most expertly crafted stories we have ever discussed. It perfectly portrays the prejudice and attitudes of the early 1980’s. Of course, the interesting question in the story is the role that Teddy Roosevelt plays in influencing the main character that has lost his father. A book, and a long dead President, are serving the role of role model in his life. And, in turn, this is influencing his friendship with others. Is this a good thing? Are role models in sports, business, or history, a good thing? Some don’t want to be role models. Some are showing idealized versions of flawed real people. What role should role models have in crafting our personalities? Should we, as a society, be more careful, or put more controls in place, about the role models that have the ability to influence the opinions of children?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: A a young boy is in the government waiting room waiting to be assigned a new “dream.” He strikes up a conversation with other people in the waiting room. Some of them are anxious to get new dreams implanted into their brain as they have not found success. Others don’t want to let go of the failed dream they were originally assigned because they believe, in their heart-of-hearts, it is what they were born to do. The government is indifferent to the desires of the people. Society has needs, people have innate talents, and the government, as far as they are concerned, should focus on getting people to follow the dreams they are good at, as well as the dreams that are most needed by society. This story was the winner of the Fall 2020 After Dinner Conversation Writing Competition.DISCUSSION: Interesting story about if we should focus our attention and training on where we have natural abilities, or simply be average at the things we love? In this case, the government is choosing where people should focus, but that is not new. Historically, the wealthy would be patrons of the arts and focus on where talents should be focused. Is it selfish to want to be happy? Do we tend to be happy at the things for which we have natural ability anyway? Interesting the perspectives based on age as well. Young people often view success differently that those that are older, and why is success measured by money or quality? Also interesting the way the characters cling to dreams they have that were, at least originally, given to them by the government.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

More and more, it has become hammered into our heads that if we do not have our life together by the age of 30, we must be screwed. If we are not married with a family and at least one person has a good, stable career, then we've been left behind. As you might guess, this is not the case at all. In this episode, I briefly break down how my generation learned from Generation X about what the expectations are for people in their 20's and how in today's world, our lives don't begin until we are over 30.SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram link INTRO Music"Nice to You" found on YouTube music.

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: A college student lives in a society dedicated to removing prejudice and judgment. They do this, in part, by having citizens live in mobile crates. They rarely see each other in person and putting down others is sure to get you re-education training. The main character, along with her friend, escape to a nearby society that has no such restrictions. In fact, each person is put into a societal category. Our intelligent protagonist, looking forward to finally being able to shine, assumes she will be put in a higher category, but things don’t go as planned. Eventually, the government recruits her to bring down the fence that dividesthe two cultures.DISCUSSION: Interesting story about the positive and negative place for prejudice and judgment. Which society is worse? If we had to chose, which would be pick? Is the problem with the judging society, not that they judge, but that we don’t like their criteria because it doesn’t play into our strengths? Which society would be the easier to fix? We can’t really ever expect the judging society to change as those in power rarely, if ever, are willing to give up their position of privilege without a violent revolution.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

我认为一个狗狗币就是比特币的最小单位一聪 DOGECOIN COOL TO THE MOON! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VFV5ZNT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=koolfish1233-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B08VFV5ZNT&linkId=7de0b3a800a7131d7185ad9eb1b00e6c 关注微信公众号：风云大宝（新视频和文章在这首发），帮我频道点个支持增加人气：https://anchor.fm/chanderguo/support 点【Support按钮】支持下，多谢。 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chanderguo/support

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Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: A preacher arrives on an off-world planet inhabited by 7 foot tall, multi-colored, bears, aka “Teddies.” Her mission is to run her church and, if possible, convert the local Teddies to Christianity. Over time she makes no progress and her church is at risk of being shut down by those funding it. She heads to the local Teddy church and learns that, according to their faith, God can only return when everyone alive is fulfilling their “Purpose” and, if you cannot find your purpose, you should volunteer to die so that you can re-enter the wheel of life and try again. Appalled by this doctrine, the preacher turns her focus to feeding the hungry. This is a violation of the culture as the Teddies believe that those that starve do so because it as their purpose to starve.DISCUSSION: Really fascinating story and world building, and a wonderful springboard for a discussion about free will and choice. Is “Purpose” just another version of a Zen discussion about “the way?” Can your purpose change? Do people really have a single purpose? And yet, teachers, and others, refer to their careers as a “calling.” The wealthy have also, historically, told those without that they are hungry because it is God’s will. Is this a caste system, of sorts at work?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Am I going to rant about capitalism every episode? Maybe. For some reason, audio is quieter than usual. I also talk about large websites and regulation vs. curation, though I feel as though I change my mind at one point. Topics include websites saying their responsibility is to their employees or unpaid volunteers only when trying to abdicate responsibility to their users. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, WEBSITES. Recommendation: the open source book Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Dolmage, audiobook read by Greg Chun. To Support: Anchor: https://anchor.fm/noellematteson (click "Support") Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/noellevivante (click "Support") --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noellematteson/support

Wrong question.   Read along on my blog: https://penguinlatte.blog/how-do-i-make-money/ PODCAST: Exploring life in all directions: https://penguinlatte.blog/podcast/ NEWSLETTER: Every week I send a list of the 7 things that inspired me. It's called 7Inspirations and you can signup at: https://heypenguin.substack.com/ Blogging, everyday: https://penguinlatte.blog/blog/ SUPPORT: Support my stuff with a bag of Flow State Coffee, it's coffee for creativity! I've tried tons of coffee and this is the only one that doesn't make me feel as if I'm going to explode. Enter code PAUL at checkout for a 10% discount: https://noowave.co/

Lex Fridman, one of my favorite podcasters, has nearly 1 million subscribers on YouTube. But calling him a “YouTuber” would be a mistake. Check out Lex Fridman  Read along on my blog PODCAST: Exploring life in all directions NEWSLETTER: Every week I send a list of the 7 things that inspired me. It's called 7Inspirations and you can signup at: https://heypenguin.substack.com/ Blogging, everyday: https://penguinlatte.blog/blog/ SUPPORT: Support my stuff with a bag of Flow State Coffee, it's coffee for creativity! I've tried tons of coffee and this is the only one that doesn't make me feel as if I'm going to explode. Enter code PAUL at checkout for a 10% discount: https://noowave.co/

Named “Top 20 Philosophy Podcast” for 2021!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the 1600’s, a traveling man of knowledge comes into town with his young assistant and assortment of books. Various townspeople come to visit him, paying to ask questions. Why do my gums bleed? Why does is steel I forge brittle? Finally, a wealthy man comes and asks if he should allow his daughter to marry the local guard. The traveling man says yes, that love is always a thing to respect. The wealthy man comes back later with his daughter and attempts to bribe the traveling man to have him say they should call the relationship off. The traveling man refuses and, in the process, gives his assistant an important lesson about positive externalities.DISCUSSION: Like all of our stories, this one is very well written and has the feel of being written by a very wise person, who just happens to also be a writer. It’s interesting the way each person who comes to pay for advice has a different question that allows the traveling man to expound upon a life lesson. Also, it seems like each question relates to the subtext of the thing going on in that person’s life as well. The story brings up an interesting point about the rare case of positive externalities. While they are typically associated with businesses pushing costs off to society, it can just as well be about a couple in love getting the benefit of the price paid for by their father.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Douglas Junior and his wife both have a rare, recessive, genetic disease. They donate their blood to a lab to help them find a cure. Through a medical mix-up, Douglas Junior’s DNA is used to create his clone. 20 years later he finds out about his clone and reaches out to meet him. Things don’t go exactly as planned as Douglas Junior is a blue-collar working man, while his clone is a top-of-the-class gay student who plans to join the space program.DISCUSSION: Interesting story that mirror some of the research done with sexual orientation differences between identical twins, as well as nature vs. nurture. Creates a springboard for good discussions about what information we would want to know about our clone. For example, are there unexplored genetic aptitudes I missed out on? Douglas seems to be very picky about which science he believes in, and which he doesn’t believe in, as so much of it is tied up how he self identifies. His clone is rightly frustrated by all the questions and says what may often be on the mind of others gay individuals, “it’s not my job to teach everyone in the world ‘Gay 101’”.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.FOLLOW: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

CDP sits down with Digital Marketing Expert Chasity Deon, to speak about Branding and Marketing Topics discussed: 1. Brands that can be Marketed 2. How to Monetize your product, on a digital platform 3. Partnerships and Business Relationships / The Middle man of Marketing 4. Is every brand/Person Marketable 5. Blacks in the E-commerce and digital space Please Subscribe Like Comment @culturallydistinctpodcast on Apple | Spotify | Instagram | Facebook | Iheartradio | Pandora | Cashapp for Donations $81Adam Thanks for all the Support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culturallydistinct/support

By our early 20's, most of us are either expected to, or we put pressure on ourselves to get that "real" job. The one that is supposed to define us. The one that we spent all that time preparing for in college. A job that our parents would have spent 30 years, or so, committed to. Times are different now and we don't stay at companies as long as we used to. But still, how do we get that first job? What if we can't find that ideal first "real" job by the time we are 23. Are we failures? Is the system against us? In this episode, I reflect back on getting my first "real" job after college and how it definitely was not what I thought it would be.SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram link INTRO Music"Nice to You" found on YouTube music.

Social Media: A topic that has many different faces- too much to put into one episode. This is part 2 of 2 of my series about the media's influence on us. In this episode, let's look at how we get our news and other information from these platforms and also how our emotions can get triggered by just one picture or one sentence in a post.  Surely we would be able to tell the difference between factual information and someone's opinion right?SUPPORT:Support the channel hereInstagram link Intro music:"Nice to You" found on YouTube music

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A woman is diagnosed with a heart condition and is offered the ability to grow a new heart to replace hers. She declines based on her religious beliefs. Her husband, who has medical power of attorney, waits until she is unconscious and near death, and goes against her wishes and orders the life saving procedure. When she wakes and finds out what he has done she divorces him. Even after the divorce and going out of jail, he does not regret his choice.DISCUSSION: This seems like a very real possibility today, or in the near future. There might not be any bad guys in this story. Mad respect to the woman for having the conviction of her faith. Respect to the man for saving his wife in support of his own ethics. Interesting how the mother, who is also religious, came to the conclusion the transplant was fine. The man clearly loved his wife, enough to save her, and lose her. Maybe he should have told her he would be unable to fulfill her wishes and to give medical power to someone else? This might be different if it was about children.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A weak spirited loser is contacted by the government and informed he has a twin that is the head of a powerful mafia organization. The government will pay him $1 million dollars if he goes through their program to learn the mannerisms and speech of his mafia twin and replace him in the organization. As the twin learns how to act like the mafia boss, he becomes more like him until he escapes the training program with the money and a new personality.DISCUSSION: A story about nature vs nurture, and to the extent which the way we act effects are mood, as well as who we are. The group generally agreed that changing behavior can change personality and mood. Kolby was of the opinion this process could be “hacked” to help us create better versions of ourselves. Others suggested this was already being done by celebrity product endorsements selling a lifestyle as much as the product. Ashley thought this might be a time-travel story, where they are actually creating the mob boss. Everyone thought the story was interesting as a premise, but a bit confusing how the organization could have some much information on the mob boss, but needed this twin to get information before arresting him.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

At around 8:30am, on Sunday the 26th of August 2012, Mark Bretz was making his way home after delivering cows to the local meat market. It was a beautiful morning, and he was looking forward to getting back to his family, so they could all head to church. As he continued along Ohio 208, passing through the remote, grassy intersection of Keyes and Steel Hill roads, he noticed something lying in the middle of the road. At first, he assumed it was an animal, and prepared himself to swerve around it. It was only as he got closer, that he realised it was actually the body of a woman. Thanks to Podcorn and Best Fiends for sponsoring this episode! Podcorn makes it easy for podcasters, big or small, to apply for host-read ads, topical discussions, interview segments and more, allowing creators to take full control over how and when they monetise. Visit https://podcorn.com to start browsing sponsorship opportunities today. Best Fiends is a 5-star rated mobile puzzle game with thousands of levels and tons of cute characters to collect. Download Best Fiends free on the Apple App Store or Google Play today! SUPPORT: Support the show on Patreon for just $3 per month: https://patreon.com/evidenceofacrime Support on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/evidenceofacrime SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: https://facebook.com/evidenceofacrimepodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/evidenceofacrimepodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/eoacpodcast Sources: https://evidenceofacrime.blogspot.com/2020/12/pure-evil-murder-of-celeste-fronsman.html

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: The story is from the perspective of a mother and her interest in what she believes is her daughter’s pending marriage. She has mental health issues that lead her to be temporarily institutionalized after the birth of her child. The daughter meets with mother from time to time, but provides very little information about her life. The mother continues to get worse until she is picked up by the police after an episode at a perspective wedding venue. The daughter later informs her mother that she got married without inviting her to the “small” wedding.DISCUSSION: The core question in this story is how much do you involve, or limit, a family member in your life who suffers from mental health issues? The mother isn’t a bad person, she just struggles. Is it more humane to simply cut her out of your life so as to limit the information and stress you cause her? Is it better to only interact with her on your own terms? Would you invite your mother to your wedding if you knew she might have an episode and become the center of attention? We are split, as podcasters, in what we would do. The story both plays into and mocks Jewish stereotypes, but at its core, deals directly with how we decide of level of support for family members with mental health issues.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: The story is a flashback of a man telling a story from the 1970’s that has always stuck with him. He is a psychology student learning about the “F Test” a test that supposedly allows you to gauge your fascist tendencies. He friend, a Vietnam Vet, disagrees with the simplicity of the test. To prove his point he talks to, and easily manipulates, a bohemian woman in the bar to change her life. The narrator watches and does nothing, but is horrified by how easily this happens. The incident ends their friendship.DISCUSSION: The story of being a charismatic leader is all too common; they say things that “feel good” to our emotions but aren’t true. They lead us with persuasion and ask us to forgot our critical thinking skills. The vet shows the narrator how easy it is to manipulate others, including the narrator. This process of praying on the weak, or on everyone, happens every day, to almost everyone. The trick is to be aware you have these tendencies and to use logic to not allow your emotions to rule you.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

There’s a $20,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest in Liz’s murder. If you have information, please call 713-222-TIPS, or alternatively, please see: Crime Stoppers website: https://crime-stoppers.org/ Submit a tip online anonymously: https://www.p3tips.com/TipForm.aspx?ID=610&C=&T= 29-year-old Elizabeth Barraza was setting up a yard sale outside of her home, when she was approached by an unknown assailant. 8 seconds later, Elizabeth was left lying on the ground, bleeding profusely, having suffered 4 gunshot wounds at point blank range. The brutal, cold-blooded shooting was captured on a neighbour's grainy surveillance camera, but almost two years later, the case still remains unsolved. CCTV of Elizabeth’s Murder. Viewer discretion is advised: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1858330/Texas-woman-shot-four-times-setting-garage-sale.html Thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode! Podcorn makes it easy for podcasters, big or small, to apply for host-read ads, topical discussions, interview segments and more, allowing creators to take full control over how and when they monetise. Visit https://podcorn.com to start browsing sponsorship opportunities today. Promo: Reverie True Crime - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reverie-true-crime/id1492793721 SUPPORT: Support the show on Patreon for just $3 per month: https://patreon.com/evidenceofacrime Support on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/evidenceofacrime SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: https://facebook.com/evidenceofacrimepodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/evidenceofacrimepodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/eoacpodcast For sources and more information: https://evidenceofacrime.blogspot.com/2020/11/cold-blooded-who-killed-elizabeth.html

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in hell, a demon, “Bub” asks the person he is torturing for eternity what he did to end up in hell. Turns out he stole a few bikes. This causes Bub to question his purpose and walk off the job. He climbs to limbo to take a break from it all. Eventually, Hermes comes to fetch him and bring him before Satan, who punishes him for eternity for walking off the job.DISCUSSION: Wonderful story, both for the questions it asks, and the humor it brings to the situation. Brings up good questions about the “fairness” of eternal punishment for any temporary act. Also, brings up the question of a god who would is all good, all powerful, and all knowing, and yet allows people to be tortured. Nice twist on the concept in that Satan is hurting people, not because he cares about people, but because he knows it hurts God to see his children being hurt. Kolby wonders if walking off the job because of concerns about the morality of his actions should be enough to earn Bub a place in heaven.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, the Dios are a group of super humans who, because of having the wealth over generations to make mental and physical enhancements, are a different, and superior, race. Humans on earth sometimes agree to go to live on Mars with the Dios as their pets. The narrator is one such person, that is, until he starts to ask too many questions.DISCUSSION: Great world building. A longer and more complete story than we usually do. Perhaps this is a warning, not about keeping people as pets, but about the long term effects of the wealthy having access to technology that allows them to further separate themselves from the poor over generations. What level of difference in ability makes it okay to keep another species as a pet? Maybe the differences in the story aren’t as great as the Dios want them to seem? Is this slavery? Is it fair that those on earth are so poor this is their only way out? Is that the crime here? Is this different than having a “sugar-daddy” that takes care of you?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A sixteen year old girl is put in charge of her parents’ shop that sells memories of your past in exchange for a year of your future. The girl loves her job and all the memories she can feel leaking through the files. A sad man comes in and asks to have the memory of his “last good day.” She sells him the day at a discounted price for the remainder of the life he has left. It was, he says, the last day before he learned a terrible secret he never recovered from, one that caused his wife to leave him.DISCUSSION: The story is so beautifully written. The energy of the young girl working alone, and the visuals of the memories and feelings as she walks by them draw you in so deeply to her joy. However, the story is terribly sad. Would you trade a year of your future for a past day? It means you think one year of your future can’t live up to one day of your past. It means you think your best days are behind you. It also means you are living in the past. Maybe would be worth doing it to see a dead parent again or to relive a past moment and provide forgiveness for past mistakes. The very fact that this is possible might make living for the future harder. It’s perfect that a young girl is working the shop, because she only sees the memories as positive, rather than in relation to the life people have today they compare those days to.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

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Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A Jesuit Priest researches other sentient beings in the universe looking for species that are incapable of committing one of the cardinal sins. He finds six different species that, because of their biology, he says, cannot commit one of the sins. He is unable to find a species without the sin of Pride. He questions, but finally confirms, that this strengthens his belief in God.DISCUSSION: Are their merits of earth closing itself off from the universe for years in order to maintain its “cultural purity.” Is this a good idea or doomed to cause issues? Are there ways to preserve culture without bans on other cultures? Next, is sin automatic with choice? As soon as you have a sentient choice, does the fact you can make the wrong choice mean we are capable of sin? The examples for various species are tough, because it’s not like they aren’t capable of sin. The issue is that their biology or environment makes the sin impossible. So, with different choices available to different species, could there be different sins possible? Are the number of sins infinite?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

In episode seven of The Other Woman Fantasy podcast the guys get back together to discuss the happenings of week two including significant injuries and some spicy takes...and of course some debauchery. Enjoy the show. And don't forget to support the show by leaving us a comment and a like! Also make sure you go give us a follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheOWFantasy and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theotherwomanfantasy/. Thanks for the Support Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TheOtherWomanFantasy)

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, 2% of the population have a genetic makeup that allows them to be enhanced. The intelligent are very intelligent, the beautiful, like Greek gods. Because of their enhanced abilities, they run the world. An enhanced “Social” meets up with an enhanced “Rational” to tell him about a newly discovered drug that would allow the other 98% of the world to be able to be enhanced as well, but it would cause the 2% to regress to average, or worse. The Rational takes the vial and releases it into the world. The Social kills herself.DISCUSSION: If things in this world are so amazing, why are the 98% causing civil unrest? Should the elite naturally be left to lead others? Does being super-human automatically make you super moral? Should the truly exception should lead the masses? if everyone is raised up, we are right back where we were, with people fighting to be on top and not enough to go around. Do we live in a meritocracy today? Doesn’t money allow those at the top to keep their children at the top today? The only ones with no choice are the 2% after the virus is released. Discussion about if we would release the virus.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A black pastor in New Orleans is trying to get a redevelopment project built for his poor community post Katrina. Things aren’t going well. A white person was robbed and beat up in the area, which scared off the banks from lending. The pastor goes to the local gang and pays them to keep white people safe. He also reaches out to another church group to help with protests. The white developer/partner comes and says he is going to make the project smaller and the church will get less. The pastor goes to the black mayor who also wants a cut of the development money for his re-election campaign. The pastor finally decides he’s had enough and calls the federal government to report corruption in the city.DISCUSSION: Seems a very realistic portrayal of how things get done. There aren’t any clear good guys in this story, just people with codes that go with their social group. Which comes first, your code that pushes you into a group, or a group you get into that pushes their code on you? Maybe the pastor has finally decided to stop making moral compromises and live by better ethics, maybe not.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A young boy heads to the park to play soccer with friends, they tease him and won’t let him play because he had his soul removed. Flash to the discovery of the soul. A doctor has modified a CAT Scan machine and found the soul in the appendix. When the appendix is inflamed, sometimes it is medically caused, sometimes it is because of an injured soul. Regardless of the cause, it can still be removed and the problem is fine. And the person with no soul seems no different. The mother comforts the boy when he gets home. Later, the boy goes to a friends house, his mother tells the boy her son died, because he was having appendix issues, and they refused to have them removed because they didn’t want to remove his soul.DISCUSSION: You must first accept the premise of the story, that the people in the story found the soul in the appendix. Knowing that, what good is it to have a soul in the story? Seems like everyone stays basically the same. Would you write on a piece of paper selling your soul to another person? If so, you must believe in a soul, regardless of what you say. Otherwise, the paper means nothing and it’s free money. Would you be friends with someone without a soul? Is the soul tied to an afterlife, if so, maybe the mother who let her child die did the right thing. Should the government be allowed to impose a medically necessary procedure that a parent refuses? Courts in the US say parents can refuse treatment for their children, if they are under 12 years old, with a court order.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A woman wakes up strapped to a lab table. An emotionless doctor asks her to choose what she would do for the trolley problem. She is then graphically shown the results of her choice. A new choice, do you push people out of an over-capacity life raft? She is again graphically show the result of her choice. This goes on for 1000’s of scenarios until the woman is totally exhausted from watching death. Only then does she realize she is being punished, 900 years after a choice she made, to kill children in order to find the cure to a disease.DISCUSSION: Loads of utilitarian questions in this story, just one after another. Scenario makes them fit in the story very organically. Would a person really get rattled from watching all that death, or get desensitized? In Greek plays, it was called catharsis. It hard to know, is the woman being punished for her past acts, or re-educated, or being used as a deterrent to others? Can a person be punished after they have died? Should they be punished longer than their lifetime, or a single death?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A single mother and her son have coffee before school. His car is in the shop, so she drives him to high school. He calls his mom later to say he left his laptop in the car. She decides to go through his laptop, and finds out his son and two friends are planning on shooting up the school in just days. She searches his room, and finds guns and drugs. The mother is worried about how this will effect her college daughter, and herself, if the shooting happens. The next day she spikes her son’s morning coffee with drugs and waits for him to die in his room of an overdose. She calls the police and ambulance. She disposes of the guns and laptop on the outskirts of town. The police suspect nothing and her son’s death is deemed a suicide by drug overdose.DISCUSSION: The mother is a psychopath, and her priorities are all wrong. Her first concern is her daughter, and she treats her son like a stranger. She is emotionless in killing her son. This also hints that the son’s issues might be genetic from the mother. This is wrong behavior. She didn’t have to call the police, she could have taken him to the father, or for treatment. There are still two remaining kids planning to shoot up the school, and she doesn’t even tell the school about them. This is a story as much about the mother’s issues as about a school shooting. However, school shootings are now just the world we live in as the “new normal.”BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Four prisoners are made to draw straws for the order they stand in a row. Their prison guard plans to push his bayonet into the first person and see how far back it goes in the line of men. The first man in line panics, runs, and is shot. The narrator talks to the man in front of him and tries to convince him not to run so he might slow down the thrust. The heavy set man in the back thinks he is safe, but the guard changes his mind and stabs him instead. In the end, only the narrator survives.DISCUSSION: Story focuses on morality, game theory, value theory, and infinite game theory. Should the heavy set man have volunteered to be first in line to slow down the blade for everyone else? Is it selfish to run and, thus, cause those behind you to be more likely to die? Should the four men have simply tried to rush the guard? Does everyone find God when they are about to die? Game theory seems to only work when dealing with large numbers, not individuals. Value theory seems to state that, at the end of the day, nothing is worth more than your own life. This is an infinite, not a finite, game. The guard seems like an arm-chair philosopher.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.MAGAZINE: Sign up for our monthly magazine and receive short stories that ask ethical and philosophical questions.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, an addict takes a cab to an isolated part of town. He goes to a private, illegal club to break the law; he orders meat. The club is raided by the police, who kill a patron during their interrogation of her. The meat-eating addict sneaks away, knowing he will break the law again.DISCUSSION: Story with so many layers. First, the contrast between the “humane” society that has banned meat eating, but the brutality of the individual police. Do more serious laws allow for more brutal policing? Also, is this man protesting, or is he simply an addict? Seems to be just be an addict. Are there natural rights? If so, is eating meat one of those natural rights? Does it matter if the reason the law was passed was to protect animals, or to prevent climate change? If a law is passed you disagree with, does it change your behavior? Do you leave the party where they are eating meat? Does it depend on the level of the crime they are committing?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: An older and younger (talking) cockroach climb to the top of the highest thing, the refrigerator, to overlook their world. The older roach tells the child that the humans he sees can talk, and also have a 3rd eye inside of them that allows them to imagine the future and remember the past, and this is what makes them unhappy all the time. An angel moth comes down and takes away the roaches ability to speak forever.DISCUSSION: A children’s story, but one with a good lesson, about having the ability to think about the future, but not let it trouble you or dwell on it. Do other animals have this “3rd eye”? Maybe dogs or others do, to some degree. It has made humans successful because we can remember errors, and plan for future problems. It’s a trade off, but a good one. The key is to not worry so much.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

DOWNLOAD: Customer Support Builder™ - Best Practices, Processes, and Flows to Build a World-Class Support Experience That's Less Time Consuming - https://bit.ly/2MGhuQY -- There’s a GOLDMINE of product insights right underneath your nose… And you’re probably ignoring it. A treasure trove of data at your fingertips about new product features, your ideal customers, and opportunities for new verticals or marketing funnels you have left untapped. This is the high-level stuff that I coach people through, and you’ve already got it. Hiding in plain sight. Where is it? It’s in your customer support tickets. Customer Support is one of my favourite things to talk about. I love it! I performed customer support PERSONALLY for 2 years while building Clarity.  Why? Because it’s an incredible opportunity for a founder to learn from your customers, guide product strategy and make sure your product is serving real people. Most CEOs and founders delegate their customer support as SOON as they can. I get it. You want to work on the high-level strategy. But… make a habit of scanning your support tickets. If you’re smart about interpreting those requests and tracing them back to find product insights or marketing hacks, you’ll scale faster. For my companies, I made sure Customer Support was one of our competitive advantages and we have since been recognized as having some of the best support in the industry. Want to know what we did? In this video, I’ll walk you through our strategies to turn Customer Support from a burden to a privilege. I’ll break it down into 5 key components behind my Customer Support growth-hacking strategy. Here we go: 1. Customer Outcomes2. Support Support (Yes, you read that right)3. Flow Escalation4. Measure the Metrics5. Productize the Knowledge Base One thing I LOVE about Customer Support is that it’s your opportunity to set word-of-mouth marketing alight. No matter how many ads you are running or marketing funnels you’ve built, people trust the recommendations of other people most. Word-of-mouth marketing trumps all others. Having a kickass Customer Support system means active customers are getting incredible first-hand experiences from your team… and that translates into direct recommendations. Looking back at my experience across 5 companies, I’d say the 2 things that made our support world-class were: 1. We documented and backfilled lessons learned from support, and put them into a growing knowledge base. 2. We used automation, snippets and text expanders to quickly use templatized answers to common customer issues. The result? Support demand dropped and so did response time. Tune in to the video right here to get a dose of Customer Support strategy that’ll turn dreaded tickets into welcome insights. -- Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome. + Instagram (behind the scenes): http://instagram.com/danmartell + Facebook (live trainings + Q&A): http://FB.com/DanMartell + Twitter (what I'm reading): http://twitter.com/danmartell DOWNLOAD: Customer Support Builder™ - Best Practices, Processes, and Flows to Build a World-Class Support Experience That's Less Time Consuming - https://bit.ly/2MGhuQY

Named “Top 15 Short Story Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: The story takes place in the thoughts of a 16 year old boy waiting to have his memory erased for his adoption. He thinks about going on his first date, and about being teased by others. He wonders about the family that is adopting him and having new memories implanted in him. It’s finally his turn, he has decided if he is getting his memory replaced, and he heads in to the room to tell them his decision.DISCUSSION: Wonderful story about a “hero’s journey” of death and rebirth. Brings up good questions about how our pain, as well as our joy, creates our personality. What kind of family would want a kid only on the condition of cleaning his memories? But, isn’t the goal a successful adoption, and maybe having a clean slate would make that more possible. Don’t people avoid adopting dogs with “issues?” Is there a screening process? Should a family be able to select a child who isn’t “broken?” What if a free college education is included? How much are memories worth?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: An “approved “government writer gets in trouble by the governing board for writing honest movie reviews. His run-away brother comes to his house to scan his contraband collection of books and invites him to join his rebellion by uploading an earlier edition of the book of approved words so the population can see the words that are missing from the current edition.DISCUSSION: Interesting modern twist on the typical 1984 banned books idea. In this case, the words being banned are ones that might offend, or exclude, the general population. Brings up an interesting question, if you remove words for higher levels of anger and frustration from the vocabulary, does that have the effect of pacifying the thoughts of the population. Do ideas exist without the words to express them?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: The main character is a passive University Professor with a nagging wife. For some reason he decides today will be different and he goes through the entire day saying, and doing, what he actually feels. The day goes amazingly well, with classes, with colleagues, and he decides this will start a new chapter in his life.DISCUSSION: Mixed reactions on this story. On the one hand, isn’t it his own fault for not always saying what he meant and letting people walk over him. Did this unhappiness come on slowly? He doesn’t treat his wife very well, and, perhaps, too much of his attraction is only physical. Is this just an extrovert writer telling introverts, if you just were more like me, you’d be a happier? Isn’t this all on a scale, you have to balance saying what you mean, with being respectful of others.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: The female god of a fantasy realm tells the inhabitants she is actually a graduate student researching AI in an MMORPG, and that she created them to see how they would change. However, the game developer is discontinuing the game because of the illegal gold farming being done in game for money laundering. The leader of the AI fight back by working with real in-game players to trade them in game gold for real world tools to fight back.DISCUSSION: How easy or hard is it for people to accept the concept in this story, of in-game currency having real world value, and AI that is this advanced? What would it be like to meet your god, and know that you are simply in their video game? Given “Moore’s Law” would it be better to shut down the game now, before it becomes “too smart” to ever shut down?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020! STORY SUMMARY: Explorers find a remote island of civilized cannibals. The cannibals are much more technologically advanced, already having mastered teleportation and space travel. They have a debate to try and come to terms with the cannibals. The explorers are so offended they leave, but when they do, they leave several nukes and destroy the civilized cannibals.DISCUSSION: Where do we draw the line on what animals we eat? Is all meat that we eat that didn’t agree to it an act of violence? Do you have a right to destroy those who have offensive values?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

In this episode, I have Georgiana Kovell, an international sales and performance Coach and founder of Millions of Women Strong who's worked with women around the world to transform their personal and professional lives. Initially, we were going to be talking about mindset in property and the businesses that we're in but given the change in the world I have suggested that we take a little bit of a detour and talk about strategies for getting through these difficult times. Georgiana has been the person that I've turned to when life got tough and so I think it's very appropriate that we have her here today sharing her wisdom with my community. So I hope you enjoy it.   [06.13] Opportunities: What opportunities that you're going to create for yourself right now is really going to alter your future [07:44] Fear: How the world occurs for you gives you that way of being and fear is one of those ways of being [16:36] Getting Together: There's getting into community with people that are like-minded [19:43] Proactiveness: it's still that human wellness that we have to take care of [22:05] Mindset: What is that thing that's bigger than all of this right now, that you can do to move to create forward progress for you?[24:05] Support: Support the small businesses in our community because they need us as much as possible [25:17] Gratitude: I choose to believe that from everything that is difficult something much better comes from it [27:22] Positivity: I'm starting my day on a positive note and I'm ending my day in the positive Did this episode inspire you? If you have any thoughts or comments about the show, head over to She Renovates iTunes, and leave us a review. Also, don’t forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast.   Connect with The School of Renovating: Tune in to the She Renovates Podcast https://www.theschoolofrenovating.com/podcast/ Follow Me on Twitter https://twitter.com/renovatingsc Follow Me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_school_of_renovating/ Follow Me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadette-janson-3411652b/

STORY SUMMARY: In the distant future where all teaching is done by robots, a robot is given a special chance. If it can teach a little girl that is showing early warnings of becoming a killer when she grows up, it can be retired to the robot equivalent of heaven. If it fails, it will be decommissioned. The robot has access to all teaching methodologies and determines the only way to change the girls behavior is to give her the most extremes examples of her killing ideas, so as to offend even the little girl’s morals. After several attempts it doesn’t appear to be working, until an actual killer breaks into her house and nearly kills her own mother.DISCUSSION: Assuming the “go so extreme it offends everyone teaching technique really works, should it be used? Should you expose budding killers to crimes so horrible it offends even them? Are there some teaching techniques that are off limits, even if they actually work. Is it okay to fail at teaching someone to break a thought process, knowing that failure will cause them to go to jail, or hurt others?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: A white-hat hacker is hired b a Presidential campaign to make sure there information is secure. She gets a call that the system has been hacked. When she investigates she finds it wasn’t a usual hacker in the basement, but someone highly funded, maybe another nation-state. She also finds some odd code. She takes it to a friend and, between the two of them, they determine it’s an AI program that has been feeding the candidate all the optimal opinions and policy to get elected. The hacker tries to tell others, but is set up and arrested with a deep fake, before she can get the information out.DISCUSSION: This seems not that impossible. This is just a small step down the rode of AI and machine learning. But is that bad? Don’t you want doctors, actors, or judges to act in an optimal way? Or, is that impossible, because the parameters put into the AI are always based on the coders bias. Isn’t it the job of a politician to do what is a bit beyond what public opinion supports, but is good for the public? One thing is clear, this story was written by a person who really is a computer hacker of some sort, it gets so much right.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Cruel and Unusual the Podcast Episode 2: TRUST ALL YOUR GUTS Tori and Cady are back at it again, this week discussing mysterious disappearances. Tori talks about recent news headline Lori Vallow and the strange disappearance of her children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. Cady takes us allllll the way back to 1938 with the disappearance of 4 year old Marjorie West who seemingly up and vanished while at a Mother's Day picnic with her family. Sources: 1.  Idaho State Journal 2. Dateline Episode "Where Are The Children?" 3. The Charley Project 4. The Girl Who Went Missing Forever YouTube Video 5. Idea Pod Ways to Support: Support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Support the Charley Project Missing Posters: Tylee Ryan Joshua "JJ" Vallow Visit Cruel Ink Media's Website "LIKE" The Cruel and Unusual Podcast Page on Facebook Join the Cruel and Unusual Podcast Facebook Group Follow the POD on Instagram Follow Tori on Instagram Follow Cady on Instagram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cruel-and-unusual-podcast/support

STORY SUMMARY: Ex-military guy has his car break down and wanders into a remote village. A person is tied to a tree about to be stone. The village elder says under the tradition of the community, if there is a stranger in town, they can cast the first stone. The person on the tree was fairly tried and convicted under their laws, but he won’t tell him the crime committed. He does throw the first stone and kills the man instantly.DISCUSSION: This was a really tough one for the group. On the one hand, we pay taxes and contribute to a justice system that punishes people, but we don’t know what each of them did. How do you know what this person did is worthy of death? How do you know if the justice system in this community is actually just? Does it matter if you are visiting the community, don’t you agree to abide by their laws? Would you need to know more? What if you aren’t allowed to? What if you change the scenario and they torture him until a foreigner can come to town to finish him off? What if your life is on the line if you refuse? Loads of spin offs that make this a really interesting question about cultural morality.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: A group of people are sent by the Kingdom through shifting deserts to find a rumored people that have rainbow skin. As they get closer they see people in the desert turned to stone, and others nearly stone simply repeating the same task over and over again. One of them is injured and they get to the rainbow people in need of medical attention. They learn that anyone who lives in the community will slowly turn to stone unless the community deems them of value and allows them to take place in a ritual. One member of the group does the ritual and joins the community, one refuses and turns to stone, and one goes back home to tell the tale.DISCUSSION: Fascinating story about how a society places value on certain kinds of work. Is certain work more valuable then other work? Must you work and contribute to society to be of value? What if you just don’t want to work, are you a bad person? Also, their are faith discussions in the story. The one person opted to turn to stone rather than join a group with another faith. Does this mean she isn’t value because she is faithful to her truth?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: The main character heads into the military supervisors office. It seems two soldiers have been captured terrorists who are threatening to kill them both unless the US Government tells them before the deadline which to kill, and which to go free. One is a woman, and the other is gay. They want the government to make a Sophie’s Choice, so to speak. The government decides to do neither and launch a rescue operation that fails. Both are killed. The story ends with the original solider who started the story locking himself in his room and killing himself. It turns out he was in a relationship with the woman and she was pregnant with his child.DISCUSSION: Story is built around a Hobson’s choice. A choice whereby both option are terrible, and you must pick one, or both will happen. It’s interesting in that it makes us decide how we value different people. If they are both in the military, then make the government should not pick, so as not to encourage terrorists to kidnap others. Being in the military, you should know you may have to die for the country. Otherwise, maybe all people are of equal value. Maybe children are worth more? It is fair that he didn’t tell his superior officer about the pregnancy? This is part of the machismo culture whereby men aren’t allowed to feel things, and talk about how things affect them. In real life, of course, he would immediately have been removed from the situation.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: Three outcast witches are sent to San Francisco in the 1960’s to redeem themselves by causing corruption. They find drug addict street musician and his girlfriend and promise him riches and success if he kills and does as they advise. He does, and becomes a music sensation. Eventually, his girlfriend leaves him. He is finally brought down after his conversion is complete. The witches decide to stay and enjoy Woodstock.DISCUSSION: This is a variation on Macbeth. The witches don’t seem to ever do anything, but simply to encourage him to do things we wanted to do anyway. He is so quit to turn. But maybe it’s not hard to find a degenerate drug addict musician? Was he always evil, and now he just had the chance to act on it? It seems he has a hole that he can’t fill regardless of how famous or rich. Really, he needs to focus on liking himself.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: A well dressed, older, black man is walking to work in a University town when he sees a college age white girl sitting on the curb crying. He decides to sit with her, and comfort her. As others walk by we are made aware of the daily micro-aggression of racism he must put up with every moment of his life. And yet, it’s clear he is able to shrug these aggression off and live a wonderful life without anger. In the end, we find out the girl just found out her father has died. She wonders if the man is the angel of her father come to comfort her one last time.DISCUSSION: Super interesting story showing the cumulative effect of racism and how it pervades so many decisions. It’s a bit sad that the only way to create a caring black character is to get enough of their backstory to be sure they don’t have shady motives, while a white person wouldn’t have to prove their motives. The main character is just a man, but might as well be an angel he both makes us aware of the hundreds of decisions he has to make every day taking racism into account, while still not being hateful and trying to help others. Just a wonderful story about the way racism pervades every moment of life and decision-making.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: Children’s story that starts with a bunch of old tattered stuffed animals being found in a trunk by a woman. She can talk to the stuffed animals and says she will fix them back up. At first, the requests are simple, fix a torn ear… but later, the stuffed animals ask for more changes. The unicorn wants its horn removed. The panda wants to be less fat. The zebra wants its stripes removed. The final character, Sad Bear, who is always sad because he has a frown sewn on, is offered the chance to have his frown removed. He declines the offer to fix his sadness, because, he says, it is who is is, and he is okay with who he is.DISCUSSION: The is a story about what we change, and how we accept others, and ourselves, as we are. What is an acceptable change? Fixing vision and teeth are fine, of course, but what about taking anti-depressants or body augmentation? Can we be accepting of others when the choose to make changes that we think are silly, or superficial? When it is okay to be clinically depressed, and simply accept that as who you are, or does it have to be fixed?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: The story takes place around a Senator who has proposed a bill that would require mandatory service for kids. He got the idea from the Nazi party, but means well in that it will get kids outside and teach them the value of volunteering. The bill goes over very badly and he now faces a formal censure from the Senate. He compromise is made and quietly withdraws the bill, in support of a supporting additions to the proposed annual budget.DISCUSSION: Story does a good job of showing all the good things that came from sources that don’t live up to modern standards of morality. Does that mean we toss those ideas out, or those people out of our history books? Perhaps we simply teach a more complete version of history where people are not idealized. Even when we tell our history and role models to children, the explanations should be more complete. Can a good person have a good idea? Is a person all one thing, or all another? Singers and comedy people may be horrible people in real life, but does that make the art of lower quality?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: In a distant land, their is a child to an alien race who is set aside as special. He is fed whatever he wants, and gets all that his heart desires, but he can never leave his bedroom. People come to visit him, and thank him. He gets fatter as he gets older, eventually unable to leave his room, or even move around. When a famine comes to the community it is revealed to him why he has been allowed to get so fat, he (and a few others) are meant to be food for the rest of the community during times of famine.DISCUSSION: Interesting story about culture and utilitarianism and what it means to be a hero. Is the kid a hero for helping the community when he had no idea that he was going to be sacrificed to save them? Is his mother evil for not telling him and giving him a choice? What about all the friends and relatives who never said a word? Do we have the right to judge another culture and the ways they deal with famine? Are the ethics of this made worse if the community isn’t actively researching ways to make this type of killing no longer necessary?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: The narrator goes to his friend’s house. She has invited him there because she wants to take a new street drug. But this drug is special, if you take it once, the effect lasts forever. It’s supposed effect is it allows you to see the true nature of the world. Her husband has already taken it, and he is very different, referring to the objects around him as only the “the form of the thing.” The friend takes the pill and, while she is waiting for it to take hold, the narrator realizes there are two pills left on the table.DISCUSSION: The story is clearly a rift on the allegory of the cave. The drug, in some ways, mirrors the loss of self that people talk about when taking Psilocybin. There are a few issues. First, is the drug even what it says it is? Next, if it is, how will it effect you and your ability to work and take care of yourself. And finally, assuming all that’s true, do you even want to know the truth about the world and that you’ve been living a lie your whole life? Is the nature of life truth, or happiness? Some of the people can’t take the truth and ending up killing themselves.BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

STORY SUMMARY: Sometimes in the future, the President gives a speech to a group of wealthy donors. In this future, time is the only currency and, if you have enough of it, you can live forever. The focus of the President’s speech is about in opposition to the new labor laws that want to pay a higher minimum time wage. The President argues, it will encourage laziness, and is anti-capitalistic. That the hard working rich, deserve to live forever, and pass their accumulated years on to their children to do the same.DISCUSSION: It’s an interesting concept, but not developed enough. For example, when someone does die, how do you decide who gets to have a the next kid in the world. It is a good story in that is brings up questions of economic inequality in a way that makes it more offensive. Also brings up an interesting question of if people did have to work only a little, to get paid a lot of time, would people become lazy? Are people inherently lazy?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

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STORY SUMMARY: The male narrator calls a friend who is locked her bathroom while her abusive ex-boyfriend pounds on the door outside. The narrator comes over and looks after his friend for a few days. However, he insists that she block the ex-boyfriends phone number or he will stop helping her. She refuses, and the stop talking.DISCUSSION: Is the narrator a good person? He helps her, but he also has other motivations. There is a physical attraction. By putting conditions on his help, is he just asking his friend to exchange one controlling relationship for another? Is the narrator any better than the abusive ex-boyfriend?BOOK LINK: Download the accompanying short story here.NEWSLETTER: Receive periodic emails with links to free ethical short stories by signing up for our newsletter.SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon.

Todd and Mike are back on Podcast Insider this week discussing events, money and legal issues in podcasting and more. They're also sharing their tips for sharing your podcast - they suggest sticking to your website. Big thanks to MacKenzie for joining Mike on the episode last week; it was good to hear her back 'on the air.' She'll be back soon and has an interview or too lined up. Mid episode tune in for Dr. Justin Trosclair discussing his show and podcasting experience. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dr. Justin Trosclair D.C (Truss-Clare) - A Doctor’s Perspective News: Sword and Scale in the news again: Sent a cease and desist letter for an article claiming they're somehow involved in 1 Star Reviews on Apple Podcasts Podcast company funding blunders: Did Himalaya really get $100 million in VC funding? Tom Webster from Edison Research: Three Ways To Survive Podcasting’s Existential Crisis Best Practices: Sharing on social media, etc.: What to share? Your website! Recently Facebook has been removing direct links to episodes on Apple Podcasts for “against community guidelines." We're not entirely sure they're still doing that. Sharing anything other than a link to your post on a site you own (or at least control) is the only thing you should share for your episode. Blubrry News: Dragon Con: Todd was there in Atlanta for his first con! Todd will be at Mid Atlantic Podcast Conference (MAPCON) this weekend. Todd will also be at Outlier Podcast Festival in LA the 13th and 14th. Support: Support vs. Consulting: We do not consider web design tips to be part of the support team's speciality Feed traffic: This is a good problem to have because of your audience BUT… HostGator and WP Engine are very picky about feed traffic. We have a solution for that and it's free! -- PodcastMirror.com Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

Todd and Mike are back on Podcast Insider this week discussing events, money and legal issues in podcasting and more. They're also sharing their tips for sharing your podcast - they suggest sticking to your website. Big thanks to MacKenzie for joining Mike on the episode last week; it was good to hear her back 'on the air.' She'll be back soon and has an interview or too lined up. Mid episode tune in for Dr. Justin Trosclair discussing his show and podcasting experience. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dr. Justin Trosclair D.C (Truss-Clare) - A Doctor’s Perspective News: Sword and Scale in the news again: Sent a cease and desist letter for an article claiming they're somehow involved in 1 Star Reviews on Apple Podcasts Podcast company funding blunders: Did Himalaya really get $100 million in VC funding? Tom Webster from Edison Research: Three Ways To Survive Podcasting’s Existential Crisis Best Practices: Sharing on social media, etc.: What to share? Your website! Recently Facebook has been removing direct links to episodes on Apple Podcasts for “against community guidelines." We're not entirely sure they're still doing that. Sharing anything other than a link to your post on a site you own (or at least control) is the only thing you should share for your episode. Blubrry News: Dragon Con: Todd was there in Atlanta for his first con! Todd will be at Mid Atlantic Podcast Conference (MAPCON) this weekend. Todd will also be at Outlier Podcast Festival in LA the 13th and 14th. Support: Support vs. Consulting: We do not consider web design tips to be part of the support team's speciality Feed traffic: This is a good problem to have because of your audience BUT… HostGator and WP Engine are very picky about feed traffic. We have a solution for that and it's free! -- PodcastMirror.com Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

Todd and Mike are back on Podcast Insider this week discussing events, money and legal issues in podcasting and more. They're also sharing their tips for sharing your podcast - they suggest sticking to your website. Big thanks to MacKenzie for joining Mike on the episode last week; it was good to hear her back 'on the air.' She'll be back soon and has an interview or too lined up. Mid episode tune in for Dr. Justin Trosclair discussing his show and podcasting experience. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dr. Justin Trosclair D.C (Truss-Clare) - A Doctor’s Perspective News: Sword and Scale in the news again: Sent a cease and desist letter for an article claiming they're somehow involved in 1 Star Reviews on Apple Podcasts Podcast company funding blunders: Did Himalaya really get $100 million in VC funding? Tom Webster from Edison Research: Three Ways To Survive Podcasting’s Existential Crisis Best Practices: Sharing on social media, etc.: What to share? Your website! Recently Facebook has been removing direct links to episodes on Apple Podcasts for “against community guidelines." We're not entirely sure they're still doing that. Sharing anything other than a link to your post on a site you own (or at least control) is the only thing you should share for your episode. Blubrry News: Dragon Con: Todd was there in Atlanta for his first con! Todd will be at Mid Atlantic Podcast Conference (MAPCON) this weekend. Todd will also be at Outlier Podcast Festival in LA the 13th and 14th. Support: Support vs. Consulting: We do not consider web design tips to be part of the support team's speciality Feed traffic: This is a good problem to have because of your audience BUT… HostGator and WP Engine are very picky about feed traffic. We have a solution for that and it's free! -- PodcastMirror.com Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

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