01:00 A Less Religious America Is a More Polarized America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=150846
03:00 Here’s What The Left-Wing Doesn’t Understand About Race Relations
05:00 Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=150319
10:00 Why are Americans so mean? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/
15:00 Dennis and Julie on LA’s tropical storm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaIuYOeogJw
48:30 Noam Chomsky: Lover of linguistics, the USA… not so much, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/noam-chomsky
1:08:30 British TV presenter Phillip Schofield shamed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Schofield
1:12:00 Philosopher Agnes Callard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Callard
1:21:30 Four Hundred Years of Quarantine, https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/four-hundred-years-of-quarantine
1:23:00 Geoffrey Miller, psychologist and polyamory practicioner, https://twitter.com/primalpoly
1:23:30 Geoffrey Miller’s wife, psychologist Diana S. Fleischman, https://twitter.com/sentientist
1:56:00 Column: COVID lockdowns saved millions of lives — so of course Ron DeSantis is angry about them, https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-08-29/no-gov-desantis-covid-lockdowns-saved-lives-and-your-policies-did-the-opposite
2:00:00 Was Closing Schools an Obvious and Colossal Mistake?, https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/was-closing-schools-a-mistake/
2:05:00 Ibram X. Kendi: Inside you are two wolves. One of them is racist., https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/ibram-x-kendi-inside-you-are-two-wolves-one-of-them-is-racist
2:08:00 Ricardo joins to talk about getting hired after flaming out of the corporate world
2:09:00 Ricardo’s Adderall addiction destroyed his life
2:11:00 Road to recovery: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130767
2:14:00 Ideas that give me energy: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130933
2:17:00 Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136247
2:20:00 With or without you, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133894
2:25:00 I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133768
2:35:00 Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132822
2:38:00 Bypass your self-destructive tendencies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132737
2:45:00 A life that works https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130933
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