April 15, 2023
S6 E1: 100 Seconds to Midnight: 2nd Podversary: The Great Dilemma
The Great Dilemma Show Notes: This is my second podversary. I’ve been in your ears and, hopefully, in your head for two years now, and I thought it important that you know about the things that go into each subject I talk about, whether it be an...
The Great Dilemma Show Notes: This is my second podversary. I’ve been in your ears and, hopefully, in your head for two years now, and I thought it important that you know about the things that go into each subject I talk about, whether it be an infectious disease that has the potential to kill millions if unleashed upon the population or a global crisis that looms over us. Every episode I struggle with questions. I research each topic carefully and I try to find solutions. This is something that I call the Great Dilemma. The questions, the answers and the solutions don’t come easy. I study them from several angles and sometimes, I don’t like the results. It’s 90 seconds to midnight and the questions that sometimes have no answers or don’t lead to solutions keep me up at night. Contact me at the website: www.causeofdeath100secs.net Check it out, leave a review, leave me a voicemail or an email. Look at the blog posts. Join my mailing list. There are so many ways to interact with me on that site that there’s no excuse not to! I also have a dedicated email for Cause of Death, you can reach me at jackie@causeofdeath100secs.net. Link Tree: https://www.linktr.ee.com/CauseofDeathpod There wasn’t any research for this episode, but it does refer to prior episodes. If you haven’t gone back, this would be a good time to do that. S1 E1: The Throwaway People: The Story of the AIDS Pandemic S3 E7: 100 Seconds to Midnight: Drip, Drip, Drip S3 E10: 100 Seconds to Midnight: Revisiting the HIV Pandemic and the Throwaway People S4 E1: 100 Seconds to Midnight: The History of the Doomsday Clock S4 E6: 100 Seconds to Midnight: Global Homelessness S5 E6: It’s 90 Seconds to Midnight and We Need to Talk There are several episodes mentioned that haven’t come out yet, too, so be watching for those! Darkcast Network – Promo by Yours Truly Support my sponsors! It ensures that Sweet Pea can eat! This month’s sponsors are FITAID and Codex. FITAID is a natural energy drink that contains several vitamins and minerals, but no artificial sweeteners. I’ve been drinking it after lunch when I need a little push to get me through the rest of my day at work. You can find FITAID products at https://www.drinkfitaid.com/causeofdeath for 40% off your first order! I’m really excited to discover Codex. I’m not very good to my skin, and as I age, it’s starting to show. Codex has really helped my skin repair from the damage that I’ve done to it over the years. You can find the Codex products here: https://www.codexlabscorp.com/ Use promo code: CauseofDeath20 for 20% off your first order. The True Crime and Paranormal Podcast Festival is coming up from August 25th to the 27th in Austin, Texas and I’ll be there representing another podcast that I’m heavily involved with. Stop by the True Consequences booth and meet Eric Carter-Landin and I! Get your tickets to the True Crime and Paranormal Podcast Festival at https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.com Use promo code: Consequences for 15% off your ticket Podcast Promos: Horrifying History Rogue Darkness Music: Time Off by Damma Beatz You can reach me on: Instagram @causeofdeathpodcast FB: @CauseofDeath Twitter: @CauseofDeath10 TikTok: @causeofdeath100secs Please don’t forget to rate and review on any of the platforms found here: Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podchaser:
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I'm your host, Jackie Moranti. In
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every episode, I struggle with questions. I research topics carefully, and I
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try to find solutions. This is
something that I call the great dilemma.
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The questions, the answers, and
the solutions. They don't come easy.
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I study them from several angles,
and sometimes I don't like the results.
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It's ninety seconds to midnight, and
the questions that sometimes have no answers or
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don't lead to any solutions at all
keep me up at night. How do
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unicorns give birth? This is my
second podversary. I've been in your ears
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and hopefully in your head for two
years now, and I thought it important
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that you know about the things that
go into each subject. I talk about
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whether it be an infectious disease that
has the potential to kill millions, if
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unleashed on the population or a global
crisis that looms over us. I'm not
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creative enough to come up with a
title for the way that I think on
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my own. The Great Dilemma has
its background in the Catholic Church. The
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down and dirty definition is saving an
individual member of a community as opposed to
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saving a whole community, the good
of the many as opposed to the good
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of the few. Now I'm not
Catholic. I'm not even particularly religious.
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I like Easter. That is about
as close to organized religion as I get.
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But the idea of the Great Dilemma
in Catholicism does reflect the Great dilemma
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that I have when I explore the
questions for each episode. Bear with me
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while I explain. I do have
a point, I promise. The abbreviated
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version of the Great Dilemma in the
Catholic Church began before there was a Catholic
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Church. Jesus showed love towards his
disciples, even though these guys were severely
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flawed. They fought, they were
stubborn, they were boastful, cowardly,
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and they didn't really accept his goals. He tolerated these boneheads even when they
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failed him. In his hour of
need. Now fast forward a generation,
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the Church finds a way to kick
out the troublemakers. The New Testament talks
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about excommunication. The offender is confronted
by one witness, then several, and
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finally the church itself runs the mount
of town on a rail. Jesus believed
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that you should forgive someone seventy times
seven times before letting them go. The
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Catholic Church got it down to three
strikes and you're out the dilemma, and
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the church continued throughout the ages.
Eventually they began to judge people for capital
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crimes, even giving the sentence of
execution. Murder, counterfeiting, attacks on
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the crown, betraying the nation,
and heresy were the major crimes of the
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time. Then there came other religions. As other denominations came on board,
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the church fragmented and its seeing that
the Catholic Church faced a new challenge.
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Jesus's prayer at the Last Supper wouldn't
ever come to fruition. May they all
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be one as we are one,
John seventeen twenty one. In the case
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of the Catholic Church, the dilemma
was how do they love unconditionally without accepting
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people who threaten the survival of the
church. So what does this have to
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do with the price of shade?
And an apple orchard is running a five
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case some kind of rap thing.
Each subject that I talk about each episode,
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each thought is something that's very important
to me. There are so many
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subjects, so many episodes, and
so many thoughts that I've had to make
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a list, and that list grows
day by day with more questions, more
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answers, more research, and more
episodes. Jesus surrounded himself with people who
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were considered savory, sex workers,
tax collectors, murderers, people who would
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later be excommunicated from the church for
their crimes if they weren't just sentenced to
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death by the church. The church
has also turned away people who are different
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different cultures, ethnic backgrounds, income
statuses, political affiliations, sexual orientations,
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and religions. Most churches have become
homogeneous in the people that they choose to
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welcome into their church. They want
people who are like them. They like
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people who shop at the same stores, make the same amount of money,
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speak the same language, marry the
same kind of people, and live in
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the same ping houses. Truthfully,
most people are like that. Breaking out
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of their own surroundings. Those comfortable
talks about the same things is scary.
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It forces us to open our minds
and realize that, whether we like it
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or not, other people with different
ideas and ways of thinking do exist in
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our world. And this brings us
to the thoughts that I have when I'm
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making episodes. Our platypus is made
of spare parts. What is the plural
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of platypus? Wait? I know
that it's platypuses or platypodes. When I
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was working on my very first episode
on the HIV AIDS pandemic, I had
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to put myself in the place of
a generation of people who lived through that
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pandemic and saw the destruction firsthand.
That was hard. During that pandemic,
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I was about as far removed from
the LGBTQ community as I could be.
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I was a straight kid living on
a ranch in rural Colorado. Honestly,
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I didn't even know what AIDS was. No one told me anything about it.
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I didn't begin to understand until my
uncle died of AIDS and my mother
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tried to explain it to me.
I still didn't understand. Of course,
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she didn't explain it well because she
didn't understand it either. But to me,
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it didn't matter how my uncle Clarence
died. All that mattered was that
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I loved him. My uncle Clarence
was a gay man who lived in California
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in the eighties. You'd think that
would be the best place to be,
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right, California was fairly accepting of
the LGBTQ culture. You would be absolutely
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wrong. My uncle lived in Huntington
Beach, not San Francisco, and he
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taught grade school. He would have
been run out on a rail, never
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worked in schools again, and probably
would have been branded as a pedophile if
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he had come out. While I
was writing that episode, I thought about
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my uncle Clarence a lot. I
didn't begin to understand what he fast until
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I was much older, and I
didn't begin to truly understand how he died
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until I started working in the labs. When I did the first episode on
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the HIV AIDS pandemic, I didn't
understand anything more than the mechanism of disease.
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I tried to think about it from
every angle, every side, but
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all I saw was the unfairness and
the suffering. Let's fast forward to my
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first podversary. That was my second
episode on the HIV AIDS pandemic, I
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brought in three men who were gay
and lived through that pandemic. I mostly
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just sat by and let them tell
their stories, and that conversation was a
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real eye opener. It answered a
lot of those questions that I had asked
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over and over, and it helped
me to know the actual struggles of the
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people who were there. How do
dragons blow out cantles? In some of
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my earlier episodes, I spoke a
little bit about universal healthcare. I know
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that we need it. Healthcare debt
is one of the leading causes of homelessness
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in the US. People die because
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Hospitals can turn people away if they
don't have insurance, and insurance doesn't cover
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everything. I can't come up with
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how many angles I come at it
from. I think about federal funding,
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state funding, taxes an oversight.
I think about whether this would be fair
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for everyone, or if the rich
would still buy better healthcare, they may
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still get better healthcare than the poor. Then my mind goes to preferential healthcare.
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We saw this during the height of
the COVID pandemic, there weren't enough
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ventilators to go around, so medical
professionals had to choose who got one and
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who would die. Say there was
one person in their sixties who never drank,
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smoked, or used drugs and seemed
very healthy otherwise, then say there
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was a twenty year old who had
a history of drug abuse, alcohol abuse,
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and led some kind of high risk
lifestyle. Who would get the vent
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Was it the one with the most
money, the one who was older but
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healthier, or the younger one who
has longer to live and be productive in
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society. When the same thing happens
in the future, who should get the
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seen by a doctor? And who should
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oranges are orange? One of my
favorite episodes is the Global Water Crisis.
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In that episode, I talk about
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and thus running out of food.
I talked about Sudan, Africa, and
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Mexico, and when I got to
the States, I talked about the water
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crisis on the Navajo Reservation in New
Mexico, and I talked about Flint,
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Michigan. My daughter got so mad
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show. She said to me,
you didn't find a solution. You didn't
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tell us how to stop it.
You always tell us how to stop it.
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Well, in that case, I
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no solutions for any of the places
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too late. We can only conserve
the water that we have in places where
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water still exists, and to do
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and conserve the water that we have. And that's a challenge that was my
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favorite episode because it demonstrated that there
is not always more. At some point
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we are going to run out of
resources. We need to turn things around
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before like the Navajo Nation or Flint, Michigan, it's too late. If
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handcuffs are used on ankles, are
they still considered handcuffs? I also did
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an episode on global homelessness. I'm
not done with that topic, by the
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way, that was just the beginning. In that episode, I gave a
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brief introduction to the causes of homelessness. I thought about those causes and I
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started coming at each one from every
angle. How do we stop domestic violence?
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How do we keep kids from getting
kicked out of their homes because they
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come out as gay. How do
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How do we deal with drug addiction? Who should bear the economic burden of
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caring for the homeless? Is it
worth it to do anything? What effect
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does homelessness have on society and what
effect does it have on communities. There
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is a couple in Arizona who own
a sandwich shop. They've owned that shop
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for decades and it's a very popular
place to eat, or at least it
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was about a year ago. One
of the largest homeless camps in Arizona formed
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across the street from their shop.
These people are older and this little restaurant
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was supposed to be their retirement nest
egg, but now they can't sell out
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and get what they put into it. The price of real estate in the
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area has plummeted because of the homeless
camp across the street. No one will
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even buy the shop because of the
trouble that surrounds the camp. People vandalize
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the shop at night and they fight
outside during the day when customers are in
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the store. They ask people for
money or food, and they break windows.
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The owner of the shop told a
story about how one of the dumpsters
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was lit on fire one night and
when the fire department came to put it
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out, they found a baby in
the dumpster that couldn't have been more than
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a week old. The child was
dead. So what can and should be
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done about homelessness? If we house
these people, should they be obligated to
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receive mental and physical care, should
they be forced to receive drug treatment,
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should they get a job, go
to school? And who should be responsible
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for overseeing all of that? How
can you tell when it's time to tune
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your bagpipe. Many states now have
legalized marijuana, and now legalization is being
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voted on federally. But is it
really a good thing? And how far
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should we go? Should we legalize
everything in tax it? Would the government
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make more money that way? Where
would these taxes go if we legalized all
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drugs? What would it mean for
crime? Would the cartels just stop doing
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business or would they focus more on
running guns and human trafficking? Should we
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legalize fentanyl, spice, bathsots,
and trank And where would these things be
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manufactured? Would a reputable pharmaceutical company
take this on It's doubtful because they would
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be responsible for overdoses. Every time
someone died of an overdose, they would
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soothe that pharma. And who would
to oversee the manufacturing? Currently the marijuana
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industry is in the hands of the
Department of Agriculture. The oversight for other
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drugs would have to fall with the
FDA or the DA. But would they
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be able to shift gears and create
protocol and audit that kind of trade?
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Would that ever become an honest trade? What would it mean for our already
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severely inadequate mental healthcare system? Would
the murder rate rise or fall? What
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about car accidents. What kind of
economic burden would it create, especially in
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the healthcare system. And the one
thing that I always come back to is
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the drug trade a victimless crime.
I argue that it's not, and legalization
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would only exacerbate the problems. What
happened to Old Zealand. I haven't broached
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economic disparity yet, but that's one
that is on the top of my list
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right now. In America, people
are having to choose to either pay rent
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or eat. Wages are so disproportionately
low that it comes down to that people
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live without heat, ac or water, and these are basic necessities. So
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what can be done? Do we
force people who are better off to pay
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higher wages? Do we force them
to pay higher taxes? Should we?
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They're not going to do anything voluntarily. They don't even see the suffering of
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the lower classes. Now, let's
widen that circle. Is fair trade really
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fair? Yes, there are children
working on coffee plantations in South America for
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ten cents a day, But what
if those children didn't have those tents ends?
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Do their families depend on that?
If we took those ten cents away,
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would they try to find another way
to make ten cents? Would they
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go mule drugs for the cartels instead? Would they run guns? Would they
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become sex workers? Is that ten
cents? The difference between whether they eat
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or not? Roll that around in
your head for a little while. Child
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labor and cheap labor is a problem, and it creates more problems. But
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would those problems be tenfold if they
didn't have those jobs? Do fish get
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thirsty? This is the first episode
of season six. This entire season,
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I'll be talking about environmental conservation,
and mostly I'll be talking about wildlife.
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I've already started cranking out questions.
I'm thinking about human encroachment on wild lamp
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What does that mean for the future
of both people and animals? How does
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it affect ecosystems when there are too
many people moving into the country. What
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happens to the animals? Should they
be shot and forgotten, poisoned, trapped
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and moved? Is humanity dependent on
these ecosystems? Do we favor humanity over
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these wild lands? If one goes
down, do they both go down?
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How do we stop ruining it?
And who should be responsible for that?
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There are no easy answers. People
moved to the country and the first thing
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they want is a Walmart. Then
they want convenience stores, then industrialization.
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They want to bring all the amenities
of the city into the country. They
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want all the things that they were
trying to get away from in the place
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that they went to get away from
them. But they think we can build
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up better, we can improve the
way things are done. We can have
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a factory in a rural area and
still respect wildlife and the ecosystems. And
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if we can't, they'll find another
place to go. It never works that
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way. Do hummingbirds hum because they
don't know the words? The doomsday clock
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originated with the threat of nuclear disaster, and we're on the verge of that
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today. The cold ware never really
stopped. It just got quieter, and
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it seems as if everyone has at
least one or two nukes in a silo
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somewhere. What can be done to
stop that? Who can be trusted to
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police the elimination of nuclear missiles?
Does this mean that we should stop building
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nuclear power plants as well? How
do we stop despots from building them and
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using them? Can the leaders of
many countries come together to cease nuclear armament.
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Who will be the first to throw
the switch, push the button or
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shout the command, and will that
be done on purpose? Who will be
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the first to disarm? The Board
of Atomic Scientists have been asking these questions
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for seventy years, and they haven't
come up with great answers. If you
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pamper a cow, do you get
spoiled milk? This is how cause of
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Death one hundred seconds to Midnight was
born. I was asking these questions long
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before I started the podcast. These
are important questions, They're necessary questions.
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The answers to these questions could make
the difference between life and death of an
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ecosystem or humanity itself. I'm hoping
that this episode spurs some disc on the
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Facebook page or the Facebook group.
I want to hear your questions, your
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thoughts. Maybe together we can come
up with solutions. Maybe we'll all just
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have more questions. I feel like
there are answers and solutions out there,
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but the problems are so big and
we are all so overwhelmed by them.
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I try to make things personal on
this show. I want to make these
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topics real so you can feel them
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I want you to put yourself in
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and understand what's going on. I
also want you to know that I have
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no agenda for this podcast. I
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on you in any way. I
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that I talk about and see where
they lead you. I want you to
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think deeper than the surface and ask
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It's ninety seconds to midnight, and
the answers are getting harder and harder to
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come by. Solutions don't seem imminent, and people don't want to ask the
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hard questions to change the way that
the world is headed. But there is
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hope because at least one person is
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others to do the same. How
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I'm your host, Jackie Moranti. In
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every episode, I struggle with questions. I research topics carefully, and I
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try to find solutions. This is
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The questions, the answers, and
the solutions. They don't come easy.
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I study them from several angles,
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It's ninety seconds to midnight, and
the questions that sometimes have no answers or
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don't lead to any solutions at all
keep me up at night. How do
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unicorns give birth? This is my
second podversary. I've been in your ears
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and hopefully in your head for two
years now, and I thought it important
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that you know about the things that
go into each subject. I talk about
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whether it be an infectious disease that
has the potential to kill millions, if
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unleashed on the population or a global
crisis that looms over us. I'm not
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creative enough to come up with a
title for the way that I think on
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my own. The Great Dilemma has
its background in the Catholic Church. The
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down and dirty definition is saving an
individual member of a community as opposed to
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saving a whole community, the good
of the many as opposed to the good
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of the few. Now I'm not
Catholic. I'm not even particularly religious.
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I like Easter. That is about
as close to organized religion as I get.
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But the idea of the Great Dilemma
in Catholicism does reflect the Great dilemma
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that I have when I explore the
questions for each episode. Bear with me
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while I explain. I do have
a point, I promise. The abbreviated
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version of the Great Dilemma in the
Catholic Church began before there was a Catholic
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Church. Jesus showed love towards his
disciples, even though these guys were severely
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flawed. They fought, they were
stubborn, they were boastful, cowardly,
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and they didn't really accept his goals. He tolerated these boneheads even when they
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failed him. In his hour of
need. Now fast forward a generation,
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the Church finds a way to kick
out the troublemakers. The New Testament talks
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about excommunication. The offender is confronted
by one witness, then several, and
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finally the church itself runs the mount
of town on a rail. Jesus believed
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that you should forgive someone seventy times
seven times before letting them go. The
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Catholic Church got it down to three
strikes and you're out the dilemma, and
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the church continued throughout the ages.
Eventually they began to judge people for capital
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crimes, even giving the sentence of
execution. Murder, counterfeiting, attacks on
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the crown, betraying the nation,
and heresy were the major crimes of the
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time. Then there came other religions. As other denominations came on board,
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the church fragmented and its seeing that
the Catholic Church faced a new challenge.
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Jesus's prayer at the Last Supper wouldn't
ever come to fruition. May they all
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be one as we are one,
John seventeen twenty one. In the case
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of the Catholic Church, the dilemma
was how do they love unconditionally without accepting
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people who threaten the survival of the
church. So what does this have to
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do with the price of shade?
And an apple orchard is running a five
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case some kind of rap thing.
Each subject that I talk about each episode,
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each thought is something that's very important
to me. There are so many
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subjects, so many episodes, and
so many thoughts that I've had to make
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a list, and that list grows
day by day with more questions, more
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answers, more research, and more
episodes. Jesus surrounded himself with people who
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were considered savory, sex workers,
tax collectors, murderers, people who would
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later be excommunicated from the church for
their crimes if they weren't just sentenced to
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death by the church. The church
has also turned away people who are different
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different cultures, ethnic backgrounds, income
statuses, political affiliations, sexual orientations,
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and religions. Most churches have become
homogeneous in the people that they choose to
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welcome into their church. They want
people who are like them. They like
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people who shop at the same stores, make the same amount of money,
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speak the same language, marry the
same kind of people, and live in
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the same ping houses. Truthfully,
most people are like that. Breaking out
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of their own surroundings. Those comfortable
talks about the same things is scary.
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It forces us to open our minds
and realize that, whether we like it
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or not, other people with different
ideas and ways of thinking do exist in
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our world. And this brings us
to the thoughts that I have when I'm
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making episodes. Our platypus is made
of spare parts. What is the plural
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of platypus? Wait? I know
that it's platypuses or platypodes. When I
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was working on my very first episode
on the HIV AIDS pandemic, I had
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to put myself in the place of
a generation of people who lived through that
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pandemic and saw the destruction firsthand.
That was hard. During that pandemic,
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I was about as far removed from
the LGBTQ community as I could be.
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I was a straight kid living on
a ranch in rural Colorado. Honestly,
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I didn't even know what AIDS was. No one told me anything about it.
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I didn't begin to understand until my
uncle died of AIDS and my mother
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tried to explain it to me.
I still didn't understand. Of course,
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she didn't explain it well because she
didn't understand it either. But to me,
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it didn't matter how my uncle Clarence
died. All that mattered was that
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I loved him. My uncle Clarence
was a gay man who lived in California
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in the eighties. You'd think that
would be the best place to be,
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right, California was fairly accepting of
the LGBTQ culture. You would be absolutely
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wrong. My uncle lived in Huntington
Beach, not San Francisco, and he
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taught grade school. He would have
been run out on a rail, never
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worked in schools again, and probably
would have been branded as a pedophile if
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he had come out. While I
was writing that episode, I thought about
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my uncle Clarence a lot. I
didn't begin to understand what he fast until
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I was much older, and I
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until I started working in the labs. When I did the first episode on
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the HIV AIDS pandemic, I didn't
understand anything more than the mechanism of disease.
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I tried to think about it from
every angle, every side, but
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all I saw was the unfairness and
the suffering. Let's fast forward to my
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first podversary. That was my second
episode on the HIV AIDS pandemic, I
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brought in three men who were gay
and lived through that pandemic. I mostly
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just sat by and let them tell
their stories, and that conversation was a
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real eye opener. It answered a
lot of those questions that I had asked
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over and over, and it helped
me to know the actual struggles of the
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people who were there. How do
dragons blow out cantles? In some of
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my earlier episodes, I spoke a
little bit about universal healthcare. I know
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that we need it. Healthcare debt
is one of the leading causes of homelessness
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in the US. People die because
they can't afford to see a doctor.
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Hospitals can turn people away if they
don't have insurance, and insurance doesn't cover
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everything. I can't come up with
a good solution to this, no matter
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how many angles I come at it
from. I think about federal funding,
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state funding, taxes an oversight.
I think about whether this would be fair
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for everyone, or if the rich
would still buy better healthcare, they may
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still get better healthcare than the poor. Then my mind goes to preferential healthcare.
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We saw this during the height of
the COVID pandemic, there weren't enough
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ventilators to go around, so medical
professionals had to choose who got one and
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who would die. Say there was
one person in their sixties who never drank,
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smoked, or used drugs and seemed
very healthy otherwise, then say there
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was a twenty year old who had
a history of drug abuse, alcohol abuse,
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and led some kind of high risk
lifestyle. Who would get the vent
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Was it the one with the most
money, the one who was older but
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healthier, or the younger one who
has longer to live and be productive in
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seen by a doctor? And who should
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a protocol for that? Tough questions?
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oranges are orange? One of my
favorite episodes is the Global Water Crisis.
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In that episode, I talk about
several countries that are running out of water
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and thus running out of food.
I talked about Sudan, Africa, and
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Mexico, and when I got to
the States, I talked about the water
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crisis on the Navajo Reservation in New
Mexico, and I talked about Flint,
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Michigan. My daughter got so mad
at me that she stopped listening to my
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show. She said to me,
you didn't find a solution. You didn't
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tell us how to stop it.
You always tell us how to stop it.
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Well, in that case, I
couldn't give any solutions. There are
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no solutions for any of the places
I talked about in that episode. It's
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too late. We can only conserve
the water that we have in places where
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water still exists, and to do
that, we all need to be aware
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and conserve the water that we have. And that's a challenge that was my
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favorite episode because it demonstrated that there
is not always more. At some point
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we are going to run out of
resources. We need to turn things around
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before like the Navajo Nation or Flint, Michigan, it's too late. If
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handcuffs are used on ankles, are
they still considered handcuffs? I also did
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an episode on global homelessness. I'm
not done with that topic, by the
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way, that was just the beginning. In that episode, I gave a
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brief introduction to the causes of homelessness. I thought about those causes and I
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started coming at each one from every
angle. How do we stop domestic violence?
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How do we keep kids from getting
kicked out of their homes because they
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come out as gay. How do
we deal with the mental health crisis?
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How do we deal with drug addiction? Who should bear the economic burden of
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caring for the homeless? Is it
worth it to do anything? What effect
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does homelessness have on society and what
effect does it have on communities. There
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is a couple in Arizona who own
a sandwich shop. They've owned that shop
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for decades and it's a very popular
place to eat, or at least it
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was about a year ago. One
of the largest homeless camps in Arizona formed
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across the street from their shop.
These people are older and this little restaurant
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was supposed to be their retirement nest
egg, but now they can't sell out
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and get what they put into it. The price of real estate in the
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area has plummeted because of the homeless
camp across the street. No one will
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even buy the shop because of the
trouble that surrounds the camp. People vandalize
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the shop at night and they fight
outside during the day when customers are in
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the store. They ask people for
money or food, and they break windows.
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The owner of the shop told a
story about how one of the dumpsters
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was lit on fire one night and
when the fire department came to put it
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out, they found a baby in
the dumpster that couldn't have been more than
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a week old. The child was
dead. So what can and should be
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done about homelessness? If we house
these people, should they be obligated to
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receive mental and physical care, should
they be forced to receive drug treatment,
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should they get a job, go
to school? And who should be responsible
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for overseeing all of that? How
can you tell when it's time to tune
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your bagpipe. Many states now have
legalized marijuana, and now legalization is being
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voted on federally. But is it
really a good thing? And how far
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should we go? Should we legalize
everything in tax it? Would the government
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make more money that way? Where
would these taxes go if we legalized all
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drugs? What would it mean for
crime? Would the cartels just stop doing
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business or would they focus more on
running guns and human trafficking? Should we
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legalize fentanyl, spice, bathsots,
and trank And where would these things be
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manufactured? Would a reputable pharmaceutical company
take this on It's doubtful because they would
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be responsible for overdoses. Every time
someone died of an overdose, they would
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soothe that pharma. And who would
to oversee the manufacturing? Currently the marijuana
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industry is in the hands of the
Department of Agriculture. The oversight for other
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drugs would have to fall with the
FDA or the DA. But would they
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be able to shift gears and create
protocol and audit that kind of trade?
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Would that ever become an honest trade? What would it mean for our already
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severely inadequate mental healthcare system? Would
the murder rate rise or fall? What
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about car accidents. What kind of
economic burden would it create, especially in
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the healthcare system. And the one
thing that I always come back to is
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the drug trade a victimless crime.
I argue that it's not, and legalization
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would only exacerbate the problems. What
happened to Old Zealand. I haven't broached
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economic disparity yet, but that's one
that is on the top of my list
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right now. In America, people
are having to choose to either pay rent
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or eat. Wages are so disproportionately
low that it comes down to that people
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live without heat, ac or water, and these are basic necessities. So
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what can be done? Do we
force people who are better off to pay
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higher wages? Do we force them
to pay higher taxes? Should we?
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They're not going to do anything voluntarily. They don't even see the suffering of
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the lower classes. Now, let's
widen that circle. Is fair trade really
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fair? Yes, there are children
working on coffee plantations in South America for
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ten cents a day, But what
if those children didn't have those tents ends?
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Do their families depend on that?
If we took those ten cents away,
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would they try to find another way
to make ten cents? Would they
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go mule drugs for the cartels instead? Would they run guns? Would they
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become sex workers? Is that ten
cents? The difference between whether they eat
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or not? Roll that around in
your head for a little while. Child
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labor and cheap labor is a problem, and it creates more problems. But
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would those problems be tenfold if they
didn't have those jobs? Do fish get
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thirsty? This is the first episode
of season six. This entire season,
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I'll be talking about environmental conservation,
and mostly I'll be talking about wildlife.
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I've already started cranking out questions.
I'm thinking about human encroachment on wild lamp
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What does that mean for the future
of both people and animals? How does
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it affect ecosystems when there are too
many people moving into the country. What
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happens to the animals? Should they
be shot and forgotten, poisoned, trapped
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and moved? Is humanity dependent on
these ecosystems? Do we favor humanity over
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these wild lands? If one goes
down, do they both go down?
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How do we stop ruining it?
And who should be responsible for that?
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There are no easy answers. People
moved to the country and the first thing
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they want is a Walmart. Then
they want convenience stores, then industrialization.
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They want to bring all the amenities
of the city into the country. They
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want all the things that they were
trying to get away from in the place
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that they went to get away from
them. But they think we can build
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up better, we can improve the
way things are done. We can have
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a factory in a rural area and
still respect wildlife and the ecosystems. And
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if we can't, they'll find another
place to go. It never works that
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way. Do hummingbirds hum because they
don't know the words? The doomsday clock
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originated with the threat of nuclear disaster, and we're on the verge of that
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today. The cold ware never really
stopped. It just got quieter, and
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it seems as if everyone has at
least one or two nukes in a silo
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somewhere. What can be done to
stop that? Who can be trusted to
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police the elimination of nuclear missiles?
Does this mean that we should stop building
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nuclear power plants as well? How
do we stop despots from building them and
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using them? Can the leaders of
many countries come together to cease nuclear armament.
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Who will be the first to throw
the switch, push the button or
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shout the command, and will that
be done on purpose? Who will be
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the first to disarm? The Board
of Atomic Scientists have been asking these questions
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for seventy years, and they haven't
come up with great answers. If you
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pamper a cow, do you get
spoiled milk? This is how cause of
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Death one hundred seconds to Midnight was
born. I was asking these questions long
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before I started the podcast. These
are important questions, They're necessary questions.
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The answers to these questions could make
the difference between life and death of an
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ecosystem or humanity itself. I'm hoping
that this episode spurs some disc on the
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Facebook page or the Facebook group.
I want to hear your questions, your
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thoughts. Maybe together we can come
up with solutions. Maybe we'll all just
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have more questions. I feel like
there are answers and solutions out there,
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but the problems are so big and
we are all so overwhelmed by them.
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I try to make things personal on
this show. I want to make these
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topics real so you can feel them
like they're happening to you right now.
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I want you to put yourself in
these stories. I tell feel that history
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and understand what's going on. I
also want you to know that I have
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no agenda for this podcast. I
don't intend to push my ideas or thoughts
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on you in any way. I
just want you to think about the things
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that I talk about and see where
they lead you. I want you to
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think deeper than the surface and ask
those hard questions and look for answers.
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It's ninety seconds to midnight, and
the answers are getting harder and harder to
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come by. Solutions don't seem imminent, and people don't want to ask the
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hard questions to change the way that
the world is headed. But there is
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hope because at least one person is
asking the questions and that person is encouraging
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others to do the same. How
old do I have to be before I
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understand what's going on? Please take
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so visit the Facebook page, the
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You can always contact me on the
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There is a subscription only episode coming out
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on logical Fallacies. I had intended
to have that out much sooner, and
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I'm sorry that it hasn't come out
much sooner. I'll also see you in
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two weeks when we look at our
first wildlife disease, chronic wasting disease in
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wild ruminants. Until then, come
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