Category: Sunday Nights Radio

By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream When you seek to remove all barriers, all limitations, you destroy creativity because there is no cost to achieving skill. https://youtu.be/pSlPwIJjWpI?si=J7z4dyXUNGRVORnfYoung Adults and the Consequence of Severed Conscience and What Our Generation AllowedA very sad passage from a young write for Jonathon Haidt who focuses on the damage social media does to teens. Allowing them to languish online has eliminated the joy of music, creativity and art as CONTENT has been streamed at them non-stop. Absence of Limits“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations”—Orson Welles“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re…

By The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Summer is exploration time in Michigan, July being the month where many adventures are so to take place.  In July several hundred years ago, another odyssey took place when a letter was sent to a man name George.https://youtu.be/uwIGZLjugKA?si=WoMWMVQx0UnDmdgG How I Started The Day At Sunrise And How I Ended It With My Family My youngest kid is 19 years old, and we have been fortunate to have had lots of skiing, hiking and camping adventures together as father and son, and as well many journeys of discovery with our entire family.  On our last outing kayaking together he asked while we paddled down the river “Dad what is your greatest and best memory out of all the things we’ve done?” We have…

Fathers Wear Many Hats, Have Many Jobshttps://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ?si=dP8TPaTnhWH1KWbDTonight's episode for dads, about dads, and about how families needs dads, and how dads need their families.  We'll be featuring an article from our Cultural Courage Newsletter.  https://youtu.be/llqH2xRvRaA?si=edETg_kuNi6uIcbm

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. Mark Twain is an embodiment of what we were:  SKEPTICAL.  Because we had confidence to question. https://youtu.be/W2ySBtVLCYA?si=zEsEAx4ARzDsMF1fhttps://youtu.be/_exZlqv5qPg?si=b4b4O0FLqEzw-mWNWe Need A Root Cause Analysis!!What has happened to our culture where we had the confidence to solve our own problems and recognized the snake oil salesman?Today we have so many experts from ALL sides who grab our attention, demand our attention.  Yet it creates a dependency. Mark Twain was the Rush Limbaugh of His Age, Perhaps BetterHave you noticed that as deference to expertise has grown, that our sense of satire has changed and diminished.  For the most part when you turn on the media, you have the snide remarks of the elitists such as Bill Maher, Lawrence ODonnell who assume the role of gadfly…

This episode is based on an articles in our Cultural Courage Newsletter titled https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/decoration-day-memorial-day-and-communityYou want to subscribing as we have additional writing there.Franklin NY and Ouleout Valley Cemetery Delhi NY and Woodland Cemetery A Brief History of Decoration Day and Memorial Day The tradition of adorning the graves of the fallen was already a practice in many communities in both north and south.  On May 5th 1868 General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the republic, issued General Order 11.  The preamble is beautiful:The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet…

https://youtu.be/00z1CRN2984?si=D_mmz_xMeWkJAlHrhttps://youtu.be/2BQ2vzK1w4o?si=Y_qi44ecithVB-OH The Von Erichs https://youtu.be/8KVsaoveTbw?si=CFVVrMI5Jh9zZOAQThe Von Erich Family were the wholesome heroes from Texas, strong, God-fearing, and consider legends as professional wrestlers.The sad tragic secret was this family was surrounded by death.  Three of the brothers committed suicide, one died from an infection from a burst intestine.David died on February 10, 1984, in Tokyo, Japan. The US Embassy's death report says he died of acute enteritis.[23] Ric Flair wrote in his autobiography, To Be the Man, that "everyone in wrestling believes" that it was a drug overdose that really killed him and that Bruiser Brody (a fellow wrestler who found David) disposed of the narcotics by flushing them down a toilet before the police arrived. Mick Foley also claims that David died from an apparent drug overdose. Mike was selected…

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. The song that would displace Sqt Peppers and All We Need Is Love was a simple recording with just a single guitar.  String accompaniment was added later as an afterthought because "well, no one is going to listen to this anyway."  Simplicity versus sophistication, concrete thinking keeps Severed Conscience at bay. This Haunting Song Knocked The Beatles Out of #1 Summer of 67 https://youtu.be/HaRacIzZSPo?si=YnP8JlBuHqNqVjYGThe Sophistication of the BeatlesIn 1967 The Beatles astounded the world with what many would call the first concept album, a compilation of songs where the lyrics described the lives of several characters.  This album was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.  This collaboration between George Martin and the Beatles employed many new techniques in recording using tracks, placement…

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. A balanced life is gifted with thinking, an active nature, and an inquisitive mind.  All types of events are the ingredients of your being.  There is a continuum to learning, starting with a question, then with knowing something, and if you’re lucky, understanding a subject.  https://youtu.be/lcIK3akktLU?si=DiPpiZ_CkbAuQYnK This small town is where my mother grew up, work was the ONLY way to make something of yourself.  Coming from a family of 8, they struggled.  But that tempered her like fine steel. Amazingly enough, my mother the Scottish mountain flower had many great talents, landscaping being one, but our gardens were always small!!Growing up in a farming community, youd think I had a green thumb.  But I didn't learn much until we made some good…

You can listen to the LIVE stream here. In Celtic tradition, Eostre is the goddess of fertility that arises after the Equinox.  It's time to come out of slumber and renew our work for the season.  Why does Severed Conscience need to be put in perspective before we commence? https://youtu.be/oUrR2tcALtI?si=gr3G-uJtfKDLwKc1TransitionsSeeing a grey fox as I did back in March indicated a transition, and now we are embarked on Spring.  Well, with a bit of lingering Winter. The Devouring Mother, Introduced By Severed ConscienceWhile fertility and motherhood, renewal and resurrection are associated with Spring, there is a darker new mythos that has arisen, one that we need to be aware of that is at work on our thinking. We see a negative deconstruction of both mothers and fathers.  This is be design,…