Show Notes:  Pine, Birch, Red River Gorge

Show Notes: Pine, Birch, Red River Gorge

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You can listen to the LIVE stream here. Transhumanism has many philosophical fathers in it's lineage.  From Ubermensch to Do What Thou Wilt, the progression towards fusing with machines is anything but humanizing. Anishinabbe - Tribes of The Great Lakes.The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe [1]) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing and Algonquin peoples. The Anishinaabe speak Anishinaabemowin, or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. Migizi - Eagle: what is highest, bravest, strongest and holiest The Eagle (Migizi) is one of our most revered and respected beings in creation. These beautiful birds represent our link…
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Show Notes:  Absence of Limits

Show Notes: Absence of Limits

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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…
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Show Notes:  M-22 & A Letter To George

Show Notes: M-22 & A Letter To George

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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…
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Show Notes:  Committee of Five, Marcuse and Fixing History

Show Notes: Committee of Five, Marcuse and Fixing History

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You can listen to the LIVE stream here. The Committee of Five was given the goal to draft a letter, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Sherman and Livingston delivered something far more.  It can turn back Identity Marxism.Founding Father Roger ShermanSad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.https://youtu.be/RsiuttB-WVs?si=PJVIelbi-ip73I_r The Committee of FiveThis week in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was being drafted.  For we Americans who still believe that the ultimate gifts we have as humans are our God liberty and the responsibility to pursue truth,…
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Show Notes:  Your Mind Is Not For Rent

Show Notes: Your Mind Is Not For Rent

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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…
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General Logan and General Order 11

General Logan and General Order 11

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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…
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Show Notes:  Iron Claw, X and Finding the Square Root Of All Causes

Show Notes: Iron Claw, X and Finding the Square Root Of All Causes

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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…
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Show Notes:  Bobbie Gentry – No Abstractions

Show Notes: Bobbie Gentry – No Abstractions

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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…
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Show Notes:  Put Me To Work

Show Notes: Put Me To Work

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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…
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