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Meeting of Minds Podcast

Meeting of Minds Podcast

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Meeting of Minds brings together the top minds in history, theology, finance, economics, language, mathematics and science. Host Jerry Bowyer invites guests to be both intelligent and clear and to follow truth wherever it leads.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Meeting of Minds Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Meeting of Minds Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Meeting of Minds Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Meeting of Minds Podcast - Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence”
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09/29/22 • 59 min

Peter Thiel, arguably the most successful tech investor of modern times, also reads widely and thinks deeply about philosophy and theology. In a fascinating follow-up to his previous interview about his mentor, Rene Girard, Thiel discusses how modern ideologies such as fascism and communism "up the dose" from murder to genocide as Christianity weakened the power of human sacrifice. He also discusses how progressive ideologies are "stronger moves" than fascistic or reactionary ones because they weaponize Christianity's concern for victims. Thiel talks about how the state, with its origins in paganism, restrains violence by using violence and how Christians might navigate that dilemma by engaging politically but not becoming excessively entangled by it. Finally, Thiel points out how those who promise to protect us from Apocalypse can actually accelerate its coming.

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01:08 Girard, Scapegoating
04:00 Mimetic copies: Hitler and Stalin, Nazism and Communism, Fascism
05:30 Wokeism, Christianity, and Academia
10:40 Wokeism in cities, response to real estate costs. Structural Wokeism
14:27 Winning and losing postures towards wokeism
17:10 Wokeism is Christianity without the forgiveness
18:30 Acknowledging sin even when it enables critics
21:55 Holocaust as the ultimate test of forgiveness, destroying the concept of forgiveness
25:52 Ignorance and forgiveness
27:55 Gospels as deconstruction of philosophy
32:05 Getting tangled in politics. Government and violence
33:55 Can leaders behave like Christians?
35:37 The katechon and accelerationism. Preterism and futurism.
39:10 The Antichrist as a false katechon
41:14 The Precautionary Principle: technological Armageddon
45:15 Enabling Fascism to fight Communism
46:12 Reagan coalition
49:30 Christianity and mimetic entanglement, political atheism
54:30 How much can people change?

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Meeting of Minds Podcast - Deirdre McCloskey on Why Rulers Should Treat Us As Adults
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09/21/21 • 65 min

Professor Deirdre McCloskey is one of the most interesting thinkers in economics today. In this interview, conducted at FreedomFest 2021 in Rapid City South Dakota, near Deadwood, we push past a number of frontiers and traverse an open range of topics. That’s McCloskey in a nutshell – ignore the artificial fences between academic specializations and let the conversation go where it goes. In this case it goes through such territories as: the astonishing rise in standards of living since the rise of capitalism; why capitalism shouldn’t be called capitalism; what it should be called; why Bourgeois values have enriched us (and in more ways than economically); what the difference is between virtues and values; what Christianity had to do (and didn’t have to do) with the rise of modern human betterment; why theoretical economics has been wrong to obsess over “Maximum Utility” (a sociopathic form of economic modeling); the cult of statistical significance and its addiction to the p-value, and an upcoming book on Christianity and economics. Enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
9:40 – Why “virtues” rather than “values”?
14:09 – The meaning of Jesus being born in Bethlehem
18:54 – Eurocentric economics, why some minorities are successful
27:07 – Free speech and the rich young ruler
32:11 – A party of Liberty, politics for adults
40:16 – How art can affect politics
43:35 – Bettering Humanomics
47:48 – The new atheists
50:16 – God in Mammon
59:17 – The Bible on slavery

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Meeting of Minds Podcast - Christian Employers Need to be Resolute In this Moment in History
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08/23/23 • 23 min

The Christian Employers Alliance is the leading association of Christian business people who employ others. Shannon Royce, its president, talks to Jerry about their upcoming conference and how Christian employers can learn what they’re up against, but also how to triumph. Topics include agility in the marketplace, how to maintain Christian identity and not run afoul of the law, strategies for dealing with ESG, and a great deal more. Listen to the interview, share it with others and visit here: https://christianemployersalliance.org/2023fallsummit/ to sign up for the most important conference for a most important group of people, Christians on whom others depend for leadership and livelihood.

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Pastor and scholar Jeff Meyers discusses his new commentary on the book of James, Wisdom for Dissidents. Meyers explains how modern commentators have failed to take the actual words of James seriously. When James mentions war, battles, and murder, he's not talking about arguments over the color of the new carpeting. James guided Christians through a time of political strife, assassination, civil violence and insurrection; in other words, a time much like our own.

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:14 – James and Ecclesiastes
8:25 – Rebellion against Rome
13:12 – Israel and Egypt
19:53 – James helps Christians grow up
26:00 – What is James preparing Christians for?
31:05 – How Christians should respond to political violence
42:00 – Why you should read this commentary

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Preventative Cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston rejoins Jerry to talk about what the latest scientific research shows about hunger and how to fight it. Ignoring the differences between different varieties of hunger means ignoring physiology and neurology and excess dependence on "willpower", leading to failure. Dr. Agatston explains the three different types of hunger, how to recognize each and how to overcome each in an effective way.

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:33 – Bears with hypoglycemia
7:45 – Grazing and carb craving
14:11 – Chemistry, not discipline
20:26 – Artificial sweeteners
24:49 – Keto flu
30:09 – Juvenile diabetes and insulin resistance
36:42 – Fasting and controlling appetite
42:56 – Addictive hunger

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Dr. Arthur Agatston is the world's leading preventative cardiologist. Creator of the Agatston Score, which measures heart attack risk by analyzing calcification of arteries. He is also the author of the bestselling South Beach Diet books. Here he discusses what he has observed looking at thousands of scanned images and patients over four decades, particularly about the relationship between career-building and heart disease among high-achievement entrepreneurs and executives. He also deals with how that heightened risk can be reversed and what the most up-to-date science shows about what really causes heart attacks. He outlines how to spot risk early and vastly decrease the risk of heart attacks occurring later.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro
1:20 – Stress and weight gain
9:17 – Entrepreneurs vs. groupthink
15:10 – The scientific consensus is behind the times
22:30 – Visceral fat hiding obesity
28:35 – Observation instead of clinical trial
35:21 – New development in calcium scans
42:11 – The problem with opening obstructions
49:51 – Why the calcium scan is essential
52:31 – The aerobic myth

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Meeting of Minds Podcast - COMING SOON: Meeting of Minds

COMING SOON: Meeting of Minds

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04/16/21 • 1 min

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Like most people who run for a constitutional state-level row office, Dan Elliott has a business background and a desire to focus on “worker bee” type issues, such as cyber-security. But on the campaign trail running for Indiana Treasurer, he met a law-abiding gun store owner who had his bank account cancelled for no reason other than being a gun store owner. That’s when Elliott became aware that ESG and corporate politicization was going to be battle he would have to fight. Treasurer Elliott talks with Jerry about his frank conversations with Blackrock about retirees who had to decide between food and medicine, and why financial return--and only financial return--should be the focus of the pension plans under his supervision. Elliott also talks about the importance of school choice, and why he administers a program that aids young people who don’t go to college, but instead want to apprentice in the real world.

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Meeting of Minds Podcast - Why Blackrock's Larry Fink Should be Fired
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09/25/23 • 30 min

Another state treasurer is taking on ideologically-captured Wall Street firms. Dale Folwell of North Carolina is publicly calling for Larry Fink to be fired because he is isn't doing his job. The job of asset managers is to manage assets, to put the financial returns of investors above all else. But what happens when the "invisible people...the people who work with their hands and their backs...the people who shower at the end of the day" lack the wealth and power to keep Wall Street firms from using their own money against their interests? Answer: the state officials whom they trust to look out for them should step up. Treasurer Folwell talks about how he has been fighting Blackrock and other entities that are politicizing finance, including rating agencies, which have been attacking local governments for not being politically aligned with the ESG movement. He also explains why he thinks that taxpayer money should not be going to elective surgery such as sex change operations, especially for minors. A video of oral arguments before Fourth Circuit can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Cuc32k5BETw?si=aw89_bKII29Oz4ID Don't miss the discussion about how unaccountable health care bureaucracies use lack of transparency to distort markets and take advantage of patients. https://www.shpnc.org/what-the-health/nc-hospital-price-transparency-report

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Meeting of Minds Podcast - CEOs Rebuke the Left

CEOs Rebuke the Left

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01/24/24 • 29 min

At this year's Davos conference, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, called for elites to acknowledge the economic accomplishments of the Trump administration and to stop showing contempt for 75 million Americans who are not on the left. Exxon, the world’s largest public oil company, is suing shareholder activists who pretend to represent the interests of investors while pushing oil companies away from their core businesses. On this edition of Meeting of Minds, we talk with financial advisor David Bahnsen, who last year addressed the CEO, board of directors and shareholders of both JPMorgan and Exxon, urging them to restore the trust of conservatives and focus on and defend their company’s’ business interests.

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How many episodes does Meeting of Minds Podcast have?

Meeting of Minds Podcast currently has 94 episodes available.

What topics does Meeting of Minds Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts, Books and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Meeting of Minds Podcast?

The episode title 'Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence”' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Meeting of Minds Podcast?

The average episode length on Meeting of Minds Podcast is 38 minutes.

How often are episodes of Meeting of Minds Podcast released?

Episodes of Meeting of Minds Podcast are typically released every 9 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of Meeting of Minds Podcast?

The first episode of Meeting of Minds Podcast was released on Apr 16, 2021.

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