The Junkyard Love Podcast - Episode 059 - The Sense Making Sickness - with Spencer Hicks - Series Part 1

Episode 059 - The Sense Making Sickness - with Spencer Hicks - Series Part 1

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10/20/20 • 94 min

The Junkyard Love Podcast

An important series introduction is presented in the form of a short audio essay that exists in the first ten minutes of this episode. I encourage you to listen for a better understanding of what to expect. In this coming series of episodes, Spencer and I will attempt to make sense of what is going on in our world to cause such division and confusion amongst neighbors and fellow humans. We will stumble and ramble our way to formulating the questions that need asking and the answers that present themselves. We will try to police our own bias and emotional states, our own judgments, our wrong assessments, and our own blind spots. As new problems emerge for the human condition - we must present and practice new ways of conversation and problem-solving. Neither of us claims to be fully right, to be the most educated, to know the most truths, nor to have the correct psychosomatic tools. But we embark on this multiple part series because it is difficult, important, and we just don’t see many trying to meet the confusions from this lens of perception. Rather than claim the ability to educate the listeners - we hope to usher in individual epiphany by way of exploring and widening our own thoughts. These conversations will undoubtedly be messy at first, but as we determine the correct definitions and jump from stepping stone to stepping stone - we hope the path shows itself and the journey creates sparks of wisdom for different types of listeners at different points of their lives along the way. We have no grandiose ideas of being special, omniscient, or even particularly wise on the subject of sense-making itself - but we choose to pick up our swords and proceed towards the battlefield nonetheless. If individual sovereignty formulates group coherence and strengthens our human ability to process information and make sense of moderns life's complexities - this is the way. In an effort to better understand the division and changing times we are faced with as humanity and civilization - following every episode, Spencer and I will assess what we did wrong, what went right, what could be explained better, what could be thought more in-depth about, how we can discuss what's important for the next episode, and how we can continuously adjust our conversation style and subjects to better explain our findings and ideas for the next conversation. Here we propose that there is a sense-making crisis, we discuss the meaning of truth, self-sovereignty, dogma, bias, thesis as a human, obtaining a why, meeting each other at the wrong playing fields, types of conversation, examples from the political climate and much more. This chat seemed to set a decent groundwork for where we can go next. The map will form itself and we are hopeful the territory will present soon after. These episodes (we hope) will become more formulated and precise as we progress. Enjoy your day and go out of your way to be nice to someone whos not like you. Cheers

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Episode 058 with Conner Anshutz - People Are Portals To Yourself

I've always held admiration for Conner's perspective on the world around him. Continuously making others laugh because it brings joy back to him, Conner Anshutz is intelligent, kind, a creative thinker, and a fantastic storyteller. In this episode of The Junkyard Love Podcast Conner and I kickback and let the conversation fill itself with fun ideas and stories around technology, thinking, human behavior, reality, people, animals, workin various jobs, and meeting various acquaintances. In the first half, we pour a couple of brews and chat about artificial intelligence, intrusive thoughts, wild theories of evolution, social implications of algorithms, society at large, animal experiments, altered states, depressive states, and traveling to different states. We go on to share stories from our past and how our perceptions change over time and through new opportunities with new people. We point out teachable moments along with some of the cool places life has taken us - and Conner shares views from a few of his previous jobs - like being a door to door salesmen of pest control products, workin the counter at a skateshop, selling weed at the weed store, fitting newlyweds for tuxedo rentals, grippin skateboards at the skateshop and gassin' up travelers at the gas station. Conner certainly has great perspective on exploring the human condition through other people's passion and he believes in experiencing their greatness right alongside them. He says 'yes' far more often than 'no' and he strives to bring laughter and lightheartedness to situations life hands him. He's just like you or me, a 'people' tryin to get by. If you enjoyed the episode please consider leaving a review, rating 5 stars, hitting the 'like' option or even sharing with a friend or two. Subscribe and follow to see when new episodes are posted. Follow Conner on instagram @conneranshutz Some quotes from the episode - "We're all just people tryin to get by." "You should always challenge yourself in any aspect of life. You should never settle. You should always pursue the next thing. Never stop learning never stop growing." "I love seeing that energy, 100%. I hate dream breakers. They're just trash to me. If someone has a dream, no matter how ridiculous it is, pursue it. I'm all for it. No matter how ridiculous it is. Don't let anybody stop you from doing something you love or that you want to pursue as an individual" "Time can be relative. You can cherish the small moments. You don't have to have a full 3-day hangout just to connect with someone." "I'm always stoked to hear about anyone I ever met to be doing good in their life." "Don't brag about putting other people down, brag about building yourself up." "I want to share your happiness. I want to do something with you that makes YOU happy as an individual. This is something you're really passionate about, and you have drive for it, I want to dip my toes in it. See if it's somethin for me, and share it with you. It may not be for me, but it's the time spent together." "Any river can be rebridged. The bridge can be rebuilt. Things happen, we're human"

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Episode 060 - Solo with Jacob Rhines - Sober October - A Personal Mental Review

For the month of October 2020 I chose to quit Social Media, Alchohol, Weed, Masturbation and Caffeine. In exchange - I chose to commit to every day drinking 1 gallon of water, writing 1 page, performing 20 minutes of yoga, as well as run/cardio 5 days a week. This episode entails my thoughts along the way, some of the hardships, a few of the victories, and lots of the personal psychology along the way. I attempted to analyze my own thoughts and feelings around the challenge, and insert some tips, tricks, new thoughts, and encouragement to anyone who would like to give their own 30 day challenge a try. Find this episode over on youtube for the video version. Best of luck to you Self-Actualizers - You're much more than your vices and habits.