Tom Rhodes Smart Camp - 224 Yosemite Mom

224 Yosemite Mom

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05/04/17 • 100 min

Tom Rhodes Smart Camp

My mom is visiting me this week and I took her to Yosemite National Park to recreate one of the best mother and son memories we have together.

In this episode my mom Sara Rhodes sits in with us and tells the story of watching Bugs Bunny cartoons right before I was born. The best advice she has ever given me and how we were once chased by a bear. We review the Netflix original Cable Girls and for book time I talk about one of my all time favorites: Hagakure - The book of the Samurai and how this book can improve your life. Tupac was grateful ti his mother even though she was a crack fiend. In this episode I am grateful to my mom for teaching me how to smack the shit out of the big ones!

My mom is visiting me this week and I took her to Yosemite National Park to recreate one of the best mother and son memories we have together.

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223 Stylish Seneca

How should you react when hate is shot in your direction?

In this episode we talk how Ashna received a hate filled Facebook from an old white coward telling her to move back to the Netherlands. My reaction was to start searching flights to Houston so that I could go punch this old fooling the face but Ashna reminds me that it is always best to remain stylish like Seneca. We talk about our wedding anniversary date that included popping into an open mic night in our neighborhood where an untalented comedian started verbally attacking the crowd, me included because his poorly written jokes weren't being appreciated. Seneca style counseling is recommended to me again for how to conduct yourself in the face of hate filled white men. From there we popped into the Kibitz room where we delighted in our neighborhood watering hole where hate was nowhere to be found.

For brain candy morsels we talk about the book 'A Flame Of Pure Fire' Jack Dempsey And The Roaring Twenties' The movie 'Moon' and the new Ray Davies album 'Americana'. Also human behavioral moments I witnessed this week of a passenger having a meltdown on a plane, police harassing a man and the emotional slot machine that threatens all of our personal happiness.

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225 Wanna Buy A Puppy?

In this episode we talk about how I surprised the squirrel on my balcony.

Trump firing Comey, late night shows and if American satire works. How the 1937 book 'Invertebrate Spain' applies to what is happening in America today. How CNN is responsible for the puppy we just lost. How the Paul Newman movie 'Nobody's Fool' will teach you to make brave choices in your life. And I read you my thoughts on the Spanish conquest of Peru while standing in the main square of Cuzco. Big fresh slices of my life are yours with Ashna's two scoops of ice cream goodness on the side. And finally Ashna and I decide on a kid's name that we both like.