Use Your Words

As we get older we seem to go through various phases of life. Unfortunately as we move through these phases - some things seem to remain constant and that is that we tend to loose friends and the number of people we interact with goes down. Some of these phases of life include college, first job, moving out on your own, and then every five or so years in life. Let's talk about what these phases ar...

We continue our conversation this week directly where we left off last week. Last week Paul was just starting to talk about the Mike Lindell Technology Symposium and the "evidence" that was released at said conference. Paul then goes over - from a person who works in technology - why some of the claims made by Mike Lindell are outlandish and exaugurated at best and downright lies at worst - and th...

Apple recently announced that they are going to start scanning for CSAM on iPhones locally. Currently it has been reported that they may have been doing this on their servers "in the cloud" but with the move down to the local phone - people have started to get concerned about intrusion. It has been alleged by various people that this new CSAM scanning will invade their privacy and get them flagged...

Should we rename our show to "counseling Hour With Aaron?" While this episode didn't start out with that in mind, it ended up being another hour of counseling with Aaron. In this episode we talk about how mental, physical, and spiritual health all intersect and how they impact one another. How things that are watched/worn/read/etc all impact our brains and our spiritual health in multiple ways. Us...

A few episodes we talked about how Facebook, Twitter, etc can choose to enforce their policies how they see fit and that by doing this this did not come afoul of the first amendment. Well in July this started to change as the White House admitted that their officials have started to flag material for social media to remove - which is a change in the protocol of the social media companies no longer...

As summer 2021 rolls on, various cities around the United States (and various countries around the world) are starting to re-introduce mask mandates. As that is happening it was revealed recently that Dr. Fauci is reconsidering a nationwide mask mandate recommendation from the CDC. With all of this talk - could we see another lockdown? If we did what would it's impact be? Are the numbers really th...

Now that most of the Covid lockdowns are gone, Paul and Aaron talk about what they have been doing with their summer that is back to normal. We start out talking about Aaron giving a best man speech at Josh's second wedding, the concerts we have and will attend, and how Aaron faired walking through Colorado a few weeks ago. Use Your Words podcast is passion project of two people from Southeastern...

This week, we present episode 1 of Hey Church. This will be the last cross post between the two podcasts (I promise) but I wanted to share it here as we talk about what my personal journey of mental health has been. In the upcoming weeks the URL for the Hey Church podcast will be published on our social media - but until then enjoy episode 1 of Hey Church. Use Your Words podcast is passion project...

This week instead of a normal episode of Use Your Words, we have episode 0 of Hey Church! We Need To Talk About Mental Health (or as I like to call it Hey Church!). Next week we will also be hosting episode 1 of Hey Church as well - as well as hopefully have the rest of the items for Hey Church full finished and up for everyone to enjoy.

In America there is sometimes an unfortunate combining of Patriotism and the Christian faith. This has resulted in some people lumping the two together - both the good and the bad parts of it - as well as people who are attempting to be true to their Christian beliefs unwillingly and unknowingly (at least we hope) attempting to force their beliefs on others through political measures. This has giv...

Recently Kevin Max announced on Twitter that he is an Exvangelical. This was of course met by the typical Twitter reaction - those that agree with him cheered and rejoiced and those that didn't agree with him immediately went after him. There never seems to be a middle ground with twitter - and this is just another reason why Social Media is cancer - but this is neither here nor there. It seems th...

This week Aaron wanted to talk about why people sometimes don't feel worthy of the blessings in their lives - and what to do when you don't feel worthy of these blessings. At least that is how the episode started out - but quickly turned into a sort of therapy episode for Aaron and his own feelings of unworthiness. Use Your Words podcast is passion project of two people from Southeastern Wisconsin...

This week Paul and Aaron talk about a topic that comes up time to time in the Christian circle. Often times people will say that only God can judge them - or that we should not judge anyone else as their sin is only between them and God. But does the New Testament actually say this? A lot of people quote Matthew 7:1 and go "there - don't judge me" but they forget to read the rest of the verse, let...

This week Paul and Aaron talk about identity - both in how we make assumptions about people who wear certain cloths/accessories as well as how we show our identity to the things that we believe/associate with. This seems to be a double edged sword as we sometimes jump to the wrong conclusions - ala judging a book by it's cover but we don't want to be judged based on that. As Christians we ultimate...

In what sounds like an episode of "An Old Man Yells At The Clouds" - Paul talks about how scary TikTok can be. While this app appears to be very popular amongst the younger generation, there are also very adult things found on the application as well as other things that are questionable - with people doing obnoxious things on the application just to become "internet famous". Some of these things...

May is officially Mental Health awareness month - and on Use Your Words Podcast this is something that gets some attention - especially from Paul who has dealt with his own mental health issues in the past. This month Aaron wanted to ask a few questions: How do you help someone who is having a panic attack? What are some signs of depression in a person? What's it like to live with depression? We a...

Accountability is a hard thing to do. Why? Because in order to be accountable you need to be fully transparent with the other person - even when things get messy. During a recent conversation with Aaron he admitted that recently he was having trouble seeing the necessity for transparency and accountability so we continued a conversation that we started last fall and recorded it. Use Your Words pod...

Recently scientist have found a way to make hybrid human/monkey embryo live for a total of fourteen days inside of a petri dish. Previously (in 2017) scientist found a way to make a half human, half pig chimera while doing research. These advancements have raised various issues in the research community on if they should now allow embryos to live for a total of 28 days instead of the 14 days on th...

The year 2020 has led to an increase in a demand for mental health services. With this rapid increase in mental health requests, and the increased need for masking up and being socially distanced - online therapy sessions have increased in popularity. In the rise of this - online therapy applications have rose in popularity offering the convenience of being able to text a therapist at any hour of...

This week we take a look at some recently scientific research which suggests that instead of a population boom - we are on the verge of a population implosion. Now there is a very fascinating series of articles that outline how various factors all combine to decrease the birth rate as well as the fertility of both sexes/genders. Due to various factors (including changes in society) we are quickly...

This week Aaron brought up the idea of talking about freedom. While initially Aaron wants to talk about how people are proposing using the carrot of "freedoms" to coerce people to get the Covid-19 vaccine. While this conversation starts there - and Aaron admits he is not a fan of this - we eventually move forward in the conversation to talk about the first amendment and how it applies to social me...

This week we talk about that uncomfortable conversation around coveting. Now for those not familiar with the word - essentially coveting is yearning for things or situations that other people showcase. Current society, through social media primarily, highlights people's new possessions as well as adventures as something to be desired. People look at what others are posting on their various feeds a...

This week Paul and Aaron talk about their recent few weeks at work. Both of them have recently made mistakes - and have learned a few things out of it. They wanted to take a brief moment from the chaos of the world and talk about the lessons they learned as well as the things they appreciated from their managers/jobs after the mess-ups were revealed. Use Your Words podcast is passion project of tw...

We talk this week about the recent ruling from the Vatican on if priests can bless same sex unions or not. While this ruling from the Vatican seems to have taken a bunch of people by surprise, if you have been following Pope Francis and the catholic church's doctrine - this should not come as a surprise. Aaron - questions why people would care about this - and we try to break it down some more so...

Time published an article in Feb, 2021 entitled "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election". In this article it is talked about how a cabal of people using their own money and influence manipulated things to - in their words - fortify the election of 2020. This week Aaron and Paul talk about this article and some of the items which are slightly disturbing contained wit...