Fred's Front Porch Podcast

If you found this episode on Social Media, you probably saw many things to upset you there.  This is your chance to refresh.  No politics, no anger, no hatred.  This is about Love.  It's about Patience.  It's about Time.   Take 15 minutes to feel better.  It's okay to cry.  We won't tell.   Support me on Patreon please: https://www.patreon.com/Freds_Fro...

Is this a horror story... or a series of coincidences and a hallucination? Special guest, JWTGirl, of YouTube fame, guest stars in this bizarre tale of suspected witchcraft, astral projection, and unrequited love.   Production: Fred Eder and Jenner Zeno. What really happened in this story? I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Call and leave a message: (480) 331-9822 Support me on Patreon so...

It's my podcast birthday!  One year ago tonight, I did my first episode.  I've improved significantly in the last year, and this episode will take you through The Story of Fred's Front Porch Podcast.  Who was Wimpy?  What happened to him?  How did the sound of the show change?  Has The Front Porch been true to its ideals?  Find out in this fascinating episode. Yo...

This is an episode in which I make only a brief appearance at the beginning.  I'm giving you a break from me this week, and I'm introducing you to two of my friends.  They'll guide you through their thinking, which is very similar to mine, but they'll show you the world the lens of their experiences, which are very different from mine. Check out Mind Wave here:   https://www.mindwav...

This is the replacement for the previous episode.  It had a repeated 10 minute section.   This is a traditional podcast in that it's a conversation, but it's also pretty bizarre.  Watch out for falling Easter Eggs. We're going to take you behind the scenes in podcasting, and we're going to make a plan to change the world. for the conversation. Thanks to Jesse Rogers for the producti...

This is an impassioned plea to save our country while there is still time,   As an Atheist, prayer, in the traditional sense, is not for me.  It was necessary here, though.   This show has always been about changing the world.  Now, we have our chance at last.  Listen and find out why. I would be thrilled if you wanted to support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Fred...

I'd like to isolate problems, ask reasonable questions about how to solve them, and then discuss possible answers.  That's what I'm trying to do in this episode. This is my first effort using my new computer and new software.  The Learning Curve is steep, but this is not a bad first effort.  I promise I will do better in the future. If you would like to support me on Patreon, the li...

This is the most personal episode I've done in quite some time.  You're going to learn about how I got to the place that I can do this podcast.  I'm going to thank people who never listen to this show.  They kept me alive long enough to be able to do it. I'm going to talk to someone from deep in my past about the difference I made.  That's something we rarely get to hear, and s...

I want to let you know from the top, this podcast contains a word I never use myself.  There's a trigger warning at the beginning. You're going to hear Huck Finn's Pap rage against the government that existed just less than 200 years ago.  Then you get to hear me whine about the current one.   Special thanks to Jenner Zeno and Corey Cottrell. This is the link to support my claim abo...

Come travel through time and space on the Front Porch's first visit to Time Jumper Radio since episode 7. Is it a shark or is it a virus?  You may hear some connections as you float through space and different broadcasts pass by you.   I've never tried anything quite like this before.  I hope it works. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, I would be grateful: https://www.pa...

This is the first time in quite a while I have done a conversation on the show. It's good to do that again. This time, I got to talk to the Godfather of the Front Porch Podcast, and host of the Moving Forward Podcast, Corey Cottrell, about a new social media platform called Chirp. This is going to be a superior alternative to Facebook, and you will want to check it out as soon as it launches. I'll...

This is the first two part podcast I have ever done.  One might think the first half has nothing to do with the second half.  They are, however, connected. The first half is my normal podcast.  I'm going to discuss the idea that the country, itself, is slowly smothering.  I need to warn you that you will be hearing my readings of the last words of two black men who were murdere...

There is no Them who are going to die from this.  We are dying in every country.  We are dying in every town.  We are dying in prisons.  We are dying in the chain link cages in which refugees are living.  We are dying in hospitals, while our loved ones bid us farewell on a cell phone because they can't be with us as we end our minutes on this planet.  We are dying bec...

I have advocated this idea repeatedly.  Lately, people I love and respect have suggested it is mistaken.  This is my response. "  Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident reli...

Before we begin, I want to say I'm sorry.  Somewhere in this I'm likely to piss you off.  I want you to know I'm not doing it intentionally.  It is absolutely not my goal.  I hope to help heal a bit.  I hope to make helpful suggestions.  I hope to share some ideas. I hope to bring just a few of us together for a little while. But, this topic is causing more division t...

Scott Santens, arguably the greatest mind on Universal Basic Income, graciously gave me permission to "cover" his essay "True Freedom Comes With Basic Income."  I'm grateful to him. The opening 6 minutes are my introduction.  The rest of the episode is made up of his words. Human Trafficking is a sickness that can be, if not entirely eliminated, certainly at least slowed, by giving every...

You have never heard a podcast like this one.  It is a complete audio experience.  Give us time, and it will also be a video experience. This is unique, as far as we know, in the history of podcasting.  We're unaware of an audiobook anything like this.  If Pink Floyd ever produced prose, this would be it.  We encourage you to use your headphones for this.  It heighten...

First... in the first three minutes I learned what audio latency is.  I'm working on that.  Sorry. Next... if you would like to support me on Patreon, here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/Freds_Front_Porch?fan_landing=true I'm going to suggest that we are like the prisoners in Plato's Cave. We see only what we believe we are supposed to see. I'm going to show you a different world, c...

This is my effort to change a single mind.  I have a friend who listens, at least occasionally, to this show.  She actually left me a message once to tell me she was playing a show. She and I disagree about COVID. I am not simply dismissing her ideas.  Neither should anyone else.  I don't believe there is any sort of conspiracy going on with this pandemic, but I consider the id...

This is where I'm going to let you get to know me a little better.  Why would I do that?  It has to do with Connection.  My friend, Corey Cottrell, who is essentially the Godfather of this show, had a great TED Talk on his 100 Days Page today.  I don't know the speaker, but she makes the point that the reason we're all on this planet is Connection.  We need to feel we belo...

I'm going to read to you, first, the end of a book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry called "Wind, Sand, and Stars." You may know him as the author of "The Little Prince." This is a memoir he wrote in 1939, and you will hear some less enlightened expressions of attitudes that were held by most French aristocrats in those days. Please see them in their historical context. He tells of a train trip he took...

This is a unique episode.  It's the first time I've ever done an ACTUAL Front Porch conversation.  This was entirely unintentional. I met Jenner Zeno, a fellow podcaster, through my friend, Faye Ku, who thought he could help me to do my show better.  And, obviously, he's done that, as I suspect you will be able to determine while listening to this episode.  This is only a littl...

Fred's Front Porch is honored to welcome Josh Bachynski, a PhD in Neuroscience, a TED Talks speaker on the topic of Google, and a meditation specialist.  He's a scientist and a philosopher, and he stopped by the porch to discuss how we seek The Good.  This is a deeper and more general conversation than you're used to hearing on the Porch. What is The Good?  This is a difficult conce...

This is the exciting story of a hunter who believes the feelings of animals are meaningless.  In Richard Connell's classic story, our hunter is going to discover there is game even more dangerous than a lion, a jaguar, or even a Cape Buffalo.  And he will learn what terror truly is.   This is quite possibly my best work to date. Thank you to my first supporter, Zara. This episode is...

Money is, perhaps, necessary, but I argue in this episode that it is often misused as a tool for slavery. I believe we can change this.  I believe the current crisis is an opportunity to consider what the world should be when we finally, someday, get to rebuild it.   The music is substantially less mainstream than you're accustomed to hearing on this show, but so are the ideas.   Ta...