The Breakdown

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan and I discuss the overwhelming scientific evidence showing that having a spiritual faith in a benevolent creator along with regular church service attendance is strongly associated with better mental and physical health and talk about the different potential reasons for why this is the case. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan and discuss the definitions or many political terminologies, how they are often misused, and the widespread misunderstanding this creates. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan and I discuss the powerfully destructive long-term emotion of hate, why humans hate, the areas of the brain involved in hatred, its effects on the human body, genocide, the recent spike in hate crimes, and how to stop hating. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan and I discuss the shockingly numerous nuclear war near misses the United States has had with Russia since the 1950s, as well as many disturbing nuclear weapons accidents (Broken Arrows) that have occurred in that time. We also discuss different options for eliminating or reducing the extreme dangers caused by possessing nuclear weapons. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan and I discuss the four different types of AI, the difference between AI and AGI, the ubiquity of AI already in our lives, their benefits, costs and potential harms, and how we should proceed with these revolutionary technological advancements.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of The Breakdown, Jordan and I discuss the Housing First approach, where people experiencing homelessness are not required to be sober, employed, or to complete a treatment program to obtain housing.  We talk about the success rates of the approach, how it works, as well as many other aspects regarding the US homeless crisis, and what needs to be done to house the...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Jordan Pearce and I discuss the State of Jefferson - a huge, mountainous, rural area in southern Oregon and Northern California that wishes to secede from their respective states and form the 51st state of the Union- the State of Jefferson. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss Edward Snowden and whether what he did by stealing over 1.7 million files from the NSA was justified, how much good he did by revealing the illegal NSA PRISM program, and how much potential harm he caused to US national security by divulging so many US secrets. Special guest: Jordan Pearce. 

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the US charges against Julian Assange, his possible extradition to the US from the UK, and the dangers of prosecuting him under The Espionage Act of 1917.

Send us Fan Mail Discussing Panpsychism, the concept that all matter in the universe is conscious. 

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss the different threats that face humanity, including nuclear war, climate change, super-viruses, artificial intelligence, massive cyberattacks, monster meteors, super-volcanoes, global tyranny, plus who we might become and what we might accomplish, if we overcome them all. 

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the fundamental elements and properties of all living organisms and what we can derive from this knowledge.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the United States, and what we need to do to get it together. 

Send us Fan Mail Discussing global warming, the impacts of climate change, and what we need to do to avert a climate disaster on a global scale. 

Send us Fan Mail In this second double-episode, we continue our analysis of the Biden presidency so far, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, cracking down on anti-competitive practices, Hunter Biden's new art career, improvements to the ACA, issues at the Dept. of Justice, plus similarities in violent ideologies & more.

Send us Fan Mail In this extended episode, we discuss Joe Biden's performance thus far, Reality Winner's release, the overturning of Bill Cosby's conviction, the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, the Republican Neo-fascist threat, plus a whole lot more! 

Send us Fan Mail Trailer for the second half of Season Two of The Breakdown

Send us Fan Mail Discussing gun control policies have been causally proven to reduce gun violence and how to implement these policies. 

Send us Fan Mail Discussing what we can learn from genetic testing about our recent and ancient human ancestry, as well as the potential benefits and pitfalls of medical genetic testing. 

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the numerous conflicting cultures within the United States that have endured since before the founding of our country.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, David Scott and I discuss the threats and origins of the new global fascist movement and what we can do to prevent further attacks against our democracy.

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the meaning and origins of consciousness from multiple perspectives.

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the need for principled conservatives in the fight for our democracy.

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the way forward for Democrats once Joe Biden is inaugurated.

Send us Fan Mail Discussing the attempt to overthrow our government.