The Storm Writer Podcast

In this episode I talk about updates on my teaching experience, the types of exploits I've observed and tracked against my devices and operating systems, and I reflect on human nature and recall teaching one of the first students who tried to hack me, through sending files and voice messages back and forth. I share my insights and recommendations for how things can improve and I remind us that we...

Unfortunately, our lay psychology is full of myth. Nowadays, when it comes understanding the mind, we have more superstitions than the pagans and animists in ancient times. In my 40’s, one of my deepest concerns is the fear that instead of solving the problems of human psychology, we’re just adding to the confusion with trending false beliefs. The irony is that we have more information at our fing...

Learning to teach a language, talk to people, read people, become a cyber target, and protect myself from cyber attacks. Get full access to The Storm Writer at thestormwriter.substack.com/subscribe

Hey Stormy Stormers. I’ve been writing lots but it’s been a month or two since my last podcast episode. I’ll be getting new ones out to you once a month from now on. Summer is a good time to take a break and reflect. Let’s get back to it. In this podcast I talk about mature themes including sex and porn addiction and psychology. It’s also deeply personal stuff, so if it’s not for you I understand....

In this podcast episode, I’ll explore the concept of being watched, and intentionally sabotaged by outsiders, and I’d also like to explore how those efforts to hamper one person, can negatively impact the people around them and negatively impact the saboteur. In one of my most recent posts, I wrote about The teacher and the Comedian . I wrote about some things that happened in my 20s and 30s, and...

Hello Storm Riders! It’s the Storm Writer! Check out this week’s Podcast: Episode #8: Serving Cardinal Law This is another story of mine from my early days working as a caterer in Boston. The events that take place would have happened more than 20 years ago, on a night where one of the dinner guests was Cardinal Law. Guess who had to serve him. This is an important story about perspectives on what...

Hello Storm Riders! It’s the Storm Writer! Check out this week’s Podcast: Episode #7: Anastasia's Inclusion Interrupted This is another story of mine from the classroom. The events that take place would have happened more than 15 years ago, so it’s safe to say that everyone I’m talking about is all grown up. Also, all the names are fake, to protect people’s privacy. This is an important story abou...

Hello Storm Riders! It’s the Storm Writer! Check out this week’s Podcast: Episode #6: Going East and Teaching English ! This is another story o’mine about leaving your comfort zone. In this podcast I talk about leaving Boston, moving to Egypt, and teaching English to complete strangers online for - starting rate - 10 bucks an hour! Eventually I started making more. There are some images that come...

Hello Storm Riders! It’s the Storm Writer! Thanks for checking out this week’s Episode #5: What Addiction Feels Like . This is my reading of my story from a few weeks back and I mention some images and artwork which you can see in the original post here . In this cast I talk about psychology of addiction, education, science fiction, and artists, and I included one example of my artwork from back i...

Hey Riders and Stormers! This is Baz again with another podcast episode. This is a story of mine from inside the classroom. This story is all about how we perceive things, and how the alternative perception can create success. As always, it’s also a story of failure in success. Sometimes we have a small success but we’re part of a larger system that is failing stakeholders in some way. In this epi...

Thanks for listening to this episode on Sufis and Jedi and please like, subscribe, and check out more articles. I’m a person who’s walked in lots of different circles and come to understand many different modes of human experience. My writing is always about drawing connections between different things. Making connections is my favorite way of learning because you get to feel that there are common...

Hey there storm readers! What’s up! I’m sharing in podcast form my articles: Navajos and Nubians Part 1 and 2 I splashed through talking about English, teaching, the days of the week in 3 languages, World War 2, the 6th of October War, Indigenous languages of Egypt, and linguistic standardization Let me know what you thought about this podcast and if you have any suggestions for future ones. As al...

Thanks for reading The Storm Writer! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In this cast I live edit and clean up my article on the Klingons and the Transatlantic view of the Middle East. I wrote an interesting article about the idea that Star-Trek captures how “the west” sees people like me. But I also write about how the “West” isn’t by itself western civilization, because...