Three Equals Five

Different people have different inherent biological limitations: color recognition, spatial awareness, physical strength, processing emotions, and other. But do the masses of people have a significant limitation in their ability to visualize or understand basic mathematics - counting and percentages? What does that mean for society, democracy, and a representative form of government in the current...

Well, it’s been a journey! To mark our 30th episode (or 29 + 1 beta/trial), Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about the path they’ve been on and what they’re looking towards.    https://www.patreon.com/ThreeEqualsFive  https://threeequalsfive.buzzsprout.com  https://open.spotify.com/show/7yxcbdSbd1e8w20ooLLmuj  https://podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/three-equals-five/id1590436951  https://www.iheart.com/podc...

Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica. You may know them better by one of their affectionate nicknames, such as weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja and some others. It’s a plant, it grows wild, and the United States federal government says it’s a controlled illegal drug, but maybe that will soon change. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss marijuana legislation and legalization.    https://www.patreon.com/Thre...

The Great Unwashed. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss individuals and groups moving from one location to another, carpetbagger invasion, breeding out things, naturalization versus immigration, denouncing your nation, swearing fealty, declaring war, definition of naturalization, culture versus citizenship, post-war immigrants, individual freedom and liberty are the fundamental values of the United States,...

Rich people are pushing poor people out of their homes. Or are they? Mike is back! He and Jon and Tom discuss local gentry, environmental justice and bleeding heart liberal nonprofit organizations, saving Gaea, government services proportional to taxes paid, geriatrics versus gerrymandering, affordable housing availability, property ownership, Section 8 housing, changes in minority family dynamics...

Lizard People. You’ve heard of them. You may even know some of them. We talk about them and don’t care whether they know it or not. Mike is out for this one and Jude takes his place. He, Jon, and Tom discuss public awareness of lizard people, the involvement of NASA, the television show V, Sleestaks and the Land of the Lost, helpful characteristics to identify lizard people among us, the good ones...

Some people want to keep on living and it’s gonna cost them. And cost you. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss how much money you are worth, fiduciary tables, life insurance, a Mexican standoff versus a duel, the federal government being involved in healthcare when all other aspects of healthcare outside the military is at the state level, rising costs of healthcare, politicians running on healthcare as an...

There’s SAD and then there’s MAD. We’re here to help you settle into Cold War v2.0. Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about a definition of Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD shaping world politics, the United States nuclear deterrent triad of silos and bombers and submarines, fail deadly and dead hand fail-safe launch systems, boomers lurking under the sea surface, the alien greys, Russia’s Satan missile, g...

[Explicit Content] It seems Central Intelligence Agency has done some things that were not exactly above board. Mike, Jon, and Tom talk about staring at goats, MK Ultra scope and purpose, psychedelic drugs and unknowing participants, a guy jumping out a window, Ted Kaczynski, the imperfect mind control of Cardi B, Oscar’s Razor, midnight climax, Illuminati and Q Anon, CIA destroying documents, blo...

And it continues. Some might say that lots of people bullying someone is what is known as cancel culture. Jon, Mike, and Tom, joined by guest George (Jorge), talk about stand up comedians and hecklers, definitions of cancel culture, de-platforming, society is a marketplace, censorship, Disney’s Mulan movie and China’s Uyghur slave camps, no NGram search result for cancel culture, Apple and Microso...

And you thought bullying was bad. Following up on a discussion of bodily autonomy, Mike, Jon, and Tom talk about whether bullying is a healthy habit, the definition of bullying, national center for bullying and the need for a pro-bully coalition, bullying is an ongoing relationship, singular and plural terms, whether bullying can be bad, girls being worse than guys, holding a grudge, typical rebel...

Bodily autonomy is apparently a thing (but without the mead and plans for pillaging coastal villages). Mike’s passionate about it. Jon gets spicy. Tom talks about dead people that said stuff. We discuss having control of your own body, the origins and definition of the term bodily autonomy, joining the Army, freely entering into a contract, morality and ethics, self-ownership, involuntary commitme...

It’s getting hot in here. And apparently there is some disagreement between Mike, Jon, Tom, and our guest Mandy about climate change and associated affects. We discuss polls indicating climate change being a very important issue, UN State of the Climate report, whether global climate change is happening, areas getting warmer and some areas getting cooler, the average temperature of earth going up...

Aliens. They’ve not just passed their junior high space travel class, it seems they’ve got some marketing sensibilities as well. So, we’re talking both shop class and FBLA (look it up folks). Mike is out for this one (we all have our limits). Jon and Tom seem to start out relatively focused, but you know how it goes. We discuss the term UAP versus UFO, Project Blue Book, NASA involvement in the se...

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Apparently, some people get SAD during the winter months, but there’s a lot more than just less sunlight and colder weather to cause stress in modern society. Our guest Steve joins Mike, Jon, and Tom this episode as we discuss the holiday season, gift giving, seasonal affective disorder, Winter solstice, effect of diminished sunlight on human behavior, retreating to our caves and getting eaten by...

Opinions may vary as to whether this is the single most important topic we have ever discussed ... or maybe other descriptions are more appropriate. Rex Marshall starts us out getting us up to speed on some key aspects of Reynolds Wrap, then Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss an Alex Jones rap to go along with tin foil and his incredible prediction accuracy, local guy sporting some interesting headgear, a...

If you think the Food Pyramid is a healthy diet guide, think again (also - you might wanna turn down the volume for the first few seconds of this one). Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss food, the thing Tom has been more wrong about than anything else in his life, food as poison, itchy boxer shorts, unusual thirst, hypoglycemia versus hyperglycemia, slightly elevated blood sugar level, Mountain Dew, Richa...

Why do 3 non drug users want to legalize drugs? Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss drugs, the war on drugs, legalizing drugs, declaring war on - and victory over - inanimate objects, bodily autonomy, distribution to children, age of emancipation, spontaneous combustion, significant mental disability and involuntary commitment, OxyContin prescriptions for headaches, Chinese legislation relations to US legi...

Cryptocurrency is a digital Messiah that will free humanity from all suffering and usher in a global nirvanic state. Or it’s a hyped up widespread fraud luring all into servitude for cyber-spawned overlords. Possibly something else. Mike, Jon, and Tom discuss pork products, bacon as a currency, blockchain basics, compelling oratory, never being a better time to buy gold, Legos and Duplos, the lega...

Some would say we’re either currently living in a state of mass hysteria or we’re screaming full speed ahead to get there. Mike, John, and Tom discuss who defines mass hysteria and how they define it, definitions changing, nuns spontaneously meowing and then not stopping for months, the meow game, school children in Le Roy New York exhibiting muscle spasms and tics, APA being different than APA, S...

You eat clones and genetically modified organisms ... and frog. Well, at least, if you’ve eaten an apple, you’ve almost certainly eaten a clone and if you’ve eaten a strawberry in the last so many years, odds are you’ve ingested a genetically modified organism that’s part frog DNA. John, Mike, and Tom discuss Monsanto being the devil, cloning animals, vertical versus horizontal genetic transfer, e...

Well, apparently Rittenhouse is actually innocent, though you’d probably never have thought so from the majority of reporting to date. Join us as we discuss what happened, what people said happened, what people want to happen, and how this does and may - or may not - affect all sorts of social, cultural, and legal stuff. #Rittenhouse #2A #SelfDefense #Constitution Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero - he’...

Following up on our cheerful Total War discussion, we ramble through more light fare. We discuss the US going to war with China to defend Taiwan, not being big fans of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chairman Mao and Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin vying for top spots as mass murderers, the intentional starvation of Ukrainians by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Holodomor, Chairman...

John, Mike, and Tom are back together cheerfully talking about a more light subject matter. We discuss radiation exposure, people as nuclear test subjects, 2 time atomic blast survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, death from blast wave, pooping your pants, waging total war, nuclear war, duck and cover, fallout shelters, cold war, armor survivability in Europe against Soviet...