Weaver & Loom

This past week, on November 10th 2020, Norway introduced a new law that "outlawed hate speech against transgender and bisexual people" even if that speech occurred in the privacy of your own home with up to a year in prison (three years for public hate speech). Is that an overstep? Or should speech be controlled? It begs the question about what does it mean, and where does this path of action lead...

I recently got called out for being "deceptive" and too ambiguous on the show. I thought that some of the criticisms were fair and understandable as to why and how I've come across that way. This is a little "check-in" episode where we visit where this show has come from how it is evolved, and where we are going blatant with transparency as to the intent and desired purpose of this show. I hope yo...

This week I saw a post on Instagram that triggered many conversations around pervasive world views and ideologies exploding through global society today and, ultimately, lead to this episode.  Some notable "Guest appearances" on this episode are from Viktor Frankl - Author of Man's Search for Meaning Dr Stephen Hick - https://lucasskrobot.com/149 and Dr Michael Egnor - https://lucasskrobot.com/151...

Truth--it is a trigger word these says in the polarized globalized liberal landscape. Most people live in such uncertainty that they will only claim that "truth is relative" and "there is no absolutely truth", which, ironically, is a self negating statement proving there is absolutely truth.  But there are Truths that I AM very certain of. Admittedly, there are many gray areas of life--but there i...

Mustafa Abbas is an award-winning Emirati writer and director. One of his many highlights was being the guest of honor at a ceremony held by Dubai Customs where he was awarded for his work as an Emirati filmmaker. Recently, Mustafa has completed his latest project The Long Game . In the second part of this interview we discussing philosophy--a long time passion of Mustafa, and specifically how hum...

Mustafa Abbas is an award-winning Emirati writer and director. One of his many highlights was being the guest of honor at a ceremony held by Dubai Customs where he was awarded for his work as an Emirati filmmaker. Recently, Mustafa has completed his latest project The Long Game . We discuss film, the art of story telling, and importance of structure. But we didn't stop there, we went beyond the no...

Doug Smith, Author of [Un]Intentional, joins us to discuss how screens have been designed to control our every waking moment, thoughts, and actions--and how we can get free from their addictive grip. We cover: how to break free from screen addition regaining creativity how to step into purpose how to reclaim our brains and the power of problem solving ordering our lives for success and productivit...

Doug Smith, Author of [Un]Intentional, join us to discuss how screens have been designed to control our every waking moment, thoughts, and actions. The addictive quality of screens and the dopamine hits our minds receive from them have all been intentionally designed so that we would live unintentional lives.  We cover: dangers of screen addition depression porn how screens are changing our childr...

Manal al Dabbagh is an Embodiment Parenting Coach out of Saudi Arabia.  In the second segment of this interview Manal answers some pointed questions about: Hyper Spirituality and channeling spirits How the spiritual and physical realms connect Is there an objective truth Living Surrendered out of a place of trust And approaching healing for a holistic view--spirit, mind AND body.    Find Manal her...

Manal al Dabbagh is an Embodiment Parenting Coach out of Saudi Arabia.  In this first segment of the episode we talk about: what embodiment is Responsibility Making excuses and normalizing problems within ourselves and within society.  And our responsibility within parenting (hint it IS all your fault :) )    Find Manal here: http://www.instagram.com/Manal.alDabbagh http://www.manalaldabbagh.com  ...

Probably NO ONE would trade living in 2020 for living back in the 1950 without internet, cell phones, AC, supermarkets, advancement in modern medicine (myself included) – but are we wrong? Back in the 1950 super glue, power steering, Video tape recorder, first music synth transistor radio. Teflon pan computer modem  Barbie 2020 life span is 78.93 vs 68.14 in 1950 There has FOR sure been some HUGE...

Who is your degree for, and what is your degree for? The answer to such a question might appear obvious, but as we will see, it is far from straight forward. To examine the value of an online degree we first begin by understand the difference between learning and a degree, opening the door to explore not just "online degrees" but degrees in general and the power of "online learning."   Until next...

The world’s best poker player aren’t GREAT because they are able to make “BIG DECISIONS” in a moment of pressure—in fact quite the opposite. The greatest poker players rarely make big risky decision they learn to make SMALL informed and calculated bets over tens of thousands of hands. When we understanding that we are playing iterative infinite sum games rather than zero sum one time game--the who...

What happens when you work hard and give your all and fail. The disappointment is real. There are two sources for these "failures": 1) Other people didn't want what ever it was, or an uncontrollable circumstance happened, regardless wasn't your fault. Rejection can hurt. 2) You didn't perform well enough. Ouch.  I'm not sure which is worse--but good news is there is a solution.  A solution that le...

Becoming an Itamae (a master Sushi Chef) is a long and difficult journey. But so is the path to fulfilling our destiny. The path to finding and fulfilling our purpose isn't clear or straight forward. It is one filled with pit falls and difficulties--which can derail people for their entire live. Listen as we learn how the path to becoming a Itamae is similar each of our life journeys to fulfill ou...

We continue the discussion with Dr. Weikart about his book The Death of Humanity: and the Case for Life: https://amzn.to/3laeHzb   (affiliate link).  We ask one big question in this episode: does my world view, the construct by which I view the world, align with what I conscience and understand of what it means to be a human?  This episode strike at the core of what we talk about here on the show....

Richard Weikart is Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. He completed his Ph. D. in modern European history at the University of Iowa in 1994, receiving the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Sciences for the best dissertation in that field. His revised dissertation, Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein , was pub...

Today we are joined by Kevin Monroe, podcaster and business coach . . . and most importantly my doppelgänger! In this second episode we continue our conversation and discuss why faithfulness in more important than success, and why EVERYTHING ALWAYS comes back down to people.  And--don't miss the second half of this episode where I digest and give my thoughts on the conversation and process these i...

Today we are joined by Kevin Monroe, podcaster and business coach . . . and most importantly my doppelgänger! That is right--when I came across Kevin's podcast I was blow away to find someone who talks about the same ideas as I. And--the conversation did not disappoint. It is the beginning of a long friendship for sure. If you enjoy my podcast--you will enjoy this episode and love Kevin's Podcast....

We finish up this three part answer from a question from the audience with discussing an important framework that enables us to understand and sort highly complex issues in culture and society.  We've have been building up to this frame work for some time now, and I'm excited for the chance to articulate this concept explicitly, which has been appearing implicitly in the thought processes of ratio...

We continue to answer a question from a listener like you were we cover: What was America REALLY founded on? Jim Crow Laws Brown vs. Board of Education Neo-integrationism Dunbar Highschool Social interventionism The Health Care System Who started the KKK? Who abolished Slavery? When was slavery FIRST abolished in America? This isn't my favorite topic--as US History isn't my wheel house. It isn't m...

In this episode we field a question from the audience from Episode 160 on Social Justice. With that question we cover: Are women systemically oppressed by the tyrannically patriarchy? Who REALLY makes more money--men or women? Three Levels of Abstraction: object, experience and concept. Importance on multi variable analysis. In order for us to answer the BIG questions about systemic racism, or sex...

Fear and Love are to core drivers to boundaries. Fear causing us to run from negative consequences and love driving us towards positive relationship and outcomes.  One without the other produces toxic relationships. Love or fear directed in the wrong manner produces unhealthy patterns and cycles.  Fear negative results drives us from wrong doing--but that must be coupled with love to do go towards...

Rights, Entitlements . . . and boundaries? And how our conflation of these terms are creating a toxic environment.  Rights and Entitlements, strangely enough we are going to tie this into our interpersonal lives with boundaries and how most of the things I read about “boundaries” are really entitlements masquerading as rights. What is the difference between Rights and Entitlements Much of the same...

Words matter. The meaning of our words matter. And understanding their meaning is critical to understanding our world and acting within it.  In this episode we discuss justice and how it contrasts with what has come to be referred to as "Social Justice". We define the meaning of Justice, Mercy, Grace, and Judgement and "Social Justice" as defined by those who stand and march for "Social Justice"....