A lot of chuckles to start the show talking basketball nicknames.  They then discuss what the right response to an ailing fascist is.  This is all before the topic of the day.  The topic of the day is physical/geographical separation.  Dave recounts a sweet story about being scared as a kid and going to Bob’s bed to sleep (and that was comforting but for reasons you might not think).  They discuss the ways that the pandemic robs us of being with our loved ones.  There is a poverty of experience over zoom.  The brothers miss time spent together when no one has to be “on,” and people can just hang out.  The brother, however, did find a way to recreate this through listening to a baseball game together recently.

Mr. Big Shot

Hot Seat Question: Are you going to vote? Who will you vote for? (Bob’s response)

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

Dave and Bob bring some joy and laughter into the Studio and check in on the lifting veil that is October.  They also check back in on the season theme, separation, and how they’ve been able to put their ideas into praxis or not.  The theme of the week is trying to understand why sometimes being alone feels like solitude (nourishing) and sometimes it feels like loneliness (filled with sadness).  They give a few stories of experiences in these states of being.  They close wondering about the effects of technology on our alone time and the importance of being intentional around it.

Hot Seat Question: Are you going to vote? Who will you vote for?

Tuned In

Bake Off is back! (season 11)

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

The Thriving Crew welcomes Dave Harris back to the studio to complete their discussion on cinema and dystopia.  This week they discuss movies that highlight mental health, climate, and racist dystopias.  They find a lot of real gems (see below)! They end the show with a look at the current state of cinema with movie theaters that haven’t been open since March.

Climate crisis picks:

DM –Princess Mononoke

DH – Mad Max Fury Road
BM – Okja

Mental health crisis picks:

DM – The Lobster

DH – Synedoche, New York

Racism picks:

BM – Get Out

DM – The Deep by clipping (song)

DH – Strange Days

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, outro is clipping by The Deep , the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

The Thriving Crew welcomes the multi-talented and T.i.D. junkie Dave Harris to the show to discuss the state of cinema in the pandemic.  They start with developing DH’s 5-colliding-crises framework (not to be mixed up with Kill Bill’s 5-finger-exploding-heart technique): public health, economic, racial justice, climate, and mental health.  They then discuss great movies that fit in to each of these categories.  This week delves into the public health and economic crises.

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD

Feld’s 3 crises that inspired Dave Harris’ framework of facing 5.

Public health crisis picks:

DH & BM – Children of Men

DM – Rams

Economic crisis picks:

BM – The Florida Project

DH – Metropolis

DM – Brazil

Hot Seat Question: 

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

This is the 3rd episode of a mini-series within a series: letting go, forgiveness, and moving on. But first, the listeners came through with a song request, and the Thriving Crew puts on a show to start the episode.  The heart of the show is delving into the unforgivable and whether there are things that are simply beyond forgiveness.  The answer to this seems to be contextual.  Sometimes this idea of unforgivable is used to hurt people (e.g. lock a person up and throw away the key), while in other places moving on means not forgiving but keeping moving.

Beyond Survival is the great book that Bob spoke about

Some good news: Bill to give path for incarcerated folks to become firefighters upon release

Hot Seat Question: 

If you could meet and have dinner with any person who ever lived, who would it be and why?

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrow’s Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

In the intro segment reminiscent of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, Bob and Dave issue a moratorium on singing until listeners send in song suggestions (send them in!).  The Crew gets into the theme of the week: forgiveness, which is a part 2 of the theme from last week, letting go.  Although forgiveness can’t be forced, U.S. culture seems to teach children and everyone else the opposite.  Based on psychological research, the brothers suggest that we might work on the social conditions that lead to forgiveness rather than simply pushing people to forgive.  

Bob enjoyed Bear Lake so much it made him float.

Short article on forgiveness research

Hot Seat Question: 

If you could get back one thing you’ve lost in the pandemic, what would it be?

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New website! – https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrows Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.

New Season!  This season’s theme will be separation.  Separation means preparing apart, getting distance, releasing, and perhaps counter-intuitively deeper connection at times.  For the next 8 episodes, let’s come together to come apart.

The show starts with a fascinating update on the classroom situation, and Dave flying the U.S.S. Enterprise with his 4th graders.  The sub-theme of the week is letting go and psychological separation.  Bob delves into a personal crutch that has gotten him through the pandemic and how to be able to let go of crutches when the time comes.

Did Dave read The Power of Letting Go?  Only he knows.

Some solid apropos commentary on the sports walkout

Hot Seat Questions: 

What is the worst purchase you ever made? 

What is the best purchase you have ever made?

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New website! – https://thrivingindystopia.com/

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song, Today’s Special: Tomorrows Jam by Doctor Turtle is the new outro , the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art.   Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show.   Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website.  Thank you, Mix.