Season 2 begins with a little recap of the goals of the Human Things 2.0 long form podcast project. Jay shares his commencement speech advice including: 1) Mark special occasions and celebrate every victory, big or small. 2) Every day offers new opportunities and challenges, new opportunities to [...]
Summary Episode 10 The last of season one of Merely Human Things. We are finishing up the interview with Scott Klusendorf. The intro has some very specific ramblings from Jay concerning how easily he can get invested in silly things that would normally have little weight on greater [...]
Summary Episode 9 This episode begins with an explanation of the long form podcast as our mothership. The vision is to produce longer content that takes it time to consider points of view. From this longer format, we will excerpt shorter segments and videos to offer more concise [...]
Life Training Institute’s Megan Almon joins the show to discuss Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s Happening, a novelized telling of her experience with illegal abortion in Paris in 1963. Megan shares her Three Things in evaluating the story as a work of literature and political statement about [...]
We asked people who disagree with us to tell us why. We received a long message; one our producer began to reference as the The Letter. I tried to answer as briefly as possible as a segment of an episode, but the objections are wide ranging and require [...]
