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 [...]
Episode 6 is the first of three episodes originally recorded to be one single episode. Segment one features a discussion of creator verses organizer, inventor versus promoter, the underappreciated genius verses the public face of success. Jay explains why he takes sides with Jack Kirby and Nikolai Tesla [...]
Episode 5 of Human Things 2.0 starts with a rousing defense of the work of Hall & Oats including slightly messing up the names of two of their songs. Segment 2 discusses a short clip from a 2018 Oxford Union Panel on Abortion Rights where pro-abortion activist Ilyse Hogue of NARAL makes the claim [...]
On this episode, Jay is going Eric Carmen style, all by himself. Bad Movie Night gets explained, Streets of Fire comes up (not for the last time), and midi-chlorians are identified as the bane of the Star Wars universe. On a more serious note, segment two evaluates the [...]
