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The Michael Shermer Show

A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

Dialogue, Science, Reason, Michaelshermer, Natural Sciences, Skeptic

4.4921 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Shermer and Thornton discuss: aggression: passive, proactive, reactive, relational • moralistic punishment and the game theory analysis of the logic of violence • gun violence (homicide, suicide, accidents) • violence against women/children • male-on-male violence • alcohol, drugs, infidelity • race • self-control • training soldiers • male role models • Rodney King, Michael Brown, George Floyd • police violence • bullying • fatherless homes • rape and sexual violence • self-defense.

Matt Thornton has been teaching functional martial arts for more than thirty years and holds a 5th degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His organization, Straight Blast Gym, has more than seventy locations worldwide and has produced champion MMA fighters as well as world-class self-defense and law enforcement instructors. He lives with his wife Salome and their five children in Portland, Oregon. His new book is The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show Hi everyone. Nice to see you again. It's Michael Schremer. It's time for

0:27.5

the episode of the Michael Schurmer show brought to you by Wundrium. This is the teaching company's new name for its streaming service that you can listen to all their great content, engaging educational short form videos, long form courses tutorials how to lessons travel

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0:51.0

uh... that just i was just scrolling through the app and there's every time I go there there's a new course

0:56.0

It's astonishing. It's like every day this one is called a new history of the American South and all out about history of the American South, I took

1:03.2

courses on that before. This is new, as you know, the Confederate flag still waves

1:08.2

in some places, taken down in other places, very controversial. What in the world does that stand for why were all

1:14.0

those statues from the Civil War still there in the night 20th century what so let's look

1:19.4

at this this is 12 30 minute lectures the geography of the American South, very different from the geography of the American North, also populated by different people from Europe.

1:30.0

Not the Native Americans, that's a whole other course.

1:33.0

The world of slavery, how slavery becomes American.

1:37.0

The southern colonies take root, the southern states and the new nation,

1:41.0

war uprising in southern solidarity, the birth of the cotton

1:44.8

south, evangelical faith in the south, arguments for it against slavery, and so on, the life

1:51.8

in the slave south.

1:53.5

24 lectures the end of the war in slavery, reconstruction,

1:58.0

and all that in the late 19th century.

2:01.0

Now we're under the 20th, segregation, lynching, and disenfranchisement, and on and on.

2:07.3

It's a dark history that we should all learn.

2:12.1

Not the 1619 project, not the 1776 project.

2:15.0

Just, you know, it's okay to have complexities in history.

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