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Dropping the Denominator – Epi-3554

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

There is a math concept known as the “lowest common denominator” but this phrase is also used to describe people. It refers to, “the tendency to simplify or compromise complex ideas, art, or culture to appeal to the broadest possible Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:09.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:11.0

A better way.

0:20.0

and you don't have to be another facing.

0:21.0

And we are alive.

0:22.0

Welcome folks and good Monday morning. We are going to do a show today called

0:26.7

Dropping the Denominator and if you're like I've been around here a while and that sounds familiar. It's literally a show that I did back in June of 2019

0:39.8

before the COVA came, right?

0:43.3

And I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do this morning.

0:47.3

And every once in a while, I think it's fun to go back

0:50.1

five, six, seven years and pick out a topic that I did and then redo it instead of, you know, running it as a rewind,

0:57.5

actually do it in the modern day. Things change, what you know changes, what we learn changes etc But I want to tell you the genesis of this topic the first time that it ever happened

1:10.8

We were in one of our favorite places of course at his Sanibel Island on vacation and whenever we were there

1:16.7

Since Stockbones and Nurse Amy lived roughly a two hour drive away from there on the other side of Florida, they usually come up and

1:24.8

grab a room in our same hotel for a couple nights and we hang out and do stuff together.

1:31.5

And we were having a conversation. I think it was mainly me and bones were having a conversation.

1:33.0

I think it was mainly me and bones were having a conversation.

1:35.0

The girls were chattering and chitting about whatever girls do when they get in that situation

1:40.0

and you know

1:50.3

BONN said something about the dumbing down of society and you know we're toward the end of that vacation I start thinking about what I'm going to do when I get back and I said I know one of my first shows I'm going to do when we get back dropping the denominator and it's an interesting topic because when you hear like the drop the denominator or lowest common denominator you tend to think in mathematics right of

2:07.0

Of course your lowest common denominator that is a mathematical principle we use when you know

2:12.4

Performing functions with fractions right so that we can create

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