S10 E7: Stop Being Comfortable with Michael Easter

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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I'm thrilled to be talking with Michael Easter today, an award-winning journalist, contributing editor at Men’s Health magazine, and author of The Comfort Crisis. Michael breaks down how our world has gotten more and more "comfortable" since the Industrial Revolution, why this isn't necessarily a good thing, and why more folks today need to do what homesteaders, as a natural inclination, tend to do... challenge themselves and lean into "hard." Where to find Michael (and his 5-day challenge!...

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast.
0:03.6	The theme of this season is that I'm talking to some of my favorite authors and thinkers,
0:08.2	and I am so excited to have someone on today, Michael Easter.
0:12.3	I read his book.
0:13.3	It actually kind of magically showed up in my mailbox.
0:15.5	I think the publisher sent it, but I didn't know it was coming, and I opened it up, and
0:19.4	I just stared at it because I'm like, how did this come at such a perfect time?
0:24.0	So I devoured the book at least one full time.
0:27.6	I think I've read several parts more than once, and I am thrilled to have Michael on
0:31.6	with me today.
0:33.3	He is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Scientific America, Esquire,
0:38.2	Min's Journal, and so many others.
0:39.6	He's a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a contributing editor to Min's
0:44.9	Health magazine.
0:45.9	So, welcome, Michael, thrilled to have you.
0:47.8	Thank you.
0:48.8	Hey, thank you so much for having me on.
0:49.8	I'm really excited to be here.
0:50.8	I'm glad the book magically appeared at your doorstep, and now we're here.
0:54.4	Yes.
0:55.4	And now we're here.
0:56.4	I've told many people about it because, I mean, it's not a home-setting book, and have
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