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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 45 (The Greatest of Late & The Free Will Debate)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Dave, Society & Culture, Bryan, Philosophy, Carlin, Callen, Bill, 6

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2014

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Episode 45 I can honestly say this is one of the most engaging, interesting & thought provoking podcasts we have done of late. We debate Sam Harris's "Free Will" theory, we talk about Nine Inch Nails & industrial music, the benefits of self-reflection & philosophy, the pros & cons of sports and sports talk, parenting & raising children, is most obesity a disease or just laziness & much much more.

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0:00.0

I'm

0:02.0

I'm

0:07.0

I'm a

0:10.0

number of friends I'm a persuasive and I have Dave back with me.

0:56.7

Even though I'm pretty sure at the end of the last episode, you're like, I don't know if I'll be good back, but I'm glad that I got him back because it's Friday. I don't know when the hell you'll be downloading this or when I'll get it up hopefully in a couple days. but it's Friday so it's I feel like I was telling Dave before the show how it always seems like we're in the right mindset.

0:55.9

It's definitely hard to continue to find the energy and time to keep doing things you enjoy because we're so consumed with things we have to do, but I'm glad that some way it just keeps happening. And the nice thing about having a friend that you can do a podcast with is we can do something spontaneously, like, hey, do one tomorrow and we can do it so uh thanks dave spontaneously fill in a a void here an empty space

1:34.2

i have no guess please come yeah it's it's funny i was thinking about uh you earlier today because i was

1:40.6

telling you how i got in a debate with my brother and and it's funny how we're so different and we were talking about like I don't I I for I don't even know how we got into the subject but we got in the subject of of like history and stuff like that and how like I'm intrigued like philosophy and history and all this stuff and he was just like saying how how pointless it seems and he's like oh he's like I just like basketball. I like cars. He's like, that's my thing. And I'm just like, yeah, but I'm like,

2:03.3

there's something up like, there's a, it seems like you do a little bit of soul searching when

2:08.4

you learn about philosophy or you learn about history. You know, it's just like that, the common

2:12.6

quote, if you don't learn history, you tend to repeat it or something along those lines. I love when you still do that. You have like, I read this quote somewhere and you never get it, you never get it right. You get the spirit of it, but you never get like the exact quote. But isn't that the most important part? Patrick Henry once said like, uh, I hope there's liberty because I'd rather get killed. Well, yeah. Well, I think that it's, it is, it's funny because I'd rather get killed. Well, yeah.

2:34.6

Well, I think that it is, it's funny because I had this similar discussion with him about

2:41.2

what's intelligence or what's, what can say what somebody, because I was saying how I'm like,

2:45.3

well, I think somebody who knows a little, and you've said this before, so I'll quote you.

2:50.4

It is.

3:07.7

So chances are, this is not exactly what I said. No, it might be completely wrong. And that's, that's a whole other thing, how your memory, you can be so sure of something. And somebody else who has, who was there can have a completely different, like, recall a whole different experience. You're like, wait, we were at the same place. Why are our story so different? It's all perspective. It is. And so what the fuck was the quote I was getting?

3:10.8

Oh, I think you said, oh, I'd rather know a little bit about a lot of things than a lot

3:15.1

about a few things.

3:16.6

Yeah, yeah.

3:17.0

And I think that does make you a more interesting person.

3:19.2

But more importantly, I think it makes you have a better understanding of a lot more different

3:26.1

perspective, a lot more. That sounds like idiot. Well, I'm trying to sound smart. And a lot of different

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