It’s been five years since Pam and I first moved to Tampa, Florida, so I asked her if she’d come on the show with me to talk about living here. We discuss both the pros and cons of living in Tampa, if Tampa is the best part of the state, and then we compare Florida with both California and Hawaii.   Then my "hater" friend John had to come on the show to share his hysterical point of view on why Florida blows California away.    And finally, my friend Kris comes on to share his story of being flooded out of his home during Hurricane Helene last year.

Last episode, I brought on a couple of my friends, April Hunter and Wade Williams, and we started a conversation around the seven deadly sins.  Today is part two, and we’ll finish the conversation by covering some big ones… greed, lust, and pride. 

But wait, there’s more!  After relistening to it, I found myself going into a deep dive on certain aspects of lust that I wanted to try and understand further, from a Biblical perspective.  I’m not going to say I was successful.  To say it was challenging is an understatement.  But it feels like, every time I take a deep dive into trying to understand something in the Bible that challenges me, I come away feeling closer to God, and closer to Jesus… and this was no different.  I feel like I grew, so I'm sharing that journey here after the conversation.

Today I’m gonna bring you a fun conversation around the Seven Deadly Sins… and how learning to avoid them can make your life better.  In order to do this, I’m bringing on two guests, April Hunter and Wade Williams.  (April, you might remember from Episode 51 about Online Dating.)  We don't claim to have all the answers. The goal with today’s show is just to make you think, because I think the danger is not thinking about them at all.  This show is part one, of a two-part series, and covers the history of the seven deadly sins, as well as sloth, wrath, gluttony, and envy. 

Today we’re gonna talk about my journey into church: How I went from so angry with the church, to really feeling compelled to go, what it was like that first time, and how it feels four months in. I’ll also discuss some questions I've had and challenges I’ve faced, and what I learned from them. Now, I realize “church” can be a very polarizing topic, but I think this podcast truly has something for everyone, no matter how you feel. And if you don’t think about church at all, but you just like a good story, with entertainment, drama, humor, vulnerability, and compete honesty, you’ve got that here too.

We constantly hear about the importance of watching what we put into our body, but nobody ever talks about the importance of guarding what we consume with our minds.  Today, we’re going to talk on that. We’ll discuss the science of how our thoughts and behavior can be molded, without our conscious awareness.  We’ll tell a story about our major media companies doing just that.  And, we’ll talk about the many ways that the harmful media we consume can affect us. 

After the divisiveness of the last election, I wanted to look into the science and psychology of how that happens, in hopes that some understanding could better help me to “break the spell” of the negativity.  What I didn’t expect to find, was that, MOST of the time, when it comes to our opinions on things like politics… we’re not really all that knowledgeable about the things we believe.  We’re all just a bunch of idiots, arguing about things we know nothing about!  Researching this show was totally eye opening to me…  and I think you’ll find this show really eye opening as well.  We'll have some fun with the craziness of it all, but I think there’s a lot everyone can learn from in this show, to improve our lives and better come together.

Language is so useful to society, that the negative side of it is often totally ignored… and that’s that simple words can really shape our perception, and the framework of our language, can really cage our minds. Today, we’ll discuss the many ways that words and language can do that, while sharing a ton of examples and scientific studies. We’ll also talk priming, hypnosis power words, neurolinguistic programming, how words can be used to divide and control us, how to spin that for the positive… and much, much more.

This episode is more of a thought experiment: It began at a meetup group, when I mentioned how weird it was that we have these ancient pyramids, similar in age, construction, and use, all over the world, but from a time when the world was not connected at all. A reply, with a possible link between the ancient pyramids and the Tower of Babel, led me on a journey, questioning the possibility of that link... which then led me into a line of thought about how our words alone, can fall totally short with regards to understanding God.

Consciousness is something that has baffled people forever. What is it? Where is it? How do we even define it? I think the confusion sets in because it can mean so many different things to so many different people. It can mean anything from "our feeling of being awake", to something extra-sensory and unknown within us, to a type of bond that connects us all. Today, I will make an argument for all of these descriptions... and more.

Today, I started out with an intent to do a podcast about time, but while researching time the story naturally flowed in many other directions, into subjects that were so interesting they demanded to be included.  Many serious flaws were exposed, not only with regards to what science really knows, but with the entire establishment itself.   

Also included in this episode:  Newton - not cool, Blame Einstein, A world without time, Beavis got jokes, Scientific American triggers me, Big Bang - science shot me down, and so much more…

Get ready for a super-fun conversation with my good friend April Hunter! This is one of the coolest podcasts I've ever done. We cover the world of online dating, the dirty tactics of Match, why you may not have had the luck you hoped for, how to protect yourself and decipher fake profiles, the most common complaints from a he-said/she-said viewpoint, some funny stories and give our winning pick for the best online dating app. In addition to that, we’re going to talk about ways of meeting people offline…. And on that front, we both went to a speed dating event the other day, so we’re gonna talk about that lovely experience as well. It's a long podcast so buckle in or enjoy it in chunks!

Today I want to talk about a way of dealing with EVERY problem we face, as well as our lives in general, that will always end in a win… with love. This isn’t gonna just be a rah-rah show. I’m going to give specific examples. We’ll talk science. We’ll also talk metaphysics. We’ll share scenarios. We’ll talk philosophy… And I’m going to seriously provide an intelligent argument to convince you that love truly does win, every time.

Today's show is gonna be a good one! We are going to talk about a lot of things within quantum physics that will blow your mind, including the double split experiment, the measurement problem, superposition, and entanglement. I’m going to explain them in clear, easy to understand words. Then we are going to talk about many theories within science based on trying to understand the results of experiments: the Many Worlds Theory, the Holographic Principle, Quantum Realism, Simulation Theory, and Biocentrism. Then we are going to discuss some crossovers between metaphysics and quantum physics that I both agree and disagree with.

We spend a third of our lives asleep, and we dream for a large portion of the time we are asleep, but we have no idea what dreams are or why we have them.  Today we are gonna talk about dreaming.  I’m going to bring you a lot of information related to what we know, or think we know, along with my own thoughts on the subject.   We are also going to cover several things related to dreams, like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, people who act out their dreams, and how scientists are trying to figure out if they can change our waking thoughts and desires by manipulating our dreams.  We’re going to talk about the heavy abundance of negative dreams, and how I think we can change that.  We are also going to talk about many spiritual dream associations, like dream telepathy, precognition in dreams, shared dreams, time-travel in dreams, etc.  

What if I told you that the consensus among experts in the neuroscience field is that we do NOT see the world as it truly is, at all? The truth is, we don’t! Every once in a while I come across a subject so amazing that it stuns me, and I just sit there thinking, “This is life changing! Why don’t they cover this in school?”

This has been one of the best of those subjects, and it has been a total game changer for how I view life on many levels. Today, we are going to cover a ton related to perception: The science behind perception; perception vs reality; many of the top studies on perception; and how we can use all of this information to better our lives.

I've always been a fan of Tony Robbins, who some people view as the best "life coach" on the planet, so when I saw he was doing a free, live, five-day seminar I jumped on it. I expected it to be entertaining. I expected to get something out of it. What I didn't expect, was to have a meltdown and breakthrough on day one, that would lead me down a life changing path of discovery. Today I will get very personal, talking about my experiences in Tony's seminar and how it transformed my life.

Today we will talk with Jordan Harris of the "HereWithJordan" YouTube channel about the power of listening. Jordan interviews complete strangers on the streets and asks them some really deep questions. The moments he captures are truly amazing. As much as the mainstream media tries to divide us, his videos show us that we are all not so different after all, and they show us how, by showing compassion and really listening and understanding each other, we can all find increased commonality and greater love as a society.

Today is just going to be a short talk to give some follow up on my health following the last episode. I also wanted to spend some time talking about a new podcast that I have started, "Exploring Tampa Florida and Beyond", and why I felt like I needed to start that podcast now.

In this completely unedited episode, I am going to discuss some intense personal challenges I have been facing since the last episode, as well as my mindset to learn and grow from them going forward. Also, I spend a good chunk of the show talking about my personal experiences with God, and what I feel I need to take away as a result of them.

The things in my home will be shipped to Florida next week, and my home will be going on the market. I'm going to stay behind for about a month, and then I'll be heading out. With that in mind, I wanted to take this episode to talk about the top ten things I will miss about California, and five things that I definitely won't.