What's up navigation traders welcome to this week's video update today's Friday September 20th Hope everybody had a great week of trading. We're gonna go through the the alerts But before we do I want to jump in the community talk about a couple things one is The upcoming event so if you click on events And you'll be receiving an email about this as well, but we are doing a three-part strategy class on What we're calling the iron duck option spread If you just click on that events and then click here to save your spot I'll take you to the registration page or if you just go to navigation trading comm slash iron duck registration The dates are October 1st October 8th and October 15th Okay, so those are Tuesdays Tuesday October 1st Tuesday the 8th Tuesday the 15th 4 o'clock each of those days If you can make it in any way, you need to be there. This is I I mean, I haven't been this excited about a Strategy in a long long long time. This is this is something that's quickly becoming My favorite go-to strategy And just to give you an idea The the I've been I've been trading this with the criteria that we have set up I've been kind of working through the criteria working through that the nuances of this trade for a while And I've been trading it really heavily in and the account that I've been using literally in the last six months is up 50% and So and actually that's not that's not completely fair because I've been doing a couple of other things in that account as well So I can't give all the credit to the iron duck strategy, but it's a big majority of that return has come from the strategy so Make sure you're there. This will be recorded.  So make sure you can attend if possible and obviously I want your feedback as well If there's anything that I need to do to record additional sessions to clarify some of the pieces It's a pretty cut-and-dry strategy though. I mean there's no roles no adjustments It's get in get out a little bit shorter term time frames So I think you're really really gonna like it So make sure you put these calendars on your date on your put these dates on your calendar. Don't want to miss it and and we'll be Talking more about it. There'll be emails going out, but if you want to get registered right away Go ahead and do that by just clicking on the events in the community. So That is that then the other thing is I want to just mention who got caught being hot this week This week goes to a kind of a newer member who's who's jumped right in into the conversations Not only asking great questions, but already, you know helping other traders answering their questions. Love it I love I love just the positivity of this community and where it's going. We're just getting started. We've got some Right now we're in the process of revamping our entire membership area Which includes the community and our alerts delivery. So it's gonna be awesome. So we're just getting started here So appreciate all the commentary all the all the feedback and all the participation in the community it is It's a lot of value for people more than you probably know especially for newer traders So keep up the good week good good work and this week goes to S. A. R. Not sure exactly what that stands for but that's what he goes by in the community. So say congrats to essay and Keep up the good work essay. Well, we love having you here All right, so let's jump into the alerts for the week starting with Monday the 16th Our first was a rolling Adjusting trade where we have the short call vertical in De now remember this is the one that started out as a long put that we're getting close to earnings and frankly I kind of messed up when I did our last roll and I turned it into a short call vertical But we kept it with the earnings on the horizon And so now it is a short call vertical and we're keeping it as such so we rolled that from September We were down to four days to expiration rolled that out to October with 32 and adjusted our strikes appropriately, so if we take a look at DE Down a little bit today So you can see we've made back a little bit since that roll So just holding on to this for that short delta exposure and by the way right when I just started recording this video Just before yes, and peas were up, you know five six seven points now all of a sudden they're down 12 sounds like China is Cut cutting short the trade talks and so the markets reacting in that fashion so Interesting to see what'll happen over the weekend So that's DE Next trade rolling adjusting trade in QQQ so a lot of rolls this week And we're in expiration week today is the last day of trading for the September equity options And so doing a lot of rolls here. This was in QQQ This one was down to also four days to expiration We went ahead and rolled this one all the way out to November So we skipped over October rolled this out to November with 60 days and adjusted those strikes So let's go to QQQ and the reason we did that is just again. We talk about this a lot We're just spreading out our rolls Spreading out our time to time to expiration. It's just another form of diversification And so this is the one that's out in November now We also have the one that we had already previously rolled into October and you know, that's made back a lot since we've done that So it's at a good point here where if it continues if price of QQQ continues lower We will look to roll these strikes closer and we'll roll this from October out to November But that's where we're at on those two spreads next trade opening trade in oil 4 slash cl so we put on a strangle in oil targeting 30 to 50 percent of max profit and We got out of this today. So we're only in the trade for four days Actually, we put this on Monday got out today booked over 30 percent of max profit and remember what happened to oil when There's that attack from potentially Iran or somebody we don't really know yet, but they attack the Saudi oil Refineries and and so oil shot up and then they came out and said no, we're good We're gonna be back to full capacity within a couple weeks with an oil dropped and now it's just been kind of bouncing around here But in the meantime implied volatility contracted So we got it when it was super high Contracted nicely just like we always say fear is overstated There's always a big overreaction in the markets and that's exactly what happened here Giving us the ability to book a quick 30% of max profit. I think we booked over 500 bucks on that trade Next trade opening adjusting trade on IYR. This is the real estate ETF So we added an iron condor in IYR at that point We were still hoard holding our short call vertical spread from a previous iron condor So we just went ahead and added this one to kind of spread out those break evens collect some more credit We're up a little bit on this trade since we put that on but just waiting for some more time to pass And as you can see that short call short call vertical is now zeroed out because we closed that today Today was the last day of trading instead of rolling it. You know, I don't I don't really have a bias You know, I don't think real estate's going down necessarily and so instead of rolling that and keeping that short delta specifically in the real estate sector We went ahead and just close that and so we're now we're just holding that iron condor Next trade closing adjusting trade in SPY so we close it We had a short call vertical that was part of a previous iron condor. We went ahead and close that out We just opted to exit and you'll notice I did a lot less rolling on some of these And just closed them out just because of where we're at with our overall short delta versus our theta So we're right at about we're a little over two to one on our short delta versus our theta beta weighted to spy And so I like I like where we're at. I don't want to really necessarily be any more short than that So I didn't so a lot of these Especially the specifically the three that we closed today, which I'll get to you We just went ahead and closed instead of rolling To go ahead and just get those off the books and we're in a good position with our ratio So I didn't want to carry any additional short delta. So that's what we did in SPY now We've also got a full iron condor going on in SPY and I see prices hanging out right here. So not quite enough to take off yet But we'll look we'll be looking at that next week if prices continue lower Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in DIA. So very similar to what we did in the queues We just rolled this from September with three days to expiration out to November skipped over October and Kept to keep that short delta exposure in our portfolio and in going back to IYR I mean, you know, I like having this short delta in DIA and QQQ. It's more of a broad market index as opposed to a sector Index like real estate or you know something a little bit more specific. I'd rather have it in one of these broad markets And so let's take a look at DIA. We've got kind of a similar situation to the queues We've got the one that we just rolled into November where price is pretty close to where we put it on to where we rolled And then we've also got the one in October Which has moved down nicely and so again just like queues if it continues lower We'll roll these strikes closer roll that out to November, but just in hold mode at this point Next trade opening adjusting trade in KRE. So we've got We had a short strangle in KRE It's kind of nearing the the point of a potential adjustment and but we haven't rolled the puts up on that one yet But in this case, we just added a short strangle collect more credit Widen out those breakevens. We did this out in November where our other one is in October And so let's take a look at both of those In KRE. So here's the one in November that we just put on it's pretty dead centered Got a little bit of profit since we put it on just waiting for some more theta to decay and Then on the October one, you can see price is still hanging out in the upper end of the range Now remember it has breached our short strike here But if we look at just the put you can see there's still a decent little chunk of premium left in there So if it does continue much higher and and time has passed as well and time will continue to pass and so You know that that pink line will get closer and closer to the green line So once we get a little bit more premium out of that if it continues lower We'll roll up those puts if it goes back lower Then obviously we will be back in range and we'll be just waiting for some more time to pass So that's the plan in KRE Next trade rolling adjusting trade in XLK. So we just rolled this from September to October now There was no November options And so that's why we opted for October with 29 days and you know It just it helps kind of again diversify that that time frame that we're in so went ahead and rolled that adjusted the strikes If we look at XLK now You can see prices moved down since we did that roll. So we've gotten back some profit Since we did that just holding this for some more downside Downside action to benefit Next trade rolling adjusting trade in ES So this is the long put vertical head that we had in the S&P futures and we've been just holding this for that downside Downside protection moved down a little bit since we did this roll yesterday So just holding that for some more downside to benefit that piece Next trade a closing trade in SPX. So we had a weekly double calendar We were able to book a nice profit on that trade. I think it was six hundred and some dollars Five eighty yeah booked five eighty on that one So nice trade there and then we ended up putting on another one today, which I'll get to here in just a second, but Got out of that. Those are we were in that for eight days Booked booked a really nice profit there. So out of that one and then the next day Which is today we entered a new one, which I'll get to here in just a second Keeping in route with our other trades though I mentioned this one. So we earlier on Monday We put on a CL short strangle and then today Friday We closed it out booked over 30 30% of max profit in just that short period of time Next trade closing trade in EEM. So this is where we we put on just a long put Which where we don't buy a lot of options But in this case we're just we're looking for a potentially a quick move down and EEM That obviously did not happen. Actually, it was lower for a little bit and then it just shot higher So we ended up just taking a loss on this one if we take a look at a chart of EEM this is emerging markets and You know, so when kind of bounced up here looking for a potential Continuation to the downside and that did not happen. It just shot higher and then just been kind of consolidating so We we took a loss on that one, but we're out and Then next trade was a closing adjusting trade in IYR. That's that short call vertical that I already mentioned and Then XLF. So this was our last September position. Today is the last trading day So again instead of rolling we just opted to exit out of this and And took a took a loss on that trade and then just just to keep our short deltas where we want them Which is just over two to one on that short delta to theta ratio And then lastly we put on another weekly double calendar in SPX This one has seven days to expiration in the front week 21 in the back week and then So let's take a look at this now again I put this on this morning when the S&Ps were up about five or six and now they're down 11 So this is already moved to the lower end of its range You can see prices hanging out right here Shown a little bit of profit, but it's made a substantial move The other thing to notice is you can see where these price slices are This is where the original break even was when we put this trade on and now look at the break evens They've they've widened substantially and that's what happens when the implied volatility Expands with these things the market moved down implied volatility expands your break even and your max profit is going to get larger You know so unlike unlike an iron condor or those break evens in your max profit or static Because we're using different expiration cycles. We're selling the front week. We're buying the back week Though those are going to fluctuate throughout the life of the trade and that's what we're seeing here. So That is it for the alerts. Let's take a look at some of the other positions starting with gold We've got two different pieces in gold one of which is a short call vertical from our previous iron condor prices Just outside the range get a little bit more Movement down back into range there next week. These expire Next week, so we've got five days. So we will address this early next week. We'll either roll or close that I Like I like gold a little bit to the downside so we may kind of keep that dream alive for another cycle We'll see where we're at with everything and how that affects the rest of our portfolio And then the other piece that we have in gold is this other iron condor where you can see prices hanging out right here Waiting for some more profit before we do anything there Natty gas this has been a crazy ride But we're right almost smack dab back in the middle of our two sets of short strangles Just waiting for some more time to pass Before we do anything on those and they have got 38 days to expiration. So got quite a bit of time there ZB bonds so we've got two different pieces here. One is this adjusted strangle Where you can see let me spread this out for you You can see prices hanging out right here. We could use a little bit more up movement Before we do anything. We'll be either rolling or closing this once we get to about 25 to 30 percent of max profit on Here assuming price plays nice and and moves a little bit higher then the other piece here is a Strangle that we added to and So there's no adjustments done on either side of this one at this point But just playing the waiting game here waiting for some more time to pass on that All right, so now wheat we are this position is is well over 50% of max profit and you may I Surprised I didn't get any questions on this but wondering, you know why you haven't haven't booked this and really we're just waiting until Next week the next cycle is at 63 days to expiration. We're going to add another piece in there We're trying to get back to Profitability in wheat and so we want to we want to continue this so we are just kind of holding on this letting that Letting that additional theta we will probably add an iron condor in December in the December cycle early next week And then close out the November one. So just holding on to that. It's dead centered. I got a Got a decent amount of range for to move around in and not really hurt us as far as the slope of the P&L line So just wanted to hold this over the weekend potentially collect some more theta on that one Apple down over a percent and a quarter today. So move back down into range. Just holding this for that short delta exposure You looking for some more downside to benefit that I mentioned DE I mentioned DIA EWZ. We've got a short strangle Price was close to being at a point of adjustments come back down So just looking for a little bit more downside to benefit that short strangle I didn't add to this because implied volatility has been so low IV percentiles at 10 IV rank at 12 So I'm not gonna add in in a situation like that Goldman Sachs This was another one that kind of ripped higher on us where we had a short delta position So you can see this one's at a range. We need some more downside to move back into range on that one We're out in October. So we got plenty of time there, but just looking for some more downside to benefit that I why are I mentioned KRE QQQ SMH? All right, our good friend SMH. We've been in this one for a little while We've got this adjusted strangle prices hanging out here near the upper end of the range With with this recent down move that we're seeing right now We we are getting a little bit of an implied volatility pop So I would like to add to this early next week. We've got a lot of capital We're only using about 30% of our capital right now And so got some got some dry powder to release And so I'd like to add another kind of senator short strangle here in in November in SMH And we'll look at doing that early next week if implied volatility stays elevated. I Mention SPX SPY and XLK. So that's it. So those are all the positions. Those are all the trades Don't forget make sure you register for the iron duck option spread three-part strategy class first one is not Is October 1st at 4 p.m. But make sure you register to save your spot. I think we are limited to with our webinar software limited to 500 Which we've we've gotten close to that a couple times So make sure you save your spot look forward to seeing you there can't wait to show you the strategy It's going to be unbelievable. Talk to you then


Hello you guys, what is up, welcome to another video. So for today's video, you can already tell by the title. I'm gonna be telling you guys how to manifest and how I've manifested things into my life and how it all works because I have gotten a few questions on it. So this is just my personal tips and tricks. This is what I've learned from reading books, watching a movie and just from my experience. So yeah, I'm just gonna get right into it and not ramble on. Okay, so I just wanted to start off by saying that you're manifesting constantly. Every single thought that you have, you're manifesting. If you keep thinking negative things, then you're attracting negative things. If you are always thinking positive things, you're gonna keep attracting positivity.  There's positive magnets and there's negative magnets. And if you put yourself on the frequency of positive magnets, then you're only gonna be able to attract those because they're gonna match the type of metal that you have on your fridge. So just think of it that way, you'll always have to be so conscious of what you're thinking every single day and that's why I found that it's just so important.  And the universe will test you, it will and it almost purposely will send negative things your way to test you. You have to bulldoze through those tests and really just switch on that positive flick in your mind in order to attract and manifest positive things. So just to start off, just know that you're constantly manifesting and creating your future every single second because we're always thinking. So first step that I have for you guys is getting rid of your negative subconscious beliefs. If you guys don't know what a subconscious belief is, it's basically a belief in the part of your brain that you don't really know it's there, like you're not really conscious of thinking that because it's happening in your subconscious mind, you can search out more about it, but that's just a brief explanation. For example, if you were a kid and in your household, your parents always said money doesn't grow on trees, like you have to work hard for your money, money will only come to you if you work X amount of hours a week, like you have to do this, you have to do that, and then that made this subconscious belief that money is hard to come by and you need to work very hard for your money without you knowing that formed a belief in your subconscious mind that carries on to your adulthood if you don't be careful about it.   What a good exercise to do is to get rid of your subconscious beliefs is just kind of take a pen and a paper and write down like, can I attain money easily? And if the answer is no to that, you realize that you have the subconscious belief that's maybe blocking your manifestations. And if you're honest with yourself, you can see and connect the dots that everything you're thinking is an exact vibrational match to what is happening to you in reality. It's like if you get a speeding ticket, let's say, and you're like, oh my gosh, I have such bad luck. I got a speeding ticket and you're telling yourself you have bad luck. Therefore you're gonna keep getting more bad luck.  So that's what you're gonna be attracting is bad luck. Obviously bad things can happen to you like that, like just shitty things in general, but you have to catch when that happens and think to yourself, why did that happen to me? What was I thinking throughout these past weeks? Catch yourself the next time you have a negative thought and just try and get rid of it or turn it into something positive. So in order to attract positive things and in order to reprogram your mind, you have to be honest with yourself with what you're actually thinking and how you view things in your reality. In order to experience something different in your reality, you have to change that up here. Okay, so now that we got our limiting beliefs pushed to the side, we got rid of though, the fresh blank minds, you have to ask yourself, what do you want? Be honest with yourself, even if it's so dramatic and so out there, be honest with yourself, like do you want that? You can have anything you want, but it's our mind and limiting beliefs that are stopping us from having those things because we think that we can't actually have them. You can do anything, it's your mind that's your mental roadblock. So a good tip for this, like a good little exercise is to kind of manifest a tiny thing in your day. Tomorrow, let's say, say to the universe and be like, I want to attract the number 72 or I want to attract a cup of coffee to me and you got to believe that it's going to happen.  Then it's never going to happen. You have to believe that you're going to attract it. So do this little exercise, okay? Put it out something that you want to attract that you mentally believe it's going to happen. So let's say if you go to a coffee shop every single day and you're working at a coffee shop, think to yourself, like someone is going to buy me a cup of coffee today, randomly. Believe that it will happen. So the important part to manifesting is realizing that to manifest something like a cup of coffee is just as easy as it is to manifest a hundred cups of coffee. One dollar is as easy as a million dollars but the difference between the one cup of coffee and the hundred cups of coffee and the one dollar and the million dollars is that you probably won't believe that you can attract that much money, that you can attract that many cups of coffee.  You thinking that means that it's not going to happen because that's the law of attraction. If you don't think it's going to happen, it's not going to happen but if you believe it's going to happen, it will happen. You can be like, I can find a dollar easily on the floor. Like that's easy. That's so easy to do versus a million dollars. You can't just find a million dollars on the floor. Therefore, we don't believe it. And that is the whole point.  You just have to know that it's going to happen and you will be able to attract it. So next step that I have for you guys is not forcing your manifestations. If you're forcing something in general, you don't like it because if you're forcing something on yourself, you're not willing to do it. So if you're trying to attract money in your life, don't go and get 12 jobs, 12 different jobs because you don't want to get those 12 jobs and you're just not going to feel good about that because you're forcing that on yourself. You have to do things in a positive manner. So take inspired action on things instead of taking forceful action.  As you're writing that book, just imagine that book getting huge and selling millions of copies around the world. Since it's not forceful, since you're willing to do it, your brain is wanting to attract it.  So that's what kind of taking inspired action means. You gotta do what feels right and let your intuition guide you on that. So that's why it's easier to manifest things that mean less to us because if you're manifesting money and you really need money, you're becoming attached to the outcome and you're not letting the energy just flow. You're becoming attached and obsessed with the outcome. So that's why it may be harder to manifest the money that you want versus a cup of coffee that you're not even thinking about. Money can only come through you or your manifestations can only come through you when you're not worried. Because when you're worried, your brain is going to negative places. Therefore you're not attracting anything positive. You're not actually attracting it because you're worried about it. If you're desperate for money and you're anxious and worried about it every single day, you're not gonna attract it because you're worried and anxious about it. That's not positive attraction. That's not positively attracting anything.  Anything that's gonna make you lose money. The hardest part is actually believing it and that might take time and obviously that goes along with reprogramming your subconscious beliefs but it will come. So next point is you have to realize why you want something. Do you want money to make you feel less worried?  Now this is how it works. The law of attraction isn't about what you specifically want but it's what you become a vibrational match to. So if I'm thinking to myself, I want a million dollars so that I can be free. I can be happy. If I'm not those things already without the million dollars then I'm not a vibrational match to that a million dollars because I'm still in a vibrational match that's lacking. So I'm gonna be only attracting what I'm a vibrational match to. This is like a really good example that I found in a book. So if you're listening to a pop radio station you can't tune in to country music when you're on a pop radio station. To get to that country music you gotta change that frequency. You gotta change the channel.  You have to become free so that the money is just going to come after that because you're a vibrational match to it. And that can be really, really difficult. Obviously why you can't just snap your fingers and manifest anything. It's a whole lifestyle change.   I was listening to this podcast with Bretman Rock and he was saying how he manifested becoming a famous YouTuber because when he was younger he said he always acted famous. He said he would walk into a store like he owned the store like he was already famous. He would dress like he was famous. He took on the vibration of being famous and wealthy. Said once he became famous and wealthy it was like nothing changed because he already felt as if he was famous and wealthy because he already had tuned that radio station to what he wanted to be. But you have to just live it out like it's already happening. It'll happen without you even knowing because you're already feeling those emotions. So let's say you wanna manifest more money. Start writing out a list of things that you would be if you had that money and slowly start to integrate those things into your everyday life and become that person that has that million dollars already. What would you be doing differently in your everyday life? Picture yourself having a million dollars and think to yourself what would I be doing differently in your everyday life if you had that million dollars and do it implemented into your life. You have to start to feel like you actually have it already. You have to feel it. You have to become it. And if you can't do that right away you can start with just sitting down for 10 minutes a day whatever you can last for. And what I like to do is I used to put on like music and just sit silently it because music really helps me manifest and feel the things that I want to attract just because I get in a really good state and flow. So just literally if you have troubles with becoming it just start little by little every day and sit down, maybe put some music on and envision your life with those things you wanna manifest and feel into it. If you want a luxury Lamborghini close your eyes and feel what it would be like to be in that Lamborghini. How happy you would be to have it and feel those emotions.  The most important part I can't stress this enough is to feel it. Feel it like you already have it. Is that it's gonna change your vibration. Just thinking something is not going to necessarily change your vibration unless you're putting that feeling into those thoughts because if you're worrying about money you're getting anxious and you're feeling that worry. Once you put it out into the universe it's already on its way to you. When you buy a package online you don't go check the tracking like five times a day because you know you ordered it and you know that the package is on the way to you. So you gotta have that mindset as well as feeling into it is that you can't stress about it. You ordered something, you know it's coming.  So you don't need to go and check that tracking. You don't. You gotta know and believe it's coming to you. Don't stress about it because that's gonna completely destroy what you're trying to manifest. Ask, believe and receive are the three steps. You gotta live by that. So I know all this information might seem super overwhelming and I know you may be thinking that's too hard. I can never do that. But you can. You just have to have the right mindset and you need to reprogram your subconscious beliefs and you can do anything. We're all so powerful and we don't even realize it. We only use 5% I think it is of our brains. We only use 5%.  You guys start taking the right steps in the right direction. You can do it. Don't expect your mindset to change overnight because that's nearly impossible because we're so programmed. As I was saying in the beginning of the video, just do a little test run. Do a little test run. It's kind of cool seeing those little test runs happen.   I really want you guys to experience as well because it's just so magical. So I'm gonna just give you guys a couple of suggestions of what to watch. So there's this movie on Netflix that's called The Secret. And that's what first got me into manifesting. And I highly, highly suggest that you guys watch it because it explains everything. I mean, it doesn't go very in depth, but it really could get you motivated and pumped up. So I really suggest that you guys watch that. Also, if you guys wanna take it a step further, there's this book called Ask Anything It's Given. And it's all about the law of attraction. It explains how everything vibrational energetic works and give it a read because it's just so informative. But I would suggest watching the movie first because that just gets your foot in the door. And then if you guys want to go further to read that book because it goes so much more in depth. Like what I talked about, there's a whole book on it. And it's just such interesting stuff. And it's so crazy that at the end of the day, our whole universe, we're just all energy. And it just makes sense. Like it's scientifically proven that everything is energy. And the law of attraction is scientifically proven. So yeah, it's very, very interesting. But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching. And I just want you guys to live your best, happiest life and attract everything lovely into your life. And you can do it.  I love you guys so much. Thank you for watching. See you guys in my next one. Peace out.


Hello and welcome to Digital Freethought Radio Hour on WOZO Radio 103.9 LP FM right here in Knoxville, Tennessee Today is Sunday June 21st 2020. I'm Larry Rhodes or Doubter 5 and as usual We have our co-host Wombat on the line with us. Hello Wombat.  Oh God is an awesome God Here is maybe Not mine And our guest today are jw kennedy dread pirate higgs budro red leader and george. Hello Digital freethought radio hour is a talk radio show about atheism free thought rational thought humanism and the sciences And conversely we also talk about religion religious faiths. God's holy books hands superstition And if you get the feeling you're the only non-believer in Knoxville while you're just not There are several atheist free thinking and rationalist groups that exist right here in Knoxville And we'll be telling you how you can connect with them right after the mid show break And did you know that there's a streaming atheist calling tv slash video show broadcasting here in Knoxville? Did you know that one back? Yeah, I took notes the entire time and I feel good for you I kind of feel one that it was very brutal But I I don't know if I was really ready for another You know, like I like video games and stuff like that But it's a little dark when you have to play a game where everyone's dying from a virus in a time where like people are Actually buying from viruses. So it's just like I loved ellie. I love joe. I'm not going to do any spoilers But man that is a dark game and it gets really brutal sometimes Check it out violent though. I am excited to play him on the PlayStation 5 I think it's mostly got off on some other platform But this is a call-in talk rate uh tv show that we also have broadcasting every Wednesday night And it goes out on youtube as well go to youtube and look for the free thought coalition Free thought united coalition of Knoxville and you'll be able to See their videos there If you'd like to interact with us during this radio show go to facebook and do a search for digital free thought radio hour And use a messaging function to send us questions or comments Nice, what's our topic today there wombat? Hey, we're gonna be talking about a lot of stuff free will but before we begin I leave it open to our dread pirate Higgs for invocation This is our quabs. This is our quabs prayer Our noodley lord who art in a colander I'll Dante be thy noodles Thy sauce be rum Thy sauce be yum With meat as it is with vegetables Give us this day our garlic bread And forgive us our cussing as we put up with those who cuss against us Nice and lead us not to do ketoism But deliver us some carbs For thine are the noodles and the sauces and the grog whenever and ever Rahman Okay, hey, I love when we have new guests. I figured this is probably a nice time to open up some time and talk about them George slash Richard tell us your life story in 30 seconds go Well, this is a new experience for me. I was a radio announcer 50 years ago And um trying to get it back So please put up with me Uh, I was raised as an atheist in new york city so, um I have never been to an atheists meeting before They're happening all over the place now true meetup groups are a lot of atheists meetup groups out there Yeah, I guess when you are raised one you don't really need to feel like you need to seek out ones But because you always have your family at home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I think um My mother was I mean she wasn't out to convert everybody. She just Didn't do religion And my father just didn't care at all. Nice It's it's a wonderful thing to hear that. Yeah good now in um in new york city There is an organization called the ethical society the new york society for ethical culture So I was raised in that a little bit here and there They've been around for a long time And they have a presence on the web So in my case I grew up in brooklyn and I went to the brooklyn society for ethical culture Nice, which is on prospect park west in brooklyn and um It was so it was started around the turn of the 20th century. I understand And they incorporated themselves as a religion Ironically so they're chartered as a religion in new york state So they're an ethical society don't have a god of belief, but they consider themselves a religion So it's an atheist religion more or less. They they don't consider themselves in a religion really they're just chartered as one officially Yeah, there are there are oh, how do I put it? Just because your religious doesn't mean you believe in a god, right? Like you could have like Atheists based, you know spiritual practices. That's just about community and Eastern religions a lot of eastern religions are like that. Yeah, that was in buddhism Sintoism and my and personally my issue isn't even theism. It's just nosticism without any support backing it Like you can believe in a god that actually exists. I'm totally fine with that But do you how do you know if that god exists or not? That's that's what i'm really concerned about But that's great. That's great richard. That's great. Yeah, I mean, it's um, you know here. I am in tennessee now and uh surrounded by More religion than I ever have been in my whole life.    Yeah, they feel like they are That's probably the best thing And people say to me have a blessed day and I no idea what to say back to them J. W. Kennedy. Here's a good question for you. What would you say to someone who at who told you hey have a blessed day? I I just say thank you. Yeah, I don't really um I don't There's some some non-religious people some a to see that as an opportunity as a window or a doorway to interest into a Yeah, it's street epistemology like conversation for me. It's it's more. Thank you I just let it go unless I know them personally. Yeah, exactly for me. That's just a sense of even then that that's not something that would I would draw the line if they gave me like a business card and invite me to their church or something But I would just like There is a there is a corollary question and that is um Oh May I pray for you or shall I pray for you? I've had that a couple of times I like that question. No, they're asking for consent though, and I like that. That's good I'd say I'd rather you praying On your own Like in in private. I'd appreciate it, but not not with me here I write down a short list of gods that I have to pray to so it's like hulu the volcano guy It's seram to the god of the 16th dimension. He has things Make sure you don't mix that up and then the god of God of mustaches is like one of the best gods very cool I'm going to open this up to Collar slash dale newman dale newman tells you my story in 30 seconds go for it Uh, um, no pressure 27 seconds Okay, right You have you been on the show before you were here last week Yes, okay. Okay. Okay. So you already been on we know you. Okay. That's good. Good to see you back And then everyone here's or most there's a lot of Tennessee representation here Yeah, but I don't think I don't think they'll have the chance to tell us who he was Or did it did you get into that last week? Who I am hey now that we can see you why don't you just reintroduce yourself? How about that? Yeah My name's dale. Uh, I'd like to go by red leader or really good-looking Neither of which really catches on I was I was uh searching for god for a long time discovered, uh Darwin's origin of theses when I was in elementary school and was Telling the kids about it. Hey, this is really neat book about how things came about And a few days later three cartel loads of kids showed up at my house to take me to a revival And that was fun. I'm ignorant. What is the revival? Oh a revival. It's where you convert people And They revived the fire The fire in your soul to fork christianity during do they need like parental permission or can they just straight up come into bus? And take you and stuff like that like us We didn't get in permission, but my parents knew where I was going So I gave my life to christ and I think that lasted maybe 18 hours And I reverted back to my old ways and now I'm a deist and and I live in Tennessee Trying to deal with all of the religiosity That uh previously described Well, maybe a lot of people that were listening to us, uh Might not know exactly what a deist is. Would you go into that a second? That's a great question It's just an irritating point of view to most people. Uh, they're it leaves open the idea that there is a god And as a matter of fact, we know pretty well which direction There is a god if there is one and uh, I I just choose to believe in Something else out there. Maybe it's the influence of star trek and and all the other things but uh Before no one would have any idea that god would probably have to be in the neighborhood of the big bang and now we can Speculate maybe there's something beyond the big bang. Who knows? But he's going to take a particular interest in us and he doesn't have a book. Yeah Uh, it's like do you have to be a deist to believe the statements that you just stated? Oh, that's a great question. No, I don't think so. I don't pragmatically. I don't I'm no different from an atheist or I don't uh pray a whole lot Or do any of this sort of I don't try to get the votes when I run for public office by screaming I'm a deist or anything like that But it's just it's just a comfortable position for me. Now. I understand that the Signers of our declaration of independence that most of them were deists Because if they're atheists, they wouldn't be our founding fathers anymore And they'd get some other white guys You guys are out. We're who's next in line you okay great. We need male land owners I'm in here and sign this document. You're our new founding fathers I'm wondering what they'd be deist if they knew what we knew today about how much we've learned about science I may they'd be surprised if black people aren't property. They'd be like what? Oh, okay. Well, yeah That's true. Yeah, what's this coronavirus thing you're saying I have to cover my mouth when I cough Whoa, that's bizarre people live past 30. Wow Oh Okay That time they they believe they they often expressed The natural god and which would be a reference to the nature as being god And that's a pretty defensible position when you consider that that nature has created us And mindlessly but and we are it's And that's where the word create becomes problematic because it has its own baggage And so to say nature created us is an agency Implication Dale what were you saying again, could you could you we can also say that an earthquake quake Created real foot lake But the earthquake has no intention. Yeah intention Then wouldn't it be better to use the term cause to them? I like that too I think I don't want to get too caught up on the words I would worry about not worry, but it sounds more like he's he's using god as a label for natural things And then my question would be Is there a justification for calling something? Like an elephant if the label may not necessarily apply and why don't we just call it what it is rather than What it is plus here's my god label on top of it. Yeah, like that would be my more fundamental approach for that but what we're talking about is more of like how to Assess things in an s.c. Kind of idea and maybe we should talk about s.c. Since we have two new you guys here s.c. Is a very very complicated term Oh I get it wrong half the time it's all a big deal think of it as like socratic examination s.c. It's more just a way Street epistemology. It's a way of asking First what is s.c. And how do you spell it man? That's great. So Hey guys, I'll handle that question s.c. Is basically talking to people without sounding like a jerk and trying to get to the bottom of why they believe things And it stands for it. Is this a word? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. E It's s.c. for nothing. Yeah, uh, it stands for street epistemology, but you can also look up socratic examination You'll get the same thing or look up. Let's chat on youtube and you'll find Plenty of examples of it also mine pirate with a y Well, let me just say Gotta get stuff on your channel, burby Yeah, uh Epistemology is the study of how we learn things or how we know things right and taking it to the streets and talking to individuals on the street Is street epistemology And what you're trying to do is you're home you're homing in on their reasons their logic their approach Their methods for gaining knowledge and that's fantastic because instead of saying the conclusions that they reach Instead of saying you're a deist that's silly because you're making fun of deism And that might make someone more defensive or saying I can't believe your deist That's attacking them as a person you asked like how did you come to the conclusion that deism is true? And then they give you their reasonings like I just like star trek it makes me comfortable Or maybe you know, I just chose to believe it and you ask Is that a reliable way to come to a true conclusion or not? And if they say well, you know, really I'm just more like an atheist is everything's like that's cool I'm not here to push you. I just want to know if there's a regional path to get from point A to point B And is it a valid path? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and if it is I'll believe it too. I don't care what it is, but I just You know, something can still be true and only true once I'm totally fine with something Not many people though. I would love for something to be repeatable It doesn't necessarily have to be repeatable to be true. This is one of those things All right, man, we got nerdy for a while and guess who who guess who jumped out there He's the devil himself. All right. So I was just about to mention the the wordy-dirty on free will So here's the thing. We're gonna be breaking uh in like about 10 minutes I figure before we delve into free will it might be a good idea to just get everyone's definitions on free will That way we make sure we're talking about the same thing Because whenever I talk to this guy down here and I'm saying down here because on my channel Two screens down there's where Boudreau is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Boudreau has very very impassioned beliefs on what free will is and what it isn't but we have very different definitions of what free will is So I agree with his perspective on what he calls free will But I think it'd be good to just make sure all on the same page in my in my opinion real quick free will is the difference between Walking out of a restaurant and being pulled out of a restaurant, right? So like if I'm choosing to leave On my own free will that's my free will if I'm dragged out against my free will That's the violation of free will and between those two is the difference between those two is what I would call free will Uh, how about this? Dread pirate Higgs. What do you think free will is? Wow, I think free will is really about whether or not we make The choices that we believe we do um, so it's not a matter of just being Walking out of a restaurant being pulled out. It's whether Whether that is ever a choice in my own mind. Okay Um, uh, George slash Richard. What do you think free will is? Well, I think in essence, it's what you said Tyron The difference between being dragged out of a restaurant or walking out of a restaurant. Cool for me Mr. Good-looking Or did you want to say really good-looking uh red leader? Uh, what do you think free will is? Independent thought Independent thought what do you mean by that? well thought You're being able to think things That maybe you have not thought of before or not being introduced into your brain by some Commercial or other outside source. Oh, I love this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm making yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and Eric's not in this hat He's like, yeah, I like that J. W. What do you think free will is just making sure we're all on the same page I'm making like two different camps in my head. Go for it. I am a spectator to this conversation because it is It's deep stuff. I could not give you a coherent definition Okay, to be honest because I think All of our choices are influenced to some degree by our environment by our memories by our biases by our Our language the languages that you know By how hungry we are It's it's deep So I'm I'm just I'm gonna pop some imaginary popcorn and listen And that's and that's the kind of definition that's closer to what I'm suggesting Okay, that or five you're up on the bat or you're on the base home plate I pretty much agree with j. W. I would throw one other thing in their heredity a lot of our future decisions based on where we came from Biologically with our dna or family or upbringing But I getting to your example I think free will is more like Walking out of their deciding to walk out of the restaurant or deciding to stay You know, it's it's not whether somebody else is forcing me to do something It's it's my own personal choice to do one thing versus doing another thing Okay, yeah and being able to freely choose between those two and I would say someone dragging me out It's a violation of what my free will is if I decide to eat food. Sure Boudreau I'm buckled up. I'm ready to go. All right.  You got the floor Go for it. I have to I have to kind of riff for just a second I think we're I think we're going down an interesting road here to try to To try to have everyone have their own definition about this if if we're talking about your free will Which I think is a free will you talk about like you're doing something or someone is doing something for you How could I don't I'm not sure we'd have a podcast about that That's not a very interesting topic except for if we're talking about, you know The crime or punishment or something like that, but I thought what we were trying to talk about is whatever you want to define it as Is what what JW is saying and what others are saying? Can you make a decision like can you pick a number between one and a hundred? Is that are you able to do that freely? Or is it biology and I think when my Matt In and what I heard JW say everything he listed off heredity being hungry How much of any of those do you have control over and I think zero And my my stance is that we think we have free will We think we can freely choose and I think random number is is or pick your favorite movie or anything like that Is a good example because if you think that you are the author of that choice I think you are in that delusion of Having free will cool And I love I love that statement because you're recognizing like some people call Two different things free will and so one of them is a more interesting conversation than the other So what we're going to do is put aside the idea of hey, if someone does something I don't want that's against my consent. Okay, we agree That's violation of what we can call free will in this case But let's talk about this is it possible to make a truly independent choice Without influence from anything and we'll get into that in the second half of the show Larry why don't you take us out? Hey, sure. This is digital free thought radio hour would come out every week on wednesday 7 o'clock and w o zio radio 103.9 lp fm In harrier and Knoxville, Tennessee simply the best You're listening to 103.9 fm wozo radio simply the best Welcome back. I'm doubter five and this is the digital free thought radio hour second half of the show On wozio radio 103.9 lp fm right here in Knoxville, Tennessee today is sunday june And let's talk about the free thought groups that you can join right here in Knoxville, Tennessee First there's the atheist society of Knoxville Founded in 2002. We're in our 18th year. We have over a thousand members and you can find us online at Knoxville atheists dot org Or you can just go to google and type in Knoxville atheists and it'll should bring it up for you By the way, if you don't live in Knoxville, you can still go to meet up and search for an atheist group in your town Don't find one start one Another large free thinking group here in Knoxville are the rationalists of east, Tennessee or ret Go to rationalist.org and click on upcoming events to find out when they get together Earlier in the show we said we talked about Knoxville atheists call in tv show. Well, it's now online on youtube It broadcasts live I should be broadcasting live on wednesdays 7 30 p.m. I believe 7 7 30 it's called free thinkers united coalition And uh, you just go to youtube and search for that and you can find them and their archives there If you're interested in getting involved with the tv or this radio show Just come to an ask meet up or ret meeting and talk to us about it. You could be our next co-host or guest Be sure to visit digital freethought.com and click on the blog button to find out more about our topics and How to listen to our or download our radio shows our topic today is uh free will free will and We need to get into the repercussions of whether we have free will or not And if we don't how can we hold anybody accountable for what they do? Yeah, absolutely also Guys, I can't find it. Do you guys know where it is? Where's the love? Where is the love? Where is the love the love the love? Where is the love? Guys, we have uh, a lot of great feedback I made a black lives matter post on our street epistemology page and got a lot of support for it And i'm really thankful for that also Um, I think what was cool was a conversation on Uh, what how can se be really helpful for this particular? Point of view and se I think is just a really great way to have people talk with each other Without trying to make each other defensive without trying to start an argument or a debate But like truly try to get to the bottom of things and maybe de-escalate, you know Like our primal reactions that are based on our own, please Please define se for the listeners. We did in the first half Do it again do it again people need reminders again street epistemology is a way not to have an argument or debate with Someone but get to the bottom of why they believe something and it's a really good de-escalation means of talking with people And I the way how I think about it in three rules is keep that conversation positive Help them think and make it a conversation and we think that if this is taught in schools Kids who grew up to be police officers will have a really great tool and are about to help keep, you know Conversations cordial calm and actually get past misunderstandings that maybe people have right now Also, I think it would be nice to have like an se class For officers and I'd be willing to fund that I'd be willing to have my tax money Go into that kind of funding But I had a comment that went by boss 1000 He said this post is a breath of fresh air compared to the other conversations I'm having regarding Black Lives Matter and the se space right now. Thank you I think we need to learn about the escalation in policing to learn how se could fit in The goals of law enforcement aren't the same as an seer So idea the overlap and having a few specific targeted suggestions might be great Maybe a basic principle of officers not always assuming they're in the right or at least acting that they project authority would go a long way For example, and that's true. Whenever I do se I try not to be an authority on anything I go in there with an open mind trying to learn as much as I can So yeah, thank you for the comment boss 1000. Let's get into Free will I'll have I'll we'll lead it back to Boudreaux Boudreaux. Where do you want to begin? I like the idea of what you said talking about how If we have no free will then how can we prepare ourselves to deal with that and how can we Educate people to understand, you know, how we still need to be held accountable um And and I thought I thought about this a lot and and I think Sam Harris and Dan Dennett kind of Boom bingo on this, right? Oh, yeah, we haven't said Sam Harris yet Um, but but yeah, they kind of the run into some trouble here where Uh, you know, there is a worry that yeah, if we you know Teach in class that we don't have free will I mean people going to start grabbing guns and going shooting people and just say who cares I can't control it. Anyway, and you know, it's one of those things where it's like I think we need to continue operating as if we have it because Uh, go ahead and try to to to pretend like you don't have free will It's such an illusion that I think it's really hard to do like, you know, stop breathing for instance Just just try to stop breathing. You know, what do you say we'll stop reading? Well, what do you say to those people who say obviously I have free will I admit I can choose whether I think you have a hot dog or a hamburger for lunch, you know, that's a choice Um, what do you say to those? I usually go with the favorite movie or the random number Ideal and and I I asked them to pick a random number Uh between one and a hundred and and when they give a number I asked them like how did they come up with that number? If they say randomly, then what right? Well, then then you say then you ask them, you know, okay If you were and if anyone's familiar with computer programming if you were to write a program to generate a random number How would you do it? I have Yeah But how do you generate a random number with a computer program? You tell the computer to generate a random number And the computer just a call Yeah, okay How does the library come up with it? There's a specific not randomly It's not random. Yeah, it's something called a seed right use a seed That seed is a starting point and it could be the temperature of the cpu the time of day something That's different. So even the limits that you give it could be the seed. Yeah Yeah, exactly as long as the seed is the same and the random number always comes up to be the same It will yeah, and that's what and then and then you ask, okay If I could roll back time would could have you given me a different random number? And if the answer say say yes, they say why why would have you if nothing else changed and we just replayed it again So I'm just open the floor a little bit for everyone else. So what eric is basically saying is Um despite the fact that you may not be capable of making a unique random choice on your own You're still couple bull of your actions. You're still responsible for what you choose Well, he's not saying you're free of that society has to treat you like you have free will has to right You can say now if I if I stuck my hand in a snake pit Then the snake bit me Would you say that the snake was operating on free will or that he was pro pre-programmed to bite me? You know that type of thing Or all pre-programmed to do things because of the way we were raised the school We went through and all the environments. Yeah to an extent. We're a function of our background environment But we don't let snakes go roaming around our house So if we if we come across somebody who's chosen Chooses or has the free will to kill somebody and does We we assume that he can do that in the future He may choose that choice in the future and maybe chosen for him Even if he's got no free will and we have to lock him away from the populace So the you know, we have to treat him like he has a free will and has chosen to do something But even if he has no free will we still need to separate him from the population Right and um del i'm going to throw this question out to you. Do you think we're responsible for our actions? In which cases are we not? To me yeah Uh, we are certainly responsible for actions if nothing more than what larry says to protect the population in this You know civilization, but we do know that they're like larry said There are certain creatures that have no free will at all that i can see and that would be like a spider that has There's already programmed to do his web. He doesn't do it creatively. Oh, I love it. What okay Keep going keep going keep going keep going. I'm sorry. So, uh, I I believe we've have a certain amount of free will Or at least we have to be treated as we have but we do not larry's right if we're uh Uh programmed Uh into christianity and to trust someone who says they're a christian Then we're going to vote republican or whatever one that says he loves jesus more than his atheist or or demon worshiping democrat opponent, right I want to say something about spider is a law in certain states where you you have to believe in some god to run for office Well, I hope that's what I heard there used to be there were nine states that got that in their constitution Tennessee is one of them Article two section nine. I think it's not there anymore than right? Well, there have been amendments Okay, but we can't change the constitution because it's a founding document. We have to leave it the way it is But it would amend it Yeah, it's like the u.s constitution and allows for slavery We don't have the slavery anymore because we amended it but the constitution still says that Cool. Cool. Hey, I will say this in Tennessee You were not allowed to run for office if you were a minister or any one of the of the cloth True. Faith is our minister, which is spider spiders make thousands and thousands of babies almost each time and the spiders who Make the classic spider web That very optimal function for catching bugs the ones that make you know faces and smiley faces or charlotte webs messages Like hey, that's a great pig. Those die Because they get those aren't designed to catch bugs So only the ones that make those spider webs as we're aware of it live and the creative spiders die But that's an evolution practice. So there might have been creative spiders, but they just die. So So there's my shout out to them. Hey, uh dread pirate. Uh, actually, would you mind if I asked george? Uh, george, what do you think are we what is a case when we're not responsible for our actions? Who's george? Well tyrone that is a very tricky question because I've looked into this and There's no short answer people are programmed I think In a very complex way In other words, um We view the world through a color filter And then we react to that filtered vision that we see So our actions are a reflection of of the distorted vision that we have of reality And that people form a protective filter Based upon the two crazy parents that we had And their delusional systems So to put it very quickly um Our free will comes within that context And we do we do have choice We do have free we do have free will and we do have choice in that We have free will within that context and that's You know, so we're all going to bumble. We're we are all going to make mistakes We're all going to see through our delusional system And we have Delusions and we have unique delusions Yeah, and we and the scary thing is to an to a reasonable degree everyone's delusional So it's just do you have the healthy delusions For society or not and how can you reduce the number of delusions that you're actually operating under So that you can like use the best means of My delusion is better than your delusion Yeah, it's always rushed and I think that's that's the pursuit of se in a sense is like just trying to figure out What's the best way to figure out if something's true or if something's false? Dredd, I'm going to throw this out at you When would be a time when we're not responsible for our actions if free will is as we're defining it in the second half of the show It's I mean that that's a really tough question Because I think it there's a bit of a sliding scale on that I I was going to refer to a show I like it's called the carbon arrow effect and it's You know street mid a street magician And one of the tricks he does is and he explains it after the fact Is to a guess someone's favorite actor Okay, and so in the preamble in the conversation that he's having with the person he's Going to do this trick on He inserts All these suggestions, you know different names of tom hank movies Yeah All you know numbers associated with the movies and all that kind of stuff and and then the he says, okay Right down your favorite actor on a on a card Yeah, and then he or he writes it down and then he flips it up and they go Oh, I can't believe that you got it right. Yeah, and he had just essentially manipulated Yeah, you know covertly their Free will he led him to the answer what he had already predetermined was going to be the answer Now that's that's a pretty clear Uh In an obvious way of of doing it from a skilled magician's point of view But I think um, you know, we're kind of tossed to and fro by all the influences that we Are subject to in a day or throughout our lives um And so in in essence, we are just responding to Um More or less the This subtle the subtle influences that we don't you know pay attention to on a on a very conscious level Sure, like, uh, you know the question is often asked or suggested. I think matt dillahunty says, uh, you know, we uh Thoughts or I mean beliefs inform actions and actions have consequences, but we don't get to choose what we believe Right what I mean. So I think you know put in a parallel Sort of form to the question of whether or not we have free will It's all those influences that we're not really paying attention to every day that actually inform us of our you know inform our actions and And uh, so that's why I don't think we really have free will I think that's beautifully said I also think there's like the idea and this jw Let me know if this is funny or not because you're the the the president comedian But I feel like the olympics are becoming less of an athletic showcase and more of a bad parenting convention when I When I see kids who are like six years old and training day and night to become like the world's best ping pong player Or like yes the best. I don't know whatever random sport there is in the olympics right now Uh, there's documentaries that are heartbreaking of kids just At 3 a.m. In the morning because they have to get perfect days But they also have to be the best person in the world and their parents being like do this Strike harders make your serves better. Come on do this. Come on. I think a good case can be made that it's abusive Uh, well see if you ask the kid the kid says well, I love ping pong and I this is what I'm choosing I would tell you I love jesus when I was at age two. Here we go So the root cause to what dread pirate was saying is like you can have influences influencing your free will Yeah, I'd like the entertainment industry too. They do that a lot. Oh, definitely. Don't make me sad. What what industry was that doubted? The entertainment industry singers television shows all kinds of Beauty pageants. Yeah You gave me the next amazon prime binge watch that I'll be doing.  Yeah, so so I'll ask this go ahead budra, so it doesn't seem like there is a way to come up with a Uh, a truly unique thought if you're always influenced by the environment so what So I think I think admitting that this is why I fall asleep in chapter two of stem harris's bugs. Yeah, okay So what I'm sleeping now. Wait, I never finished the book. I don't know No, no, I think that and this is where I think you tread carefully because I mean I've pissed people off before talking about free will and they've They've left the room because it just makes them so mad to think they don't have it But if we know if we if we know enough about the science we know enough about how our brain works And we know this exists. We can avoid things like the charles wittman shooting in texas where he left a note after killing himself That hey study my brain. There's something wrong with me Um, I I I didn't want to do this, but I was compelled to do it. He was basically telling us I don't have the free will to not do this and and Now knowing what we know about the brain now pulling that tumor out from the brain very likely would have saved his life saved Uh Potentially potentially potentially right right but but understanding that and moving that forward and at least having that as an option I think is a much better way to kind of proceed with How we how we treat Dredd, what do you got? Yeah Yeah, I was you know, that's and that's a a good physiological example of how, you know, something going wrong in your brain can You know affect your behavior but I I think And I didn't mean to sound doom and gloom to say that we don't have free will because of all those other things But I think tools like critical thinking Our means to enhance our ability to actually make choices That we decide on evaluating evaluating evidence and uh having a reliable means to Justify beliefs, right? Yeah, George. What do you got? Well, you know There's an emotional component to this uh You brought back some memories And um, I used to have a friend who was a follower of jim jones Oh, that's kool-aid dude, right? Yeah. What's that? Yeah. Yes. That's so people know. It's the kool-aid guy I know that's terrible I was living it's I was living in san francisco When jim jones became all the rage of san francisco This is the part that people don't know about they don't talk about But jim jones pretty much Took over The psyche of the entire city of san francisco. He was basically crystals in portland basically He was like the human version of crystals in portland I don't if nathan was here. He would love that joke. Anyway, I'm sorry for the creature. Keep going. Um, It's like, uh Jim jones was in the it was in the newspaper every day. He was influential. Yeah everything the city The city um border supervisors were listening to his ideas about this that and the other thing and um Next thing I know is this whole thing is blowing up in uh, guiana And It turned out that jim jones had a huge brain tumor Oh What is this true? I didn't know this. Yes. Look it up And um, you know, this was just of course found out after the fact So we had all these people following him like lemmings Drink this kool-aid, right I will say this Just so people are watching the show because we got a lot of people watching just because you have a brain tumor Or we'll have one or had one doesn't make you a maniacal Right psycho killer person Um, what I think is now, but if you're if you're the leader of a country, I think you need to get checked out mr. Trump One thing at a time And one thing at a time and I would also say like if what we're saying here is your thought process seems to be controlled by your brain Obviously, right and if things are influencing your brain your your thought processes your behavior persona would Possibly be changed to maybe your empathy all that stuff My friend who was a follower of jim jones was left behind Because not all of jim jones's followers were in guiana He had a whole bunch of people left in the united states My friend stayed here and when all that thing blew up in guiana He was bewildered Because his father figure had vanished My friend had a father who left him at an early age and he spent almost the rest of his life looking for daddy Another way the religions hijack family. They hijack it so many things, but they hijack family like that Yeah, I I love to have jw. Listenings. You've heard more or less everyone on this idea. What do you think of the idea of uh Can free will if it's all mechanical absolve someone from their responsibility as a person And what case would that be acceptable if you don't think that's that's feasible Like when am I not responsible for My actions is if there's ever a case That's very very deep And and challenging question. What's going on in my mind right now is when we're talking about the brain tumors and we're talking about Free will and we're talking about what the guy said before, you know, he did the shooting and he shot himself I'm wondering it's just like So we have a self that Controls things in the brain that can recognize when it's losing control So Maybe when we're talking about free will maybe we're just talking about control But then that goes down a hole of the rabbit trail of like who is or what is the controller? And what was that guy losing control to? And so it opens this whole other arena of dialogue and scientific study in psychology and neurology I I really wouldn't I don't have an answer to that question that I feel confident to assert And in the question in my mind is Who's cult? Is the dominant one, you know On a different topic At least in the western That and and the idea that news media entertainment is actual news But guys, I'm going to leave it up to bujo for one final thought. What do you think about this? Did your mind change about anything? Do we have like a good talk? What's like the most interesting you heard bujo? No, I think I think it was interesting Although I'd like to talk to jw more maybe offline a little bit because I I heard some smuggling in of Of control and things like that that gas I don't see any evidence for like like with the self having control The self is just a witness. We're just we're just watching all this movie play out So I I think we're I think we made a really clear definition of free will but then our our our passion and our Other things have kind of the illusion is sneaking back in that we still have control and I don't know I I'm super interested in this topic But but I think we covered it nicely. I think you a nice job How about with this and this I'll open up the floor for like just two more minutes I'll take out my plugs at the end But it sounds like what jw was saying that also falls back into what george was saying is that We have the ability so we are influenced by our environment and they give us maybe like say 10 options that are all non random But we can use critical thinking to assess which of these 10 options given to us by our environment Is the most optimal to move forward And if we use that as a vehicle to determine which of our best choices are our actual best choices We might coincide with everyone else's best choices and have what is essentially a optimal way to conduct the society Tyrone we we live in a democracy You know and that's what's coming to my mind is that Every one of us in this democracy is subject to our own delusions How are we gonna do it? You know and critical thinking could be the way out. What do you think about that boudreau? Do you think that that's acceptable? And I think that's beautiful Yeah, that's that's a beautiful way of putting it because it kind of fits into punishing someone if they do something bad You know other people see if they people see someone going to jail for killing someone Well now their influence not to kill someone hopefully But if if people are making better decisions using critical thinking And other people are looking at it saying wow those those critical thinking tools Really help that person get a job or make better decisions or do good science Maybe that'll influence them to kind of get on board that that that's a beautiful way of looking at it. Cool Well, you mentioned the thing just a little while ago. I'd like to address this a win When should we not be held accountable for actions? Well, the law allows for that under uh coercion Like if you find a contract that's an action But if somebody's holding a gun to your head to make you sign that contract that even the law will allow that you you Dress To sign it. Yeah, I just wanted to throw that in other other definition of free will again, right? Yeah, I also wonder if like every gold medal is a gold medal of the rest I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Give it to the parents. Give it to the oh my god. Don't give it. Don't reward those people. All right, so uh Dread pirates, where can we find your stuff at as we close out? Well, uh, we're live streaming right now on mind pirate MIND p y r a t e on youtube and that's where you'll find my videos and the live stream Sweet and hey, uh, budro. What is going on with this podcast situation? What's going on? We got we got an update The reason I was late today is I was on the on the water with chad on kayaks It's a wow We're gonna start, you know, you're gonna just do that.  Nice We don't know bring your own by oc bring your own best friends or the best friends These guys such best friends. Nice. Uh, jw kennedy.  We can hear you more clearly. What's going on with you? Well, uh, the comedy clubs are opening back up here near Nashville slowly, but surely so I'm hoping to get out there sometime in the next Sometime this season this summer before the fall and record a few videos and post them on the youtube channel jw kennedy Um, also my street of pitch and model channel is going to be Speak your beautiful mind on youtube and um, you can follow me both both of those Channels both of those contents on twitter as well. Um, it would you can follow the jw kennedy one on twitter at jwk hates the news and um, I believe on twitter is your beautiful mind spelled you are or speak Yeah, I think speak your beautiful mind I think i'm not sure it is that let's just say good speak your beautiful mind spelled you are And so you're um or just you know google speak your beautiful mind on twitter cool Dale slash good-looking man, uh, what is a way that we can find you or learn more about dism? I can't help you there. Yep fair enough. I don't think god can either What do you think what's where's the way that we can find you if you have any media you said you were radio show announcer in the back in the in the past, uh What was your old station and you talking to me? Yeah, i'm talking to you. What were you talking about? Yeah What's the situation over here? Hey, what's going on? What happened? I was well 50 years ago. I was on w crx in springfield, massachusetts Which was a 50 000 watt uh classical music station Okay, very cool. It has not existed for about 45 years Oh, jeez. But do you have anything that you'd like to point our listeners to now? Do you have any online content a presence online that you'd like to check out? I do not I do not Uh, i'm a book. I'm in a state of confusion about social media Uh, the social the the state of confusion has to do with the fact that I do not want to be surveilled Ah Hey, I'll tell you what you are still reaching out to new atheists group This is like a new concept to you. I would say for his on george richards part Reach out to a community. You can look up on meetup.com and see if there's one nearby you to join If you can't find an atheist community to join start one Nice That or five what do you got? Okay, uh, my my stuff as it were is on digital freethought.com Uh, be sure to click on the blog of button Uh, we have radio our radio this radio show is archived on that Website as well as atheist songs and articles on the subject If you have any questions for the show, you can send them to ask an atheist at noxvilleatheist.org and we'll answer them on future shows Our podcasts are available through itunes stitch your luminary podcast. I heart etc etc all over the place And to close the show I usually like to Remind everybody that everybody is going to somebody else's hell The time to worry about it is when they prove that heavens and hells and souls are real Until then don't sweat it. Enjoy your life. See you next week on wednesday night 7 o'clock and w o zio radio 103.9 lpfm Say bye everybody. Bye everybody. All right


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What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. I've been 22. Can you select football hobby three box break number nine, random team style? So look again at your end results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as link in chat. Let's do it. Yes, JMR. Yes. Yes. Yes, it has. Should be uploading right now. Number 12. Yeah, that was the last one we just did. I know it really does, honestly Cameron. Select release day is awesome. Again guys, 18 to go on the number 11. So next one is sold out. 11 to go on the one after that. That is going to be a 249. Bernard Raymond. Jalen Hertz. Silver is Dallas Goddard. David, you said David D, right? Yeah. Yeah, David, you got the Vikings. Got the Vikings in this one and the commanders. If you had two spots, I believe you did. Kade York. Whoa. Justin Jefferson. Silver, my home. Nice one there. And DK. Hey, what up, man? What up, Mikey? Mikey over at Poll Wax. How you doing, buddy? You pumped for some select today, man? Oh no, that's David. That's David D from California. Different David. Kenyan Green. Jumbo, 40 of 75. Kenneth Walker. Nice one there. Should be uploading right now. Should just have gotten uploaded. Silver, Terry McLauren. Derek Stingley Jr. Yes, we've got seven to eight, three box still with spots available as well over on channel two. Silver, Amon Ross, Saint Brown. Oh, separate company, got you, got you. My bad, my bad. There's Kader Co and Brian Burns. Separate company, got you, got you, got you. There's Rashid Shahid to 199. There's Justin Fields. Silver, Kingsley, Enig Barre and Jonathan Dill. There's Bailey Zappie. How you doing though, man? Silver, EJ Speed. Man, what a great name if you play football. Last name, Speed. YouTube, what? Yeah, it'll be on YouTube. Derek Stingley Jr. to 35. Silver, Amon Ross, Saint Brown and Jaylen Warren. Here, let me grab you. I can grab you the link right now, Jam. I think it just, yeah, just uploaded. Copy. If you hit this link right here, that should take you to the video. Thomas with some PYT spots. Thank you. Some more mixer spots.  Thank you, Harper. And keep going. Silver is Tom Brady, David Montgomery and Jason Kelsey. Not a 16 to go on number 11 now, guys.  Also got some three boxers over on channel two. Chris Olave. It's going to be Matt Judon, field level white to 35. Nice one there for the Patriots. Filler. DeMar Hamlin, Silver. Nice. And Nick Chubb. God, remember we were here together when that happened too. We were watching that. The DeMar Hamlin thing. Oh yeah, yeah. God, that was scary. Neon Icons is Aaron Rodgers. Silver, Cameron Dicker and C.D. Lamb. Jonathan Taylor. Tricolor to 249. Nice one here is Jelani Woods to 199. Jersey Otto for the Colts. He actually had a good end of the season. Nice one there. Congrats on that. Colts and Marshall on the Latimore. Orlando Brown, Jaylen Hertz. There's Christian Watson, 31 of 75. Jumbo, Jersey Otto. Congrats Packers. Nice one there, Green Bay. And Cam Thomas. The other Cameron Thomas. The football player Cameron Thomas. On to the next one is Herbert Kenneth Walker. Club level or sweet level. Sweet level. Christian Watkins. Dante Forman. Sweet level to 149. Ryan Stonehouse. Silver, Dylan Parhan. Coral Patterson. Voye Mafe. Brock Purdy. Nice. To 149. Congrats on that. San Fran. Very nice. Home sweet level. Silver Gabe Davis and a Hunter Renfro. Brock Purdy. No, absolutely not. Silver Desmond Ritter. Jalen Petrie field level. So he level. Oh man, we couldn't stop him. Refs are corrupt over here. Got her. We've got Garrett Wilson. 26 to 75. Rookie Swatches. Nice one there. Silver Taekwondoor and Nick Bolton. That's Rashid Shahid to 149. Silver Rashad Bateman and Tom Brady. Silver T-Law. Silver Cole Comet and Abraham Lucas. Silver DJ Moore. Christian Watson, Rookie. Nice. Garrett Wilson, sweet level. Blue to 99. Jets. Silver, Darren Waller. And Marcus Jones. Mackis, Jones. Sean as a bot. Smyr White to 199. We've got 93 of 199. Calvin Austin. Rookie Jersey out. Grats on that one. Austin picking up a mixer spot. We've got Tyler Conflin, the Jets. Knight Icons is Calvin Cook. We've got Tyler Algier, 28 of 35 on the White Auto. Rookie for the Falcons. Thousand Yard running back last year. Bucker, Aiden Hutchinson. Silver Neon Icons. Silver Aaron Donald and T. Higgins. Miami's a big one, I think. Big possibility he goes to Miami. I think that'd be really good for the Dolphins too. What's up? From Miami. Oh yeah, sure. He went to Florida State, so same state, I guess. He's going to the corner from Miami. Silver Chris Olave Phenomenon. Silver Drake London, Rookie. And a Derek Stingley field level. Go Andrew Booth, Burrow Sensation. Silver Lamar, Aaron Rogers field level. Oh, gold. Chris Godwin field level. That's pretty sick. That's on that Tampa Bay. Charles M, that is 9 of 10. Nice one there for the Bucks. Traylon Berks, Sweet Levels. Mirror White Silver, James Conner. You thought that in the recap. I would say any golds in under, you can just throw in the, or tie-dies in under, I would say, in the recap. Cam Jordan, Orange, 249 for the Saints. Joe Burrow, Sweet Level. Silver, Traylon Berks. There you go, Titans. And Austin Eckler. That's going to be another gold, gold choice of Miles Garrett. That's pretty sick, too. Three of 10. That's going to the Browns. Nice one there, Cleveland. It's Gabriel S. Silver Alec Pierce and Fred Moore. Good icons, Brian Robinson, Jr. Neon icons. There's Kobe Bryant. Michael Jordan. There's David Montgomery, 53 of 75 on the Jumbo, or the Jersey Car for the Bears. Silver, Chris Olave and Logan Thomas. Beck Brett Scott to 249. 34 of 99. Allen Lazard for the Packers, Silverado. Chris Olave. That is Silver, T-Law, Sweet Level. Sweet Level. There you go, Travis E. Tien, Chahan Dodson, 26 of 75. Rookie, Jersey Auto on the Jumbo. Nice one there, Commanders. Washington, Cam Akers. Snake Skin to two. Let's go. First Snake Skin of the day. Silver, Jake Ferguson and Jalen Hertz. Come on, I'll see you, Rookie. Bengals. Not a Rookie. Trey Hendrickson. One of two. Nice one there, Sinsey. Congrats on that. Bengals. Very cool. There's Kenny Pickett, Sensations. Silva, Michael Vick and Dante Forman. All right, guys, we'll do a quick recap here again. Pretty solid break overall, I would say. We had David Montgomery, Garrett Wilson, Kenneth Walker, Miles Garrett Gold, Chris Godwin Gold, Snake Skin of Trey Hendrickson, Johan Dodson, Allen Lazard, Tyler Algier, Calvin Austin, Christian Watson, Jelani Woods, and Brock Purdy. That is three of 149. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Up next is number 10.


righty guys welcome back to another video first of all i want to thank every single one of you guys for bringing that channel back to life like i may not be uploading more too but i'm very happy with the comments and the engagement and everybody like loving the content so thank you so much for hitting the notification button subscribe to my channel and the comments i love it um today yesterday today yesterday yesterday i realized that i shot some footage at the gym but i never finished a video like i i just recorded everything because we went to the print store and amanda signed all of the the calendars that she sent out and sold for 2020 i think it's too late for you guys to get some but anyways that's what we did in the nap right after i went to the gym and i never finished the video so uh i might just throw that in in the end but i'm not sure yet so today um one quick thing before i start this video or the workout is i want to talk about motivation i just posted it on my body by bottle instagram account because i think it's important that you guys understand that like not you you won't be ready to go to the gym every single day you will be sore you will be tired there will be distractions and you want to just chill on the couch watch a movie eat some pizza whatever it is it will always be there the key to success is just to set your goals so high and you need to find a goal that motivates you that excites you when you think about it not just thinking about it as like yeah i want to achieve that goal that's that's cool and all but you know i'd rather just chill on the couch i it needs to excite you to a point when you think about achieving it it must be the best feeling in the world let's take my situation right now like i'm currently working on my website um on the back end so it's going to be a completely new design a new uh infrastructure on the website way more information on the website more knowledge more videos more communication between my members and myself um there will be live streaming and like so much more but i will go into depth when it's like ready to launch but just so you guys know that this is something you can probably tell from how i talk about it it excites me so much um i've spent the last four days on my computer just editing videos like i just i think i edited over 50 videos in the last two days um and no it's not fun like i don't like editing like sitting on a computer and editing videos it's not my fit it's not it's not the most exciting thing for me i don't like it but i do it anyways why because i know this brings me closer to the goal to launch the website if i don't do those baby steps of editing all those videos i will never launch the website right so the same thing uh goes with fitness if you know hey i want to lose some weight but i really don't want to do that cardio session right now you know your goal is just going to go further away from you and it's not coming closer so you just have to set a goal so exciting for yourself not for anybody else not for your mom for your sister for your boyfriend whatever it is you have to set a goal for yourself that gives you that adrenaline rush when thinking about it like when i have that i'm gonna feel so fucking good um i think it makes sense right well anyways i i just finished my almost finished my pre-workout um today was one of those days where yeah i was just overwhelmed to i was like i should edit more but i really want to lose some body fat so i should go into my cardio session right now i didn't want to but guess what i'm going right now now because i switched the camera oh yeah so this was the workout um i did 20 minutes of rowing in the beginning i kept my hoodie on to sweat more i know a lot of people gonna be like yeah it's just water that you lose i know but it makes the entire work get harder it elevates my heartbeat and that's uh all that i care about yeah um the last thing that i did uh if you want to swing over to my instagram account my fitness one um at body by bottle i'm doing a 24 day challenge i know i mentioned it a couple days ago but it's getting some traction a lot of people doing it uh if you want to join us it's going to be 300 reps per exercise by the end of uh day 24 today was day six i did six um six burpees six push-ups six air squats six sit-ups and six pull-ups now to be honest now i feel way better that i finished the workout even though i didn't want to start to begin with uh but now pushing through it um there's a great feeling because now like i said in the beginning now i'm way closer to my goal now it's time to get some gains in and then yeah that's it for today's video i'll see you next time guys thank you so much for tuning in


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