Episode Summary
We have a full one today! We spend most of our time discussing the power of real-world accomplishments in our lives and reasons boys and men are failing today but before we get there, Molly and I share where inflation has been starting to squeeze us, some dietary changes and a few other little economic odds and ends. All of course relevant as we raise kids in a world where people are weird and hard. Join us!
Episode Notes
Intro: Coffee substitutes, cortisol levels and protein intake.
7:38: One way to tell if you’re healthy via your fingernails.
10:10: Molly’s milk frother died!
10:36: If you’d invested in Apple with iPhone money you’d have how much?”
11:56: Creo brew coffee substitutes, price per serving and the cost of Starbucks.
16:45: Moody’s analytics and the last year’s inflation numbers and saving money at the grocery store. Organic Shell Pasta.
21:43: Finances, young couples owning a home and reasons to get married.
26:15: One of the reasons people aren’t having kids.
28:03: Do your kids a favor and have them watch The Tuttle Twins
28:55: Zimbabwe’s attempted currency relaunch.
32:48: Attending a heavily edited play about The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
37:12: A lazy kid and why dad’s are important.
40:44: Data on men and boys are failing. Mike Rowe and Nicolas Eberstat. A failure of unemployment statistics.
43:41: Boys Adrift
46:03: Manual labor, masonry and bricks.
47:54: Leonard Sacks’ 5 reasons boys are failing
54:10: Isn’t this a pendulum swing from the women’s rights movement?
56:32: Just get the boys out of the house, video games and hijacking the brain rewards center.
1:00:29: Titus and his hatchet. Outdoor Boys.
1:07:32: Doing something hard and building neural pathways.
1:12:27: A contrast in the brain between playing a video game and real world accomplishments.
1:15:02: Show Close
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