Episodes 20, 21, and 22 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica @timemachineliveblogs, Jade @theneptuneviolin, and Frank @drasnianfrank. Highlights include: Two Honokas!, what's under Bootleg Piccolo's cloak, COMPLETE EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION, and PUPPIES. Tangents include: umbrellas, planetariums, Disney parks, and 90s fantasy. 

Episodes 20, 21, and 22 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica @timemachineliveblogs, Jade @theneptuneviolin, and Frank @drasnianfrank. Highlights include: Two Honokas!, what's under Bootleg Piccolo's cloak, COMPLETE EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION, and PUPPIES. Tangents include: umbrellas, planetariums, Disney parks, and 90s fantasy.

007 - The Dog Finally Gets A Character Arc

Episodes 17, 18, and 19 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica @timemachineliveblogs​, Jade @theneptuneviolin​, and Frank @drasnianfrank​. Highlights include: the exploitation of child labor, what the Garden of Light considers a sex toy, The Dark King's New Uncomfortable Noises, explaining basic shit to a Demon Child, and Bootleg Piccolo finally does something

Episodes 17, 18, and 19 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica @timemachineliveblogs​, Jade @theneptuneviolin​, and Frank @drasnianfrank​. Highlights include: the exploitation of child labor, what the Garden of Light considers a sex toy, The Dark King's New Uncomfortable Noises, explaining basic shit to a Demon Child, and Bootleg Piccolo finally does something

006 - The Reproductive Biology of Fantasy Mascot Characters

Episodes 14, 15, 16 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlights include: overnight cosplay, lying to children, creepy hotel managers, dad jokes, learning the Dark King is prerecorded, and a Madonna clones. 

Episodes 14, 15, 16 of Futari wa Pretty Cure, as discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlights include: overnight cosplay, lying to children, creepy hotel managers, dad jokes, learning the Dark King is prerecorded, and a Madonna clones.

005 - Magical Girls Gone Wild!

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 11, 12, and 13, as discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlights include: Street Sharks!, Chocolate!, Villain-Induced-Acid-Trips!, GRANDMA SUPERPOWERS!, and Science Lesbians!

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 11, 12, and 13, as discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlights include: Street Sharks!, Chocolate!, Villain-Induced-Acid-Trips!, GRANDMA SUPERPOWERS!, and Science Lesbians!

004 - LET GRANDMAS BE MAGICAL GIRLS

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 8, 9, and 10 discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlight include: Honoka is the best wingwoman, Honoka is a literal angel, Honoka has terrible parents, and Why Are They Showing Us Mepple's "O" Face PLEASE STOP THAT

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 8, 9, and 10 discussed by Jessica, Jade, and Frank. Highlight include: Honoka is the best wingwoman, Honoka is a literal angel, Honoka has terrible parents, and Why Are They Showing Us Mepple's "O" Face PLEASE STOP THAT

003 -  Pretty Cure Did Attack On Titan First And Better

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 4, 5, 6, and 7. Jessica, Jade, and Frank ask important questions about Dark Zone infrastructure, safety and administration in Japanese education, and also explore The Many Mistake Of Piss Lord. Plus, we meet a a cave troll and some bears! 

Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 4, 5, 6, and 7. Jessica, Jade, and Frank ask important questions about Dark Zone infrastructure, safety and administration in Japanese education, and also explore The Many Mistake Of Piss Lord. Plus, we meet a a cave troll and some bears!

002 - BEARS

Jessica, Jasmine, Jade and Frank go over Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 1, 2, and 3. "We Can Transform!? No Way!", "Give Me a Break! A City Targeted by Darkness!", and "Beware of the Cute Student Teacher!" (Jasmine had to step out halfway through, which is why she's absent from the end). Highlights include the Silver Surfer, Chuutaro the dog, ANGEL LAND, who returned the vacuum, and Don't Flirt With Your Teachers Oh God You Are Thirteen. 

Jessica, Jasmine, Jade and Frank go over Futari wa Pretty Cure episodes 1, 2, and 3. "We Can Transform!? No Way!", "Give Me a Break! A City Targeted by Darkness!", and "Beware of the Cute Student Teacher!" (Jasmine had to step out halfway through, which is why she's absent from the end). Highlights include the Silver Surfer, Chuutaro the dog, ANGEL LAND, who returned the vacuum, and Don't Flirt With Your Teachers Oh God You Are Thirteen.

001 - Piss Lord Jareth the Goblin King

Jessica, Jasmine, Jade, and Frank have never seen an episode of Pretty Cure. They talk about all the stuff they don't know yet. 

Jessica, Jasmine, Jade, and Frank have never seen an episode of Pretty Cure. They talk about all the stuff they don't know yet.

000 - Are We Sure It's Pretty Cure?

Watching a 700+ episode long behemoth of a magical girl franchise from Japan, one week at a time.

Pretty Sure It's Pretty Cure

The best podcast episodes on global issues affecting everyone. Covering topics such as the #metoo movement, climate change, the impact of technology and some of the biggest global issues facing us right now. For anyone interested in learning more about the world, and some of the issues we're facing, pick an episode below and start listening! Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change

Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan delve deep on free speech for 3 hours! Somehow it gets more interesting through the episode, not less! Hear why often it's best to "be tolerant of the intolerable".
Canada tried to pass laws compelling people to use pronouns like zi and zur. Should you be compelled to call someone a certain pronoun? Jordan Peterson pushed back saying he had no problems using pronouns like zi and zur for people who have non-traditional genders, but that he had a problem being compelled by law to use certain pronouns. 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. 
We have gone from homosexuality being illegal in most of the west 60 years ago to same sex marriage being legal today. "Free speech is the master value because it is the value which allows us to update all other values." Sam Harris.

Free speech, only a small topic!

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos  100% off the Future Authoring Program code: "ChangeYourself" - The offer is valid until the end of Nov 30th.

The Joe Rogan Experience

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos</a> 100% off the Future Authoring Program code: "ChangeYourself" - The offer is valid until the end of Nov 30th.

#877 - Jordan Peterson

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The best podcast episodes on Startups. For anyone working in a startup, or anyone interested in the incredible stories behind how people built companies like Instagram, and Facebook. Offering both practical advice and insights, as well as the stories for how many of the biggest startups got to where they are today. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

Mel Liu

On this episode of the Knowledge Project Podcast, I chat with Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of the leading online payment processing company, Stripe. If you’ve purchased anything online recently, there’s a good chance that Stripe facilitated the transaction. What is now an organization with over a thousand employees and handling tens of billions of dollars of online purchases every year, began as a small side experiment while Patrick and his brother John were going to college.   During our conversation, Patrick shares the details of their unlikely journey and some of the hard-earned wisdom he picked up along the way. I hope you have something handy to write with because the nuggets per minute in this episode are off the charts. Patrick was so open and generous with his responses that I’m really excited for you to hear what he has to say. Here are just a few of the things we cover:  The biggest (and most valuable) mistakes Patrick made in the early days of Stripe and how they helped him get better The characteristics that Patrick looks for in a new hire to fit and contribute to the Stripe company culture What compelled he and his brother to move forward with the early concept of Stripe, even though on paper it was doomed to fail from the start The gaps Patrick saw in the market that dozens of other processing companies were missing — and how he capitalized on them The lessons Patrick learned from scaling Stripe from two employees (he and his brother) to nearly 1,000 today How he evaluates the upsides and potential dangers of speculative positions within the company How his Irish upbringing influenced his ability to argue and disagree without taking offense (and how we can all be a little more “Irish”) The power of finding the right peer group in your social and professional circles and how impactful and influential it can be in determining where you end up. The 4 ways Patrick has modified his decision making process over the last 5 years and how it’s helped him develop as a person and as a business leader (this part alone is worth the listen) Patrick’s unique approach to books and how he chooses what he’s going to spend his time reading  ...life in Silicon Valley, Baumol’s cost disease, and so, so much more. Patrick truly is one of the warmest, humblest and down to earth people I’ve had the pleasure to speak with and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation together. I hope you will too! GO PREMIUM: Support the podcast, get ad-free episodes, transcripts, and so much more: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-premium/

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

On this episode of the Knowledge Project Podcast, I chat with Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of the leading online payment processing company, <a href="https://stripe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stripe.</a> If you’ve purchased anything online recently, there’s a good chance that Stripe facilitated the transaction. What is now an organization with over a thousand employees and handling tens of billions of dollars of online purchases every year, began as a small side experiment while Patrick and his brother John were going to college.   During our conversation, Patrick shares the details of their unlikely journey and some of the hard-earned wisdom he picked up along the way. I hope you have something handy to write with because the nuggets per minute in this episode are off the charts. Patrick was so open and generous with his responses that I’m really excited for you to hear what he has to say. Here are just a few of the things we cover: <ul> <li>The biggest (and most valuable) mistakes Patrick made in the early days of Stripe and how they helped him get better</li> <li>The characteristics that Patrick looks for in a new hire to fit and contribute to the Stripe company culture</li> <li>What compelled he and his brother to move forward with the early concept of Stripe, even though on paper it was doomed to fail from the start</li> <li>The gaps Patrick saw in the market that dozens of other processing companies were missing — and how he capitalized on them</li> <li>The lessons Patrick learned from scaling Stripe from two employees (he and his brother) to nearly 1,000 today</li> <li>How he evaluates the upsides and potential dangers of speculative positions within the company</li> <li>How his Irish upbringing influenced his ability to argue and disagree without taking offense (and how we can all be a little more “Irish”)</li> <li>The power of finding the right peer group in your social and professional circles and how impactful and influential it can be in determining where you end up.</li> <li>The 4 ways Patrick has modified his decision making process over the last 5 years and how it’s helped him develop as a person and as a business leader (this part alone is worth the listen)</li> <li>Patrick’s unique approach to books and how he chooses what he’s going to spend his time reading</li> </ul> ...life in Silicon Valley, Baumol’s cost disease, and so, so much more. Patrick truly is one of the warmest, humblest and down to earth people I’ve had the pleasure to speak with and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation together. I hope you will too! GO PREMIUM: Support the podcast, get ad-free episodes, transcripts, and so much more: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-premium/

#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes

If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Handcraft the core experience. Get your hands dirty. Serve your customers one-by-one. And don't stop until you know exactly what they want. That's what Brian Chesky did. As CEO of Airbnb, Brian’s early work was more akin to a traveling salesman. He takes us back to his lean years – when he went door-to-door, meeting Airbnb hosts in person – and shares the imaginative route to crafting what he calls an "11-star experience.”Read Paul Graham: "In order to scale, you have to do things that don't scale."Read a transcript of this interview at: https://mastersofscale.com/brian-chesky-handcrafted/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtX

Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Handcraft the core experience. Get your hands dirty. Serve your customers one-by-one. And don't stop until you know exactly what they want. That's what Brian Chesky did. As CEO of Airbnb, Brian’s early work was more akin to a traveling salesman. He takes us back to his lean years – when he went door-to-door, meeting Airbnb hosts in person – and shares the imaginative route to crafting what he calls an "11-star experience.”Read Paul Graham: "In order to scale, you have to do <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ds.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">things that don't scale</a>."Read a transcript of this interview at: <a href="https://mastersofscale.com/brian-chesky-handcrafted/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mastersofscale.com/brian-chesky-handcrafted/</a>Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at <a href="http://eepurl.com/dlirtX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/dlirtX</a>

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