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by John Heers
This “Enlightened” New World utopia isn’t turning out to be all it was cracked up to be. Society is disenchanting, but are the only alternatives hiding out in the hills or burying yourself in books? With an air of levity and a touch of humor, John Heers teaches how to examine the confusing New World by calling upon the mind and wisdom of oft-forgotten Old. Heavy Things, Lightly.
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- Oct 2, 20261h 17m
Demons, Deception, and Why Your Spiritual Practices Might Be Dangerous
Find this episode on YouTube: "Justine Alter" — a pseudonym — returns to chat with John Heers in a raw Heavy Things Lightly conversation you have to hear to believe.Justine worked for years as a professional psychic, deep in channeling, ceremonial magic, and occult community life. Baptized in 2018 and converted in 2019, she is now Orthodox and lives under obedience to her spiritual father. To stay clear of that past, she appears with no face on camera and a disguised voice.This episode was wrought with demonic activity from the start — dropped calls, wild volume swings, leaf-blowers outside the window — and that's fitting, because this is a conversation about demons, deception, and discernment.Justine shares why thinking "I'm doing a good work" can itself be delusion, why saints and psychics can look similar from the outside but are judged by completely different fruits, what remote viewing really is, why the government Stargate project worked after a fashion, and how Fr. Seraphim Rose, St. Daniel of Katounakia, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov in "The Arena", St. John Cassian in "The Philokalia Vol. 1", "My Elder Joseph the Hesychast", St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. John Maximovich, Sts. Cyprian and Justina, Elder Ephraim of Arizona, and St. Paisios helped pull her out.Her books discussed in this episode:- Outside of the World- How Could I Ever Convert to Orthodox Christianity? A Book for Psychics and People Addicted to Spiritual Stuff Buy her books here: https://www.newmartyrpress.com/booksChapters:00:00 Intro chaos03:15 Material atheism is dead04:02 Why she wrote06:45 Years as a working psychic09:00 Ceremonial magic after baptism11:09 Philokalia shock15:24 7 years in the Church16:40 The spiritual world has physics21:59 St. Daniel of Katounakia & St. Gregory of Sinai25:06 Fire-walking, hot coals, and martyrs27:17 Saints vs. occult bilocation30:10 The abbess who saw her in minutes34:08 Can we trust hagiography?39:46 Remote viewing, Stargate, and Men Who Stare at Goats42:00 Fr. Seraphim Rose lifeline46:47 Why psychics are receptive to demons48:22 The dark alley question — ignoring vs. acting on what you see51:19 True dreams that destroy you — St. John Cassian and Fr. Haralambos' axe54:55 Addicted to being right — ancestor recipes, jackets, and demon menus01:00:33 What is remote viewing?01:03:06 The Arena01:06:06 Why priests need the full story01:08:07 St. Paisios and seeing Elder Ephraim's photo as a psychic__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & Band This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 25, 20261h 34m
The Fox News Reporter Who Quit to Live an Orthodox Homesteading Life
Find this episode on YouTube: Holly Hickman went from Columbia Journalism and Fox News Radio covering NASA and the 2008 election — to milking cows, making cheese, and converting to Orthodoxy.In this episode of Heavy Things Lightly, Holly tells John how news really works: 7am editorial meetings, White House press releases, assignment editors feeding you quotes, and how language in the AP Stylebook quietly frames everything. She talks Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris, asking astronaut Tom Jones "where's heaven?", getting planted by Rod Dreher, Columbia after 9/11, and why she walked away.Then the turn: sneaking to church in South Beach, providence meeting her husband in tango class, COVID church shutdowns, almost becoming Roman Catholic, and a 2am miracle on a Wyoming highway praying to the Archangel that woke her instantly. Plus: Moon vs. Mars at NASA, why the industrial food system is broken, "NASA brain making butter," Bill Gates hydrocarbon butter, and why christian homesteading is really about stewardship and communion — not cosplay.Chapters:00:00 Meet Holly Hickman: Reporter, Convert, Homesteader00:46 Sponsor: Conrad's Country Smoked Beef Jerky01:59 Why Holly loves this podcast: curiosity without vanity03:01 Becoming Orthodox and finding a ROCOR parish04:12 2008 trail: Huckabee, Chuck Norris and a rude gotcha question07:25 Asking astronaut Tom Jones: "Where's heaven? You've been up there?"08:54 Interviewing Rod Dreher and skipping the Orthodox part09:53 How news really works: 7AM meetings, press releases, assignments13:05 Infotainment, ratings and why she left17:18 How framing works: AP Stylebook, language and image20:33 Columbia J-School, Iraq, Thucydides and 9-1125:25 The Italy story rejected as "not newsworthy" and self-censorship28:33 Roving reporter life and wanting to be a mom at home29:42 The private arm: Economist, WaPo and corporate-paid reports35:01 Sneaking to church while dating an atheist36:36 Providence, meeting her husband and entering the Church together38:18 COVID shutdowns and almost becoming Roman Catholic42:19 2AM in Wyoming: prayer to the Archangel that instantly woke her44:45 Walking into Orthodoxy: bewildered and exactly what they needed50:42 NASA unfiltered: why can't we put a tin can back on the moon?57:19 Moon vs. Mars, growing food, E. coli in space and pee recycling01:01:34 Becoming homesteaders: garden to chickens to milking cows01:05:12 Behold, this butter stinketh: Harvard's first food protest01:08:01 NASA brain making butter: from Gnostics to scientism01:10:47 Why Christians are returning to the land01:18:02 Funerals, death and what we outsourced to private equity01:24:00 Dancing into his arms: tango, femininity and being led01:29:32 Outro: Heavy Things Lightly and First Things Foundation__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & Band This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 21, 20261h 1m
Why They Left NASA to Start St. George's Classical Academy
Can you teach kids the truth AND prepare them for a secular world?On this episode of Heavy Things Lightly, host John Heers talks with James and Juliana Joyce, founders of St. George's Classical Academy in Boxford, Massachusetts — an Orthodox Christian classical school started from nothing in 2024.James went from astrophysicist at NASA to teaching kindergarten math at a little plastic table. Juliana went from public-school principal of 10 years to head of school, janitor, finance, and furniture-mover. In the middle of writing their business plan during Holy Week 2023, they fell in love, got engaged in October, married in January, and opened with 21 students that September.We dig into: the Constantine vs. Benedict choice, why they DON'T have Divine Liturgy during the school day, classical vs. Orthodox education and the Western canon, Plato, the Enlightenment, why math matters, fuzzy math, and how to live an integrated, purposeful life.St. George's now draws from 12 Orthodox churches north of Boston — plus Catholic and Protestant families — and has seen families return to faith and convert.Learn more about St. George's Classical Academy in Boxford, MA - https://www.stgca.org/Chapters:00:00 Living a purposeful life01:15 Welcome to Heavy Things Lightly + Conrad's Jerky03:10 Meet James & Juliana Joyce — St. George's Classical Academy05:20 From NASA and principal's office to plungers and trash duty07:45 Can you teach truth and prepare kids for an atheist world?10:30 Constantine vs. Benedict — not retreating from the world13:20 Do you have to compromise classical to pay the bills?17:40 Why there's no Divine Liturgy in the school day21:15 School vs. Church — prayer, feasts, and hospitality25:00 Classical vs. Orthodox? Plato, the West, and the Fathers30:45 Sanctifying culture — West Africa, Enlightenment, and math36:20 Math trauma, loving what you teach, and elementary years42:10 Love story — business plan, Holy Week, engagement and marriage50:30 From cassock to date night — deacon, priest, and new life55:00 Final toast — hope, uncertainty, and purposeful direction58:30 John's riff — kids are hard, schools are hard, add more beauty__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & Band This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 4, 20261h 36m
An Odyssean Tale: The Man Who Would Not Quit
Find this episode on YouTube: Crow walked America searching for his father — and found the Father.From West Virginia hollers to LA gangs, from wolves in the Mojave desert to an Orthodox cross, this is an Odyssean tale of wandering, regret, and becoming Lazarus. John Heers sits with Crow (baptism name Lazarus) for his full life arc — with surprise appearances by his childhood friend Jonathan Pageau and his spiritual father Fr. Turbo.Chapters:00:00 Intro: Crow's Life Is the Story of All of Us01:26 Meet Lazarus — With Jonathan Pageau & Fr. Turbo in Kansas City02:23 How Crow Met Pageau at 14 — The Christian Camp04:50 The Campfire Story — The Girl, The Red Car & Real Suffering10:43 Awakening: Learning Empathy13:14 Two Americas — Rich Suburbs to High-Death-Rate Ghettos14:32 Leaving Home at 15 — Sneaking Onto the Camp Bus17:24 Stories That Matter — Ninja Turtles & Pageau's Unshakable Cool20:45 The Split at 17 — Pageau to History & Literature, Crow to Roots22:36 Walking America — Elders, Traditions & The Search for Soul25:27 Dreams in California — The Bald Man Who Was His Father27:30 Finding His Father's Photo — The L.A. Library Internet Search29:50 Calypso — Distracted in Chicago30:34 The Phone Call — His Father Dies in Atlantic City31:40 L.A. Years — Being a Tough Guy Without Fighting36:10 Every Elder Had a Flag & a Cross — Flood Stories & Giants39:33 The West Virginia Church That Felt Like Africa41:40 Venice Beach Open House — An Accidental Elder44:30 His Mother Finds Orthodoxy in Montana — The Cool Hand on Her Cheek54:35 Sickness, Migraines & The Red Road to The Green Road55:30 Five Acres in the Desert — No Couch, No Bed, No TV58:36 Praying for a Wife at the Front Gate — The Reggae Festival01:03:43 Hearing the Same Jazz No One Else Heard — Falling in Love01:08:02 When the Orthodox Bible Knocked Her Rigid — Spiritual Warfare01:11:35 Finding Pageau Again Online — "Of Course He's Orthodox"01:14:30 Why "Crow"? — God's Winks & The Raven That Walked With Them in Yosemite01:15:30 Meeting Fr. Turbo — Nuns Praying, Insurance Miracle & The Aneurysm01:17:48 Baptized Lazarus — Sunday of the Last Judgment01:20:25 Kansas City — Tiny House in the Hood & "Mr. Lazarus"01:30:02 What Is Life? Repentance, August 28th Surgery & The Dormition__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & Band This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 1, 20261h 51m
From Broadway to the Supra: Carrie Manolakos on Life After Lockdown
Welcome to the first episode of “Save Me a Spot at the Supra” on Heavy Things Lightly where John Heers hosts singer and Broadway performer Carrie Manolakos (best known for her performances in Mama Mia! and Wicked) at his restaurant after she attended a Supra, discussing how the tradition builds community, the role of the tamada, and ways to bring more music into American Supras. Carrie reflects on her early discovery as a vocalist, her training in the Syracuse Children’s Chorus, performing professionally as a child, and later learning to belt and pursuing powerful roles. She describes major hardships beginning around 2014, and how COVID brought stillness, but also industry pressures she refused, leading her to step away, stay quiet, and later face public backlash after speaking openly, including support for RFK Jr. She shares how pain, a dental injury, and her film “Metanoia” coincided with returning to Orthodoxy, deepening her faith and art, and closes with a toast about eye-to-eye connection, grace, and unity.Chapters00:00 Welcome to the Supra02:43 Meet Carrie Manolakos04:05 First Impressions of Supra07:37 Tamada and Table Magic08:56 Why We Sing Together15:00 Getting Americans to Sing21:15 Why You Must Go22:35 Famous Guests Wish List25:40 Carries Early Talent26:50 Training and First Gigs30:41 Work Ethic and Athletics32:19 New York Pull in Her 20s32:50 Losing Innocence33:27 Building a Belt36:01 Scarcity and Worth37:26 Faith Roots and Drift39:48 2014 Breaking Point41:43 Alone Through Crisis45:22 Defining Diva Needs51:54 Wicked Standby Chaos53:19 COVID Career Exit55:59 Intuition and Refusal58:40 Hiding and Backlash01:07:00 Nashville Reset Plan01:10:00 Reading Scripture Again01:11:50 Art Led to Faith01:12:06 Going Rogue in Nashville01:15:50 Injury and Metanoia01:19:56 Sermon Hits Home01:23:37 Learning as a Convert01:26:29 Speaking Out and Backlash01:30:05 Floods and Guardianship01:33:57 Politics as Religion01:37:42 Writing America Song01:39:27 Dealbreakers and Values01:41:15 Art and Human Commonality01:42:57 Ala Verde Toast01:49:41 Final Blessing and Outro__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & Band This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Aug 28, 20261h 13m
Why This App Designer Hides His Face | An Old-World Cure Built as a New-World App
John Heers sits down with "Justin Smith" — an anonymous app designer you'll never see, only hear.His app, This Life, is audio-only and anonymous by design: you record your own voice, then get paired with a stranger for a day to hear three minutes of their life.In this episode John pushes back hard — is a phone app really the cure for the isolation it helped create? Is writing down your thoughts making us more ill, not less? And where does the whole thing come from — what's the "well" underneath it?They go deep on:→ Why Justin hides his face (and the Bill Wilson / AA logic behind it)→ The "force of unhelpful negative emotion" and how it plays us all→ Spiritual hitchhiking — the app's one-day anonymous pairing→ Whether an app can ever replace the in-person Supra table→ Christianity, Orthodoxy, and building something beautiful out of love for a fatherA fascinating, honest conversation about what we've lost in the modern world — and one man's attempt to build a piece of it back.Get the app 👇 http://www.jointhislife.com orhttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/this-li...Chapters00:00 Intro & Sponsors02:19 Meet "Justin Smith" — The Anonymous App Designer02:45 Why He Hides His Face (The Bill Wilson Logic)06:14 The Problem: The Human Heart at War With Itself08:24 The Force of Unhelpful Negative Emotion10:42 Watching His Father Break19:14 How the App Works22:05 Spoken Notes & Spiritual Hitchhiking25:30 Is Writing It Down Making Us Sicker?28:38 Orthodoxy, Christianity & "the Well"42:38 Why Digital? The Trade-Offs45:07 The Demon & the Puppet Strings01:05:07 Get the App & Closing Thoughts__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUy03eFlDajhfcDhtbWZnMDRuSXpqZnxBR3JiS2FuZDA1Z1E4Q3Z3ZjhjVElRUW96Sz
- Aug 12, 20261h 30m
Neil DeGraide: The West Has Forgotten Its Own Roots
Find this episode on YouTube: John Heers sits down with Neil DeGraide for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about why the modern Western church feels so untethered from its own roots — and what the angry internet has to do with it.They unpack:🕊️ How post-WWII culture pushed Christianity toward non-denominationalism and away from the liturgical, experiential faith of the early Church⛪ Why modern "ecumenism" often trades real theological depth for a thin, secularized unity🍽️ The "tablecloth" problem — what happens when we treat every denomination as interchangeable and cover over centuries of genuine division🌍 How this rootlessness leaves believers vulnerable to globalist frameworks that prioritize unity over substance🎬 An update on the Christianities film productionA sincere, sometimes frustrated, always intellectually honest conversation between two men working through big questions in real time.__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & BandChapters:00:00 Cold Open Joke00:11 Sponsor Shoutout01:00 Meet Neil DeGraide03:29 Postwar Church Confusion04:37 Ecumenism and Billy Graham07:42 Israel and WW2 Narrative18:38 Policing the Story21:41 Orthodoxy in the Spotlight26:30 Field Worker Spotlight28:33 Modern Anthropology and Nominalism32:33 Constantine Myth Debunked37:03 Ecumenism And Loose Doctrine42:52 Postwar Unity And Israel46:59 Why Truth Wont Land49:29 One True Church Objection54:47 God Is Love Not Ledger58:41 American Power Assumptions01:01:17 The Gavin Ortlund Crisis01:04:40 Audience Pressure Exposed01:06:31 Humility Over Winning01:12:00 Faith Alone Barrier01:14:59 Beauty Beyond Data01:18:46 Convert Gratitude01:21:30 Mercy and Confession01:27:22 Supra as a Way This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 24, 20261h 18m
Jay Dyer on the Enlightenment, Americanism & the Religion of Politics
Find this episode on YouTube: Jay Dyer joins John Heers to discuss the decline of 2000s New Atheism, shifting internet culture, the Enlightenment, Americanism, Orthodox Christianity, and the political forces shaping the modern West.They examine growing skepticism toward claims of scientific neutrality and political objectivism, arguing that politics often functions as a substitute religion—complete with its own dogmas, sacred myths, and promises of salvation. The conversation also explores whether political systems are ultimately controlled by deeper oligarchic and bureaucratic forces operating behind the scenes.Jay and John critique the Enlightenment as a project that elevated human reason into an idol, connecting its assumptions to liberalism, American civic religion, text-centered religion, and modern ideas about human nature. They contrast abstract systems that promise to save society with the concrete virtue—or vice—of the people who actually operate them.The conversation also covers monarchy and democracy in the Christian tradition, the American Dream, Tucker Carlson’s interest in theology, Kant, postmodernism, the decline of New Atheism, and what may come after the Enlightenment project.Along the way, Jay discusses his background, podcasting, internet culture, humor, and the importance of embodied community. They also introduce upcoming Art of Tamada events in Greenville, South Carolina, August 28–29, and Islamorada, October 29–November 2, describing Supra as a communal and experiential practice rooted in hospitality and Orthodox theology.Topics include:- The decline of New Atheism- The Enlightenment and reason as an idol- Americanism and liberal rights- Politics as a substitute religion- Democracy, monarchy, and Christian political thought- Oligarchy, bureaucracy, and political power- Kant, postmodernism, and human nature- Orthodox Christianity and political theology- Supra, hospitality, and the Art of Tamada- Tucker Carlson and the return of theology__🏷️ Sponsored by Conrad's Beef Jerky — loyalty not guaranteed.Conrad's Deli - The best jerky you'll ever have ➜ https://conradsdeli.com/ ⭐ Use promo code "FIRST THINGS" for 10% off.🔥 Support First Things Foundation field workers like Sarah (featured in this episode): https://first-things.org✈ Become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities📢 First Things Telegram: https://t.me/firstthingsfoundation🍷The best dinner party you've ever experienced - Supra Dinner Society: https://supradinner.com/🥂 Keipi Restaurant: https://keipirestaurant.org✒ Substack: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/ⓧ https://x.com/johnfromftf🏖️ Tailormade tours that give back: https://www.gratitude-travels.com/hom__Credits Music: Intro / Outro Provided by Greg Gilbertson & BandChapters:00:00 New Atheism Fades00:53 Show Intro Sponsors03:02 Tech Setup YouTube Origins06:11 Reading Habits Background08:11 Art of Tamada Pitch13:29 Supra Meaning Experience17:30 Enlightenment As Paganism24:21 IQ Technocracy Critique25:47 Americanism Liberal Rights33:57 Tucker Everything Religious36:13 Systems Versus Virtue40:31 American Dream Myth42:26 Boomer Lies and Taxes43:46 Peace Corps Democracy Lesson47:02 Enlightenment vs Christian Nature53:54 From Kant to Postmodernism55:27 What Comes Next59:25 Politics Is Bureaucracy01:01:30 Comedy and Podcasting01:07:17 Thanks and Event Details01:14:09 Authenticity and Depression01:15:51 Opposable Thumbs Outro This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnheersftf.substack.com/subscribe
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