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#AncientTexan — 504 episodes

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1

Low Cost Energy is the Cure for Global Warming

2

Privilege Rating

3

Does Trump Have Dementia?

4

Trump, The Wrecking Ball

5

I am a masculist

6

Replacement theory

7

Excessive Deaths ... perhaps you're superfluous

8

Existential Threats, Really?

9

We don't control the world anymore

10

Push the Button and Be Amazed

11

Keeping it Real with My Lady

12

Homeless ...we blame them in America

13

Flags That Divide Us

14

Typical Childcare in America at UUFN

15

Waking up 80 with Trump as President

16

You loving mother nature will save the planet

17

Douglas MacGregor's truth

18

Finding Your Religion

19

State of the World

20

Limerence relationships

21

Hello in There, Hello

22

Swords or Bombs

23

Sam Harris I disagree

24

How Active is China in Promoting Wars Against America?

25

Not today for the Palestinians

26

Slaughter Phase in Israel: Palestinians must die

27

Israelis Rule with Fear

28

The Laptop from Hell

29

Trump is above the law and we are afraid

30

Out of H2O? You need low cost energy.

31

COOL THINGS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

32

Global warming saves lives

33

Commodities and World Power

34

Only Doctors Can Think

35

The Unjust Justice Department

36

Russia Stumbles, Will it snub its nose?

37

The Caste System in America

38

Making It in a Rich Man's World

39

Patents Belong to the Elite

40

What do Mitt Romney and Oliver Anthony Have in Common

41

what is good about global warming: part 1

42

Apocalypse Never by Michel Shellenberger

43

Drifting

44

AI and the Ancient Texan Discuss "Abused Lives Matter"

45

A talk with AI about the Upcoming Metal Crisis

46

Affirmative Action More Good or Bad

47

MegaTrend: A Critical Flaw in the Liberal Monoculture

48

In Defense of Trump by the Ancient Texan

49

The Folly of AI

50

Poetry: A Summer Rain

51

Robert, the Engineer, Roe the Poet, Ancient Texas the preacher, and Wiley Fox the Sex Maniac

52

She Said, He Said, He's guilty

53

Irresponsible Financial Management by Congress

54

Massacre in Texas Dystopia

55

Existential Threat Rating: What is an Existential Threat to Humanity? How Does Global Warming Rank?

56

Really? The Oligarchs and the Media Have Picked Sleepy-Joe and BLM (Big-Lie Man) for America

57

Suspending Youtube Channel on Earth Day

58

AI summary: Is Xi Suicidal Over Taiwan?

59

Is Xi Suicidal Over Taiwan?

60

Global Prosperity Needs Fossil Fuels Big Time

61

Unsettled by Steven Koonin. You've heard the story by the media, not the scientists.

62

The Fossil Fuel Bad Guys

63

When is making mistakes good?

64

We do not have the mineral resources for the Green Revolution.

65

Is 'Black Lives Matter' a racist statement?

66

I have a voice.

67

Organ Transplants Used as the Fountain of Youth for the CCP

68

Greta's Climate Warming Religion

69

With what is happening in Nigeria do our climate change policies make sense?

70

Morality and our Climate Change Policies

71

Happy Family / Turkey Day

72

Listen Before You Speak Your Truth with Kindness

73

Two Poems for Saturday Published on Sunday

74

Let It Rot

75

Post Election BS

76

Is Our Money Broken?

77

Politics sound a lot like religion these days

78

Gender dysphoria: Irreversible Damage

79

We Made the Choices That Increased Our Energy Costs

80

Putin Takes out Zelenskyy with a Single Nuke

81

The Beat of Her Drum, a poem by Roe

82

Christian Nationalism

83

Blank Lives Matter

84

Putin's Story is Crushing Our Green Story

85

The Mining of Sea Floor Nodules, is it part of the Green Plan A?

86

The Democrats Want to Maintain the Status Quo with regard to Abortion

87

Burning Fossil Fuels is Making the Planet Greener

88

Singing Back the World by Dorianne Laux

89

Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad by Jan Heller Levi

90

Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser

91

Poem: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

92

What is our response when Putin Drops a Nuclear Weapon, strategic or conventional, in Ukraine

93

So Do the Europeans Have a Master Plan for Climate Change?

94

America's Energy and Climate Plan is Decrepit

95

Peter Meijer, an American Hero

96

Freedom of Speech is at Risk

97

Tweedism in HongKong Modelled after America's System

98

Living in a World That is Unraveling

99

Our New Religion, High Tech

100

The Arbitrary Line in Abortion

101

The Mystery of Being Where You are Loved

102

Is it okay that American Bullying Kills People?

103

Roe vs Wade: An Illegal Network to Distribute the Abortion Pill?

104

We Made the Choices That Lead to Inflation

105

Wealth Inequality Plan A

106

Gun Control in California

107

The Contradiction between American Greatness and Gun Violence

108

No Uber This Morning, a poem

109

What is Happening in My World and the Greater World

110

Elijah Series: Uncle Floyd and Aunt Minnie

111

What is Fair? Abortion Ruling, is it Fair?

112

Should Both Sides Focus More on the Needs of the Mother

113

Freedom of Speech

114

Germany is Moving Away From Green

115

Let's Export Fracking

116

Retreats for guys is not a thing

117

Which countries can pay for the cost of going green

118

The Relation between Truth and Freedom of Speech

119

Elijah Series: Rod from the Fire

120

GIMBY

121

NIMBY and the Green New Deal

122

What is Missing in the World

123

Grandpa's Tears

124

What is Putin's Last Card

125

Tragedy in My World

126

We should use the wise market to make the calls with climate change

127

The American Eagle Above the Putin Bear

128

Trump Has Blood on His Hands in Ukraine

129

America Taught Russia It's Behavior in Ukraine

130

Is the world willing to Sacrifice for Ukrainians?

131

May the Ukrainians be braver than us

132

A real existential crisis from MAD

133

Woman at the gas station

134

Traveling Nurses Reveal Our Belief about the Value of Poor People

135

He is a Cracker

136

The illusion of u.s. power

137

Identity victim politics

138

A poem for my lady: Am I Not Among the Early Risers by Mary Oliver

139

Don't Dare Talk About White Male Privilege for the Poor

140

Apparently My Opinion About the N-Word is Unique?

141

Keep Your Mask up

142

MAD. MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

143

Existential-threats to Life

144

Novak Djokovic the Anti-Vaxxer

145

The Calamity of the Global Warming Mindset

146

The role of heroes in conspiracy stories

147

How Do We Identify the Truth and Separate It from Our Baises

148

Elijah Series:#2 Stalled on the Train Track

149

How Could Biden Help Our Country?

150

Elijah the Series: #1 Introduction and My Values

151

Vaccines. Greed, Moderna, Pfizer

152

NIMBY means you are putting your future in China's Hands

153

Grandchildren. Elon Musk. Declining World Population and Declining Cultures

154

Is the Age of Science Ending?

155

Not all conspiracy theories are bunk

156

Life after legal abortions

157

Worry about the right thing with the virus!

158

What the fuck?

159

3 little pigs

160

Energy Chaos and the Genocide Olympics

161

What I believe, my religion

162

Boots

163

Singles Day in China 11/11

164

The Slow Changing Status Quo of 7 Billion People

165

Clouds Roll In

166

Drug Dystopia

167

Two Americas

168

Lessons from Evergrande in China

169

What is the American Dystopia? Where is it?

170

What values do we use to determine if America is a Dystopia or even a Utopia?

171

Gerrymandering is Immoral and UnDemocratic

172

Humans are not typically logical creatures

173

How Does Wealth Inequality Impact You?

174

It's My Body: Vaccine or Virus

175

We are all a part of us: But Not in Israel with Apartheid

176

China and U.S. Bullies posturing across the Southern China Sea

177

Wealth Inequality

178

How Does a Old Homeless Woman with Covid fit in our world?

179

She’s somebody’s daughter

180

What's Important? the Journey to Peace.

181

America's Immoral Acts Against Mexico: Drugs and Guns

182

A Luxury Question: Am I Happy?

183

The sins in Afghanistan

184

Infinite Games versus Finite Games

185

World News and What We Believe

186

We can't be successful with global warming unless we believe we all in this together

187

Take 2: Effective Infrastructure takes more than money, it takes vision et al

188

Should I feel guilty for my white male privilege?

189

The Big Myth: People will multiply like ants and overrun the planet

190

A Being in my World

191

State of Mind

192

What is the truth? Is it important?

193

We are completely failing at addressing climate change

194

The Filibuster Games

195

Should I feel guilty for my white male privilege?

196

America is going down the tube with the "I" Culture

197

Billionaires have it tough

198

Mine Lithium or save birds and flowers?

199

Do we give a shit where our MIC drops bombs?

200

He Told Her He Loved Her

201

Joe Manchin, hero or villain?

202

Where is Jessie James?

203

We paid for the 67 dead children; did we get out money's worth

204

Ancient Texan Environmental News May 28, 2021

205

Poem: Hubert Blakenship by David Bottoms

206

Ancient Texan News May 25, 2021

207

Ancient Texan News May 22 2021

208

Ancient Texan News Blog May 20 2021

209

Republish: The Story of a Palestinian Grandma Missing GrandDaughter's Birthday

210

Ancient Texan News Blog May 15, 2021

211

We Bomb the Animals in the Gaza Cage

212

Bombing People in Cages for Another Week Announced

213

Ancient Texan News Blog May 15 2021

214

Ancient Texan News Blog May 14 2021

215

Ancient Texan News Podcast for May 13 2021

216

Ancient Texan News Podcast for May 12 2021

217

Ancient Texan comments on the News of May 11 2021

218

The Emotional Challenge of Dieting

219

How's Biden and America Doing?

220

Enhance Your Life by Managing Your Stories

221

Democrats and Republicans Not Getting Along is Leading to America's Demise

222

Growing Human Body Parts in a Monkey

223

Redo on dust of the Road by W.S. Merwin

224

Self Identity at Retirement

225

Poetry: What I Want

226

Proud Words by Odle

227

Window Grave by Eamon Grennan

228

Nuclear Winter by Edward Nobles

229

My Life by Joe Wenderoth

230

Celebrating the Odle Diet

231

Vegetarian Physics by David Clewell

232

June 11 by Lehman

233

A Republican I would vote for: Mayor Suarez

234

Gratitude for Old Teachers by Robert Bly

235

Nuclear Winter by Edward Nobles

236

Old Men Playing Basketball by xxx

237

Two Poems by Bill Collins

238

Inflation is Coming

239

We Can't Make It Here by James McMurtry

240

Poetry: Intro to Poetry by Billy Collins

241

To My Twenties by Kenneth Koch

242

To the Dust of the Road by W.S. Merwin

243

Prayer in my Boot by Naomi Shihab Nye

244

Covid and Tribalism

245

The Floating Rib by Lucia Perillo

246

Gun Control and Tribalism

247

Illegal to Give Water to Voters in Line

248

Poetry: Muzak by Kevin Young

249

Poetry: The Alien by Greg Delanty

250

Poetry: First Hour by Sharon Olds

251

Commitment by Roe

252

Lobbyists Interfered with American Elections by Using the Electoral College and Gerrymandering

253

Covid Earthship

254

The Old Poets of China by Mary Oliver

255

LOGOS: Poem by Mary Oliver

256

Minimum Wage at McDonald's: Why are you for it?

257

Poetry: Last Night's Party

258

What's Important in America

259

The Democrats Said "No" to Cooperation and "Yes" to Power

260

Communist Parting Meeting: Danger

261

Identity Politics: Is it helpful?

262

Two Two Minute Poems

263

White Male Priviledged Still?

264

Black Lives?

265

Our Emotional Being

266

Many of Trump's Horde Have Gone Over to the Dark Side

267

Buying American Only is Very Un-American

268

The Nuclear Club is Growing

269

Poetry: Ten Inches of Snow

270

Poetry: I Hate Mondays

271

Let's Give the Republican's a Win

272

Poetry: The Story of the Book Signing

273

The Story of a Palestinian Grandma Missing Her Grand Daughter's Birthday

274

Part 1: Do Democrats Support Apartheid in Israel?

275

Freedom of Speech for Trump on the Internet

276

How Our Support of the Elites Create and Sustain Trumpism

277

The Sacred Democratic Opinion

278

Poetry Friday: I said "yes" but I meant "no

279

Will the Impeachment Vaccinate America?

280

Publishing a Novel ... without boundaries

281

The Jesus Riots at our Capital!!!

282

Trump, the Canary in the Coal Mine: Do we impeach the canary?

283

A Few Thoughts on the Fairness of Wealth Inequality

284

Shameful Day in American History

285

The Power of the Status Quo

286

Values: Righteous Historical Judgment

287

Politics: Values: Compromise, the right thing to do

288

Resolutions: The Art of Prioritizing Values

289

Values: Fairness and Wealth Inequality

290

Poetry: Wait

291

Poetry: Rock That Says My Name

292

Poetry: Buddha's Dogs by Susan Browne

293

Values: Insist on American Values in our Supply Chain

294

Values: Conspiracy Theories on the Vaccine are Coming

295

Poetry: Values: Song Lyrics of the Working Poor

296

Values: Will Gay Couples Lose the Parenting Rights

297

Poetry: What I Do and Tariff

298

GLPM: Why the Mind Part 2

299

GLPM: Why the Mind, Part 1

300

Values: Tears for the Working Poor

301

Values: Senate United Against China Playing Fair

302

Values: Shoutout to Republican Chris Krebs

303

GLPM: Introducing the Political Mind by George Lakoff

304

Poetry: Is the Kingdom Great or Small by Roe

305

Poetry: Three Love Poems by Roe

306

Poetry: Us and Them During Thanksgiving

307

Being at Peace with Our Ugly Stories

308

Hiking

309

Becoming Comfortable with Mortality/Death

310

Conversation of Nolan and Robert About Poetry and Life (unedited)

311

Grandma

312

Two Poems: Pug. Charles Garner

313

Facebook and Social Responsibility

314

The Uncertainty of Your Life

315

The Anger and Misery of Wealth Inequality

316

Coloring Our Stories Red or Blue

317

The Anger of the Working Class Poor

318

Listeners Needed for Inclusion

319

American Requiem

320

The Defiance of Trump

321

Pandemic of the Spirit

322

Peace Makers

323

Voting Experience 2020

324

Covid is now on our shoulders.

325

Social Capitalist

326

IRS, Agent of the Rich?

327

Our Relationship with the Truth

328

Competition or Cooperation

329

The Religion of Purple

330

Abortion Questions

331

Matthew Bailey, Good Bye, my Friend

332

Talking About Death

333

The Religion Behind a Mask

334

The Said and Unsaid About Trump's Illness

335

How Far Will a Desperate Trump Go to avoid defeat, bankruptcy, and shame?

336

America, an Elite Aristocracy

337

Cake and Bubbly

338

What is My Religion?

339

What if Trump Doesn't Step Down?

340

The stories about women that I was taught as a child.

341

Giving your life meaning and building your identity through stories.

342

We Needed Trump

343

Meaningful Political Discussions

344

You Don't Know As Much as You Believe You Know

345

Developing Your Own Set of Values

346

Conspiracy Theories

347

Impressions of Kamala Harris

348

Hispanic Lives Matter

349

Chapter 13. Widening the Circle of Compassion

350

Thank You Listeners

351

The Top Three Political Positions of the #AncientTexan

352

Chapter 12. Growing Up

353

Our Life and Death Relationship with China

354

Looking to Ireland for Sanity

355

Data Driven Plan for Opening the Schools During Covid-19

356

Ch 11. Nonaggression and the Four Maras

357

Reflections on my country on July 4th

358

Out of the Blue, A Voice From 50 Years Ago

359

Ch 10, Curious About Existence from When Things Fall Apart.

360

Hope or Punishment in Drug Policy?

361

Texans and the Pandemic: We Have Our Rights

362

Thank You to My Few but Noble Listeners

363

From: When Things Fall Apart: Loneliness, Part 2

364

When Things Fall Apart: Loneliness, Part 1

365

The Eight Dharmas

366

Activist, Wildlife Biologist, and Poet Mat Bailey

367

Can money fix racism?

368

Can hopelessness be a good thing?

369

How did the pandemic make the drug epidemic disappear?

370

Doing no harm

371

It's Never Too Late (for Compassion) #AncientTexan

372

Covid-19 For Dummies

373

Delaware Art Museum Poetry Reading

374

Now, this moment, is the Perfect Teacher ... if you can embrace it.

375

Asking the Hard Questions About American Capitalism

376

Deflections in Your Life, be prepared and open minded.

377

When Things Fall Apart

378

Are you willing to become intimate with your fear? #AncientTexan

379

Evaluating Your Life Through the Lens of the Virus

380

A Small Stick #AncientTexan

381

the #AncientTexan Saves the World from the Pandemic

382

What's Right in America #AncientTexan

383

Jose's Stories #AncientTexan

384

Epiphanies, a Poem by Roe.

385

Jose and Love

386

Getting Back to Work and Life after the Pandemic

387

Old Cat Friend

388

Taiwan is Acing the Coronavirus Exam #AncientTexan

389

Are You Experiencing Joy under the Pandemic?

390

Opening Doors for the Weak Among Us #AncientTexan

391

A Poor man's view of Social Distancing

392

Journalists should tell the Ventilator Story #ancientTexan

393

Coronavirus-Induced Paradigm Shift in Education? #ancientTexan

394

Legacy Options #ancientTexan

395

Hysteria over the Corona Virus

396

The Weakest Among Us

397

Biden, Bernie and Elizabeth

398

Corona Virus...view from airport early days

399

Dreams and Being Faithful

400

Float on Your Back A While by Rumi

401

Thoughts on Capital Punishment

402

Rumi and the conch shell

403

Our amazing lives

404

Life after New Hampshire

405

The Elephant in the Room with Trump Supporters

406

AI and Privacy

407

Impressions of the Democratic Debate.

408

Who is the Greatest, Costa Rica or the United States

409

Peace in Costa Rica

410

Sunday in Costa Rica

411

No One Beats Odle 56 years in a row

412

Clarity of Thought, Conviction and Intent

413

Asking the Right Questions

414

Rebekah, her values and poetry. (Edited)

415

Rebekah, her values and her poetry

416

Tattoo, a poem by Roe (the Ancient Texan)

417

Poetry: Into the Darkness of Tomorrow

418

How Do the Democratic Candidates Stack Up in the Eyes of the Ancient Texan

419

Christians for Trump

420

Are You into BDS?

421

Half-Ass Impeachment

422

Even Trump is Right Sometimes

423

Old Dogs are Us

424

Interview with Mike on his Core Values

425

Change the Term on Capital Gains to Reverse Wealth Inequality in America

426

What are your core values?

427

The Story of the Blue Jay.

428

Where have all the good stories gone?

429

#AncientTexan (Trailer)

430

Healthcare and Capitalism

431

Others and Othering

432

Is Socialism on its Way in America

433

My Poverty Story

434

The Story of Your Team

435

the Jesus Story, the old one

436

Story of the Creation

437

Mastering Your Stories

438

Feeding the Demon

439

The Birth of a New Era

440

Egotistical Climate Change Policies

441

The Human Spirit

442

George Wilson Center

443

Thoughts on Global Warming

444

American Religion

445

Fits of Passion

446

What's Important For Our Future

447

Ancient Texan Saves America

448

Stories from Long Ago

449

Leku and Ama, where dogs came from...

450

Public option dear bernie

451

Let them eat cake

452

Boundaries in America

453

Humility in America

454

The Drug Blame Circle

455

Do Democrats Understand Trumpites?

456

Climate Collapse

457

The Oligarchs, not you, run the world.

458

Antifa, good or bad?

459

Witnessing, Seeing the Person in Front of You

460

Relationships ... building, destroying

461

Three Poems

462

The Real Wealth of Nations - Caring

463

America Needs a Plan

464

Memories from 1950 of the Ancient Texan

465

Children in Expensive Cages

466

Summary of California 2084.

467

Ask not what your country can do for you...

468

Memories from 1950

469

Do the democrats have their head in the sand?

470

The Elephant in the Senate

471

Posturing should not be confused with doing something.

472

Too Much Stuff

473

Rice and Beans

474

A Neighborhood Designed Around Solar

475

Climate Change and Trust by the Ancient Texan

476

The Truth by the Ancient Texan.

477

I'm tired of Trump bashing! The ancient Texan.

478

The Saudis, our kind of people.

479

Should the police be charged with not protecting children during a mass shooting?

480

Milking the Cows

481

Does America Fight Just Wars by the Ancient Texan

482

How Do We Save 10% of our Drug Addicts?

483

On who's shoulders does gun violence fall?

484

patriotism: the last legitimate prejudice or a value?

485

Reverse Prejudice

486

Us and Them

487

Will Our Values Lead to War in Iran?

488

The Unemployment Number Farce

489

China, is anything more important than the almighty dollar?

490

Do children have a right to be and feel safe in our schools?

491

Do you believe in equal opportunity for all?

492

Did Trump Get Something Right?

493

Socialism, A nine letter word.

494

Venezuela, Your Role in Its Collapse

495

What is the essential question for abortion?

496

Is sex for money ok?

497

We must learn to listen!

498

Land of Opportunity by the Ancient Texan

499

Homeless people are real.

500

Does capitalism value anything besides profits?

501

Brownies on the Streets in SF

502

Colin Kaepernick: Freedom of Speech vs. Loyalty

503

What This Podcast is About

504

Compassion at the Border, or Not