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Is Reading Overrated? Does It Matter If Kids Refuse To Read? Does Society Lose Anything If Less People Enjoy Reading? Did Americans Ever Like Reading In The First Place? Is Reading A Pretentious Act?

99% of Teachers Are "Effective." Is this Too High? Too Low? Do Schools Evaluate Teachers Accurately? Why Are Teachers So Hard to Measure? Is this Magic vs Technology? Dr. Amanda Mckay Discusses!

Which Treasure Will We See First? The Half Billion Dollar Bitcoin Password Buried in the Garbage? JP Morgan's 1.5lbs Gold Pocket Watch? Gold & Silver Coins from the Legendary San Jose Shipwreck?

Satire! Do We Have to Laugh If It's True? Are We Allowed to Be Angry? Can We Sue Over It? Does Satire Accurately Hold Up A Mirror On Our Use of Phones and Social Media? What About Hansel and Gretel?

Does the TIME Person of the Year Matter Anymore? Is the Selection Criteria Flawed? Who Wins Person Of 21st Century So Far? Who Wins Last Half Of 20th Century? Is Elon Musk the Right Choice for 2021?

What's the Biggest World Concern? The Dominance of the English Language? The Decline of Roquefort Cheese? Who's In Charge of Stopping Armageddon? Elon Musk's Population Growth Concerns?

12 Concepts to Enrich Your Knowledge! Could Humanity Improve If We: Understood Large Numbers? Found A Flow State? Reduced Our Taxoplasma of Rage? Refuted More BS? Understood Our Status Quo Bias?

Time For America To Break Up? What Are the Pros & Cons of National Divorce? Is Texas Better Off Alone? Would National Separation Be Easy & Amicable? What Is Each State's Least Favorite State?

What Is the Best Financial Move? $150 to Eat ALL Meals At Six Flags Theme Park For a Year? Turn $8000 of Shiba Inu Cryptocurrency Into $5.7 Billion? Our "Best" Idea On How to Become Billionaires!

The Military! Do Americans Think About It Enough? Is It Time to Bring Back the Draft? Is the Nation Properly Prepared for the Next Conflict? Does American Military Policy Consider Enough Opinions?

Does Management Need to Meet Worker Demands? What Do Workers Want? The Equation that Helps Decide When to Leave Your Job!!! What's the Future of Work? Are Managers Ready? Beth Stiner Discusses!

Blowouts In Youth Sports!!! Should You Just Keep Scoring If the Other Team Can't Stop You? Do Coaches Have an Obligation to Slow their Team Down? Should School Boards Demand Apologies?

Is It Ok If Our Presidential Candidates Are Just "Products"? Are There Any Qualifications A President Should Have? Should Americans Be Aware Of What the Campaign Process Does to their Future Leaders?

Has the Chip Shortage Been the Greatest Thing Ever For the Auto Industry? Are We Going to Buy Cars Differently Now? Is the Auto Industry Leaving Michigan Behind? Industry Engineer Dan Snyder Discusses

Collections! Has the Internet Ruined Our Relationship to Our Stuff? Should We Be Concerned If the Machine Decides How We Organize Our Things? Is It Bad If Humans Stop Collecting Real Books and Music?

Why Are Americans Still Moving To Places Most Impacted By Climate Change? Shouldn't Michigan Be the American Population Growth Winner? Could We Solve Everything By Just Piping Great Lakes Water West?

"Nobody Wants to Work Anymore!!!" Is This True? Why Are Businesses Struggling To Hire? Are Resumes Being Unfairly Rejected By Computers? What's The Future Of Hiring? Jeff Hogan Joins To Discuss!

Fewer Men Are Attending College! Is This A Market Correction Or Data That Points To a Generation of Video Game Basement Dwellers? Do Men Deserve Help? Can America Rationally Discuss This?

Why Can't We See the Prices At Hospitals? Why Are The Prices Different For the Same Procedure? Are Individuals Better At Negotiating Health Care Prices Than Their Insurance Company?

4 Summer Revelations: Afghanistan TVnews Coverage = Five Minutes in 2021. An Asteroid Has .057% Chance of Hitting Earth. Big Occasion Dinners = Bad Food. 2% of People Use Stairs Instead of Escalator

College Football's Future!? Will Conference Realignment Ruin The Sport? Will Mid Major Programs Disappear? What's The Impact of Players Making Money On Themselves? Mark Snyder Joins To Discuss!

Are "Zombie Students" Returning To The Classroom This Fall? Have Students Become "Difficult To Intellectually Prod or Verbally Poke?" Or Are These The Traditional Complaints Of The Old Vs The Young?

Should Families... Attend Wilderness Survival Schools To Prepare For Climate Change? Be Ready To Live Alone In The Woods? Or Spend Time Lobbying Government For Better Climate Change Policies?

Should We Rethink How We Raise Boys? Do We Need To Change Their Toys? Encourage Self-Soothing? What Is The Best Way To Communicate Ideas of Masculinity? Is It Possible We Are Just Overthinking this?

Fantasy University Ideas: Instructors Recruiting Students & Admission Based Upon Ability to Learn! Could Tyler Cowen Offer A Better College Experience? Could The Ideas Work In K-12 Public Schools?

Human Endurance! Can Science Help Athletes Break Their Limits? How Important Is Belief In Getting Humans To Go Faster And Further? Are We Wrong About Hydration, Using Ice, and High Carb Diets?

Classroom Interruptions! Should Schools Be Concerned If Instruction Is Impacted By Late Students, Phone Calls, Announcements, and Classroom Visits? Or Are Interruptions Just Good Practice For Life?

Waffle House! Is Spending 24 Hours In A Waffle House The Perfect Consequence For Fantasy Football? Should A Person Be Able to Eat Nine Waffles? Why Does FEMA Love Waffle House While Michigan Doesn't?

Cryptocurrencies! Cobalt! Bitcoin! Batteries! Are These A Net Positive or Negative For Society? How Should We Feel When The Goods We Love Lead to Ransomware, Child Labor, More Carbon, and Death?

Are the National Parks Overcrowded? Should they Raise their Prices? Create New Parks? Allow Disney to Manage them? What Are the Best Parks? Strategies On Avoiding Crowds Offered!!!

Churchill Part 2. World War II, The Blitz, Alliances with America and Stalin!!! Would Churchill Be Effective If He Lived During the Age of Social Media? 160,000 cigars smoked!

Father's Day Life Advice Special! Mr. David Abeel and Dr. Harry McLaughlin Share Their Rules To Live By: Find A Group, Always Accept Coffee, Remember Kindergarten, Lean Into A Cow?

The Curious Case of Hobbs Kessler!! What Allows Some Runners To Be Faster Than Others? Do Cross-country Runners Make The Best Students? Do Coaches Yell to Motivate In Track? Choosing the Rabbit?

Life Advice! Should You Eat the Same Meal for 10 Years? Always Pet Alley Cats? Why Do American's Love Giving Advice? What About the Golden Rule? Don and Zac Share their Unrequested Advice!

Three Issues: Has Anyone Actually Summitted the Highest Mountains? A University Recruits 50 Esports Athletes? Does Liz Cheney's Stance Matter? Are These Issues A "Big Deal" or "Not a Big Deal?"

Is the First 150 Year Old Human Alive Today? Should Science Help People Live Into Extreme Old Age? Any Consequences? Or Have Humans Already Conquered Life Expectancy Over the Past Century?

Dog Breeds! Why Are French Bulldogs So Popular? Is It Ok To Own A Purebred Dog? Or Is Buying A Mutt "The Right Thing To Do?" What's Going To Happen To All The Dogs When Covid Ends?

Is It Time For More Nuclear Power? Why Are Most Americans So Afraid of Radiation - Don't They Know Its Always Been Surrounding Us? Perhaps Nuclear Energy Just Needs A Good TikTok Video?

Winston Churchill! What's the Big Deal? Is He In History Books Enough? Should He Be Admired or Canceled? Part I: A Break Down of the First 20 Hours from the Audio Book - Walking with Destiny.

Should It Matter If Parents Disagree With A Teacher's Private Life and Political Beliefs? The Covid Teacher Shortage! Why Are Fewer People Becoming Teachers? Is it A Problem? Possible Solutions?

Is the American Media Too Negative About Covid? Is There A Media Bias Towards Negative News? What's the Future of Regional Newspapers? Former Free Press Reporter Mark Snyder Joins To Discuss

Private Schools! When it Comes to Education, Are the Worries and Problems of America's Elites Real? Is There Anything Similar Between the Private and Public School Experience?

Is It Bad If We Stop Going Outside in the Future? Does A Short Story From 1955 Accurately Describe Us Today? Time for Science Fiction and Isaac Asimov!

Why Have An NCAA Basketball Tournament if Most of the Teams Are Losing Money? Are College Sports Just a Loss Leader? Does Anyone Care About Basketball Brackets Anymore?

Modern Parenting! Is Parenting Harder Now than in the Past? Are Today's Parents Trying Too Hard? Is There Something Parents Are Afraid of? Should We Look to the Tiger Mom for Solutions?

What's the Best Deal? Giving Away 8% Of Your $340 Million Baseball Contract? Trading Sneakers? Collecting Digital Basketball Cards? Having Two Password Attempts at Unlocking 7,002 Bitcoin?

Cheating on Tests! Does Chegg Prove Society Is Ok With Cheating? Or Does On Demand Cheating Prove We Use Bad Assessments? If Everyone Is Cheating Do We Care If Nothing Is Learned?

Does Facebook Need It's Own Supreme Court? Will this Improve or Hurt Free Speech? Can the Entire World Live Under the Same Speech Policies? Who Should be on the Court?

Are the Olympics Still Relevant? Good Idea to Add Breakdancing? Should Tug of War be an Event? Does Anyone Care About the Olympics Anymore?

Three Ideas: Turn All the Cane Toads into Boys? Russia Wins Global Warming? Learn to Love Our Great Grandchildren with the Carbon Coin?

Going to Work! Is it True that if We Love What We Do We Never Have to Call it Work? Or is Work Just About the Money? Is Crafting a Hobby or Work?

Youth Screen Addiction! Did Covid-19 Make Our Kids Addicted to Screens? Is this a Problem that Parents, Educators, and Kids Should be Concerned About?

Government Teacher Roundtable: Chaos in the Capital, The Presidential Transition, Social Media Bans, The World's Opinion, Is Our Political System Broken? What Does the Next Administration do?

Is Now the Best Time to be Alive? Were the "Good Old Days" of Previous Decades an Easier Time to Live? When did Humans Live in the "Best of All Possible Worlds?"

Does it Matter if You Have a Light or Dark Personality? Which Personality Brings More Success? Should Schools Test Students for Personality?

Is the American Civilization Falling? Was 2020 Just the Beginning of a Really Violent Historical Cycle? What About the Prediction that Says Humanity Ends In 760 Years?

Costco! Netflix! Tesla! Bitcoin? STOCKing Stuffers for the Future? Or Investments that will be Disrupted?

Jeopardy! Wikipedia! Is it Cool to Know Anything Anymore? Are there Any Facts that Everyone Should Know?

Were Schools Bad Before Covid? Does the Educational Experience Need to be Reexamined Before we Return?

Treasure Hunting! Is It Better to Search Using a Poem or a Metal Detector? What is the Point of Seeking Treasure?

Are America's Thanksgiving Traditions Weird? Is Christmas One Giant Deadweight Loss? The Covid-19 Holiday Season Has Begun!

Lying!!! Lying about your Military Career? Lying on Social Media? Does America Make it too Easy to Cover up the Truth? Or would George Orwell be Proud of our Collective Behavior?

The 2020 Election Is Over... A Victory for Democracy? Does the Electoral College Waste Votes? What Would the Founders Think of Our Government Today? Notes from a Government Teacher Edition.

The Single Minded Pursuit... Is this why Businesses, Organizations, and Governments Fail?

Travel Sports! Youth Sports! College Scholarships! Do the Sports of Squash, Fencing, and Rowing Have Anything in Common with Basketball, Football, and Baseball?

Three Problems: 50 Billionaires = 165 Million Poor People! Nobody is Watching Sports!! The Earth is Surrounded by Space Junk!!!

Virtual Teaching & Learning! Are Parents Seeing the Real Process of Education? Reflections from Two Virtual Teachers. Is it Time for America to Bolt the Desks Back Down and Start Lecturing More?

Slowing Population Growth & Lots of National Debt! Should Americans Care? Is it Possible that More People is Better and Debt Doesn't Matter?

After the Election... What Will It Be Like? Can We Learn Anything from Warren Buffet's Father in Law?

What is the Future of Cities After Covid-19? Time for People to Move Away? Did Walt Disney Get it Right with EPCOT?

Boneless Wings! Make the Words Illegal? Is this America's Best Chance at Getting a Win in 2020?

Three Questions: Pay People to Get Covid-19 Vaccines? What Happened to Ticker Tape Parades? Is America Thinking Enough About War?

Is Paying for College Still Worth It During Covid-19? Is It Time for Colleges to Adopt a New Business Model?

Hamilton! The Musical. The Biography. Do We Need to Reconsider our Founding Fathers, Dueling, and Mt. Rushmore?

Canceled Football Seasons. Has America Lost It's "Last Bastion of Hope for Toughness?" Why Does Football Mean So Much?

Are Teachers Like Nurses - Essential Workers? Are Expectations for a Covid-19 Vaccine Too High?

America's Billionaires... What Should We Feel - Admiration? Annoyance? Does America Need More Or Less Billionaires?

Is 2020 Our Last Chance to Save the Earth? Remember When Climate Change was a News Headline? Are We Too Busy Being Hypocrites to Care?

Three Quick Ideas: Reset Facebook, Eliminate Traffic Police, Give $100 to Every American Every Year

Does Cognitive Dissonance Explain Mask Wearing, Returning to School in the Fall, Pro Wrestling, and Michigan Football?

Can Disney Exist in a Covid-19 World? Will the Company's Movies and Theme Parks Still be Relevant After the Virus?

Evaluating Governor Whitmer During Covid-19. Can Americans Have a Rational Conversation About this Topic? Or Will We Just Cancel Each Other Out?

Are Education Standards Too Hard or Too Easy? Should Schools Focus on Increasing Graduation Rates Even if it Means Making Classes Easier?

The Rise in Child/Teen Anxiety. What Caused it? Who is to Blame - Kids or Parents?

Did Schools Fail During the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Are we Suffering from Crisis Fatigue?

Should Schools Open in the Fall? Logistics and Students and Teachers - Oh My!

Who Gets to Own the Moon: America? China? Everyone? The Billionaires?

Covid-19 America... Could Things Be Different Than They Are?

Covid Vaccine Challenge Trials - Are We Sure It's A Good Idea to Speed Up the Research?

Are We Going to Be Ok?

Is it Time for America to Build?