This Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!
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The Building Texas Show with host, Justin McKenzie, about the balance of business and governance. Each week, we’ll interview the local leaders affecting the issues and uncover the power you have to forge the future. www.buildingtexasshow.com
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Journalist Bruce Martin gives racing fans an inside look at the exciting world of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in this fast-paced podcast, featuring interviews with the biggest names in the sport.
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Listen to your own voice the next time you tell the truth. Notice how it flows, uninterrupted, from thought to speech. Now pay attention when you're about to lie. Feel it? That hesitation, that gathering of alternate reality before you speak it into being. Scientists have measured this pause. They've quantified it, studied it, turned it into data p…
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Cedar Park’s Global Rise: Mayor Jim on Growth, Talent, and Building a Future-Ready City
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Cedar Park is becoming one of Texas’ most dynamic tech-driven cities — and Mayor Jim Penniman-Morin shares how thoughtful leadership, global mindset, and long-term planning are fueling that transformation. Learn how companies like Firefly, Element USA, and international entrepreneurs are choosing Cedar Park — and why the city’s focus on quality of …
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How Community Colleges Are Powering the Future Workforce | Andrew Johnson, Lone Star College
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In this episode, Justin McKenzie sits down with Dr. Andrew Johnson III, Workforce Powerhouse and leader at Lone Star College, to explore how community colleges are reshaping talent pipelines, partnering with global employers like Apple, Foxconn, SpaceX, SLB, and Daikin, and creating life-changing opportunities for Texans of all ages. Dr. Johnson sh…
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Wicked: The Bespoke Voice and the Echo of the Ghost
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Today, we are standing in the wings of the theater, looking out at the empty stage, asking ourselves a question about the ghosts that haunt the floorboards. We are talking about the "Original Cast Recording" and how that static document, that moment frozen in time, can become a trap for every artist who follows. We are looking specifically at Wicke…
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Bringing the Bakersfield Sound Back to Texas Dance Halls | Visiting Texas
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On this episode of The Building Texas Show and our Visiting Texas series, Justin McKenzie sits down with Zane Adamo, frontman of The Soda Crackers, a California band carrying the classic Bakersfield Sound across Texas and Oklahoma. We dive into the band’s first multi-state tour, their deep ties to Texas dance halls, the Western Swing roots of the B…
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Mayor Joe Boles Invites Texas to a Small-Town Christmas Experience | Visit Texas
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Discover Glen Rose, Texas like never before. In this episode of The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie sits down with Mayor Joe Boles to explore the heart, heritage, and holiday magic of Glen Rose. From its beloved Christmas Parade to its world-famous dinosaur tracks, Glen Rose is a small Texas town with big charm—and Mayor Bowles invites yo…
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How Long Is a Piece of String: Geometry of Uncertain Mercy
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Someone approaches you and asks for a piece of string. That's all they say. No context, no explanation, no qualifying details. Just: "Can I have a piece of string?" In that moment, you hold something more precarious than you might realize. You're standing at the intersection of mathematics, psychology, and potentially someone's survival. How do you…
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David McInnis on Innovation, AI, and Quietly Building Texas
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Episode 100: From Lollipops to AI — The Entrepreneurial Journey of David McInnis In this milestone 100th episode of The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie sits down with Texas entrepreneur David McInnis, founder of PRWeb and co-founder of Newsworthy.ai. From selling lollipops in middle school to pioneering one of the first online press relea…
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Right now, as you listen to this, your larynx is trying to kill you. This isn't metaphorical. Your voice box sits dangerously low in your throat, creating an intersection where food and air must cross paths every time you swallow. No other mammal has this problem. Horses can drink and breathe simultaneously. Newborn humans can nurse and breathe at …
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Here's something that should stop you cold: humans are the only animals on Earth that cry emotional tears. Not tears to clean the eyes, not tears from irritation, but tears from joy, from grief, from being overwhelmed by beauty. Elephants mourn their dead without weeping. Dolphins recognize themselves in mirrors without crying at their own reflecti…
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That Thing That Eats Your Name: A Story for Halloween
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The first sign something was wrong in the neighborhood came when Patricia Reeves knocked on her own door and asked her husband if Patricia Reeves lived there. She stood on the porch in her gardening clothes, dirt still under her fingernails from planting the tulips we'd all watched her plant an hour before. Her husband assumed it was a stroke. The …
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When we invoke the Boodle Boy, we're also invoking a kind of professional shamanism. The shaman moves between worlds, bringing back knowledge from spaces others can't access. The Boodle Boy moves between disciplines, between technologies, between ways of knowing. He speaks theater to programmers and code to dramatists. He finds the musical structur…
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Exploring Glen Rose, Texas | Dinosaur Capital of Texas | The Building Texas Show
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In this audio-only feature of The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie sits down with Tex Toler, Tourism Director for Glen Rose, Texas, to uncover the stories that make this Hill Country town one of the most charming Destinations, Texas. Located just southwest of Fort Worth, Glen Rose is home to Dinosaur Valley State Park, Fossil Rim Wildlife …
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The Charmadillo: Glamping, Community, and the Spirit of Center Point, Texas
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In this episode of The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie talks with Sarah Rothstein, founder and owner of The Charmadillo, a unique eco-friendly glampground in Center Point, Texas. Sarah shares her inspiring story of moving from Minnesota to the Texas Hill Country to build something extraordinary from the ground up — a destination that blen…
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Here's a thought experiment I want you to try. Tonight, pick one moment from your day. Just one. Don't photograph it. Don't write it down. Don't tell anyone about it. Just hold it in your mind. Try to recall it tomorrow, next week, next month. Watch how it changes. Notice how it connects to other memories, how it grows or fades, how it becomes less…
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Special Borg-Warner Trophy Edition with 109th Indianapolis 500 winner Alex Palou, sculptor William Behrends, BorgWarner President and CEO Josef Fadool, BorgWarner’s Michelle Collins and FOX Sports feature ...
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 68 – Special Borg-Warner Trophy Edition with 109th Indianapolis 500 winner Alex Palou, sculptor William Behrends, BorgWarner President and CEO Josef Fadool, BorgWarner’s Michelle Collins and FOX Sports feature producer Katie Weigel October 14, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin made a trip to the North Carolina Mountains …
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Black Pill: Meaning, History, and Cultural Fallout
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"Taking the black pill" names a posture of fatalism that migrated from fringe men's forums into the wider internet. The metaphor riffs on the pills in The Matrix, but where the "red pill" claims to reveal hard truths, the black pill says those truths are terminal and change is pointless. In its most specific and consequential register, it is tied t…
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IndyCar Championship Victory Lap Celebration with NTT IndyCar Series Champion Alex Palou, owner Chip Ganassi, Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rookie of the Year Louis Foster ...
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 67 – IndyCar Championship Victory Lap Celebration with NTT IndyCar Series Champion Alex Palou, team owner Chip Ganassi, Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rookie of the Year Louis Foster and INDY NXT By Firestone Champion Dennis Hauger October 7, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin attended the 2…
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Galileo Test: Why Today's AI Still Can't Invent the Future
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Consider a thought experiment: one intelligence is trained exclusively on everything known about apples. Another is trained only on oranges. They are allowed to communicate but are strictly forbidden from discussing the specifics of their respective fruits. Would the apple expert learn about oranges, and vice versa? Surprisingly, the answer is almo…
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Celebrating With The Champions including NTT IndyCar Series Champion Alex Palou and INDY NXT By Firestone Champion Dennis Hauger
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 66 – Celebrating With The Champions including NTT IndyCar Series Champion Alex Palou and INDY NXT By Firestone Champion Dennis Hauger September 30, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin celebrates the champions on the latest episode of Pit Pass Indy including 2025 NTT IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou and INDY NXT By Firest…
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The Mirror and the Machine: A Meditation on Consciousness and Self-Awareness
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Consciousness is the raw fact of experience itself, what philosophers call qualia. It's the redness of red, the sharp bite of winter air, that peculiar texture of anxiety sitting in your chest. Consciousness is simply the lights being on, the "something it is like" to be you. A mouse likely has consciousness; it experiences pain, pleasure, fear, bu…
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Breaking Down The 2026 NTT IndyCar Series Schedule with Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles, and IndyCar President Doug Boles
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 65 – Breaking Down The 2026 NTT IndyCar Series Schedule with Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles, and IndyCar President Doug Boles September 23, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin helps break down the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES schedule with the two men who helped put it together, Penske Entertainment President…
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Rivers with Standing: Indigenous Law, Memory, and the Future of Stewardship
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There is no single universal definition of "Indigenous peoples." The most rigorous contemporary practice rests on a cluster of criteria: self-identification; descent from societies that predate colonization; continuity of language, institutions, and spiritual traditions; and a sustained relationship with particular territories and waters. Since the…
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Heading into the offseason with Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rinus VeeKay, Josef Newgarden, Callum Ilott and Nolan Siegel
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 64 – Heading into the offseason with Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Kyle Kirkwood, Christian Lundgaard, Rinus VeeKay, Josef Newgarden, Callum Ilott and Nolan Siegel September 16, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty more to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy as IndyCar heads into the offseason with a flurry of big ann…
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"Three Hidden Discoveries: Forests Control Weather, Consciousness Stutters, and Worms Built Civilization
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When you really sit with these ideas, the boundary between matter and mind starts to shimmer and dissolve. Forests think with water. Worms dream soil into being. Consciousness flickers like a strobe light, creating the illusion of continuity from discontinuous moments. We're not separate from these processes; we're expressions of them. Your thought…
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Unpacking the end of the 2025 INDYCAR Series Season with Scott Dixon, Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Ericsson and much more
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PIT PASS INDY – SEASON 5, EPISODE 63 – Unpacking the end of the 2025 INDYCAR Series Season with Scott Dixon, Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Ericsson and much more September 9, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy as IndyCar heads into the offseason with a flurry of big announcements. In addition to catching up on a…
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The Hollow Men Explained: T.S. Eliot's Sources, Meaning, and Modern Relevance
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The concept of spiritual and moral hollowness that T.S. Eliot crystallized in "The Hollow Men" (1925) emerged from a crisis of meaning that had been building in Western consciousness since the mid-nineteenth century. While Eliot's immediate inspiration came from witnessing the spiritual devastation following World War I, the metaphor of human hollo…
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Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden Wins Season Finale in Nashville. Also, Team Penske and Will Power part ways after 17 seasons
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PIT PASS INDY PRESENTED BY PENSKE TRUCK RENTAL – SEASON 5, EPISODE 62 – Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden Wins Season Finale in Nashville. Also, Team Penske and Will Power part ways after 17 seasons September 2, 2025 Show host Bruce Martin has plenty to unpack in the latest Pit Pass Indy Presented by Penske Truck Rental after the final race of the 2025…
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AI, AGI, and the Future of Humanity: A 2025 Analysis
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A persistent gap between public imagination and technical reality defines the common understanding of artificial intelligence. The popular discourse, shaped by a century of fiction, centers on the fear of emergent machine consciousness, while the more urgent, tangible story is about how today's powerful, non-sentient tools are actively beginning to…
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