Film Year 2006
Stranger Than Fiction, After The Wedding, The Lives Of Others, Children Of Men, among others.
Oct 07, 2024•17 min•Ep. 378
Inappropriate Conversations
Too often, political and/or religious ideologies stop open dialog. It’s time to speak freely and break down the barriers that keep people separated. Let’s have an inappropriate conversation about …
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Episodes
Film Year 1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Nanook of the North, Haxan, among others.
Sep 23, 2024•14 min•Ep. 377
Walk The Earth 61
Whether Christians should reject atonement because it is unfair to all who lived and died in the distant past without being washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Sep 16, 2024•47 min•Ep. 376
Film Year 2007
No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, Once, among others.
Aug 29, 2024•15 min•Ep. 375
Film Year 1921
The Kid, The Phantom Carriage, Destiny, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, among others.
Aug 23, 2024•11 min•Ep. 374
240: Targeted Incentives
I suspect we know few, if any, people who have directly caused inflation. When it comes to pushing the button that raises prices in hundreds of stores, though, I am that exception. Whether economic pundits on talk shows want to acknowledge it or not, my reasons were simple and obvious. It was crucial to update prices in stores to cover the cost of tariffs, the kind of "across the board" tariffs that one presidential candidate is proposing to impose (again). Just because something is regrettable ...
Aug 09, 2024•58 min•Ep. 373
Film Year 2008
Waltz With Bashir, Milk, Synecdoche, New York, The Dark Knight, among others.
Aug 02, 2024•11 min•Ep. 372
Film Year 1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Mark of Zorro, Way Down East, The Scarecrow, among others.
Jul 26, 2024•10 min•Ep. 371
Film Year 2009
Up, The White Ribbon, A Serious Man, among others.
Jul 19, 2024•17 min•Ep. 370
239: Film Years
The next podcast I post will be a new short-form considering movies by year. I'm not replacing Inappropriate Conversations or Walk The Earth, just adding something new. The starting point will be Film Year 2009 . Different Drummer: Charles Tashiro Note: the first half of this episode raises questions about the consequences of a recent Supreme Court decision, and I don't know the answer for how this will impact governing in the United States. By my reckoning, things certainly could get very ugly....
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 369
Walk The Earth 60
Whether reaching out in love to LGBTQ+ people is following Christ? Past episode: Walk The Earth 54
Jun 15, 2024•37 min•Ep. 368
238: Sliding Gently into Third
Is "Shut up and kick" the correct response to recent statements by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker? Was that the correct response in recent years to USA soccer star Megan Rapino? That, and the "Shut up and dribble" replies to Lebron James, were just as wrong regardless the type of questions or comments being spoken into microphones. Having said that, it is completely unacceptable to suggest that counter arguments to ideas raised in a public speech are out of line. If a celebrity like a...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 367
237: Viewing Close as a Passenger
Feeling challenged in more than one way, I'm recommending the 2022 movie Close as one of the best films in years. It directly reminded me of a past Inappropriate Conversations podcast with Mark Greene as the Different Drummer . His work, and the director of Close, directly refer to this episode's Different Drummer, too. I was reminded of my childhood, at the same age as the central characters in the film, and a sense of disconnection that came from a change in school districts. I also was challe...
May 12, 2024•54 min•Ep. 366
236: 42 Questions
"Each juror who is seated in the jury box will be asked to answer the following 42 questions." Well, what would you do if called to answer these questions? That can be answered. What I don't know is whether my answers would have kept me in the jury pool or not. Different Drummer: S. Epatha Merkerson #IC 113: Raised On Robbery
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 365
235: Transactional Friendship
In 1986, I wrote an essay in a letter exchange with a friend. I haven't shared it here. Reasons why aren't important. I called it "Love and Contemporary Inter-Sexual Friendship" and many of the concepts noted in this podcast -- and, to be fair, other past podcasts -- reflect the same ideas as that essay written almost four decades ago. These thoughts are both conscious and subconscious, which will be obvious from this dream scenario. I do not view friendship as a give-to-get concept. I don't kee...
Apr 13, 2024•56 min•Ep. 364
Talkback: Walk The Earth 49
Perhaps without thinking it through, the Alabama supreme court has taken conservative pro-life arguments about "personhood" to a logical extreme. The initial result was banning all in vitro fertilization procedures in the state, their jurisdiction. The Alabama legislature may believe they have "saved the day" by quickly passing a law to shield those using IVF from prosecution or consequences, but they've done so by deciding which "children" in their state can be killed with impunity. If the hast...
Apr 05, 2024•52 min•Ep. 363
Tomorrow's Edition
As a journalism student in 1983, I already knew that I had no interest in television news. I could see the direction cable "24 hour news" networks were going, and I didn't like it. Perhaps there were signs I wasn't happy with a newspaper career path either. It wasn't clear to me then, though, how much truth gets revealed through fiction.
Mar 24, 2024•5 min•Ep. 362
Make Up
Surrealism or Dadaism can be as simple as having a strange dream and writing it down, or close to it. Apologies, pun intended, if "Make Up" is merely that simple. I won't try to make it something more with compromise or cosmetics.
Mar 17, 2024•11 min•Ep. 361
Sounds Like a Serious Offense
"Sounds Like a Serious Offense" has not come up before in poetry-focused episodes of Inappropriate Conversations, and that's mainly due to the use of rape as a literary comparison. It's uncomfortable, and I would never want to dilute the meaning of such a heinous crime. Having said that, I've had conversations with people of both genders who have been used, manipulated, and socially shunned. This is how they feel.
Mar 11, 2024•2 min•Ep. 360
A Belated Happy Birthday
Accepting the notion of Eternal Now from Boethius and others, we have known the people we love most deeply for much longer than we acknowledge or understand. "A Belated Happy Birthday"
Mar 04, 2024•2 min•Ep. 359
Tithe
How we read a poem and how we read a hymn are very different things. Mixing that up intentionally can produce interesting, or taxing, results. "Tithe"
Feb 26, 2024•2 min•Ep. 358
Unrequited Love
In perhaps an equal and opposite reaction to Valentine's Day as a concept, the poem "Unrequited Love" is -- whether romantic or not -- deeply sad, in my opinion. It's open to interpretation, of course. One interpretation is the death of a friendship.
Feb 13, 2024•1 min•Ep. 357
Third Person
I believe the out-of-place feeling between leaving school and being established in a vocation is universal and remains relevant, if not more than just relatable, today. The same cannot be said for postal concepts like "six to eight weeks for delivery."
Feb 05, 2024•6 min•Ep. 356
A Simple Yes Or No
A few weeks ago, I posted one of the longest pieces of fiction I've written. This is one of the shortest, composed in the simplest way possible, using only simple sentences.
Jan 29, 2024•4 min•Ep. 355
Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required (A NeoSurrealist Forsaking a Habit for Lent) was completed on April 1, 1994. It's nonfiction title was Temptations from the Wilderness II, a second Lenten writing experiment. This one was a jumble of 40 different writing styles during Lent of that year, including traditional omniscient narration of plot-driven action, a recipe, sermon, poetry, drum music, and more. Three years ago, these eight chapters were shared in a serialized form of sorts through seven Inappropriate C...
Jan 08, 2024•3 hr 48 min•Ep. 354
Laws Of Motion
I've long believed that something more personal and profound is identified within Isaac Newton's laws of motion. This three-stanza poem looks inwardly at each theory. Inappropriate Conversations #23
Dec 31, 2023•1 min•Ep. 353
A Handful of Hair
Especially on a holiday weekend, I suspect a scene like this plays out all across the world. A baby sleeping in mother's arms is gently taken by a father (in this case) to bed, gently and quietly to not interrupt the slumber. In my family, that simple transfer from one parent to another was often more delicate than it sounds -- a disentaglement of sorts.
Dec 25, 2023•1 min•Ep. 352
Christmas from Crimes Against Food
I don't like it when podcasts I enjoy disappear. Even if they gracefully pod-fade, I've been known to wait weeks or months before finishing the last episode. It's worse when things stop abruptly. One thing I'm thankful for each Christmas are the parts of lost shows I've been able to save via a clip show. I'll link to that "best of" episode below. And I don't want to name any part of that retrospective of a lost network as "best of the best" either. But Christmas doesn't seem complete without thi...
Dec 18, 2023•6 min•Ep. 351
Where 16 = Forever
Here is a short, sweet origin story for the most important relationship of my life, including a key tie-in to Christmas Eve.
Dec 11, 2023•3 min•Ep. 350
Chapter And Verse
Perhaps the true will of God is written between the lines.
Dec 03, 2023•7 min•Ep. 349
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