I was interviewed on the "More than Ordinary" podcast by AnnMaria DeMars. AnnMaria is the CEO of 7 Generation Games, an educational software company. She's also a Judo champion and activist for Native American causes. She's the homeschooling mother of famous fighter and actress Ronda Rousey. We talk homeschooling, so there's a lot of repeat if you've listened to my other interview podcasts such as my time on School Sucks, Danillo, Singularity Bros, and the Deschool Yourself series. Or if you've ...
Aug 29, 2017•56 min
Cross post from Deschool Yourself series. Zak and I talk with T.K. Coleman.
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Cross post from Deschool Yourself podcast. Zak and I talk about helping others deschool and resources to help yourself.
Mar 01, 2017•34 min
Cross post from "deschool yourself". Zak and I talk with T.K. Coleman, Education Director for Praxis.
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Cross post from "Deschool yourself". Zak and I talk about how rotten school and why it hurts people.
Mar 01, 2017•2 hr 5 min
Cross post from "deschool yourself" series. Zak and I discuss the difference between forced schooling and voluntary, intrinsically motivated learning/education.
Mar 01, 2017•40 min
A cross post from Deschool Yourself series. Zak and I talk with Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Project.
Mar 01, 2017•55 min
Cross post from "Deschool yourself". Zak and I talk to Thaddeus Russell, author of "A Renegade History of the United States"
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Cross post from Deschool yourself - Zak and I talk to Dr. Peter Gray, Author of "Free to Learn".
Mar 01, 2017•56 min
A cross post from Deschool Yourself, Zak and I introduce the series.
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Announcement of the next 8 episodes, cross posted from the new Zak Slayback/Jeff Till series "deschool yourself".
Feb 28, 2017•4 min
Here we go deep into public schooling and home education again, figuring out if school is or should be a form of poorness/poverty. We talk about the dead whore in the bathtub, how awful school really is, how parents don't spend time with their kids, how to talk home education, what types of people went to school, helicopter parenting, conditioning for misery, learning, grades, un-learning for learning, programming, college and maturation, worthless diplomas, double losses, the "problem" with Pra...
Nov 21, 2016•1 hr 35 min
Is libertarianism a political failure? Why enthusiastically yes! Here we talk about little corners of libertarianism, ask about Rawls' veil of ignorance, the joyful libertarian discovery process, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson and libertarian politicians, your relationship with commerce, becoming an anarchist, libertarian guilt and what you are supposed to do, romanticizing oppression, feeling the burn of news TV, how I'm free, how I'm not free, having a how-do-you-do with your indoctrination, and culti...
Oct 28, 2016•1 hr 56 min
I explore the common attributes of American life that foreigners find weird, such as saying "how do you do", tipping, being fat or driving in cars. We spend a bit on whether Americans are unnatural or not, and discuss whether some crazy foreigners want to kill us.
Sep 26, 2016•1 hr 34 min
Praxis CEO, public free thinker and BFF Isaac Morehouse joins me to expand on a Facebook post he wrote on "doublespeak" or "doublethink" where a policy idea is mistaken (or purposefully replaced) a more genuine objective or desire. Here we talk myths about school, the law, the military, welfare, and regulation. Enjoy!
Jun 28, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Today I explore the idea of whether government is cooperation or collaboration, whether anarchy is like the existence of bears or sharks based on an email and conversation from my friend Chris, local government, the nature of ants and bees, a book report on Edward O. Wilson's "The meaning of human existence", the nature of democracy, collaboration in the free market, pervasive collaboration that is voluntary and positive, I read a Jeffrey Tucker article on ice cream, we do a bit on I, Pencil, Is...
Jun 23, 2016•1 hr 27 min
I discuss the third component that would suggest a country is fascist which is militarism (combined with corporatist economics and nationalism). Do we need our leaders to dress up in general's uniforms to be militaristic, or is it our ethics and investments that indicate militarism? Discussed is the history of the military and US wars, a look at the numbers of people working in the military, the glorification of the soldier, budgets and investment, our personal payments and responsibilities, and...
Jun 07, 2016•1 hr 2 min
In this episode, I discuss how being constantly 'busy' is probably a bad thing and that most people don't properly balance their time with their consumption and life changes. I try to make the case that being "acceptably busy" is a conformist notion that has spread to every aspect of people's lives. I steal a clip of Tim Ferriss. I also bizarrely get into the documentary "Lost Boys" about relocated Africans. As always, I take a shot at school and homework. I also explore alternate, more desirabl...
Jun 01, 2016•51 min
In part two of "my struggle", I recount my past from post-college on, including my life in Boston, my jobs at companies like AT Kearny, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and others, the formation of my company, my TASM Lab music albums, my band the Hudson Debacle, my marriage, my kids and more. Along the way I explain what life lesson I learned through my various endeavors and share some music that I wrote and performed.
May 20, 2016•2 hr 4 min
I discuss the basis of my worldview, including anarchism, peaceful parenting, atheism, unschooling, and personal freedom as context for previous and future podcasts. I also discuss my hobbies such as music and art, and give a much too long story about my childhood, teen and college years. Part one of two.
May 06, 2016•1 hr 35 min
Jeff discusses the upcoming technology singularity where tech gets so good that we can't tell what great new thing is coming next. VR! Driverless cars! Artificial intelligence! Nanotech! Life extension! He then explores why he's optimistic about technological unemployment, not so optimistic about the idea of a "basic Income guarantee" and a new idea on how to do singularity-style charity. The last hour is Jeff's appearance on the Singularity Bros podcast where he mostly talks homeschooling to so...
Apr 19, 2016•2 hr 19 min
Today we discuss how sacred the idea of "separation of church and state" is to our national dialogue. Yet, for many of us, there are more issues even MORE sacred than religion. How about healthcare? Or consumption? Or family itself? Are we hurting children by not separating them from the state and keeping them separate from the market? This is a quick one. Also, check out on iTunes if you use the podcast app.
Mar 29, 2016•32 min
Explorations of my recent Disney Dream ocean cruise, an analysis of different types of entertainment, the failure of the kids club, why people go on vacation to be uncomfortable, how Disney owns Star Wars in worse ways than you thought, the poor cruise ship workers and our Western fate, when I worked at Disney, and parental death as both plot device and a reflection of our dissolving families.
Mar 10, 2016•1 hr 19 min
We explore whether American nationalism is a feature of American fascism or just a good healthy dose of collectivism. Topics include Reagan, Bush and Obama, The Flag, the pledge of allegiance, fascism, nationalism in the media and music, kids patriotic school songs, history class, Toby Keith, "Made in America", the Superbowl and the might New England Patriots.
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 9 min
The F-Word in America or Separation of healthcare and market is humanity's suicide. An exploration of how American politics and economics is fascism with a detailed look at the healthcare industry in particular and why affordable healthcare is illegal.
Feb 09, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Eight minutes on three types of back up plans, including basic risk management, fake complex back up plans and the simple empowering one of the status quo.
Jan 25, 2016•8 min
20 minutes of new mini-cast following up on Star Wars, and Obligation, then talking about the coincidence of my good friend Isaac Moorehouse and I ending up living so close and being friends in South Carolina. Then, my hour long interview on the Isaac Morehouse show
Jan 20, 2016•1 hr 23 min
In this podcast, Jeff Till recounts his own history with Star Wars, reflects on the unique emotional power of the Star Wars saga, explores different fan types, talks Star Wars tattoos, reviews the new "Episode 7: The Force Awakens", reads about the Disney acquisition and the expanded universe, George Lucas's philanthropy and possible estate planning strategies, the problems and solutions of the Star Wars prequels, and somehow, inexplicably, ties in Sam Harris, Noam Chomsky and September 11, 2001...
Jan 13, 2016•1 hr 29 min
This episode discusses personal obligations and duties and how to manage them for a freer, happy and more content life. It talks about work, family, norms, time, pleasure, school and other themes that obligation affects.
Dec 11, 2015•1 hr 48 min
This mini-cast follows up with some thoughts on Podcast 8 on Wealth Inequality and I introduce listeners to my new books I wrote/contributed to.
Nov 20, 2015•23 min
