Radio-style Giveaway to Thrive! We love you all, and we want to grow this community. It’s been a blast and community-building to do this podcast. If you want to support this, we want to give you a sticker! First 10 folks to do any of the following will get one: Tell and friend and email us about it Email us feedback (on anything and which poem did you like more?!) Share about us on Instagram and tag us there #4 top-secret way for people that read the show notes… review us on apple podcasts. Find...
Jul 28, 2020•17 min•Ep. 13
Dave and Bob discuss the idea of the superhero through their love of comics. After chatting about how they got hooked as kids, they do deep dives into the X-men’s Days of Future Past and Batman’s “Dark Knight” storylines for wisdom in the present. As an affront to more revolutionary counterstories, Dave makes the case for the Avengers being the Bachelor, aka “hot garbage” aka white saviorism. The crew ends with where they think comics are headed. Huge thanks to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for ou...
Jul 28, 2020•42 min•Ep. 13
Writer Michael Bishop reads his essay Primum Non Nocere: First, Do No Harm to start the show. The essay is part investigative journalism, part creative non-fiction and interrogates the taken-for-granted practice of organ donation and recovery. The Thriving crew discuss the essay, especially for how it illuminates what amounts to a kafkaesque custom. In taking the wool away from our eyes, the discussion builds to using politically-informed art to uncover other taken-for-granted facets of our live...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 12
In this beautifully tender episode, the Thriving crew dance with grief. In this era of the pandemic, “loss and grieving go hand in hand.” Dave and Bob welcome the awesome Katie Gillespie to the show to discuss ideas connected to grief and deepening our collective practice of grieving. The three discuss who their dads were to them, and how their passing was central to their identity development and ideas of grieving. They discuss the power object, ritual, and meaning-making practices for grieving...
Jul 14, 2020•57 min•Ep. 11
Dave starts us out with a beautiful story about jazz, chess, coffee, and coming full circle. The show then dives into getting a better understanding of the world through the prisoner’s dilemma. Bob and Dave use this classic tool from game theory to understand the awful situation in spiking COVID in the U.S.; to getting a sense of the deep importance of mutual aid networks; and finally, to how social justice activists and revolutionaries can protect each other in times of great repression. Huge t...
Jul 07, 2020•51 min•Ep. 10
In the spirit of the topic of the show for today, Dave and Bob meander on various dystopias, stories, psychology, and news events relating to movement . Global movement has been profoundly affected during the pandemic. Yet, taking a page from Joyful Militancy, the brothers attempt to weave together crucial ideas of movement: who gets to move? If movement leads to change, how can we harness movement? And then how can movement lead to freedom especially for those that are least free? Thanks to the...
Jun 30, 2020•53 min•Ep. 9
Bob and Dave have been thinking about health and medicine during the pandemic. This week they host special guest Julie Pacholik, herbalist extraordinaire. Julie shares her path to herbalism and connection to plants. Bob and Dave ask her questions about herbalism as a paradigm shift, and Julie gives us ways to think about appropriation, creating community, and how to connect to ourselves and the world. Thanks to the artists: Drake Stafford, Cullah, and the enigmatic Joe Schine 12 Monkeys for a cr...
Jun 23, 2020•49 min•Ep. 8
Dave and Bob come together this week in the Sound Studio to try to understand the #defund police movement. After a little reminiscing about great stickers in their life, they discuss the history of policing, including the failures of reform efforts and visions of abolition of the police and prisons. They dig even deeper to ask what are police actually for in society? Building on this, they discuss what people can do wherever they are to be a part of these efforts. Thanks to the artists: Drake St...
Jun 16, 2020•48 min•Ep. 7
Sports changes us, and we change sports. After touching on current events, Bob and Dave examine the world of sports from a critical lens. We ask whether a conscious person can still be a fan of sports, a world full of toxic power dynamics? What do sports show us about ourselves and our society? In a dystopia what do sports look like? And is it possible to think of sports in the future that doesn’t devolve into some Mad Max gladiator bloodbath? Thanks to HOME, Drake Stafford, and Cullah for the t...
Jun 09, 2020•54 min•Ep. 6
Join us for some quick crossword puzzle clues, thanks to HOME for the tunes.
Jun 02, 2020•5 min•Ep. 5
This was a hard show this week. On the one hand, we felt like what do two white guys have to say on the topics of white supremacy and police brutality? On the other hand, we didn’t want to ignore the world around us. We certainly do not have any answers. Check our references for more useful people to listen to and read. If you do listen, please give us feedback. Thanks to Joe Schine for Art, and Drake Stafford and Cullah for music. Local activists discuss Why Does This Keep on Happening in Minne...
Jun 02, 2020•43 min•Ep. 4
A deep dive into radical publishing and anarchist literature, as well as a book that has been a big influence for us over the past months Joyful Militancy. This one is a heavy hitter! There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the third episode. Thanks for the listen. New York T...
May 27, 2020•49 min•Ep. 3
We talk about food in our lives, the world, and in dystopias. Plus we start a new segment called tuned in. There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the second episode. Thanks for the listen. If you like us and rate us that helps out a lot. Also here is how to contact us. Bob a...
May 25, 2020•41 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode. There are a few people to thank. Joe Schine for the amazing art. Drake Stafford for the intro song, and Cullah for the outro song. Really we are just so excited that this is happening and can't wait to go on the journey with you all. Below are the show notes from the first episode. Thanks for the listen. If you like us and rate us that helps out a lot. Also here is how to contact us. Bob at BMaze19 @twitter Dave at Davepeachtree@gmail.com Four people killed and 13 s...
May 25, 2020•45 min•Ep. 1
