To the extent that we do not tell our own story, or decline to say what we really think, or remain silent in shame or fear or anger, we deprive the world from knowing itself, and delay heaven by increments. To know ourselves, those who carry the story with us must speak the parts they know. Tell us your story, that I may know myself.

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Michael on Twitter - https://twitter.com/michaelvaclav
Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

Show References:
She Left On a Saturday - https://mattmccloskey.substack.com/p/she-left-on-a-saturday
All In Podcast - https://www.allinpodcast.co
Lex Fridman with Chamath Palihapitiya - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQUDCgMjRc 
Scott Adams, How to fail at almost everything and still win big - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQUDCgMjRc
Philippe Petit, Man on wire - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/
Alex Honnold, Free Solo - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7775622/
Valley Uprising - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3784160/
“The body should be treated rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.” - Seneca

Ep 148: You can't text T.S. Eliot

"Here then is my plea to my fellow Americans. Do not take the bait. Do not feel it necessary to come to a conclusion. Do not even feel that it is your job to follow all the news. Many who think that they follow all the news follow only one slant, and so are more misinformed than those who intentionally look away from the entire circus.

Try to observe without interpretation, avoid certainty, and as you return to your senses quite literally, remind yourself that what you think you know may not, in fact, be true."

Quote from Heather Heying - https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/1913433827055452535?s=46

* The bias of an information rich environment
* The atomization of information
* How can we bridge the cultural divide?
* Heightened sensitivity to shame, lowered sensitivity to hubris
* Perspective bias
* Expansion of the opinion haver class
* Raising kids in a world so different from ours

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 237: Sanity in the Information Age

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
- C.G. Jung

MSTR True North - https://www.mstrtruenorth.com
Peter Thiel interview - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000704801264


Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 238: You look consternated

* Two movies one screen (Scott Adams)
* Our perceptions are faulty
* What do you sacrifice to?
* The only way to move forward is to admit you’re wrong
* You “grasp” ideas the same way you “grasp” objects with your hand
* To be ultimately permissive turns to totalitarian exclusion
* Work will set you free
* Are you worshiping life or worshiping death?

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A

Ep 239: Unclench your fists

This week on SOI:

- The trouble of belief
- Is reality a fact or a story?
- How can we tell what’s true in the age of AI
- The paradox of the information age
- Truth requires faith
- AI religions
- Transhumanism
- How we use pronouns
- Respect for what is external vs what is internal
- Redefining words to control the world

Bill Maher’s Monologue on Trump dinner - https://youtu.be/RxlopbcfXpQ?si=kCWxR2LtjC_a9GJF
The Abolition of Man - https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652942

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 240: AI - tools vs gods

This week on SOI:
- The voice of failure
- Love vs. death
- The unifying spirit
- The LA riots
- The spirit of Love helps you see clearly
- The spirit of evil is self extinguishing 
- Can you negotiate with evil?

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 241: The spirit of Love, the spirit of Death

This week on SOI:
- Is this WWIII?
- How does the death of God effect the news and reporting of what’s true?
- Iran, Israel, Covid, etc - how do you know what’s true? Who can we trust to tell us the truth?
- Without God, narrative allegiances become rigid
- A functional story requires honesty
- Being who we are is relational
- How does tolerance become intolerant?

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 242: The death of God and the news

This week on SOI:
- AI can’t do what humans do because humans aren’t reasonable (Rick Rubin) - https://www.instagram.com/p/DK4isVTz93G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- AI turns data into a conversation.
- Storytelling is our native language. 
- Hollow vs. Hallow
- What does it mean to feel good or bad
- T.S. Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald
- We are a collection of identities, responsibilities, and titles
- Fatherhood as an act

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A

Ep 243: Be Unreasonable

This week on SOI:
- Matt’s mom Jeanenne joins the Shores
- Jeanenne’s journal that Mike read, and then named her “Poetgirl.”
- We are each an I, not a we. Gollam is a we.
- Poetgirl, poema
- We are either a male soul or a female soul
- We are each a poem written by God
- What has caused the revolt against sexuality
- What makes your life force increase, and what makes it decrease

Find us here:
Jeanenne McCloskey - https://www.rivendellcounseling.com / https://merefemininity.substack.com/p/poetgirl
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A


Ep 244: We Are the Poiema, with Jeanenne McCloskey

Why is reality preferable to a dream? Vanilla Sky and The Matrix reflect our innate desire to be awake rather than asleep, despite the obvious appeal of the dream like state.

This week on SOI:
Europe and Trump
Vanilla Sky
The Matrix
What is real and what is not real?
Death and mourning, relationships don’t die
The bastardization of Truth
The Lord of the Rings
Why sacrifice and faith as necessary to live in reality
Colemak (Keyboard layout - https://colemak.com)
Shavian (English alphabet - https://shavian.info)

Ep 245: Vanilla Sky

This week on SOI:
- Life itself is an act of faith
- If we ask for what we want, will God give it to us?
- Opting into personal responsibility in the modern age
- Could we make parenting decisions without privation?
- Can you make art with out restraints?
- Writing in genres
- What will you sacrifice your life for?

Find us here:
x.com/mattmccloskey
x.com/michaelvaclav
All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey
All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav
Sovereign Goods - www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods
Cafe Medici - mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOo…9eDe2OliQmjTc2A

Ep 246: The cost of life is death

A podcast by Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav

Ep 148: You can't text T.S. Eliot

Shores of Ignorance