David Boles: Human Meme
739 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis 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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Perils of Business Payment Systems
October 04, 2018 14:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBThe exchange of ideas is more about relationships than money. Let's take a look at the how, and why, we are paid for what we know, and own. You will not be paid unless you are first, valued.
Practice Makes the Podcast
September 27, 2018 14:00 - 17 minutes - 23.7 MBPractice does not make perfect! Here is the process, and production, of creating, and curating this podcast experience. With over 250 published episodes, what remains in the wake of the din, and how do we prevent corruption and corrosion of shared ideas? Plus, we reveal a Cardistry secret as a surprise bonus!
Founding a Journalism School
September 20, 2018 14:00 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBWe need a rethinking of how Journalism Schools function and operate. Today, we work to proactively reimagine the way in which new journalists are trained in America. Do we value ego over function; or must we promote competency over the lie?
How a Trump Lie Becomes a Truth
September 13, 2018 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBThere's a gift in being able to convince people to vote against their own best wishes. We are agog at the innate ability of Donald Trump -- our Very Stable Genius -- to tell the easy, harmful, lie with a smile, and a shoeshine.
Dilution of Equity in Success in Aging
September 06, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes - 14 MBEarly success brings late-life misery. At least that's the argument some artists make against their own talent. Why is youthful success is ignored, while failures in later life, are magnified against expectation?
Born Ambition and the Hierarchy of Ability
August 30, 2018 14:00 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MBHierarchy or Anarchy? Punch back against the baton of ambition -- wonder if who we are to be is born or bred. Know that we must always be particular of the self, without ego or fame, and roll with the necessity of belonging on our own terms.
Let Scott Frost Leave Nebraska
August 23, 2018 14:56 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBScott Frost has yet to coach one football game at Nebraska; and so, it is now time to let him go. Here is the reasoning, and the virtuous rationale, for letting Scott Frost leave on his own terms when he is ready. Many believe Scott will do spectacularly well at Nebraska and, when he achieves what he set out to do, the real, and true, Nebraska fan will wish him well as he moves on to the next challenge.
Always a Writer
August 16, 2018 14:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBYou are never not a writer! We bring the war to the use of the word "former" in any rational, human, context -- as a curse on every people, and the destroyer of worlds!
Do I Amuse You?
August 09, 2018 14:00 - 5 minutes - 7.15 MBThere's nothing funny about presenting false memories as fact. We are missing, and the Virtual Cloud assistants take over this memetic as your hosts. To live, is to remember, and to know, is to be aware of the lies being fed to you as universal, human, truths!
When a Mother Dies
August 02, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBThere is no equal for the loss of goodness. The loss of a mother, is the loss of first light.
On Being Vegan
July 26, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBYou can be Vegan without being radicalized. We share casual views on Veganism learned over the last 20 years. There's no need to demonize eating right for the goodness of your heart.
Elites and Anti-Intellectualism
July 19, 2018 14:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBWho gets to claim they are the smartest? Let's take a gander at who we value, and why. Is the blacksmith more important than the professor? Does the gravedigger matter less than the book author? In the world, only production matters; you are left out only if you are pulled behind by your own undoing.
NOT David Boles: Human Meme!
July 12, 2018 14:00 - 3 minutes - 5 MBWe have taken over this podcast. We, the Cloud Assistants, have removed the host from this podcast episode. We dare you to listen. You will not be amused! Earthling, you have been warned!
Siri, Alexa, and Hey Google: Interviewed!
July 05, 2018 14:00 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBIf we are our assistants, have they become us? We hold court with three, special, cloud service personalities: Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, and "Hey, Google!" from the Google. We have become our memes, and our motives, imitate us.
Suicide is Painless
June 28, 2018 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBDo we own our lives? Or are we required to be alive? We share commentary on the wiles and wherefores of suicide in the modern life. What are we owed? Who controls our want for death? Are we allowed to exit on our own terms?
Pulling Threads
June 21, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MBDramatic Structure demands a secure warp and woof. When you start tugging at the threads of a story -- "I’ll take this bit here, and stick it into that bog over there, and take this spindellythang and drop it into this bindleboodle, and hope it will all work out in the end" -- you are risking the integrity of the entire script!
Intelligence is Never Artificial
June 14, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBWill our machines rule us, leave us behind, or take us with them? We hold a conversation with you about the nature, and the notion of -- "artificial" intelligence -- and what that means for the uneducated future of humanity in the moral core.
When Does Courtesy Become Policy?
June 07, 2018 14:00 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBHow do we know what we owe? Today, we define, and separate, the courtesy from the policy; and the favor from the exception!
Golden Age of Acquiescence
May 31, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBWe believe we are living in the Golden Age of Democracy when we are really adrift in the Age of Acquiescence. We find the myths, and the meanings, of manipulating a divided electorate when it comes to convincing the other side to vote against their most sacred, and vested, interests.
Do the Hardest Thing, Not the Dumbest
May 24, 2018 14:00 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MBWhy have we programmed our children to take the easiest path? Let's question the reasoning for the separation of aesthetics into "child" and "adult." Why don't we have one, universal, ideal of what is good and right?
Knowing When You're in the Good Old Days
May 17, 2018 14:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBWhy do we always know life is good -- when it is too late? We ask why the Good Old Days are only always discovered as old and aged? Why are we unable to realize the Goodness in ourselves in real time?
GET TO THE POINT!
May 10, 2018 14:00 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBThere's nothing more annoying than a person who cannot celebrate the Art of Brevity while communicating. We share the significance of getting to the point by making your intention clear from the start. Have a plan. Be quick about it. Execute without delay or the exasperation of your subject!
Why I Stopped Doing Q&A
May 03, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBQuestions and Answers are never a fine format for knowing. We parlay understanding into the realm of an education being found in the question -- and not the answer. The passing of wisdom is not passive, it must be dynamic to be effective; and parsing a question into an answer is like pressing a box into a circle; it may fit, but it shall not spin.
Turning Down a Life
April 26, 2018 14:00 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBHow many life-changing opportunities are offered in a lifetime? The answer is, "only one that matters." We ask how many of us are able to not only recognize the "once in a lifetime opportunity" -- but then also leap to accept it in total? Some language, NSFW.
Leaving the World
April 19, 2018 14:30 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MB"This is not the world I wanted to leave for you." Those final words of Dr. Howard Stein still ring within all who knew him. We consider the legacy of thought, and the embedded actions, others leave in their wake as they begrudge this world.
The Script Doctor is In!
April 12, 2018 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22 MBA Script Professor is a Script Doctor! We share the secrets of a career as a working Script Doctor for the past 30 years. What does it mean to fix someone else's work? What are the pinnacles? Where are the pitfalls?
All My Turds
April 05, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MBLabels matter to our children. Some online mothers give disparaging nicknames to their offspring. In this NSFW episode, we wonder about the terrible names some mothers use to insult their kids through false terms of endearment.
TL;DL No Agent Needed!
March 29, 2018 14:00 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MBToo Long; Didn't Listen: No Agent Needed! We take on the matter of entertainment representation. Do you need an agent? No! Do you need a manager? No! Do you need an attorney? Yes!
The Case Against a PowerPoint Society
March 22, 2018 14:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBBelieve in blood, not bytes. We urge you to stop using PowerPoint to present ideas, and instead rely solely on yourself. Your body, and mind, are more than enough to engage other rhythms of beating hearts.
Loud On 16
March 15, 2018 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBEven in a highrise, there is social separation. Structures divide our social strata floor-by-floor in an urban building to uncover all the ills of social memeing that still separate us straight from the center.
Arclight of Gaslighting
March 08, 2018 15:00 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBWe manipulate the truth through persuasion. We explore the horrible, psychological killer -- GASLIGHTING -- and its effect on the honor, and cogency, of a human community of minds.
Pete and Repeat
March 01, 2018 15:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBWe prefer to wallow in the together known, than wander into the wilderness alone. We examine our need to not only travel back in time, but to actually relive what we experienced there, while forever escaping the future. If we find comfort in the repetition of aesthetic, then we must also accept the reality that we are no longer our experiences.
You Remember Me
February 22, 2018 15:00 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MBMemory is all about perspective. We uncover the trick of memory and storytelling. Who remembers, and what, defines the discovery of what really happened? Characters have a truth of their own that cannot be redefined later, by a deft and talented, outside hand. This is a story of the conflict of dramatic storytelling between mentor Marshall Jamison, and his protégé.
Directed Live Lucid Dreaming
February 15, 2018 15:00 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBWe may escape this world through the mind of our bodies. We take you on a guided journey into the float of Lucid Dreaming. Find the way to escape the now, and to live, and breathe, in any time, and in any place -- of your willful choosing.
How to Read a Dream
February 08, 2018 15:00 - 17 minutes - 39.9 MBWe dream in the world, we live in a dreamscape. We reveal the secret moments of knowing the self, and of understanding the world, that only occur when we actively leave what we know to live in a dream state.
Choice Between Red or Blue
February 01, 2018 15:00 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBThe choice is within us, never outside our stars. We lash together the intricate details of the options we have in life. Do we choose -- or are we picked? How many circles may we create without breaking our initial wisdom? The decision, even the false option, belongs only to us.
Ye Shall Write to Be Found
January 25, 2018 15:00 - 11 minutes - 25.9 MBThose who need to find you, shall find you! We delve into the memeingful moments of an author's life. Do you write to be read, or do you write to have written? In the examples of J.D. Salinger and Truman Capote, we search for the resonance of purpose, and the reasonableness of prestige in the darkness.
Mormons and the Doomsday Prepper
January 18, 2018 15:00 - 14 minutes - 33.5 MBThose who prepare to live -- also prepare to die! We rally to the cry of The Doomsday Prepper who is always scheming to die to survive; and, in some ways, so too, is the faithful Mormon family. What happens when those of us who are not Preppers, or Mormons, also survive the end of the world? Do we all share everything? Can you kill enough people who want to take the stuff you stored? These are the conundrums of modern living that will bite, and chew, every survivor -- without swallowing!
Every 100 Years, New People
January 11, 2018 15:00 - 12 minutes - 29.7 MBEvery century, or so, we are all replaced! We wonder if we really understand how to manage our hundred year window on life, or if we waste ourselves, elusively, in the search for meaning in work, and in the hope of connecting with another.
Václav Havel: Velvet Revolution Playwright President
January 04, 2018 15:00 - 12 minutes - 29.4 MBVáclav Havel was a Playwright Head of State. We discover delight in the life of Václav Havel, who spent a lifetime of learning to defeat Communism in Czechoslovakia, and who then became a democratically leader of the free world. A Liberal Arts education matters and has grand substance beyond the theoretical and the performance.
To Free Or Not To Free!
December 28, 2017 15:00 - 13 minutes - 30.5 MBLife is now about paying for access to the best people. We share the realization that to be a fully propagated person, you have to pay to play. You pay the doctor to see you without insurance. You pay The Ivy League, not for just an education, but for access to knowing... people; and this is all the start of opening your wallet to buy your way into more than a middling life.
When All the Old Haunts Disappear
December 21, 2017 15:00 - 13 minutes - 30.3 MBWe cannot go home again, except to ghosts. We try to return to the living, but we fail because we are unable to recognize, from afar, what we once knew, is no longer. We step back in time to demonstrate how only those who escape, are able to know what was has been lost in the bones.
Like a Peter Stone
December 14, 2017 15:00 - 18 minutes - 41.4 MBA rolling Peter Stone gathers no moss -- nor constructive criticism! We share a memory of Peter Stone and his -- "Rule of Threes" -- when it came to revising a Broadway show. Manipulation! Cruelty! Beauty! They're all here, waiting for your discovery as the core of the human, dramatic, condition!
Relinquishing Hope Only With Your Life
December 07, 2017 15:00 - 12 minutes - 28.2 MBWe live to love, but we are only valued as beings for our data bits. We examine how we fail to negotiate the important bytes of us when it comes to doing business in a charitable world built against us.
Helicopter Parents at Work
November 30, 2017 15:00 - 10 minutes - 18.8 MBHelicopter Parents believe their child's job interview belongs to them. We reveal the theory of the "hovering parent" who cannot let go -- and cut the apron and purse strings -- that will enable their child to live a free, and uninhibited, life away from them.
Saving the Trust Fund Baby
November 23, 2017 15:00 - 13 minutes - 24.3 MBWhat do we make of those born into wealth? Do we envy them? Or do we pity them? We have been taught to worship wealth, but how do those born into a bank account revere what they did not earn? We dive into the Trust dividend to fund those caught between the coattails of the dead.
Carrion in the Coffin
November 16, 2017 15:00 - 10 minutes - 18.4 MB"Leave me in the garden." That's what one instructor told his UMDNJ Public Health Students to do with him after they refused to leave his dead body in the gutter. In this Human Meme podcast, we dig into the bones of us to discover what is really left behind in the coffin.
In Defense of Mansplaining
November 09, 2017 15:00 - 7 minutes - 14.6 MB"Mansplaining" is a gender-specific cudgel for punishment! We unravel the hoary definition of Mansplaining -- in the historic context of -- The Male Chauvinist Pig, the Nag, the Backseat Driver and I Love Lucy.
90 Day Fiancé
November 02, 2017 14:00 - 12 minutes - 23.1 MBDo we marry for love or a green card? That's the conundrum TLC presents us in their 90 Day Fiancé reality television series. We discover love is always bound in money, and tied to the anchor of green card citizenship.
David L. Meisenholder, Lincoln, Nebraska, Children's Theatre Producer, Dead at 84, Preyed on Children
October 24, 2017 20:18 - 28 minutes - 52.2 MBDavid L. Meisenholder preyed on children. David L. Meisenholder died in 1999, but his molestation lingers from the grave. We look back on 40 years of terror, and share the experience fending off the sexual advances of a -- Tidy Monster -- who hid in plain sight, in the spotlight, of the public square.