#136 – Value Relationships Over Winning Arguments: Using Stoicism, Being Vulnerable & The Rational Ignorance Podcast With Craig Van Slyke

Craig Van Slyke; college professor, rancher and host of the Rational Ignorance podcast is this week’s guest and he joins us to talk about his podcast, the value of stoicism, the difficulties he’s experienced in life & how he got through them (with many personal & honest examples) as well as many more topics.

In more detail, Craig starts by talking about how he first heard a podcast, why he started his show and what it’s about, before delving into the mindset of Craig & Mike’s younger selves when they were “dickish” by valuing being right over personal relationships, which leads onto Craig then explaining what stoicism is and he opens up about past hardships in his life and how his mindset helped him get through them, which has in turn made him a better person, plus other topics are discussed in this powerful & vulnerable conversation.

Books Craig mentioned;
Seneca: Letters From A Stoic – Epicteetus: The Art Of Living - William Irvine: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Craig’s show: The Rational Ignorance Podcast’s site- @TheRIPodcast on Twitter - Patreon

Promo is for the Judging Dredd book, which Scott Weatherly (of the 20th Century Geek podcast) edited, plus there’s an essay from Tony Farina & many other cool aspects and it’s available now: US Amazon: https://amzn.to/3joM7v3 - UK Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ysWaUa

Last week, ep 135, was a special episode where Mike put two Patreon episodes together for a Watchmen & Little Miss Sunshine review and the week before that, ep 134, was of Mike & Megan’s Somerset road trip from earlier in the year, so make sure you go back and listen to those if you haven’t already!

Intro & Outro reads by BZ The Voice: http://www.bzthevoice.com/

Mike appeared on the Have Not Seen This podcast, talking about The Way Way Back: https://spoti.fi/3AbPcV4

Mike & Tony Farina continue their Mark Russell journey by discussing his run of Flintstones comics on Indie Comics Spotlight: https://spoti.fi/3idkXqr

Mike appeared on Star Wars Timeline’s Timecast, talking about the different SW trilogies, found here: https://youtu.be/W03gonK4rtw

Mike spoke about the New 52 Batman comic Endgame on Mandatory Marvel & DC with host Max Byrne: https://spoti.fi/2UzGdxW

Mike & Chris Phelps discussed the new Black Widow movie on the feed of Comics In Motion: https://spoti.fi/3r2AKez

If you want to hear Mike, Megan & Tonya Todd’s thoughts on the first 3 Mike, Megan & Tonya Todd discuss the Loki series on the feed of Comics In Motion! Parts 1-3: https://spoti.fi/2TamZ10 and 4-6: https://spoti.fi/36MmvRW

Find Mike’s other show; Star Wars: Comics In Canon on Spotify & the other podcast apps on the feed of Comics In Motion. Episodes are out every Saturday; episodes 0-68 are out now, in ep 68 Mike delves into the second full chapter of the War Of The Bounty Hunters Crossover, in 67 Mike tackles the first volume of the 2020 Aphra run and in ep 66 Mike talks about Darth Vader pursuing Jedi archivist Jocasta Nu! Previous episodes topics include Lando comics, the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi, Kanan Jarrus, Count Dooku, Kylo Ren, Darth Maul, how C-3PO got his red arm, book reviews & more – https://spoti.fi/3sOtqCw

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