Standard Deviation
97 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKevin & Ceara discuss taboos, philosophy, politics, drugs, sex, controversy, personal stories, listener questions, news, and whatever else comes up.
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#47 - Findom Sorority Scandal
April 15, 2019 19:39 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBAlessandra Mussolini and Jim Carey twitter feud, #abwolfpack, financial domination, exploitation, blackmail, Columbia University scandal, racism, interviewing for leadership, religion, medical industry, losing trust in major institutions, love, types of love, and relationships. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#46 - Good Will Organ Harvesting.
March 30, 2019 19:57 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThe teapot saga update, selling organs, the best kind of fraud, movies that scarred us, legal evil, & the pitfalls of immortality. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#45 - Death by Teapot
March 16, 2019 19:40 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBBickering, drugs, Dunning-Kruger Effect, flat Earth theory, trolling, vodka, love, suffering, & attachment styles. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#44 Jonathan Legg: Road Less Traveled
March 08, 2019 17:31 - 1 hour - 79 MBConversation with Jonathan Legg: writer, actor, and host of the TV show Road Less Traveled. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#43 - Send Us Your Noodz
February 27, 2019 23:22 - 58 minutes - 67.3 MBMarie Kondo, Buddhism, naked selfies, presidential scandals, Twitter banning, Jack Dorsey, & AI. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#42 - What's Updog?
February 14, 2019 02:07 - 54 minutes - 62.8 MBSnowpocalypse, Cuba, communism, tech, masturbation fantasies, & sexual objectification. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#41 - Liquor? I Hardly Know Her.
January 30, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBStar Trek, sci-fi, LGBT, Myers-briggs, Big 5, autism, & models. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#40 - The Best a Man Can Get
January 24, 2019 08:04 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBGillette commercial, Egard watch commercial, & masculinity. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#39 - How to Play Yourself
January 21, 2019 00:38 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBDiets, sex work, enforced monogamy, Star Trek, Elon Musk, & Neil Strauss. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#38 - The Case for Dropping Out of College
January 16, 2019 17:00 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBAnal bleaching in 2019, the university system, education, hiring, disease models, and professional skills. “The Case for Dropping Out of College” by Sam Knoche https://quillette.com/2018/11/23/the-case-for-dropping-out-of-college Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#37 - Surviving Our Dystopian Future
January 12, 2019 23:15 - 52 minutes - 60.2 MBSex robots, guns, natural catastrophes, & the zombie apocalypse. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#36 - Shameless Sex with Amy Baldwin and April Lampert
December 18, 2018 22:33 - 52 minutes - 59.9 MBSpecial guests Amy Baldwin and April Lampert: hosts of the Shameless Sex podcast, a show that promotes sex positivity, radical self-love and shame-free intimacy. Shameless Sex Podcast: https://www.shamelesssex.com @shameless_sex
#35 - Kyle Thiermann & The Motherfucker Awards
December 14, 2018 04:13 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBSpecial guest Kyle Thiermann: surfer, writer, environmentalist, filmmaker and host of the Motherfucker Awards. Kyle’s Website: http://kyle.surf The Motherfucker Awards: https://themotherfuckerawards.com/
#34 - Drinking the Kool-Aid
December 06, 2018 23:19 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBA word from our non-sponsors, animal testing, Louis CK, flawed role models, drug addiction, rehabilitation, cults, cult leaders, conspiracy theories, & madness vs. genius. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#33 - Thot Police
November 27, 2018 02:02 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBThot audit, Roosh, David Wu, incels, unfair advantages, cam girls, cat talk, wage gaps, @CHSommers, @shaun_jen, restaurant work, tipping, & matriarchies. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#32 - Transgender Chickens
November 11, 2018 22:39 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBTransgender chickens, complaining, classical literature, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, SparkNotes, white guilt, power structures, psychedelics, MDMA to treat PTSD, hypnosis, & fluoride. “Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.” ― Werner Herzog Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/conta...
#31 - Einstein Was Wrong.
November 06, 2018 01:22 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MBMidterms, Star Trek, power dynamics, MRAs, feminism, & gender wars. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#30 - Greasy Fingers
October 28, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBHistory of Zwarte Piet, Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Pragmatism, dreams, dream interpretations, falsifiability, sleep paralysis, our positive characteristics, our quirks, division of labor, and kitchen anarchy. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#29 - Halloween is Racist
October 25, 2018 22:36 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBMegyn Kelly, racist Halloween costumes, blackface, Zwarte Piet, cultural appropriation, tribes, tribal thinking, corporations, AI, and a utopian future. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#28 - Celebrating Our Mediocrity
October 22, 2018 15:24 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBFriends (the TV show), comedy, drag, The Red Pill (documentary), MRAs, Dunning Kruger effect, & seasonal depression. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#27 - Automated Bigotry
October 17, 2018 15:40 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBPortland protests, Antifa, Patriot Prayer, police use of force, feminism, gender equality, hiring process automation, the trolly experiment, self-driving cars, & ethics. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#26 - And Now For Something Completely Different
October 14, 2018 10:30 - 58 minutes - 66.7 MBTaboo fantasies, ethical sex work, sexual assault, hidden tribes, PC culture, Monty Python, blackface, Friends (the TV show), dreams and dream interpretation. The Atlantic article about PC culture that was discussed. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#25 - Dog Parks: A Petri Dish of Rape Culture
October 10, 2018 20:27 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBSober October check-in, kratom, Adderall, addiction, Sokal Squared, dog park paper, rape culture, black feminist criminology, grievance studies, ideology in academia, homophobia, & research methods. Read the dog park paper Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#24 - Airing Our Grievances
October 07, 2018 23:47 - 54 minutes - 50 MBSober October, Sokal Squared, grievance studies, hoax papers, relationship deal breakers, open relationships, honesty, gun control, & breaking up with a friend. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#23 - Boys Don't Cry
October 03, 2018 10:00 - 57 minutes - 66.3 MBComing out, LGBTQ, gratitude journaling, Stoicism, rubber duck debugging, The Game, PUAs, & Neil Strauss. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#22 - You Will Be Assimilated
September 30, 2018 10:30 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBAI, cybernetics, becoming cyborgs, uploading consciousness, Star Trek, privacy, invisibility vs. flight, first contact, The Prime Directive, Kavanaugh, lab-grown meat, ethics of hunting, factory farming, story structure, Grimm brothers & Hans Christian Andersen. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#21 - Give Us Your Likes
September 26, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBSocial media and competition, happiness and intelligence, serial killers, evil, the soul, and metaphysics. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#20 - Jerking Off to Our Goals.
September 23, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 78 MBSober October, Adderall, behavioral modification, critical thinking, skepticism, dogma, Grant Morrison, deficiencies in education, ritual magick, and period syncing. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#19 - Champagne Enemas
September 20, 2018 01:19 - 53 minutes - 61.6 MBThe sense of the passage of time, Burning Man, champagne enemas, diffusion of responsibility, bystander apathy, youth rebellion, when to have kids, Trump, and disruptive innovation. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#18 - The Internet Makes Psychopaths of Us All
September 16, 2018 21:28 - 59 minutes - 67.5 MBWesterns, Nike campaign, Should corporations get involved in social issues and politics?, online privacy vs. crime prevention, the dark web, anonymity on the internet, the history of Patreon, and Kevin’s pedantic soliloquies. Submit your questions here: https://standardpodcast.com/contact Donate to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=11446871
#17 - Bitches Love Nihilism
September 09, 2018 02:20 - 55 minutes - 64 MBStreet harassment, delivering and accepting rejection, big foot erotica, women’s sexual fantasies, Game of Thrones, mating rituals, positive thinking, goals as muscles, and trusting the process.
#16 - Friendship and Politics
August 26, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBHow and why to maintain friendships with people of different political viewpoints, the downsides of immortality, the benefit and harm of art to society, & robbing the cradle.
#15 - Normies Take the Black Pill
August 19, 2018 22:40 - 1 hour - 69 MBCat talk, incels, ContraPoints, mental health, podcasting, & irrational consumer habits. Incels by ContraPoints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0
#14 - So Woke We Struggle to Get Adequate Sleep
August 11, 2018 19:31 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBTalking to oneself, white supremacy, Proud Boys, Alex Jones, social media bans, wokeness, Tim Pool, trusting journalism, police use of force.
#13 - Chris O’dell: entrepreneur, podcaster & martial artist.
August 03, 2018 19:41 - 58 minutes - 66.7 MBOur first guest! Chris O’dell: entrepreneur, podcaster & martial artist. Topics include: MMA, Japanese culture, entrepreneurship, & our favorite podcasts. Buy Chris’s awesome products here: https://www.dsgear.com/ Listen to The Datsusara Podcast here: https://www.dsgear.com/blogs/dspodcast
#12 - Political Correctness in Kink
July 29, 2018 21:56 - 54 minutes - 62.4 MBPC culture in the online femdom community, whorearchy, moral relativism, FGM, animal welfare, elephant riding in Thailand, #metoo.
#11 - Bulimia: Twice the Taste, Half the Calories
July 22, 2018 16:00 - 50 minutes - 58.2 MBEating disorders, food, low carb diets.
#10 - Adding P in LGBTQ?
July 18, 2018 23:17 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBVirtuous pedophiles, sexual orientation, LGBTQ, child exploitation, drag kids.
#9 - We All Live in a Little Submarine
July 11, 2018 22:43 - 53 minutes - 61.4 MBElon’s little submarine, how to communicate online, left wing voices worth listening to, hate speech vs. offensive speech, #walkaway, & police brutality.
#8 - Lets Talk Suicide
July 04, 2018 22:37 - 53 minutes - 61 MBHappy birthday, America! Suicide: is it ethical? is it selfish? Should there be government intervention? Or should assisted suicide be freely accessible? How can you help someone who is suicidal? On a lighter note, we talk about some of our favorite movies, books, and TV shows.
#7 - Harris vs. Peterson: Who got DESTROYED?
June 27, 2018 19:40 - 56 minutes - 64.8 MBKev and Ceara discuss the Sam Harris vs. Jordan Peterson debate in Vancouver BC, epistemological pragmatism, good faith conversations, Portland protesters, the validity of comparing everything to Hitler.
#6 - The Echo Chamber
June 21, 2018 01:02 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBSpace Force, honesty, how to combat echo chambers, SPLC, affirmative action, gender pay gap, identity politics, diversifying elite schools, sex ed, sex vs violence, puritanical influences, gay pride, how to be a thoughtful consumer when everything is linked to corruption and exploitation, charity, and more.
#5 - The Political Compass Quiz
June 14, 2018 01:52 - 2 hours - 244 MBCeara and Kevin take the Political Compass quiz, talk through the questions in realtime, and compare results. We'll post our own results later. You can take the test here: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test/en
#4 - An Ethical Dilemma
June 11, 2018 02:13 - 55 minutes - 101 MB"Christian Science", religious freedom, Western bias, female genital mutilation (FGM), ethical theories, Sam Harris, Buddhism, bugs, & more.
#3 - Monogamy: What is it Good For?
June 06, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBAge-related changes in sexual dynamics and how they impact monogamy; generational differences in the perception and resolution of social issues; equality of outcome and the utility of quota systems; the comparative relevance of racist thoughts versus racist actions; can we trust anyone who’s crazy enough that they’d want to be President?
#2 - Strong Opinons Weakly Held
June 03, 2018 23:19 - 52 minutes - 96.6 MBIn which we respond to Frank: "I'd also be interested in hearing your thoughts re. AI and its implications (morality, philosophy, culturally, etc.) for humankind." Other topics: Back to Eden Bakery controversy, identity politics, strong opinions weakly held.
#1 - Enforced Monogamy and Other Kinks
May 30, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBWherein Ceara and Kevin discuss Adderall, enforced monogamy, coming out, BDSM, the Damore Google memo, implicit bias, heuristics, feminism, and the ethics of sex work.