The Breakdown

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan and I discuss the overwhelming scientific evidence showing that having a spiritual faith in a benevolent creator along with regular church service attendance is strongly associated with better mental and physical health and talk about the different potential reasons for why this is the case. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan and discuss the definitions or many political terminologies, how they are often misused, and the widespread misunderstanding this creates. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan and I discuss the powerfully destructive long-term emotion of hate, why humans hate, the areas of the brain involved in hatred, its effects on the human body, genocide, the recent spike in hate crimes, and how to stop hating. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan and I discuss the shockingly numerous nuclear war near misses the United States has had with Russia since the 1950s, as well as many disturbing nuclear weapons accidents (Broken Arrows) that have occurred in that time. We also discuss different options for eliminating or reducing the extreme dangers caused by possessing nuclear weapons. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan and I discuss the four different types of AI, the difference between AI and AGI, the ubiquity of AI already in our lives, their benefits, costs and potential harms, and how we should proceed with these revolutionary technological advancements.

Send us Fan MailOn this episode of The Breakdown, Jordan and I discuss the Housing First approach, where people experiencing homelessness are not required to be sober, employed, or to complete a treatment program to obtain housing.  We talk about the success rates of the approach, how it works, as well as many other aspects regarding the US homeless crisis, and what needs to be done to house the nearly 600,000 homeless in America today. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, Jordan Pearce and I discuss the State of Jefferson - a huge, mountainous, rural area in southern Oregon and Northern California that wishes to secede from their respective states and form the 51st state of the Union- the State of Jefferson. 

Send us Fan MailOn this episode, we discuss Edward Snowden and whether what he did by stealing over 1.7 million files from the NSA was justified, how much good he did by revealing the illegal NSA PRISM program, and how much potential harm he caused to US national security by divulging so many US secrets. Special guest: Jordan Pearce. 

Send us Fan MailDiscussing the US charges against Julian Assange, his possible extradition to the US from the UK, and the dangers of prosecuting him under The Espionage Act of 1917.

Send us Fan MailDiscussing Panpsychism, the concept that all matter in the universe is conscious.