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This week Adrian and Austin talk about climate change, if we should worry about it and what we can do about it. We talk about some of the reasons why people are not concerned with climate change and what would help people understand how they can help. Finally, we wrap up our discussion by talking about why Christians should care about climate change. Here are the audio and videos referenced in this episode.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2XprA6A7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDyHYJFhSM https://www.newfrontierschurch.com/in-the-beginning/2017/1/24/beccas-sermon

In this episode Adrian and Austin look at why people love and love to hate Twenty One Pilots. We talk about what is good and bad about their music and compare it what makes a hipster a hipster. From there we try to determine if genres are good and if we should have them. Finally, we talk about creativity in music, especially among artists with Christian backgrounds. Here are the articles and video referenced in this episode. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/ 10/15/arts/music/twenty-one- pilots-trench.html http://www.vulture.com/2018/ 10/why-do-people-love-to-hate- twenty-one-pilots.html https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=f3xe-Wxio1o

Following up last weeks episode, Adrian and Austin discuss if popular things are for that reason pop. We start by talking about popular music vs pop music, and draw the line between the pop genre and what is merely popular. From there we dive into the idea of pop culture, and try and define what pop culture is and discuss whether or not it is good for society. Here are the videos referenced in this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EoovlwC4N4A&t=448s https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=-KY-TGmXQik&t=832s

Is pop music the new folk music? In this episode Adrian and Austin dig into the idea of folk music and what makes a song a folk song. From there we try and determine if pop music has become the new folk music. Finally, we look at talented pop artists such as Charlie Puth and determine if they are wasting their talents as a pop artist and what they could do to become true musical geniuses.

Adrian and Austin got to spend some time together this week in Boston when they went to the release tour of Hank Green's books, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. In this episode we discuss how the relationship between the author and the audience works and how knowing the author effects how you read the book. Finally, we talk about writing about personal things and whether or not this is good for creators to do. Here is the articles referenced in this episode. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/646422866/taylor-swift-is-the-21st-centurys-most-disorienting-pop-star

With the recent controversies surrounding Supreme Court justice candidate Brett Kavanaugh, Adrian and Austin discuss how something wrong in a persons past should effect their future. We talk about how there can be forgiveness with appropriate consequences without losing the hope of reconciliation. And finally we look at how there should be different standards for people's actions based on their position and power they hold.

Adrian is back from vacation in Iceland which means that we get to hear all about it. In this episode we talk about being in awe. Austin gives us the psychology of awe the best the experts understand and determine if we agree. We seek to figure out what it means to be in awe and whether or not it is a good thing. Here are the articles referenced in this episode. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/dacherkeltner/docs/keltner.haidt.awe.2003.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/is-awe-really-good-for-you/501086/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-awe-stops-the-clock/