an old guy who knows shit

season 2: an old guy who knows shit explains it all for you




We are the Compassion, Love and Beauty team and we are engaging the Greed, Cruelty and Ugliness team in an epic battle for the continued existence of homo sapiens on this earth. S1E1,  S1E15

[O]nline DNA has us all tracing our roots... I was personally proud to discover that I have a fifth grandparent who fought in the Revolutionary War, making this country possible. And now, that far ahead of us, to folks whose coastal cities are all flooded and who are moving underground in search of cooler temperatures, we will be the generation who made runaway warming inevitable. We will be the generation that could have made a difference, but did not. S2E8



"without empathy, what we respect becomes the lack of empathy, and liars behaving badly become heroes"

an old guy who knows shit t-shirt - underneath it says: "the compassion love and beauty team / anoldguywhoknowsshit.com" / T-shirt is 100% USA made cotton, printed on a photograph of Venus rising in the Milky Way over Big Bend National Park, a photograph Stluhdog took himself, printed by 573tees in Columbia MO. Order here. Other text available on request: "RESPECT Makes Democracy Possible;" "LIES Make Fascism Possible." Empathy quote from Season 2 Episode 5. Proceeds from sale of this tshirt will pay for this site (ok, I know, it might could use an improvement or two). Any leftovers will go to the Compassion Love and Beauty team.



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are you a hoodwinked patriot?



The DEstructors among us work continuously to sow chaos and disruption. Lies are their greatest weapon, lack of respect their greatest earmark. Because there are so few of them, they build their army by hoodwinking honest, CONstructive patriots, like you and me, certain we are doing good, into devoting our energy to DEstruction. ... The Greed Cruelty and Ugliness team, also known as the Making Money Justifies Enslavement team, has such a grip on our society and culture and media, that it is quite literally tearing us apart, institution by institution, at the seams. It is an energy stream of utter DEstruction, but it is powered almost entirely by hoodwinked patriots who believe they are doing good. And who may have the power, now, to determine the future of this country. *** Most of us, by a very large margin, are CONstructors. Meaning that we believe that we are building something good for ourselves and our family. We are Americans, and are all proud of that. We live in pride of our freedom, do we not? Is it not reasonable to assume that what we believe we are CONstructing will be good for us and for our families? *** This is an important starting point that us Americans do have in common: we believe ourselves to be CONstructors, defending and enhancing our democratic freedoms, building a better life for our descendants.... *** Complete audio HERE (5m26s) *** [Vocabulary explained in Season 2 Episode 2]  

eye candy



slide shows - watch while listening

Here are the original slideshows that went up with this site. your slide show will open in a new window, so start it first
flowers / water / fire / trees / wildlife

Here are three flickr slideshows (the icon to play the slideshow is in the upper right corner):
A Carolina Dawn (40 slides)
Big Bend National Park (200 slides)
Hummingbirds (70 slides)
And Stluhdog's Unsplash page (currently 90 photos), where all photos are hi-res and downloadable for free, but the slideshow will not play automatically - you have to click.

ever ridden a motorcycle?

there will always be some free rides here: real time rides

the camera is under his nose, so the viewer is driving the motorcycle, and then the rides unfold in real time. you drive, but nobody can ever get hurt. it's surprisingly meditative, and even more surprisingly a really effective accompaniment to a podcast. you see, when you ride you spend many hours alone with yourself inside that helmet, and for stluhdog, wandering around those vast spaces is profound, precious and sacred time.