Raymond and Andrew explore how our unique evolutionary advantages and differences gave us the ability to create our world today - and possibly the ability to destroy it! They explore the biological characteristics such as our opposable thumbs, our foot structure, and our tendency to cry, as well as our neurological differences and how our self-awareness has shaped our culture and our lifestyles throughout history.
Raymond and Andrew try to pin down what led up to our modern views of life after death, more specifically the concept of “hell,” and they find some very interesting things along the way. They also analyze Dante’s Inferno from his Divine Comedy and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, two very influential works of art to the concept.
With some interesting questions arising from the widespread “war on drugs” and how some drugs are illegal while some very similar ones are not, Raymond and Andrew make their way through the extensive history of different civilizations and their drug cultures, all the way up to the prohibition of the early 1900’s and the possibly political and strategical reasons that brought about our second prohibition.
This week, Raymond and Andrew delve into one of the most widely renowned religious texts of today’s society, the Judeo-Christian Bible, and try to find out where some of our culture’s Christian beliefs on sexual immorality stem from. Surprising, the Bible doesn’t really say what most people think…you don’t want to miss this one!
With the current economy taking it’s toll on everyone across the country, Raymond and Andrew take a step back and try to understand how we wound up here, how our money gains and loses value, and how long it will last. Join them as they make their way through history, analyzing past monetary systems such as commodity money, representative money, and today’s Fiat money, and explore the pros and cons of each.
