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0007 - Abel's summation (Mathematics) - Michael "Mikey" Duffy

0007 - Abel's summation (Mathematics) - Michael "Mikey" Duffy

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In the seventh episode, Robert and guest Michael "Mikey" Duffy discuss Abel’s Summation, a mathematical concept suggesting that truth is found in the "running total" rather than the "jagged edges" of isolated mistakes, while sharing candid stories of addiction and redemption. Topics range from Robert’s upbringing in Hollywood by heroin-addicted parents to Mikey’s paradoxical life as a 40-year-old resident of The Villages, a Florida retirement community. They examine the devastating "vortex" of the methamphetamine crisis in San Diego and Florida, the shift from free-market economics to the politics of empathy, and the art of hip-hop production, referencing artists from Nipsy Hussle to Kanye West, and concepts like statistical significance versus anecdotal evidence through the lens of sobriety and the influence of fathers who rose from poverty.


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