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Are you Woke? The Right sees being “Woke” as the ULTIMATE EVIL and feels the word deserves to be eradicated from the Earth! The Progressive Left insists “Staying Woke” is an imperative to stave off cultural rot and discrimination. For who doesn't want to "wake up" to injustice and prejudice, right?

The small town of Anslem stands as a microcosm of the human soul—steeped in sin, mercy, darkness, and the bloodthirsty urges of its people. Through the weary eyes of Sheriff Dunbar, a man burdened by the weight of duty, witness the harsh cruelties and fleeting joys of life in this rugged frontier town. When justice demands the unthinkable—the execution of a young boy—Dunbar is left to wrestle with the impossible choice that will test his faith.

Metamodernism Uncensored is a podcast exploring the ideas, tensions, and cultural forces shaping life beyond postmodernism. Through candid conversations on politics, culture, philosophy, faith, and meaning, the show seeks to cut through the haze of cynicism, tribalism, and ideological paralysis that defines much of contemporary America. Rather than choosing sides in the culture war, Metamodernism Uncensored pursues a dialectical synthesis. Can we hold competing truths in tension, seek deeper understanding, and explore what a more integrated, constructive future might look like?

Join Dave, Dunnie, Frank, Kenny, Luxy and Sean for a weekly podcast about a range of topics. Producer: Sean Dempsey Music: www.bensound.com

This is a collection of bad poems, short stories, rushed parables, and hastily-written diatribes written over the last 4 years. Shut in my home due to the government’s tyrannical response to COVID, I did a lot of reading, thinking, and reflection. During this time, I came to admit to myself a lot of dismal truths about the “true” state of humanity, especially when it is pushed to the limits by fear and doubt. In such cases, Man becomes savage and focuses on the differences in his fellow men; he leans into his raw savageness to bifurcate and destroy. He is primal. He is reckless.

A children's tale about two brothers who choose different paths for their life. One chooses to live without risk--hiding away in a hut so as to avoid pain, suffering, heart-ache, disease, and sorrow. The other risks everything in order to LIVE and live well.

In a not-so-distant future, Professor Sean Dempsey and his beautiful family are heading on vacation. The means of transportation differ somewhere fifty years from now. Instead of relying on clumsy tools like airplanes or crude landcraft, humanity employs the Shunt—a novel new transporting technology. In an attempt to dispel nerves, the history of, and science behind, the Shunt is carefully explained by Sean to his young daughter, Ava, in a desperate attempt to help her understand both its miracle—as well as its risks.

Trump AGAIN?!? How Could America Let This Happen? explores how the rise of "wokeness" in American culture—characterized by hyper-focus on identity politics, cancel culture, and perceived moral elitism—unintentionally fueled resentment among wide swaths of voters.

FINANCIAL CHEAT CODES: How to Win the Game of Finance. In life, there exist certain shortcuts and “financial cheat codes.” These cheat codes can quickly catapult an investor out of mediocrity. They allow him or her to vacate the ‘Rat Race’, build Generational Wealth and gain Passive Income that exceeds his/her Monthly Expenses (PI > ME). In short, these cheat codes can ensure success and true financial peace! But, in order to skip the sluggish levels of life, you need to first know how to find the cheat codes and how to use them.

Based on the horrific true story of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting where police surrounded the scene but refused to enter, this story takes a fictional spin asking a very hard-hitting and philosophical question: as a parent, how far would you go to keep your child safe?

Ava is a small girl on a big island. After a storm comes, the adults on the island go a little crazy. They will do whatever they can think of to try to keep the storm from coming back and harming them again. But the things they want to try don't seem to make a lot of sense to Ava or really even work at all ... yet people disregard what's in front of them and double down on their behavior rather than begin to think for themselves. Ava, with the innocence of a child, is the only one who sees the craziness for what it is and asks basic questions. But will anyone listen to her?

In the winter of 1972, esteemed French geologist and temporal theorist Dr. Michel Siffre descends alone into an uncharted cavern beneath the Pyrenees. His mission: to test the limits of human endurance and perception, cut off from all time, light, and life. Armed only with basic rations, a recorder, and the raw machinery of his mind, Siffre plans to chronicle the slow erosion of his circadian rhythm and consciousness. But what begins as a scientific endeavor soon warps into something far more terrifying.