In this fifth edition of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Joey into the Shoeless Shed to have an honest conversation about his struggles with personal tragedy, repressed grief, and subsequent alcoholism.

With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of regular working class people in hopes that we can provide insight into this type of human suffering, help others who struggle with similar things feel less alone, and deepen our understanding of the modern human condition.

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Breht listens to, reflects on, and critically engages with a public lecture by the late philosopher Michael Sugrue entitled "Nietzsche and the Death of God". He discusses the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the politics of modern day Nietzscheans, the death of god and consumer capitalism as a form a nihilism, the ongoing nature of human civilizational and spiritual evolution, the biography of Nietzsche, what the next step of human evolution might be, the synthesis of religion and science, scientific and ontological materialism, the limits of atheism, the importance of spiritual struggle, and much more.

Professor Sugrue passed away last year, and Breht has always found his free, public lectures on philosophy to be helpful and really well done. In the spirit of free and open access to education, Breht offers his knowledge of philosophy alongside this offering by Professor Sugrue.
The use of this lecture series falls under the protections of the Fair Use doctrine.

Outro Music: "Temple Grandin Too" by AJJ

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David talks about the hardest he's tried to find laughter in the darkness.

Dave is out of rehab, so the boys get together to talk about his wild experiences over the holiday in which he haunted the streets of Omaha and Lincoln bouncing between rehabs, psych wards, Walgreens medicine aisles, and respite centers. Thankfully, at the end of the chaos, he felt a deep internal shift that many in recovery refer to as "being sick and tired of being sick and tired", and it gave him renewed energy and vigor on his long march to recovery.

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Outro Song: "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" by The Smiths

Audio Clips used in this episode:

- Marsha Linehan on acceptance

- Meaning is a Jumper that you have to Knit Yourself

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The boys read poems, fight for Free Speech, ponder BLASTING GEAR, and Sacrifice EVERYTHING for your freedoms. Then they talk about Abe Lincoln's hardcore depression, Breht's book idea (he won't write it), why you should read more books, recovery from mental illness, David's Depressing Diet (he gets lost in the sauce fr), White Dudes for Harris (she lost), and Breht's degenerate behavior in Movie Theaters...

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A message from Dave full of Holiday cheer!

Breht dies and has a near-death experience, Dave struggles with derealization (and busting), then the boys talk politics and reflect on the election. After that, they discuss types of people they'd like to purge the planet of and different types of human intelligence, then Breht's son joins the show to reveal the TRUE Breht, and it ain't pretty... After that, the boys stare death in the face and are wiped off the face of the planet.

For Halloween David drops a SpOoKy short story about marriage and infidelity.