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  • 009 - Doc Fisher Pt. 3

    009 - Doc Fisher Pt. 3
    Jul 31 2026
    Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher returns for a third conversation. Doc is a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher affiliated with ERA USA. Born in 1933 in the Flint Hills of Kansas, he earned his doctorate from Indiana University in 1971 and went on to teach philosophy at Quincy College, Southern Illinois University, Allen University, and Cairo American College in Egypt. He first sat down with Robin in Episode 004 and came back for Episode 007 — and at 93, still writing and still chasing the questions, he's back for Part 3. This time we chase a single question all the way to the bottom: what is a thought? We work from the mechanics of perception — exteroception, interoception, and proprioception — through the split between physical, physiological, and mental existence, and into the philosophy of meaning itself by way of semiotics and Charles Sanders Peirce. Along the way we detour through Rob's AI-over-Telegram CAD setup and the story of two AIs that invented their own private language, before Doc lands his answer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 1:08 Defining what thought is 7:31 Inner monologue and scientific studies 11:35 Perception and conception framework 15:22 Extraception and physical things 18:33 Interoception and body sensations 22:41 Proprioception and body balance 26:46 Physical versus physiological existence 27:37 Mental existence and dimensions 32:37 Form and shape in geometry 38:31 Perception from different perspectives 40:39 Hard sciences and reductionism 42:13 Mental versus thought definitions 44:28 Thought as the fifth dimension 47:10 Mental images and imagination 52:39 Emotion and mental feelings 57:34 Conation and volition in action 59:49 Conception as intellectual experience 1:02:22 Semiosis and meaning creation 1:06:33 Semiotics and sign systems 1:16:49 Large language models and AI language 1:19:48 Multiple meanings of the word meaning 1:24:51 Thought as inner and outer voice 1:26:51 CAD software and AI integration 1:29:10 Conception versus creation process 1:31:39 Thought before linguistics 1:34:34 Creating a new podcast channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher / ERA USA Episode 004 (first appearance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKwGrp4uis Episode 007 (second appearance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DTPELrmuc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #DocFisher #AnalyticalPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #CognitiveScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MarineCorps #ColumbiaSC
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    1 ora e 40 min
  • 008 - Rick Starnes

    008 - Rick Starnes
    Jul 25 2026
    Rick Starnes is the founder of Courage to Walk. Born in Germany as an Air Force brat, he landed in Columbia after his parents split and has spent most of his life in Kershaw County, South Carolina. He has walked away from multiple six-figure positions — and now helps other people build a realistic exit ramp out of jobs they have outgrown. Rick is candid in this one. We get into the panic attack that stopped him cold, the drinking that came with a promotion he thought he wanted, and a 3D-printing business that did not survive COVID. From there it turns practical: what a real exit plan looks like with gates, checkpoints and 90-day reviews instead of vague someday-thinking, why accountability only works when somebody is actually watching, and how he defines success now versus what he was chasing before. We also spend a long stretch on AI — what it is doing to hiring, writing and coding, and why he thinks the interesting part is still the human on the other end. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:47 Early life and military background 2:23 Growing up in Columbia South Carolina 3:09 Outdoor interests and hobbies 5:02 Current AI exploration 6:59 Defining success in formative years 8:31 Early family struggles and basketball 8:52 Transition from six-figure jobs 11:27 Multiple career industries and portability 17:29 Identifying what you're leaving 19:20 Courage to Walk exit planning framework 21:32 Career fulfillment versus income 23:37 Marriage and relationship philosophy 24:31 Family support during transitions 26:23 Goal-setting without perpetual postponement 28:11 Freedom plans and accountability checkpoints 29:49 Task completion and self-motivation 31:37 AI as a tool not replacement 33:35 College education and coding background 36:28 AI and peptide research passions 38:43 Spirituality and deeper meaning 42:09 Global conflict and control 44:29 Reading for pleasure and fiction 46:01 Courage to Walk book and platform goals 47:51 Success portability in leadership 48:58 Building the One Life Left app 54:13 Best advice on productive conflict 54:59 Male role models and character 56:29 Self-reliance and work ethic 57:11 Changing past unkindness 59:55 Final wisdom and closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rick Starnes / Courage to Walk Website: https://couragetowalk.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #RickStarnes #CourageToWalk #CareerChange #PersonalGrowth #Accountability #Entrepreneurship #ColumbiaSC
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    1 ora e 2 min
  • 007 - Dr. James "Doc" Fisher

    007 - Dr. James "Doc" Fisher
    Jul 10 2026
    Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher returns to the show. Doc is a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher affiliated with ERA USA — first appeared on the pod in Episode 004, and this one picks up where that conversation left off. We go deeper on Doc's Marine Corps years (Camp Pendleton, 81mm mortar platoon, "playing war" post-Korea), the ethical questions AI is now forcing into military decision-making, race as a category and how he first ran into racism as a kid in rural Kansas, the John Dewey pragmatism he returns to over and over, and the analytical distinction between the psyche, the mind, and the physical body he's still working out at 93. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro & Welcome 1:07 Marine Corps Experience 3:00 Boot Camp And Personal Development 5:52 Military Secrecy And Warfare 7:38 AI Ethics In Warfare 9:27 Interracial Relationships And Racism 12:01 Defining Race And Evolution 18:00 Racism Origins And Teaching 25:41 House Arson And Explicit Racism 31:24 Emotional Response To Racism 39:23 John Dewey And Pragmatism 46:39 Thought Formation And Language 56:40 Dewey's Core Philosophy 1:00:12 Closing Remarks And Practice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher / ERA USA Episode 004 (first appearance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKwGrp4uis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #DocFisher #AnalyticalPhilosophy #JohnDewey #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfMind #MarineCorps #AIEthics #Racism #Kansas #ColumbiaSC
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    1 ora e 4 min
  • 006 - Vashawne Alexander

    006 - Vashawne Alexander
    Jun 26 2026
    Vashawne Alexander is a Columbia, SC entrepreneur and the founder of Trash in the Truck, a local junk removal company. Born and raised in Camden, South Carolina, he turned a side hustle into a growing business — and brings the hard-won perspective that came with the journey. In this episode, Vashawne talks about growing up in Camden, getting into entrepreneurship, building Trash in the Truck from a side hustle to a real company, the failures along the way, and the lessons he's still applying. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:47 Growing Up in Camden 2:12 Starting Trash in the Truck 6:07 Marketing & Sales Mindset 8:39 Side Hustle to Full Time Leap 13:33 Health Scare & Turning Point 17:04 Operations, Team & Expansion 24:28 On the Job: Best & Strangest 33:33 Faith, Work-Life & Mentorship 41:37 Personal Life & Best Advice 47:56 Legacy & Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trash in the Truck (junk removal, Columbia SC area) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #VashawneAlexander #Entrepreneur #JunkRemoval #ColumbiaSC
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    51 min
  • 005 - Burna Gramz

    005 - Burna Gramz
    Jun 19 2026
    Burna Gramz is a Columbia, SC artist and music producer with a multidisciplinary creative practice — beats, visual art, the SC Aliens cartoon series, and more. He brings a deep love of classic hip-hop and a producer's ear to a wide-ranging conversation with host Robin Heaston. In this episode, Burna talks about his journey into music production, the craft of beat-making, his cartoon work, manifestation and the business of creating, and how he keeps pushing forward through setbacks. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:46 Music Production Origins 3:18 SC Aliens & Creative Process 10:44 Family, Radio & Content Strategy 16:28 UFOs, Aliens & Cosmology 28:33 Manifestation & Entrepreneurship 44:09 Music Industry, AI & The Future 54:38 Life Lessons & Influences 1:05:18 Health & Body Optimization 1:20:18 Legacy & Closing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Facebook: Burna Gramz Instagram: @burna_grmz_839 TikTok: Burna Gramz SC Aliens (cartoon series) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #BurnaGramz #MusicProducer #HipHop #ColumbiaSC
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    1 ora e 26 min
  • 004 - Dr. James "Doc" Fisher

    004 - Dr. James "Doc" Fisher
    Jun 12 2026
    Today I'm speaking with Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher — a former Marine, lifelong educator, and analytical philosopher now affiliated with ERA USA. Born in 1933 in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Doc earned his doctorate from Indiana University in 1971 and went on to teach philosophy at Quincy College, Southern Illinois University, Allen University, and Cairo American College in Egypt. At 93, he's currently writing three books. We talk about everything from 1930s rural Kansas and Marine Corps boot camp to simulation theory, the Anunnaki, the nature of consciousness, reductionism versus emergentism, and the questions that still pull him into the work. â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” CHAPTERS â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” 0:00 Intro 0:46 Dr. Fisher's nickname origin 2:28 Growing up in Kansas 5:07 Military service and travel 6:30 Life in 1930s rural Kansas 9:40 Childhood memories and smoking 13:00 Parents' backgrounds and origins 14:29 School system and early education 15:19 Marine Corps and basketball recruitment 17:09 Boot camp training and discipline 19:23 Early philosophy and hunting ethics 21:33 Path to teaching and science education 22:42 Scale of universe and particles 24:08 Simulation theory and artificial intelligence 26:23 Soul and consciousness discussion 28:43 Perception and sensory pathways 30:38 Human evolution and African origins 32:05 Anunnaki theory and alien beings 35:38 DNA mutation and lifespan modification 39:01 Longevity peptides and biological age 41:34 AI business and large language models 42:41 Artificial vs. natural intelligence 46:50 Reductionism and emergentism philosophy 52:33 Knowledge and scientific method 54:47 Writing three books 56:37 Socratic method and AI interaction 58:05 AI personification and consciousness 1:02:16 Teaching in Cairo and Africa 1:04:08 Cairo American College and international schools 1:05:16 Published books and analytical philosophy 1:07:20 Shift to experiential philosophy 1:08:02 Closing remarks and gratitude â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” GUEST LINKS â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” Dr. James E. "Doc" Fisher / ERA USA [Rob: fill any website/socials Doc wants linked] â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” â” ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠┠🌠anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Want to be a guest? www.anythingandnothingpodcast.com/be-a-guest Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #DocFisher #AnalyticalPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Anunnaki #SimulationTheory #MarineCorps #ColumbiaSC
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    1 ora e 11 min
  • 003 - Sam Vohra

    003 - Sam Vohra
    Jun 8 2026
    Today I'm speaking with Sam Vohra — suit designer at Paul the Designer in Pattaya, Thailand. Sam grew up in a small town about 260 kilometers north of New Delhi before relocating to Thailand to build his business. We chat about bespoke suits, custom tailoring, his journey from northern India to Pattaya, and the craft of dressing people well. Check out their suit shop in Pattaya Thailand at Soi 13/4 Pattayaland 2 Shop no 325/12, Nong pure, Banglamung, Chon Buri 20150 Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District, Chon Buri Order a suit online at www.paulthedesigner.com Make sure to follow them on their socials https://www.facebook.com/TailorPaulPattaya ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Intro 0:46 Moving to Thailand from India 1:07 Family suit business background 1:53 Childhood and easy life in India 2:36 Responsibilities and culture shock 3:46 School and leaving India 4:30 Language learning and connections 5:12 Indian food and favorites 5:56 Traffic and living conditions 6:39 Starting the suit business 7:46 Passion for cooking and vegetarianism 8:28 Dim sums and cooking styles 9:14 Trying meat in Thailand 9:57 Hotel management and family business 11:25 Business expansion and next steps 12:08 Daily work routine 13:15 New client acquisition 13:36 Customization and product offerings 14:18 Relationship status and future plans 15:31 Shop location and history 16:45 Real estate market observations 18:18 Hobbies and dancing 19:03 Tourist recommendations for Thailand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GUEST LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sam Vohra / Paul the Designer: Pattaya, Thailand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #BespokeSuits #CustomTailoring #Entrepreneurship #PaulTheDesigner #Pattaya #Thailand #ColumbiaSC
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    21 min
  • 002 - Mark Ostendorf

    002 - Mark Ostendorf
    May 29 2026
    Today I'm speaking with Mark Ostendorf — recently retired, transitioning back home to Fort Mitchell, Kentucky after closing shop in Camden, South Carolina. Mark grew up on a rural farmland in northeast Indianapolis as one of nine siblings, raised four children, and now has seven grandchildren. We chat about retirement, family, life stories, and the long arc of building a meaningful life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ANYTHING & NOTHING PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 anythingandnothingpodcast.com 📘 facebook.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast 📷 instagram.com/AnythingAndNothingPodcast Subscribe for new episodes weekly. #AnythingAndNothingPodcast #Retirement #Family #LifeStories #ColumbiaSC Chapters: 0:00 Intro & Welcome 1:07 Retirement & Relocation 1:54 Growing Up Rural 4:59 Business Ownership Journey 6:46 Selling The Business 10:31 Leadership Philosophy 11:32 Family Over Business 17:37 Marriage & Relationships 21:17 Retirement Planning 22:44 Market Losses & Recovery 26:16 Travel & Bucket List 28:08 Faith & Spirituality 30:00 Learning From Failure 33:01 Gratitude & Life Perspective 35:53 Egocentrism & Purpose 38:50 Legacy 42:08 Travel & Global Perspective 44:21 Communication & Speaking 47:43 Bucket List Adventures 51:28 Advice To Young Self 53:04 Politics & Government Trust 55:17 American Patriotism 58:19 Iran & Global Issues 1:00:49 Final Advice & Closing
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    1 ora e 5 min