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It’s a common observation that life in the information age has led to a greater ability to digitally connect with our fellow humans across time and space, but, has it also led to increased feelings of solitude and loneliness? Increased feelings of disconnection?

As neat as digital watches, Super Mario and infinite cat videos are, it appears that we need real physical presence to maintain our mental and emotional health. The moment we can’t be near family or friends, a friendly, furry, feathery, or scaly face, may give us that little dose of empathy and intimacy. Through play, care, exercise, comfort, and occasional bouts of wonder, we can form deep and enriching emotional bonds with beings that are sometimes simply stoked to be fed.

Which kind of begs the question once asked by a man named Perry, can we serve the same purpose?

We’ll find out today on The World via Pets.

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Today, we are going to talk about creation, about shared experience, about context, about intention. We’re gonna wrestle with judgment, comparison, objectivity, and subjectivity good taste and bad taste. We will consider the deep cultural significance of the thong song and the gaucheness of Michelangelo’s David.

We will discuss the vast swaths of human creativity from our earliest ancestors to our contemporary automatons. We’re gonna run over well-trodden ground, borrow shamelessly from those who’ve come before and present the product as our own creation and then ask what it means if a machine does the same.

Please put on your painters cap, grab your writer’s pen, pick up your drumsticks, put on your dancing shoes, find your yarn, heat up the kiln, and join us in a dialogue across time and space, today on The World via Art.

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We seem to love binaries. The choice between two items juxtaposed, produces a minor thrill in many of us. Ahhh, good. I can cast my lot and demonstrate my knowledge and allegiance through a simple choice of A or B.

Is it true or false? Choose the left or right? Will we win or lose? The consequences can be mundane or grand but the ease of choice, the reduction of myriad possibilities into a pair, seems to fit neatly within our minds.

Of course it’s been observed that often dyads exist on a spectrum. That the neat clean lines blur and mingle and that a middle space can be found and understood between concepts.

Today, however, we will reject compromise. For the debate is simple and clear. Breaded or fried? Boneless or bone-in? Wing or drum? Ranch or blue cheese? All these questions will be answered on The World via Buffalo Wings.

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Today, we are bringing you a glimpse into the past. The past that foreshadowed the present, which in turn, illuminates the future. You’ll listen to a brief foray into meaning, adherence and identity. We will discuss verticality, horizontality, touch on luminosity and explore teleology.

Please lean back, support yourself against a planar surface and enjoy this brief shine upon the passage of your day, here on The World via Sconces.

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When you sit and listen to our production. Your device of choice translates the digital signal of our recording into waves of compressed air that are received by your ears, detected by specialized cells, and then transmitted to your brain.

Your brain translates these waves into the sounds of our voices, questing and questioning, our mirthful laughter and burdened sighs. The creaking of our chairs and the scratching of our fidgets.

Do you ever wonder if the sounds you are hearing are the same as those experienced by other listeners?

Are you experiencing all that this podcast has to offer?

Is this podcast offering you all that it is capable of?

Have we, your hosts, put in the care required to ensure that your expectations are not just met, they are exceeded?

And can we truly understand what your experience will actually be?

We’re not sure but we’ll do our best to answer these questions in a diligent, repeatable, efficient and aesthetically pleasing matter, today on The World via Quality.

Hello and welcome to The World Via the Simpsons.

Today, we’re gonna take a ride down to 742 Evergreen Terrace. Sit back on a well-worn 3-seater couch, turn on the old flatscreen, and engage in a discussion about a cartoon.

Will we be boorish or bratty, sagacious or skeptical, or will we simply observe with child or animal-like wonder at the behemoth that this simple show about a simple family in a simple town became.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode of The World via The Simpsons.

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We live in an age of complexity, surrounded by a rushing chaos that pulls our attention hither and yon, unrelenting from the moment we awake, until we close our eyes for slumber.

How do we, as simple creatures, corral this mad experience, gather it up and concentrate it down so that we can make some sense of the day, some sense of the moment?

Can we direct this riotous energy towards a useful end, direct our own divergent attentions so that they're not distracted by the 10,000 shining lights, but instead focus on something meaningful?

Is there a tool from which our collective efforts can flow towards a single goal? When we have finally brought some order to the chaos, can we perhaps use that tool, to make cake?

Please concentrate your attention, watch out for flying cows and trepanating doctors, and prepare for an infundere with us, today on the World Via…Funnels.

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Today, we’re gonna talk about a topic that humankind has grappled with since we were facing off against each other for bananas on the savanna, many millennia ago. We’re gonna play some cards, listen to some music, probably not watch a Jet Li movie, maybe savor some metrics, sometimes running hot and sometimes running cold.

There’s gonna be tragedy, glory, assymmetry, totality, a whiff of Malthus and a dash of Augustine. From 13,000 years ago to good god y’all, this very moment. We’re going to consider politics by other means, today on The World via War.