Dave and Bob discuss nature education, poetry, and school reform, using the lens of Rabindranath Tagore, and Bengali Nobel Prize winner who led an incredible life in the early 20th century. He changed the way we see education and is still influencing the world today. We also look at modern day decedents of his pedagogy like Richard Louv, Adrienne Maree Brown, and Audre Lorde.

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

The brothers dust off their rust. They discuss how things have been over the last 9 months. And they get into an important news item that is getting left off the mainstream platter.

The theme for this season is No Bummer! Scheming and Dreaming. The Crew discusses where this idea came from and the directions they hope to take it. Episodes may include: the key bands of every decade (music) with DH, 00s nostalgia, The Peachies, Top 10 dinners, anarchism for dummies, the Rojava revolution, and sports betting and Beyond Xs and Os with Danny.

Did You Know

In 1992, a cargo ship carrying approximately 29,000 bath toys (mostly rubber ducks) spilled in the northern Pacific Ocean. These so-called Friendly Floatees have been drifting ashore for over 20 years, sometimes in surprising parts of the world—not only Alaska, but also Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, and Chile.

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

The brother's are back in the sound studio after a long Hiatus, and boy did we miss it. It felt good to be home.

This episode is all about grad school and new ideas Dave is learning to implement in his classroom. Bob is a great ear as always and up for a little knowledge. Learn all about ELA, Social Studies, and Math/Science literacy and how we can all implement disciplinary literacy with some great action items and new ideas.

Here is a link to one of Dave's lessons plans on immigration, but feel free to email for other ideas.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aU2p4eVScw3cSIaY2z12ju5y9iyaj53q/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103573351396379238331&rtpof=true&sd=true

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TikTok - @davepeachtree

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

The brothers end the season with this episode. They start by discussing Dave's journey with Omicron. Dave reflects on having the bug and some lessons learned. They follow this with Bob's reflections on MLK Day and the 2020 doc MLK/FBI.

The heart of the show is wrapping up their season on Valerie Kaur's revolutionary love. They only were able to do 1/3 of the love model, but in the last episode, they reflect on the challenges of loving one's enemy and on loving one's self. At the and a shout-out to Tricia Hersey's work at the Nap Ministry.

The end with some Suberb Owl predications (lol, so old now). And a promo for Julie's class on health for teens and tweens and the divine feminine!

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

The Crew discusses the ongoing attack and crises in Ukraine. They go over what we know so far, some of the historical context of the attack, and some possible implications.

Recorded on February 27.

In the first show of 2022 the Crew starts off by discussing the Omicron Covid Surge.

The main topic for the show was Bob’s trip to Boulder. Bob summarizes his trip, which had some magical elements to it. David reflects on the reality that the pandemic has minimized or taken away the ability to hang out.

The brothers share their reflections on experiencing the fires in Boulder. Part of the experience was affording an even deeper connection to Boulder. They then refer back to The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson as a helpful book on climate fiction (Cli-fi), and they discuss one of the ideas there of monetizing green energy.

New Year’s prediction show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCm4qkP-_mE&ab_channel=DavePeachtree

Stoneface

You think an eggplant is good. You should try another food. It’s even better. (terrible joke)

4:1

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by Kimo Crew (sp.?) is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

It’s our 2021 review show. And it’s a Thriving first as both brothers are in-person in Colorado. For a game and in honor of the Beatles documentary Get Back, the Crew names their top 5 Beatles songs.

Dave: 5. Rocky Racoon, 4. Hey Jude, 3. Can’t Buy Me Love, 2. Let It Be, 1. Here Comes the Sun.

Bob 5. (tie) Here Comes The Sun 5. (tie) While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 4. Tomorrow Never Knows, 3. Strawberry Never Knows, 2. A Day In The Life, 1. Hey Jude

Next the Crew talks about the Peachies, which are Dave’s survey on best Sitcoms of all times, but for our show the Peaches are the best shows, movies, and songs of 2021.

Dave: Movie - (tie) In the Heights and Licorice Pizza

Show - Ted Lasso season 2

Song - (tie) Good 4 You by Olivia Rodrigo and Butter by BTS

Bob: Movie - Judas and The Black Messiah

Show - (tie) Reservation Dogs and Only Murders in the Building

Song - Enfance 80 by Vidoeclub

Finally, the Crew discuss the big news stories and historical events of 2021. They select 1 each that strongly affected them.

Dave: U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan

Bob: Striketober

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Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.

The book club finishes the discussion on Eula Biss’ book. The sections for this discussion are “Investment” and “Accounting.” The discussion touches on what is art? (especially if made by elephants or androids), breaking out of the system while complicit in it, the hard-wiring of investment gambling to our brain chemistry, and digging a hole on your 40th birthday!

Contact info

Email - davepeachtree@gmail.com

Twitter - @BMaze19

IG - Thriving_In_Dystopia

Website - https://thrivingindystopia.com/

TikTok - @davepeachtree

Deep appreciation to In Heaven by Drake Stafford for our intro song Captain Jack by is the new outro, the prolific and enigmatic Joe Shine for the thumbnail art. Big thank you to Nadir Čajić for editing this week’s show. Finally, we are indebted to the wonderful Chris Sawyer for funding and creating our new website. Thank you, Mix.