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Tyler is the host of STAG. He tells his story about why he started STAG. Jimbo tries to sell self deception again. They discuss weak men, authenticity, and somewhat ties those ideas to STAG and self deception.Listen to STAG here.Sign up to be a guest on STAG here.Transcript here.Fact checking here.

Rich Mueller is the founder of  SportsCollectorsDaily.com. Sports Collectors Daily is a sports collecting news site that publishes 20+ new pieces each week. Follow them on Twitter or Instagram.Rich's interview is somewhat of a continuation of Ep 43 1980 Topps #482.

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Transcript here.Fact checking here.Jimbo's pre recording notes and outline can be viewed here.People & groupsGnosticism — Umbrella label for diverse early Christian movements that emphasized secret/experiential knowledge (gnosis) to awaken a divine “spark” within.Proto-orthodox — Modern term for the streams of early Christianity that later became mainstream “orthodoxy.”Sethians — A Gnostic school with elaborate myths about Sophia, a false creator, and rescuing divine sparks.Valentinians — Gnostic movement from teacher Valentinus; tended to see the creator as ignorant rather than evil and blended in with church life.Basilidians (followers of Basilides) — Early 2nd-century movement; reported to teach many “heavens” and often associated with Docetism.Marcionites — Followers of Marcion of Sinope who rejected the Hebrew Scriptures’ God as distinct from the Father of Jesus.Ebionites — Torah-observant Jewish-Christian group; generally skeptical of Paul and insisted on Jewish law.Justin Martyr — 2nd-century Christian writer who mentions churches reading the “memoirs of the apostles.”Irenaeus — Late-2nd-century bishop who argued for exactly four Gospels and wrote Against Heresies.Tatian — 2nd-century Christian who created the Diatessaron, a harmony of the four Gospels.Tertullian — Early Christian author critical of various “heresies,” including Valentinian ideas.Walter Bauer — 20th-century scholar whose thesis suggested “orthodoxy” was not original everywhere (Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity).Ideas & vocabularyGnosis — Experiential, saving knowledge.Demiurge — The craftsman/creator of the material world; benevolent in Plato, often ignorant/hostile in Gnostic myth.Yaldabaoth / Samael — Names some Gnostic texts give the ignorant creator.Pleroma — The “fullness” of the divine realm in Gnostic cosmology.Aeons — Emanations/personae of the divine within the Pleroma.Sophia — “Wisdom”; a key figure in Gnostic myths whose fall leads to the flawed creation.Docetism — View that Christ only seemed human/suffered.Dualism — Sharp good/evil or spirit/matter split; in many Gnostic systems, matter is inferior or corrupt.Asceticism — Strict self-denial (e.g., celibacy) for spiritual aims; some groups were strongly ascetic.Allegory / allegorical — Reading stories as symbolic rather than literal history.Apocalyptic — Expectation of imminent divine intervention/kingdom.

Links to References in the EpisodeRead The Legendary Muhammad Ali” here.Read the critical analysis of the Nag Hammadi story, "How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?" by Mark Goodacre.For more about the Nag Hammadi discovery click here, including a list of the texts discovered.Read the review related to the tales of natives burning ancient texts here.Timeline and Evolution of the Story1948 (institutional notices): Early reports emphasize that new Coptic codices have been acquired / secured for study in Cairo—no legends attached. (For a museum overview, see the Coptic Museum’s summary.) coptic-cairo.com1958/60 — Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics:First book-length account by a field scholar who saw the material early. He describes a peasant digging for fertilizer, a jar buried near the cliff at Jabal al-Ṭārif, the manuscripts going to Cairo—but no jinn, no blood-feud, no page-burning, and no oversized jar. Sober, minimalist. (English ed. 1960.) Internet Archive1977 — James M. Robinson (editor), The Nag Hammadi Library in English:In prefaces and later essays Robinson popularizes a vivid discovery vignette: a ~60 cm jar, the finder hesitating lest a jinn be inside, breaking it in hope of gold, and his mother burning some leaves. This is the version that “sticks” in popular accounts. avalonlibrary.net1979 — Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels:Adds dramatic local color: seven men, a blood vendetta with limb-cutting and heart-eating, and a 1-meter jar. This retelling helped propel the story into the cultural mainstream. Squarespace1981–84 — Further embellishments & pushback:Some later versions mention eight camel riders, torn codices during division, and a six-foot jar; then leading Coptologists Rodolphe Kasser and Martin Krause publicly question these field tales (1984). SAGE Journals1987 — Channel 4 (UK) documentary The Gnostics:On-camera Muhammad ʿAlī al-Sammān (the finder) tells a different sequence: he found and smashed the pot alone, called others after the break, still mentions fear of a jinn and his mother burning leaves—but key details contradict Robinson’s popular version. Variant Readings+2NT Weblog+22013–present — Scholarly reassessment:Mark Goodacre collects contradictions across tellings, notes a lack of field documentation for the 1970s interviews, and urges caution; Brent Nongbri critiques the recurring motif of “locals burning papyri” as a self-serving trope in manuscript trade narratives. markgoodacre.org+2JSTOR+2

Click here for out pre-recording notes. ⁠Listen to Brendan's discussion⁠ with Dr. Kyra Bobinet about her book ⁠Unstoppable Brain⁠.Here is a transcript of the episode. Here is a fact checking of the episode. For more from Brendan click here. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠Find more from Jimbo at his blog, ⁠⁠Jimbo Rants"These results suggest that the self's capacity for active volition is limited and that a range of seemingly different, unrelated acts share a common resource." Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1252–1265. https:/doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252

For a fact checking of our episode click here. Here is a full transcript with some minor spelling errors.Here are Mike's 12 uses of plural Gods in the Old Testament.Here is the article Mike mentioned: New Research: Belief in Jesus Rises, Fueled by Younger Adults

The book is Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams.Read a fact check by ChatGPT 5 here.Listen to Brendan's discussion with Dr. Kyra Bobinet about her book Unstoppable Brain.Here are Brendan and Jimbo's pre-recording notes. The episode doesn't not cover most of the notes.Next Episode: Brendan and Jimbo will discuss the psychology term willpower depletion. Message Jimbo with any questions or ideas about willpower depletion. ⁠⁠For more from Brendan Howard visit his link tree here, https://linktr.ee/brendanhoward⁠⁠Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠Find more from Jimbo at his blog, ⁠Jimbo Rants

The last dive into epistemology and knowing for now. And an expansion of a previous comment about evolutionary psychology. Here is a full transcript of the episode.Here is a fact check of the episode.⁠For more from Brendan Howard visit his link tree here, https://linktr.ee/brendanhoward⁠Music by ⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠Find more from Jimbo at his blog, Jimbo Rants

Read transcript here.Fact checking here.In Ep 43, I analyze the 1980 Topps #482 Rickey Henderson rookie card. I give my background, some basic history, simplified economics, and some speculations about the future. Resources & LinksGem Rate DataSports Card Pro ProfileWikipedia - Rickey Henderson⁠PSA Population Report - Rickey Henderson #482⁠PSA Grading StandardsMusic by ⁠⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠

Round two of childhood with Jon and I. This time we focus on a lot more positive aspects. Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠

In the episode, Brendan Howard and I discussed more about epistemology. Our conversation was based on a survey about epistemology I created with the assistance of GPT. We also listened and discussed an episode of Theories of Everything with Professor Jennifer Nagel.Human MemoryIn the episode, I slightly misremembered a study on memory related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Below are the main ideas related to my episode reference brought to you by GPT: 1. Memory decay slows after one year: Flashbulb memories (the personal context: where you were, who told you, etc.) and event memories (facts about the attack itself) both show a forgetting curve that flattens significantly after the first year.2. Emotional details fade more than factual ones: Emotional responses associated with flashbulb memories (e.g., how shocked or upset you felt) are remembered less accurately over time than non-emotional details like location or the person who told you.3. Subjective confidence remains high despite inaccuracies: By multiple follow‑up points (1 week, 11 months, 35 months), many participants recalled different details from their original reports—and yet they continued to express high confidence in their recollections. After the initial decay, both flashbulb and event memories tend to become more stable—though not necessarily more accurate—over time.Cumulative SelectionCumulative selection can explain how a small advantage can build over time through natural selection. Ronald Fisher, a relatively unknown genius and polymath, developed mathematics that explain how small mutations that increase fitness, even with a very small advantage, can survive over time. Using population genetics, a gene with a 0.1% selective advantage can dominate a population of 10,000 within 20,000 generation. For humans, hat would be about 500,000 years.In the podcast episode, I generally explained why babies should look like their fathers. In theory, if babies, who looked like their fathers, had even a very small advantage, like 0.1%, that advantage would dominate human populations after 20,000 generation, or 500,000 years. If the advantage was larger, it would dominate faster. Links https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/07/notes-from-episode-41-knowing-about.htmlhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mrMGHtNcRD3LMFhVeiMdlrqoEv-XXe-2XHwu4VIVVwA/edit?usp=sharinghttps://open.substack.com/pub/curtjaimungal/p/why-universal-skepticism-is-philosophys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2925254/Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠EvgenyBardyuzha⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠

My brother Jon and I discuss our childhood. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope to do more. If you're interested, please reach out to suggest topics or question you have for Jon or Jimbo. Leave a comment or text Jimbo.

See blog post for more on top companies over time, https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/06/top-500-companies-with-time.htmlIt looks like Trump may have been booed a couple times for recommending vaccines. Either way, he stopped mentioning it pretty quick. Link here, https://youtu.be/eA306aNtvmk?si=zOT5In8-46G_4gmZTrump's Tesla White House Commercial seems to have increased Tesla sales among conservatives. The state of Texas provides decent evidence.

This was supposed to be a thinking out loud episode. Instead it is more of a summary of what I learned when I couldn't sleep. Here is a fact check by ChatGPT-5.Show Notes🏃‍♂️ Episode IntroductionIn this late-night recording (past 3 a.m. thanks to a caffeine-fueled 5K race), Jimbo explores one of philosophy’s most profound questions: Can we ever be certain of anything?This episode blends personal reflections on running in 94° heat with a deep dive into epistemology — the study of knowledge — featuring thinkers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Voltaire.Evening 5K race in high heat and wind.Pacing strong for two miles, with a slowdown in the third mile due to fatigue and conditions.Reflections on how environmental factors (heat, wind, time of day) can shape performance.Special shout-out: Jamie’s first fun run mile — and she crushed it!We don’t perceive the world directly; we perceive mental representations shaped by senses.Related to but not the same as Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.Limits of perception proven by things outside our sensory range (infrared, microscopic life, etc.).🔗 Learn more:Plato’s Allegory of the Cave – Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Veil of Perception – Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyDeduction: From premises to guaranteed conclusions (e.g., All humans are mortal. Socrates is human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.).Induction: From past observations to probable conclusions (e.g., The sun has always risen → it will rise tomorrow.).Deduction = certainty (if premises are true).Induction = probability only.🔗 Learn more:Deductive and Inductive ReasoningHume on Induction – Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHume pointed out we have no logical guarantee that the future will resemble the past.Example: Just because the sun has always risen doesn’t mean it must tomorrow.Conclusion: All empirical knowledge is probabilistic, not certain.🔗 Learn more:David Hume’s Problem of Induction – SEPDescartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) introduced methodic doubt: doubt everything until reaching a foundation of certainty.His famous line: Cogito, ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”).Only certainty: his own existence as a thinking being.🔗 Read: Descartes’ Meditations (Full Text)Kant accepted Hume’s challenge but argued we can know how things must appear to us through human cognition.Certainty exists only within the structures of our perception and reason (phenomena), not about reality itself (noumena).🔗 Learn more:Kant’s Epistemology – SEPFamous quote: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”Reaction to Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature (1770), which argued for atheistic materialism.Voltaire criticized both dogmatic atheism and dogmatic theism, favoring deism and intellectual humility.His message: embrace doubt and modesty in belief, avoid absolute certainty.🔗 Learn more:Voltaire’s Philosophy – SEPBaron d’Holbach – System of Nature (Full Text)Most of what we “know” in science, history, and daily life is inductive, not deductive — therefore probabilistic.Certainty is rare, and often only available in definitions, math, and logic.Hume showed the limits of induction, Kant reframed knowledge within cognition, and Voltaire warned us that claiming certainty itself is folly.Podcast mentioned: Philosophize This! – esp. episodes 39–41.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP – free, scholarly reference).Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (accessible summaries).

Here is a visual referenced in the discussion, https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/05/knowledge-epistemology-step-1.htmlThe article we read and discussed is Enhancing Our Truth Orientation by Robin Hanson.

John Lucas is a former Oregon Duck cross country and track and field runner. He competed in the 2007 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for the men's marathon.This is the second discussion/interview with John Lucas. John shares the psychology of being a runner and competing among the highest levels.

Jimbo interviews former Oregon cross country and track runner John Lucas. John ran two US trials for the marathon.John and Jimbo are both Eagle Point High School alumni. For more about Jimbo's motivation to write a running book clink on the following:The Running Fiction ChallengeIt's about the DopeRunning and Compound InterestEp 22 ⁠Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz⁠

Mike and Jimbo turn their group chat into a podcast episode

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