It appears my one month hiatus turned into a year.

Things took a long time to turn around. But I was tempted out of
retirement by a very special guest. Look for a show shortly, when
I get the edit done!

Hey all. It looks like I'm going to take a month off.
Poor health, and a dying dog, and too much work stress have done me in.

I'm not going to do the show this month. Check back next month, and
I hope things have improved!

Welcome to the 3rd Anniversary show of Uncomfortable Questions!
This is a very fun interview with a guest from Finland. I loved doing this one. I talk to Mikko, age 31 -
Transhumanist, do-gooder and Asshole.

He is delightfully cheeky, and a deep thinker. Some of the concepts he
presents are not immediately intuitive, so he sent me a link to a 1 page paper he wrote on his philosophy.
Please read it, it is funny and makes things a lot clearer. Get it at: http://mjr.iki.fi/texts/lue

The link Mikko mentions on the show for the Singularity Institute is at:
http://www.singinst.org

Also a link to more information on Transhumanism - http://www.transhumanism.org

You can send me email at: uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net.

I'm back! This is a short show, to get me back on track after surgery, and
too much life in general.

A listener sent me in a 10 minute piece for her own podcast that was her
answer to the "What Is the Universe?" show that I did a few months ago.
Check her out at www.braindouche.net.

I included her piece and also went on with some musings of my own on
"Is Life Fair - And Should It Be?".

Send me your own thoughts or comments at sue.grandys@gmail.com (if you want to send a sound file, use this one - it can handle upwards of 20MB files - or you can send mail also to : uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net.

Next show is my 3rd Anniversary show, and I hope to bring you something really special.

If you are wondering where the heck I am, due to some unexpected
surgery, I'm busy healing at this time.

It looks like I'll end up taking a month off from the show, while I
recover and get back on my feet (literally - it was foot surgery.)

Check back in a few weeks, and hopefully I'll have a show up.

This turned out to be a very different show. I interview Dan L.,
age 62, a free thinker from Texas. He was a career military man, and
I was interested to hear about life from him, as I have little contact
with that world.

He was unsurprisingly quite the realist, but did surprise me with the
depth to which he believed in empowering people and elevating humanity.

There is a lot of talk of politics, which I try to avoid, but it tied in so much
with the views of how governments should use the military, so I left it all in.
Take it as another world view, whether you agree with it or not!

Email me at uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net

Today we go back to the traditional interview format, and talk
to Christy, age 25 - A free spirited Engineer.

Sorry this one is so late - I collided with the nasty flu going around
that the flu shot doesn't protect you against. Followed by another
cold - 4th one this winter. Do I get a prize for collecting them all?!!

Send me email at:
uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net

Volunteers to do the show are always in demand!

This is a non-traditional single question show. I got only 3 answers on last months question to the audience:
If we are here for a reason, are we here to explore the me, or
transcend the me?

The ones who braved the question were:
- Big Phil, from show #36 - of Big Phil's Love Parade
- Graviton Ring, show #48
- Christy - (a guest of my roommate who was wandering through the house. Yes I will go to any lengths to get answers - no one is safe!).

As always, email me at:
uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net

Next month we will have a full traditional interview with my new found victim, Christy!

Welcome! Today's Christmas Eve show is in 2 parts.
First we hear a late answer to the "What is the Universe?" show from
Herb - a delightful professor from Texas who was the guest on show
#24.

Then I ask a new question for the audience and look at it a little myself.
This show's question, is:

Today I ask the big questions of Michael, age 33, and Objectivist with a soul. He is from the Greater Minneapolis area, and we met to record in a park on the most glorious of late fall days.

We got into depression, alcoholism, and coming out of all that into a more
hopeful view of life and the universe. Michael was a most open, honest, heartwarming person. I adored doing this interview.

And as always, email me at: uncomfortable-questions@tcinternet.net.