Fred's Front Porch Podcast

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I should note that I am using AI voices for the different incarnations of God.  I'm not, however, using cloned voices because an excellent point has been made that to do so is discourteous to those whose voices were cloned.  These voices are, essentially, stand ins.
I made a version for myself with cloned voices, and I feel like that's okay if I don't release it to the general public.  That's how I solved my moral problem.
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/a-talk-with-god

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When we talk about making America Great Again, which period in our history do we actually mean?
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/when-exactly-was-america-great/

Shoshana's book, "Secrets of Water," is available here:

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Speedy Shine and I each give firsthand accounts of an unfortunate incident.
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/eyewitness-testimony/

We all have limited amounts of Love to give.  If we don't get enough back, we just run out of steam.  It's important to fill each other's Love Tanks as frequently as possible.  Failure to do so can be disastrous.
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/?p=1597

https://fredsfrontporch.com/we-cant-afford-to-go-to-war/

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I don't equate success with money.  I see it as spending our minutes in ways that make us happy.  
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/?p=1550

https://fredsfrontporch.com/success-as-an-artist/

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https://fredsfrontporch.com/?p=1456
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https://fredsfrontporch.com/this-is-why/

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If you have a billion dollars, you have more money than you can spend in 19 lifetimes...
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There are privileges I have that I have done nothing to earn.  There are also privileges for which I have paid dearly.  
Why shouldn't all people have the privileges I get simply because I was born a straight white male in America?   
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/05/14/woke/

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I don't recommend Poverty.  It's lovely to avoid it.  Living in it, however, hasn't kept me from finding Joy.  I have Enough... so perhaps it isn't poverty at all.
That's for you to decide.
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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/05/07/finding-joy-even-in-poverty/

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https://frededer.home.blog/2022/12/24/freds-fine-poetry/

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Love,

Fred

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This is just the story.  There is no opening, no "Next Week...", no Gratitudes, no Closing.  This is intended to be useful to those who would like to share this story with a loved one without any interruptions or distractions.  

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This is pure Art, so it will not be interrupted by an Intro, Outro, or Gratitudes.  There is no "Next Week..."  This is a gift from me to you and from you to your children, or anyone else who needs to have a somewhat more relaxing day.
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Our species has advanced significantly in the last 200,000 years.  We now have all we need to ensure every one of us has a home, food, and medical care.  Instead of providing that to all of us, we ask who deserves it.  
I'm going to make the radical suggestion that all of us, whether I like them or not, deserve to survive.  I'm going to combine fiction and nonfiction.  I'm going to combine AI and the human mind.  I'm going to use all I can to convince you that I'm right in the hope that you'll convince someone else.  
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We seem to find virtue in being offended.  I question that in this episode.  While we're busy fighting about trivial issues, we lose focus on the problems that really need to be solved.  
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We've been doing this for quite a long time now.  This is our 200th episode together.  In honor of the occasion, I'm explaining, as clearly as possible, what my Idealism is all about.  I'm doing it in both nonfiction and fiction.  
The Impossible Conversation is another portion of "The Teddy Bear Coder."  I don't know if it will appear in the novel.  I don't know that the novel will ever be published.  I'm not entirely sure it will even be completed.  I'm told my fiction isn't as good as my nonfiction.  But I'm using that story to show what it is that I would truly like to accomplish, and how it might be done.  Yes, it's a childish and naive idea.  I'll live with that.  I hope you will, too.
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There is a strong connection between Diabetes and Depression.  They feed into each other.  One makes the other worse.  
There are, however, ways of coping.
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There is a courage in being Diabetic that many people never consider.  I'll explain it here.
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https://frededer.medium.com/44aafcf6122e
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We all have the opportunity to and ability to help one another in large ways and small.  Sometimes it takes nothing more than a phone call.  

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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/03/12/we-are-not-alone/

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Hi hoomans!  I'm starting my own Dogcast, and I hope you will like it lots and lots.  This Moontime I tell you a little bit about how I got to be here with Smelly Old Man.  We will do this once every Moontime, and if you want, you can join my Special Level of the show.  Your dog will love it.  

Smelly Old Man finally made it work, and you can get stickerses, and posters and a t shirt and a mini printser all with ME on them.  And all the moneyses go to help get me treatsers and toysers and food for Smelly Old Man to share with his Best Good Boy.  And... for one other thingser.  

This one is for all The Peoples On The Porcheses, but the next one will only be for the hoomans on The Speedy Shine Level or higher.  We need to make enough to be able to put the pawscript on Word Presseses, and that's forty treatsers a month.  So we could use lots of helps.

Jumps and kisseses to you!

Here's the free pawscript.  Next time we won't be able to make it look as pretty if we don't get all the helps we need.  

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"To be or not to be, Mr. Eder?  I choose to be."

Public education was once a proud calling.  It has changed significantly.  How?  Listen to find out.

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Trigger Warning:  This episode contains the offscreen injury of animals.  This upsets people more than the deaths of humans.  If that's too upsetting for you, you might want to skip this.

Why are we more concerned with animals than we are human beings?  We'll examine that question tonight when we consider the problem of Homeless Encampments being evacuated by the police.

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There are ethical concerns about using AI to create Art.  I'm addressing those in this episode.

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Speedy Shine took over the studio when I was sleeping one afternoon.  He wrote and produced the shortest episode of my career.

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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/02/05/500-words-from-speedy-shine/

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This week I'm featuring another excellent writer.  Shoshana Edwards has an understanding of humanity that is rare and refreshing to find.  Most of the words you'll read or hear tonight are hers, not mine.

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https://frededer.home.blog/2023/01/29/shoshana-writes/

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This is both the story of my journey to see Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbird," and a discussion of the value of the update he did.  Had anyone else tried it, I would have been furious.  In Sorkin's hands, I learned something new.  If you would like to learn that... listen to this.

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In the exciting finale to The Teddy Bear Coder, the Artificial Superintelligence begins its reign.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?  Do humans become its slaves, or does it set us free from the oligarchy?  Find out here on Fred's Front Porch Podcast.

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The FBI agent's sanity comes into question when he claims to have seen a Teddy Bear who hacked all the computers.  The family's Defense Attorney talks to Teddy, who has a warning for all of us.

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https://frededer.home.blog/?p=1470

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With only a week to go before Christmas, Teddy and Jack manage to cost Martin his job.

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Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all recognized that we are all sharing a ride on a rock tumbling through space?  We all have the same birthplace: Earth.  People are not better or worse based on where they were born.  None of us chose even to BE born, let alone where, when, or to whom.

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The shooting and Club Q is another tragic example of the power of words to cause violence.  We can change this.

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Violence occurs only when our use of words fails us.  Courage is the ability to avoid violence when you desperately want to use it.

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I wrote this before the Midterm Elections, without knowing their results.  There is no doubt that we all have different feelings about them.  I am hoping we can find it within ourselves to remember that we are The UNITED States.  We can put aside our disagreements and come together to solve our shared problems, regardless of our feelings.

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This one is purely personal.  It's the story of my trip to the hospital, my surgery, and my escape with the help of Sherlock, The Mystery Patron, whose identity had been a mystery to me for so long.  Speedy Shine plays a big part in this, and several of the People on The Porch came through for me, too.

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https://frededer.home.blog/?p=1343

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We have the resources to provide everyone on the planet enough to live.  Doing so would significantly reduce greed and essentially eliminate poverty.  Money has outlived its function in our world.  Yes, today I still need it, and so does everyone else.  A world without it, though, is possible.  

Take a trip through your own Imagination.

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https://frededer.home.blog/2022/10/23/imagine-enough/

If you would like to check out more of Interstellar Frequency look me up on google, or click on http://www.interstellarfrequency.info there you can find your platform you would like to listen on. I truly do owe this Man, which; This is a Man; If I can hand this whole world over to him on a silver plater I would. Check out Our Free Day and you will know why. Love you Fred and We all Truly love your show, GET WELL SOON!!! FROM YOUR LISTENERS. 

The Prosecutor returns to explain why I'm wrong to consider an incredibly kind offer someone made me.  Speedy Shine has a cameo appearance as well.  

Without some form of Universal Basic Income, I am essentially doomed to live a life dependent on others.  That's not a life I want to live.  Speedy Shine keeps me from bringing it to a close.  

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We move closer to an authoritarian dictatorship nearly every day.  There are those who think we are already there, but I disagree.  I believe there is still time to make a difference.

Can we still stop the Arrival of Gilead?

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https://frededer.home.blog/2022/10/09/approaching-gilead/

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Willy Loman and I are roughly the same age, and we are both used up.  I have more in common with Arthur Miller's protagonist than I would have hoped.  This is an exploration of societal and personal tragedy.

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For SEO purposes I'm going to discuss Star Trek in this episode.

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