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BHoP#045 Kid Prison Part 1

June 19, 2021 ·

This episode kicks off a multi-part series in which Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk will examine the institutions of education in the US, looking at how they came to be, what they’re good for, and what they’re not good for.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#039 Ideologically Salvable Sectionally

May 6, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk discuss The Benedict Option and its downsides, the importance of children, how everything has been ideologically charged, the cultural and political lines drawn to make states, how state politics is not set up to handle the state’s own problems, and how exclusive focus on national politics isolates you from your own community.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#038 Nothing Fatherly

April 30, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the origins and nature of vaccines, the U.S. government’s slow thinking leading to a narrow definition of health and its love of soft power, the lack of long term thinking in democratic systems, the differences between our government and late USSR government, and the case of Jacobson v Massachusetts concerning a mandatory Smallpox vaccination demonstrating that the Supreme Court will ultimately ‘side with the house’.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#035 Surviving Our Assumed Futures

April 9, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about media’s warping of your perceived survival situation, increasing economic complexity its slow collapse, surveillance and currencies in a new, isolated economy, and how you’re more likely to survive if you believe survival to be possible.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#034 The Gilded Depression

April 4, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the great depression, political demonization, self determination, and political lies about and political usefulness of homelessness.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#033 Deinstitutionalizing Psychosis

March 25, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about memory vs nostalgia, the connections between homelessness, mental illness, the factors that lead to random violence and radicalization, good intentions gone awry, and societal problems addressed with more and more medication.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#032 Posers Rule

March 18, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the consequences of seeking direct confrontation with the federal government, the stories of Gordon Khal and Randy Weaver, what “hostage rescue team” actually means, and the importance of understanding where your words can lead you.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#031 Reconstructive Terrorism and Domestic Wars

March 11, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the apparatus of counter-terrorism developed after 9-11 being turned to new uses, the defining of “domestic terrorist” by the government to its own advantage, history of terrorism in the civil war, the media telling you to be more worried about your reaction to an event that the event itself, and aiming for things which will be of true importance for the future.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford