#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

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Introduction

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You're Just Talking to Me, I Got Other Shit to Say.

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I'm Not Played On, but I Don't Have Those Skills to Do That.

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The Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing

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You Could Plant Oats in Your Backyard

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You Can't Eat Dollars

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Convictions Are Nothing Without Action

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I'm Not a Slave. I'll Eat Gruel Like a Cat

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The Rules of Nature Don't Apply to Humans

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Are You Having a Hoot?

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Are You Reading Great Literature?

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You Can Write Good Novels, You Know?

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You Could Be More Self-Sufficient

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The Nearings, I'm Not Sure How Many Acres They Had.

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How to Find High Dividend Per Stock Cost

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Do I Want to Do This?

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Porridge With Maple Syrup?

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Renting Out Money Is Not Lending

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The Problem With Borrowing Money

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Is There a Future for Capital Goods?

52:02 • 3min

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You Can't Get a Small Truck Anymore.

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Capital Goods Should Last a Lifetime

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The Nearings Go to Away From Consumption

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Are We All Sick With the Dopamine Treadmill?

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What Is All Collapsing?

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How to Build a Thousand Year House?

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Machine Tools Have More Power Than Humans

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You Could Do More Than You're Doing

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Pick and Shovel Work Is an Art

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You Understand Your Flu Now for Your What Stove?

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Getting a Scissor Mower, You Can't Get One, Right?

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You Don't Know What the Goal Is

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I Don't Think It's Enough

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I'd Have To, I Don't Know, I Was Joking About, I Mean, This Is New England Happy. Yeah. Yeah

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Isn't the Free Market Perverse Enough?

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How Could You Not Have?

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The American Rural Person, I'm Sympathetic to the Nairings

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The Secrets of the Castle

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Do You Watch the Townsend's Channel on YouTube?

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Can Virtue Be Taught?

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Can Virtue Be Taught?

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Are We Anti-Marxists?

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The Potato Famine and the New England Puritans

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Is It All Elvis's Fault?

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Mass Communication Is Not in the Hands of Regular People

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Electromagnetic Pulse

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The Nearings for Unplugging

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What Would You Like to Do Next?

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College Is Cheap, Right?

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Is There Such a Thing as a Capital T Truth?

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The Language Does Not Work That Way

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I Contain Multitudes. That's So Soon. Yeah.

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Alcohol's Fun, but It's Not That Fun

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