Mere Mortals Conversations

Woof woof woof, bowowowow ruff rufff ruff ........ arf. Yap yap!In Conversation #74, HOSKY Token, Carl (Vegas Pool) and I discuss: the origins of the hosky project, how the code and policy work on the Cardano blockchain, the different elements that encourage better behaviour of hosky idiots, the paradox between being (the) shit memecoin yet arguably most impactful use of Cardano, the ever growing intimate relationship between the two big dogs and a selection of highly curated meme questions from the community.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro to Señor Josqui & Vegas(1:30) - What is Cardano & what are tokens?(4:50) - The birth of HOSKY(10:55) - Promises in code(15:56) - Hosky Policy(22:39) - The Doggie Bowl madness(26:18) - Stakepools & NFT's(30:33) - Testing the chain(34:36) - Real world actions(38:20) - Calling out bad behaviour(42:38) - Propaganda quote(44:17) - The importance of Carl(51:10) - Open source code(1:00:33) - The paradox of Hosky(1:11:02) - Eloping to Vegas(1:12:17) - Vegas rapid fire questions(1:32:32) - Hosky rapid fire questions(1:51:31) - Join Vegas .... or go with other small pools(2:03:12) - Be careful of scamsDon't Connect with HOSKY:Website: https://hosky.io/Discord: https://discord.com/invite/hoskyTwitter: https://twitter.com/hoskytokenConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Consensus reached. If you want to get the girls, you've got to sleep with their gay guy friends first (apparently).In Episode #294 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: more on the sexy new intro music, why I haven't been thinking about status, can you escape playing the status games at all?, the different types of status one can attain, utilising handstands/the MM podcast/books/languages to show off and why I might just be a tosser for bringing this topic up.A big thanks to Petar the Slav, Signs of New Growth and new booster killyourfm for supporting the show. You all have the status of gentlemen, kings and learned scholars in my book.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Signs Of New Growth Intro(1:01) - Why this topic came up: The Social Leap(2:10) - Definition(4:13) - Is the desire for status a fundamental human motive?(10:47) - Choosing your games(18:01) - What type of status are you not impressed by?(22:43) - Objective, subjective and reputational(29:15) - Responding to comments(32:20) - Boostagram Lounge(36:36) - Material status and positions(39:54) - How I might show more status?(49:21) - Tai Lopez and book quotes(54:47) - Kyrin: What a tosser!(58:13) - More comments(59:38) - Value for value: Show your status!Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

You smell that ....... it smells like it's goal time.Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Juan's April Recap(1:50) - My April Recap(4:10) - My May Goals: 1st Half(8:47) - Juan's May Goals(12:07) - My May Goals: 2nd Half(15:12) - Fitness Challenge(17:58) - V4VConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Would the negatives of teacher dependency and substandard knowledge be countered by the increased motivation of having awesome teachers who know how to teach you more directly?In Episode #293 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: a nice quote from Marcel Proust, the hypothetical of only having 1 teacher throughout your schooling career, what we would consider useful knowledge, Juan's obsession with certain online games and why I might need to think about presenting my status in life.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Meander me all night long(0:39) - Marcel Proust: In Search Of Lost Time(2:54) - One teacher for life(7:27) - Teaching multiple subjects(13;54) - 5 pieces of fundamental knowledge(17:44) - The structure of languages(23:49) - Teaching your kids another language(26:43) - Agar.io, Dapper Dinos & Smash Karts(30:19) - Evolutionary knowledge is useful(35:36) - The Red Queen(40:23) - Juan has status boi!(44:41) - V4VConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Mini Convo #3 is a quick burst of questions I got to pose to Lisa Campbell. This session focuses in on the results of the recent crossfit open workouts and the next steps.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Connect with Lisa:https://www.instagram.com/lisa_campbell_7/?hl=enConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Apparently I'm not super friendly because I refused to chat with the drug addled crazy person.In Episode #292 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: can you be too friendly and the downsides to overt friendliness, where we rank on a scale of nicety, practical steps I have taken to make more international friends, why reciprocity could set standards that are hard to meet and how society could be shaped to be more friendly.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Why this topic?(2:00) - My unfriendly adventure(8:36) - Being too friendly(13:30) - Our friendliness levels(20:27) - You can still be assertive and friendly(22:40) - Boostagram Lounge(28:15) - How to win friends and influence people(32:32) - My goals to make friends(40:10) - Unrealistic expectations of reciprocal friendliness(44:41) - Making society more friendly(49:49) - Value for valueConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Food, alcohol and sugar are all in the firing line for this convo.In Episode #291 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: our request for some feedback on our podcast, Kevin Rose and his latest NFT project, whether we can actually spot crypto scams, how Good Friday is a form of stoicism, what would happen if we enforced an arbitrary restriction on a whole country, the Mamut cookie in Mexico, the beauty of collaborative online art found on reddit, some cool tech goodies, why you SHOULDN'T listen to our opinion on hot gossip and our V4V pitch.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Marketing feedback(1:19) - Sir Spencer poster(1:48) - Moonbirds(5:12) - NFT monies(9:12) - Crypto scams(12:12) - Self restriction on Good Friday(17:27) - No food and no alcohol(22:40) - How to cut out sugar(28:53) - r/place(32:40) - Animated QR codes and inchain crypto games(36:24) - Our thoughts on the Chris Rock slap(40:13) - Value for value Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Dr Jonathon Weakley (https://twitter.com/JonathonWeakle1) is a Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), was a Research Associate @ Leeds Beckett University and is trying to make strength & conditioning easier for coaches.In this conversation I got the chance to ask him a bunch of questions that centred around velocity based training (VBT), the definition of overtraining, why he ventured down this pathway professionally and what has him excited in the next few years.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(4:00) - Having conversations that are applicable to everyone(8:00) - Explaining Velocity Based Training(13:10) - Sticking to weight/% over velocity?(16:15) - Intent(20:20) - Autoregulatory prescription(24:10) - Personal Experience(32:15) - Challenges in education(40:00) - Overtraining defined(49:10) - Excitement in the futureConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Want to know how to get jacked like Juan or not jacked like me? Well we're talking about our fitness progression and mindset over the years!In Episode #290 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: playing varied sports in our youth, the mindset and approach we take whilst exercising, Juan's huge weight gain and my relatively meagre body changes, pics of Juan's boobies, why Juan is super experimental and why I'm quite conservative and how we see our future fitness progression.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - The premise(2:43) - Juan's fitness background(4:57) - My fitness background(8:29) - My training philosophy(11:37) - Juan's training philosophy(19:51) - Body changes over time(28:32) - Juan's progression pics(30:45) - Boostagram Lounge(34:32) - Style of training(36:39) - Style of training 2(46:45) - Random comments(53:08) - Future concerns(58:49) - Value for valueConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Considering how much advice I tell myself and don't follow I wouldn't recommend listening to our advice (although thankfully I rarely give out any)!In Episode #289 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the pride in his hard work editing a CrossFit video, meeting a younger version of myself, why I generally dislike unsolicited advice, mentors and helping younger people, why the resulting action is more important than the intent of the advice and a whole lot of bitching about domain names.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Misc intro(0:52) - Juan's CrossFit video(3:47) - Leaving the camera in the gym(4:08) - A lotta editing hours(9:59) - Fuck growing your podcast(11:55) - Why do things?(14:11) - Ben = Young Kyrin(15:33) - Unwarranted advice(18:45) - Helping the youth(22:49) - Mentor vs Supporter(26:22) - The source of advice(31:43) - Incompetent evil(33:36) - Chesterton's Fence(35:22) - Domain Names(38:51) - ICANN(42:36) - Spaceship on the footpath(43:35) - Lotta bitching hoursConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show