Leadership Lessons From The Great Books
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Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.
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Ben-Hur and Our Western Christian Assumptions
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace w/John Hill & Jesan Sorrells
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Order of the Day, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower - June 6, 1944 (D-Day) - 82nd Anniversary
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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The Challenge of Human Change
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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RE-BROADCAST - The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn w/Jesan Sorrells
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May 27, 2026 |
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Resacralizing the Profane World
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May 26, 2026 |
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion w/ Nicky Billou & Jesan Sorrells
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May 20, 2026 |
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Books Smuggle Ideas Across Time
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May 19, 2026 |
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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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May 13, 2026 |
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Solipsism at the Center of the Modern Mind
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May 12, 2026 |
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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May 06, 2026 |
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Leadership Values
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May 05, 2026 |
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky w/Hana Kabele Gala & Jesan Sorrells
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Witnessing What You Don't Understand
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov w/Claire Chandler & Jesan Sorrells
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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The Problem of Recosmologizing the Rational World
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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The Myth of the City
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Mash Up Episode ft. 12 Rules For Leaders Deep Dive - Leadership Models from Sun-Tzu to Albert Murray w/David Baumrucker & Jesan Sorrells
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Twilight of the Novel
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton w/Neal Kalechofsky & Jesan Sorrells
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The Timshol, the Turpitude, and the Underground
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Need for Hope
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The Third Man by Graham Greene w/Jesan Sorrells & Ryan J. Stout
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Leadership in Absurd Times
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Oil! by Upton Sinclair w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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The Social Reformer and the Demon in Democracy
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Stomping the Blues by Albert L. Murray w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Chesterton's Lamppost and the Paradox of the Myth of Return
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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A Conflict of Visions: The Hidden Origins of Ideological Conflict by Thomas Sowell w/Jesan Sorrells & Ryan J. Stout
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Shorts #212 - Jazz as the Soundtrack to a New Golden Age
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Shorts #211 - An Irreconcilable Conflict of Visions
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes w/Dorollo Nixon & Jesan Sorrells
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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RE-BROADCAST - Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. George Breitman, ed. w/Dorollo Nixon & Jesan Sorrells
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Shorts #210 - A Vision for Black America at the End of the Fourth Turning
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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RE-BROADCAST - The Omni-Americans by Albert L. Murray w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Shorts #208 - The Minority Report on Conventional Wisdom
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Mash Up Episode ft. Leadership Models w/John Hill
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Shorts #207 - Leadership Models for Restoration
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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"The Great Instauration" by Francis Bacon w/Brian Bagley & Jesan Sorrells
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Shorts #206 - Restoration after Chaos - Exiting the Fourth Turning
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Candide by Francois Voltaire w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Shorts #205 - Why Smart Leaders Read Voltaire Instead of HBR
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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TRAILER - Season Five - Literate Leaders Restore The Chaotic World
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis w/Christen Blair Horne & Jesan Sorrells
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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RE-BROADCAST - The Book of Matthew - Christmas Day Message
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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RE-BROADCAST - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens w/Tom Libby
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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RE-BROADCAST - A Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather w/Tom Libby
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Shorts # 205 - Christmas Memories Don't All Match Up...
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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RE-BROADCAST - At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov w/Jesan Sorrells
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Shorts #204 - The Reason for the Season
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway w/Jesan Sorrells & Libby Unger
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Shorts #203 - Leading Through the Holiday Season
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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BONUS - The 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation by President George Washington
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Earth is all That Lasts by Mark Lee Gardner w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Shorts #202 - An Appeal to My Generation...
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The Earth is all That Lasts by Mark Lee Gardner (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Shorts #201 - The Conditions That Make War
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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War by Sebastian Junger w/ John Hill aka "Small Mtn" & Jesan Sorrells
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Shorts #200 - Not Tripping and Falling Into the Hype Cycle
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - Veteran's Day Message
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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War by Sebastian Junger (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Shorts #199 - Laying Down Your Life for Your Friends
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The First World War by John Keegan w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Shorts #198 - A Taxonomy of Practices
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The First World War by John Keegan (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Shorts # 197 - Aphorisms that Don't Mean Anything
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Why Don't We Learn From History by B.H.Liddell Hart w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Shorts #196 - Abundance is a Deception
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Why Don't We Learn From History by B.H. Liddell Hart - Introduction - w/Jesan Sorrells
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Shorts #195 - Pride and Reckonings
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Mash Up Episode ft. Why We Don't Learn from History, Empire of the Summer Moon, and a Late Summer Wrap-Up w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Shorts #194 - History Binds Us Whether We Like it or Not
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - w/ Christen Blair Horne and Jesan Sorrells
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Shorts #193 - War is the Father of us All
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - w/ Jesan Sorrells and Ryan J. Stout
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Shorts # 191 - Books Change Us...If We Let Them...
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein w/ John Hill and Jesan Sorrells
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Shorts #190 - Sincerity
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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On Ripping off Ukrainian Nationalists
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick w/ John Hill and Jesan Sorrells
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Shorts #188 - SciFi Failures
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Customer Service is Dead
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Mash Up Episode ft. Lord of the Rings, All Quiet on the Western Front and Pink Floyd w/Neal Kalechofsky & Jesan Sorrells
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy by Ernie LaPointe (Part Two) w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Shorts - #186 - Leadership Transformation is on the Horizon
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Federalist Papers, The Constitution and Supreme Court Wrap-Up 2024-2025 w/ Dorollo Nixon, Esq & Jesan Sorrells
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Shorts #185 - Trolling a CEO
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Animal Farm by George Orwell w/Tom Libby and Jesan Sorrells
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Shorts #184 - Coaching Fundamentals
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt - w/Tom Libby and Jesan Sorrells
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Shorts #183 - Trade-Offs
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, July 4, 1776
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt - Introduction w/Jesan Sorrells
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Shorts #182 - Mr. Jones and Meritocracy
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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1984 by George Orwell - Part One w/David Baumrucker, Claire Chandler, Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells (BONUS EPISODE)
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Jul 01, 2025 |