Good Guys To Know

Did you participate in our last challenge to be conscious of how often and boldly you lie in your day to day life? I imagine a lot of listeners are wonderful people and never lie, but I still think it’s a fascinating topic. I recently read Lying by Sam Harris. It was a fast and...

Why do we think that listeners want to hear about coffee? Well, to start with, just about everybody in the world drinks coffee, and a lot of it! Coffee is so heavily consumed that it’s total consumption in Europe and the U.S. is about 1/3 the consumption of WATER! Futhermore, around 7 million metric tons of...

Adrian Peterson

So I’m going to blatantly rip off a post from a great website called Art of Manliness. It’s a guest post from John Corcoran and is about how to be more memorable. As I read it, I realized it was a great follow up to my pillar several months ago on ‘how to win friends...

I recently spent some time in Portland for a friend’s wedding.  A big group of us went and we needed to rent a couple of cars.  After talking about how expensive the car was to rent, it was suggested by a listener that we should do a podcast about car sharing.  Well – here is...

What is The Zipper Merge? The Zipper Merge, also called the late merge is a method for merging traffic into a reduced number of lanes. It is most effectively used in situations where there is a large amount of traffic.   What does the zipper merge accomplish? Interesting, the zipper merge has not been found...

  On this episode, we interview a Navigator whose job it is to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act.  If you have questions we didn’t cover, head on over to healthcare.gov to get them answered.  Enjoy!  

This episode we welcome Justin Walter of Reality Rush to GGTK. We chat about his company that puts on competitive events based on reality TV game shows, geek out about survivor, and spend some time recapping the ‘Outlast’ challenge he put on for Mitch’s birthday a few weeks ago. Follow him on facebook/twitter/instagram – and...

I’ve been celebrating the 4th of July forever. Going to the lake and lighting off some fireworks was always a fun time growing up, and still is today. I’d like to talk about some of the basic history of the 4th of July. The 4th of July is obviously our Independence Day. Independence of course...

The World Cup is an international soccer competition among the national teams of members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, also known as FIFA. This championship is played every four years and was first played in 1930. The only years that the world cup was not played were in 1942 and 1946, due to...

Roads History:   Roads likely began as paths that were used by animals, humans, or both, and the first road improvements were pretty simple – take a tree out here and a rock out there to make the journey a little easier.   Eventually, the paths widened or became flattened out, and large networks of...

I was reading a blog post about how hard it is to make friends after college. It was kind of a sales pitch for his networking program, but the point kind of hit home, that I can certainly count on one hand the amount of legitimate ‘friends’ that I’ve made since college. It just seems...

I have to be honest here – I had heard the term Net Neutrality a million times, but never really stopped to figure out what it was.  Seeing something so frequently on Twitter and hearing stories on the news constantly will occasionally turn me off of a subject.  Such was the case with Net Neutrality....

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How many times have you gone through your closet before work wondering how this random assortment of clothes is supposed to be assembled into something that resembles an outfit? How awesome would it be if you had a girlfriend (or a friend who is a girl) to give you just a little bit of advice...