The Connect2 Podcast
A conversation between Mark and Jeff, two information junkies, about a wide range of contemporary issues. We discuss current events, nerdy things, business concepts, marketing, technology, media and photography. As we are based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, there are lots of local topics. The podcast is generally upbeat and often covers current events and we occasionally have guests. Each episode typically has a central focus for most of the podcast but also lots of other regular topics including what they learned in the last week and what media they are consuming.
Episodes
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Dr. Temple Grandin, the Austistic Savanat
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Dr. Temple Grandin is know for two things, her autism and how she has used it to help inform her professional career in Animal Science. She has singlehandedly changed the food processing industry by making it significantly more humane. She is a fascinating individual and the main topic of this podcast. As usual we discuss what we learned in the past week, as well as what media we have been consuming.
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
What’s to come? Predictions for 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Mark and Jeff take stab at predictions for 2024. Recorded during the Christmas break, Mark and Jeff discuss what they were most surprised about from last year as well as predictions (with differing confidence levels) for 2024. This episode covers a lot of territory and is pretty free ranging. Enjoy and have a happy new year!!!
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Retiring at 65 was originally political smoke and mirrors
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Mark and Jeff discuss how a retirement age of 65 was originally arrived at. Hint, it's not what you expect and its not scientifically arrived at. The original reason for a social security program was to support people whose physical jobs were something they could no longer do to support themselves, but few were expected to take advantage of the programs at the time they were introduced. Times have changed and so have expectations. Not Christmassy (sp? is that even a word?) and not a rerun
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Bryan Johnson’s Anti-Aging Quest... is it real?
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Bryan Johnson is a Silicon valley millionaire (almost billionaire) who sold his company at the age of 34 and now focuses on his anti-aging quest through the Blueprint protocol. This protocol is an open source method of trying to extend your life based upon empirical data and evidence based science. He sounds a little crazy (and he may be) but there is something to what he is proposing. It's also important to note that he is not running this to make money. He provides his entire system for free.
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Real Estate as a Pension for Small Businesses?
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Most small businesses do not have pension plans or easy ways to extract their business' value. To that end sometimes small businesses think they should buy their building to reduce their costs or at least having their payments to back to them. There are pitfalls to this approach and anyone considering doing it should really think it hard and carefully. Mark and Jeff discuss and provide context on what business owners should consider when looking at buying real estate.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Understanding Stanley Kubrick
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
As part of our series on Neurodivergent (or suspected) celebrities, this episode dives into the enigma that was Stanley Kubrick the auteur film maker known for feature films such as the Shining, 2001: A Space Odessey, Eyes Wide Shut to name a few. A man obsessed with detail, his meticulous attention to all aspects of a film would often mean they would take a long time to come to fruition. He would often take an extraordinary number of takes and he would spend an inordinate amount of time sourcing historically accurate props and practical lighting effects.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Who is Sam Altman?
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
In the past week and a half there has been much turmoil at OpenAI, the company that has developed and launched ChatGTP (as well as Dall-E). Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI was fired on Friday Nov 17, 2023, subsequently tried to come back only to have the board decide not to hire him, hired by Microsoft and then rehired back on the following Tuesday. It is big tech news because ChatGPT has taken the tech world by storm and is valued somewhere in the region of $80 Billion US. Mark and Jeff do a deeper dive into the background of Sam Altman and discovered some surprising facts about him.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
The Mystery that is Banksy
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Mark and Jeff do a deep dive into the Artist known as Banksy. Where he came from what he did and what seems to drive him. Banksy is a complicated artist whose identity is not known (although it was recently revealed!). His work is all political with lots of pranks. He did a documentary in 2011 that was nominated for an academy award. He has also done a huge amount of political commentary both by his images, what they show and where they are placed. He is a street artist that still does illegal works (sometimes), in the streets.
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
A Deeper Dive Into the Complex World of Elon Musk
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Elon Musk is a complicated person. Some people idolize him, others think he is a villain. He has attributes of both and although he gets some visionary things accomplished because he is relentless, he would be a very difficult person to work for. It is easy to understand how some of the things he had done can be interpreted more than one way. Mark and Jeff discuss some of his accomplishments as well as some of the problems he has caused.
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Understanding Elon Musk is Neurodiverse
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Mark was interested in a biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson as a result of a podcast from Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher (Pivot). He has been reading the book and feels the criticism by Kara Swisher on the writer is poorly founded (actually it feels like she was reading some other book). Her critique is that Walter Isaacson never states if he liked Elon, but that seems to have completely missed the way the book is structured. Mark also feels that Kara fundamentally doesn't understand Elon's behaviour. What is clear is that Elon is Neurodiverse and it really explains a lot of his behaviour. In this episode we dive deep into this topic.
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