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A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms.
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What Archaeology Says About the Bible (opens the original)
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What happens when you take the Bible to the archaeological record and ask what can actually be verified? This episode works through the ledger: King Jehu on the Black Obelisk, the House of David on the Tel Dan Stele, the Merneptah Stele's mention of Israel — and then the other column, where the Patriarchs as a datable era collapsed, the Exodus numbers don't survive logistics, and Joshua's conquest doesn't match the destruction layers. Along the way: why the historical-critical method can't adjud
Burnout: When Rest Stops Working (opens the original)
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Burnout is a word everyone uses and no one can formally diagnose — it sits in the ICD-11 as an "occupational phenomenon," explicitly excluded from being a medical condition, yet the exhaustion people describe is measurably physiological. This episode works through what the research actually establishes: how chronic stress flattens the cortisol rhythm so that rest stops restoring, why Sweden's two-decade-old exhaustion disorder diagnosis is the closest anyone has come to formalizing it, and what
When Going to the Gym Meant Saving Your Soul (opens the original)
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The Greek root of "asceticism" is áskēsis — the training an athlete does before a race. So how did self-denial become a spiritual path across so many traditions, and why does Judaism largely reject it? This episode traces the word from the wrestling floor to the desert pillar, then digs into the Nazirite vow of Numbers 6: a person the Torah calls holy who nonetheless has to bring a sin offering when his term ends. The rabbis fought over that contradiction for centuries and never settled it. We l
When Your Stress System Stops Answering (opens the original)
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Daniel wrote in describing months of moving, DIY, and a thirteen-month-old with no family nearby — and a fatigue that felt deeper than tiredness. This episode works through what the research actually says about burnout: why the WHO files it as an occupational phenomenon rather than a diagnosis, why parental burnout falls outside that official definition by design, and what the biology suggests. The stress-response model points to a flip — early chronic stress revs the system up, prolonged stress
The Meaning of Life: A 250-Year-Old Question (opens the original)
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The question feels timeless, but the phrase "the meaning of life" first appears in English around 1833 — and in German in the 1790s — right as the scientific picture began eroding the religious one. Was the question itself a symptom of that crisis rather than a permanent human inheritance? This episode traces the arc: what Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and traditions from the Lakota to the Maya say the point of it all is; how the analytic philosophers split the problem into s
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