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12: Warts and All
While serving as locally elected officials, we’d hear all the time from residents asking us why government didn’t act more like a business. After all, isn’t it capitalism that made this country great, so why doesn’t government operate in the same way? Thi
11: Brain Frog
It feels like America has gotten dumber over the last few decades. Is that indeed true, and if so, why? As that is a bit vague and pejorative, the podcast looks at more specific issues, including ignorance, intellectual stubbornness, and lack of critical
10: Toad You So
For this tenth episode, Seth and Mark decided to have a little fun and stray from the modus operandi of the first nine episodes of The Boiling Frog. Just for fun, our hosts make this episode a series of diatribes, fulfilling the expectations of Seth’s wif
8: Toadtalitarian
A follow up from The Changing Lily Pad, this podcast explores why corruption exists, where it comes from and why it appears that there is more corruption in people and organizations that are conservative.
7: Toad Rage
“Wokeness” and “Cancel Culture” are popular terms in our modern political and social parlance, but what do they actually mean? How should we think about the concept of “canceling” – is it behavior gone too far, or is it just about accountability?
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Keeping the American Experiment Alive
This is an op ed Mark wrote which was published in the San Mateo Daily Journal on July 1, 2022. This Independence Day comes at
Nehemiah Scudder
One of us (Mark) is a life-long consumer of science fiction. And, growing up in the 1960s, you can’t be into that genre without knowing
Hindsight Bias is Everywhere
I recently ran into a great example of how pervasive hindsight bias is that I wanted to share. It appeared in some comments to an
Red, White, & True – part deux
The Red, White, & True podcast just published part two if the interview that the host, Chesney Evert, had with the two of us. This
Dramatic Statement of the Obvious
This will come as no surprise to listeners of The Boiling Frog podcast (especially those who listened to Jumping to Conclusions), but this Stanford University
Red, White, & True
Mark and I were interviewed last week by Chesney Evert, who is a junior in the journalism program at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California