NOBODY’S PRODIGY
Fascinating thoughts from My Own Overfull Brain shared weekly for your consideration! Celebrating free thinking, the self-taught, and free-range ideas that spread beyond the box!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Episode 34 - Dig The Future
Our planet is in crisis. Our future is uncertain, and the challenges of becoming a multi-planet species are not only daunting, but likely to be the purview of the wealthy and privilege…
Episode 33 - I'm an Idiot
Never meet your heroes. But why? We as a culture are in love with the idea of exceptions and super-humanity. The natural converse of a media that exploits our own shortcomings for pr…
Episode 32 - Love?
Love, love, love. Is there a more popular word? From tshirts to stickers, to songs, to stories and media of all kinds, it seems we are awash in it. Yet, what do we actually mean when…
Episode 30 - Salty Preppers
Preparing for the impending catastrophic end of the world has become a hobby and obsession for a portion of the population known as “Preppers”. Sales of “survival” gear and training fo…
Episode 29 - Rad Motorscooters Part 2 - How?
The unique look of the Motorscooter is commonly represented in media, but the particular physics such a format creates is far less well known. At a time when motorcycle safety training…
Episode 29 - Rad Motorscooters Part 1 - Why?
The traditional gas powered scooter is a vehicle with roots going back to the world wars, but they remain something of a red herring in today’s society. In a nation obsessed with gasol…
Episode 28 - Words, Words, Words
Words have a power, but what is it? Throughout religion and mythology the world over we are told of the unimaginable forces that can be wielded by the spoken word, but is it all overbl…
Episode 27 - What Is Cool?
“Cool” has become a cultural monolith in the past hundred years, and an idea we all instinctively recognize, but what is its nature? Beyond the temporary fads or current trends, what i…
Episode 26 - Inventor’s Block
The “Million-Dollar Idea”, the proverbial “Better Mousetrap”, the secret hope of Tinkerers and Homemakers Everywhere… but, what is the reality between the moment of brilliance and the …
Bonus Episode 2 - Gasoline (You Can’t Burn Jelly)
In this time of fuel crisis, I present Everything you could Ever want to know about Saving Gasoline! Or, at least, everything I can share about it…
For those who are looking to buy new,…
Episode 25 - A Cultural Evolution
The subject of evolution has been a battleground for the culture wars for generations, but what if we have been missing something key in the details of Both Evolution, AND the Culture W…
Bonus Episode - Guns…
A Special Bonus Episode - in response to the fruitless arguments filling the airwaves after yet another senseless tragedy. Instead of taking sides, or playing into the same old grooves…
Episode 24 - Dirigibles
From the retro-futurism of steampunk and dieselpunk to the dreams and fertile imaginations of the whistfully minded creatives the world over, the concept of the airship seems destined n…
Episode 23 - A Free Willing Universe
Time marches ever onward, but why? And, to what end? What stops time from moving around freely and how could it be made to run backwards?
In an episode mostly exploring the sorts of fr…
Episode 22 - The Beast of Boredom
Few things haunt the first-world experience like that of moments of impending Boredom. In a culture replete with opportunities for entertainment at every turn, the average person finds…
New Name?! - Who Dis?
I know what you’re thinking… who is this? The Sapient Simian has a New Name, a New Look, and a New Logo, but is the Same great show from the same creator!
He who is “Nobody’s Prodigy bu…
Episode 21 - A Purity Problem
Goodness, pureness, and virtue are held up as ideals of high praise among our society, but where do such states come from? It can seem an odd question to consider how someone becomes “…
Episode 31 - INFLATION - In Big Scary Letters
It has become the buzzword of our daily economic lives, but what do we really know about Inflation? Somehow turning to bank managers, money market men, and hedge funds to explain thing…
Episode 20 - An Element-ary Understanding
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water are among the most referenced touchstones of traditional philosophy writ large, and yet a comprehensive grasp of the idea behind their usage remains largely …
Episode 19 - The Beautiful People
As our lives are lived more and more in virtual spaces, and among man-made structures, we find our experiences too often consisting far more of manufactured realities. Presented with p…