In this episode of Dope Conversations with Dave & Friends, we dive deep into one of the most crucial aspects of business—understanding value, pricing, and profitability. Using an eye-opening analogy between selling pet rocks and performing brain surgery, we explore how the level of problem you solve determines your earning potential. Dave breakS do…

WARNING: this message is long and leaves no room for discarding Israel. I promise to shorten it next time but still leave no room for deserting Israel.

Petesy Carroll and Chuck Mindenhall are joined by Drake Riggs, who is on site in Seattle for Cejudo vs. Song, to discuss a crazy week of news in the world of combat sports. They first look at how Ilia Topuria’s vacation of the featherweight title has led to UFC 314 getting it’s main event with Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes set to compete fo…

February 16, 2025. Fr. Tyler's homily for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Enjoy! GospelLuke 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his di…

It is commonplace to refer to the Earth's oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects, and improving that understanding is crucial to ensuring the continued viability and success of life on this planet. The oceans are a paradigmatic complex system: there are many components, distinct but mutually interacting, that add u…

Entrepreneurial Midlife Crisis – Are You Trapped in Your Own Business? 🚨 You started your business for freedom, but now you’re working 80+ hours a week and wondering… is this what success is supposed to feel like? 🚨 In this episode of Dope Conversations with Dave, we’re talking to all the business owners who have made it past the 7-year mark—the on…

Political outcomes would be relatively simple to predict and understand if only people were well-informed, entirely rational, and perfectly self-interested. Alas, real human beings are messy, emotional, imperfect creatures, so a successful theory of politics has to account for these features. One phenomenon that has grown in recent years is an alig…

Paul prayed for the salvation of Israel who were religiously zealous but far from God. The law can only ever work the righteousness of man and never the righteousness of God.

Petesy Carroll and Chuck Mindehall give their thoughts on the split between Sean Strickland and Eric Nicksick (4:36), on the back of the UFC middleweight claiming he would no longer have the Xtreme Couture head coach in his corner after UFC 312. While pondering wether the two would reconcile, the conversation shifts to Anthony Smith and Rampage Jac…

Episode 16: The Entrepreneur’s Evolution – Lessons from Year 3 to 7 Many entrepreneurs make it past the startup phase, but the real challenge comes in years 3 to 7—where growth, hiring, and profitability become make-or-break factors. In this episode, we break down the critical lessons of this stage, from learning to delegate and letting go of contr…

The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, has proposed sweeping cuts to spending on science research here in the US, in particular at the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. I explain a little about what is being cut and why these funds are important to scientific progress…

It is a feature of many human activities - sports, cooking, music, interpersonal relations - that being able to do them well doesn't necessarily mean you can accurately describe how to do them well. Science is no different. Many successful scientists are not very good at explaining what goes into successful scientific practice. To understand that, …

Be careful about trying to over-explain the sovereignty of God. Leave some room for the mystery of God. God never makes anyone stubborn beyond their own rebellious heart. We all start from a position of lost.

February 9, 2025. Fr/ Tyler's homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Enjoy! GospelLuke 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, …

Ariel Helwani joins The Craic to give insight on Canelo Alvarez signing with Riyadh Season, his bout with Jake Paul not coming to fruition and the emerging rivalry between MVP and Turki Alalshikh (00:16). Uncrowned’s Shaheen Al-Shatti and Ben Fowlkes then give their takes on all the developments described by Helwani (20:09), before the conversation…

Welcome to Dope Conversations with Dave & Friends – the show where real entrepreneurs share real experiences to help you break through barriers and level up in business. In this episode, we tackle the key phases of business growth and how to transition from hustling non-stop to building a scalable, profitable business. If you’ve ever felt stuck in …

What more can be said? If God has done so much to save us, will He not now care for us? Verse 34 gives the 4-fold work of Christ: Crucifixion, Resurrection, Exaltation, and Intercession.

Welcome to the February 2025 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the que…

February 2, 2025. Fr. Tyler's homily for the the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord/Candlemas. Enjoy! GospelLuke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32 When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that…

Petesy Carroll is joined by Uncrowned’s Chuck Mindenhall and Ben Fowlkes to discuss Bryce Mitchell and Conor McGregor’s latest controversies. Petesy Carroll, Ben Fowlkes and Chuck Mindenhall discuss Bryce Mitchell’s outlandish statement about Adolf Hitler being “a good guy” (3:11) and consider whether Dana White’s reaction to the situation (04:16) …

Starting a business is like going back to school—you're learning on the fly, making mistakes, and discovering what you're actually good at. In this episode, we dive into the critical "zero to three" years in business and share the most important strategies for success. Whether you're just starting out or in the midst of growing your business, this …

In this podcast episode, Carroll ISD School Board Secretary Christy Stacy and Trustee Renee Bottom discuss the CISD School Board’s legislative agenda for the 89th Texas legislature, specifically regarding school financing, as well as other measures the Southlake Carroll community can take to help address the current budget deficit.…

A typical human lifespan is approximately three billion heartbeats in duration. Lasting that long requires not only intrinsic stability, but an impressive capacity for self-repair. Nevertheless, things do occasionally break down, and cancer is one of the most dramatic examples of such breakdown. Given that the body is generally so good at protectin…

January 26, 2025. Fr. Tyler's homily for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. GospelLuke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us, I too have decided, after investigating e…

Some call this the ascending order of salvation. These verses are the purpose to which God has called us in v.28. We know God can provide our need because He knows our need.

On today’s episode, Petesy is joined by fellow Irish media members Andy Stevenson and Donagh Corby. Corby, who is on the scene in Dubai, gave his account of the incident between Irish and Dagestani fans at the PFL’s weigh-in for the fight between Usman Nurmagomedov and Paul Hughes (3:00). Stevenson underlined the impact a Hughes win could have on I…

Petesy Carroll is joined by Chuck Mindenhall and Ben Fowlkes for an episode jam-packed with breaking news. Fowlkes speaks about the mystique surrounding Team Khabib and the Dagestan collective (04:06) after covering them for Uncrowned. Then, the lads react in real time to the breaking news that Arman Tsarukyan has withdrawn from the UFC 311 main ev…

Chuck Mindenhall returns to The Craic, joining Petesy Carroll to discuss a potential location shift for UFC 311 due to the California wildfires (03:07). The lads also give their takes on reports from Brazil claiming Alex Pereira will move to heavyweight (07:36) to take on Alexander Volkov at UFC 313 and reports that PFL will half the prize money fo…

Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn't mean arbitrary. Biological organisms are physical objects, after all, and subject to the same laws of physics as non-biological matter is. Those laws place constraints on how organisms can fulfill their basic functions of metabolism, repr…