Authority!

Authority!

Sometimes you have to begin with the ending -- check out this week's episode, but stick around for the end credits. The LAW [https://www.youtube.com/@liamupallnight3463] just dropped a new hit song -- LAW 993 -- and the Living a Liver's Life Podcast has exclusive access. Follow iam(the)LAW [https://www.youtube.com/@liamupallnight3463] on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@liamupallnight3463] for all his latest music! This week SM explores a new creature from the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. This 'cast starts with an exploration of Authority -- how it is granted, how it is delegated to others, and how it can spill over from one area of expertise to an area the "authority" knows nothing about. Like celebrities in commercials... This week's Menagerie Creature [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] is the Gleamer [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] -- the Halo Effect -- represented by an adorable Golden Retriever [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkwhose bad behavior we always manage to forgive because she's so darned CUTE! This week's story involves SM at passport control in Milan. It explores Authority, and how hierarchal systems confine workers in restrictive boxes of weak authorization -- given only the authority to say "No." It's why Social Security, DMV, and health insurance customer service is so frustrating. The structure has built in a need for permission from above. Then, SM answers a new submission to "Letters to SM". Is this controlling boyfriend a Fog Vampire [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] or a Charmer Vampire [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]? Open your Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and cast your vote, but also be on the lookout for how the Gleamer [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] empowers these types of manipulators! Subscribe at the "Certified Liver" tier of membership on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/14417930/join] to access the entire Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] as downloadable pdfs! Links to all the platforms that host the podcast [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/podcast], as well as the Living a Liver's Life merchandise store [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/livermerch], are on our website [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/]. Until the next episode...Get out there Liver! Get out there and Live a Liver's Life!

Accountability!

Join SM as he explores a new creature from the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. This 'cast starts with an exploration of Accountability -- our choice to stand with, or run away from, our failed predictions -- and more importantly, our capacity to learn from those outcomes. This week's story involves SM at an Arizona hot air balloon festival that goes awry. This provides our introduction to the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] creature called " [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]The Knower" [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] -- the Tortoise [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] who represents Hindsight Bias [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. Then, SM answers a new submission to "Letters to SM" -- this one asking about a "bandwagon fan" -- that sports fan who changes allegiances every year based on who is winning. Here's a photo-hint indicating one of the possible Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/LivingALiversLife/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] enemies that night be at work... BREAKING NEWS! Football teams are starting their summer camps! SM discusses the lack of accountability in the world of sports, and he has a special message for football broadcasters. Let's hope they hear his "Three Things" they should STOP doing if they want to keep -- or regain -- their viewers! Subscribe at the "Certified Liver" tier of membership on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/14417930/join] to access the entire Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] as downloadable pdfs! Links to all the platforms that host the podcast [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/podcast], as well as the Living a Liver's Life merchandise store [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/livermerch], are on our website [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/]. Until the next episode...Get out there Liver! Get out there and Live a Liver's Life!

Attachment!

SM explores a new creature from the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. This 'cast starts with an exploration of Attachment -- the very human tendency to apply labels to abstract concepts and quantities -- and more importantly, to wrap powerful emotions around physical objects. This week's story revolves around SM's good friend from Port Girardeau, Missouri, who lost a barn full of memories in the 2019 flood. That provides our introduction to the Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] creature called "The Scar-Keeper [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]" -- the Hyena [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkwho represents Negativity Bias [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. Then, SM answers a new submission to "Letters to SM" -- this one asking if the Enemy Spotting Guide can be used to analyze the Netflix [https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093] https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093documentary Maternal Instinct. [https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093] The strange, pathological behavior of the perpetrator in the movie is examined with the lens of the Mirror Vampire [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link], among other Enemies. Watch the documentary [https://www.netflix.com/title/81766093] with your Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] in hand... Bonus! SM shares a second, wild-yet-true story about a family "equally" splitting an inheritance. You won't believe how it turns out! But you will see how the Scar-Keeper [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] creeps into many facets of human life. Subscribe at the "Certified Liver" tier of membership on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/14417930/join] to access the entire Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] as downloadable pdfs! Links to all the platforms that host the podcast [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/podcast], as well as the Living a Liver's Life merchandise store [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/livermerch], are on our website [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/]. Until the next episode...Get out there Liver! Get out there and Live a Liver's Life!

Consistency!

This 'cast starts with an exploration of Consistency -- the admirable trait that glues society together. Then SM shares a personal story as well as a new "Letters to SM" segment to compare and contrast two creatures from the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link]. The main theme of this episode is the strange, dual nature of personal virtues, like consistency, perseverance, and dedication. We may be seen as reliable by the world, yet remain internally bound and locked into patterns of behavior. This week's true tale revolves around SM's experience remodeling and operating a basement cantina. The hard work built a jazz club and made a dream come true, but the realities of business eventually shut down the joint...and the dream. This illustrates the Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] creature called "The Damkeeper," the Beaver that represents the Sunk Cost Fallacy. Then, SM shares a letter from a listener asking about the Enemy types that inhabit her husband's MLM. An MLM is a "Multi-Level Marketing" scheme -- where people order food storage tubs, makeup, candles, knives, etc. with the pretense of selling them to friends and family at hosted "parties." We've all heard of them. But the scheme has every seller working under a recruiter who takes a percentage of every sale. The dream is to be at the top of the pyramid, which is already occupied by someone else. Yet everyone underneath is convinced that could be them. The Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] is referenced, but the heart of the matter is another Menagerie critter we have explored before -- the Ostrich of Cognitive Dissonance we call The Buryer. Subscribe at the "Certified Liver" tier of membership on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/14417930/join] to access the entire Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] as downloadable pdfs! Links to all the platforms that host the podcast [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/podcast], as well as the Living a Liver's Life merchandise store [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/livermerch], are on our website [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/]. Until the next episode...Get out there Liver! Get out there and Live a Liver's Life!

Attention!

How do we spend the precious resource that is our Attention?? SM continues exploring the Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link], this time diving into one of the most ubiquitous Oligarch types -- the TechnoSoverign! He feasts on your attention and turns it into money and political power! We also explore how our Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] permits the conditions that sell our attention and privacy to some of the lowest bidders. This week's story revolves around SM's good friend, L.B. -- a photographer who loses her ability to see with her artist's eye -- instead becoming a metaphorical cyborg who only sees through the mechanical eye of the social media algorithm. Then, SM explores how the Peacock of The Bundler representing the Package Deal Fallacy convinces us that we should take the good with the bad, agreeing to every End User License Agreement we come across -- without reading or understanding them! You'll need your Enemy Spotting Guide [https://www.patreon.com/posts/official-living-149130558?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] and Mind Menagerie [https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-dropping-149272487?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link] for this one! Subscribe at the "Certified Liver" tier of membership on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/14417930/join] to access both! BREAKING NEWS -- This podcast also introduces a BRAND NEW segment -- Letters to S.M.!!! Write in with your own questions -- sm@livelifewelllived.com [sm@livelifewelllived.com] Please...only use initials to protect the innocent! Links to all the platforms that host the podcast [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/podcast], as well as the Living a Liver's Life merchandise store [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/livermerch], are on our website [https://www.livelifewelllived.com/]. Until the next episode...Get out there Liver! Get out there and Live a Liver's Life!