Unknowable Knowns Podcast

Paris and terrorism in the wake of the recent attacks serves as the main focus of our latest episode. - It's the 17th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence). --   Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz. ---   If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

We talk about Egypt and the troubles in its Sinai peninsula - It's the 16th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence).   - Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz.   - If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

It's the 15th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence).  - Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz.  - If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

Hillary v Sanders, Osama bin Laden, Alien talk constitute this episode. - It's the 14th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence).  - Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz.  - If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

Prelude to the 1st Democratic Debate - It's the 12th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence).  - Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz.  - If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

Second republican debate post-show - It's the 10th episode of the Unknowable Knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, as we explore political, cultural and social issues (as well as Star Wars, Kilts, religion, history, and the meaning of existence).  - Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening! Join in on the conversation through our facebook page @unknowableknowns. You can also reach us through twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz.  - If you liked the show, please consider shopping through our amazon portal. Through it, you can help support the show as amazon provides us a small percentage of any purchase you make.

Join us, Jerry and Shawn, for our ninth podcast episode! In this article we discuss recent events in Egypt following the conviction of the Al Jazeera journalists, the developments in the US elections (read: circus), bikes and the technical issues of bike use in urban areas and the state of the American graduate school system.   Check out our website - unknowableknowns.com - for past episodes, articles, and other related content.

Welcome to the unknowable knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, in our eigth episode!   For today's podcast - we take a closer and tighter look at the tragic and troubling shootings and killings in Roanoke, VA - extending the episode into a broader debate about crime, guns, and what can be done to try and prevent the unacceptably high numbers of murders/gun-related crimes.   Articles mentioned in this episode Branas et. al - "Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault"   Music in today's podcast is, as always, sourced from the ever excellent Trash 80   Follow us on twitter, @JerryMeitz, @ShawnMDoyle

Welcome to the unknowable knowns podcast! Join us, Jerry and Shawn, in our seventh episode!   Today we talk about the rise of Bernie Sanders, the statements by one of the Apollo astronauts concerning alien disruption of ICBMs and nuclear testing, and the Syrian conflict - particularly on recent signs indicating new room for a potential set of negotiations.   Articles featured in today's episode - Bernie - Jerry Meitz A Solution for Syria - Shawn Doyle   Find past episodes, articles and more at www.unknowableknowns.com

Join us, Jerry and Shawn, in our discussion of the first republican debate - giving our impressions of the various candidates and our judgements of their performances. Our discussion, of course, touches significantly on the role and seemingly continued ascent of Trump - touching on his strategy and how he has managed to maintain his lead so far.

Join us for an evaluation of the republican field through a primarily foreign policy lens in anticipation of the upcoming Republican primary debate.

For our fourth episode we take a close examination of the recent Iran deal - looking at the contents of the deal and the implications that the deal holds for the future of the region, the future of Iran, and the future of American security. This episode is a companion podcast to Shawn's recent article The Iran Deal. It is also considerably more focused than other ukn episodes - cutting to the issue because of the importance of the deal and because of the mounting opposition to it. It is our hope through this episode that we may be able to inform people who are uncertain of the deal - providing an eloquent and comprehensive argument in favor of it. Should Iran fail to live up to the deal, it will leave us largely where we are today - except armed with an undeniable international argument that diplomacy has failed. Should it succeed in the narrow sense that Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons, then this is a successful realization of our main goal. Should it succeed as we believe possible - the deal creates th

Join us, Jerry and Shawn, for our third podcast episode! Today, as we enter into the American Presidential primary season, our discussion begins with a look at the race as it stands today for both Democrats and Republicans. Following this, we discuss Jerry's article The Six Tipping Points of American History – an examination of the major trends that have underwritten the course of the American state and what these trends might hold for the future. Additionally, we finally introduce the first major material improvement in our podcast – new microphones! Our intro and outro are both recorded with our brand new semi-professional gear, giving a sense of what is soon to come (next week) as we shed the static laden death cloak that is recording with gaming oriented headsets.   Articles Featured in Today's Episode The Six Stages of American History – Jerry Meitz   Follow us on Twitter @ShawnMDoyle and @JerryMeitz

It's our second episode of our podcast! Today our main discussion is centered around drones - debating the differences displayed in our dueling drone articles. We talk about the progression of drones, how they're used, how people have accepted and come to know them, whether it is right to use drones, and what developments we might expect from the continued use and progression of drone technology. Links to our articles are available below. In addition to drones, our discussion ranges to include an update to Jerry's Kilt situation, the purpose and nature of emerging simulation technologies, and how some scientists believe that we might be able to detect alien populations through observing their interstellar mining pollution.   The Moral American Drone - Shawn Doyle Still Human: So Uncivilized - Jerry Meitz   Our music, as always, is borrowed from the fantastic Trash80 - go take a look at his website at trash80.net

Join us, Jerry and Shawn, in our very first episode! Much of our discussion is motivated by the retrospective look back prompted by the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of American involvement in Vietnam, asking what happens when America loses - wondering what these lessons mean for America in the Middle East.