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Oct. 5, 2021

Fear - Part 1

In this episode, we talk about fear - and Aaron starts with the assessment that living with Fear is a healthy thing. We talk about the physical responses the body has when you are under constant stress, the impact of the st…
Sept. 28, 2021

Global supply chain shortages, a sand shortage, Venezuela, and patience

The Covid virus has shown how fragile the entire supply chain system is. We have seen a rise in times to get everything from basic supplies to furniture. We have shortages in multiple resources - sand, petroleum, truckers,…
Sept. 21, 2021

Are we headed for a Wall-e type future?

With technology advancing the way it is - we have a conversation about how technology is changing how we live. While most people have been used to carrying around their drivers license/insurance cards this may be a thing of…
Sept. 14, 2021

20 years on from 9/11

A few days ago was the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks of 2001. I (Paul) was in college as a freshmen and Aaron was in kindergarten when the attacks happened. We talk about what we remember from that day, wh…
Sept. 7, 2021

Are we a culture in decline?

When all you do is the same thing over and over again - that is a symptom of a stagnant culture. With culture at large continually re-releasing the same thing (movies/music/games/etc) we are on the verge of being in that sa…
Aug. 31, 2021

Seasons Of Life - And How Life Changes

As we get older we seem to go through various phases of life. Unfortunately as we move through these phases - some things seem to remain constant and that is that we tend to loose friends and the number of people we interac…
Aug. 24, 2021

Apple, CSAM, Privacy, Hashing, And Fake News - Part 2

We continue our conversation this week directly where we left off last week. Last week Paul was just starting to talk about the Mike Lindell Technology Symposium and the "evidence" that was released at said conference. Pau…
Aug. 17, 2021

Apple, CSAM, Privacy, Hashing, And Fake News - Part 1

Apple recently announced that they are going to start scanning for CSAM on iPhones locally. Currently it has been reported that they may have been doing this on their servers "in the cloud" but with the move down to the loc…
Aug. 10, 2021

How does mental, physical, and spiritual health interact? Should we rename our show to "counseling Hour With Aaron?"

Should we rename our show to "counseling Hour With Aaron?" While this episode didn't start out with that in mind, it ended up being another hour of counseling with Aaron. In this episode we talk about how mental, physical,…
Aug. 3, 2021

Government flagging social media to be removed, In Talks with carriers to monitor SMS messages

A few episodes we talked about how Facebook, Twitter, etc can choose to enforce their policies how they see fit and that by doing this this did not come afoul of the first amendment. Well in July this started to change as t…
July 27, 2021

Are You Ready For The (New) Lockdown?

As summer 2021 rolls on, various cities around the United States (and various countries around the world) are starting to re-introduce mask mandates. As that is happening it was revealed recently that Dr. Fauci is reconside…
July 21, 2021

Summer Plans And Experiences of 2021

Now that most of the Covid lockdowns are gone, Paul and Aaron talk about what they have been doing with their summer that is back to normal. We start out talking about Aaron giving a best man speech at Josh's second wedding…
July 13, 2021

Hey Church: My Personal Story Of Mental Health Issues

This week, we present episode 1 of Hey Church. This will be the last cross post between the two podcasts (I promise) but I wanted to share it here as we talk about what my personal journey of mental health has been. In the…
July 7, 2021

Hey Church: Why does this podcast exist?

This week instead of a normal episode of Use Your Words, we have episode 0 of Hey Church! We Need To Talk About Mental Health (or as I like to call it Hey Church!). Next week we will also be hosting episode 1 of Hey Church …
June 29, 2021

At The Intersection Of Faith And Patriotism

In America there is sometimes an unfortunate combining of Patriotism and the Christian faith. This has resulted in some people lumping the two together - both the good and the bad parts of it - as well as people who are att…
June 22, 2021

Kevin Max and Deconstructionism

Recently Kevin Max announced on Twitter that he is an Exvangelical. This was of course met by the typical Twitter reaction - those that agree with him cheered and rejoiced and those that didn't agree with him immediately we…
June 15, 2021

Should one feel unworthy of blessings in their lives?

This week Aaron wanted to talk about why people sometimes don't feel worthy of the blessings in their lives - and what to do when you don't feel worthy of these blessings. At least that is how the episode started out - but …
June 8, 2021

Judge Not?

This week Paul and Aaron talk about a topic that comes up time to time in the Christian circle. Often times people will say that only God can judge them - or that we should not judge anyone else as their sin is only between…
June 1, 2021

Judging a book by it's cover

This week Paul and Aaron talk about identity - both in how we make assumptions about people who wear certain cloths/accessories as well as how we show our identity to the things that we believe/associate with. This seems to…
May 25, 2021

TikTok Is Cancer, Toxic, and Scary

In what sounds like an episode of "An Old Man Yells At The Clouds" - Paul talks about how scary TikTok can be. While this app appears to be very popular amongst the younger generation, there are also very adult things found…
May 18, 2021

Mental Health Month - 2021

May is officially Mental Health awareness month - and on Use Your Words Podcast this is something that gets some attention - especially from Paul who has dealt with his own mental health issues in the past. This month Aaron…
May 11, 2021

Accountability: 2021 Edition

Accountability is a hard thing to do. Why? Because in order to be accountable you need to be fully transparent with the other person - even when things get messy. During a recent conversation with Aaron he admitted that r…
May 4, 2021

What do we do about Chimeras? Are there any moral objections to them?

Recently scientist have found a way to make hybrid human/monkey embryo live for a total of fourteen days inside of a petri dish. Previously (in 2017) scientist found a way to make a half human, half pig chimera while doing r…
April 27, 2021

Can we text in our mental health?

The year 2020 has led to an increase in a demand for mental health services. With this rapid increase in mental health requests, and the increased need for masking up and being socially distanced - online therapy sessions h…