The Driving With Rob Podcast

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you a cup of coffee, and isn't that the same thing?  What it takes to make me happy today is radically different from what it took when I was in my twenties! 

To shame someone is bullying and a way to hurt another person.  Christians used to be the masters at shaming others, using scripture to justify the shaming.  These days people use shaming to try to silence their political enemies, using words like racist, sexist, or phobic.     

Sharing your dreams is a risky business.  It can be a good idea if you really want it to come true, or a really bad idea if you tell the wrong person!

Is it okay for men to cry?  Little boys on the playground are told "big boys don't cry" when they scrape their knee.  Whether it's testosterone or learned behavior, men tend to cry much less often than women.  Maybe men should "let it out" more often.  

This is a short episode I named "Friends" I recently reconnected with friends I knew thirty plus years ago and it had me reminiscing and thinking about old friends.  I may do a longer episode on this same theme later.  Stay tuned!

Age related memory loss.  I have a theory, based on no research, as to why we have trouble remembering stuff as we get older.  I believe it's a "no available memory space" problem.

Have you ever had a DNA test? Did you believe the results?  I found out that I had Cherokee ancestry, but the DNA test showed zero percent Native American.  My wife apparently is descended from Vikings and pirates.  THAT I can believe!      

Remember when smart phones replaced flip phones?  Remember when cell phones first came out?  Do remember when there were no cell phones?  Cell phones are a fairly recent invention and now you can't live without them.  

The best piece of relationship advice my dad ever gave me.  When you're in the midst of an argument, ask yourself, "Do I want to be right, or do I want to be happy"?  It takes two people to argue.  If one person stops, the argument stops.

We're all under a "stay at home" order.  I began to think philosophically about "home" and what it means to me.  What do you think of when you say the word "home"?  Is it your state, your town, or maybe it's the place where you grew up?  In this episode I talk about what home means to me.