Man of Steel Answers Insight Commentary

[Recorded April 23, 2021] When does Zack Snyder’s Justice League take place? How long after Batman v. Superman and does that make sense? Looking to inhabit the worlds we love. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt ASPF.org Answers, insights, and commentary on: Intro (00:00:58) How Fans Approach Story (00:03:20) When does BvS take place? (00:08:30) Time of Death using JL (00:11:00) Timeline When does JL take place? (00:14:20) Post-Prologue scenes (00:17:40) Sunday (00:19:10) Monday (00:21:00) Seam 1 (00:23:30) “Tuesday” (00:23:50) Seam 2 (00:26:00) Wednesday (00:27:10) Thursday (00:29:45) Friday (00:32:10) Time Gap (00:32:00) Boom ’round the world (00:35:00) Saturday (00:35:30) Issues Moon (00:36:00) Comparison Intentional? (00:38:55) Other Factors (00:41:45) Lois’s Furlough (00:43:50) Suicide Squad (00:47:30) Ayer Tweet 1 2 Bruce’s Beard & Belle Reve with Lex (00:49:40) Kent Farm Foreclosure (00:51:10) Kansas Corn (00:52:50) Butterfly (00:55:30) Silas’s 2017 Headstone (00:57:20) Canonicity of Prop Text (00:58:25) M&J LL Article DOB typo Love Black Zero Event (01:02:30) Wayne Tower Devastated via Fiona Zheng Loving Suspension of Disbelief (01:07:00) Pick Your Poison (01:09:15) 2017 Headstone, Moon, Pregnancy Making the Call (01:14:20) End Notes [Intro Recorded April 28, 2021] (01:17:10) King Tides and the Moon Cyborg’s Flying Flashback Diana Storyteller To learn more: Zack on Scener: “We had the funeral in BvS. It’s probably only a month or so passed.” 6 weeks claim by Uche Nwaneri Zack Snyder’s Justice League | The Rough Cut Why Look At The Moon | Victoria Williams A Place In Time | Amanda Abizaid Bad Moon Rising | It Aude Kolonyhûs Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / Pod.Link / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #RestoreTheSnyderverse #MakeYourOwnPast #CallYourMom #Lunacy

\r\n\n[Originally Recorded March 28, Re-Recorded April 12, 2021] Approaching Zack Snyder’s Justice League in good faith.  How did Darkseid forget the location of Earth?  Why didn’t Steppenwolf tie the Mother Box to the Defiance immediately?  So many questions!\r\n\nDonate or MOSAIC T-Shirt\r\n\nJustice Con 2021 – April 16-18\r\nASPF.org\r\n\nAnswers, insights, and commentary on:\r\n\n\nImpressions (00:00:58)\r\n\nComparison (00:02:30)\r\n\nGratitude (00:06:20)\r\n\nGrowth (00:08:50)\r\n\nLogic (00:10:20)\r\n\nLayers – Black Suit Example (00:11:50)\r\n\nPast Nitpicking Plot Holes (00:14:00)\r\n\nDeath of the Author (00:16:00)\r\n\nQ: Did Diana lie to a little girl? (00:24:30)\r\n\nQ: Diana says the Boxes are indestructible but they’re destroyed? (00:26:15)\r\n\nQ: Why did the Boxes die? (00:27:40)\r\n\nQ: Do we know the Boxes are destroyed? (00:29:05)\r\n\nQ: Why didn’t the Box reach Darkseid directly? (00:32:30)\r\n\nQ: Why did about a month pass before Steppenwolf arrived? (00:34:30)\r\n\nQ: Why did Amazonian Box stay awake? (00:38:20)\r\n\nDeSaad & Darkseid’s Last Lines Analysis (00:41:20)\r\n\nNot Omniscient (00:42:20)\r\n\nLies & Hiding (00:43:40)\r\n\nHonor Culture (00:45:00)\r\n\nArmada Alternatives (00:48:30)\n\nNo reaction, Let Steppenwolf Die, Boxes at Defiance, DeSaad asks\r\n\n\n\r\n\nWays Old & New (00:53:40)\r\n\nQ: Are there more Mother Boxes? (00:58:30)\r\n\nQ: How did Steppenwolf conquer before? (01:05:30)\r\n\nQ: How did Darkseid forget Earth? (01:09:25)\r\n\nTimeline (01:10:20)\r\n\nQ: Doesn’t Diana contradict this? (01:25:35)\n\nHearsay, Myth, Rashōmon\r\n\n\n\r\n\nEnd Notes / After Show [Recorded April 15, 2021] (01:36:00)\n\nQ&A Summary\r\n\n\n\r\n\n\nTo learn more:\r\nZack Snyder’s Justice League – “We Live in a Society” Extended Deleted Scene\r\noverthinking – original song | Orla Gartland\r\n\nWeb: ManOfSteelAnswers.com\r\nTwitter: @mosanswers\r\nSubscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / Pod.Link / YouTube \r\nBuy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic\r\nHelp With Hosting: via PayPal\r\n\n\r\nQR Code:\r\n\n\r\n#RestoreTheSnyderverse\r\n\r\n

[Recorded February 14, 2021]  Commenting on Zack Snyder’s Justice League Official Trailer. Note: Clips from LightCast, I Minutemen, and SnyderCutBR were added after the episode was recorded and thus without introduction. Thank you for your understanding and listen to the full interviews in the links below. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt ASPF.org Answers, insights, and commentary on: Experience (00:01:10) Effectiveness of trailer (00:04:35) Arguments for ZSJL (00:05:20) Leaning into Lore (00:05:30) Average Watch Time (00:07:00) As An Event (00:08:00) Community & Charity (00:12:00) Trailer breakdown (00:14:05) Lisa Gerrard’s “Celon” (00:15:00) Death of Superman (00:16:00) World Building (00:16:30) Lex’s Lines (00:17:30) Layered (00:18:00) Trinity Themes (00:20:00) Attack Coming (00:22:00) VFX Thanks (00:23:00) Steppenwolf Humanity (00:24:40) Heroes Reply (00:25:00) Superman’s Cycle (00:26:00) Misc. (00:29:00) Joker Stinger (00:30:00) Joker’s Lines (00:35:00) Your Reason (00:37:00) Sign Off (00:40:00) End Notes (00:41:00) Bulls & Red Capes (00:42:00) Batman’s Theatricality (00:43:00) Superman’s Visible Deathcry (00:44:00) Science Super Power Special Effect Source Music v. Score Symbol (00:49:00) SciFi in JL & MOS (00:54:00) Black Suit & Resurrection Powers (00:59:00) Jonathan’s Hope (01:03:00) And much more To learn more: LightCast #145 – Deborah Snyder I Minutemen #1 – Zack Snyder SnyderCutBR – Zack Snyder Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #UsUnited #HereForAReason

[Recorded December 19, 2020]  Merry Christmas! Some parallels between A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Batman v. Superman. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt ASPF.org Answers, insights, and commentary on: Common points of style Common character developments Common themes And much more To learn more: 5 Act Revenge Tragedy | pulpklatura Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

[Recorded August 24, 2020]  Finding the soul of Zack Snyder’s Justice League Official Teaser (from DCFanDome) with Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt ASPF.org Answers, insights, and commentary on: Survivorship Bias Hallelujah etymology Hallelujah the lyrics Hallelujah the song Hallelujah the story Theme of Connection Theme of Mythology Teaser Structure Forward Momentum Increasing Intensity Storytelling Progression Hallelujah Parallels Amnesty for Converts “Help me find the others like you” And much more To learn more: The Holy or The Broken | Alan Light Survivorship Bias | Veritasium Zack Snyder Interview | Reel-In-Motion Mistakenly Seeking Solitude | The Happiness Lab Hallelujah | Revisionist History Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: “They’ve never faced us before.  Not us united.”

[Recorded May 16 & 26, 2020]  Decoding MOS and BvS with the story of the Grail. Parallels between the first grail knight, Percival, and the first superhero, Superman. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Previously with Percival (00:01:05) The Forest Adventure (00:04:00) New Path Personally Chosen Individualism Impacts Civilization Individualism Not Anarchy (00:07:10) Where It Was Darkest (00:09:30) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Good Does Not Mean Harmless Percival Done With God (00:14:25) Desert of the Soul Crisis of Faith Herders and Pilgrims The Hermit (00:20:00) Uncle As Father Figure (00:21:23) Solitude and The Hermit Within (00:24:00) Solitude as Path Back to Others (00:26:45) The Just World Problem (00:28:22) Suffering Is A Part Of Life Choose The Focus Of Your Attention Is This Helpful? You Have To Try That Which We Already Know (00:35:10) Percival Inspired Hero’s Journey (00:36:30) GI Joe Fallacy (00:40:00) Temptation of Percival (00:41:45) Weapons & Signs (00:46:25) Sight Beyond Sight (00:49:55) Temptation of Superman (00:51:00) Function of Faith (00:52:07) Question of Facts or of Worth Gawain’s Wedding (00:57:01) More Gawain and Batman Parallels Gawain v. Percival (00:59:43) The Pagan Knight v. Percival (01:03:05) Their Fathers Have The Same Name (01:05:00) The Grail Messenger Returns (01:06:16) Things Are Not As They Appear Greening of The Wasteland Servant Kings – Power Can Be Innocent Personal Conviction Not Peer Pressure (01:10:17) Percival’s Conviction & Compassion (01:11:49) Return To The Grail Castle (01:14:06) Heal Another Heal Yourself (01:17:40) Superman’s Next Stage (01:19:03) Grail Quest (01:20:35) Hope To Achieve The Impossible Extras [Recorded June 6] (01:22:05) Ask Questions Beyond Appearance Beyond Literal Analysis Beyond Established Stories The Beginner’s Mind Possibility vs. Obstacles Valuable But Brittle Never Ending Battle Repetition and Experience This Man Is Not My Enemy The Inner Fool The Grail Was Always With You Prester John Art Creating Change And much more Reference Images: Via VERO on December 18, 2019 Via VERO on December 4, 2019 To learn more: The Temptation of Sir Percival | Arthur Hacker Le Mort D’Arthur | Thomas Mallory (Armstrong) Owning Your Own Shadow | Robert A. Johnson Living An Examined Life | James Hollis Myths to Live By | Joseph Campbell Eternal Chalice | Monica Potkay G.I. Joe Fallacy | Laurie Santos Just World Hypothesis / Fallacy | Myles Dyer Just World Hypothesis / Fallacy | Thunk Social Media Empty Calorie Connection | Laurie Santos The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Gil Scott-Heron Man’s Search For Meaning | Viktor Frankl Attacking Backfires | Melissa Dell This Video Will Make You Angry | CGP Grey Mindfulness Tool: RAIN | Life Kit When Someone Doesn’t Like You | Daryl Davis Superman Smashes the Klan | Gene Luen Yang The Science of Well-Being | Yale Official BvS Watch Party | VERO Official MOS Watch Party | VERO Fix You | Coldplay | Hearts & Colors cover Orpheus | Sara Bareilles Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: “The most rewarding mythological experience you can have is to see how it lives in your own psychological structure.” “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

[Recorded April 29 & May 6, 2020]  Decoding MOS and BvS with the story of the Grail. Parallels between the first grail knight, Percival, and the first superhero, Superman. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Previously with Percival (00:01:20) The Grail King & Grail Castle (00:03:10) Magical Other World The Fisher King Wound Origins & Meaning (00:04:05) The Tasting The Burning Fish – “What was I supposed to do?” (00:04:55) Jousting The Pagan Knight – “Krypton lost something precious” (00:10:25) As Divine Punishment – “I don’t know if it’s possible” (00:13:55) Stages of Evolution (00:15:20) Unconscious youth, conscious middle, enlightened elder The Midlife Crisis (00:19:50) The Wasteland (00:23:55) Inauthentic Lives (00:26:10) Campbell’s Start – From Critic To Champion (00:27:30) In Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman (00:30:20) Fertility, ecology, decline, Knightmare The King and the Knight are One… (00:36:30) The Grail Castle (00:37:40) The Grail Procession – Grail and Lance (00:38:20) Failing to Ask Questions – “A knight does not ask questions” (00:39:30) The Law of Enchantment – Spontaneous Gifts (00:40:50) The Duty to Ask (00:43:00) The Weeping Damsels (00:46:50) The Pain of Consciousness The Costs & Collateral of Past Successes Father’s Unbreakable Sword (00:48:20) The Lady of the Tent (00:50:00) Society vs. Spontaneity (00:51:50) Advice – Right or Wrong? (00:56:10) The Old Knight’s Character (00:57:30) Jonathan’s Character (00:58:40) Advice Context – Stage of Life (00:59:50) Jonathan’s Advice (01:02:40) The Old Knight’s Advice (1:04:10) Authenticity… …without Boundaries is Careless (01:06:50) …without Empathy is Selfish (01:09:00) …without Trust is Risky (01:11:20) Bring Your Best Self (01:12:50) Uncertain Dry Years (01:13:30) Joining The Round Table (01:14:40) Love Trance (01:15:40) The Grail Messenger – Humiliated Before Camelot (01:17:10) Sir Gawain (01:19:10) Percival : Superman :: Gawain : Batman Nature of Foils (01:21:30) Dual Identities (01:24:00) Batman Mythos : Gawain Mythos (01:26:05) The Sun Knight – Batman ’66 : The Light Knight (01:27:40) Descent & Rehabilitation (01:29:10) The Useless Knight (01:32:50) The Trial of the Perilous Bed The Bleeding Lance / Kryptonite Spear (01:35:40) Religious Artifact (01:37:00) Collective Consciousness Remixing Mythology (01:38:50) DC Heroes & World War II (01:42:20) Symbol & Commentary (01:43:55) Kryptonite Spear vs. Bullets Critique of Violence (01:45:50) And much more To learn more: Le Mort D’Arthur | Thomas Mallory (Armstrong) Owning Your Own Shadow | Robert A. Johnson Living An Examined Life | James Hollis Myths to Live By | Joseph Campbell Eternal Chalice | Monica Potkay Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature | Frank Brandsma King Arthur: History & Legend | Dorsey Armstrong The Crusades: A History | Jonathan Riley-Smith Fantastic Creatures | Juliette Wood Joseph Campbell: A Fire In The Mind | Larsen & Larsen Carl Jung: Wounded Healer | Claire Dunne The Waste Land | T.S. Eliot 2001: A Filmmaking Odyssey | Imaginary Worlds The Science of Well-Being | Yale Define Your Fears Instead of Goals | Tim Ferris Authenticity Is A Double-Edged Sword | Adam Grant Official BvS Watch Party | VERO Official MOS Watch Party | VERO $5.27 Launch Fundraiser | AFSP Limited Time Offer $12/yr | HBO Max Hurt | Johnny Cash Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: “The most rewarding mythological experience you can have is to see how it lives in your own psychological structure.” “We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all times have gone before us. . . . And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.”

[Recorded April 22, 2020]  Decoding MOS and BvS with the story of the Grail. Parallels between the first grail knight, Percival, and the first superhero, Superman. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Arthurian influence on Snyder and Terrio Joseph Campbell’s love of Parzival Arthur, The Grail, and Percival Chrétien de Troyes adds the Grail Percival, Perceval, Percifull, Parsifal, Parzival, Percivel… Faire Unknown motif Contemporary Story for Contemporary Audience Siege Perilous: Destiny & Free Will Becoming The Red Knight Percival and Superman Kill Only Once Cultures of Acceptable Violence Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow Batman & Superman’s Shadow Shadow Consciousness Or Else Societal Expectations: Silencing Of Natural Self Marriage For Love: Western Spirit Silent Champion From Afar Chrétien’s Unfinished Romance And much more! To learn more: Le Mort D’Arthur | Thomas Mallory (Armstrong) Owning Your Own Shadow | Robert A. Johnson Living An Examined Life | James Hollis Myths to Live By | Joseph Campbell Eternal Chalice | Monica Potkay Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature | Frank Brandsma King Arthur: History & Legend | Dorsey Armstrong The Crusades: A History | Jonathan Riley-Smith Fantastic Creatures | Juliette Wood Joseph Campbell: A Fire In The Mind | Larsen & Larsen Carl Jung: Wounded Healer | Claire Dunne Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: “The most rewarding mythological experience you can have is to see how it lives in your own psychological structure.” “We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all times have gone before us. . . . And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.”

[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019, December 7, 2019]  Defeating Doomsday. BTS: This pre-recorded episode was assembled shortly after Part 3, but was never happy with it.  While waiting on inspiration, it was decided to stop trying to resuscitate recordings from 2017.   Forewarning, the concluding Part 5 is probably never coming and this Doomsday series is abandoned for now.  Nonetheless as this episode was already completed it’s finally being published.  However, a NEW mini-series is already in production, the first episode will be published Friday. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Why didn’t Batman bring the spear to Doomsday instead? Why didn’t Batman immediately go for the spear? Why didn’t Superman defer to Wonder Woman? And more poor questions… To learn more: New York Night Sky Turns Bright Blue | NYT Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #recycled

[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019, December 7, 2019]  Defeating Doomsday. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Why did Batman leave the spear with Lois? Hindsight Bias Batman’s crashed vehicles Lois Competence, Spear In Water, Falling, and Recover Spear If Onlys, Regrets, Time Travel, & Sisyphus Actual Facts versus Abstraction Critics Who Review Films They Didn’t Finish Edit Bay of the Brain / Nostalgia Literature as Ethical Simulators Eucatastrophe Monsters versus Positive Thinking Demonizing and Redemption Hot-Cold Empathy Gap And much more! To learn more: Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell Choiceology: Knew It All Along | Katy Milkman Hidden Brain: Looking Back | NPR Empire Podcast| Empire Imaginary Worlds | Eric Molinsky Public Health Ethics | James Wilson Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: “Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.” – Joseph Cambpell

[Recorded December 8, 2019]  Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer reaction. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Almost nothing!  No time! Blue Monday “How does it feel?” – Emphasis on emotion again Trash can scene indicates a reprise of Fish-Out-Of-Water To learn more: Wonder Woman 1984 Official Trailer | WB Blue Monday Cover | BBC Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #HowDoesItFeel?

#releasethesnydercut Adapted from my Introduction to the ForSnyderCut.org site, drafted December 2017 and published January 2018. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt To learn more: ForSnyderCut.org Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019]  Defeating Doomsday. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Temporal Frame of Reference Superman’s Decision-Making Danger to Self / Selflessness Learning and Rational Choices Stakes: Threat to Superman’s Life Doomsday’s Intelligence The Primal Zombie Super-Jumping “Flight” Physics Doomsday’s Genitals Triploids / Lex’s Genetic Contribution Size Strength Bias Bioluminescence Solar Flare Substitute For Evolutionary Power Why Take Doomsday to Space? Why Not Keep Going? Lack of Astronomical / Cosmic Intuitions Why Didn’t Superman Fly Faster? Fantasy User Interfaces (FUI) Canonicity Is Tracking Superman a Plot Hole? Novel Tech Mutual Regard, Competing Interests Consent / Stealth Powers Plasma Stealth Force Field Absorption Time to Thermonuclear Launch Why Didn’t Superman: Dodge The Nuke? Let Go of Doomsday? Return Doomsday to Space After The Nuke? Take Doomsday to the Ocean? Nuclear Strike Reveals Nature of Superman’s Powers Invulnerability – Force Field not Composition Muscle Mass – Biological Default not Built By Exercise Myostatin Regeneration – Two Types “Undead” Genes And much more! To learn more: Threat of Ancient Mesopotamian Zombies | STBYM Boeing AH-64 Apache | Wikipedia Projectile Use By Non-Human Organisms | Wikipedia Light On Earth | David Attenborough Spontaneous Photon Emissions From Humans | Kobayashi Electric Life Forms Live On Pure Energy | New Scientist Draper Point | Wikipedia Cut Travel Time To ISS From 2 Days To 6 Hours | Engadget Superman Space Suplex | Superman: Doomsday Man of Steel Spoiler Special | Empire BvS Fantasy User Interfaces | Perception Designing Fantasy User Interfaces | PixelHub Plasma Stealth | Wikipedia To Launch A Nuclear Strike | Bloomberg Muscular Baby | New York Times Thantomicrobiome | Peter Noble Undead Genes Come Alive Days After Death | Science AAAS Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #StrangerThanFiction

[Recorded February 2017, August 2017, October 2019]  Defeating Doomsday. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Real World Ethics vs. Thought Experiments Why Trinity Didn’t Use Lex to Stop Doomsday? Criminal Liability For Conversion of Extraterrestrial Specimens Thad Roberts and “Sex On The Moon” Valuation of Moon Rocks Liability For Power Grid Disruption And much more! To learn more: Theory of Mind Deficiencies | Wikipedia Sex On The Moon | Ben Mezrich Where Does NASA Keep Moon Rocks? | Smarter Every Day Projectile Use By Non-Human Organisms | Wikipedia Spontaneous Photon Emissions From Humans | Kobayashi Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #FlyMeToTheMoon

[Recorded August 8, 2019] Learning from Eastern thought. Seeing much more detail and connection. Comparing high and low context communication. How Superman’s silence can be seen as sophisticated. The Problem of Evil in the East. Harmonizing Batman and Superman. Based on the research of Dr. Richard E. Nisbett and his book, “The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently“ Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: East Asians less inclined towards Fundamental Attribution Error (00:04:40) Dr. Richard E. Nisbett (00:07:40) Objects vs. Context (00:17:45) Nouns vs. Verbs (00:18:30) Facial Expression (00:25:11) Michigan Fish Test (00:32:44) High & Low Context (00:36:17) Superman’s Silence (00:48:37) Thinking and Speaking (00:51:03) Counter-Intuitive Wisdom (00:58:02) Modesty and Bragging (01:06:35) Analysis vs. Holism (01:08:49) Comparison (01:09:30) Logic & Paradox (01:15:00) Dialectical Reasoning (01:25:03) Retcons / BvS Critique (01:25:55) Existentialism (01:28:45) Embodied Knowledge & Wisdom (01:43:40) The Problem of Evil (01:57:24) Applied to Batman v. Superman (02:03:24) Lex’s Bad Faith Dilemma (02:07:00) Dialectical Synthesis of Batman & Superman (02:10:55) And much more! To learn more: Press Placing the Face in Context: Cultural Differences in Facial Emotion | Takahiko Masuda The Michigan Fish Test and the Middle East | Sheena Iyengar What Does The Michigan Fish Test Say About You? | io9 Eastern and Western Cultures See Emotions Very Differently | University of Alberta Japanese More Sensitive Than Westerners To The Big Picture | Wired This Mistake We All Make | Richard Nisbett | The Guardian Are You A Holistic or Specific Thinker? | Erin Meyer | Harvard Business Review East & West Part Ways in Test of Facial Expressions | NYT Zack Snyder’s Superhero Life | Bloomberg East Versus West | Forbes Books Geography of Thought | Richard Nisbett The Culture Map | Erin Meyer You May Also Like | Tom Vanderbilt Hit Makers | Derek Thompson The Misinformation Age | Cailin O’Connor Heaven & Earth Are Not Humane | Franklin Perkins Media West and East Cultural Differences | EBS EAST or WEST: Which mindset do you have? | Off the Great Wall Eastern Philosophers vs Western Philosophers | Epic Rap Battles Logic & Reasoning | VSauce2 Batman v. Superman: By The Minute DC Cinematic Minute Reality | Invisibilia | NPR Images Population Perspective | Our World In Data Population Density | Our World In Data Interpersonal Trust Attitudes | Our World In Data Population Perspective Population Density Trust Attitudes Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #YouHaveTheRightToRemainSilent #BeStill #BestOfBoth

[Recorded July 12, 2019] Why do reasonable minds differ? On movies? “Did we even see the same film?” On justice? Why do Superman and Batman always differ? Psychologists weigh in. Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Answers, insights, and commentary on: Naïve Realism Study on Motion Picture Appraisal Correlation with critics Illusions: The dress, shoe, Yanni / Laurel, etc. “They Saw A Game” Moral foundations and affiliations Cultural differences lend perspective The missionary and anthropologist Linguistic effects on cognition Fundamental Attribution Error Disposition versus circumstance Depiction is not endorsement Judging others as disgusting Public Irrationality Thesis Philosophy and Psychology on Character Clark & Diana as role models (combat FAE) And much more! To learn more: Strikingly Low Agreement On Movies | Pascal Wallisch You Are Not So Smart Live | David McRaney “They Saw A Game” | Hastorf & Cantril The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt Through the Language Glass | Lera Boroditsky This Is Water | David Foster Wallace Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang The Culture Map | Erin Meyer The Character Gap | Christian Miller Christian Miller: Character Gap | Philosophy Bites The Callout | Invisibilia YANSS 157: Pluralistic Ignorance | David McRaney You May Also Like | Tom Vanderbilt Conversation with Ross & Nisbett | Think 101 Hit Makers | Derek Thompson Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #ThisIsWater #DefyDefaultMode

[Recorded June 29, 2019] Consider Man of Steel and BvS through the lens of commitment. Can Superman combat loneliness and a crisis of conviction? Donate or MOSAIC T-Shirt Dive deep into discussion and address apologetics for: MOS is structured wrong BvS should have shown Superman’s honeymoon period Superhero movies should be escapist Nairomi was entirely unneeded and so much more! Answers, insights, and commentary on: Interpreting, “Must there be a Superman? / There is.” Superhero retirement Seven Stages of Romantic Relationships Lois & Clark Early Stages and Wake-Up Call Why no onscreen honeymoon? / Batman is BvS protagonist Superman & the World’s Wake-Up Call Insecurity absent commitment (no superheroes norms yet) Loneliness epidemic Who is Superman for? Superman: friend of the forgotten; a valid interpretation Superman as common cultural touchstone enables impact The Second Mountain / Benefits of Commitment Family (marriage), Calling (vocation, Faith (philosophy), and Local Community Why BvS included Nairomi not just the BZE Clark Kent: Man of Commitments Why MOS is structured to show Clark’s heroism early Crisis of Faith: “Superman was never real. / No one stays good in this world.” Local action and many more topics! Enjoy Independence Day with others… accept that invitation or extend one! To learn more: Lies Our Culture Tells Us | David Brooks Psychologists Study Ghosting | SciShow Loneliness Epidemic Index Infograph Study| Cigna Desire In Long Term Relationships | Esther Perel AOM 518: Quest For A Moral Life | Brett McKay The Second Mountain | David Brooks Hit Makers | Derek Thompson Introduction recorded July 1, 2019 Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube Buy MOSAIC Shield T-Shirt: Bonfire.com/mosaic Help With Hosting: via PayPal QR Code: #InterdependenceDay #MaximalCommitment

Mother’s Day Excerpts Contrapositive – Understand & avoid villain behavior (1:20) Elevation – The case for paragons (7:30) Seeing – Clark versus how Bruce views women (20:10) “Isn’t That A Good Thing?” – Martha’s hope (25:00) Secret Sharing – Responsibilities of secret keepers (27:10) “I’m Older Now Than My Father Ever Was.” – Parents as milestones (37:00) “How Come Dad Never Left Kansas?” – Earning conviction (38:40) Optimal Stopping – Algorithmic anxiety argument (45:50) How Come Superman Doesn’t Take Over The World? – Economics (50:40) “You Don’t Owe This World A Thing.” – Interpretations (1:04:00) “I’m Already There.” – Covenants, institutions, & traditions (1:15:30) Kierkegaard – Individuality and the leap of faith (1:19:30) Sign Off – Excerpted excerpts (1:32:20) Superhero Philosophy (1:33:50) Conjunction Fallacy (1:37:10) Success (1:39:50) Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube

[Recorded April 20, 2019] Moms and motherhood. Six factors to consider: Safety. Home. Affection. Zeitgeist. Amend. Maturity. Answers, insights, and commentary on: Biological Distinction Natural Birth Adoption & Fostering Moms & Home: Acceptance & Choice Availability & Attachment Theory: Reparenting Modeling Parents & Societal Restraints Abusing Authority & Honesty Replicating & Surpassing: Parents & Heroes Released early as a heads-up to remember Mother’s Day. Rusty deleted ramblings will be released in a Brief sometime later. Children observe (temet nosce): The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. He’s just like his father. Like father, like son A chip off the old block She’s her mother’s daughter. To learn more: A Biologist’s Mother’s Day Song | Adam Cole Unconditional Love | This American Life Creature Comforts | Hidden Brain Mind Changers: Harlow’s Monkeys | BBC Attachment Theory | Wikipedia Becoming Attached | Robert Karen Reparenting | Wikipedia Title 18 Crimes & Offenses | Pa. Code Free Range Kids | Lenore Skenazy Whole Brain Child | Daniel Siegel & Tina Bryson The Philosophical Baby | Alison Gopnik How Christianity Invented Children | The Week The Emotionally Absent Mother | Jasmin Lee Cori Anybody Have A Map | Justin Paul & Benj Pasek No More Drama With Mama | Gayle Kirschenbaum Older | Sasha Sloan M-O-T-H-E-R | Eddy Arnold Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube #callyourmom

[Previously re-recorded September 24, 2018] Strength & Challenges, Cognitive Distortions, and Witch Hunts and Common-Humanity. Taking on three bad ideas: Challenge makes us weaker. Always trust your feelings. Life is a battle between good people and evil people. Answers, insights, and commentary on: Fragility versus Strength and Growth Purpose in Suffering Comparing Diana & Clark upbringing Mindfulness, Automatic Thoughts, Reframing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive Distortions – illustrated by DC films Tribalism & Witch Hunts – the persecution of Superman Common Humanity – DC Bridge Building Superman Suicide Prevention Three antidotes: Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.  But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother. The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. Suicide Prevention: National Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 or Online Chat American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Suicide Prevention Resource Center Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) To learn more: FindCBT.org | ABCT Persuasive Power of Narratives | Melanie Green Cardigan 2017 Commencement Address | John Roberts Man’s Search For Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl Behave| Robert M. Sapolsky Positive Changes Following Adversity |Stephen Joseph & Lisa Butler Global Rich List | CARE The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner You Are Not So Smart | David McRaney All-Star Superman #10 | Grant Morrison Common Humanity | Barack Obama 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg | Barack Obama Tough Decisions (A Whale Is Gonna Die) | Rhett & Link – Catastrophizing Thought Bubbles | Rachel Bloom My Favorite Things – The Sound of Music | Richard Rogers What I Am (Stronger) – Sesame Street | Will.i.am How To Make Testimony More Reliable | SciShow Psych Confabulation: When Lying isn’t Lying | Oregon Behavioral What is CBT? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Explained | G. Aprile Cognition | Crash Course Counter Points: The Worth of War | Benjamin Ginsberg Accessory to War | Neil DeGrasse Tyson Adapted from the works of Jonathan Haidt: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure. Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube #freeyourmind #besuper #plusultra