Joe Pera learns not to take the Lord's name in vain

Better not show your face in my forests, Tim

When you get paid hourly

All the episodes are now uploaded and set to release at a rate of one per evening. I hope you enjoy the ride 🙏🏼

Gn

Season 2, Episode 3 - Joe Pera Waits with You

You ask, "what's it like to live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?" Here's your answer, pal. Sorry it wasn't what you were expecting, but you probably wouldn't like it here

No, that is not okay

Vote for Biden, who recognizes Yooper independence

Bahahahaha

It's awful out here, frens. The bugs don't stop

The secular has its origin in man's loss of spiritual vision or — what is the same thing — in the hard­ening of his heart; and the contraction of the world of nature to a self-contained entity, which is what happens when we ignore its sacred aspect, represents not so much a closing off of nature itself as a closing of our own eyes. We always have to remember that how we see the world about us is but a reflection of the state of our own inner world. Ultimately it is because we see ourselves as existing apart from God that we also see nature as existing apart from God.

This last statement is to the point here because what the modern scientific outlook and the building of our modern tech­nological and economic order demonstrate is the triumph of precisely the view in which the world is seen as a self-contained entity, existing in its own right, apart from God, and conse­quently as something that man is quite entitled to explore, organize and exploit without any reference to the divine. As we have seen, the modern secular world owes its immediate origin not so much to the Renaissance and Reformation or to Copernicus and Galileo as to the scientific revolution of the sev­enteenth century, with its ‘New Philosophy’, as the scientists of the seventeenth century themselves called it.

- Philip Sherrard, The Rape of Man And Nature

Their chief finding is a striking association between population density — the concentration of people in a given area — and happiness. When the researchers ranked all 1,215 communities by average happiness, they found that average population density in the 20 percent most miserable communities was more than eight times greater than in the happiest 20 percent of communities.

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So what makes the happiest communities different from all the rest? Aside from fewer people, the authors found that the happiest communities had shorter commute times and less expensive housing, and that a smaller share of the population was foreign-born. They also found that people in the happiest communities are less transient than in the least happy communities, that they are more likely to attend church and that they are significantly more likely to feel a “sense of belonging” in their communities.

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Perhaps even more surprising are the factors that don't appear to play a major role in community-level differences in happiness: average income levels and rates of unemployment and education. People may move to cities for good-paying jobs, but the Canadian study strongly suggests it's not making them any happier.

Who would have thought?

In the UP, our rappers have lines like:

And no, I ain't rich,
If you wanted to know
But I got big banks
And they're made of snow

And

Tryin'a get dat green,
Cuttin' trees, planting more of 'em.

Just found out about this today.

Not usually my type of music, but I admire his ability to rattle off approximately 10 Yooper references per second. Damn impressive.

I'm also reasonably confident this is the only rap song to ever mention the "Yooper Scooper"

Also, yes, apparently we have rap in the UP. Better not come here, it is ruined. You wouldn't like it here

Gn

Seasnon 2, Episode 4 - Joe Pera Guides You Through the Dark