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Bonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast)
We have a sneak peek for our listeners--the first episode our new Patreon bonus series on David Milch's brilliant (but short-lived) series "Deadwood.…
4 years, 1 month ago
Losing My Religion
Episode 242
David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let's say we publish more articles and book…
4 years, 1 month ago
Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")
Episode 241
David and Tamler mask up and wander through the audio and visual orgy of Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut. What is this movie reall…
4 years, 2 months ago
Evil
Episode 240
David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the nature of evil. OK…that's not fully accurate, we just …
4 years, 2 months ago
Lose Yourself
Episode 239
David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's (pr. 'chick sent me high') classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the feat…
4 years, 3 months ago
I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
Episode 238
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that's true for Ivan Ilyich and for all men. But we're not Ivan …
4 years, 3 months ago
Glitches Ain't Shit
Episode 237
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is just a computer generated model created by an advanc…
4 years, 4 months ago
Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)
Episode 236
We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and mind-splitting TV series on Apple TV+. What happens whe…
4 years, 4 months ago
Animated Objects
Episode 235
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 …
4 years, 5 months ago
Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)
Episode 234
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of an opaque and impenetrable bureaucracy that comes for…
4 years, 5 months ago