Podcast Episodes

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

Episode 327

David and Tamler return to the Southern Gothic well and talk about Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece "Good Country People." A nihilistic at…

5 months ago

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Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

Episode 326

Are you a college student or about to be one? Do you have friends or family in college? This is the most important episode of your life. David and Ta…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

Episode 325

David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter "Sacred Time and Myths." How does viewing time as circular …

6 months ago

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Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

Episode 324

David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of "The Sacred and the Profane" by Mircea Eliade. We focus on the first chapter on sacred…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

Episode 323

David and Tamler dive into Plato's Euthyphro, part of our intermittent Back 2 Basics series. A young cocksure priest, confident in his holiness, bum…

7 months ago

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Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

Episode 322

David and Tamler return to William James' monumental "Principles of Psychology", this time wading through his famous chapter "The Stream of Thought."…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

Episode 321

David and Tamler begin their long journey home to Homer's Odyssey, the tale of king Odysseus' 10 year journey home after the Trojan war (maybe the gr…

8 months ago

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Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

Episode 320

David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story t…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

Episode 319

David and Tamler transfer their libidinal energy to Freud's 1917 article "Mourning and Melancholia," in which he tries to understand what's going on …

9 months ago

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Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

Episode 318

David and Tamler share some brief thoughts about Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece One Battle After Another before going deep on his most und…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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