Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
68 - The Poetic Edda, Part 2
The Mythic Mind Fellowship is currently working its way through the Poetic Edda! In the second of these chats, we discuss the next four texts: Vafthr…
1 year, 9 months ago
67 - War of the Rohirrim: The Lord of the Rings Anime
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/Yns-tDu_S-4
When the appendices leave a short winter war, how do you film a legend without breaking the lore? The Wa…
1 year, 9 months ago
66 - The Poetic Edda
The Mythic Mind Fellowship is currently working its way through the Poetic Edda! In the first of these chats, we discuss the first two texts, Völuspá…
1 year, 9 months ago
65 - Legacy and the Hero's Journey (feat. Chris Jackson)
Today I am joined by Chris Jackson to discuss the concepts of legacy and the hero's journey as laid out in his drafted book, "Legacy: How to Live a L…
1 year, 10 months ago
64 - Middle-earth Mixer: What Makes Tolkien Great
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/FfWIpC63fkM
What still makes Tolkien great when the fandom and the academy keep trying to remake him? In this conver…
1 year, 10 months ago
63 - Beowulf and Boethius Course Review
In this episode, I am joined by a few of the participants in my "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius course. To get access to all of t…
1 year, 10 months ago
62 - A Joyful Outpost of Christian Household Life (feat. Aaron Bair)
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/W7ZRDve4Bf8
Aaron Bair's A Joyful Outpost reads the Beavers' lodge in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a visi…
1 year, 11 months ago
61 - The Meaning of Meaning
In this episode, I explain why I dropped the "many meaningful roads ahead" ending line from the show and I discuss the issue of looking for meaning i…
1 year, 11 months ago
60 - Boethius and Neoplatonism
In this episode, I discuss the trajectory of neoplatonism from the pre-Socratics to Boethius. You can watch the video of the main lesson here: Boethi…
2 years ago
59 - Introduction to Boethius (Updated)
(A couple days after the original posting, I realized that the file I uploaded had a broken ending. This has now been corrected.)
In this episode, I p…
2 years ago