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143: Is Empathy Real?
143: Is Empathy Real?

After a rough week, Bartleby has to ask the question. He takes Artemus along for an examination of Pixar's blooper reels and what they say about the …

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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142: Everywhere Be Dragons
142: Everywhere Be Dragons

When Bartleby is asked, "Where does wind come from?" he uses it as a launching point to describe the complexity of life on the grandest of scales. Ar…

7 months ago

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141: Be Sure To Scour Your Shire
141: Be Sure To Scour Your Shire

Looking into The Lord of the Rings and comparing the books to the movies, Artemus exposes how the movies were a fine adaptation but failed us as a so…

7 months, 1 week ago

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140: Tolkien About Fairies
140: Tolkien About Fairies

While J.R.R. Tolkien was creating Middle Earth, he literally defined the genre of Fantasy in a 1939 lecture, "On Fairy Stories." This week, Artemus b…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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139: The Tarot's Journey
139: The Tarot's Journey

This week, we look at the origins of the Tarot and the Major Arcana, examining the relationships between these archetypes. Artemus guides us through …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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138: Into the Plexiverse
138: Into the Plexiverse

What is reality made of? Taking a page from Carl Jung, we examine the space in between the collective unconscious and that thing we call the synchron…

8 months ago

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137: Something In the Way
137: Something In the Way

Why do we procrastinate? What are the invisible barriers that keep us from getting it done? Bartleby and Artemus manage to unpack the topic at the ve…

8 months, 1 week ago

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136: The Love We All Deserve
136: The Love We All Deserve

Do we deserve this? What does the word “deserve” even mean? Breaking it all down,Bartleby and Artemus discover that it is a circular loop of self-ent…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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135: Mankind and a Kind Superman
135: Mankind and a Kind Superman

As Superman's popularity rises in the zeitgeist, Bartleby and Artemus examine what this says about humanity. Our favorite pair of socks dive into som…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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134: Apex Comedian
134: Apex Comedian

What does survival mean to animals and is it any different for the human animals? Inspired by the stand up comedy of David Drake, our favorite pair o…

8 months, 4 weeks ago

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