Episodes
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Climate Science, Cities, Profit Motive, & the Rich
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Can we trust the "climate science"? How are cities representations of the best and worst of humanity? Is the profit motive helpful or harmful? And what's it really like to be rich?
Monday May 29, 2023
Chimps, AI, Language, & the Self
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
How similar are we to chimps, really? Is language intelligence? What does meaning mean? What is the self? And what is the answer to the unanswerable?
Friday May 26, 2023
Podcasting, Personality, & Justice
Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
What is this podcast about? What is any podcast really about? How do our personalities complement each other? And is justice a virtue?
Monday May 22, 2023
Finding Meaning in Work, Dreams, Book Bannings, and Porn
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
How can we make work meaningful? What are dreams, and what do they tell us? What's really going on with these Florida "book bannings"? And what are the stats on internet porn?
Friday May 19, 2023
Adderall, Big Pharma, & Game of Thrones
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
What are the consequences of mass-prescribing Adderall and our pill-happy culture? What really is ADD/ADHD? What role is Big Pharma playing in our understanding of health as a society? And what lessons might we glean from Game of Thrones about all this?
Monday May 15, 2023
UFO Sightings, Synchronicity, & Love
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
What are these light trains going through the sky? What are coincidences and what do they mean? What is the nature of transcendent love? What is truly meaningful?
Friday May 12, 2023
National Debt, Defining Authority, & the Crisis of Meaning
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
What is going on with our national debt? What is authority, and where does it come from? Is art the answer to our meaning crisis?
Monday May 08, 2023
Aliens, Shared Hallucinations, Drugs, & Sex
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Are aliens real? What is going on with shared hallucinations? How might drugs change your life? And how can we explain the good, the bad, and the ugly of sex?
Friday May 05, 2023
Corruption when Your Voice is for Sale
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
How do we stop corruption? How do we navigate a world where the line between what's authentic and what's corporate interest becomes blurrier and blurrier? What do archetypes have to do these societal transformations?
Monday May 01, 2023
The 4th Turning and the Cycles of History
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
What does history have to tell us about our future? How does time and place shape who a generation becomes? Is time linear or cyclical? What is the symbolism of a clock?