All Episodes

When Bad Therapy Happens to Good People

The Mother Ditch of The Common Good

Soulmates or Cellmates? The Enigma of Intimate Relationships

Whispers from The Universe and The Pachenko Machine of Souls

Take Your Time: Deconstructing Patience 104

Who Are You? All About Character Typing

Fanning the Flames of Philosophy's Hearth

Speaking the Tao With Kenneth Leong

Happy Happy Joy Joy 100

Thinking About Thinking, with an INTP

Between the Beasts and The Gods

One Elephant Theory and The Conscious Middle

Thinking about The Odyssey

Erez Levin: Taboos and Hacking The Body Politic

Speaking the Tao with Dr. David Marshall 94

Mental Health, Materialism and Tripping Balls

Slicing Up The Pepperoni Of Time

Pornographic Playing Cards, Philosophy and Nietzsche 91

Dr, Stephen Hicks: Science, Objectivity, Truth and the Whole She-bang

Who's Your Daddy? Orphans Discuss Fatherhood

Money, money, money and a bit about Magic Spells 88

What About Eating Animals? 87

Krishnan Venkatesh: Sauntering into the Unknown: Thoreau & Basho

James Hartree: Philosophy For Screenagers 85

Allowing Being To Be: Gelassenheit 84

Mountaintops, Views, and More Heidegger 83

Can Philosophy Repair The World? Shaking Off The Still-Life 82

Gadamer, Levinas and a Magical Kind of Ping Pong 81

Heidegger and The Ontological Goo 80

Is Heaven All Up In Our Head? 79

Rich Rubino 2025 Retrospective 78

Paul Fenn: Liberty, Democracy, Localism and The Bloody Rhinoceros Head

Frogs in The Maelstrom and The Big We 76

Category Confusion and The Slippery Fish of The Self 75

The Rabbi and The Atom: Fusing Torah and Physics

The Missing Piece: The One Thing Books Can't Teach You 73

#72 The Dance of The Plover and The Chronosynclastic Infundibulum

#71: Larry Shapiro: Why Science Needs Philosophy

#70: Implications of Forgiveness

#69: On Belonging, Oedipus, and the Psychopomp

#68: Michael Wolfe: Polish the Heart

#67: Steven Nadler: Virtue is its Own Reward

#66: Hope, Will, and Purpose

#65: Madness

#64: Glenna Gerard: Dialogue and the Ineffable

#63: Master and Emissary

#62: Justice and the Nature of Evil

#61: The Ladder Goes Both Ways

#60: The Search for Truth

#59: The Second Coming (WB Yeats)

#58: What is Anger?

#57: Brian's Teachers

#56: Krishnan Venkatesh: A Love of Impartiality

#55: It's All About the Hats

#54: Brian's Been Thinkin' 'Bout Crypto

#53: The Self is a Fortune Cookie

#52: Psychology and Ideology

#51: Fruitfulness

#50: Perfectionism and Play

#49: Geoffrey Moore: Pattern Recognition

#48: Hitler: A Phenomenological Sortie

#47: Allison Gerrard: Moral Courage

#46: An Antidote to Fragmentation

#45: Dire Wolves and Ethics

#44: The Wrench and the Paintbrush

#43: Healthy, Healthy, Dead

#42: On the Mountain, a Tree (Consulting the Oracle)

#41: Paul Fenn: The Reason We Are Mad

#40: Before You Feed the Beast

#39: Bridging Cultures

#38: We Assemble the World

#37: Discourse on the Finite and Infinite

#36: Extensions of Mankind

#35: Silly Shit Ain't New

#34: Letting The Stranger In with Claudia Hauer

#33: What Then Must We Do?

#32: A Merging of Horizons

#31: All Learning is Experiential

#30: Gang Aft Agley

#29: En Arche en ho Logos

#28: God Made the Food and the Devil Made the Cooks

#27: Claudia Hauer: It's Time for a New Ethics

#26: Instant Karma's Gonna Get You

#25: Justice and Paradigm Shift

#24: What Is Post-Modernism?

#23: Intuition (What Is It Good For?)

#22: Whole Body Like Dogs P**** (Why Martial Arts Matter)

#21: A Brief History of Western Thought

#20: La Maravilla Del Mundo

#19: Patriotism and Perspective

#18: Here Comes Everyone

#17: Politics and "The Other"

#16: On Community

#15: Lessons of the American West

#14: Faggin, Reality, and Responsibility

#13: Integrating Trauma

#12: Interdependence

#11: Post-Election Review Feat. Rich Rubino

#10: Tiger Dragon Makes Luck

#9: 2024 Election Special feat. Rich Rubino

#8: Cleaning Up and Waking Up

#7: On Suffering

#6: On Prayer

#5: Podcasting and the Creative Process

#4: On Violence

#3: The Universe is a Place out of Which You Cannot Fall

#2: "Yin Will" and "Yang Will"

#1: The Semantic World

Demo #3: Chapters and Transitions

Demo #2: That Which Obstructs Your Path

Demo #1: A Hole in the Armor