Sinopse
Welcome to Cryptosophy! This podcast is hosted by Max and Doyle. On this podcast, we are searching for hidden wisdom in the literature of the Western tradition and from interviews of specialists from diverse backgrounds.
Episódios
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Great Works #10 - George Orwell's Animal Farm
14/04/2021 Duração: 02h07minGreat Works #10 - Orwell’s Animal Farm. In this episode, Max and I restart the Great Works series of the Cryptosophy podcast three years after our inaugural Great Works discussion on Homer’s Iliad.
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Spotify Exclusive | Cryptosophy Radio Hour
23/03/2021 Duração: 03minHi everybody, Max and I are excited to announce a new series called the Cryptosophy Radio Hour! This will be a net new series that we'll run in addition to the Cryptosophy series, The Specialists, and The Great Works. During this series, we'll spend about one hour listening to some great music and talking about them together. For licensing reasons, this series will ONLY be available on Spotify. Expect to see the first episode dropping later this week! We'll be listening to Sick Boy by the Chainsmokers, Holding On To You by Twenty One Pilots, and Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths.
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Cryptosophy #10 - What is Spiritual Exercise?
22/02/2021 Duração: 01h55minWelcome to Cryptosophy #10 - What is Spiritual Exercise? Enter the Dialogue. In this episode, Max and I discuss the nature of spiritual exercise and attempt to give it a rigorous definition. We speak a little bit about Exodus 90, a spiritual exercise that both of us are currently undertaking. The account presented here is arguably non-religious and seeks to establish spiritual exercise as an activity sourced in the first principles of Western culture. Join us for a dialogue that sweeps from the Apollo's Oracle at Delphi to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. Maxims of the Oracle at Delphi Know thyself Nothing to excess Surety brings ruin ---
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Cryptosophy #9 - The Matrix of Our Own Creation
16/02/2021 Duração: 01h58minWelcome to Cryptosophy #9! The third episode of 2021 and the first in which Max and Doyle engage in a search for hidden wisdom. In this episode, we discuss the potential evils and threats of hyperscale clouds and social media. In particular, we dive into Parler's de-platforming and the potential abuses of advertising psycho-technology.
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Cryptosophy #8: The Second Coming and Political Eschaton
27/01/2021 Duração: 01h44minJoin Doyle and Noah Antony Widoff on a conversation from astrology to Communism to the end of history and the ethics of hope. With a simple belated Merry Christmas text as the jumping off point, Doyle and Noah dive deeply into theological and philosophical positions that undergird the very fabric of human consciousness. Noah is the host of the Assembly of Silence Radio Hour, taijireality YouTube Channel, and author of the taijireality Substack.
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The Specialists #5 - Assistant College Baseball Coach
10/01/2021 Duração: 01h33minIn this Episode Max explores the hidden wisdom contained in the world of Junior College Baseball. The interviewee, Jp Fasone, fell in love with baseball as a player, and continues to live out this passion through coaching. This episode steps into the world of a tiny junior college baseball program. Perhaps most strikingly, this episode explores how a program with only three coaches, and no other staff, coaches with an incredible amount of technological, scientific, and leadership sophistication. Coach Fasone: https://sites.google.com/view/coachfasone/ Cryptosophy: https://www.cryptosophy.fm/ Thank you for listening!
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The Spiritual Fate of the West & Christianity: A Discussion with Martin "Harrison" McNulty
17/02/2019 Duração: 01h03minIn this episode, Doyle welcomes guest Martin "Harrison" McNulty to discuss the spiritual fate of the West and Christianity. The discussion will consider the current disorder of Western institutions namely the Academy, the Church, and the State--Trump's recent declaration of a State of Emergency will serve as the starting point. If all goes as planned, the discussion will incorporate an intellectual heritage that include Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Jordan Peterson. It was Heidegger who announced that "Being" even though its meaning is vaporous was the "spiritual fate of the West."
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The Specialists #4: Nursing PhD
08/11/2018 Duração: 01h45minIn this episode, Max explores the hidden wisdom of the most under appreciated medical profession: nursing.
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Sheer Tomfoolery
07/06/2018 Duração: 02h05minMax and Doyle experiment with freeform podcasting, hoping to hone the craft of discussion on air. We discuss everything from Europe mass immigration problem, to the Intellectual Dark Web, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the #MeToo movement. Thanks for tuning into another episode of Cryptosophy!
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Cryptosophy #4 - Disagreements
03/06/2018 Duração: 01h48minIn today's episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle duke it out in an attempt to find some hidden wisdom from debate.
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The Specialists #3: Emergency Medical Technician
23/05/2018 Duração: 01h25minMax interviews Nick on his experience as an EMT. They discuss dealing with gore, mental health patients, desensitization, death, and a variety of other topics.
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The Specialists #1: Nursing
23/05/2018 Duração: 01h11minMax and Tony discuss a variety of topics around nursing.
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Specialists - Growing Up in the Middle East
18/05/2018 Duração: 01h54minIn this Episode Max interviews Amin Salah on his experience of growing up in the Middle East and Moving to the United States.
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A Tribute to Jordan Peterson
16/05/2018 Duração: 01h37minIn this episode of Cryptosophy, Max and Doyle engage Peterson's thoughts and his dramatic effect on their lives. On the docket includes Peterson's use of the archetypes, the epistemological debate between Peterson and Sam Harris, and the ethical framework Peterson's philosophy of "cleaning your room."
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Doyle Baxter, Cryptosopher
04/05/2018 Duração: 01h35minIn this episode, Max interviews Doyle about his life, philosophical education, outlook on politics, religion, contemporary music, and everything in between. Doyle urges all listeners to be contrarian, attempt to synthesize seemingly contradictory worldviews, and to live life to the fullest.