Human Side Podcast 20: "Don't Pull the Knife Out"

With Andreas of Austria. Topics discussed: the absence of artistic greatness in contemporary life; marrying foreign wives and divorcing them; dating girls from Montenegro; Darwin's theory of Genetic Drift; Colombian knife attacks; and the silencing of the restlessness that forces a man to leave his home and country.

Human Side Podcast 19: Andreas of Austria (Part 3)

A dialogue with the great Austrian.

Human Side Podcast 18: Corporate Slavery

To relinquish a hard-gained freedom and happiness for the stability and certainty of making money. But to discover the only certainty is misery. How is it that two men who learned this truth years earlier have returned to the West and gone back to work for it?

Human Side Podcast 15: Ramblin' Man

The road as one's home and the hospitality of the earth's wild places. Two lifelong ramblers lay it on you.

Human Side Podcast 14: Shalamov / Crazy Days in Budapest

Discussion of a forthcoming Human Side Press translation of gulag poetry from Varlam Shalamov (fall 2018), followed by talk of Budapest in the late '90s and a Hungarian female stalker.

Human Side Podcast 13: The Shaman

Is there an "antidote" to alienation in the West? Part III of a series of podcasts on Jordan Peterson and philosophy as therapy.

Human Side Podcast 12: Critique of Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson now leads a vast internet army. What are the implications for his thinking? A discussion with reference to the English philosopher John Gray, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the great theorist of crowds, Elias Canetti.

Human Side Podcast 11: Jordan Peterson / Order & Chaos

Discussion of the work of Jordan Peterson, Nietzsche, James C Scott, Wittgenstein and others.

Human Side Podcast 10: Pabst Blue Ribbon

Technical problems destroyed nearly all of a 3.5 hour podcast on cultural Marxism, leaving only these 3 minutes about Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

Human Side Podcast 09: A Vendor's Meeting in Denver

A CFO, an accountant and a truck driver discuss the day's events.

Human Side Podcast 08: Madmen at the Wall

Discussion of the nature of truth for localized hunter-gatherers vs. truth for sedentary, agricultural peoples. Also mountain lions, big rig trucking, the divinities past and present, and the emergence of the "individual" in Western thought. With reference to James C Scott, Hugh Brody, Edmund Carpenter, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marshall McLuhan, etc.

Human Side Podcast 07: Cured Meats & Cheeses

Retirement to a leisurely life of pleasure vs. a lifelong struggle in cheerful, joyous rage.

Human Side Podcast 06: McCandless in the Wild

A discussion of Chris McCandless, Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, and why some young men must go on adventures.

Human Side Podcast 05: Knut Hamsun

Discussion of Knut Hamsun and a recently completed English translation of his book of poetry The Wild Chorus (Det vilde Kor). Drawing of Hamsun by his then 10 year old son Torre Hamsun.

Human Side Podcast 04: Bicycle Touring

Two veterans of the road discuss bicycle tours in Europe and the Americas.

Human Side Podcast 02: Once, I Lost My Soul

A conversation with Andreas of Austria on the experience of "losing his soul." Also talk of toothless lot lizards, Wittgenstein, Bruce Chatwin, working third shift at Home Depot, Colombia, Argentina, Patagonia and other nonsense.

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