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The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE41: The Psychology of ConversionTherapy boys are joined by American expat in Russia, Evan, to discuss the phenomenon of the neurosis of religious conversion and the strange psychology of modern times.
2024-02-271h 29The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE40: Dante’s StarsThe boys discuss Dante, the angelic hierarchy, raccoon hunting, and classical astronomy.
2024-01-0258 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE39: Latter DaysThe boys are joined by guest Emma to discuss her history with the Mormon church.
2023-12-101h 05The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE38: Moon ManThe boys are joined by special guest Peter AKA “The Moon Man”, a man on a mission to educate about geomorphology and alternative cosmology. We also touch on the Nephilim and meta-epistemology.
2023-08-3057 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE37: “Suffering, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Meaning”The boys join a new guest to discuss photography and the relativity of happiness.
2023-07-0349 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE36: The SymposiarchCory and his guest Gabriel discuss the art of hosting symposiums: parties that marry Apollo and Dionysius in a ceremony of good wine and conversation.
2023-05-0357 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE35: What Dreams May ComeThe boys sit down with dream scientist Jesse Lyon to discuss the nature of dreams and the original meaning and tradition behind the concept of the university.
2023-03-2149 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourS34: The Metaphysiology of TasteThe boys sit down to discuss French gourmand Savarin, food, the philosophy of taste, and the future (or lack thereof) of dining out. 
2023-02-1058 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE33: Year in ReviewJonathan and Cory discuss what they have learned over the past year. 
2023-01-2059 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE32: The Inner WorkThe boys discuss crypto, Kanye, modern therapy, and why any hope in the immediate outer world is a distraction from inner virtue. 
2022-12-2044 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE31: The Death of GodThe boys discuss atheism, ontology, and necrotheology. As well as the everyday presence of black magic. 
2022-11-111h 45The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE30: Keeping Hallow in HalloweenThe boys discuss the calendar, the ontotheology of time, light pollution and looking beyond the Christian/pagan dichotomy of holy days. 
2022-10-2754 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE29: The Sound and the FurryThe boys gather to with Jonathan and Alexander to discuss the strange phenomenon of furries. 
2022-09-2855 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE28: Ecological Escatology: Or, Shit to Farm to Table to ShitThe boys sit down initially to discuss the phenomenon of furries and feces, but end up instead discussion anti-industrialism, Tolkien, anarchism, agriculture, and the natural farming philosophy of Japanese thinker Masanobu Fukuoka.
2022-08-0448 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE27: The Inner Kingdom—Asceticism as Escape?The boys are joined by returning guest Jonathan who wishes to critique and deconstruct asceticism as an escape from the true struggle. Cory gives an apology for the ascetic path as one that is not for most but nonetheless valid perennially in many traditions.
2022-07-203h 49The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE26: SubmissionSubmission The boys sit down with their French friend Semyon, a scholar of Pharsi and Islam and student-teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris, to discuss neo-Platonism’s influence in Islamic and Christian thought, and its relationship to universalist thought in both traditions.
2022-06-1551 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE25: God will be All in AllThe boys discuss salvation, Calvinism, universalism, and the history of soteriology. 
2022-06-0451 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE24: My Milkshake Brings All the Horses to the YardThe boys discuss the culinary achievements of White Castle milkshakes, Lexington’s heritage as both the Athens of the West and the Horse Capital of the world and, in honor of Derby Day, the philosophy of sports. 
2022-05-1354 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE23: Interview with an ExorcistThe boys join Daniel, a long-time friend of Cory’s, renegade exorcist, lay theologian, and metaphysician. They discuss spirits, the occult, djinn, the nature of demons, why Satan rebelled, and more. 
2022-03-311h 35Harbor
HarborEpisode 10: Shiver in Sweat - Harbor Season 2Who doesn’t love camping?! - harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Coarse Language, Gore, Blood, Depressive episodes, Hostage-taking, Overt Violence. CAST Valen - Samantha Weiler, Sedum - Marcus Cannello, Fergum - Joseph Rathorn, Leah - M. Kate McCulloch, Samson - Z Reklaw, Al - Faraday Roke, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Mia - Erin M. Banta, Crux - John Peacock, William - Jonathan Hallowell,  J - Joseph Rathorn, Becker - Cory Moosman, Helena - Rachel McCulloch. CREW Script Editor, Jacque Rei...
2022-03-271h 01The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE22: Philosophy of Education: Beyond Truth and FalsityThe boys discuss Cory’s misadventures in his youth doing educational reconnaissance, then St. John of Damascus’ strange propagandistic attack on Islam but why it scandalizes only modern Christians. For dessert, a foray into the very notions and hierarchies of truth at play in modernity and their evolutions parallel to academia and why the latter must be burned to the ground for there to be any hope of a true education, to rise from its ashes like a Phoenix. 
2022-03-231h 04Harbor
HarborEpisode 9: The Wounds We Want - Harbor Season 2There’s got to be a morning after… and here it is! - harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Talk of Death, Manipulation, Stalking, Drugging, Coarse Language, Overt Sexual Interactions, Sexual Situations, Talk of Abuse, Threats, Threats of Violence, Gaslighting, Violence. CAST Al - Faraday Roke, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Samson - Z Reklaw, Mia - Erin M. Banta, J - Joseph Rathorn, Crux - John Peacock, Sedum - Marcus Cannello, Valen - Samantha Weiler, William - Jonathan Hallowell, Becker - Cory Moosman, Fergum - Jo...
2022-02-2654 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE21: Beyond the 50 Minute Hour: The AlchemistThe boys pull a Lacan and go over the 50 minute hour with our special guest Ryan, a psychonaut alchemist, as they explore the darker depths of the Pharmakon. We apologize for the electronic buzz on Ryan's mic. During the recording session, the mic cable came loose and caused an un-fixable electronic sound in the audio. We hope it isn't too distracting.
2022-02-222h 05Harbor
HarborEpisode 8: High Voltage- Harbor Season 2Sparks won't stop flying! - harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Talk of Death, Manipulation, Coarse Language, PTSD symptoms, Physical Violence, Taser Sounds, Violence Against Animals, Smoking, Bruising, Overt Sexual Interactions, Sexual Situations. CAST Crux - John Peacock, Valen - Samantha Weiler, Al - Faraday Roke, William - Jonathan Hallowell, Samson - Z Reklaw, Roose - Jacque Reiman, Kevin - Brendan Kane, Glenda - Gretchen Ho, Becker - Cory Moosman, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Leah - M. Kate McCulloch, Daisha and Meadows - Danielle...
2022-02-0752 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE20: Raped by MagicThe boys discuss magic, pharmakon, and the inevitability of all things mystical. 
2022-02-0655 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE19: In the Garden of EdenJonathan returns to discuss with the boys good and evil, the garden of Eden, moralism, the life of Crowley, and Plato’s concept of the good. 
2022-02-0154 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE18: Beyond Good and EvilThe boys sit down with returning guest Jonathan (of seminal fame) to discuss the illusion of morality, the failure of the west to deal with the Euthyphro dilemma, caste hierarchy as the medium of determining one’s ethical status and rules, and the theology of St. Dionysius the Areopagite who discovered the God beyond good and evil long before Nietzsche.
2022-01-0751 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE17: Deus Ex MachinaThe boys meet up with a physicist and AI aficionado to discuss the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, the philosophy of science, and the mythology of epistemological certainty.
2021-12-2045 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE16: Cognitive Behavioral Tyranny, or The Death of PsychologyThe boys discuss the rise and fall of psychology and its inherent relation to religion.
2021-12-0443 minHarbor
HarborEpisode 4: Skeletons and Secrets- Harbor Season 2The happiest Halloween.  harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Coarse Language, Drunkness, Gore, Death/Dismemberment of Animals, Concepts of Police Brutality, Insect Attack, Guns, Gun Shots, Baby Cries, Fire. CAST Leah - M. Kate Mculloch, Teeny - Catherine McGuire, Sedum - Marcus Cannello, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Samson - Z Reklaw, J - Joseph Rothorn, Al - Faraday Roke, Valen - Samantha Weiler, Roose - Jacque Reiman, Deputy Ryan - AJ Carter, Cop 2 (Burt) - Aud Andrews, Glenda - Gretchen Ho, Becker - Cory M...
2021-11-2746 minHarbor
HarborEpisode 3: Dead Seeds Grow- Harbor Season 2Don't remember planting these...  harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Burn Scarring, Mentions of Sexual Harassment, Smoking, Coarse Language, PTSD Symptoms, Car Speeding, Mentions of Gore, Unsolicited Touch, Mentions of Forced Drugging, Concepts of Police Brutality. CAST Al - Faraday Roke, Becker - Cory Moosman, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Samson - Z Reklaw, J - Joseph Rothorn, Harold - Chef Goldblum, William - Jonathan Hallowell, Crux - John Peacock, Valen - Samantha Weiler, Roose - Jacque Reiman, Mia - Erin M. Banta, Kevin - B...
2021-11-1248 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE15: The Return of the Repressed & the Twin Towers of BabelThe boys return from hiatus to discuss what’s been happening during their absences, Freud, Jung, Kant, and 9/11
2021-11-0850 minHarbor
HarborEpisode 1: Old Haunts - Harbor Season 2The leaves are falling. harborpodcast.com For mature audiences only, listener discretion advised. Content Warnings: Coarse Language, Death, PTSD Symptoms, Burn Scarring, Blood, Animal Death. CAST Al - Faraday Roke, Narrator - Kiarra Osakue, Liwroc - Jenna Melissa Wilcox, William - Jonathan Hallowell, Samson - Z Reklaw, Crux - John Peacock, Becker - Cory Moosman, Kevin - Brendan Kane, Stranger - Avi Mercury, Valen - Samantha Weiler, Glenda - Gretchen Ho, J and Fergum- Joseph Rothorn, Sedum - Marcus Cannello, Roose - Jacque Reiman, Leah - M. Kate Mculloch...
2021-10-2253 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE14: The Perennial Tradition Contra Modernist Ecumenism: Evangelism of the Logos in the HeartThe boys return to discuss the highly misunderstood perennial or Hermetic tradition. Are all religions true? Don’t they all contradict each other? What is the Dao, the Way, the Logos, the Light?
2021-08-291h 52The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE13: The Grand Illusionthe boys discuss the illusion of self, identity, and the soul (psyche)
2021-08-2246 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE12: Metapolitical AnimalsThe boys discuss Ivan Ilyin, Dugin, 4th political theory, and the woes of mankind. 
2021-08-041h 08The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE11: The Philosopher’s StoneThe boys continue their discussion on alchemy and the secret arts of the initiated. 
2021-07-2750 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE10: Riding the Tiger: Seminal Retention, Paliogenesis, and the Alchemical Traditions in the Modern AgeThe boys have a special guest on to discuss alchemy and the ancient wisdoms of retaining one’s semen.
2021-07-151h 03The 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE9: Pharmakon, Magic, and ShamanismThe boys discuss pharmakon per Plato and the Bible, the nature of magic, shamanism and its relation to psychoanalysis and the media, hypnotism, and the ontotheology of eye contact
2021-06-1146 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE8: Here Be (More) DemonsThe boys return to discussing the demons and the occult, including vampire cults, voodoo dolls, giants, and the levels of demonic possession.
2021-04-2448 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE7: "Here be Demons"The boys discuss the realm of the demons, spirits, the occult, and their everyday effects on the world and ourselves.
2021-04-0950 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE6: Sexuality and Its DiscontentsThe boys discuss ideology as fashion and sexuality as identity, and how unique modernity is in respect to sexuality and sexual identity compared to the rest of history.
2021-03-2043 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE5: Meditations on the TarotThe boys give a quick rundown of tarot and how it got corrupted in the enlightenment and the new age into becoming a divinatory art, but that at heart it has nothing to do with the "occult" or divination, and proceed to give a live reading to one of Calvin's friends, Hank.
2021-03-1453 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE4: The Myth of "History"The boys discuss over a nice pipe the (false) dichotomies of lucid dreaming and astral projection, myth and history, monotheism and polytheism, esoteric and exoteric, science and faith, dragons and dinosaurs, the word of God, and The Word of God.
2021-03-0652 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE3: The Subliminal Object of IdeologyThe boys discuss wine moms, St. Dionysius the Areopagite in relation to Aquinas and the west, ideology, and the subliminal object of ideology.
2021-02-2845 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE2: The Hauntology of the Pornographic ImageCory and the gang discuss icons, Plato's Phaedrus, the danger of photography, art, the Unabomber, and the perversion of religion towards the totalizing ideology of our pornographic spectacle of the modern world.
2021-02-1447 minThe 50 Minute Hour
The 50 Minute HourE1: Hail! Initiation!Hail! Initiation! Welcome to the first episode of "The 50 Minute Podcast!" In today's podcast, Cory Banta (host) discusses his background. Cory explains who he is, where he's from, his education, and some of what he believes. We hope you enjoy the podcast, and we are excited to bring you episode two next week. 
2021-01-3153 minHarbor
HarborEpisode 8 : Dry Rot - Harbor Season 1It's been festering.  Find scripts on our website harborpodcast.com Written, Directed and Edited by Faraday Roke. Assistant Direction and Script Editing by Joseph Rothorn. In association with Tartarus Jenny Studios. Feel free to share, comment, and review- its all so very appreciated by this indie production! CAST Al Greer - Faraday Roke Samson Greer - Z Reklaw Leah Greer - M. Kate Mculloch Narrator - Kiarra Osakue William Kappel - Jonathan Hallowell Crux Prosody - Jack Peacock B...
2019-11-2246 min