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Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E5: Against The VortexIn our first episode of 2025, we get inspired by Anthony Galluzzo’s Against the Vortex to watch the cult 1974 movie Zardoz, featuring Sean Connery in what appears to be a prototype for the mankini. In Galluzzo’s book, Zardoz features as a surprisingly prescient story for thinking about techno-utopias (or dystopias), degrowth and deceleration in the 21st century, as well as bringing into view an under-recognised current of “critical Aquarianism” in 1970s counterculture, distinct from both the self-centred therapeutic turn (see Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self) and the “hippie modernist cults of technology” (touched on when we discussed ‘Spa...2025-04-301h 00
Lost Prophets#14: Pope FrancisWe co-hosts at Lost Prophets each have a slightly different story about encountering Pope Francis, to use a word which he gave a particular meaning. (Elias’ reflection on the Pope of the Peripheries is here and Pete’s reflection on Francis and The God of Surprises is here.) Theologically speaking, the encuentro refers to an understanding of the Catholic faith, not as a set of doctrines, but as an experience of meeting a person (or more precisely, a Person).In the wake of his passing last week, we reflect in this episode on Pope Francis as a Lost...2025-04-281h 08
Lost Prophets#13: A Pause to ReflectWe now have an even dozen episodes of Lost Prophets under our belts. Time to stop, we thought, sit down by the side of the road, and look back down the mountain at the distance we’ve come. Some key points that came up:* We want to do archaeology of the future, not just forecasts of the past (Russell Jacoby).* The counterculture at its most serious was a protest against nuclear weapons, technocracy’s essential criminality. (Theodore Roszak)* The lost revolutions of these lost prophets didn't end because they were irrelevant — they e...2025-04-0341 min
AoS Coach | Warhammer Age of Sigmar podcastIronjawz Orruk Warclans Battletome Preview | AoS 4eI'm joined by the intimidating brute force Aaron Elias Newbom from Warglamour and Age of Ligmar to preview the Ironjawz side of the 4th edition Orruk Warclans Battletome. In this discussion we'll cover the changes, preview the new Ironjawz terrain, Manifestation lore, check out the new Armies of Renown for Ironjawz as well as the combined Kruleboyz and Ironjawz under the Big Waaagh.
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Lost Prophets#12: Colette Shade on The Y2K EraTo understand the accumulating fractures of our time, it’s important to look back at key earlier periods and try to discern: What were we thinking? Colette Shade — who has written for The New Republic, The Baffler, Interview Magazine, The Nation, and Gawker — reminds us that during the “dream state,” the years between 1997 and 2008, we were thinking things like the following:* It’s the end of history—there’s no longer a need for politics!* The internet has arrived—we’re about to enjoy life without limits!* Gotta love butterfly clips, Lindsay Lohan, The S...2025-03-0544 min
Lost Prophets#11. Paul Goodman (ft. Gregory W. Knapp)It is slightly jarring to find the radically-minded Paul Goodman a welcome guest on the September 12, 1966 episode of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television show. The topic was “Are Public Schools Necessary?”, to which Goodman responds in the negative—or at least with an alternative vision of small, decentralized schools that emphasized experience in the real life of the neighborhood over stultifying curricula in quarantined classrooms. By this time, Goodman was at the height of his fame as an oracle of the New Left and the 60s student movement, a speaker so popular that students at San Fran...2025-02-132h 25
Lost Prophets#10. Dr. Strangelove's Prophecy of TechnocracyJust over one year after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear brinksmanship gone wrong was slated to premiere for a New York audience on November 22, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy meant a delay of several weeks before the film opened in late January. The critics loved the dark sendup of the American military and its euphemistic jargon for nuclear war planning (with its matter-of-fact projections of “megadeaths”) but some viewers were shocked by its irreverence and bubbling sexual innuendo throughout. Pete and I picked this classic movie—considered one of the g...2025-01-131h 03
Lost Prophets#9. Dougald Hine on Work in the RuinsWe first encountered Dougald Hine about a year ago through the wide mycelium-like network of Ivan Illich fans—and we were glad we did. His new book was just out and we heard he was doing a book tour of the U.S. quite a few years after his first visit here. Our meetup in D.C. for Dougald a few weeks ago was a rich and delightful occasion — a time when we learned what T.S. Eliot might have meant when he wrote: “wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”One of the U...2024-12-1859 min
Lost Prophets#8. Gary Snyder (ft. Peter Coyote)He’s been called a poet of quiet revolution: a revolution staged to heal the rift between humanity and the natural world around us. Gary Snyder’s distinctive spirituality combines Eastern traditions like Zen Buddhism, Western concerns with deep ecology, and Native American wisdom.Over his 94 years, Snyder’s career ranges from his early friendship with Jack Kerouac and the Beats, through his years in Japan studying Buddhism and Asian culture, followed by his acclaim as a kind of shaman of the counterculture and environmental movement.Not a primitivist but a thinking poet, Snyder redefines humani...2024-12-032h 28
Download Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space OperaStar Wars: Tempest Breaker (The High Republic) by Cavan ScottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Star Wars: Tempest Breaker (The High Republic) Series: Part of Star Wars: The High Republic Author: Cavan Scott Narrator: Manoel Felciano, Jonanthan Davis, Shannon Tyo, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dani Martineck, Kristen Sieh, Saskia Maarleveld, January LaVoy, Cavan Scott, Jessica Almasy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Space Opera Publisher's Summary: The Jedi reluctantly team up with the nefarious Lourna Dee in this all-new Star Wars audiobook original, narrated by a full cast. L...2024-12-0310 min
Get New Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionStar Wars: Tempest Breaker (The High Republic) by Cavan ScottPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Star Wars: Tempest Breaker (The High Republic) Series: Part of Star Wars: The High Republic Author: Cavan Scott Narrator: Manoel Felciano, Jonanthan Davis, Shannon Tyo, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dani Martineck, Kristen Sieh, Saskia Maarleveld, January LaVoy, Cavan Scott, Jessica Almasy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: The Jedi reluctantly team up with the nefarious Lourna Dee in this all-new Star Wars audiobook original, narrated by a full cast. L...2024-12-0310 min
Lost Prophets#7. Marc Ellis on the Prophetic DiasporaMarc H. Ellis (1952-2024) saw the prophet today as in a condition of exile, refusing to compromise with injustice, perhaps doomed, without protection, even without destination.It was while first reading Jewish theologian Marc Ellis’ writing that we realized the waters of the prophetic ran much deeper than we had first thought.We excitedly tore through several of his books on the prophetic in anticipation of our Lost Prophets interview with Marc, back in January. When we connected, he seemed a little frail but still ardent and eloquent. (He told us he got a kick ou...2024-11-161h 44
A Bend in the RoadEpisode 31: Directors Pete Davis and Rebecca DavisDirector siblings Pete Davis and Rebecca Davis are on a mission! A mission to get you to join a club. A mission, based on the groundbreaking work of legendary social scientist Bob Putnam, that led them to make a documentary: Join or Die: a film about why you should join a club … and why the fate of America might depend on it. They stopped by to talk to Roberta about this hopeful and engaging film and how it explores the power of coming together, the importance of real-life connections, and how joining groups can transform communities. Don't miss out on...2024-11-0635 min
Lost Prophets#6. L.M. Sacasas on Ivan Illich, Technopoly, and Human FlourishingHere at Lost Prophets, we are interested not only in the seminal mid-century figures we feature, but also in those contemporaries who have imbibed their ideas and are extending them today. So we were happy to speak recently with one today’s great theorists of technology, L.M. Sacasas.A few years ago L.M. posted on his blog 41 (!) thoughtful and provocative questions we should ask of the technologies we use — not just our computers and AI and Zoom, but also tables and alarm clocks and ovens. That inspired the New York Times’ Ezra Klein, one of L.M.’s...2024-10-2450 min
Lost Prophets#5. Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and The Highlander Folk School (ft. Stephen Lazar and Daniel Marshall)This episode takes us into the long history of the Civil Rights Movement as we talk about the methods and legacies of two long-distance runners, Ella Baker (1903-1986) and Septima Clark (1898-1987).Baker was a legendary organizer who espoused a group-centered form of leadership and insisted that deep change required the long-haul “spadework” of community organizing. Clark, known as “the teacher of the Civil Right movement,” built a network of Southern Citizenship Schools, which were crucial to the emergence of Black voting power in the early 1960s.We also discuss the influence of the famous Highland...2024-10-092h 39
Lost Prophets#4. Ivan Illich (ft. David Cayley)Ivan Illich (1926-2002) emerged in the late 1960s as a radical public intellectual. Many of his most radical insights have today become conventional wisdom. The wonderful essayist George Scialabba once entitled an otherwise generally sympathetic piece on Ivan Illich “Against Everything.” That was surely because Ivan Illich’s critique of modernity runs deeper than that of almost any other thinker of his time. His books attacked the unquestioned sacred cows of the age, including schooling, institutional medicine, cars, and economic development, charging them with “terminal counter-productivity”.And yet Illich was neither a reactionary nor a Luddite. I...2024-09-242h 26
Lost Prophets#3. Peter Maurin (ft. Kelly Johnson)Peter Maurin (1877-1949) was Dorothy Day’s great teacher and collaborator in establishing the Catholic Worker movement. He saw Catholic social teachings as the still-unexploded “dynamite of the Church.” If Dorothy Day is better known today than her close colleague, Peter Maurin, it is not for lack of praise from Dorothy herself. She never ceased to emphasize Peter’s influence and his role, noting that there would not have been a Catholic Worker movement but for Peter. “Peter gave me more than instruction”, she liked to repeat. “He gave me a way of life.”That way of life, a r...2024-09-171h 48
Lost Prophets#2. Jane Jacobs (ft. Roberta Gratz)The life and career of Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) is a remarkable case of the inspired “amateur” who changes an entire field of study (urban planning) merely by looking more closely at things than the experts had done. While not religious, she had a profound faith in the essential goodness and creativity of ordinary people — and consequently in our collective ability to co-create the places in which we live.In her later years, Jane Jacobs once recounted her reaction upon coming to New York in the early 1940s: “It was inexhaustible. Just to walk around the streets and wonder a...2024-09-102h 14
Common Good PodcastPete Davis: Nostalgia & ProphecyJoey Taylor & Sam Pressler speak with Pete Davis about Join or Die, which he directed with Rebecca Davis.The Lost Prophets PodcastPete's Interview with SamDedicated by Pete DavisBowling Alone by PutnamThe Upswing by PutnamSum of Us by McGheeAgainst Everyone with Conner Habib PodcastWeird Studies PodcastLindy Effect - Nicholas Nassim TalebThe MaintainersQuest for Community by NisbetFebruary 2nd, 1968 by Wendell Berry Small is Beautiful by SchumacherThe Creation of the American Republic by WoodOur Divided Political Heart by DionneTriplets of Evil Speech by KingBoy in the Bubble by Paul SimonJane Macelevy, Eddie Glaude, Frederick Law Olmsted, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jane Jacobs, B...2024-09-0538 min
Lost Prophets#1. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (ft. Rabbi Shai Held)For our debut episode, we felt we could hardly find a better example of our theme than the life and work of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.To recover the spirituality of Heschel is to re-enter a state of awe and wonder, especially if we recognize, as Heschel taught, that “God takes humankind seriously.” That is, we are not merely worshippers but also covenant partners in tikkun olam, the ancient notion of repairing the world.An acclaimed interpreter of the Hebrew prophets, a popular theologian drawing on his own traditions of mystical Judaism, and an activist unaf...2024-09-032h 12
Lost ProphetsComing Soon: LOST PROPHETSIn the coming weeks, join Elias Crim and Pete Davis as they journey into the land of the Lost Prophets, the mid-century figures who asked deep question and had big visions about what happened, where to go, and how to get there.Here in the mid-2020s, we are lost in the woods. We do not trust the established systems, and the established systems are revealing themselves daily to not be, as presently designed, worthy of our trust.Most of us don't feel like we are members of the places in which we reside, nor c...2024-08-3110 min
Discover a New Way to Enjoy Books With Full AudiobookEarthlight Audiobook by J. Michael StraczynskiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 698992
Title: Earthlight
Author: J. Michael Straczynski
Narrator: Brandon Mcinnis, Christopher Smith, David Lee Huynh, Erik Braa, Marc Thompson, Mars Lipowski, Peter Bradbury, Ryan Haugen, Salli Saffioti, Saskia Maarleveld, Stefan Rudnicki, Will Watt, William Demeritt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2:53:54
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-24
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionEarthlight by J. Michael StraczynskiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Earthlight Series: Part of A Random House Audiobook Original Author: J. Michael Straczynski Narrator: Mars Lipowski, Salli Saffioti, David Lee Huynh, Ryan Haugen, Brandon Mcinnis, Will Watt, William Demeritt, Christopher Smith, Erik Braa, Saskia Maarleveld, Marc Thompson, Peter Bradbury, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: An Audiobook Original from Penguin Random House Audio From the creator of Babylon 5 and Sense8 comes a full-cast action/adventure military audio drama set in the near f...2024-07-0910 min
Ken and Robin Talk About StuffNever Seen With a Windsock
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Elias Helfer asks us how to start researching real-world places we intend to use in our games.
The Archaeology Hut dusts off a request from estimable backer Steve Dempsey for a profile of innovative site diggers Tessa and Mortimer Wheeler.
At the behest of regal backer Paul Douglas the Mythology Hut checks of the theory of Iranian influence on Arthurian legend.
Finally the Consulting Occultist reaches into his tarot collection for HEXEN 2.0, making this also a Culture Hut installment about its creator, contemporary artist...2022-11-1854 minPodcast – Ken and Robin Talk About StuffNever Seen With a Windsock
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Elias Helfer asks us how to start researching real-world places we intend to use in our games.
The Archaeology Hut dusts off a request from estimable backer Steve Dempsey for a profile of innovative site diggers Tessa and Mortimer Wheeler.
At the behest of regal backer Paul Douglas the Mythology Hut checks of the theory of Iranian influence on Arthurian legend.
Finally the Consulting Occultist reaches into his tarot collection for HEXEN 2.0, making this also a Culture Hut installment about its creator, contemporary artist...2022-11-1854 min
Practicing Gospel PodcastOwnership Matters with Elias Crim PGE 73My continuing interest in making you aware, my dear listeners, of alternatives to the growth economies of various free market capitalisms and state socialisms/communisms, I have focused to this point on Ecological or Steady State economics. In this episode I branch out and introduce you to the numerous efforts being called the solidarity economy. To do this, I have as my guest, Elias Crim. Elias provides a broad and general overview of many of the concepts and practices involved with this emerging economy. Hopefully, future episodes will look more in depth at specific approaches.
Elias earned...2022-08-2255 min
Pro Politics with Zac McCraryDave Wasserman on All Things Elections Analysis & RedistrictingSend us a textDave Wasserman, a Senior Editor at the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, is universally regarded as one of the foremost election analysts on the planet - especially when it comes to US House races. In this conversation, Dave talks his early obession with all things politics, how he turned that into a job at the Cook Report, his approach to political analysis, the story behind his twitter catchphrase "I've seen enough", and his take on both the 2022 redistricting developments & overall House playing field. IN THIS EPISODE…Dav...2022-03-2954 min