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On Spoon and Fork's war, the father of all things (Heraclitus), the Pyramids and Sphinx (Black Athena, Phaedrus, Origins and History of Consciousness), and the Your Sanctuary spots through Magnet Hill and Pink Cloud. But the second half of the recording is all a Museum Day, and can be safely skipped

Poo's training in Dalaam, Mu in Zen, some Siddhartha and Tao Te Ching

Summers (with a brief stopover in Winters), Stoics, Epictetus and Boethius, and Magic cake

Mr Schmid (on anchor and on facebook: search his name and/or The History of Western Thought) and I discuss play and competition, science and magic, and IQ in EarthBound and here at home. Apologies for a couple of audio outages due to psychic attacks.

Everdred's haiku and Welcome to Moonside--examining Bogost's Play Anything and Huizinga's Homo Ludens, with a brief detour through postmodernism as characterized in McGilchrist's Master and His Emissary before we're rescued from the Clumsy Robot by the Runaway Five

Venturing across the bridge with Jacques Maritain and Heidegger, Hart Crane and Walt Whitman, amassing the fragments of the fourfold in Fourside.

My friend Steve and I discuss speedruns, Blockbuster, game reviews, embodied memories of EarthBound and FF7, and virtual novels

Dusty Dunes Desert, its caves and sesame seeds, and St-Exupery's deserts in Wind, Sand, and Stars and The Little Prince

Saturn Valley, with its ladders, recalls Dante, Bosch, Chaucer, Goya. Look up the art and the coffee break! For more along these lines, check out Olsen's Signum U and Mythgard, Mazzotta's Yale Open Course on Dante, and the Alexander Schmid podcast.

Jeff from Winters, his friend Tony, and Montaigne's Essay "On Friendship"