Lost Xplorers

On this episode, Kris and I talk about government overreach and what it means to be a teacher. What responsibilities do we have when it comes to giving information to children?

On this episode, we talk about the corruption of language, literature as a propaganda arms of simultaneously rigid and confused goals, the erasure of the past, a trip to Iceland, and a dream about wet socks.

Notre Dame rebuilding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clive James

Germaine Greer

Robert Hughes

Sentimental Literature

Blue Lagoon Iceland

Asbyrgi Canyon

Reykjadalur

On this episode, Kris and I do an extended “Week in Doom,” analyzing the ways in which the media is becoming completely untrustworthy. Kris closes us out with a surreal dream fit for a Jodorowsky film.

Show Notes:

Gay sex addict (from 2012, but I wanted to start the show with something kind of funny)

2076

John le Carré

Mushrooms you can read by

Mandate protests

Martin Armstrong’s Socrates

San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger

Largest Walgreens has a rat infestation

Handbags of the gods

Thor Heyerdahl

Kris tells a cool story about living next to Philip K Dick, how to be prolific, inflation, the culture of Europe vs. the culture of America, shamanic language vs societal language, swimming with sea turtles, conversations we need to have vs. conversations we can’t have, the attempt to make you the main character of other people’s stories, keeping clean, a man who liked to have sex with nostrils, what would happen if everyone got smarter tomorrow?, backward speaking, and cuckoo clocks.

Total Recall

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

On Writing by Stephen King

Marlene Dietrich

“Inflation is Good for You”

“Americans Need to Live More Like Europeans”

Turtle Island

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard

Collected Writings by Buckminster Fuller

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce

Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy

Documentary on Alexander Grothendieck

The “Say it Backwards” App

Rigging more sails, asexual superheroes, trust in news media at an all-time low, language and the construction of time, New Guinean bridge construction, feral bike thief aqueducts, aphorisms, risking cliche, and barn-owl yellow Death Star Alexas.

The Most Anxious City in America

No Sex in Movies

Climax

Twilight (1998)

The Story of Natalie Wood

Atlanta

Goethe’s Aphorisms

Kris and I continue our discussion of language and its roots in creating a thought matrix for maintaining tribal stability.

We talk about Facebook’s name change to “Meta,” how to survive the coming metaverse, reading media from other countries, “the unspeakable visions of the individual,” the connection of villages in Papua New Guinea, words as magic, and the way that language takes on a life of its own when separated from its web.

Also: David made up a riddle and a story about Kris’s new neighbors. Kris gives us a practical tip about dealing with violence and a dream about 

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Deductive vs. Inductive vs. Abductive reasoning

On this episode, we talk the male experience of love, love as a verb, is falling in love a choice?, Christian and Buddhist conceptions of love, loving your wife, the most romantic thing Kris has ever done, and choosing what rules your life. In addition, David solves a riddle.

“The Enigma of Amigara Fault” by Junji Ito

On this special Halloween episode, we talk about:

The personal theater of fright, relationships with the dead, headless Malayan pirates, the lost pilots of New Guinea, Elisa Lam, our favorite written ghost stories, and the difference between Halloween and the Day of the Dead. We end with a special Halloween reading from Kris’s book Sea Monkeys.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Lost Souls

The Color Out of Space

La Llorona

The Case of Elisa Lam

“Waltzing Matilda” by Banjo Patterson

Scary Stories to Read in the Dark

Ring by Koji Suzuki

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

“The Mezzotint” by MR James

“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

“The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce

The Shining by Stephen King

Circumnavigating the soul, neighbor issues, development of language as paranoia, Kris falling in love, the relationship between big cities and solipsism, the souls of dogs, narcissism machines, local bars, a remedy for self-absorption, the River of Truth, alien slogans, and dream visitations.

Show Notes:

John Donne

John Keats

Dunbar’s Number

The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman

The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan

Kris and I are moving the whole podcast behind a paywall! There’s this episode and then one next week, and then we’ll be doing the show on Patreon.

Tearing through the facade, hummingbirds, skydiving, where fear lives, the weapon of the apocalypse, how we get incarnated, the blue monkey-headed goddess of inquisitiveness, and arranging calendars by feast days.