Psychic Lube

By Vopiscus

Grease your intellectual gearbox with this collection of concise concepts meant to get the creative juices flowing. Philosophy, psychology, sociology, and political theory.... more

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How many episodes does Psychic Lube have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Psychic Lube episodes:

December 22, 2025 Ep32 - The Plagiarizing Ego
Why do we maintain our positions? I recently caught myself getting defensive about ideas I didn’t even come up with, and so now I present to you the concept of the Plagiarizing Ego.
Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
Practical psychology tech: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/PsychicLube
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7min
November 26, 2025 Ep31 - Semantic Contagion
Ideas, as neural patterns, live in the brain, can regulate and originate behavior, and can spread from one brain to another. In this episode, we’ll think about the concepts of semantic contagion and rational malware.
The Last Word on Anger https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
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12min
October 02, 2025 Ep30 - Conspiracy Therapy
How to use conspiracy theories to improve your personality.
TL/DW: The ways governments trick their populations potentially mirror the ways we trick ourselves.
The Last Word on Anger: https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288
Intro/outro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
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4min
August 03, 2025 Ep29 - Personality Programming & Suprahuman Entanglements
“...anyone who considers the basic drives of man.... will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time – and that every one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all the other drives. For every drive wants to be master – and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube
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9min
June 21, 2025 Ep28 - Goals vs Whims
You don’t need to “get in touch” with your feelings. Whim is the polar opposite of conscious self-direction. You need top-down alignment, not bottom-up, or you’ll be reversing the neural circuitry that gives us humans what little autonomy we’ve managed to evolve.
The Podcram Ep32 - Emotions, DrLaith al-Shawath:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UNtQ3QvZn6Vla75cxkc5O

Psychic Lube Ep13 – EmotionalSnipe Hunt:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kdOhZqZhUNPjW2LOkT3Cz
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook):
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/

An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook):
https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube
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6min
April 27, 2025 Ep27 - Keep Your Logic Tight
Multiple points in your argument can sometimes mean multiple points of total failure. Here's the case for narrower reasoning.
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube
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5min
January 27, 2025 Ep26 - You Snooze, You Lose
A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not....
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube

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3min
January 17, 2025 Ep25 - Social Tumors & Telomeres
Is overregulation analogous to autoimmune disease? Social Tumors and Telomeres… Cancer and Corporations… Immunity and Monopoly… Shmoke and a Pancake?
Here's a related episode of "The Podcram": https://youtu.be/acsXHqnbfQ0

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube
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5min
January 17, 2025 Ep24 - Psychosomatic Infarction
Can you shut your body down, simply by thinking the wrong thought? In the great open field of ideas, are there landmines?
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
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3min
December 29, 2024 Ep23 - Parsing the Soup
How do we categorize reality? What’s the adaptive value of intolerance? Get ready for the greatest idea since sliced water!
Intro theme: "Shattered", by Vopiscus:
https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar
Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/
An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/
The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK
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7min

FAQs about Psychic Lube:

How many episodes does Psychic Lube have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.