Tales on Tap

Tales on Tap

By Tappan & SeanSociety & Culture
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Tales on Tap episodes

  • #5: Books, Bros, Bypass

    Recent books we read, averages might be largely useless, radical dharma, spiritual bypass, not regression after all, metaphors for clinical depression, refreshed with perspective whilst still collapsing. Bro, do you even meditate?

    Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/penguinmusic-24940186

    32 min
  • #4: Same Shit, Different Backgrounds

    WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS?!

    Piecemeal masculinity (and is it redeemable?), family structures, does the left go too far, Dave Chappelle, the Paradox of Tolerance, the Dunning Kruger effect & the knowledge/confidence graph, updating our models & challenging our beliefs, Rust from True Detective walking into oblivion, the human condition & suffering, UBI, and so on.

    Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/penguinmusic-24940186

    1 hr 37 min
  • #3: Introspection & Darkness

    Content Notice: suicide & clinical depression.

    Also SSRIs twisting minds & flattening affect, ultradian rhythms, nibbling holes, suffering, take the next step, the 10 thousand pound phone, narcissism vs boundaries, oppressor mindset with Fred Moten, and taking space.

    Moten, Fred; Harney, Stefano. the undercommons: fugitive planning & black study (pp. 86-87).

    Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/penguinmusic-24940186

    1 hr 17 min
  • SeanTap #2: Electric Boogaloo

    Continuing on the nature of reality & experience, Bo Burnham's Inside, meditation & observing our own state, monks still have to shit, road rage, subject/object duality, the hard problem of consciousness, parallels between therapy and meditation, scientific method, apples to kiwis comparison.

    Video about the Nature of Reality w/ Alan Wallace & Sean Carroll: https://youtu.be/pLbSlC0Pucw

    Music by penguinmusic from Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/penguinmusic-24940186/

    Podcast that we mentioned:

    • Apple: https://apple.co/3DxT71c
    • Droid: https://bit.ly/3u0TJcv

    46 min
  • My Worst Bike Crash

    I bought extra safety gear in the nick of time! How did the worst crash of my biking life happen? Perhaps a loss of focus and poor trail design. I haven't even made a video of this day yet.

    9 min
  • Pandemic XC Road Trip

    The tale of road tripping the USA during covid: where the good pavement is, who threw shade for mask-wearing, how many deer I hit (zero, just barely), and praying the raccoons don't eat through my tent.

    13 min
  • Intro

    I can hear my house from here! Thanks for listening & being patient with my first crack at pulling personal podcast parables from my posterior.

    2 min

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