Wholesome and Heathen

Wholesome and Heathen

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Wholesome and Heathen episodes

  • S2E3 - Marvel's Civil War - Freedom v Security
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they delve into the clash that nearly ripped Marvel apart: the Civil War! With Iron Man on one side and Captain America on the other, good vs evil goes out the window. When it's good vs good, how do we know which side is right? Click play and find out. Send us your fan mail, hate mail, anything but spam mail to [email protected]
    32 min
  • S2E2 - Black Mirror - Is Reality All That Great?
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they deep dive into a wealth of philosophical conundrums: Black Mirror! Today we examine two episodes in particular - Season 3's San Junipero and Season 2's Be Right Back. How are they similar, how are they different, and why do they seem to take an opposite stance on the merits of reality? Tune in for the Philosophy, stay for the little things you may not have caught in each episode that highlight just how clever the writing really is! Send us your comments, critiques, concerns, and consciousnesses at [email protected]
    32 min
  • S2E1 - The Matrix - How Do We Know Reality is Real?
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they kick off Season 2! The Philosophy bros are back and examining a philosophy classic: The Matrix! What does The Matrix have to say about reality? Just how closely does the film tie into Plato's Allegory of the cave? What was the book Neo traded to some rando at the beginning, and why does it matter? Why is Mr. Anderson a much cooler name than you realized? All this and more in today's mind-boggling episode! Send comments, critiques, and grainy mp4 videos of you spoonbending to [email protected]
    41 min
  • Philosophy in Music... and Britney Spears!
    Wholesome and Heathen are back for a rabblerousing good time! Join your favorite philosophical miscreants as they discuss the philosophy hiding deep within some obscure musical selections... and also Britney Spears! What would your favorite philosophers listen to? More importantly, what would they head-bang to? Join us in a mid-season interlude into the world of musical philosophy. Let us know your favorite secretly philosophical song at Wholesomeandheathen.com.
    42 min
  • S1E13 - Nihilism, Deadpool, and the Big Lebowski
    Welcome to the Season Finale! Join Wholesome and Heathen as they consider whether life has any meaning at all! Enter the joys of Nihilism. Well, at least they try to bring some joy to it. Who are Nietzsche, Camus, and Nagel, and what can they teach us about Nihilism and the much more comically named Absurdism. And what do Deadpool, Rick and Morty, and the Big Lebowski have to do with all of it? Contemplate the meaning of existence with us at wholesomeandheathen.com, and let us know our many intense but endearing failings at [email protected]
    35 min
  • S1E12 - Existentialism, Fight Club, and Twenty One Pilots
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they tackle the mind-bending concept of existentialism. What is existentialism? Why does it give us crises? And how can Fight Club and Grammy Award winning pop duo Twenty One Pilots help us understand these concepts a little better? Find your meaning for life at wholesomeandheathen.com, or tell us how wrong we are at [email protected]
    35 min
  • S1E10 - Anarchy, Puppy Sounds, and Dragonball Z
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they embark on a journey into Anarchy! What is Anarchy, and why is it not like you probably envision it in your head? And you might think you know how V for Vendetta factors in, but why do Poison Ivy and Master Roshi of Dragonball Z fame hold anarchic views? These questions and more answered in our most rebellious episode yet! Rebel against our traditional podcast structure by sending comments, critiques and concerns to [email protected]
    30 min
  • S1E9 - Taoism, Winnie the Pooh, and This is Us
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as they discuss the Philosophy Taoism/Daoism! What is Daoism, what does this philosophy say about how you can live a complete life, and how does it tie into both Winnie the Pooh and the TV Dramedy This is Us? Find out here! Send any questions, comments, concerns and critiques to [email protected] and visit us for more content at our website wholesomeandheathen.com
    23 min
  • S1E8 - Stoicism, Captain America, and The Last Airbender
    Join Wholesome and Heathen as the calmly discuss stoicism in their first episode recorded together in-person! What is stoicism, why is it so popular, and what about Captain America and Uncle Iroh make them such perfect stoics? Be unafraid and unanxious of telling us your thoughts on stoicism at Wholesomeandheathen.com
    39 min

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Headquartered right inside your mind with a satellite office in your heart, Wholesome and Heathen represent the greatest philosophical minds of our time. Poorly. Learn with Wholesome as Heathen teaches Philosophical topics with all of the fun, and none of the pretentiousness. Learn, laugh, but you don't need to love. We're not that throw pillow everyone has. New episodes uploaded every other Tuesday. Because Tuesday is the worst day of the week and you needed something good.