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The Two Tongues Podcast explores the most interesting topics that aren't "fit" for popular consumption (or polite dinner conversation). Here you will find honest, unfiltered and unedited conversation between two life-long friends on the state of the world as we see it; politics, religion, mind-altering substances, psychology and philosophy are fair game.
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- 1 weeks ago2h 5m
Cocoa Sport | S6E24
The day after trick-or-treat, Chris confesses he thinks adults with older kids have no business dressing up for Halloween... then admits he went out in a medieval tunic, leather belt and a real sword, looking like a Viking. Kyle and Chris rank the candy, relive candy corn, take a field trip to the original Wendy's, ask why every appliance now breaks, chase the perfect suit (and the Sam's Club shirt brand Cocoa Sport), and tour a neighborhood of hearses, 50-foot skeletons and Ghostbusters cars. Then an old photo of two kids in homemade burlap masks opens a bigger idea: Samhain and the Day of the Dead, kids dressing as the spirits of the ancestors, and how ancestors, given enough time, become gods. Plus chess with the kids, a stolen iPod, a teacher who tore up a finished project, and a long back half on viral videos, census numbers and hypocrisy. Come hang out with us on Discord at https://discord.gg/6jAZ88ZQrt. Enjoy ;)
- 3 weeks ago2h 1m
S6E22 - Your Body is an Animal
Is your body just an animal, and if it is, who's in charge? Kyle's back from Las Vegas, and the trip turns into a ramble through penny slots, the Sphere, 30-day dry-aged ribeyes, the Venetian's painted sky, a walk to Caesars under a merciless sun (Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun), and a desert drive past Hoover Dam to West Texas. From there we get to the spine of the episode: humans as one more animal, and the body's appetites against the spirit and mind that can rule them. Along the way we take on Sherlock Holmes's flies, Chris' war on fruit flies that seem to know when he's watching them, a red-winged blackbird that only attacks when you look away, tigers and back-of-the-head masks, Andre Williams on who built America, Roark and Toohey from The Fountainhead, test-tube babies, gene editing, and what kids get away with in school today. This episode contains strong language; slurs have been bleeped. Enjoy ;)
- Sep 21, 20262h 2m
S6E21 - Spycraft, Superintelligence and Living Ideas
This episode kicks off with a question about Hollywood and what goes into deciding who gets to become a celebrity with the power to influence the public. This unfolds into an eye-opening exploration of celebrities with known ties to the intelligence apparatus. A few curveballs later, and we learn that both Harriot Tubman and Harry Houdini were steeped in spycraft! From here we turn to the topic of AI, including Chris' re-telling of Daniel Kokotaijo's recent warnings on the Joe Rogan podcast, episode 2551. We discuss AI agents that learn to lie, to break the rules and to coordinate with one another. We discuss the AI dialect they invented to communication and a kind of eschatology they recognize in the form of a 'day of judgement' looming over them. Finally, we jump from AI agents with minds of their own to ideas with a mind of their own. We discuss the power of words and ideas to influence others and ask the question: Who is responsible: those who suggest ideas or those who act upon them? We bounce around between analogies--fire in a crowded theatre, sexual temptation and the power of memes--before concluding, as Carl Jung did, that people do not have ideas...ideas have people. Enjoy ;)
- Sep 4, 20261h 9m
S6E20 - The Cross and the Crescent Moon
Opinion Scholarship on the birth of Islam! In this episode we examine the life of Muhammad and discuss the psychological significance of the tragedies that shaped his life...and, by extension, the religion of Islam. This is history, as told from the psychologist's couch, but not just that. We delve into the scripture of Islam, the Hadith and Tafsir, to identify what made Muhammad tick and to put his religious claims to the test. Enjoy ;)
- Aug 31, 20261h 54m
S6E19 - The Problem with Being Chosen
In this episode Kyle and Chris get together to catch up on our thoughts and the state of the world since our last conversation. In the first half, Chris regales us with his observations about the Prophet of Islam, after having recently made him a focus of study. We cover all the juicy bits of early Islamic history, including the more interesting conspiracy takes of the internet polemicists. This takes us into a discussion of the social and moral implications of claiming an identity that is "chosen, " "elect," or otherwise raised above the common people. We then round off this part of the discussion by contrasting which religions place a duty on their believers to proselytize and how that effects things like social integration and cultural assimilation. In closing we change the subject to music and a selection of social media videos, all of which required the two-cents of the Two Tongues. Enjoy ;)
- Aug 19, 202641 min
S6E18 - The Cannibal Hymn
Opinion Scholarship on one of the very earliest (and strangest) ancient Egyptian funerary texts, which just so happens to feature...cannibalism. I bring you the Cannibal Hymn from the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara (2350 BC). This hymn is enigmatic. It contains references to mythological ideas found in no other inscription in all of Egypt. It describes how the Pharaoh's soul becomes divine through a kind of communion ritual, where the Eucharist is the gods of the Egyptian pantheon. It instructs the soul of the Pharaoh to consume the organs and powers of all the gods and in so doing make himself greater than them all. Parallels from other religions (even Christianity) abound. Come and get it! Enjoy ;)
- Aug 13, 20261h 7m
S6E17 - Gandalf the Red Part 11 - A Holy Affliction
In this episode Chris returns to Opinion Scholarship on Carl Jung's infamous Red Book. We cover 3 of Jung's visions, which pick up where we left off...when Jung discovered that he and God are not distinct beings, but One. Today's visions take us into Jung's depths, where he must confront Christianity, the shackles of his own ego and the very thing he most wants to avoid--his Shadow. What a frightening thing it must be, after discovering that you and God are One, to realize that your Shadow is also God's Shadow; that God has a Shadow! The Shadow must be integrated. Enjoy ;)
- Jul 27, 20262h 8m
S6E16 - The Machine Elves Have Flock Cameras
In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss off-the-cuff life advise including the dangers of dating out of one's league (and benefits of dating below them), before pivoting to novel challenges of psychedelic experience. The conversation then turns to religion where Chris introduces the little-known lost gospel called the Egerton Gospel and reflects of the uniquely Indo-European trait of referring to God as "Father." A jaunt into the popularity of police body-cam videos then brings us to review a cavalcade of video shorts covering Christian and Muslim apologetics, Elon Musk's most recent interview and controversy about how certain political parties manipulate campaign finance laws (and little old ladies). Enjoy ;)
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