The World Via

Hello, and welcome to the World Via. Today we're going to delve into details that the devil himself may find vexing. We're going to try and explain that which defies explanation, articulate the indescribable, take you to the boundary of reason, and then take one step beyond. With slight hands and clear minds, we'll attempt to keep the code while escaping the code, confiding and confoun...

Hello, and welcome to the World Via. We are emotional creatures, possessed at times by passions beyond our control. Today, we're going to discuss how those passions arise from victory, how they arise from solemnity, how they arise from the simple passage of time. We're going to consider how the collective bubbling of our passionate brains binds us together, and how passionate we can be abo...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. We all enjoy having a little bit of wonder in our lives. A dash of magic that shakes us out of the mundane moment. There’s something about the unexpected, the mesmerizing, the unexplained, that brings us to a childlike state that captures our attention and blanks the mind. It's interesting that we enjoy this loss of control, this brief passage, in which our...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. We are presented with a challenge today. What do you talk about when you don’t have anything to talk about? How do you address an absence of a thing? Or a thing that is not present? Do you speak of the space around it or the potential that has not been realized within it? Do you ignore it, pretending that there’s nothing amiss? Is it a mystery that is meant to b...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. It’s a common observation that life in the information age has led to a greater ability to digitally connect with our fellow humans across time and space, but, has it also led to increased feelings of solitude and loneliness? Increased feelings of disconnection? As neat as digital watches, Super Mario and infinite cat videos are, it appears that we need real phy...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we are going to talk about creation, about shared experience, about context, about intention. We’re gonna wrestle with judgment, comparison, objectivity, and subjectivity good taste and bad taste. We will consider the deep cultural significance of the thong song and the gaucheness of Michelangelo’s David. We will discuss the vast swaths of human creativit...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. We seem to love binaries. The choice between two items juxtaposed, produces a minor thrill in many of us. Ahhh, good. I can cast my lot and demonstrate my knowledge and allegiance through a simple choice of A or B. Is it true or false? Choose the left or right? Will we win or lose? The consequences can be mundane or grand but the ease of choice, the reduction of...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we are bringing you a glimpse into the past. The past that foreshadowed the  present, which in turn, illuminates the future. You’ll listen to a brief foray into meaning, adherence and identity. We will discuss verticality, horizontality, touch on luminosity and explore teleology. Please lean back, support yourself against a planar surface and enjoy this b...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. When you sit and listen to our production. Your device of choice translates the digital signal of our recording into waves of compressed air that are received by your ears, detected by specialized cells, and then transmitted to your brain. Your brain translates these waves into the sounds of our voices, questing and questioning, our mirthful laughter and burdene...

Hello and welcome to The World Via the Simpsons. Today, we’re gonna take a ride down to 742 Evergreen Terrace. Sit back on a well-worn 3-seater couch, turn on the old flatscreen, and engage in a discussion about a cartoon. Will we be boorish or bratty, sagacious or skeptical, or will we simply observe with child or animal-like wonder at the behemoth that this simple show about a simple family in a...

Hello, and welcome to the World Via. We live in an age of complexity, surrounded by a rushing chaos that pulls our attention hither and yon, unrelenting from the moment we awake, until we close our eyes for slumber. How do we, as simple creatures, corral this mad experience, gather it up and concentrate it down so that we can make some sense of the day, some sense of the moment? Can we direct this...

Hello and welcome to the World Via. Today, we’re gonna talk about a topic that humankind has grappled with since we were facing off against each other for bananas on the savanna, many millennia ago. We’re gonna play some cards, listen to some music, probably not watch a Jet Li movie, maybe savor some metrics, sometimes running hot and sometimes running cold. There’s gonna be tragedy, glory, assymm...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. We humans are interesting primates. The act of sitting and observing one another with our eyes, our ears, our minds, appears to be a fundamental activity. One that we've been partaking in for millennia. We observe to gain new knowledge, to have old teachings reinforced, to honor higher beings, to laugh at lesser beings, and sometimes because those beings wan...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we’re inviting you to look beyond your mundane reality and envision yourself within a fantastic world. A world of heroes and villains, goblins and elves, fire-breathing dragons and earthshaking giants. Picture yourself sitting in a quiet inn, resting your feet after a long journey, listening to tales of adventure from the patrons around you. A half-giant,...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we’re gonna hold up a metaphorical prism and wrap our minds around the array of wheels, solids, spaces and spectrums that result. We’ll compare objective wavelengths to subjective perceptions. Try to understand why addition and subtraction both lead to black and have a debate about the blue debate while considering hue, saturation, luminance, and interfer...

Hello everyone and welcome to The World via Film. Today, we will focus our mental lenses on the topic of films, movies, the cinema. We will do our best to explore this visual medium in an audio format and to divine from discussion all that these virtual stages bring to our lives. Please join our theater of the minds as we discuss, Film.

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we are going to talk about liberation and freedom. No, we’re not talking about Independence Day, but we are talking about independence. We are going to talk about a state of mind, a state of being, and we’re probably briefly going to touch on the state of Washington. We are going to journey across the world and across time to try and understand how and wh...

Hello and welcome to the World via Tyrannosaurus Rex.  We are here to talk about the king of the lizards, T. Rex, themselves. The most famous dinosaur to ever roam this earth. We have hunted down facts, scavenged for information, lorded over mental labors, to bring you our definitive take on this definitive creature. We hope that our time with this beast from ancient times will fill your time with...

Hello and welcome to The World Via. Today, we’re going to sit back, raise a glass, and commune with our past, with our present and with our future. We’re going to journey from the field to the farmhouse, from the brewhouse to the pub. We’ll wonder at the partnership between man and microbe and how a simple molecular byproduct can help us all get along. We’ll consider gravity and effervescence, IBU...

Welcome to the World via Time. Today, Brian and I will be spending time with time. Trying to understand it in our specious present, hoping to provide explanation and entertainment for your near and possibly distant futures. Trying to wrap our arms and our minds around our perceptions. Around this thing that we experience every day, but may or may not, actually exist. Please join us in our journey...

Hello and Welcome to the World Via. Please make yourself comfortable and allow us to provision your mind with all that it needs, as you spend some time in our intellectual home. Today, we’re going to try to bring the outside inside and to consider what the inside looks like from the outside. We’ll discuss the common ground held by motels, sub shops, cocktail lounges, and theme parks. We’ll contras...

Welcome to today’s episode, where we will discuss Elections. We are going to research, dissect, discuss, pontificate about, to try to understand the world around us a little better, and hopefully help you understand the world around you a little better, or if nothing else, mildly entertain you for a bitsy. Welcome to the World via Elections. 

Hello and Welcome to the World Via. Today we will be discussing a duality of sorts. A state of presence or absence. We will discuss the impact of this duality on the mind, on the individual, on organizations, and on society. We will ensure that you have our complete focus and we hope that, in turn, you will focus on us, if even for a brief time. We will consider your freedoms and our own freedoms...

Hello and welcome to the World Via. Today, we’re going to talk about all there is to to talk about. We’re going to engage with anything and everything, as long as it exists, or we can convince each other that it exists. We’re going to be grounded, we’re going to be present, we’re going to be more than simple representations, although perhaps that’s all we really are. Let’s get ontological, baby, t...

Here today on The World Via, we’re gonna take a mental ramble through the great outdoors and talk about what it’s like to walk about. We are going to take a little wander, take a little trek. We’re gonna discuss what it was like to wander the world in ancient times, what it was like to wander the world in industrial times, what people do nowadays, in the present day, to experience nature, to get a...