Studious

Welcome to Season 2 of Studious! We are switching up the format a bit, and leaning into the power of narrative. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

Horseshoes and corndogs... I swear it isn't a metaphor. Is it? https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

What's with the cat stuff? (Is this clickbait because of the popularity of cats on the interwebs?). Make a mountain out of your mashed potatoes, this might mean something. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Bots are his friends...

Grzegorz is given instructions on how to proceed with the anomaly. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Grzegorz works to unwrap the enigma around his current subject, Rex. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Who's the looky-loo checkin' out you know who? https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Rex enlists the sage advice of his favorite author to help himself begin The Novel that may just save the fate of humanity. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Well, after that bizarre encounter, Rex spends this whole chapter penning his big opus. Not really, he eschews the call and goes out drinking instead. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

How strong was that weed Rex was smoking? Is he about to lose his mind, like James Cole, the protagonist of 12 Monkeys? We'll discover that and so much more, on this episode of Kairos. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

You know in Fight Club when that guy keeps talking about taking human fat and rendering soap? Well, our protagonist doesn't make soap, he makes chilli. And he doesn't use human fat, just the tallow from beef kidneys. But yeah, feel free to draw parallels if you so desire... https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kairos-stuart-byers/1145254993?ean=2940186175650

Welcome back to Studious! We've taken a break here to write a novel, one I'd like to share with you today. Kairos is a greek word that relates to moments that are ripe for opportunity, but historically, one could view Kairos as limitless or eternal time. If we break our bonds to linear time, what does that mean for us humans? Will we remove other shackles as well? It is now on Kindle Unlimited. ht...

If you wanna debate, do it right. Don't come at me with some bullshit. Hone your skills, son! These are just the basic 15 logical fallacies that plague us in everyday life. If it isn't apparent, alcohol perhaps fueled this podcast a bit too much. Ivonne was saying, "ancient people," not "Asian people."

This week on Studious, we return to our discussion on free will and see if there’s anything we can do to combat our fixed trajectories. Spoiler alert: hopefully we can. Tune in and find out. Side Note: Not only is the essay a metaphor for life, but it also follows the logical rules of the narrative with its three act structure. All the world is a stage. Huh, wouldja look at that? Bill Shakespeare,...

This week on Studious, we explore the concept of linguistic relativity. Can the language we learn shape our experiences and perspectives? How much of our perspective hinges conceptually, and how much of it is culturally influenced. All this and more, this week on Studious. We also talk about linguistic relativity in relation to aliens. And somehow I completely breezed over Arrival , not to be conf...

In this week's episode, we talk virtue with Aristotle. Wanna know more? Listen to the episode, ya dingus.

Maybe you're into art or NFTs or both. Maybe you could give two shits about art. Well, this conversation is broader than just art or just NFTs, and delves into Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin saw the writing on the wall when it came to this new industrial age he found himself in. His views were reflexive of being a German intellectual in ju...

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel, meh. I’ve always been a big fan of humanity, and hopefully we’ll step up to the plate once again, but if not, you can’t say I didn’t warn you.

Remember that time I did an episode on time travel, and you couldn't get through it fast enough? It's a lot of time to cover in not a lot of time. We're painting with broad strokes here, trying to focus on the key elements.

How do you follow that episode about PK? Well, you just keep treading water. We follow the previous narrative with our introduction into Grand or Meta Narratives. We'll examine Joseph Campbell's Hero's journey, particularly through our modern myths of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and The Lord of the Rings. What do these narratives have in common with our own journeys through life? They mig...

We continue with our deep dive on Dick's How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Days Later here on part 2. We ended the last part on a bit of a cliffhanger. Truth, or someone's perception of truth here, seems stranger than fiction, and it is coming from a serial fiction writer. It's only fair to have all the facts at your disposal. Curious indeed. Let me know in the comments section wha...

Greetings one and all, and from PK, it's greetings from Disneyland. I myself used to live Magic Kingdom adjacent in nearby Costa Mesa. Today, we begin our exploration of PK's speech, How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Days Later. It is eerily precogniscent, precogniscant(?) of our current state of affairs, and seemingly it has informed these first few episodes of the pod...

OMG, this is like, soooooo post-modern. We talk about American Psycho and Blue Velvet, but probably not at any great length for you super-fans of the two. We glean Post-Modern Evil through the lens of our current zeitgeist and our relation to the concept of evil through media, and thusly, our relation to evil in our own lives. What is evil anyway? Who gets to draw these lines of distinction for us...

To the listener, this doesn't really have to do with Easter at all, but Christ did die for your evil ways if that helps you relate it to our topic this week. No eggs were harmed in the making of this podcast, unless of course you count the Popeye's chicken I consumed before editing this just now, in which case I'm most sure that they had to bread that chicken somehow. Did I say, I edit...

Are you looking to absolve some of that old Catholic guilt bothering you? If so, do it elsewhere. Here we explore the notion of evil through the lens of the metaphysical. What does evil mean in relation to the Judeo-Christian tradition? We'll tackle that looking at The Book of Job, as well as seeing how evil translates after Nietzsche proclaims, "God is Dead," through the work of Bram Stoker's Dra...