The Lenny and Tyler Show

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In this episode I interview Andrew Luber who I have gotten to know through O.G. Rose (Daniel and Michelle Garner) and their weekly “The Net” zoom gathering. Andrew and I discuss his interest and emphasis on Theme and how it arises from stories and conversations.  Some of this was admittedly over my head, but I feel a certain theme has arisen after the fact and it is just that: Theme always arises...

Just catching up with my friend Seth.

Dr. Richard Boothby is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of a handful of books on Freud and Lacan and Philosophy. I have been obsessively reading his latest two books: Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred and Blown Away: Refinding Life after My Son’s Suicide.  In our talk we lay out how Lacan theorizes anxiety and its relation to das Ding: t...

My dear friends it’s my privilege to introduce to you the one and only Matt Blakeslee. He has been such a wonderful friend to me for many years. He’s the guy that’s responsible for so many great things Billings including the Art House Cinema and Pub, CMYK (back in the day), multiple albums by some of Billings’ best musicians and his own album: Fare Thee Well — which we talk about a bit during this...

We’re back! I’m hoping to record and publish more conversations with friends once again on a more consistent basis. Kole is one such friend that I hope to record regular chats with.  In this episode we learn a little about Kole’s faith, his studies in Bible School, how it related to CrossFit, and then we end up talking a little about the Brother K by Dostoyevsky. 

This week I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Jamieson Webster.  I have recently been reading her book: Disorganization and Sex and highly recommend reading it as well as her recent article in the New York Times entitled I Don't Need to Be a 'Good Person.' Neither Do You.  I was thrilled to get to hear Jamieson's thoughts on the unconcious, superego, guilt, transgression, and how psychoanalys...

Ideal Ego: who we desire to become (curated Instagram image of self)   Ego Ideal: that for whom we wish to become our Ideal Ego (the person whose ‘like’ or ‘view’ on Instagram matters most, however the Ego Ideal can also be broader and more vague than one person. It can be rooted in what a given society deems important or the values of one’s family. For me, “The Murphy Way” can function as an Ego...

Daniel Garner returns for another wonderful conversation. Daniel explains in more depth terms like "givens" and "releases". From there we touch on Lacan's Ego Ideal and the Ideal Ego and how the loss of faith in the substantiality of an Ego Ideal may lead to the experience of a release. This then brings us to thinking of C.S. Lewis and his conception of Glory as fame/acknowledgement/recognition wi...

Alyse, Josh, and I discuss Barbie! I loved the film and started to immediately write an essay on it which I have attached below. I still have lots more to add to it. Alyse and Josh really helped to shed new perspective on the film for me as well! ... Barbie   Starts out with homage to 2001 Space Oddysee ... the girls only have baby dolls and therefore only ever play and dream about being mothers a...

Daniel Garner and I today got to discuss a wide range of topics. We discuss the possibility of relating to the Lacanian lack in a positive way that helps lift such a concept out of nihilistic tendencies. We talk about das ding, the other of the other, and its seeming similarities to the Holy Spirit in Christianity. We touch on relational or communal ontology and we talk a bit about understanding P...

I had the privilege to interview my friend Michelle Garner of the writing duo OG Rose. I've been enjoying and learning from their book "Belonging Again" and their Youtube channel. So check em out! The breadth and depth of their work is astonishing. Michelle and I got to briefly touch on their work as it relates to "givens" and "releases" and how these states of being coincide with a sense of belon...

Lenny Returns to help me prep for my upcoming interview with Mari Ruti.

In this episode I try to give my zoomed out understanding of the movement of concepts I see over and over in various Psychoanalytic theorists' work. Fall - (Mirror Stage - Imaginary - Symbolic - Real. Law - Castration - Loss of Imagined Unfettered Jouissance, ie. the Lost Object) --> Lack - (1. Constitutive Lack: Inherent, Necessary ... Restlessness, Hungry Hearts | 2. Contingent Lack: traumas tha...

In the preface to the Call of Character Mari Ruti introduces what she'll cover over the expanse of her book. That while many self help authors and gurus advocate for streamlined approaches (do these 12 things to attain or achieve x) to living the good life, she intends to show that a big part of life is realizing that struggle and hardship are to some degree necessary. And that, counterintuitive t...

My ol' pal and ol' roommate Josh L ... his last name is too complicated to spell ... helps me test online podcast recording services as I prepare for an upcoming interview with Mari Ruti. We talk about some of Ruti's concepts (following and remaining faith to the specificity of desire ... the summons of love)  as well as how do we tarry with the ethical (if it is so) component of sharing "I reckon...

In this episode I am trying to briefly cover the concept of lack and the two ways in which it insists in every human being. I am using the work of Mari Ruti, especially her book Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings ... an alternative title could be (if I'm understanding this correctly) Castration and other forms of Lack ... or Ontological Lack and Contingent Lack.  I plan to interview Professor Ruti...