Diogenes Club

This conversation is entirely about impact vs intent — and taking ownership and accountability for that impact no matter the intent. Intelligent humaning is the refusal to outsource accountability onto others, and the discipline to live with the consequences of your actions and values . So we are owning that accountability. As we end the discussion, we point out a serious attack on the disabled Ve...

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“Listen louder, and hear more” ~ Nick Paro Diogenes In Review This episode adds a new layer to the Diogenes Club - and brings us back to our core - to connect the show’s masculinity work to its civics work. Earlier episodes tracked spectacle, the food-supply squeeze, the machinery of technofascism; this one argues that a step forward for all of this is a single transferable skill, practiced at eve...

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Diogenes In Review With Walter resting, Nick Paro, Dr. Eric Lullove, and a returning Evan Fields spend an hour and fifteen minutes arguing that burnout is the operating system of this political moment, not an unfortunate side effect. The conversation moves across three registers — Evan’s recent divorce, Eric’s medical and economic forecasting, and Nick’s call to build personal infrastructure for r...

Diogenes In Review This was supposed to be the episode where the panel — Nick Paro, Walter Rhein, Dr. Eric Lullove, and (briefly) Evan Fields — sat down to plan how the resistance replaces, reclaims, and rebuilds. Instead the conversation walked through the doors marked “personal,” “procedural,” and “religious” in that order, and by the end Eric was naming the drift on-air: “we literally got away...

Diogenes In Review This episode was supposed to be a “half show” — Nick Paro and Dr. Eric Lullove catching up after a quiet week — and instead turned into one of the more clarifying conversations the Diogenes Club has hosted on how American democracy actually unwinds. When Nieta Greene of Disability Community for Democracy joined from the chat, the episode reorganized itself around a question the...

Diogenes In Review This episode brings two primary challengers to the same table — Chris Bennett , running for California’s 3rd congressional district, and Alex Rikleen , taking on the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate from Massachusetts — and stages a conversation that refuses the comforting frame of “good policy versus bad policy.” Both candidates are part of Citizens Impeachment , a coalit...

Diogenes In Review The thirteenth episode of the Diogenes Club opens on a title that sounds like a joke and lands like a thesis. Nick Paro has been working all night on the line — “What are they good for?” — and Eric Lullove walks straight into it: “I just know that they’re gonna take my vote away next week.” Within two minutes, Walter Rhein has named the moment as a finger-counting exercise — “Ca...

Diogenes In Review The twelfth episode of the Diogenes Club covers the full terrain of topics the club has been circling all season: grief, complicity, consent, accountability, the collapse of media as a public trust, and the ongoing project of building something new out of the rubble. If there is an idea embedded in the title, it is not that the groove has already been found — it is that finding...

In this 11th installment of the Diogenes Club — Nick Paro , Walter Rhein , and Evan Fields welcome special guest Frederic Poag — essayist and masculinity guru — with “The Ballad of Frederick Poag,” an epic poem Walter composed in Frederic’s honor. The ballad sets the episode’s emotional mood: this is a room of men who have chosen humor and solidarity as survival tools while the world outside burns...

“We have to purge Blue MAGA from our movement. We have to start having these ideas about basic humanity. We can’t be embarrassed about them anymore.” ~ Walter Rhein ~ Diogenes In Review The tenth installment of the Diogenes Club’s conversation turns inward, examining the structural rot of American institutions—healthcare, media, and electoral systems—while mapping a concrete path to democratic ren...

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Diogenes In Review In this episode — Dr. Eric Lullove , Evan Fields , Nick Paro , and Walter Rhein discuss geopolitical developments, domestic political accountability, and the lived experience of veterans navigating federal systems. Early conversation centers on news involving Prince Andrew and broader concerns about elite accountability tied to Epstein-related investigations. The panel then shif...

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Show in Review I’m going to let this one speak for itself — it is all about the new manosphere, new masculinity — giving ourselves the space to be intelligent men while building friendships and processing emotions. Actions You Can Take Call your public servants on important issues: * 5calls.org Join the efforts to unmask law enforcement: * safedc.info Sign the Move-On Petitions: * Investigate Pres...