The Methods of Rationality Podcast

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! In this episode we assemble the crew with chapters 3, 4, and 5. Next week we’ll see what this rag-tag group of meta humans gets up to in chapters 6 and 7! Also, did you happen across this looking for HPMoR stuff? Find it here .

Welcome back to PKD, the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick! We started off light with just the first couple of chapters to get our sea legs. Next week we’re reading chapters 3, 4 and 5. Also, did you happen across this looking for HPMoR stuff? Find it here .

Welcome the show where Brian and Steven dive into the weird world and weirder mind of Phillip K. Dick. This is an introduction where Brian explains a bit about who PDK was and gets up prepped to start our first of three of his books. We’re starting with Ubik, chapters 1 and 2 next week! (We change the name next episode as the one we went for with this one was a bit of a mouthful) Also, did y...

Buckle up as Eneasz and Steven discuss some of the feedback about this short series and then have an untamed discussion about how capitalism/capitalists are portrayed in popular culture full of all kinds of digressions and random thoughts. We hope you enjoy it! :)

Steven and Eneasz wrap up their discussion on the Fallout TV show and plan out future content.

Enjoy the 7th episode of Uranium Fever! Everyone’s always trying to get some head. In this case it’s more literal.

Our heroes get trapped by evil mutants! Plus we get some ghoulishly awesome flashbacks from before the end of the world. Don’t forget to check out AskWho’s awesome Substack. Eneasz recommended this reading of a book review of the Old Testament and it’s awesome.

Eneasz and Steven chat about the fifth episode of the Fallout tv show. Remember when we thought we’d keep these around 15 minutes each? Ha!

This episode gets us back into awesome character stuff and we had a blast (bomb pun intended).

This was more of a plot moving episode and less of a deep diving conversation starter, but we still found some stuff to talk about. I hope you enjoy the transition between the main episode and the last few minutes – the sophisticated among you will get it. ;)

Eneasz and Steven continue the discussion about the Fallout tv show and digress hard about the role of luck in our life circumstances. The outro song is from The Righteous Gemstones sung by Walton Goggins. :)

Eneasz and Steven wanted to chat about the new and awesome Fallout tv series. We were under the delusion we could keep this to like 15 minutes but you know us and that was never going to happen.

Is the 2023 winner for animated short a brilliant work of satirical performance art, or just bad, or just good? Eneasz, Matt, and Jen have different opinions, and fortunately we totally decide which one is right. Watch it here

Steven and Jennifer continue the dream in a discussion with the story’s author, Eneasz Brodski. The book is What Lies Dreaming . Read this book and buy it here . The short story this is an expansion of is Of All Possible Worlds. Check out that story and everything else he’s published here .

Steven and Jennifer continue the dream to talk about Joah, one of the protagonists of Eneasz’s book What Lies Dreaming .  Read this book and buy it here .

Steven and Jennifer continue the dream to talk about Andreas, one of the protagonists of Eneasz’s book What Lies Dreaming .  Read this book and buy it here .

The Real Fanfic Is The Friends We Made Along The Way , by Eneasz Brodski Original Text at my blog This audio version was produced by AskWho , using awesome new AI tech. It cost him money to produce this, and his Patreon is always open to people who’d like to fund more of this sort of thing. :) https://www.patreon.com/AskwhoCastsAI

While Eneasz is away, Steven and Wes sit down to talk about Marcus Verus, one of the three protagonists of Eneasz’s book What Lies Dreaming . Steven finally got off his ass and picked up a whole book without a podcast to motivate him. Then, not only  could he not put it down, he couldn’t resist the urge to talk about it. Read this book and buy it here .

Sneaking massive feels under the woke radar. Full spoilers for Barbie Links: America Ferrera’s full monologue Written post – Cinemanarrative Dissonance – The Subversiveness of Barbie Lindsey Ellis on Megan Fox in Transformers Short story – One of the Good Ones Patron-only post with over 9 minutes of additional discussion (edit: Meghan Daum’s version of Ferrera’s...

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