Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 In this season 2 finale, we discuss Plato's "The Apology". Although not an apology at all, Socrates defends himself in front of the Athenian court in his u...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We discuss Plato's "Meno", a dialogue on virtue. After somewhat determining what virtue is, Socrates moves on to determining whether virtue is innate, can...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We discuss Robert H. Frank's "Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions". As stated last week, this book gives us an economist's perspecti...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We discuss Robert H. Frank's "Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions". This book is a Very Bad Wizards favorite, so we could not miss it. F...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We look into the rich but confusing work of Lewis Carroll. "Alice in the Wonderland" has become a classic, and it seems well-deserved. But is its message any g...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 This week, our veteran philosopher clashes with an up-and-coming psychologist on the movie "Shrek". In this timeless masterpiece, there is a rich display of in...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We finally discuss almost everything that remains of Alan Watts' "The Way of Zen". From the history of Zen Buddhism to fundamental misunderstandings about...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 In the main segment, we discuss chapters 1-3 of Alan Watts' “The Way of Zen". In this introduction to Zen Buddhism, we explore the influences of Confucianism an...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 🔗 ⁠ The timeline of the movie explained by Christopher Nolan⁠ He starts drawing the timeline around 4:30 👉 In this second episode of our first ever movie review, we dig d...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 🔗 The timeline of the movie explained by Christopher Nolan He starts drawing the timeline around 4:30 👉 In this first movie review, Chris and Alex struggle to piece toget...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 In the main and only segment, Chris returns to his old ways. Through a fog of confusion and stuttering, he attempts to present the thesis of his future book which, unsur...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing chapter 5 of William James' "The Principles of Psychology". In this exploration of the automaton argument, James gives reasons for a...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing L. A. Paul's "What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting". In this fun twist on a modern classic, Paul argues that the norm...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 In the main (and only) segment, we discuss Paul Watzlawick's "The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious". This book is a parody of self-help books, and is...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing Camus' "L'Étranger" (The Stranger). While we begin as skeptics, our discussion makes our opinion of the book evolve throughout t...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We initially thought we would discuss Camus' "The Stranger", but we (luckily) didn't have time. It will have to wait for next week. 👉 In the main segm...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing our favorite quotes. Unsurprisingly, Chris choses Socrates, and Alex chooses Marcus Aurelius. But, just before we sink into the mundane and the pr...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. ⭐️ We apologize for the bad audio of Alex’s mic, it was partially unplugged during the setup. Luckily, in an act of pre-cognition, Chris chose to speak for 70% of the epis...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect by D. J. Bem. No, this is not a joke... his...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing What Is an Emotion? This paper is a discussion between two psychologists, Ralph Adolphs and Lisa Barrett, mediated by Leonard Mlodinow, a theoreti...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of The Republic. The discussion of the allegory has been a long time coming, and it certainly conf...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 🚨 Note that upon listener request, this episode was minimally edited to make the flow more natural. Tell us if you think this is the way to go in the comments. 👉 In the o...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by discussing our favorite philosophers. It should come as no surprise for long time viewers that Chris’ pick is Socrates, but he finally gives more insight int...

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives. 👉 We begin by setting New Years resolutions we actually intend to keep in a segment called "actual new years resolutions we actually intend to keep." You'll...

*New Episode Every Week* Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We have informal discussions about psychology and philosophy and make it accessible to the non-scientist and find ways to integrate into our lives and that of our listeners hopefully make it better. In the opening segment, we discuss Rosenhan's influential study in the anti-psychiatrist movement...