Isaac Simpson joins me once again, this time to compare and contrast True Detective Season 1 and 2. Stay tuned for my next episode, focusing on True Detective Season 2. Subscribe to my substack at AstralFlight.Substack.Com Subscribe to Isaac at The Carousel ..read more

Lee, one of the people I admire most, joins me to discuss Apocalypse Now. He has written about it extensively on his substack, through the lens of Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, though we discuss the film from many other angles as well. A supplement essay for my perspective can be found on my substack, “War Is The Father Of Us All ..read more

Darryl Cooper joins me to discuss the archetypical significance of UFO's and AI as a "living myth" of the modern era. Are they real? Will AI replace humanity, as so many predict? Or are aliens and AI two different manifestations of the same Archetype for the technological age? To hear more from this podcast and get bonus content, including essays and podcast episodes that aren't available anywhere else, subscribe to my substack, https://astralflight.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profileand to listen to some of these episodes live and become par ..read more

Today we focus on Tarantino's later films, which I consider to be everything after Kill Bill Vol. 2 My guests are Spendo, who was on the first episode, and Isaac Simpson, who has been on this show three times before and has his own excellent podcast, which I've appeared on several times, The Carousel. Become a paid subscriber on my substack and get access to several paid-only episodes, including "The Ladies of Lynch," "Darryl Cooper on UFO's and AI," and "True Detective Season 2 ..read more

We got the sci-fi dystopia...without the cyborg killer cops! Today me and my guest Granite Mountain Movie Club, found here on youtube, discuss several science fiction classics and cult classics: Robocop, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Back to the Future 2,  Demolition Man, and Judge Dredd. Is America in 2024 better or worse than the future depicted in these films? Follow me on twitter @astralflite to listen to these podcasts live and join the discussion, and follow me on substack at astralflight.substack.com and subscribe for written content, bonus episodes, and paywalled episodes ..read more

Charles Haywood joins me once again, this time to discuss Elon Musk and the future of American politics. This episode was based on his review of a recent biography of Elon Musk, published on his blog The Worthy House. I highly recommend everyone go read through this blog, it's an education in history and political philosophy in and of itself. Follow me on twitter @astralflite and substack at astralflight.substack.com.  There's a lot more content on substack than on iTunes and Spotify, and some of these episodes are recorded live on twitter with time for audience participation. Also foll ..read more

I discuss Freud with Garfieldbot, writer at "The Egg Report" on substack. He's writing a long series of articles reconsidering many of Freuds ideas, which he thinks are embedded in the framework of the modern individuals understanding of themselves, their relation to the world, and the primary mode of describing human interactions for all of the 20th century. Perhaps now its time for people like us to dispel these ideas, and you can do so without reading a now out of print book, The Ordeal of Civility, by John Murray Cuddihy. This book goes a long way to undermine the veneer of science and pr ..read more

I make the case that American Psycho is a failed feminist critique of toxic masculinity, but succeeds as a film, with Bateman as the hero, despite the directors best efforts. I then veer off wildly and give a details breakdown of the difference in narrative structure between film vs digital storytelling, and explain the characteristics of post-modern film, of which American Psycho is one of the last. This episode was recorded live on twitter last year, follow me @astralflite and listen live and join the conversation. There's another hour of discussion available now on astralflight.substack.c ..read more

Giles Hoffman of Asylum Magazine joins me to discuss his experiences visiting the southern border and Iraq. Giles is also the nonfiction judge for Passage Prize, the dealine for which is March 1st, so get working! Follow me on twitter @astralflite  to listen to these episodes LIVE and substack at astralflight.substack.com to find more content, and visit Passage Press to learn more about the prize and subscribe to Man's World Magazine, an online journal that is going full print this spring ..read more

UK based painter and Passage Prize 3 judge  for visual arts, Matthew the Stoat joins me to discuss the state of art today, and we ask how can the work of art help get us out of the morass of post-modernity? We also careen off topic and discuss black metal and one of our favorite bands, Agalloch. Follow Passage Press on twitter and visit the Passage Press website to buy their books, and follow me on twitter @astralflite to join these conversations live, and on Substack to get much more content ..read more