Men: An Explanation Podcast

<p>In this episode, Tom and Tim talking about the urge to build and build, and to engineer and surpass. Whether building enormous cauldrons, building the highest skyscrapers ever, or building bridges to far off lands...

<p>This episode Tom describes 5 days of intense interaction with ChatGPT, in a business training which felt more like therapy or a mushroom trip. After 10 minutes he was locked in.</p><p>Tim and Tom talk about the...

<p>In this episode, Tom and Tim talk about peer pressure, starting with Air Jordans, fake Air Jordans, about parenting through peer pressure (for parents and children both), music, and how being cool even affects our...

<p>Tom and Tim talk a lot about KINGS, starting with King Richard at the local medieval faire, and moving throughout the eons to include the previous King of Morocco and then Charles I, Elizabeth II, Saddam Hussein and...

<p>In this episode, Tom and Tim discuss, in depth, caring for elderly men whose purpose and faculties have essentially left them. What are we learning as caregivers in this experience? What materiality are we feeding...

<p></p><p>This one goes deep.</p><p>Tom talks about watching, in real time, a family member’s final days.</p><p>Tim and Tom agree the topic is how to live life as if these moments- where real emotion and real...

<p>Hi there!</p><p>In this episode, Tom and Tim talk about loneliness, and easing it with AI friends. And the need for community and the seminal Post-Apocalyptic novel Earth Abides, and then Tim and Tom decide to start...

<p>Hi everyone! </p><p>Here is our podcast, episode #7. Tom wanted to talk about Taylor Swift, and how she’s the only hope for humanity against the scale of destruction we’re up against, but Tim brought up Walt...

<p>In this episode, we talk about early creative days, including teachers and spaces where this felt safe and nurturing. Then we all talk about Tennessee Williams, , Nick Cave, Homer, Nina Simone and Lauren Weinstein...

<p>In this episode, we talk about biographies. About reading biographies that inspire, biographies that keep up from living our own lives, biographies we should have avoided, biographies we should have read, and then...

<p>In this episode, we talk about doing things badly, and about exploring the edges of the spaces that we’re supposed to stay inside, both in digital and analog worlds. Tom worries about AI, complains about business...

<p>In this episode, we talk about the drawbacks of being curious, introspective people searching for meaning. We talk about strange people, lonely people and a bunch more. Tim reads the ending of The...

<p>In this episode, we talk about creative origins. Tom veers off into wanting a grand unified theory of everything, for any topic, and we talk about storytelling, how much it has created the time we’re in now...

<p>Here is our podcast, episode #1. It doesn’t even have a title. Tim may post it with a different title.</p><p>We joke in the first moments that the podcast might be called “How to not be an incel a*****e” but really...

<p>Dear friends,</p><p>This blog/substack will be taking a detour; it will become a sort of podcast, in collaboration with my friend Tim Miller, whose podcast about myth, poetry and story saved my pandemic and has been...