Dec 28, 2025
We chat about our favourite movies, podcasts, games, moments and books of 2025 as we get ready to say goodbye to a pretty bad year.
Tom's Top Five Books:
5 Poetry of Rilke (Ed Snow trans.)
4 Aesthetics of Resistance vol II by Peter Weiss
3 Autobiography by John Cowper Powys
2 Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
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Dec 14, 2025
We chat about whether prediction markets are forbidden, Herbert McCabe on the goodness of God, some Mubis and some books.
Faith Within Reason by Herbert McCabe, OP.
Oslo, August 31st.
Wendy and Lucy.
Bring them Down.
The Smashing Machine.
Frost by Thomas Bernhard.
Austerlitz by WG Sebald.
Selected Writings of Walter...
Nov 29, 2025
We chat about the beginning of the end of the year, Herbert McCabe and the relationship between faith and reason, the movie Post Tenebras Lux and that show with Mussolini, and some stories out of Quebec.
Mentioned:
Faith Within Reason by Herbert McCabe.
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We're going to start reading Aesthetics of Resistance:...
Nov 19, 2025
What the heck are Green Gras Target Emissions Reductions. Okay, I was tired. This ep' we talk about some recent newsy stuff (Canada, Epstein) and then get into books, including the awful new print-on-demand by big publishers.
Mentioned:
Ottawa Citizen article about...
Nov 7, 2025
We chat about baseball, our new kawaii (cute) mini-PCs, politricks and a bunch of books.
Mentioned (mostly book hauls):
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich
Marcel Proust by William Carter
The Poetry of Rilke, trans. Ed Snow
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Postwar: A...