Christina Pazsitzky On Teaching Comedians Philosophy
Ryan speaks with Christina Pazsitzky in the first of a two-part interview about her new Netflix comedy special Mom Genes, why she believes that comedians should go to college to study philosophy, how ...
23 Elo 20231h 7min
This Is Real Power
Seneca, Cato, and Marcus Aurelius operated in the real world. They navigated within and around the halls of power. They had people working above and below them, and they needed to figure out how to mo...
23 Elo 20233min
The Biggest Lie In The World | Toxic Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
You may well have said it yesterday, or overheard someone else saying it, “Oh, I’ll do it in the morning…I’ll do it after I wake up…I’ll get to it later…I just need to do this other thing first.”It’s ...
22 Elo 20238min
This Is How They Found Peace and Priority | Just Say No To Future Misery
An explorer at Jamestown in the 17th century.A London gentleman during the Stuart Period.An unidentified person with the initials T.S. who lived during the Renaissance.Another with the initials E.R. w...
21 Elo 202310min
The Life Of Chrysippus "The Fighter" From Lives Of The Stoics
Known as the “Second Founder of Stoicism,” Chrysippus was a philosophical giant as revered as he was controversial. Today, Ryan reads from his book Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to ...
20 Elo 202324min
Paul Kix On The Civil Rights Movement And What It Means To Be Courageous
Ryan speaks with Paul Kix about his new book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America, how Ryan helped him shape his writing career aft...
19 Elo 20231h 31min
You Are Strong. You Just Haven’t Been Tested. | Only Fools Rush In
In August of 1967, Lieutenant Dave Carey was shot out of his A-4 Skyhawk over Vietnam. Soon enough, he found himself a prisoner in Hanoi, where he would subsequently be beaten, tortured and placed int...
18 Elo 20237min
All You Can Do Is This | Ask DS
Life is unpredictable. Events are uncertain. What can go wrong will. Nice guys sometimes finish last, bad things happen to good people. So much is outside our control.These realities are all well-know...
17 Elo 202310min
