Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

Welcome to The Lotus Eaters! This is part 2 of our 12 part series on Homer's Odyssey that will be released every Thursday. The series was supported by our Patreon community, but we are now making it available to everyone who would like to listen to our discussions to accompany th ...  Show more

Welcome to The Lotus Eaters! This is part 1 of our 12 part series on Homer's Odyssey that will be released every Thursday. The series was supported by our Patreon community, but we are now making it available to everyone who would like to listen to our discussions to accompany th ...  Show more

In this episode, I discuss Jean Baudrillard's essay on chess from Screened Out. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion Tiktok: @theoryphilosophy IG: @theo ...  Show more

Ah the checkered board of mental masterfulness... a place where your heart can lead you to a queen or was it a trap... a Queen's Gambit!!! That's right, this week your ever illustrious hosts, Tyler and Markiplier, dive pawn first into Chess! Was it invented by the Roman Empire? W ...  Show more

In this episode of Podverse:We start off this week facing some pretty hard questions, we ask what binds us and how do we do it. We discuss how we as a society prejudge and why? You all, get an opportunity to drag me through the mud and ridicule me. We refer back to episode 2 for ...  Show more

Will and Mango go deep into their chess cave to determine: what's the most dangerous styles of chess, why did the game move from the battlefield to the royal court, and if a billion people to play chess, can that stop an alien invasion?