#28- How to Listen to Jazz

#28- How to Listen to Jazz

#28- How to Listen to Jazz Scott, Karl, and Trent introduce us to one of America's premier art forms— jazz. To better understand this music genre, the trio listens to the Clifford Brown and Max Roach album Study in Brown.  Jazz is a language on its own: it's explorative, improvisational, and an aesthetic experience. "Brilliant, beautiful [...]
#118- Monster Hunter International Part 2

#118- Monster Hunter International Part 2

#118- Monster Hunter International Part 2 Scott and Karl conclude their discussion of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International Book 1. The duo talks about what it takes to write an urban fantasy novel with a coherent worldview. There's great value in reading books that aren't "important." Karl says, "It's not high-brow, it's funny, it's a book you [...]
#117- Monster Hunter International Part 1

#117- Monster Hunter International Part 1

#117- Monster Hunter International Part 1 Scott and Karl begin their discussion of Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International Book 1. Self-published in 2009, this novel kicks off what will soon be a ten-book series. Scott says, "He manages to write about this world exposing these hidden monsters that seems consonant with the world I see." Monster Hunter [...]
#27- Chanting: A Religious Experience

#27- Chanting: A Religious Experience

#27- Chanting: A Religious Experience Scott, Karl, and Trent discuss the history, ritual, and tradition of chanting. Karl walks listeners through the musical structure and rules of different chanting traditions in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. Karl says, "For most people, chanting is an accompaniment for their yoga... it's something alien that we [...]
#116- Goethe’s Faust Part 2

#116- Goethe’s Faust Part 2

#116- Goethe's Faust Part 2 Scott and Karl finish their two-part discussion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. The legend of a man selling his soul to the devil seems to have particular resonance at times of moral crisis. Regarding modern Faustians and their insatiable appetite for expansion, Karl says, "It's the idea that this is [...]