The Podcast of Unnecessary Abstraction(s): Recent Episodes
Micah Redding
An ascending rampage up the tower of abstraction(s). Obfuscation, paradox, and irony are the hallmarks of this pedantic exploration of intellectual pretension.
Micah and Ryan catch up with Ryan's super-commuter lifestyle, summarize the movies of 2014, and discover how Matthew McConaughey helped us land on a comet.
Ryan and Micah once again buddy-cop this episode, with a review of the movie Her, a discussion of assault rifles and Jesus, and a how-to guide on escaping from a black hole or the mouth of the ferocious Snuggle Bear.
In this coming-of-age episode, Micah and Ryan explore the problems with Millennials and Gypsies, find out why hippies become bankers, solve deep theological problems with the Power Rangers, and give the world a sure-fire formula for success!
This episode doubles as a going away party, and a chance for a rival group of partiers to launch a mutiny and a podcast of their own. Will the whole thing capsize before reaching a meaningful resolution? Tune in to find out!
In this episode we talk about entropy, cynicism, misery, and Ryan Gosling, with plenty of #sports, #popculture, and #currentevents. Also discussed, why not to start a French Revolution.
Dave Albritton throws down the podcast rivalry gauntlet. Enter the world of Catfishing, numerology, the 27 club, Gilligan's Island, and Lindsey Lohan's secret twin sister. If you've been hoping we would take the show down a notch, this is your episode!
Micah and Ryan bring back scholar-at-large Robert Franks to pull back the curtain of the world, do some name-dropping, unveil the secrets of Kanye West, and discover the conspiracy behind Hollywood's obsession with the Wizard of Oz.
Ryan and Micah bring back all former guests of the show, for a massive megazord episode. Are there 'really only like five stories anyway'? The origin of ties, Slipknot, sweatpants in public, and books based on movies, based on board games, based on books.
This podcast has opened Pandora's Box, and once opened, the box cannot be repacked. We delve into mythology, internet radio services, popular chain restaurants, cross-species interbreeding, alternate histories, and Free Willy. Come along for the drive.
Pseudonyms, sociopaths, and podcasts that loop forever are some of the subjects that arise when Stan Edward drops in for some snake-eating-tail action.
Rob Franks drops by to weigh in on Ryan's Cartesian Anxiety, Dante's Peak, Dante's Inferno, how to break up with a girl who is wrong about Plato, and how to grab life by Ben Affleck's dangling participles.
Celebrity-of-sorts Dave Albritton stops by for a refreshing glimpse into the world as he sees it. We talk about how OCD is the new snort-laughing, how Sherlock Holmes is making sociopathy sexy, what it's like to be super-villain, and much more.
Schrodinger's Cat, the Epimenides Paradox, and Men of a Certain Age all feature in this remake of the episode that kicked off the show.