The following is a list of audio talks (interviews and lectures) that I have found interesting for various reasons. They often relate to multiple subjects, so I have assigned each to the category that seems most appropriate.

Note: With a few exceptions, all are from YouTube.

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Most Recently Listened To (Unsorted)

• The Myth of Moral Justice, by Thane Rosenbaum, interviewed on Books of Our Time, 53m
• Patterns and Meaning in Music – with Samuel Andreyev, by Jonathan Pageau, 1hr 23m
• Parallels Between the Spanish Flu and Covid 19, featuring Laura Spinney, by The Friends of Belsize Library, 1hr 25m
• Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, by William Powers, 42m
• The Psychedelic Experience, by Timothy Leary [Audiobook] 1966, 41m
• The Etymologicon, by Mark Forsyth [Audiobook] 7hrs 1m
• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, by Michael Lewis, [Audiobook] 3hrs
• Journey Into the Mind – How well do you know your own mind? by Jeff Warren, 80m [Visual Lecture]
  The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton [Audiobook], 8hrs 19m
• How Mindfulness Can Bring Balance to Your World, Eckhart Tolle Interview by Dave Rubin, 80m
• Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now Explained, Interview by Jesse Sterling, Meetings with Remarkable People, 45m
• Enter the Void with Gaspar Noe, Excerpt from Conversation, by  Sarajevo Film Festival, 21m
• The Prisoner Puzzle with Patrick McGoohan, 1977 Interview by Warner Troyer, 37m
• Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless Diet Healing System, Prof. Spira Interviewed by Steve Prussack, 113m
• The Fix Is In Are Professional Sports Rigged? Brian Tuohy Interview on Leak Project, 69m
• The “so” panel on “Global with Jon Sopel”, BBC World News, 10m
• Adam Curtis & Russell Brand – March 2017 (Hypernormalisation) Interview, 72m
• Dr Robert Beck [Robert Otto Becker, MD] changing our native electromagnetic habit, Interviewed on Open Mind, 124m
• What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller, by TED, 19m
• Glen Weldon on Batman – Wired Interview on his book: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture (‘Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Podcast) 70m
• The Slow Cancellation Of The Future, by Mark Fisher – Talk at the 2014 Everything Comes Down to Aesthetics and Political Economy, 47m
• Is Global Warming The Biggest Fraud In History? Dan Pena Q&A Excerpt, 6m
• Why I Said Global Warming Is The Biggest Fraud In History, Dan Pena Interview Excerpt, 10m
• Michael Persinger and the God Helmet, Susan Blackmore Interview Excerpt, 6m
• Psychotropic Drugs and the Nature of Reality, by Michael Persinger [Visual Lecture] 49m
• Brain Synchronization – Michael Persinger, Mandy Scott, and Brendan Lehman – Talk at Consciousness Hacking, 2016, 54m
• George Carlin on Soft Language (Excerpt from his 1990 Special ‘Doin’ it Again), 9m
• On Nature and Media: A Dialogue Of Effects – Marshall McLuhan Debate at Cambridge University 1978, 112m
• Nicolas Cage Reveals “Nouveau Shamanic” Acting Technique – Excerpt from Interview on his movie Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, 2m
• God and the Brain – The Persinger God Helmet, The Brain, and Visions of God – Visual Lecture by Todd Murphy, 106m

Talks & Interviews

Entertainment

• Artificial Intelligence Test, by Mark Kermode (Kermode Uncut) 5m
• Ring Psychology and Calling Spots [Pro Wrestling] by Kevin Nash, 6m
• Why WWE Sucks So Badly These Days, by Kevin Nash, 9m
• Why Hollywood Movies Suck Now, by Anthony Mackie, 4m
• Al Snow Explains Kayfabe, 7m
• The Hero’s Journey, by Joseph Campbell – Teacher Edition, by RAW Spirituality (YT) 10m
• Remakes & Reboots: Why They’re Usually Bad and How They Can Be Better, by Rob Ager, 30m
• Strong Men Disappearing From Modern Movies, by Rob Ager, 25m
• Superhero Movies & The Powerless Audience, by Rob Ager, 19m [Visual Lecture]
• 9 Reasons Why Video Games Don’t Cause Violence, by Rob Ager, 58m
• Top 25 Social Message Movies, by Rob Ager, 55m
• 26 Reasons Why Post-Millennial Movies Are So Awful, by Rob Ager, 57m
• Post-Millennial Movies That Are Actually Worth Watching, by Rob Ager, 70m

Politics

• How to Speak Like Winston Churchill, by Boris Johnson, 6m
• On the MeToo Movement, by Slavoj Zizek, 12m
• On Trump, Brexit and Fake News, by Slavoj Zizek, 24m
• Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalitarianism, by Slavoj Zizek, 12m
• Why the News Media is Stealing from the Pro Wrestling Playbook, by Eric Bischoff (TED Talks) 17m
• James Delingpole on the Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism (Interview) 27m
• The President and the Press (Speech by John F. Kennedy, 1961) 21m
• Political Correctness and Postmodernism, by Jordan Peterson, 28m
• Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World, by James Delingpole, 48m
• The Diversity Delusion, by Heather Mac Donald (Part 1) 48m
• The Diversity Delusion, by Heather Mac Donald (Part 2) 49m
• Kayfabe: Donald Trump and Pro Wrestling, by intelleximus (YT) 36m
• Capitalism and its Threats, by Slavoj Zizek, 75m
• On the Bright Side of Nationalism, by Yuval Noah Harari, 90m
• Polarizing Speech in the USA, by Kathryn Ruud, 62m
• Surveillance Capitalism and Our Democracy, by Shoshana Zuboff, 83m
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff (on Triangulation 380) 72m
• Victims, Victims Everywhere: Trigger Warnings, Liberty, and the Academy, by Christina Hoff Sommers, 66m
• The Diversity Delusion, by Heather Mac Donald (Hillsdale College), 53m
• Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg, 67m
• James Goldsmith interviewed by Charlie Rose (15.11.1994) 56m

Society

• White Guilt and Victimhood Culture, by Slavoj Zizek, 6m
• Life The Movie, Starring Everyone (Neal Gabler Interview on The Open Mind) 29m
• Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridled Capitalism, by Slavoj Zizek, 16m
• The Dark Secrets of a Surveillance State, by Hubertus Knabe (TED Talks) 20m
• Erich Fromm interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958) 30m
• Slavoj Zizek on Pokemon Go, 10m
• Governing by Debt, by Maurizio Lazzarato (Book Review, Part 1), by Theory & Philosophy, 45m
• Governing by Debt, by Maurizio Lazzarato (Book Review, Part 2), by Theory & Philosophy, 48m
• The Collapse Of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter, 43m
• Western Man Today and His Choices, by Erich Fromm (1962) 45m
• The Automaton Citizen and Human Rights, by Erich Fromm (1966) 40m
• Psychology of Nationalism, by Erich Fromm (1962) 42m
• American Anomie, by Chris Hedges, 121m
• How To Lose a Country (Ece Temelkuran Interviewed by Paul Taggart) 83m
• Is Postmodernism the New Sophistry, by Patrick Lee Miller, 56m
• Retromania in 2014, by Simon Reynolds (MARS Festival), 97m
• The Myths We Need to Survive, by Yuval Noah Harari, 87m
• The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Dr. Joseph Tainter, 93m
• Madness, Drugs and Capitalism – An Exploration, by Dr Joanna Moncrieff (2014) 89m
• The Enemy Within: Tax Exempt Foundations (Norman Dodd interviewed by Stan Monteith, 1980’s) 59m
• Risky Business: Global Finance and the Perils of Specialization, by Gillian Tett, Financial Times (2015) 59m
• The Art of Subversion, by Yuri Bezmenov (L.A. 1983) 63m
• “Deception Was My Job” or “Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press”, Yuri Bezmenov interviewed by G. Edward Griffin (1984) 81m
• Norman Dodd on Tax Exempt Foundations (Interviewed by G. Edward Griffin, 1982) 52m
• Societal Complexity and Collapse (Joseph Tainter on Omega Tau, Oct 13^th 2015) 74m   
• Societal Complexity, Part II – Today’s Perspective (Omega Tau, Mar 5^th 2017) 72m

Media

• Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own, by Steven Jacobson, 9m
• The Real Problem With Fake News, by Slavoj Zizek, 10m
• Media Propaganda (Noam Chomsky Interviewed by BBC) 30m
• The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan (AudioBook) 43m
• The Medium is the Message (Interview of Marshall McLuhan, 1977) 46m
• Roger Graef Speaks on the UK Media and the Police, 76m
• On Starsuckers & Taking Liberties (Token Skeptic Podcast interview of Chris Atkins) 55m

Technology

• The Future According To ‘Minority Report’ May Be Now, by Phil Harrell (NPR, 2010) 5m
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr, 5m
• Connected, but Alone, by Sherry Turkle, 20m
• Atemporality (The High Bar Interview), by William Gibson, 27m
• Who Really Rules the USA, by Edward Snowden, 14m
• Who Will Control this Digital Space Merged with Our Brain (on Elon Musk’s AI Venture), by Slavoj Zizek, 11m
• Francis Fukuyama and Gregory Stock Interview (2002) 19m
• The Evolution of Humans in the Next Century, by Juan Enriquez (WGS 2018) 30m
• To Upgrade is Human, by Gregory Stock, 18m
• An Electronic Silent Spring, by Katie Singer, 16m
• The Future of Nanotechnology, with Ray Kurzweil & Robert Freitas (2017) 30m
• Assault on Empathy: On the Need for Conversation, by Sherry Turkle (with Marty Kaplan) 47m
• The Shift: The Techno-Human Condition, by Sven Birkerts & Dan Sarewitz, 43m
• Homo Evolutis, by Juan Enriquez (at USI) 40m
• You Are Not A Gadget, by Jaron Lanier, 42m
• Terror and Technology: The Unabomber (BBC Audio Documentary) 49m
• What You Need to Know About the Future with Legendary Futurist Ray Kurzweil, by Impact Theory, 36m
• Data Security and Privacy in the Age of Surveillance (Interview of Edward Snowden) 82m
• Drone Logic: Distributed, Ubiquitous Monitoring and the ‘Big Data’ Deluge, by Mark Andrejevic, 84m
• How Social Media Affects Us, by Jordan Peterson, 88m
• Is There a Posthuman God, by Slavoj Zizek, 112m
• The Rise of Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, 91m
• God and Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics, by Rodney Brooks (A.I. Lab 1997 Lecture Series) 68m
• Dawn of the New Everything: An Evening Lecture, by Jaron Lanier, 71m
• How Robots Will Change Us (Rodney A. Brooks Interview at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2002) 65m
• Evolving Ourselves, by Juan Enriquez & Steve Gullans (Talks at Google) 58m
• Jaron Lanier on the Future of Our Digital Lives, 87m
• The Future of Atoms in an Age of Bits (Rodney A. Brooks, William J. Mitchell, Rosalind W. Picard, and Yoseff Sheffi, MIT Technology Day 2000) 58m
• Ray Kurzweil on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society (CFR Conference) 61m
• Superintelligence (Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, & Ray Kurzweil discussion at Beneficial A.I. 2017) 60m
• Nanotechnology Debate (Radical Abundance, Part 2, by Eric Drexler) 63m
• Nanotechnology Q&A + Magic Nano-Sand Demo (Radical Abundance, Part 1, by Eric Drexler) 63m [Visual Lecture]
• In Depth: Drones, Phones, and Robotic Friends – Where Is Emergent Technology Taking Us (Aspen Institute discussion) 61m
• Interview of Ray Kurzweil by Computer History Museum Senior Curator Dag Spicer, 71m
• The Truth About Wi-Fi Devices, Cell Phones, and the Bio-Effects of EMF, by Katie Singer, 120m
• The Future, by Michio Kaku & Ray Kurzweil (2012) 64m
• Radical Abundance: How A Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization, by Eric Drexler, 80m
• Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions at The Turn of The Century (2000) 50m
• Mind Wars (Conversations from Penn State, interview of Jonathan Moreno) 54m
• No More Secrets, by Michael Persinger, 55m [Visual Lecture]
• From Game Boy To Armageddon: Link Between Video Game & War Industries, by BBC (2010) 48m

Philosophy

• 10 Themes of Stoicism, by TeachPhilosophy (YT) 22m
• Stoicism as a Philosophy for An Ordinary Life, by Massimo Pigliucci, 19m
• The Obstacle Is the Way, by Ryan Holiday (Book Summary), by BestBookBits (YT) 33m
• Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz in dialogue with Ray Kurzweil, 21m
• To Have Or To Be (BBC interview of Erich Fromm, mid-1970s) 23m
• Marcus Aurelius and the History and Meaning of Stoicism, by Prof. Michael Sugrue, 42m
• Moral Dilemmas in Everyday Life: How Do We Decide, by Rabbi Dr Akiva Tatz, 43m
• Uncertain Minds: What an Agnostic Can Believe (Part Two), by John Gray, 36m
• Discover Your Mission in Life, by Rabbi YY Jacobson, 83m
• Sadness, Bitterness and Joy, by Rabbi Manis Friedman, 51m
• Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Rabbi Manis Friedman, 52m
• Robert Greene on Mastery (Oxford Union) 52m
• To Have or To Be, by Erich Fromm (1977) 51m
• Fear Destroys Love, by Jiddu Krishnamurti (1985) 67m

Psychology

• Derren Brown Explains Hypnosis (Joe Rogan Show), 22m
• Psychopaths Make the World Go Round, by Jon Ronson (Festival of Dangerous Ideas) 26m
• Analytical Psychology (Interview of Carl Jung) 34m
• Face to Face (Interview of Carl Jung) 39m
• Luis Vallester Interview of Carl Jung, 67m
• Jung on Film (Interview of Carl Jung) 77m
• Disobedience: A Moral or Psychological Problem, by Erich Fromm (1962) 75m
• Jon Ronson on Psychopathy, with Sam Pang at the Wheeler Centre, 59m
• Evil, the Self & Survival (Conversation with History, interview of Robert Jay Lifton) 55m
• Analogy as the Core of Cognition, by Douglas Hofstadter, 69m

Spirituality

• Consciousness and Dying (Dr. Peter Fenwick Interviewed by Iain McNay) 48m
• The Soul and the Afterlife: Where Do We Go From Here, by Rabbi Manis Friedman, 44m
• What Really Happens When You Die (End-of-Life-Phenomena), by Dr. Peter Fenwick, 59m

Science

• How Politics and Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder, 50m
• Thomas Szasz on Psychiatry and Religion (1983) 42m
• The Function of Psychiatry (Conversation with Thomas Szasz) 36m
• The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist (Alan Wallace & Sean Carroll, mediated by Marcelo Gleiser) 82m
• Thomas Szasz’s Last In-Depth Interview (2011) 112m
• A Vedic Alternative to Darwin, by Michael Cremo, 61m
• Forbidden Archaeology, by Michael Cremo (Talks at Google) 67m [Visual Lecture]

Series

• Morality In The 21st Century, by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (Interview Series, 15 Episodes, BBC Radio 4)
• We Need to Talk About Death, by Joan Bakewell (3 Series, 9 Episodes, BBC Radio 4)

Podcasts

Entertainment

Film

• Filmspotting, by Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen
• Sounds of Cinema, by BBC Radio 3
• On The Tropes, Official Podcast of TV Tropes

Television

• Black Mirror Cracked, by The Daily Mirror
• West:Word – The Westworld Podcast, by Sky Atlantic

Music

• Desert Island Discs, by BBC Radio 4

Wrestling

• What’s Wrong With Wrestling? WWE Recap Show, by Andrew Pisano, Joe Pisano, Eric Hamilton, and Josh Reese
• WrestleTalk’s WrestleRamble, by Luke Owen and Oli Davis
• The Steve Austin Show, by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin

Culture

• The Joe Rogan Experience, by Joe Rogan
• Under The Skin with Russell Brand, by Russell Brand

News

Common

• Digital Planet, by BBC World Service
• The Real Story, by BBC World Service

Independent

• Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt, by Alan Watt
• Jay’s Analysis, by Jay Dyer

Science & Technology

• Flash Forward, by Rose Eveleth

Spirituality

• Swedenborg and Life, by Curtis Childs

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