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Five ways in
Fifty-odd episodes is a lot to face cold. Each path below is three to six episodes in an order that makes sense, with a sentence or two on why. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Path 1 of 5
New here? The podcast in four episodes
Four episodes that show the whole range: the first letter to the grandchildren, a working definition of philosophy, Kant's four human superpowers, and the opening of the dream series. If you like these four, you will like the rest.
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Understanding Kant
Kant is the thinker Chris chose to sit under, and these four episodes explain why. Start with the four superpowers, hear the long interview on why nearly everyone reads Kant's Religion wrong, follow Kant into love, then listen to the phone call where those ideas met Charlie Kirk.
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Dreams and the inner life
The complete six-part series, in order, from the dream that straightened out his life to a method for interpreting your own. Freud, Adler, and Jung; Kant, Calvin Hall, and Fritz Perls; then the dreams of the Old and New Testaments.
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Charlie Kirk and why a Kant scholar joined Turning Point
Recorded beginning the night of Kirk's assassination, these episodes explain why a philosophy professor left the ivory tower for Turning Point and what he saw in Kirk: a contemporary Socrates with three fixed points. If you only hear one, hear the phone call.
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Best conversations
The podcast is mostly one voice, but the conversations are worth your time: the pastor whose church gave up wedding rings and car titles to found a college, the founder of Patriot Academy, and a long interview about Kant on Parker's Pensées. Then all five Firestone children hijack the show for their father's sixtieth birthday.
