Shores Of Ignorance

By Shores of Ignorance

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A podcast by Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav

Episode Date
Ep 283: The Madness of a World Without Reason
Jun 11, 2026
Ep 282: Why Do We Call Successful People Dumb?
Jun 04, 2026
Ep 281: Over My Dead Body
May 28, 2026
Ep 280: Turtles All the Way Down 🐢
May 21, 2026
Ep 279: Who Unhooked the Earth From the Sun?
May 14, 2026
Ep 278: Two Deserts
May 07, 2026
Ep 277: Sex Dolls, Vinyl Records, and AI — The Search for What's Real
Apr 23, 2026
Ep 276: What Does Matt Sound Like?
Apr 16, 2026
Ep 275: Correcting Toward Love
Apr 09, 2026
Ep 274: When The Grain of Sand Falls
Apr 02, 2026
Ep 273: Get embodied
Mar 26, 2026
Ep 272: The Lost Art of Waiting
Mar 19, 2026
Ep 271: Faith as the End of Anxiety
Mar 12, 2026
Ep 270: Don't Let the Old Man In
Mar 05, 2026
Ep 269: I Made a New Friend (and It's Not Michael)
Feb 26, 2026
Ep 268: Upside down in a right side up world
Feb 19, 2026
Ep 267: Did I bum you out?
Feb 12, 2026
Ep 266: Value Stacks
Feb 06, 2026
Ep 265: Are we more united than we think?
Jan 29, 2026
Ep 264: Is the U.S. a Christian Country?
Jan 22, 2026
Ep 263: Let Go For Dear Life
Jan 15, 2026
Ep 262: 2026 is a Blank Canvas
Jan 08, 2026
Ep 261: Shores of 2025
Dec 18, 2025
Ep 260: The Fake Internet vs. The Real World
Dec 11, 2025
Ep 259: What shall we do (with Alison Vaclav)?
Dec 04, 2025
Ep 258: Specifying What is Holy
Nov 20, 2025
Ep 257: Beauty and Mockery
Nov 13, 2025
Ep 256: On brokenness and falling short
Oct 30, 2025
Ep 255: The Conundrum of Cain
Oct 23, 2025
Ep 254: Love is not transactional
Oct 16, 2025
Ep 253: Hollowing Morality
Oct 09, 2025
Ep 252: Who likes to suffer?!
Oct 02, 2025
Ep 251: Reality isn’t a team sport
Sep 25, 2025
Ep 250: When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts
Sep 18, 2025
Ep 249: The functional need for the Divine
Sep 04, 2025
Ep 248: How do I know my good is not evil?
Aug 28, 2025
Ep 247: Where Does the Mass of a Tree Come From?
Aug 21, 2025
Ep 246: The cost of life is death
Aug 14, 2025
Ep 245: Vanilla Sky
Aug 07, 2025
Ep 244: We Are the Poiema, with Jeanenne McCloskey
Jul 03, 2025
Ep 243: Be Unreasonable
Jun 26, 2025
Ep 242: The death of God and the news
Jun 19, 2025
Ep 241: The spirit of Love, the spirit of Death
Jun 12, 2025
Ep 240: AI - tools vs gods
Jun 05, 2025
Ep 239: Unclench your fists
May 22, 2025
Ep 238: You look consternated
May 01, 2025
Ep 237: Sanity in the Information Age
Apr 24, 2025
EP 236: An invitation to relationship
Apr 17, 2025
Ep 235: Toe Pick!
Apr 10, 2025
Ep 234: Where does your knowledge need to expand?
Mar 26, 2025
Ep 233: Fantasies and Filets
Mar 19, 2025
Ep 232: Romance, Sex, Orthodoxy
Mar 12, 2025
Ep 231: The jacket is inside out
Mar 05, 2025
Ep 230: Clean your windows, discover the world!
Feb 26, 2025
Ep 229: Who is my neighbor?
Feb 19, 2025
Ep 228: Act As If
Feb 12, 2025
Ep 227: Cut the baby in half!
Feb 05, 2025
Ep 226: Goodbye Bear / It’s always been Eastasia!
Jan 29, 2025
Ep 225: The boy who cried Elon!
Jan 22, 2025
Ep 224: Give what is best to what is highest (w/ Alison Vaclav)
Jan 15, 2025
Ep 223: Out with the in!
Jan 08, 2025
Ep 222: Do Nothing Perfectly
Jan 01, 2025
Ep 221: New Years Love Languages
Dec 18, 2024
Ep 220: My Father's Table (The Ship of Theseus)
Dec 10, 2024
Ep 219: Above all, don't lie to yourself
Dec 05, 2024
Ep 218: People don’t have ideas, ideas have people
Nov 19, 2024
Ep 217: Reality & Rhetoric
Nov 12, 2024
Ep 216: The Rebuke of the Big Lie
Nov 07, 2024
Ep 215: The 2024 Election - A new paradigm?
Oct 31, 2024
Ep 214: I Hope You Choose to Grow Up
Oct 24, 2024
Ep 213: Freedom and Creativity vs. Safety and Assurance
Oct 17, 2024
Ep 212: Virtues Gone Wild
Oct 10, 2024
Ep 211: In the spirit of life
Oct 03, 2024
Ep 210: The Big Lie Has to Unravel
Sep 26, 2024
Ep 209: Discipline & Revelation
Sep 19, 2024
Ep 208: The Whisper of Death
Sep 12, 2024
Ep 207: Freedom & Fear
Sep 05, 2024
Ep 206: History’s most qualified candidate
Aug 29, 2024
Ep 205: Plato’s Postmodern Cave Shadows
Aug 22, 2024
Ep 204: Dreams are like a Rothko
Aug 15, 2024
Ep 203: Objective Fiction
Aug 08, 2024
Ep 202: The Paradox of Easy
Aug 01, 2024
Ep 201: You have to live before you understand
Jul 25, 2024
Ep 200: The hope that can be seen through the cracks
Jul 18, 2024
Ep 199: A dark wood
Jul 11, 2024
Ep 198: Prodigies of Our Circumstances
Jul 04, 2024
Ep 197: Very Fine People
Jun 20, 2024
Ep 196: The scent of a flower we have not found
Jun 13, 2024
Ep 195: All roads lead to death
Jun 06, 2024
Ep 194: The Old Man and The Sea
May 23, 2024
Ep 193: Knock knock knockin’ on Kafka’s door
May 16, 2024
Ep 192: Declare and be judged
May 09, 2024
Ep 191: How do you know which story is true?
May 02, 2024
Ep 190: We're coming to the end of something
Apr 25, 2024
Ep 189: Bitcoin Is Hope
Apr 18, 2024
Ep 188: In Good Faith
Apr 04, 2024
Ep 187: Verity, Truth, Footloose & Free
Mar 28, 2024
Ep 186: Be open to the tension
Mar 07, 2024
Ep 185: Open the churches and close the bars
Feb 29, 2024
Ep 184: Old men should be explorers
Feb 22, 2024
Ep 183: Everything the light touches
Feb 15, 2024
Ep 182: A g’damn white unicorn with wings!
Feb 08, 2024
Ep 181: Attitude… what is it good for?
Feb 01, 2024
Ep 180: The line between good and evil
Jan 25, 2024
Ep 179: Learning to Die, Learning to Live
Jan 11, 2024
Ep 166: Assigned Human at Birth
Nov 01, 2023
Ep 165: Just Show Up
Oct 26, 2023
Ep 164: Everything is downstream of what you want
Sep 26, 2023
Ep 163: The best is being kept from us
Sep 22, 2023
Ep 162: Need, Desire, and Growth
Sep 09, 2023
Ep 161: If there is no God, man should be permitted anything
Sep 04, 2023
Ep 160: Death, Parenting, and Legacy
Sep 03, 2023
Ep 159: Masculinity, Femininity, and Art with Alison Vaclav
May 26, 2023
Ep 158: Living Relationally - Navigating Death, Prayer, and Metaphor
May 13, 2023
Ep 157: The Death of a Father
May 05, 2023
Ep 156: How do you measure who you could be?
Apr 14, 2023
Ep 155: Easter - we killed God, but God rose again
Apr 07, 2023
Ep 154: Life in Austin, with James Jackson Leach
Apr 04, 2023
Ep 153: Art and AI with Andy Davis
Mar 28, 2023
Ep 152: Who are the experts?
Mar 17, 2023
Ep 151: The demoralization of gaslighting
Mar 10, 2023
Ep 150: Accumulation and Exploration with Charlie Parkin
Mar 03, 2023
Ep 149: Hello darkness my old friend
Feb 25, 2023
Ep 148: You can't text T.S. Eliot
Feb 17, 2023
Ep 147: Paradox Marks the Spot
Feb 16, 2023
Ep 146: Plateaus and pull backs
Feb 16, 2023
Ep 145: Redefining categories, violence and utopia
Feb 15, 2023
Ep 144: Divergence and Convergence
Feb 01, 2023
Ep 143: The revelatory nature of discourse
Jan 19, 2023
Ep 142: Practice
Jan 02, 2023
Ep 141: Artificial intelligence, and incentivized ignorance
Dec 30, 2022
Ep 140: Thanksgiving, gratitude, and the ideal state of all things
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 139: Freedom is the ability to choose your own sacrifices
Dec 23, 2022
Ep 138: First-hand Truth
Dec 22, 2022
Ep 137: The cost of comfort
Dec 16, 2022
Ep 136: Say what you have to say
Dec 15, 2022
Ep 135: As if saying the words will help me know how
Dec 14, 2022
Ep 134: Everything is pretend, until it’s not
Dec 14, 2022
Ep 133: The Fourth Turning
Oct 10, 2022
Ep 132: Branding, Ideas, and Story
Sep 30, 2022
Ep 131: Religion and Storytelling
Sep 19, 2022
Ep 130: Dying to Ourselves
Sep 12, 2022
Ep 129: Decisions & Suffering
Sep 06, 2022
Ep 128: Respect, earned, given, but not demanded
Aug 31, 2022
Ep 127: Leaky Faucets
Aug 13, 2022
Ep 126: Speech to Truth, Lies, and Action
Aug 01, 2022
Ep 125: Ten taco margin
Jul 25, 2022
Ep 124: Twenty is a third
Jul 24, 2022
Ep 123: My 72 yr old self
Jul 23, 2022
Ep 122: Freedom is the ability to choose what to sacrifice
Jul 22, 2022
Ep 121: Adversity is the default state of being
Jul 21, 2022
Ep 120: Relationships in the modern age
Jul 20, 2022
Ep 119: Learning is not child’s play
Jul 19, 2022
Ep 118: Communism, rituals, responsibility and thankfulness
Jul 18, 2022
Ep 117: What is work?
Jul 18, 2022
Ep 116: Who is your master?
Jul 15, 2022
Ep 115: A man alone on an island is not free
Jul 13, 2022
Ep 114: Money, morality, and the pursuit of truth, with Dave Keisel
Jul 10, 2022
Ep 113: The predictable failure of responsibility
Jul 10, 2022
Ep 112: Metaphor is truer than objective
Mar 26, 2022
Ep 111: Love, and the empirical case for God
Mar 17, 2022
Ep 110: The mechanics of Hope
Mar 10, 2022
Ep 109: Confusion
Mar 06, 2022
Ep 108: The tension between safety and freedom
Feb 25, 2022
Ep 107: Mis Dis and Mal
Feb 21, 2022
Ep 106: Into the out there
Feb 21, 2022
Ep 105: Truth does not need your protection
Feb 05, 2022
Ep 104: Why do we share?
Feb 01, 2022
Ep 103: Your conscious creative spirit
Jan 26, 2022
Ep 102: Critical cheer and the destruction of everything
Jan 15, 2022
Ep 101: A new century
Jan 10, 2022
Ep 100: One Hundred
Jan 03, 2022
Ep 99: Infinite Infinities
Dec 17, 2021
Ep 98: Time, the future, and kindness
Dec 12, 2021
Ep 97: Creative Attention
Dec 05, 2021
Ep 96: Thanks given
Nov 26, 2021
Ep 95: Evolution and Energy
Nov 19, 2021
Ep 94: We’re in the Wild West
Nov 15, 2021
Ep 93: Is the spell breaking?
Nov 05, 2021
Ep 92: Mass formation and categorization
Oct 29, 2021
Ep 91: Breaking points and breakthroughs
Oct 22, 2021
Ep 90: Simulations
Oct 15, 2021
Ep 89: Covid Brain
Oct 15, 2021
Ep 88: Mandates and morality
Sep 27, 2021
Ep 87: Risk and Rebels
Sep 16, 2021
Ep 86: Language is the barrier to all knowledge
Sep 09, 2021
Ep 85: Inversion
Sep 02, 2021
Ep 84: Questions are awesome
Aug 28, 2021
Ep 83: It’s all a game
Aug 06, 2021
Ep 82: Mystery, Beauty, and Tragedy
Jul 29, 2021
Ep 81: Billionaires in space
Jul 23, 2021
Ep 80: Man sharpens Man
Jul 18, 2021
Ep 79: What is Meaning?
Jul 02, 2021
Ep 78: Signal and Noise
Jun 25, 2021
Ep 77: Symbols of Unity
Jun 18, 2021
Ep 76: To know and be known
Jun 12, 2021
Ep 75: Invite new adversities
Jun 12, 2021
Ep 74: Love does not try
May 31, 2021
Ep 73: Orient yourself in the story
May 25, 2021
Ep 72: Live a story worth telling
May 25, 2021
Ep 71: Transition
May 25, 2021
Ep 70: Love, the ideal
May 25, 2021
Ep 69: Home, and Wholeness
May 25, 2021
Ep 68: Love, the hero, the fool
May 25, 2021
Ep 67: Zeitgeist, Elon, Bitcoin
May 25, 2021
Ep 66: Reasoning and Emotions
May 25, 2021
Ep 64: Saint Patrick’s Day
May 25, 2021
Ep 63: Confusion, Attention, and Satire
May 25, 2021
Ep 62: Guns & God
May 25, 2021
Ep 61: What is money?
May 25, 2021
Ep 60: The Blame Game
Feb 22, 2021
Ep 59: Wrong Think, Right Think, Group Think
Feb 20, 2021
Ep 58: Creativity, Restrictions, and Mindsets
Feb 08, 2021
Ep 57: Things aren't what they seem
Feb 01, 2021
Ep 56: We have a new President
Jan 21, 2021
Ep 55: Think Differently
Jan 19, 2021
Ep 54: How good could good be?
Jan 12, 2021
Ep 53: Goodbye 2020
Dec 31, 2020
Ep 52: Breathing through the end of this year
Dec 31, 2020
Ep 48: Living in Truth
Dec 31, 2020
Ep 47: Is not lying the same as telling the truth?
Dec 31, 2020
Ep 46: On Lying
Dec 31, 2020
Ep 45: What gives?
Oct 27, 2020
Ep 44: Critical Race Theory
Oct 16, 2020
Ep 43: The new normal?! Also, WTF Oscars?
Oct 14, 2020
Ep 42: Statistically yes, and no, and also maybe
Sep 22, 2020
Ep 41: How have you changed since COVID
Sep 14, 2020
Ep 40: I'm so glad you get to vote
Sep 09, 2020
Ep 39: How do you stay informed without going crazy?
Sep 08, 2020
Ep 38: Over watered plants
Aug 28, 2020
Ep 37: Sparkling consequences with Alison Vaclav
Aug 03, 2020
Ep 36: Naming, sacrifice, and transcendence
Jul 31, 2020
Ep 35: Confusion, comedy, and clarity
Jul 20, 2020
Ep 34: The shores of ignorance came, and we retreated
Jul 12, 2020
Ep 31: The mechanics of communication
May 25, 2020
Ep 30: The relationship between narrative and reality
May 15, 2020
Ep 29: Seek and you shall find
May 09, 2020
Ep 28: Marked and Engraved
Apr 30, 2020
Ep 27: Exploring Character
Apr 23, 2020
Ep 26: Freedom, Structure, & Character
Apr 16, 2020
Ep 25: Hope in the time of Corona
Apr 09, 2020
Ep 24: Questions and Uncertainty in the time of Corona
Apr 03, 2020
Ep 23: On Presence
Mar 25, 2020
Ep 22: Ritual, anxiety, and safety amidst uncertainty
Mar 16, 2020
Ep 21: Offspring, the Youngers
Mar 10, 2020
Ep 20: Oh shit, we talked about politics
Mar 02, 2020
Ep 19: Offspring, The Middles
Feb 24, 2020
Ep 16: Offspring, the elders
Feb 03, 2020
Ep 15: Free Will and Meaning / Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris discussion (Part 2)
Jan 27, 2020
Ep 14: Free Will and Meaning / Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris discussion (Part 1)
Jan 20, 2020
Ep 13: It's 2020 (Part 2) Feel what you feel so that you know what you feel
Jan 13, 2020
Ep 12: It's 2020 (Part 1) Should you make your bed?
Jan 06, 2020
Ep 11: Accessing the Ancient with Alison Vaclav (Part 2)
Oct 01, 2019
Ep 10: Accessing the Ancient with Alison Vaclav (Part 1)
Sep 27, 2019
Ep 9: Come sit with us
Sep 17, 2019
Ep 8: Mark Stoney
Jan 01, 2019
Ep 7: Persistance and Meaning through the creative process, with David Ramirez
Dec 15, 2018
Ep. 6: Birth, Life changes, & Somatic Experiencing with Nicole Mccharen
Dec 01, 2018
Ep. 5: A Breakup
Nov 05, 2018
Ep. 4: Discipline, Creativity, & Fear, with Philip Edsel
Oct 18, 2018
Ep. 2: Therapy, Suffering, Wisdom, and Joy, with Mike McCloskey
Sep 24, 2018
Ep. 1: Shores of Ignorance - The beginning
Sep 24, 2018