You Can't Win

Mar 08 2025 100 ep. 78 mins 3.4k
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We're Tom and Donald. We are two trolls that are trying to make sense of the world through conversations about the traps and scams that surround us.

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Episode 164 - Freddy on Jerry

Mar 08 2025 103 mins  
Don chats with Freddy about the Canadian philosopher G.A. Cohen on the relationship between Marxism, religion, science, and moral and political philosophy. Mentioned: Cohen's Gifford lectures (in the book If You're Egalitarian, Why Are You So Rich?) Cohen - Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. Cohen - Why not socialism?

Episode 163 - Recitation on Fridays with Alex

Feb 23 2025 54 mins  
We chat with our friend Alex about Deleuze and politics in academia. You can follow Alex on Twitter at @SlurricaneH (At about 50 minutes in Alex's microphone disconnected and Tom and I wrapped up with two questions.)

Episode 162 - Correction Part Two with Mike Reads the World

Jan 12 2025 105 mins  
We chat about the second half of Correction by Thomas Bernhard with Mike Reads the World and some of the ideas it sparked in us. Check out Mike Reads the World on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@mikereadstheworld We also mention the House on the Rock in Wyoming, Wisconsin as an example of eccentric building.

Episode 161 - Correction Part One with Mike Reads the World

Jan 04 2025 75 mins  
We chat about the first half of Correction by Thomas Bernhard with Mike Reads the World. Check out Mike Reads the World on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@mikereadstheworld

Episode 160 - A Year in Reading with Mike Reads the World

Dec 21 2024 72 mins  
We are joined by Mike from the YouTube channel Mike Reads the World to chat about his reading project and our year in reading. Mike's channel is at https://www.youtube.com/@mikereadstheworld His "favorite books" video we mention is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aH-YHa_y4 His "Magic Mountain" essay is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyA6Oc6_pIU Mike's books mentioned

Episode 159 - Chickenbrained with Freddy

Dec 10 2024 101 mins  
Our friend Freddy joins us to talk about scams, politics and how they overlap.

Episode 158 - The Essence of Reality

Nov 03 2024 78 mins  
Tom walks us through the book The Essence of Reality by 'Ayn al-Qudat, a 12th Century Sufi text about going beyond the intellect to embrace mystical experience.

Episode 157 - Tom Loves Mods

Sep 24 2024 76 mins  
We chat about our cookie headaches and X-Com and Lebanon and Hannah Arendt. Mentioned: Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt On Revolution by Hannah Arendt The X-Com 2 mod guy Tom mentions is christopherodd

Episode 156 - Elections in France ft Marlon Ettinger

Jul 19 2024 61 mins  
Marlon Ettinger, a journalist living in France, joins Don to talk about French politics. Find Marlon on Twitter at @MarlonEttinger his new pod at @flep24pod and his book Zemmour & Gaullism.

Episode 155 - Battle Cry of Freddy ft Freddy

Jun 30 2024 89 mins  
Our friend Freddy joins from Vienna to talk about his Euro-Trip, Noam Chomsky, the war in Gaza, and the point of philosophy. The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans. Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson. Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut by Michael Parenti. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard. This Is a Robbery (Netflix documentary