The Lightning Podcast

The Lightning Podcast S1 E3: The Object of Hope

This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, Francis Pedraza, and Cyrus Palizban as we try to discuss the meaning and necessity of hope and work. Can you work without hope? To what extent does setting goals help or hinder us? Is there any hope for us to stay on topic this episode? Listen and find out!
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The Lightning Podcast S1 E2: Friend or Valet?

This week, join Zohar Atkins, Nicolas Sarian, Anne Dudek, Francis Pedraza, Geneveive Kim, and Cyrus Palizban as we discuss and debate the conundrum: "What is a friend?" Is there more to it than trust and respect?
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The Lightning Podcast S1 E1: Hitching Posts

This week, we discuss the "the hitching posts" of life. Be it Nirvana or Enlightenment, what are the guides and rest-stops in our daily lives? Is there a reward at the end of this life, to begin in the next? Or is it to be found here, in this one?
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David Bashevkin: The Case for Inconvenience S2 E16

This week, Zohar is joined by David Bashevkin, Rabbi, scholar, author of Sin*a*gogue, and founder of 18Forty to talk about the meaning of community, why holiness and inconvenience are often linked, whether being small in number is an essential part of Jewishness, the legacy of Hasidism, and the spiritual search as a fundamental structure of existence.

Eric Linus Kaplan: Philosophy as a Way of Life S2 E15

This week, Zohar is joined by Eric Linus Kaplan, podcast host ("Terrifying Questions") and TV writer ("The Big Bang Theory," "Futurama," "Flight of the Concords," and "Malcolm in the Middle") to talk about whether God has a body, whether we should listen to physicians who have rashes, the value of Heidegger's thought, the meaning of sophistry, and the feeling of the "whoosh."

Ari Lamm: Partnership and Rebellion S2 E14

This week, Zohar is joined by Rabbi Ari Lamm, host of The Good Faith Effort podcast, to talk about the theology of human independence, self-deception, the philosophy of language, what makes interpretation faithful or deviant, the rabbinic concept of the bat kol (divine echo), and what it means to be a rabbi.

Tara Isabella Burton: Self-Making from Albrecht Dürer to Kim Kardashian S2 E13

This week, Zohar is joined by return guest Tara Isabella Burton to discuss her most recent book, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. They discuss renaissance humanism, the theological origins of postmodernity, irony, commitment, transhumanism, Oscar Wilde, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison, and Grimes.

Geoffrey West: Longevity, Mortality, and Care S2 E12

This week, Zohar is joined by Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist, Distinguished Professor and Past President of the Santa Fe Institute, and author of Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies, to talk about whether universities are more like cities or companies, what makes human consciousness unique, love as a guiding force, Heidegger, longevity, interdisciplinarity, and why generative AI is all too human.