Neon Genesis Evangelion

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I would love to do an episode where you know we just take some I could do so if listeners have any to send it and we'll just be like that was cool. Jeff Lord suggested both of you take a healthy dose of magic mushrooms, five milligrams maybe and hit record. You know, anytime I would absolutely do that there's like I would fly to Ithaca and do it. This is such a what do you call it when you pander to the audience? He knows it's going to get your vote. No. Yeah, you can't put this on the on the finalists unless you're willing to do it. We have another way of doing something like this

The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than giving us the answer directly in language? Is McCarthy right that the unconscious doesn’t trust language because it’s such a newcomer to the human brain?

Plus we select the finalists for our listener selected episode – thanks to our beloved patrons for all their terrific suggestions!

"The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy

Pinker & Bloom 1990

Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016