SyllojismExplicit
by Natasha Mott
An irreverent, funny, science, culture, and philosophy challenge podcast teetering on the edge of chaos.
Podcast episodes
Season 2
S2 Ep11 - Stuperintelligence Season Finale
Season 2 finale!! Challenge: Pull out your favorite moments from Season 2 and brainstorm ideas for Season 3. Originally, we planned on taking an IQ test, but our expert guest on human intelligence won’t be able to join us until the spring. So, we’ll do a special episode on IQ at that time. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Next season leave comments on the newsletter!
S2 Ep10 - The Existential Master Debaters Zizek + Peterson w/ Matt McManus
CHALLENGE: Watch the 2019 Zizek/Peterson debate on Communism, Capitalism, and Happiness. To explore the concept of Existential Intelligence, we invited Matt McManus to discuss the 2019 Peterson/Zizek debate on Communism, Capitalism, and Happiness. Matt's a self-described Liberal Democratic Socialist and a political science lecturer at the University of Michigan. He's also the author/editor of several books including The Emergence of Postmodernity, and the Politics of Reaction. For detailed show notes, subscribe to the Theory Gang newsletter.
S2 Ep9 - Kinesthetic Intelligence w/Skate Fantacee - The Rollerskating Renaissance
Disclaimer - The audio for this episode is in my opinion, unusable, but I didn’t want to scrap the whole thing. Jonasz and I tried to salvage what we could of the audio. SORRY! Check out the newsletter for more on rhythm skating and our guest! Challenge: Go Rollerskating! This week Brett and I invited one of my favorite skaters Cece AKA Skate Fantacee to talk about kinesthetic or bodily intelligence.
S2 Ep8 - Linguistic Simp letons w/Language Simp
CHALLENGE: Write a 500-word essay describing verbal intelligence. To explore the concept of linguistic intelligence we invited a 24-year-old Hyperpolyglot Gigachad known as Language Simp to talk about word smarts. Our guest simps for over 50 languages on his YouTube and TikTok channels where he’s amassed nearly 2 million viewers and probably double the number of haters. For detailed show notes subscribe to the Theory Gang newsletter!
E2 Ep7 - Mind over Music w/ Zachariah Witcher
CHALLENGE: Compose an original piece of music. We invited grammy nominated bassist Zachariah Witcher to help us explore the concept of musical intelligence. Zach is a performance artist which means he spends most of his time on tour with various artists, but when he’s not touring, writing, or recording, he’s helping other musicians coordinate and design live shows through his company Off Brand Entertainment. For detailed show notes and additional resources, subscribe to the Theory Gang newsletter.