Episode 1 – Who Was Nietzsche, and Why Does Zarathustra Matter?

Welcome to the first episode of Thus Spake Zarathustra — a podcast dedicated to reading, unpacking, and living inside one of the most dangerous and electrifying books ever written.

In this debut episode, I lay the groundwork for everything to come. We start with the man himself: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), the German philosopher who set 19th-century thought on fire and whose ideas — the Will to Power, the Übermensch, the Death of God, Eternal Recurrence — still echo through philosophy, psychology, and culture today. We talk about who he was, what drove him, and why his life ended in silence and madness.

We survey his major works — The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Ge ...