Geeky Stoics

6:56

Don't Make It Easy For Them

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/02/27

Thank you to all our subscribers for the positive feedback on our most recent newsletter about the stoicism of Zorro, the 1998 film starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. It was fun to branch out beyond our usual focus on sci-fi and fantasy and riff about this awesome folk tale of revenge and justice. This email is the podcast version of Sunday’s newsletter and just a quick plug of our most recent videos on Geeky Stoics’ YouTube Channel + an appearance of your favorite Geeky Stoic on

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47:44

Podcast: Nostalgia, Identity + Comic Con recap

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/02/22

This week on the Geeky Stoics MEGACAST, Riley and Stephen recap their experience promoting Star Wars & Stoicism at Atlanta Comic Con.Stephen provides a brief Stoicism 101 for geeks, explaining the four virtues of courage, wisdom, justice, and temperance and how they shine throughout Star Wars. We also discuss the cultural significance of Star Wars and nostalgia. Riley reflects on how the franchise influenced his identity and friendships.Listen in for behind-the-scenes banter about how we tackled our

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4:44

Valentines: Dying Every Day

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/02/14

In Star Wars, Padme had enjoyed many years of a thriving political career. She had been free of the sort of distraction and messiness that a forbidden romance might bring into her life. Throughout the movie, as she resists her desire for Anakin Skywalker, at times quite awkwardly for both of them, she is almost in a kind of grieving stage for her more tidy and simple life.By the time Padme and Anakin are captured on a mission and sentenced to death, she sort of feels like the “old her” is dead

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7:48

There Will Be Rewards

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/02/12

Uncle Iroh says many wise things to Zuko over the course of his time running the tea business, a short period of bliss during Airbender’s second season. Here’s what stuck out to me today. It’s simple.“Follow your passion and life will reward you”In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko is frustrated with Uncle Iroh and his simple passion for running this tea shop. Zuko has a claim to the throne of the Fire Nation and is on a mission to reclaim his “honor” from a father who exiled him from the kingdom

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8:13

Your Need For Control Will Kill You

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/31

Star Wars is a saga about one thing: Letting go. All of its main characters must learn to confront the fear of failure and loss, things beyond their control. It’s a message we all need to hear more of, and it’s what Geeky Stoics is all about. Thank you for listening to Geeky Stoics.More on this at geekystoics.comAnd find the videos on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@GeekyStoics/videos Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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7:32

You Have To Move On With Your Life

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/24

Live or die. This is the message from the ghost of Anakin Skywalker to his grown-up apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. Not many of us want to die. Ahsoka doesn’t either. But she was living as if she were dead. That is the message. Are you living your life, moving forward and for tomorrow? Or are you stuck in the past, reliving past successes and stewing on yesterdays failures?Thank you for listening to Geeky Stoics.More on this at geekystoics.comAnd find the videos on

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7:21

Life Will Be Cheaper When You're Dead

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/22

Life will be a lot cheaper when you’re dead.Pay the taxes. Anticipate and accept the hidden costs. Understand that you truly own very little. Most of what you have is borrowed, so don’t overly invest yourself in hoarding it. Once you’ve sincerely thought over the hidden costs, decide if you truly need this thing, person, or job to be happy.Above all else, be thankful for the things and the people who pass in and out of your life. Gratitude has the power to reframe everything.www.geekystoics.com Get

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11:36

Star Wars For Real Life

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/17

Star Wars is chock full of real-world wisdom and insights on life, death, control, love, and change. In this podcast, Riley Blanton of Geeky Stoics breaks down the 5 essential quotes from Star Wars that you can live by. Thank you for listening to Geeky Stoics.More on this at geekystoics.comAnd find the videos on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@GeekyStoics/videos Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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11:15

Frodo Baggins & Your Complaints

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/15

This podcast is about The Lord of the Rings, complaining, and Stoic insights on doing your duty without whining. Enjoy!As an enjoyer of the The Lord of the Rings films, I’ve never much liked Frodo Baggins. Frodo is the chief protagonist of the series, the Ringer Bearer, the “Chosen One” of sorts, and he can be pretty fussy. Frodo is always going on about the heaviness of the Ring, and complaining about the burden of his quest. Sometimes he creepily fondles it and makes repeated attempts to go it

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9:32

Give Advice That Is Truly Meant For YOU

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/08

How do you give people moral advice they’ll listen to? A recent controversy involving director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy offers a worthwhile opportunity to consider how you tell moral stories and aim to improve your audience. Enjoy the podcast and join us at geekystoics.com for more. Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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56:48

MEGA-CAST: Star Wars Controversy, Storytelling...

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/06

In this episode of the Geeky Stoics Mega-Cast, Riley and Stephen delve into a recent controversy in the Star Wars community. We analyze an interview given by a certain upcoming Star Wars director and explore the fan reactions it sparked. Stephen provides insightful background on the director and quotes that particularly stuck with the fans, stirring up debate.Key Discussion Points:* Director's Controversial Interview: An exploration of the recent interview with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy that has caused

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4:28

Don't JUST fight what you hate

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/04

This is going to be an ugly year. There’s a presidential election, after all. People will talk about how high the stakes are and they’ll theorize about the end of the American experiment — no matter the outcome. I am reluctant to say it, but hate and mass fear will be a huge part of what we observe in 2024. But there can also be beauty.The question is, will you be able to see it? Do you even know what the beautiful things are in your life and in this world that are worth saving?In Episode VIII: The

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7:38

Choose Your Enemies Wisely

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/01/02

2024 is here — and it is going to be spicy. In the face of a legally fraught election, rising interest rates, social turmoil, and the never-ending “culture war,” The Geeky Stoics podcast is here to tell you about the key to keeping your sanity this year. It comes from an unlikely source which I was reminded of this past December…Dr. Seuss's classic, How The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Enjoy! Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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8:21

How Am I To Know What Is "Right"?

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/12/27

This is Geeky Stoics, a podcast from GeekyStoics.com about the eternal wisdom beneath the surface of your favorite stories. This week we have a reflection on Anakin Skywalker’s fall, and a connection to C.S. Lewis’ writings on Right & Wrong. Read it here: What do we make excuses for?We make excuses for a short temper, that time you screamed at a child because you were “tired and hungry” (AKA hangry), we broke our marriage vows because we were “lonely”, “drunk” or “resentful”.No one makes excuses for

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1:40

What Geeky Stoics Is Really About

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/12/18

This is what Geeky Stoics is all about. Identifying and celebrating those moments in modern stories that were in a sense, gifted to us. It’s an inheritance, one we’re grateful for. We focus on that rather than the predictable, angry, and shallow entertainment commentary that defines so much of our online lives. Even in movies we don’t particularly love, our attention is on finding the meaning or kernel of wisdom worth holding on to. It’s been a process of transformation and finding just the right

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8:08

Tend to YOUR garden first

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/12/10

Gandalf the White is in the company of Aragorn and the sons of Elrond when they are joined by Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth. They are discussing what will happen if the Ring of Power is destroyed and Middle Earth is rid of Sauron. Gandalf makes a remark that leaps from the page as a reminder to think bigger about our role in making good of our time in this world.“Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world,

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5:06

Shipwrecks Can Be Opportunities

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/12/03

This weekend has been a difficult one for me. Not to get too personal or whine, but my wife and I just completed in September, a renovation of our unfinished basement, which now functions as an office for my work and a second den. It was beautiful. Now it is not. An underground sewer line has busted, and it flooded half the basement and undid all the hard work we put into making it pretty. I know me. And I know for a fact that two years ago the old me would have lost their damn mind. But as I

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6:15

The Painful Glass Shard in Your Eye

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/11/27

It’s all a matter of perspective, and perspective is often a matter of choice. Have you ever read (or been read) The Snow Queen (1844)? It’s a classic children’s fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the storyteller behind The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Princess & The Pea, and The Ugly Ducking. Elements of this fairytale are used in Disney’s Frozen, which hit theaters 10 years ago today, as well as C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. In the tale, the Devil creates

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8:08

About Those Bad Dreams

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/11/20

WE ARE NOW GEEKY STOICS. Enjoy this new episode of the podcast where Stephen Kent walks through a connection between the writings of Seneca and the fall of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode III. Get full access to Geeky Stoics at www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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5:05

In Prison Wherever You Go

Geeky Stoics ·

2023/11/13

I’ve never met a person who wanted to not live free. The trick with human beings is that we’re all seeking freedom from different things, people, places, and ideas. One man’s prison is another’s retreat. In last week’s edition, What Sets You Free (paywall is now down) I outlined how the Jedi and Sith differ on what defines freedom, and how it relates to our own struggles with living the kind of lives we’d like to live. Today I have something else for you to consider, a controversial point — no

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