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Geeky Stoics

Your favorite stories are part of your real life. Star Wars. The Lord of the Rings. Marvel. Batman. Are you listening to what they’re trying to tell you? Geeky Stoics is all about Stoicism, Philosophy, and Wisdom found in Pop Culture. http://geekystoics.com/ www.geekystoics.com

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4:32

What's This About A Bible Sales Surge?

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/11/02

News reports this October showed a surge in Bible sales across the United States and the UK, confirming what so many people can feel and polls have supported…which is that a religious revival is happening in the West. Generation Z, which Pew Research defines as being born between 1997 and 2012. Members of the generation — also known as Zoomers — have been increasingly drawn toward religion, particularly Christianity, with data showing the number of Americans who don’t identify with one particular

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39:13

Tolkien, Virtue, and the Good Life

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/08/29

Hobbits are curious creatures. Simple taste, a love of “good tilled earth” and yet surprisingly courageous. And according to Dr. Christopher Snyder, they might hold the key to living the good life.This week, I had a delightful conversation with Dr. Snyder, medieval historian, Tolkien scholar, and author of Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics Through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.Chris’s work as an academic intersects history, philosophy, and storytelling and even has

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6:46

Call It What It Is

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/08/25

Updating your perspective on the world can, for some, be like seeing for the first time. Many of us have seen videos of colorblind people getting access to new tech that helps them see the full spectrum. When they tap in for the first time, it’s overwhelming and emotional. Something true shines through a veil that they’ve been burdened with forever. I remember when I started to reconnect with my faith several years ago, and things were becoming clearer to me about who I am and why I am here. I would

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6:54

4 Seneca Lessons You Can Use Today

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/07/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.geekystoics.comOnce you go down the Stoicism rabbit hole, you can’t escape the ubiquitous appeal and words of Marcus Aurelius in Meditations. It’s everyone’s favorite, and for mostly good reason. But Seneca's Letters From A Stoic are even better.

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6:47

Aiming At Heaven

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/07/13

On a flight layover in the UK, Geeky Stoics visits the home, grave and world of famed author, philosopher and academic: C.S. Lewis This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.geekystoics.com

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79:10

Master Samwise: Star Wars, Storytelling, and the Art...

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/07/10

We’re experimenting here at Geeky Stoics. Both Stephen and I have really missed the long-form podcast and discussion format, going back to my original podcasting days at the Star Wars Report and Stephen’s at Beltway Banthas. I’m so glad we get to introduce this format here on Substack, featuring a very special guest: Master Samwise.Samwise has a YouTube channel not dissimiliar from our own, where he’s built a community of people passionate about going a layer deeper on stories like Star Wars, LOTR

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8:45

Philosophy or Psychology?

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/07/04

If you want to understand the intellectual fault lines of the 20th century, you don’t need to go to a fancy college. You can just sit down with some old movies. We don’t touch on horror movies often on Geeky Stoics, in fact, this is a first. I just finished KINGDOM OF CAIN, a fascinating book about how horror and murder point toward evidence of God. It’s a fresh approach to Christian apologetics and on brand for Klavan, a prolific crime and mystery novelist. The book traces the line between real

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7:46

The "Daily Stoic" Interview

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/06/19

Hopefully, you’re caught up on Geeky Stoics and enjoyed the panel conversation we hosted with Ryan Holiday of the Daily Stoic. The conversation covered Stoicism and Objectivism, two distinct philosophies with a lot in common and even more in conflict. Now you can move on to the next piece of programming we cooked up for you: a one-on-one interview with Holiday. This came together at the last minute during our trip to Palm Springs. Ryan’s team was not being very accommodating with doing interviews at

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44:46

Live in Palm Springs: Ryan Holiday on Stoicism vs...

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/06/16

It’s a good day to be a Geeky Stoics subscriber here on Substack! You all get first access to this week’s video conversations with Ryan Holiday of the Daily Stoic. I told you about the trip to Palm Springs, and it was to moderate this panel tackling the differences and overlaps of Stoicism and Objectivism. To recap: Stoicism is ancient Greek and Roman philosophy rooted in self-mastery, emotional regulation, and letting go of things beyond your control. Objectivism took form post-World War II through

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13:28

Why Star Wars Andor Is Not That Radical

Geeky Stoics ·

2025/04/11

This week, I put together an essay I’ve been dying to make for well over a year. This is about Star Wars: Andor and whether or not the show supports a Marxist lens on freedom in a galaxy far, far away.Star Wars fans online had a field day with the words and deeds of one character, Nemik, who not only writes a “manifesto” for the Rebellion but also wears in Ushanka-style hat. Naturally, this got the Tankies (online communists) a little excited.In this video essay, being previewed FIRST for email

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89:59

Middle-earthMixr + Geeky Stoics

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/11/14

It’s a rare and beautiful thing to meet someone with whom you discover so much in common. Not just experiences, but sentiment and aspiration. That’s how I felt after taping a podcast with Evan, best known for his viral Twitter account, @MidddleearthMixr. Going into this conversation about Tolkien and the relevant philosophy of The Lord of the Rings, I didn’t realize I knew Evan from my professional walk. We had a connection. Beyond that, we shared a similar sort of awakening in how we returned to

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16:05

Lincoln, Lewis, Losses and Listening

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/11/06

The first thing you’ll see in my home when you enter is a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Below the image of America’s 16th president, a man who arguably refounded the United States and became one of its most consequential figures, is a list of his numerous failures. The guy posted a lot of L’s. This list of Lincoln failures is pretty well known, so you might have seen this before. Here is the text I have framed in our doorway. “Lincoln”Lost job in 1832.Defeated for state legislature in

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4:24

An Unpayable Debt: Tolkien and Lewis

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/09/19

“Just because some people are nice to you, doesn’t mean you should spend time with them”-Epictetus in The Art of LivingYou probably have gotten an earful for most of your life about choosing your friends wisely. Mom or Dad might have told you this, maybe a coach and most certainly your Sunday school teacher. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t listen to this when I was 16. I wanted to be friends with anyone who accepted me and welcomed my company. That was the extent of my discrimination on who I

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3:07

The Way We Love Animals Matters

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/09/13

“When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it — why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor in return?”-Marcus AureliusLove languages are funny. Some people really value conversation in their relationship, others value closeness. I remember early on in my marriage I thought it was uncomfortable to sit on the couch in silence with my wife, just watching TV and saying nothing for two hours. Inside I was panicking like, “Are we not in sync?! Why

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8:09

The Case For Playing Dress Up

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/08/28

There are two truths I want you to hold at once. The first truth is that you have no time to waste being someone you’re not. I recently interviewed this young entrepreneur named Nicolas Kirkland, and he said something that stuck with me — “Why do you gotta act like everybody else? Everybody else is taken.” We’re either on the hamster wheel of trying to fit in or we’ve slipped into the sinkhole of mistaking someone else’s dream for our own. Related note: One of my absolute favorite musical tunes is

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4:18

The Lannisters Knew How To Handle Critics in Game of...

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/08/22

This week we’ve been back through Game of Thrones in our house. I haven’t watched it again since 2011 when the series first premiered on HBO and took over popular culture for the next eight years. There’s so much to be said about the characters in this show. Starks. Lannisters. Targaryens. Dothrakis. Baratheons. I’d forgotten how powerful this contest for control of Kings Landing and Westeros is. It’s not my intention to dunk on House of the Dragon, the new spinoff series set generations before GoT

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9:13

Difficult People Are Essential

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/08/12

While I was chaperoning my daughter’s Scout Troop at summer camp in July, I took The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe with me to revisit the classic C.S. Lewis tale with adult eyes. It was fun. I fully appreciate now why I loved this story so much growing up. I also can appreciate with even more clarity why I loathed the character of Edmund so much. He’s the younger brother and family traitor who sells out his siblings to the White Witch, setting into motion a series of events that results in the

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9:04

The Glasses We See Through

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/07/09

A journey through perspective taking with Star Wars and C.S. Lewis. The glasses we wear in life change everything. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

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32:23

Deconstructing "Balance" of the Force in Star Wars

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/05/04

May the Fourth be with you!What better way to celebrate than to watch a very special, video edition of the Geeky Stoics podcast.In this episode, and get into it! It is a Star Wars philosophical battle royale (ok, maybe thoughtful discussion) on the ever-controversial concept of "balance” of the Force. Balance is a big deal in Star Wars - it's basically the main job description of the Chosen One. But leave it to a couple of philosophy nerds like us to find 7 ways to interpret exactly what that

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3:36

The First Defeat

Geeky Stoics ·

2024/04/30

How closely do you guard the start of your day? That alarm clock sits by the bedside or maybe a few feet from the door (if you’re clever) and it calls you to a commitment you made the night before. When the sleep is good, or even more so when the sleep was bad until about 3 AM, this otherwise small battle feels like a D-Day level effort. This can be the first victory of the day or the first defeat. You know how these things cascade. You hit snooze one too many times, miss the chance to shower, then

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