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Fools and Sages

Fools and Sages Podcast

Welcome to the Fools and Sages Podcast, where deep conversations intersect with practical wisdom. Hosted by Brian Lee and Boaz Soifer, this show invites listeners into thought-provoking conversations that illuminate the transformative insights Boaz gained from nearly three decades of dialogue with Brian.

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123 episodes

  1. What's Your Hill To Die On? (and a little about Heidegger) 1:04:35
  2. Fasting, The Craving Mind and The Alchemy of Hunger 1:08:50
  3. Buddha, Rebirth and Why You Can't Flush a Pingpong Ball 1:08:01
  4. Our Self, Our Reality and Waking Up to The Ground of Being: Dr. Fred Cooper 1:12:55
  5. Riding Backwards on an Ox One May Enter the Buddha Hall 1:03:37
  6. Wheel Within Wheels and The Deep Breath of The Universe 1:01:05
  7. Your Very Own Mind/Body Problem: A Philosophical Analysis of Exercise 59:27
  8. Waking Up From History with Raj Dev: Africa, AI and the Way Forward 1:30:55
  9. I Saw Three Ships Come Sailin' In 1:06:40
  10. Old Farmers Never Die, They Just Go To Seed 1:03:24
  11. Resenting The Benefactor or How Brian Became An Old Korean Man 1:01:54
  12. How can we be two places at once when we're not anywhere at all? 1:08:19
  13. When Bad Therapy Happens to Good People 1:17:34
  14. The Mother Ditch of The Common Good 1:08:13
  15. Soulmates or Cellmates? The Enigma of Intimate Relationships 59:26
  16. Whispers from The Universe and The Pachenko Machine of Souls 53:14
  17. Take Your Time: Deconstructing Patience 104 59:31
  18. Who Are You? All About Character Typing 1:12:24
  19. Fanning the Flames of Philosophy's Hearth 1:52:36
  20. Speaking the Tao With Kenneth Leong 1:30:19
  21. Happy Happy Joy Joy 100 59:15
  22. Thinking About Thinking, with an INTP 1:04:11
  23. Between the Beasts and The Gods 1:12:00
  24. One Elephant Theory and The Conscious Middle 1:07:13
  25. Thinking about The Odyssey 1:04:26
  26. Erez Levin: Taboos and Hacking The Body Politic 2:24:58
  27. Speaking the Tao with Dr. David Marshall 94 1:32:29
  28. Mental Health, Materialism and Tripping Balls 1:08:21
  29. Slicing Up The Pepperoni Of Time 1:07:25
  30. Pornographic Playing Cards, Philosophy and Nietzsche 91 59:02
  31. Dr, Stephen Hicks: Science, Objectivity, Truth and the Whole She-bang 1:41:19
  32. Who's Your Daddy? Orphans Discuss Fatherhood 1:01:25
  33. Money, money, money and a bit about Magic Spells 88 1:05:40
  34. What About Eating Animals? 87 1:09:04
  35. Krishnan Venkatesh: Sauntering into the Unknown: Thoreau & Basho 1:34:24
  36. James Hartree: Philosophy For Screenagers 85 1:45:15
  37. Allowing Being To Be: Gelassenheit 84 1:16:36
  38. Mountaintops, Views, and More Heidegger 83 59:23
  39. Can Philosophy Repair The World? Shaking Off The Still-Life 82 1:02:46
  40. Gadamer, Levinas and a Magical Kind of Ping Pong 81 1:08:53
  41. Heidegger and The Ontological Goo 80 1:20:34
  42. Is Heaven All Up In Our Head? 79 1:07:56
  43. Rich Rubino 2025 Retrospective 78 1:21:16
  44. Paul Fenn: Liberty, Democracy, Localism and The Bloody Rhinoceros Head 2:16:56
  45. Frogs in The Maelstrom and The Big We 76 1:00:57
  46. Category Confusion and The Slippery Fish of The Self 75 1:07:09
  47. The Rabbi and The Atom: Fusing Torah and Physics 1:41:08
  48. The Missing Piece: The One Thing Books Can't Teach You 73 1:05:39
  49. #72 The Dance of The Plover and The Chronosynclastic Infundibulum 53:16
  50. #71: Larry Shapiro: Why Science Needs Philosophy 1:58:23