Category: Episodes
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E16: Mistaken Ideas #4, and Music by Joey Steel and Co.
Listen now: http://voicesfromthedark.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/voices-from-the-dark-episode-16.mp3 In this episode we have installment number four of the Voices from the Dark Mistaken Ideas series. Evgeni and I explore the Biased Sample fallacy, giving examples. During the show we realize that the Hasty Generalization is a closely related fallacy, so we discuss that as well. We also try to come up…
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E15: The Spectrum #1, Featuring Socialism in America
This episode features the first installment of The Spectrum, a show about political concepts, their definitions, and how they are used in American politics. The purpose of the show is not to argue sides of political issues. Instead, its purpose is to help listeners to understand the meanings behind commonly used political jargon. On this…
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E14: Mistaken Ideas #3, Featuring the False Precision and Splitting Hairs Fallacies
This episode features the third installment of the Voices from the Dark Mistaken Ideas series, a show about fallacies, their importance and their use. My guest today is my good friend and fellow philosopher, wizard and totem, Evgeni Klisarov. Today’s episode picks up from where we left off Episode 12, which featured the Fallacy of…
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E13: Artists #9, Featuring Anton Egorov
This episode features the ninth installment of the Voices from the Dark Artists series, where I speak with Anton Egorov, a Berlin-based artist and writer with many projects underway. We talk about what it means for him to be an artist, the importance of having supportive family and friends and parties… (FYI: not cocaine parties!) Some…
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E12: Mistaken Ideas #2, Featuring the Fallacy of the Horns and Red Herring
This episode features the second installment of the Voices from the Dark Mistaken Ideas series, a show about fallacies, their importance and their use. My guest today is myself, a self-proclaimed philosopher, wizard and totem. Today we pick up from where we left off on Episode 11. I talk about the upcoming Voices from the…
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E11: Mistaken Ideas #1, Introduction Featuring the Fallacy of the Horns
This episode features the first installment of the Voices from the Dark Mistaken Ideas series, a series about fallacies, their importance and their use. My guest today is myself, a self-proclaimed philosopher, wizard and totem. We discuss the goals of the series, my favorite fallacy and even define some terms. Enjoy! Click here to download…
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E10: Artists #8, Featuring Michael McLaughlin
This episode features the eighth installment of the Voices from the Dark Artists series. My guest is poet and former accountant Michael McLaughlin. We discuss his misadventures in accounting, his former job in a mental hospital, his upbringing in Dublin and how these things led him to Berlin, where he is able to focus more…
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E9: I’ll Be Right Back #2, Featuring “The Babysitter” (2017)
This episode features the second installment of the Voices from the Dark comparative horror film series I’ll Be Right Back with my co-host Daniel, the Chauffeur. The episode is filled with spoilers for the 2017 film the Babysitter by McG, written by Brian Duffield. If you haven’t seen it, stop right now and go watch it!…
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E8: Artists #7, Featuring J. Hermit
This episode features the seventh installment of the Voices from the Dark Artists series. My guest is guitarist J. Hermit, aka Jia, aka Yunjia Liu. We discuss how she fell in love with the guitar while on the path to becoming a doctor. Jia shares her story, her current projects and her belief in the…
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E7: Artists #6, Featuring Federica Flux
This episode features the sixth installment of the Voices from the Dark Artists series. My guest is VJ and performer Federica Flux. We discuss her artistic journey from her grandmother’s kitchen to learning classical guitar to a stint as a medical student and finally to discovering the benefits of art as a curative practice. Federica…