Episodes
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On this episode, Ryder and Hank discuss German romantic philosophers getting it popping in Jena, Paul Schrader’s film about Mishima, Mad Max world, the difficulty of revealing one’s desires, and more.
We also plug the new Anchoret-adjacent Operaismo Research Group forming in Minneapolis, a strategic search for Freedom.
Music:
1528DD - Chief Keef - In Luv Wth The Gwop (OrchestralFlip)
Sequentia - Hildegard von Bingen - Ave Maria, O Auctrix Vite
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On this follow up to last year’s blighted Valentine’s Day episode, Hank and Ryder chart a new course into the cosmic meaning of love, via Russian cosmism and the Christological philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. We also discuss the significance of craft, the vibes nowadays, and more.
Music:
Gil Scott-Heron - Song for Bobby Smith
Луна - Free Love
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On this episode we’re joined by our young friend Sam (). We discuss intergenerational dialogues, Massachusetts regional nomenclatures, the foreclosure of futurity and the miraculous eternal present of Chicago’s Bop music, the twilight of adolescence, the ungovernable nature of online personae, ecstasy, Marxism’s afterlives, Antonio Negri (RIP) and the possibility of separation from capital’s false totality, and much more.
Music:
Sicko Mobb - Zoom Zoom
Moi Moi Detente - Never Citgo edit
Sicko Mobb - Remember Me
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On this episode we’re joined by our friend Eamon, who tells us about his exile in language as Irish-American absconded to Colombia. We talk small-town Irish mythology and small-town Minnesotan mythology: drinking naggins, smoking spice, avoiding faery forts, Irish Travelers, being a dodgy teenager, and much more.
Finally we get into a rather serious discussion about the insufficiencies of language and the miracle of communication. When language fails, what happens next?
Music:
Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town
Sello - Dublin
Ojala Nightcore edit
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On this prelude to Anchoret Season 2, Hank and Ryder return from their unexplained hiatus with something of an explanation, which gives way to convos on the nature of Evil and fighting the Great Deceiver, loving America, the call for a Midwestern Hermeticism, a rural Wisconsin Bauhaus, the joys of frolf, autofictional depletion, Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, and more.
We chart our path forward for Season 2, which will include long-form research projects into vital images of the Past and Future that capture our utopian imaginary, abundant interviews with friends and acquaintances, as well as classic Anchoret dialogues and digressions.
As always, we thank you for your continued listenership and support.
Much love,
-Anchoret
Music:
Fust - “Where The Good Ones Go”
MC Postura e MC MR Bim ($DJ Gedai) - AGRESSIVO AMERICANO - “VAI FUGUETA ELA”
03 Greedo - “Bacc Like I Never Left”
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In this episode we talk about our relationship to the Mississippi River and the back yard of our house. We celebrate Mr. Buddy, our beloved backyard groundhog, and the dust-flopping bunnies of twilight.
We talk about the mystery of terroir and its role in fulfilling the unfinished promise of youth, and pay tribute to the process of wading upstream towards no particular place.
Music:
Salem - Starfall
Paul Robeson - “Old Man River” from Live At Carnegie Hall, 1958
outro music by Florida Water
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In this 1-year reflection episode, we aren’t feeling very reflective. We talk about how it started versus how it’s going, in a new period of destabilization and germination. We trade in books for unfiltered experience. Hank recounts Gershom Scholem’s memoir of his friendship with Walter Benjamin; Ryder reads a bit from The Gay Science. To finish out we talk about the value of being Engaged in A Project, and faced with an atmosphere of dumbness we decide that More Will Be Revealed.
Sorry 4 The Weight.
Music:
Chino Pacas x Fuerza Regida - Dijeron Que No La Iba Lograr
THC - Unsaid Warning
Closing song by Nick
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In this episode we discuss the experience of Doubt.
We talk about St. John of the Cross and his Dark Night of the Soul; the gift of darkness and the image of God as a “cloud of unknowing;” Utah, Mormonism, and prophetic Americana, Mark Wahlberg’s “lenten prayer challenge”; Ramsey Dukes’s SSOTBME; quitting grad school; Ignatian discernment and having convos you don’t want to have; and more.
We finish by revisiting “Miracles” by Insane Clown Posse, celebrating the crypto-Christian ethos of the Hatchet Family and the Dark Carnival, their manifest kingdom of unvarnished love and acceptance. MMFWCL.
Music:
Stiffy, “SWAG DE SOSA”
Insane Clown Posse, “Miracles”
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Fashion and style roundtable with our friends Therese, Preston and Hans!
We discuss r/mensfashion, online fit breakdowns, the streamlining of aesthetics over the 2010s, whether it’s possible to express yourself or tell stories with clothes, fashion brands as household gods, the quest for the perfect denim, the Bernard Wilhelm → HBA → The Row pipeline, the psychopathologies of online shopping, the redemptive role of the ragpicker, and much more.
Interlude music: The Libertines - Time for Heroes, WENCH (Arca x Shayne Oliver) - Sick. End music: audio from FINAL HOME promo video.
Hans’s work: @having_relations_with_my_denim
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In this belated V-day episode, we talk astrology and its abolition, the secularization of mystery cults, Sophia’s creation of the demiurge, gnosticism and expanded universe Christianity, mining for nuggets of Spirit, escaping the Tinder kenoma, lovesickness, the insanity and mystery of romance, universal winter malaise, suicidal thoughts, the phantasmagoria of eros, apophatic prayer, and more.
Intro music by Anchoret.
Bassline interlude: TS7 - Flip Flop VIP, T2 - This Is Showaa
Outro music: Fuerza Regida - Descansando
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We talk to our friend Tyler about his journey of faith — beginning with communalist anarchy and leading to Catholicism — as well as his experiences in the Jesuit novitiate. We ask him about this “trad” thing everyone keeps talking about, and we learn about faith versus works, sacramental love, subjectivism versus hierarchy, opening yourself to the judgement of others, the communal nature of human beings, what Jesus meant when he said he was gonna “bring the sword,” whether it’s possible to break bread with beef, gnosticism, Platonism, and more. To finish out, we play Heresy or Nah? and Tyler tells us how he realized that God wanted him to be happy.
Intro music by Anchoret.
Outro music by Florida Water.
Other music — Jhene Aiko edit by Total Freedom. “God Likes Me” by Elusin.
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In the second installment of our year-end Q&A, we work our way through questions about the Last Night in Heaven [[Extinction qua extinction]], the Internet, the Lutheran-to-New Age spectrum and its discontents, hope, addiction, the gnosis of psychoactive substances, therapy versus confession, aesthetic resonance with bygone historical epochs, and — the question to end all questions — “whether or not spiritual practice can be fully extricated from the logic of production - Can spirituality still exist, undefiled, in capitalist society?”
Intro music by Anchoret.
RHQ/Sosa/TBS junglist edits by Florida Water.
Other music:
bar italia - “angels”
eliskajah/twinflamegirl - “takemetothesource.mp3”
dumpster boyfriend - “to the stars which are set alight among the roses”
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In this end of year Q&A, we answer inquiries about demonic symbiosis, the meaning of sacrifice, cosmic milk warfare, vernacular-maxxing for NPCs, decline and resurgence of “reading,” recurring nightmares, rekindling lost life-sparks, the simultaneity of perception and creation in Gaia’s revelation, and more. We put on for our city, Minneapolis, the Greatest City in the World aka Somewhere Out in Yodie Land. Is there that much more to say? Does it go much further than that?
Part one of two.
Intro music — Anchoret. Outro music — Florida Water. Yodieland music — Yuno, Cougar. Additional audio — Fulcrum.
Thank you for a great year :)
- Nick & Hank
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We spark up the Anchoret HQ sauna, 1000% immersive schvitz. Also pain, demons, orbs. What is the meaning of pain? We’re stuck between “Western Medicine” and cascades of wellness cults. Pain as incommunicable (Elaine Scarry-pilled). That feeling of amniotic suspension in the cosmos. Hank meets an orb. Ryder can’t articulate the movement of Spirit. RIP Blaze Foley. We praise Tao Lin’s Leave Society for giving form to the struggle against pain-as-alienation.
Like Serj Tankian said:
“SPIRIT MOVES THROUGH ALL THINGS… SCIENCE HAS FAILED OUR MOTHER EARTH.”
Sauna theme by Truly Blessed
Future edit by Florida Water
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We arrive at a crossroads, our own personal Bastogne. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by podcasting. Hank is heartbroken and Ryder is irritable. We work through conflict. The burden of the mythical past, not believing that you exist, ensemble character syndrome. People are literally different from one another. Jakob Böhme and the Schrack. Ernst Bloch and the not-yet-conscious. The meteor of love streaks in from left field to dissolve your inner structures. The Angel of History Has Fallen.
There’s something here, in relief, but you have to listen for it.
Tswift edit by Florida Water: https://soundcloud.com/skovie
Outro music: “i’ve been thinking lately :/”, d5rko
darkscope graphic by Hans
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Anchoret storytellers edition, mixing up the medicine (profane + sacred).
Moved by the jests of German folk buffoon Till Eulenspiegel, we harness the perennial craft of storytelling to sacralize Xan-induced humiliations and to see ourselves from the perspective of the divine.
Ryder scrapes the archives of his unsober past to regale us with the tale of How he joined the Vernon County Cosa Nostra, received the stigmata, and humiliated himself on the patio.
Reflecting on a lost friendship rekindled, Hank unfolds a theory of the environmentally poisoned boy-gangs of Northeast Minneapolis, ever on guard against obscure threats from the outside.
We tell stories to preserve in one another the capacity to accept love, becoming each our own Scheherazade of the One Thousand and One Nights.
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Outro song: MBE -“Have a Party”
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On this episode we talk about the “second origin” of the desert islands, the great flood myth, Mount Ararat (not in Albania), the nuclear horizon of 4th wave ska, Christian anarchy and “divine violence,” almost becoming a wook, convos about God in Ubers, Tao Lin’s autism article, and the psychodynamics of suicide.
We listen to lots of cool music and, finally, we get mad about psychoanalysis.
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Outro music: Truly Blessed x Florida Water
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Fresh back from NYC, we settle in for the season of change with a marathon episode.
As summer wanes, we bask in the reign of animal spirits; the songs of cicadas, tree frogs, and crickets; locust clouds and dirt piles filled with snakes; vampire squid ontology, cephalopod mood rings and blinged-out hermit crabs.
Off nootropic beans, we confront the poignant truth that sometimes we are just not hitting. We reflect on our Lost Episode, occulting the Anchoret arcana and culling from it some valuable lessons about getting lost in the sauce, the pitfalls of narrating your life, and radical acceptance of wackness. We extol the pure exuberance and profane light of ZAZA.
As a main course, Ryder gets Jungian on Hank’s epic René Guénon-type dream, where he spirals down the drain of history. Ryder shares an important message from Thaiboy Digital, prompting reflections on Ponyboi as magician, participating in the creation of the world.
Finally, we reflect on our summers: transience, cyclical time, keeping at bay “the terror of history.” Blessed are those who make it to the last 20 minutes, where we talk celebrity crushes, approach our resistance, and get ourselves into Hot Water.
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Outro music by Floridawater
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In our first guest interview, Anchoret links up with the one and only Ponyboi to talk inner and outer transformation in the age of images.
Ponyboi shares his origin story, shedding light on his message of relentless positivity and indiscriminate love in the face of darkness.
we talk lifting, recovery, responding to hate, the spirit of forgiveness, moments of grace, the process of becoming one’s authentic self, harnessing images of strength and eros to spread love, and much more.
huge thanks to Ponyboi for joining us. You can check out his personal training work at Gorilla Goals and follow him on IG:
https://www.gorillagoals.net
https://www.instagram.com/ponyboiofficial
Outro music by Floridawater:
https://soundcloud.com/skovie
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Episode 2! No sophomore slump.
Summer arrives and is almost over. We contemplate American Flux. Chaos and languishing in the Middle West. Doldrums, emo vibes, kids on bikes.
We talk about “coasties,” leggings and Uggs, Elite Gymnastics and music from nowhere, temporal warp and the death of local internet, John Crowley’s Ægypt cycle, the Boundary Waters, The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, Marxism and monasticism, “repressive desublimation,” languishing again, “luxury garbage is the worst poison,” that Yeat song from the Minions movie, Chögyam Trungpa, monads, “decreation,” the problems with reading, “I can see the patterns,” Minions theodicy and more.
Ryder asks Hank how he’s feeling and he’s feeling alienated. Some bike kids hijack our multiverse and call us “podcast dudes.” They remind us of the importance of autonomous fiction. Nick’s voice cracks 50x while he eviscerates the faithless millenarianism of the American academy. We get ready to hit New York.
Join us as we discuss the esotericism of everyday life in the thicket of phantasms. Subscribe here on Substack, or via Apple Podcasts/Spotify for biweekly episodes.
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