Episode #256: The Narrative of Myth

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Conversation on the main topic starts in the second half of the episode.

It's the end of August, and for us, it is the harvest season. We discuss this year's harvest of the grapes and the beginnings of this season's winemaking. Kyle reads a few news stories and we discuss those, then in the second segment Russ reads a long story from the Mysterious Universe website about four cases of strange mass animal deaths.

In the second half of the show, Kyle talks about the "philosophy of narrative", how common stories have a powerful influence on people and culture. How much have ancient mythologies influenced us? We also talk about the ability to focus on one thing versus the need to pay attention to the big picture, and how to balance these two ways of looking at the world, and how that connects to ancient mysteries, structures, and mythology.

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Executive Producers:
Michael Burroughs
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.

Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks

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0:00.0	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
0:22.5	angels and demons, and monsters, and serpents.
0:23.8	This is Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10.
0:29.7	Tangent Cube of Science, where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed
0:34.0	high atop the Edwards Plateau, and we are at the end of our harvest season.
0:39.3	Yes. So one state harvest. One more, yeah, our estate harvest. One more big push for us tomorrow, I think.
0:49.0	And most of that will be done. And after that, it's just winemaking making which is a more leisurely processed for the most
0:55.1	part yeah there's a couple of real huge pains in the yeah the pressing is a is a big pain but uh
1:03.6	tomorrow we got a processed fruit yeah we've got it's all got picked uh last night all night yeah i came home at like 630 oh really yeah um i left at like
1:18.9	2 30 yeah oh my mic is turned way down That's the deal here.
1:30.1	Yeah, so that was pretty cool.
1:32.1	We hired a hand-picking crew.
1:40.0	It came in, and I just got to hang out, and we were sort of sorting fruit and getting rid of...
1:40.8	We were maggers.
1:41.8	Maggi, yeah.
1:43.2	Material other than grapes. Getting Yeah. Material other than grapes.
1:44.8	Getting rid of material other than grapes.
1:47.4	Yeah.
1:47.7	So the guys would come and dump their bins into the big bin and then we just sort through
1:51.1	and pull out leaves and, you know.
1:53.6	Yeah.
1:54.1	And it's going to be the cleanest fruit we've ever had.
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