The Wise Fools Pod

Epic Comedy Berlin
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The Wise Fools Pod is a comedy podcast that brings philosophy to the masses by filtering it through the minds of stand-up comedians. Hosted by Brendan Hickey at The Wall Comedy club in Berlin, Germany, each episode takes a philosopher, a big idea, or a cultural concept and throws it into the hands of comics to see what survives. Part live show, part panel, part intellectual car crash - The Wise Fools Pod is where serious ideas meet unserious people. For more information, visit https://www.epiccomedyberlin.com/

Episodes

  1. Why is everything a remake? | The Wise Fools Pod | Mark Fisher & Hauntology [WFP001]

    Apr 20

    Why is everything a remake? | The Wise Fools Pod | Mark Fisher & Hauntology [WFP001]

    Welcome to The Wise Fools Pod, a comedy podcast about philosophy. In the first episode, host Brendan Hickey is joined by Berlin-based comedians Ori Halevy and Dayne Brasher to dig into the work of Mark Fisher - from hauntology and the slow cancellation of the future to the idea that modern culture feels trapped in repetition, with less and less room for anything genuinely new. What starts as a discussion about Fisher’s writing quickly spirals into cultural criticism, strained analogies, and the general chaos that comes from handing philosophy over to comedians. The conversation moves through capitalist realism, the commercial pressure placed on art, the feeling that culture keeps recycling itself, and the way Fisher ties all of that to depression, the cultural zeitgeist, and the psychological atmosphere of modern life. A serious discussion, right up until everyone starts being themselves.

    40 min
  • 1 Episode

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The Wise Fools Pod is a comedy podcast that brings philosophy to the masses by filtering it through the minds of stand-up comedians. Hosted by Brendan Hickey at The Wall Comedy club in Berlin, Germany, each episode takes a philosopher, a big idea, or a cultural concept and throws it into the hands of comics to see what survives. Part live show, part panel, part intellectual car crash - The Wise Fools Pod is where serious ideas meet unserious people. For more information, visit https://www.epiccomedyberlin.com/

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  • Creator
    Epic Comedy Berlin
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Explicit
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