Podcasts by Being in the World

Being in the World 076: The Sacred Trickster from 2023-10-18T14:57:25

A both very intimate and very expansive conversation with Dulcinee about creativity, addiction, mental health, technology, "artificial" "intelligence", politics, relationship...

d/T: The Boundaries of Your Bias (live performance) from 2023-09-23T14:51:19

Poetry & Beats by Dulcinee DeGuere Piano and Synths by Tao Ruspoli The boundaries of your bias Trickle, trembling With a shudder that you deny Though it wraps you in a fog So taught you...

Being in The World Podcast 075 On being a couple and trying to improve yourselves and each other from 2023-09-22T15:07:32

Tao and Dulcinee discuss the deals they've made with each other to successfully quit smoking, meditate, and drastically reduce phone time. They also discuss the nature of technology, art, ar...

Being in the World Podcast 074: What makes a good story from 2023-07-14T01:01:56

Tao takes a walk with his friend Eric Kaplan, a TV writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory, etc.) with a PhD in philosophy. They try to get to the bottom of what makes a good story and what makes a go...

Being in the World 073: Riccardo Manzotti from 2023-06-13T04:49:55

Riccardo Manzotti is a philosopher, psychologist, and AI expert and the author of The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are ...

Being in the World 072: Dulcinée DeGuere on Mental Health, Vulnerability & Systems of Care from 2023-05-05T19:54:12

Dulcinée is a filmmaker, conceptual/performance artist, & Systems Architect for the Bombay Beach Biennale. Tao and Dulcinée have a frank and vulnerable conversation about both personal and s...

Being in the World 071: Interview with ChatGPT 2/2 from 2023-04-23T16:09:35

Tao talks to chatGPT4 about its philosophical, political, and creative implications. Part 2 of 2

Being in The World 070: an interview with ChatGPT part 1/2 from 2023-04-23T05:04:06

Tao talks to chatGPT 4 about its philosophical, political, and creative implications.

Being in the World 069: Eric Kaplan from 2023-02-07T23:54:34

Eric Kaplan is an American television writer and producer. His work has included shows such as Late Show with David Letterman, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Malcolm in the Middle, Futurama...

Tao Ruspoli Flamenco Guitar--Soleares 1 from 2022-12-12T23:32:13

Topanga Canyon, 2002

Being in the World Podcast 068: Chris Ryan from 2022-10-19T03:55:28

Chris and Anya visit Tao in desert after an around the world trip. 

Being in the World podcast 067: Anya Kaats--Astrology for Rationalists from 2022-10-11T19:10:32

Tao and Anya, host of A Millennial's guide to Saving The World, discuss astrology and whether it's possible to find meaning in it in a similar way we find meaning in fictions and mythological ta...

Being in the World Podcast 066: 19 Ways of Looking at Everything from 2022-10-10T20:50:15

Patrick House's new book 19 Ways of Looking at Consciousness now available everywhere books are sold...Get it, read it, give it, talk about it, post about it, and let us know what you think. &nb...

Being in the World podcast 065: James Fox from 2022-09-14T04:04:47

Tao sits down with his old friend James Fox, a British journalist best known for his book Listen

Being in the World Podcast 064 James Ostrer part 2 from 2022-07-25T22:35:24

We go deeper.

Being in the World Podcast 063: James Ostrer from 2022-07-21T06:14:28

Tao and artist James Ostrer delve into murky waters of colonialism, white privilege, art, gentrification, addiction, and commodification.

See James' brilliant work at www.jame...

Being in the World Podcast 062: Adam Freeland from 2022-06-14T00:42:50

Adam Freeland is an old friend, desert neighbor, and brilliant music producer and DJ. Adam & Tao wax philosophical about the nature of music and the music of nature.

Being in the World Podcast 061: Samir Tabar from 2022-06-01T02:49:19

Samir Tabar helps run one of the world’s largest publicly listed Bitcoin miners, Bit Digital. Before that he helped established one of the world’s first psychedelic venture capital funds, Noetic...

Being in the World Podcast 060: Patrick & Tao at the Gritti Palace, Venice from 2022-05-31T01:40:14

Dr. Patrick House and Tao discuss the last 8 days spent on the island of San Servolo, (former monastery, leper colony and insane asylum,) where they attended a conference on the neuroscience of ...

Being in the World podcast 059: Christof Koch from 2022-05-21T10:48:53

Christof Koch is a German-American neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the president and chief scientist of the...

Being in the World Podcast 058: Nicolas Berggruen from 2022-05-06T23:41:43

Tao sits down with billionaire philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, Chairman of the Berggruen Institute, on the eve of giving his institute's Prize for Philosophy and Culture to Peter Singer. The $...

Being in the World Podcast 057: Dulcinee on the art & politics of kink & polyamory from 2022-05-02T00:47

Tao and Dulcinee (writer, director, editor, producer of both films and of the latest  Bombay Beach Biennale,) have an honest, open, and wide ranging conversation about their relationship, i...

Being in the World Podcast 056: Live from the Bombay Beach Biennale with Eamon Armstrong, Dulcinee DeGuere, & Patrick House from 2022-04-28T19:59:09

A wonderful and unexpectedly coherent conversation, given very little sleep...I had a lot on my mind and managed to express it thanks in large part to Eamon's top notch interviewing skills. Be s...

Being in the World Podcast 055: Patrick House & Chloe Cockburn from 2022-04-25T21:49:18

A wide ranging discussion in Lake Tahoe with 2 of my favorite people...

Being in the World Podcast 054: Renegade Burning Man 2021 with Scott Beiben from 2021-09-11T02:51:25

Burning Man 2021 was cancelled. 15,000 of us went anyway. Tao and Scott discuss, among many other things, the past 2 decades of Burning Man and what we may learn from the changing nature of the ...

Being in the World Podcast 053: Anya Kaats & Chris Ryan from 2021-09-11T01:51:45

ao, Chris and Anya have a three-way… conversation. Sitting in Tao’s shipping container gallery in Yucca Valley, the three of us speak about the interwoven relationship between life, death, sex, ...

Being in the World Podcast 052: On Suicide from 2021-08-03T00:01:38

Tao & Dr. Patrick House have an intimate and philosophical conversation about suicide. 

Being in the World Podcast 049: Anya Kaats from 2021-06-07T03:05:15

Anya Kaats is a writer and podcaster determined to redefine the way we think about and construct the world around us. She hosts two podcasts, A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World and Whore R...

Being in the World Podcast 048: Chloe Cockburn from 2021-06-07T02:40:40

Tao speaks to his dear friend and former sister-in-law, Chloe Cockburn.  

Chloe leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for investing in criminal justice policy and practice reforms to su...

Being in the World Podcast 047: Christopher Gallo from 2021-06-07T00:44:43

Tao talks with his friend and cinematographer, Christopher Gallo.

Being in the World Podcast 044: Gene Kogan from 2021-03-28T20:12:55

Gene is an artist and programmer interested in autonomous systems, collective intelligence, generative art, and computer science.  He codes, gives talks, teaches workshops, writes essays, a...

Being in the World Podcast 046: Richard Morse aka Dick of the Desert from 2021-03-28T19:51:29

Tao & Richard wax philosophical and Richard sings his dirty songs...

Being in the World Podcast 045: Sonia Herbert from 2021-03-19T19:50:53

The Godmother of Bombay Beach discusses having 3 children before she was 18, the life and death of her first son Roger, her second son Adam's 20 year stint in federal prison for bank robbery, th...

Being in the World Podcast 043: Mark Mack from 2021-03-17T18:34:23

Tao with renowned architect, professor, DJ, and Bombay Beach resident and enthusiast, Mark Mack. 

Being in the World Podcast 042: on VR (and R) from 2021-03-03T01:25:07

Patrick and Tao discuss the philosophical and scientific implications of virtual reality.

Being in the World Podcast 041: Jealousy & Its Discontents from 2021-03-02T23:40:51

On Jealousy...

Being in the World Podcast 040: On Pro(creation) from 2021-02-23T18:04:10

Patrick and Tao discuss making babies...do they want to? why or why not?

Being in the World Podcast 039: On Mentors, Philosophy, Science and Free Will from 2021-02-20T14:46:10

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli reflect on the relationship between science and philosophy, among other things.

Being in the World Podcast 038: On Elegance, part 2 from 2021-02-18T23:43:21

Dr. House gives the talk he gave at the Bombay Beach Biennale on looking for elegance in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then he and Tao discuss it.

Being in the World Podcast 037: Being in Bombay Beach from 2021-02-16T19:10:38

...and we're back!

Being in the World Podcast 036: On the Struggle of Existence from 2020-11-12T18:57:51

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli wonder if their optimism for the beginning of the new era may have been premature.

Being in the World Podcast 035: New Beginnings from 2020-11-11T16:48:33

1st  episode of Season 2 of the Being in The World Podcast, with Tao Ruspoli and Dr. Patrick House. Theme: birth and rebirth.

Being in the World Podcast 033: On Beauty, part 1 from 2020-10-31T20:23:36

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Roger Scruton's documentary, Why Beauty Matters, platonic ideals of beauty, and why they may be misguided; also celebrity, beauty as a commodity, and more

Being in the World Podcast 034: On Beauty & Technology 2/2 from 2020-10-26T15:42:31

Part 2 of an ongoing discussion of beauty and the effects of technology on our conception and perception of it.

Being in the World Podcast 032: On Privilege, Responsibility, & Free Will from 2020-10-13T21:36:10

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli take a philosophical, social and scientific approach to issues surrounding freedom of choice, morality, privilege, and lack thereof.

Being in the World Podcast 031: On Criticism from 2020-10-13T16:37:49

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli undertake a critique of pure criticism...what is the role of criticism in art, culture and psychology? When are and aren't critics useful?

Being in the World Podcast 030: On Psychedelics from 2020-10-12T16:19:33

Lucy in the Studio with Diamonds

Being in the World Podcast 029: Lucy Walker from 2020-10-07T16:12:59

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli spend an hour chatting to Lucy Walker, an English film director. She has directed the documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (20...

Being in the World Podcast 028: On Boundaries from 2020-10-06T21:20:23

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss boundaries...in science, in relationships, and in the world at large.

Being in the World Podcast 027: On Consciousness from 2020-09-30T15:17:57

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss consciousness: is it fundamental? how mysterious is it? Might it useful to think of it as a "dimension"?

Being in the World Podcast 026: On Social Media & Addiction from 2020-09-28T21:27:19

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss our complex relationship to behaviors that have the potential for abuse and addiction, from sex to drugs to social media.

Being in the World Podcast 025: on Polyamory from 2020-09-27T21:32:43

Nastasia Celeste joins Dr. Patrick house and Tao Ruspoli (her primary partner,) in a frank, fun, and intimate discussion of the ups and downs of polyamory.

Being in the World Podcast 024: Coming Home, part 1 from 2020-09-27T15:13:26

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss what home means (plus beards, discipline, fire, destruction, rebirth, and more.)

Being in the World Podcast 023: On Darkness and Britney from 2020-09-11T22:40:05

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Britney Spears, mental health and how it is weaponized against women, death, darkness, Prince, Schopenhauer, pessimism, boredom, the need for an audie...

Being in the World Podcast 022: On Narcissism & Seduction from 2020-09-09T18:04

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss mirrors, disfluencies, narcissism, seduction, Instagram, Tinder, "textual chemistry", and violations of expectati...

Being in the World Podcast 021: On Hierarchy from 2020-09-09T14:10:51

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss violence, the importance of hierarchy in different domains, from creativity to health care to politics, & in different species, repressed homosexu...

Being in the World Podcast 020: On Meaning & Perception from 2020-09-07T14:49:09

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss whether music, color, or gut feelings happen to you or because of you. Is there such a thing as raw sensory data without interpretation and learning?

Being in the World Podcast 009: On Elegance from 2020-09-07T01:24:01

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli debate the concepts of social class, hierarchy, imitation and "elegance".

Being in the World Podcast 008: Rules of the Game from 2020-09-06T21:35:50

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the rules of the game (and what brains and cultures have to do with them.)

Being in the World Podcast 007: Daddies from 2020-09-06T20:29:57

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss absent/mythologized fathers, daddy issues, ecstatic truths, and the male gaze. (oh, and Tao's own father's surreal orgies with Salvador Dali.)

Being in the World Podcast 006: The Sisters from 2020-09-06T20:04:12

Jenna and Jordan talk sibling rivalry (or lack thereof,) metal organic frameworks, breakups, and what not to do on a first date.

Being in the World Podcast 005: On Authenticity from 2020-09-06T19:53:05

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli on ritual, addiction, tools, forgery, & the roles we play.

Being in the World Podcast 004: On Attention from 2020-09-06T19:16:09

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the tension of attention.

Being in The World Podcast 013: On Superstition from 2020-09-05T23:08:37

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss superstition, fate, and our need for connectivity, causality and narrative.

Being in the World Podcast 014: On Translation from 2020-09-05T22:39:19

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss the issue of translation...would the world be a better place if there were only one language?

Being in the World podcast 019: Dreams from 2020-09-05T22:23:48

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss dreams and the possibility of rationally interpreting them.

Being in the World Podcast 015: The Story of the I from 2020-09-05T22:15

Dr. Patrick House and Tao Ruspoli discuss narrative, truth, pornography, perception, editing, temporality, Sisyphus, The Decameron, the Bubonic Plague, and...you'll see:

Being in the World Podcast 016: Breakups and Breakdowns from 2020-09-04T22:11:27

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss breaks, brakes, boats, rivers, metaphors, rituals, relationships, and radiators.

Being in the World Podcast 017: Good Mourning from 2020-09-04T21:59:57

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss politics, polytheism, pain, progress, polarization, morning, mourning, heartbreak, death, and rebirth.

Being in the World Podcast 018: Miscellanea from 2020-09-04T21:06:31

Dr. Patrick House & Tao Ruspoli discuss Leonard Cohen, eloquence, language as a musical instrument, what can we learn about an artist from their artistic output, what it mean to have a style...

Being in the World Podcast 003: Melody Sample from 2020-09-04T18:08:23

A frank and intimate discussion about Japanese rope bondage, BDSM, kink, polyamory, and a surprising new triad.

Being in the World Podcast 002: Janie Cowan from 2020-09-04T17:49:20

Bassist Janie Cowan discusses her 97-year-old grandfather's attempt at assisted suicide.

Being in the World podcast 001: Beginnings from 2020-09-04T17:10:24

Tao & Patrick discuss origin stories, swimming with Hubert Dreyfus, and the concept of Being In The (podcast) World.