Through the exploration of various cultures and archaeological mysteries throughout the world, authors J David Osborne and Kris Saknussemm attempt to get to the heart of our lost moment, and provide some potential paths out. LOST XPLORERS is a psychogeographical exploration of culture, art, language, and strange history.
Episodes
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
On this episode, Kris and I do an extended “Week in Doom,” analyzing the ways in which the media is becoming completely untrustworthy. Kris closes us out with a surreal dream fit for a Jodorowsky film.
Show Notes:
Gay sex addict (from 2012, but I wanted to start the show with something kind of funny)
San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Kris tells a cool story about living next to Philip K Dick, how to be prolific, inflation, the culture of Europe vs. the culture of America, shamanic language vs societal language, swimming with sea turtles, conversations we need to have vs. conversations we can’t have, the attempt to make you the main character of other people’s stories, keeping clean, a man who liked to have sex with nostrils, what would happen if everyone got smarter tomorrow?, backward speaking, and cuckoo clocks.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
“Americans Need to Live More Like Europeans”
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
Collected Writings by Buckminster Fuller
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Rigging more sails, asexual superheroes, trust in news media at an all-time low, language and the construction of time, New Guinean bridge construction, feral bike thief aqueducts, aphorisms, risking cliche, and barn-owl yellow Death Star Alexas.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Kris and I continue our discussion of language and its roots in creating a thought matrix for maintaining tribal stability.
We talk about Facebook’s name change to “Meta,” how to survive the coming metaverse, reading media from other countries, “the unspeakable visions of the individual,” the connection of villages in Papua New Guinea, words as magic, and the way that language takes on a life of its own when separated from its web.
Also: David made up a riddle and a story about Kris’s new neighbors. Kris gives us a practical tip about dealing with violence and a dream about
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
On this episode, we talk the male experience of love, love as a verb, is falling in love a choice?, Christian and Buddhist conceptions of love, loving your wife, the most romantic thing Kris has ever done, and choosing what rules your life. In addition, David solves a riddle.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
On this special Halloween episode, we talk about:
The personal theater of fright, relationships with the dead, headless Malayan pirates, the lost pilots of New Guinea, Elisa Lam, our favorite written ghost stories, and the difference between Halloween and the Day of the Dead. We end with a special Halloween reading from Kris’s book Sea Monkeys.
“Waltzing Matilda” by Banjo Patterson
Scary Stories to Read in the Dark
“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Circumnavigating the soul, neighbor issues, development of language as paranoia, Kris falling in love, the relationship between big cities and solipsism, the souls of dogs, narcissism machines, local bars, a remedy for self-absorption, the River of Truth, alien slogans, and dream visitations.
Show Notes:
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Kris and I are moving the whole podcast behind a paywall! There’s this episode and then one next week, and then we’ll be doing the show on Patreon.
Tearing through the facade, hummingbirds, skydiving, where fear lives, the weapon of the apocalypse, how we get incarnated, the blue monkey-headed goddess of inquisitiveness, and arranging calendars by feast days.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
On this bonus episode, Kris and I talk about the potential link between Language and Paranoia. Kris also introduces a new dichotomy: terror and delight. The creative challenge on this one was a lot of fun…definitely one of our better episodes all around.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
David tells of his recent tornado adventures, followed by a discussion of the term "Two Spirit" as it's commonly used in modern discourse. This leads to a bigger discussion of the rich histories and traditions of Native peoples (timely talk for Indigenous Peoples' day). How do we view these cultures respectfully while still granting them the agency? What are ways to express culture without becoming a neoliberal subject?