Misenchantments

About this podcast

A podcast about Christianity, modernity, and various misenchantments.

Episodes

The newest 20 of 30 episodes

• 30: Reintroducing Misenchantments24 Oct 2026This month, we’re reintroducing ourselves and our aims with this project. When we first started the podcast four (!) years ago (please don’t go back and listen), we described…
• 29: Ex Machina, Ex Cathedra15 Jul 2026We start with a recap our tour of the San Diego Mormon Temple: baptisms of the dead, endless office space, sterile conceptions of heaven, denial of death. Then we talk about Pope…
• 28: Church Tour Review2 May 2026Riley and Lorenzo discuss Lorenzo’s hobby of attending various local churches, and answer the questions we’re all asking: what is “fundie”? What is “evangelical”? What do…
• 27: A Good Book about Online Losers: Tony T’s “Rejection”24 Sep 2025Riley and Lorenzo chat about Tony Tulathimutte’s “Rejection” and also, strangely, early 2010s Americana music (aka “stomp clap hey”, or, on Spotify, “stomp & holler”). Lorenzo…
• 26: Enchantment (Part 2 of 2): Karl Ove Summer13 Jul 2025Riley and Lorenzo continue their discussion on enchantment – what is it, what is it not, how does technology ruin it, and where can we get some? Topics include myth, liturgy…
• 25: Enchantment (Part 1 of 2)9 Dec 2024Riley and Lorenzo discuss enchantment – what is it, why should we care, and what does it mean for something to “have juice”? Topics include hireophany, writing as (failed)…
• 24: Ethan Hawke Fan Club (First Reformed)23 Sep 2024Riley and Lorenzo watch and discuss Paul Schrader’s 2017 film “First Reformed.” Riley loves it, Lorenzo thinks it does theology right but has other gripes. Digressions include…
• 23: On Exactitude in SEO (Why Media Sucks Now)28 Jun 2024What do Noah Kahan, smutty romance novels, and search engine optimization (SEO) have in common? Riley and Lorenzo dive into why so much popular art and media feels so thin. We…
• 22: Overconsumption Part 2: Fully Automated Luxury Satanism19 Mar 2024Riley and Lorenzo discuss Disneyland, Satanism, treat acquisition, TikTok microtrends, climate change and purchasing massive SUVs, the imperative to buy, and what we owe each…
• 21: Overconsumption Part 1: “Having and Being Had”2 Jan 2024Riley and Lorenzo discuss their new mic, ASMR, TikTok “haul” trends, single-use plastic, Christmastime and Advent (Riley doesn’t know the difference between the two)…
• 20: Gripes30 Nov 2023Riley and Lorenzo catch up to complain about what has been bothering them in their two months away from the pod: science, acronyms, the internet, women, etc. Let’s call it…
• 19: Friley and Lorenzooey30 Aug 2023In what critics are calling “the coziest episode of Misenchantments yet,” Riley and Lorenzo discuss J.D. Salinger’s short novel Franny and Zooey. Lorenzo reads it as an…
• 18: Two Beer Stoicism24 Jul 2023Riley & Lorenzo have 2 beers each and discuss tech-bro stoicism (aka broicism), the horrors of The Daily Stoic, why quotes don’t = wisdom, why whimsy is important, and why…
• 17: Artificial Intelligence Fears and Peacock’s ‘Mrs Davis’9 Jun 2023Riley & Lorenzo explore the wild world of Peacock comedy/drama Mrs. Davis, a show about a nun who has to fight a world-controlling AI program (we’re also excited to announce our…
• 16: Does God Real? (feat. Regina Hurley)26 Apr 2023Riley & Lorenzo are joined by Regina Hurley to discuss ~metaphysics~. We’re doing this because we think Religion is good—but what about rational reasons to believe in God?…
• 15: Simone Weil, Original De-Influencer24 Feb 2023Riley & Lorenzo dive into some of Christian mystic Simone Weil’s greatest hits, including attention, personality, impersonality, and witnessing, and make a case for why Weil…
• 14: A Misenchanted Christmas23 Dec 2022Riley & Lorenzo hate on Christmas a lot but are down to clown with the Incarnation. We decide what Christmas aesthetics are misenchanted, which are good, and then do a little…
• 13: Corny Alert: New Atheists6 Dec 2022Tip your fedoras and get ready to beef with your Christian aunt. In this bantery and off the cuff ep, Riley & Lorenzo explore the merits and controversies of New Atheism. Listen…
• 12: The(y’re) [New] Right About Tech16 Nov 2022Riley & Lorenzo do a deep dive into National Conservatism, their views on autonomy, and how technology is destroying our attention and probably our lives. Spoiler: they would get…
• 11: Checkmate Atheists: A Willful Misreading of C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”27 Sep 2022Ever wondered why so many people love Lewis’ classic work of apologetics? Us too! Riley & Lorenzo discuss allegory, masculinity, children’s literature, and embracing the mystery…