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Heidegger after bedtime, without smoothing the edges.
Leaping Cholla Podcast works through Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy of the Event from the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert. Its close readings move slowly, with domestic updates, political irritation, and repeated attempts to translate being, truth, Dasein, and metaphysics into lived terms.
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Leaping Cholla Podcast is a slow, abrasive, intimate reading project centered on Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy of the Event. It is recorded in the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert, a setting that matters less as scenery than as a pressure chamber for thinking. The show usually starts with life first. Pregnancy news arrives uncertainly, with HCG levels, monitoring clinics, nausea, injections, hope, and dread. A mother is moved toward institutional care after Alzheimer's dementia. A child climbs out of a crib. A house in Silver City becomes a way to talk about reasonableness, beauty, and self-presentation. Then the text returns. The episodes read Heidegger closely, often clause by clause, circling through the guiding question, truth, beingness, Beyng, Dasein, metaphysics, negation, nihilism, certainty, objectivity, and the passage from a first beginning to another beginning. The explanations are provisional and recursive. A difficult sentence is read, restated, doubted, corrected, and tried again in plainer language. That patience is the show's real form. It does not simplify Heidegger into easy takeaways, but it does keep translating the machinery into examples involving babies, thoughts, feelings, anxiety, institutions, religion, and politics. Liberalism receives especially blunt treatment, sometimes framed through Christianity, faith, guilt, dogma, false equivalence, emotional authority, and modern intellectual life. The show can be dryly funny, but the humor stays close to discomfort. Its domestic material is not a break from philosophy; it becomes evidence for how abstract claims about presence, uncertainty, care, mortality, and feeling might actually work in a life. The result is a severe, idiosyncratic philosophy conversation for listeners who can tolerate repetition, argument, hesitation, and unresolved difficulty. It is less a lecture than a shared attempt to think in real time while ordinary life keeps demanding entry.
Made for: For listeners who want close Heidegger reading with real friction, not polished lecture notes. It suits philosophy readers who can stay with slow argument, domestic interruption, and sharp cultural critique.
What sets it apart: The show sets dense textual interpretation beside raw family material, making metaphysical questions feel entangled with pregnancy, elder care, anxiety, and ordinary decisions. Its method is patient, recursive, and openly unsettled.
After the kids are asleep, we settle into the Wrong Mountain Yurt to read a bit of Heidegger's masterpiece "Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event)" and then apply its anti-identitarian insights to the achievement of a post-liberal philosophy.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dense Heidegger readings become candid conversations about family life, political belief, emotion, history, and the limits of certainty.
Leaping Cholla Podcast makes close reading sound like domestic life unfolding beside an unusually difficult book. Two hosts move from family news and desert encounters into section-by-section discussion of Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy of the Event, stopping to…
A crib escape and a desert golf ball lead straight into Heidegger's "beyng" in this yurt.
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A dense Heidegger discussion framed by pregnancy, dementia, and a late political turn.
Leaping Cholla opens on morning sickness, a pregnancy at about eight and a half weeks, and the host's account of institutionalizing a mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia.
A slow, exact rereading that turns a damaged recording into a clear philosophical argument.
The episode starts with a damaged recording and turns that problem into part of the point. The hosts reread Heidegger's numbered claims, then widen the frame to Kant, German idealism, and the uneasy tie between Christianity and liberalism.
A slow, intimate episode where a confusing pregnancy update and Heideggerian parsing share the same space.
Leaping Cholla Podcast moves between a very confusing pregnancy update and a dense reading of Heidegger, and it does so without forcing either part into the shape of the other.
A patient Heidegger reading that links negation, feeling, and denial into one unfolding argument.
The segment stays with Heidegger's section 90 on negation, tracing how the term can sound like rejection, dismissal, disparagement, or even disintegration. It also lingers on bang, the alternate spelling for being, and keeps returning to the gap between being and bang.
Family pressure and dense philosophy sit in the same patient frame.
Leaping Cholla opens on ordinary family pressure and keeps those stakes close: a mother moving in, a shaky pregnancy, and a doctor call that turns the numbers into tension. The episode works because it treats those details as real life, not as setup for a bigger reveal.
Heidegger, pregnancy, and baby-name talk anchor a slow, curious seminar on presence.
Leaping Cholla takes Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy of the Event, Section 85, and turns it into a careful, step-by-step meditation on presence, absence, and manifestation.
A desert-recorded Heidegger conversation that turns metaphysics into a live, argumentative exchange.
Recorded from the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert, this episode starts with a family update about a son climbing out of his crib and bumping his head, then moves into Heidegger, metaphysics, Dasein, thrownness, care, and finitude.
A careful Heidegger reading that keeps one hard passage moving.
Leaping Cholla stays close to Heidegger's discussion of how modern science bends toward newspaper science and machine science, and it keeps the argument clear without flattening it.
Peter Boghossian applies street epistemology to guests debating free speech, immigration, and belief.
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The episode opens in the Wrong Mountain Yurt with rough morning sickness, a pregnancy at about eight and a half weeks, and the painful practical work of moving a mother into care after an Alzheimer's dementia diagnosis.
The episode opens with a reread.
The show comes back from the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert.
The show opens in the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert.
Leaping Cholla opens in the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert with family news that lands fast and stays unsettled.
Leaping Cholla returns after a stretch of interruptions.
The hosts open in the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert and fold weather, a snake sighting, and a small household scare straight into the beginning of the show.
A couple reads Heidegger's 'Contributions to Philosophy' in a yurt, then discusses their decision to buy a house in Silver City, New Mexico.
Leaping Cholla records from the Wrong Mountain Yurt in the Sonoran Desert.
The hosts read and discuss a section from Heidegger's 'Contributions to Philosophy' about the entrenchment of technological essence in sciences.
Leaping Cholla opens with a slow argument about historiology and how new interpretive viewpoints can make the work feel easier while also feeding a false sense of certainty.