Hotel Bar Sessions podcast
@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social
Three philosophers. One bartender. Pouring wisdom straight into your earbuds.
Co-hosts: @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social and @philosophymatters.bsky.social
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Co-hosts: @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social and @philosophymatters.bsky.social
www.hotelbarpodcast.com
www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions
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February 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Episode 213 just dropped and this week we're talking about the moral implications of anonymity.
Yes, including a discussion of masked federal agents.
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Yes, including a discussion of masked federal agents.
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Episode 213: Anonymity - Hotel Bar Podcast
Why must state power wear a mask?
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February 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Episode 213 just dropped and this week we're talking about the moral implications of anonymity.
Yes, including a discussion of masked federal agents.
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Yes, including a discussion of masked federal agents.
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Brand new episode is out today and this week our co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social are staring deeply into the well!
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Episode 212: Catastrophic Philosophy - Hotel Bar Podcast
How does philosophy respond to catastrophes? And how does it generate them?
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January 30, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Brand new episode is out today and this week our co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social are staring deeply into the well!
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I tried to forward a somewhat unorthodox definition of "intelligence" in this episode. Would love to hear your feedback!
First episode of Season 15 just dropped and we're starting off strong!
What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
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What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
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Episode 211: Intelligence(s) - Hotel Bar Podcast
What counts as intelligence?
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January 23, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I tried to forward a somewhat unorthodox definition of "intelligence" in this episode. Would love to hear your feedback!
First episode of Season 15 just dropped and we're starting off strong!
What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/inte...
What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/inte...
Episode 211: Intelligence(s) - Hotel Bar Podcast
What counts as intelligence?
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January 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
First episode of Season 15 just dropped and we're starting off strong!
What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/inte...
What is intelligence, anyway? Are there "more" intelligent and "less" intelligent people? species? machines?
Tune in at the link below (or wherever you listen to podcasts) to find out!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/inte...
The wait is almost over...
Co-hosts @jenhkling.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social & @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social will return with the first episode of Season 15 tomorrow (Friday, January 23)!
Tune in and make sure to subscribe to HBS wherever you listen to podcasts!
Co-hosts @jenhkling.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social & @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social will return with the first episode of Season 15 tomorrow (Friday, January 23)!
Tune in and make sure to subscribe to HBS wherever you listen to podcasts!
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January 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The wait is almost over...
Co-hosts @jenhkling.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social & @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social will return with the first episode of Season 15 tomorrow (Friday, January 23)!
Tune in and make sure to subscribe to HBS wherever you listen to podcasts!
Co-hosts @jenhkling.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social & @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social will return with the first episode of Season 15 tomorrow (Friday, January 23)!
Tune in and make sure to subscribe to HBS wherever you listen to podcasts!
New MINIBAR episode out today and co-host @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social is asking "Why do AI's fabricated memories *feel* so true?"
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MINIBAR: Algorithmic Nostalgia (with Leigh M. Johnson) - Hotel Bar Podcast
Why do AI's fabricated memories "feel" so true?
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January 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
New MINIBAR episode out today and co-host @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social is asking "Why do AI's fabricated memories *feel* so true?"
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New MINIBAR episode dropped this morning. Check out co-host @jenhkling.bsky.social's thoughts on "uncivil obedience"!
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MINIBAR: Uncivil Obedience (with Jennifer Kling) - Hotel Bar Podcast
What happens when we follow the letter of the law, while refusing to cooperate with its spirit?
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January 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
New MINIBAR episode dropped this morning. Check out co-host @jenhkling.bsky.social's thoughts on "uncivil obedience"!
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We're hard at work prepping Season 15-- which drops JAN 23!-- so for the next 3 wks our hosts are serving up solo "Minibar" episodes. Check out this week's Minibar from co-host Bob Vallier, who describes the lessons pain taught him after a terrible bike accident.
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MINIBAR: Pain (with Bob Vallier) - Hotel Bar Podcast
What can the body, in pain, teach us about the hilarity of our own finitude?
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January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
We're hard at work prepping Season 15-- which drops JAN 23!-- so for the next 3 wks our hosts are serving up solo "Minibar" episodes. Check out this week's Minibar from co-host Bob Vallier, who describes the lessons pain taught him after a terrible bike accident.
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Episode 210 just dropped! What says "holiday dinner table conversation" more than the topic of "oppression"!?
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Episode 210: Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression” - Hotel Bar Podcast
How to mark the distinction between being "inconvenienced" and being oppressed.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Episode 210 just dropped! What says "holiday dinner table conversation" more than the topic of "oppression"!?
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Episode 209 just dropped!
Listen now and remember it fondly later!
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Listen now and remember it fondly later!
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Episode 209: Nostalgia - Hotel Bar Podcast
What does nostalgia fondly remember, and what might it dangerously enable?
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December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Episode 209 just dropped!
Listen now and remember it fondly later!
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Listen now and remember it fondly later!
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Episode 208 is now live and this week we're talking about speciousness, mendaciousness, and sophistry. Wasn't hard to find examples!
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Episode 208: Sophistry - Hotel Bar Podcast
What to do when "just asking questions" is not that.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Episode 208 is now live and this week we're talking about speciousness, mendaciousness, and sophistry. Wasn't hard to find examples!
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Getting tired of the "debate me!" bros?
Tune in this Friday for our next episode on Sophistry!
Tune in this Friday for our next episode on Sophistry!
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Getting tired of the "debate me!" bros?
Tune in this Friday for our next episode on Sophistry!
Tune in this Friday for our next episode on Sophistry!
From former Hotel Bar Sessions co-host, @jasonread.bsky.social. Brilliant, as always.
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Do Your Own Damn Research: The New Episteme of Trump 2.0
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December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
From former Hotel Bar Sessions co-host, @jasonread.bsky.social. Brilliant, as always.
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Only 3 episodes left in Season 14! No time like the present to sign up and support us on Patreon to keep the podcast's lights (and microphones) on!
Many (totally affordable) options for support available at the link below. Every little bit helps!
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Many (totally affordable) options for support available at the link below. Every little bit helps!
www.patreon.com/c/hotelbarse...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Only 3 episodes left in Season 14! No time like the present to sign up and support us on Patreon to keep the podcast's lights (and microphones) on!
Many (totally affordable) options for support available at the link below. Every little bit helps!
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Many (totally affordable) options for support available at the link below. Every little bit helps!
www.patreon.com/c/hotelbarse...
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This podcast is so marvelous! Hear the many sides of a different topic each time, with your educated, opinionated, and funny hosts. It's tough waiting for each new one!
Here's the history of all those great seasons. Try it out!
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Here's the history of all those great seasons. Try it out!
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December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This podcast is so marvelous! Hear the many sides of a different topic each time, with your educated, opinionated, and funny hosts. It's tough waiting for each new one!
Here's the history of all those great seasons. Try it out!
share.google/9vWlm0KI6UrC...
Here's the history of all those great seasons. Try it out!
share.google/9vWlm0KI6UrC...
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I'm not very good at podcasts (listening to radio chatter has never been something I've enjoyed - I'd much rather read an article or, at the very least, a transcript) but... this podcast from Hotel Bar Sessions (and the podcast concept, gotta say) is VALID AF.
Newest episode of @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social podcast just dropped and this week we're taking Cory Doctorow's concept of "enshittification" and applying it to things other than tech platforms, like American democracy, higher education, and criminal justice.
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Episode 207: The Enshittification of… everything? - Hotel Bar Podcast
How late capitalism turns every click into crap.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm not very good at podcasts (listening to radio chatter has never been something I've enjoyed - I'd much rather read an article or, at the very least, a transcript) but... this podcast from Hotel Bar Sessions (and the podcast concept, gotta say) is VALID AF.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year!
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Hey friends, if you listen to Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, we'd like to invite you to send us a question-- it can be serious, funny, challenging, whatever-- to answer on air. Feel free to post your question below or email it to us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hey friends, if you listen to Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, we'd like to invite you to send us a question-- it can be serious, funny, challenging, whatever-- to answer on air. Feel free to post your question below or email it to us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
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Next week, we're going to be talking about Doctorow's "enshittification" framework on @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social. Tune in!
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Next week, we're going to be talking about Doctorow's "enshittification" framework on @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social. Tune in!
Episode 206 is live and this week we're talking to Dr. Tamara Fahoury about the Palestinian Wadi climbers and her notion of "quiet resistance."
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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Episode 206: Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury) - Hotel Bar Podcast
What can Palestinian rock climbers teach us about resisting differently?
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November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Episode 206 is live and this week we're talking to Dr. Tamara Fahoury about the Palestinian Wadi climbers and her notion of "quiet resistance."
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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Just a heads up for @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social listeners that the episode we'll be dropping this Friday, "Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)," is a MUST LISTEN for anyone interested in how Palestinians are navigating Israeli oppression in their day-to-day lives.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Just a heads up for @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social listeners that the episode we'll be dropping this Friday, "Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)," is a MUST LISTEN for anyone interested in how Palestinians are navigating Israeli oppression in their day-to-day lives.
What does it mean to be “well-adjusted” in a society that might itself be profoundly unwell? Does therapy help or hurt?
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
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Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
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Episode 205: Therapy - Hotel Bar Podcast
What problems arise when "therapy speak" becomes our default social vocabulary?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What does it mean to be “well-adjusted” in a society that might itself be profoundly unwell? Does therapy help or hurt?
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
hotelbarpodcast.com/therapy
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
hotelbarpodcast.com/therapy
ICYMI: Our conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* is now live on our YouTube channel!
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@philosophymatters.bsky.social
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Episode 204: Furious Minds (with Laura K. Field)
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November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ICYMI: Our conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* is now live on our YouTube channel!
@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixa...
@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
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