Protect Your Noggin

About Protect Your Noggin

Hosts are Stacie Mallinson (educator, death doula and yogini) and Jeff Mallinson (D.Phil., Oxford, historian of philosophy and religion). This is usually a conversation with the news in one hand and the Tao Te Ching in the other, but the history of ideas and the wisdom of various traditions are also regular topics.

Publisher

Stacie and Jeff Mallinson

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Sept 2019

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 228 episodes have a transcript.

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   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Adaptability in Precarious Times (Riffing on Tao Te Ching 78)

   Host [Host Name] explores how embracing the Tao Te Ching's "flow like water" philosophy offers a life-saving strategy for navigating precarious times.

2. 

   9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   It is Expensive to be Poor (Riffing on Tao Te Ching 77)

   Host [Host Name] explores the Tao Te Ching's wisdom on economic inequality and its impact on society, offering insights into sustainable prosperity.

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   27 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Reflections on the Flow of Water

   Jeff Bridges explores Sarah Allen's "The Way of Water" and "Sprouts of Virtue," revealing how ancient Chinese philosophy uses water's flow as a direct path to understanding the Tao.

Inside a recent episode

Adaptability in Precarious Times (Riffing on Tao Te Ching 78)

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Um, even within like the first month I had a kid doing something on kind of like the precursor to world war two versus through world war one this kid gave a lecture that was college worthy like i would have said he was like a like a first year professor and i don't think people would have expected that i think there's a drive with some like just a creativity and a curiosity with some of my students that i love teaching college but I'm at the high school level right here. And it's been really great. And your particular school is kind of like it's more of a – it's not as traditional of a high school. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

51 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

16 ratings

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