Finneran's Wake
Finneran’s Wake – where the ART OF CONVERSATION lives.
Here, no topic is untouchable, no idea inadmissible, and no one too heretical to be heard.
As the great French essayist Montaigne once said, “To my taste, the most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is CONVERSATION. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives”.
It certainly is the most delightful activity in my life. I want it to be so in yours as well.
To that end, I humbly welcome you to my channel.
Here, we'll exercise our minds together. Here, we'll practice this delightful activity as friends. We'll engage, now and forever, in the art--the highest and most human art--of conversation!
With affection,
Daniel
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Our New Justice Supreme, Ms Ketanji Brown-Jackson (A Jurist, Not A Biologist) | A Political Poem
A political poem
00:07:27 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Two Saviors In Two Weeks: The Return Of Christ And Obama | A Political Poem
A political poem
00:06:19 |
Tue 17 May 2022
I Wish I Might, I Wish I May, Never Again In This State Say, "Gay" | A Political Poem
A political poem.
00:05:06 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Full of Faux Sincerity, Lacking (all) Intelligibility, Kamala Harris Can't Speak | A Political Poem
A political poem
00:05:31 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Of We Go!--To WWIII, Led By Joe Biden's Inarticulacy | A Political Poem
A political poem.
00:04:06 |
Tue 17 May 2022
The Five Greatest Christmas Poems You MUST Read!
Season's Greetings, one and all! Around this joyous time of year, we're inundated by lists proclaiming absolute knowledge of the best Christmas films and songs, but little mention is ever made of the…
00:24:14 |
Fri 24 Dec 2021
Virgil, The Pagan Poet Who Predicted The Birth of Christ
"Ours is the crowning era foretold in prophecy: born of time, a great new cycle of centuries begins. Justice returns to earth, the Golden Age returns, and its first-born comes down from heaven above.…
00:25:29 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Having Difficulty Understanding Aristotle? Here's His ENTIRE Philosophy, Simplified
"One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy”. Does this apply to podcasts as well? Does one episode not a…
00:21:58 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
The "Poetess" from Lesbos | Sappho
“Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen on the black earth is an array of horsemen; some, men marching; some would say ships; but I say she whom one loves best is the loveliest". She bats…
00:42:39 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
The History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides | A Reading
“Our institutions do not emulate the laws of others. We do not copy our neighbors: rather, we are an example to them. Our system is called a democracy, for it respects the majority and not the few”. …
01:11:09 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius | A Reading
"He had a desire to secure eternal and perpetual fame, but his method was ill-advised. For he abolished the old names of many things and places and gave them new ones based on his own, so that he ter…
00:28:20 |
Sun 14 Nov 2021
Correspondence With The Emperor Trajan by Pliny The Younger | A Reading
"This contagious superstition is not confined to the cities only, but has spread its infection among the neighboring villages and country. Nevertheless, it still seems possible to restrain its progre…
00:32:49 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
On War by Carl Von Clausewitz | A Reading
"War is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means". Those last two words, "other means", have always left me feeling somewhat uneasy. Is it not, after all, a ki…
00:41:15 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon | A Reading
“The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects…
00:40:56 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Discourses On Davila by John Adams | A Reading
“Every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected, by the people about him, and within his knowledge”. This is the fundamental, univer…
00:50:21 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Paradise Lost by John Milton | A Reading
“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly—Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide, to w…
00:49:23 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer | A Reading
“Thus it appears that the Christian Church chose to celebrate the birthday of its Founder on the twenty-fifth of December in order to transfer the devotion of the heathen from the Sun to him who was …
00:35:57 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Endymion by John Keats | A Reading
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet …
00:42:15 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A Reading
“Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung.” And thus, in death, the image of the bird was born. Had the trigger-happy Marin…
01:00:21 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky | A Reading
“You see, I wanted to become a Napoleon…that’s why I killed. Well, is it clear now? Would Napoleon have gone ahead or not?” Doubtless, he would have. The Corsican artilleryman, that great general upo…
00:54:21 |
Sun 18 Jul 2021
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