{"podcast":{"title":"The Two Cities Podcast","slug":"the-two-cities-podcast-7107336","podcast_index_feed_id":7107336,"rss_url":"https://thetwocitiespodcastpodcast.podomatic.com/rss2.xml","website_url":"https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thetwocitiespodcastpodcast","image_url":"https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/56/b8/3e/thetwocitiespodcastpodcast/1400x1400_17252332.png","author":"Theo Howard","episode_count":15,"summary":"\"Two loves have built two cities: the love of self even to the despising of God, the city of the earth; the love of God even to the despising of self, the city of God.\" Following St. Augustine's City of God, this podcast views history and contemporary events in light of the deepest meaning of history: the ongoing war between the City of God (the Catholic Church) and the Earthly City until Christ comes again. To support my channel and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage): https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-cities-podcast-7107336"},"episode":{"title":"\"Quid est Veritas?\": On Dante’s Inferno and the Media Dialectic | Fourth Eclogue & Will Tucker","slug":"quid-est-veritas-on-dante-s-inferno-and-the-media-dialectic-fourth-eclogue-will-tucker","published_at":"2025-05-06T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-cities-podcast-7107336/quid-est-veritas-on-dante-s-inferno-and-the-media-dialectic-fourth-eclogue-will-tucker","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-cities-podcast-7107336","url":"https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thetwocitiespodcastpodcast/episodes/2025-05-05T23_00_00-07_00","audio_url":"https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/thetwocitiespodcastpodcast/episodes/2025-05-05T23_00_00-07_00.mp3","summary":"Will Tucker and Augustine (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) join the Two Cities podcast to discuss his satirical essay on the cacophonous contemporary media landscape. https://substack.com/home/post/p-158779067 We consider: how many media figures function as Synagogue discourse gatekeepers; the debasement of public discourse; the Trump \"assassination attempt\"; counterfeit Satanism; the phenomena of cheap alarmism and \"pornography of indignation\". Whilst Augustine argues that we are saturated in mutually reinforcing layers of the liberal media spectacle, Mr Tucker analyses the Judaic meta-dialectics of the media spectacle. Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/ The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentis To support my research and channel, and to access regular premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage): https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com","meta_description":"Will Tucker and Augustine (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) join the Two Cities podcast to discuss his satirical essay on the c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7661,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-two-cities-podcast-7107336/episodes/quid-est-veritas-on-dante-s-inferno-and-the-media-dialectic-fourth-eclogue-will-tucker/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-two-cities-podcast-7107336/quid-est-veritas-on-dante-s-inferno-and-the-media-dialectic-fourth-eclogue-will-tucker.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}