Very approachable episode about some aspects of Hegel. I particularly appreciated their discussion about making the subjective more of a factor in both science and everyday life—not just in quantum physics, although I think Todd mixes up Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle with the Observer Effect.
Ryan and Todd have done other great episodes on Hegel where they talk about how the Haitian Revolution influenced his ideas and generally how Hegel is good, actually, and may deserve much more credit than he gets from vulgar Marxists like myself.
When I first attempted to study Hegel a year or two ago I had no idea what I was getting into, and I still don't, but podcasts like Why Theory and Red Library have helped so much.
While their voices and cadence are pleasant to the ear, they assume that the reader is intimately familiar with the source material, which I'm too dumb to be. They rarely define terms, and if they do, they do so in a roundabout way. Some of their pop culture analysis eps are fun to listen to, but the hardcore philosophy ones are just pleasant white noise.
It takes a lot of listening to even think that I get it. I've been reading (about) Hegel and Lacan off and on since I started listening to them, and that helps too. Have you listened to Red Library? It's slightly more casual but just as deep, if not even more so.
I'll give Red Library a listen!