Pausing for now - The audio isn't working well for me (narrator sounds kinda robotic?) and I don't have access to a print version.

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James Kugel - 4 assumptions for exegesis:
1. The bible is a cryptic text. Texts need not mean what they obviously seem to mean.
2. Scripture is primarily an instructional text. As such, it is fundamentally relevent. A prophet is not only speaking to his generation, but future generations as well. A text must be reinterpreted to remain relevent.
3. Scripture is perfect and perfectly harmonious. It is the interpreter's job to harmonize contradictory texts.
4. All scripture is somehow divinely sanctioned, of divine providence or divinely inspired. Scriptural language is not quotidian human language. (Eg 70 years not being literal)
(+5. NT texts assume the scriptures of Israel are primarily concerned with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.)

Pardes - persian orchard/paradise
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardes_(exegesis)
13th c jewish exegesis
Peshat - simple contextual meaning
Remez - allegorical meaning
Derash - homiletical/comparative meaning
Sod - mystical meanings