BEAU MILES: become a backyard adventurer.
We crave adventure to break up the ho-hum of our everyday lives. But busting ruts doesn’t have to be all about conquering Everest or ticking off bucket list challenges. We can get the same result as a...
1 Nov 202247min
KIERAN SETIYA: How to love living a hard life
Life is hard. And yet so much of contemporary life compels us to fight this fundamental reality. We are meant to be happy! We are meant to live our best, most #blissful, potential-stacked life! But I ...
25 Okt 202254min
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON: The greatest living sci-fi author goes hiking
He is regarded as the greatest science fiction writer alive and his most recent book, set in the climate catastrophe-wracked near future, The Ministry for the Future, is recommended widely by Barack O...
18 Okt 202259min
MATT BROWNE: The rise of the bro-caster guru (it’s a thing!)
Do you listen to Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand or maybe a bit of Lex Freidman? They are the biggest names in podcasting (and beyond) and they started out as progressive voices,...
11 Okt 202258min
MARY ANN SIEGHART: Smash the authority gap!
There is a massive “authority gap” that exists in the world today, where women are taken way less seriously than men and still treated as less competent. They are interrupted four times as often as me...
4 Okt 202247min
ELISE BOHAN: Ah shit, transhumanism….
What if we could bioengineer our bodies to live forever, would we and should we? What if we could avoid all the awkward bits of sex and just neatly copulate with a robot? And what if we never had to g...
27 Sep 202255min
JOELLE GERGIS: How an IPCC lead author does climate grief
You know the latest IPCC* Assessment Report? The one that came out at the end of 2021 that the UN secretary general dubbed “Code Red for humanity”? Australian climate scientist Joëlle Gergis was one o...
20 Sep 202248min
JOSH SZEPS: In which the Joe Rogan regular interviews ME!
Right, we’re doing something different this episode. Uber-talented radio/TV/podcast host and contrarian Josh Szeps has me on his Uncomfortable Conversations podcast to chat sugar, cannonau wine, class...
13 Sep 202258min
