"The Problem With Everything" with Tim Urban
Tim Urban’s first appearance on this show remains one of the all-time favourites. Now, this explosive thinker of cosmic, civilisation-level thoughts returns with a book: “What's Our Problem? A Self-He...
21 Feb 20231h 42min
Premium: Myq Caplan - From The Archives
From the #WeThePeople LIVE archives this week to a 2016 chat with the wonderful Myq Caplan. First and foremost Myq is comedian. Josh and Myq chat about what funny is, how he became funny, and the crea...
19 Feb 202324min
"Left Is Not Woke" with Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman is one of the world's most respected living philosophers. She was born in America and educated at Harvard but now lives in Germany, where she's the director of the Einstein Forum and a me...
14 Feb 202355min
Premium: Is JK Rowling Transphobic?
This week, the world's biggest LGBTQI+ event, World Pride, kicks off in Sydney. Right on cue, activists are calling to boycott a new Harry Potter video game because Rowling is a famous anti-trans bigo...
11 Feb 202330min
"What Happened To The IDW?" with Ross Anderson
The so-called "intellectual dark web" was supposed to shine a light on issues too thorny for the mainstream media to touch. Now, it's a basket case of kooks. The journalist Ross Anderson recently wrot...
8 Feb 20231h 42min
"The Climate Optimist" with Saul Griffith
Josh gets excited, at long last, about a realistic plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment. In short: electrify everything. For more about Saul, check out ...
31 Jan 20231h 20min
Premium: Oliver Burkeman - From The Archives
Going back some five years to Josh's first ever chat with the now Uncomfy Convos regular, the self-help psychology sage Oliver Burkeman. On this episode we talk about happiness, drawing on his 2012 bo...
29 Jan 202316min
"The New Gurus" with Helen Lewis
Helen Lewis's new BBC Radio 4 show, The New Gurus, investigates why so many of us have turned away from mainstream medicine, mainstream politics and the mainstream media to embrace the power of charis...
24 Jan 20231h 26min
