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Episode 21 - "How many bad guys are there?"
Season 1 Episode 21
This week Steve and Christabel answer Huey, who asks “How many bad guys are there?” Christabel responds with an assortment of takes on villainy given…
20 hours ago
Episode 20 - "Does the Universe explode when I go to sleep?"
Season 1 Episode 20
Does the universe explode when I go to sleep?
This week, Steve and Christabel try their very best to get to the bottom of what happens to the world w…
1 week ago
Episode 19 - "What's the difference between knowledge and wisdom?"
Season 1 Episode 19
This episode is devoted to finding the difference between knowledge and wisdom (or, as Aristotle might have said, the difference between phronesis an…
2 weeks ago
Episode 18 - "Why don't we eat meat?"
Season 1 Episode 18
This week, our hosts tackle a question from Steve’s kids as to why in their house, they’re vegetarian. Steve tells us that he doesn’t eat, buy or pre…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 17 - "Should I pick this flower?"
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, Steve and Christabel discuss environmental ethics, prompted by Steve’s daughter asking if she should pick a flower she found growing…
4 weeks ago
Episode 16 - "Is Lego Batman real Batman?" with MJ Hibbett
Season 1 Episode 16
Is Lego Batman the real Batman?
This week, Steve and Christabel enlist the help of writer, podcaster, musician and fabulously knowledgeable comic boo…
1 month ago
Episode 15 - "Why do Accidents Happen?"
Season 1 Episode 15
In this episode, Christabel and Steve frolic amongst the infinite plurality of possible worlds. Christabel explains that accidents are things that di…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 14 - "What makes a good leader?"
Season 1 Episode 14
This week, our hosts ransack the bookshelf of the prototypical edgy teenager to answer ‘What makes a good leader?’. Steve and Christabel start off st…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 13 - "What's it like to be a dog?"
Season 1 Episode 13
This week, Steve and Christabel respond to Max, who asks ‘What is it like to be a dog?’ Christabel tells us of Thomas Nagel’s seminal paper ‘What is …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 12 - "Who looks after Outer Space?"
Season 1 Episode 12
Steve and Christabel set off to bravely go where no one has gone before to answer this week’s question: ‘Who looks after outer space?’ but due to the…
2 months ago