Podcast Episodes

THE SZEPS LIVE WORLD TOUR IS UNDERWAY

Season 1 Episode 364

G'day from New York City. We've been sitting on this Easter egg for some time, warming it up under our feathery little tooshes. It's now time to let the warm yolk of intellectual invigoration ooze ov…

Published on 1 month ago

"How Not to Feel Like a Failure (When Fame & Fortune Aren't Enough)" with TV Host Osher Günsberg

Season 1 Episode 363

How do you avoid the hamster wheel of hoping that your next success will deliver happiness? How do you escape mental ruts, anxious spirals and critical self-talk?

Osher is a superstar in Australia. H…

Published on 1 month ago

PREMIUM: "How to Raise an Awesome Kid (and be an Awesome Grown-Up)" with Dr Billy Garvey

Season 1 Episode 362

It's one of the most persistent, perplexing and provocative questions to plague our culture: What explains the explosion in ADHD, anxiety and autism in kids? Is it too much Instagram? Not enough Rita…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

"The Case for Nuclear Power" with Aidan Morrison

Season 1 Episode 361

Have rich democracies been hoodwinked into chasing a mirage of green energy? Are renewables leading us into a dead-end of brown-outs, white-elephant wind farms, and costly, dodgy electricity? Are the…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

PREMIUM: "In-Groups & Out-Groups" with social psychologist Jolanda Jetten

Season 1 Episode 360

Are you defined by your identities? Where do you rank in the hierarchy of your social group, either online or in real life? How are the boundaries of your communities policed? By whom?

In an era of s…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

“Josh vs the Anti-Gay-Parenting Activist” Katy Faust

Season 1 Episode 359

Katy Faust is a family-values activist who campaigns against all families that don't contain a biological mother and father. A rockstar among American conservatives, she's the founder of the children…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

"Artificial Intelligence in a Human World" with Prof. Toby Walsh

Season 1 Episode 358

Is it legit for tech companies to vacuum up everything humans create, to spin off A.I. content, and not to compensate humans? Will this world of creative artificial creatures promote or corrode human…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

"Should We Ban Extreme Wealth?” with Prof. Carl Rhodes

Season 1 Episode 357

Is there something broken about a world where some people are absurdly, insanely rich? Or is inequality the price we pay for innovation? What do Bezos, Gates, Musk & Zuck tell us about what's malfunc…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

PREMIUM: “The Palestinian Delusion: the 'Right of Return' & the Mirage of Peace” with fmr Labor Knesset parliamentarian Einat Wilf

Season 1 Episode 356

What if the problem for the Palestinian people was not Israel, but the encouragement by the international community of a fantasy that, one day, Palestinians will return to Israel proper?

That’s the t…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

"A.I., Artificial Souls, and the Crazy Conundrum of Consciousness" with Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel

Season 1 Episode 355

Let's take a break from the news cycle for a moment, shall we? There's a lot of cool shit to ponder that's more important and more fascinating. Like, how does the gooey blob of atoms between your ear…

Published on 2 months ago