Podcast Episodes

SZEPS WORLD TOUR - KMELE FOSTER on Race, Spirituality & 'Wokeness'

Season 1 Episode 369

What is your race? What is your identity? How should your kids think about how they fit in at school, or don't, on the basis of their racial or economic group? What is it really about, this game of b…

Published on 2 months ago

SZEPS WORLD TOUR - SAM HARRIS on Making Sense of Life

Season 1 Episode 368

How much responsibility do podcasters have not to "platform" crazy voices? Is there a countervailing duty to explore unusual ideas, spurned by elites? Why did Sam Harris fearlessly take on Islam, Bla…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

On Stage in NYC: Panel Show at the Comedy Cellar

Season 1 Episode 367

It was a sweltering evening in Greenwich Village as a packed crowd showed up at the legendary Comedy Cellar - the stomping ground of Seinfeld, Chappelle, and Robin Williams - for a no-holds-barred, l…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

SZEPS LIVE TOUR - TYLER COWEN on Inequality, Abundance, & Using A.I. to Achieve 'Intellectual Immortality'

Season 1 Episode 366

Tyler Cowen is one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers according to Foreign Policy magazine. The Wall Street Journal calls his blog, Marginal Revolution, the world's best economics blog.

His day j…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

SZEPS LIVE TOUR: "Atheism, Wokeness & Islam" with Sarah Haider

Season 1 Episode 365

Born in Pakistan, Sarah Haider founded the Ex-Muslims of North America to help Muslims escape Islamist coercion. She was an outspoken atheist. Then... she lost her faith in atheism.

First, she noticed…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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 2 months, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 4 weeks 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 3 months ago