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The best of all possible podcasts, Leibniz would say. Putting big ideas in dialogue with the everyday, Overthink offers accessible and fresh takes on philosophy from enthusiastic experts.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Accessible philosophy on everyday life • ethics, power, gender, sexuality • capitalism, labor, meritocracy, oligarchy • decolonization, Indigenous climate justice • technology, AI, data • emotion, identity, loneliness, addiction, burnout • aesthetics, culture, embodimentThis podcast brings academic philosophy into conversation with everyday life, using familiar cultural touchpoints—social media trends, films and TV, popular aesthetics, and contemporary political debates—to examine enduring questions about how we live. Across the episodes, the hosts treat ordinary concepts like coolness, cuteness, cleanliness, travel, surfing, and even bodies and sex as entry points into larger philosophical issues about identity, morality, power, and social norms. They ask what these categories are, where they come from historically, and how they shape our self-understanding.
A recurring focus is how institutions and systems—especially capitalism, bureaucracy, colonialism, and racialized and gendered hierarchies—structure personal experience. Themes include care work and the “care economy,” burnout and productivity culture, meritocracy, oligarchy, theft and property, and how communication norms affect politics and polarization. Several conversations foreground feminist theory and the politics of sexuality, including pornography, consent, gender formation, and the cultural coding of masculinity and femininity. Others draw on phenomenology and moral philosophy to explore loneliness, togetherness, manipulation, confidence, addiction, illness, and the desire to escape oneself.
The podcast also regularly turns to major philosophical texts and figures to frame these questions—such as Foucault on sexuality and discipline, Levinas on alterity, Arendt on evil and social life, Fanon on decolonization, Marcuse on social control, Haraway on cyborgs, and ancient thinkers on pleasure, nature, and spontaneity. Contemporary technology and media appear as philosophical problems too, especially around AI, deepfakes, data extraction, and the social and environmental costs of digital life.
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Cheating 2026-Jun-16 59 minutes |
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Attention 2026-Jun-02 57 minutes |
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Coolness 2026-May-26 54 minutes |
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Climate Action with Kyle Whyte 2026-May-19 55 minutes |
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Theft 2026-May-12 55 minutes |
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Closer Look: Fanon, Wretched of the Earth 2026-May-05 59 minutes |
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Butts 2026-Apr-28 52 minutes |
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Care with Premilla Nadasen 2026-Apr-21 49 minutes |
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Discipline 2026-Apr-14 58 minutes |
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Closer Look: Levinas, On Escape 2026-Apr-07 59 minutes |
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Evil 2026-Mar-31 55 minutes |
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Pedantry with Arnoud Visser 2026-Mar-24 53 minutes |
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Pornography 2026-Mar-17 58 minutes |
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Closer Look: Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto 2026-Mar-10 57 minutes |
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Personality 2026-Mar-03 59 minutes |
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Addiction with Hanna Pickard 2026-Feb-24 50 minutes |
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Spontaneity 2026-Feb-17 55 minutes |
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Closer Look: Epicurus Reader 2026-Feb-10 58 minutes |
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Illness 2026-Feb-03 56 minutes |
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Talking Politics with Sarah Stein Lubrano 2026-Jan-27 54 minutes |
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Manipulation 2026-Jan-20 57 minutes |
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Closer Look: Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man 2026-Jan-13 58 minutes |
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Treason 2026-Jan-06 59 minutes |
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Living With Men with Manon Garcia 2025-Dec-30 55 minutes |
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Cuteness 2025-Dec-23 56 minutes |
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Closer Look: Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol. 1 2025-Dec-16 59 minutes |
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Meritocracy 2025-Dec-09 57 minutes |
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Aztec Philosophy with Sebastian Purcell 2025-Dec-02 58 minutes |
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Surfing 2025-Nov-25 59 minutes |
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Loneliness 2025-Nov-18 59 minutes |
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Confidence 2025-Nov-11 57 minutes |
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Togetherness with Dan Zahavi 2025-Nov-04 58 minutes |
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AI Chatbots 2025-Oct-28 58 minutes |
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Limerence 2025-Oct-21 59 minutes |
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Degrowth 2025-Oct-14 56 minutes |
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Natality with Jennifer Banks 2025-Oct-07 52 minutes |
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Femininity 2025-Sep-30 59 minutes |
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Masculinity 2025-Sep-23 58 minutes |
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Neighbors 2025-Sep-16 59 minutes |
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Black Women's Magic with Lindsey Stewart 2025-Sep-09 54 minutes |
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Post-Truth 2025-Aug-26 59 minutes |
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Burnout 2025-Aug-12 59 minutes |
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Travel 2025-Jul-29 58 minutes |
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Weirdness with Eric Schwitzgebel 2025-Jul-15 56 minutes |
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Air 2025-Jul-01 54 minutes |
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Earth 2025-Jun-17 42 minutes |
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Water 2025-Jun-03 53 minutes |
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Fire 2025-May-20 53 minutes |
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Discretion with Barry Lam 2025-May-06 51 minutes |
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Cleanliness 2025-Apr-22 55 minutes |
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Oligarchy 2025-Apr-08 54 minutes |
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Ecstasy 2025-Mar-25 57 minutes |
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Trans Identity with Talia Mae Bettcher 2025-Mar-11 53 minutes |
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Intuition 2025-Feb-25 54 minutes |
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Breakups 2025-Feb-11 58 minutes |
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Writing 2025-Jan-28 59 minutes |
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Dark Moods with Mariana Alessandri 2025-Jan-14 57 minutes |
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Disagreement 2024-Dec-31 59 minutes |
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Driving 2024-Dec-17 58 minutes |
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Comfort 2024-Dec-03 53 minutes |
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Black Consciousness with Lewis Gordon 2024-Nov-19 60 minutes |
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Extinction 2024-Nov-05 58 minutes |
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Hope 2024-Oct-22 58 minutes |
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Friendship 2024-Oct-08 59 minutes |
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Awkwardness with Alexandra Plakias 2024-Sep-24 55 minutes |
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Hyperreality 2024-Sep-10 59 minutes |
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Envy 2024-Aug-27 54 minutes |
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Intensity 2024-Aug-13 58 minutes |
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Predictive Brain with Andy Clark 2024-Jul-30 55 minutes |
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Success 2024-Jul-16 58 minutes |
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Organisms 2024-Jul-02 48 minutes |
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Fun 2024-Jun-18 58 minutes |
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Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee 2024-Jun-04 53 minutes |
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Reading 2024-May-21 59 minutes |
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Laziness 2024-May-07 58 minutes |
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Mixed-Race Identity 2024-Apr-23 59 minutes |
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AI Safety with Shazeda Ahmed 2024-Apr-09 57 minutes |
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Overthinking 2024-Mar-26 59 minutes |
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Zombies 2024-Mar-12 59 minutes |
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Reputation 2024-Feb-27 59 minutes |
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Cities 2024-Feb-13 62 minutes |
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Fatphobia with Kate Manne 2024-Jan-30 59 minutes |
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Biohacking 2024-Jan-16 59 minutes |
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Debt 2024-Jan-02 53 minutes |
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Pity 2023-Dec-19 58 minutes |
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Non-Monogamous Love with Justin L. Clardy 2023-Dec-05 59 minutes |
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Mommy Issues 2023-Nov-21 58 minutes |
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Daddy Issues 2023-Nov-07 58 minutes |
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Psychedelics 2023-Oct-24 59 minutes |
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Food with Shanti Chu 2023-Oct-10 55 minutes |
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Authenticity 2023-Sep-26 59 minutes |
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World 2023-Sep-12 56 minutes |
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Sexual Consent 2023-Aug-29 59 minutes |
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Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole 2023-Aug-15 60 minutes |
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Exercise 2023-Aug-01 56 minutes |
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Regret 2023-Jul-18 54 minutes |
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Fashion 2023-Jul-04 53 minutes |
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Art and AI with Raphaël Millière 2023-Jun-20 59 minutes |
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Intellectuals 2023-Jun-06 53 minutes |
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Boredom 2023-May-23 58 minutes |
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Orgasm 2023-May-09 50 minutes |
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Bad Movies with Matthew Strohl 2023-Apr-25 51 minutes |
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Silence 2023-Apr-11 56 minutes |
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Lived Experience 2023-Mar-28 58 minutes |
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Cultural Appropriation 2023-Mar-14 59 minutes |
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Why Live? with Céline Leboeuf 2023-Feb-28 59 minutes |
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Emotional Labor 2023-Feb-14 59 minutes |
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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) 2023-Jan-31 60 minutes |
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Animal Justice with Martha Nussbaum 2023-Jan-17 59 minutes |
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Heroes 2023-Jan-03 58 minutes |
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Taste 2022-Dec-20 52 minutes |
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Smell with Benjamin Young 2022-Dec-06 59 minutes |
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Hearing 2022-Nov-22 59 minutes |
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Vision 2022-Nov-08 56 minutes |
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Touch 2022-Oct-25 59 minutes |
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Curiosity (feat. Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett) 2022-Oct-11 55 minutes |
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Self-Knowledge 2022-Sep-27 59 minutes |
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Influence(rs) 2022-Sep-13 55 minutes |
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Film 2022-Aug-30 58 minutes |
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Feminism (feat. Carol Hay) 2022-Aug-16 59 minutes |
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Waiting 2022-Aug-02 52 minutes |
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Kitsch 2022-Jul-19 53 minutes |
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Surveillance 2022-Jul-05 50 minutes |
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Animal Sociality (feat. Cynthia Willett) 2022-Jun-21 54 minutes |
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Animal Personhood 2022-Jun-07 49 minutes |
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Animal Consciousness 2022-May-24 55 minutes |
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Gen Z (feat. Sam Hernandez and Anna Solomon) 2022-May-10 57 minutes |
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The Unconscious 2022-Apr-26 56 minutes |
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Gossip 2022-Apr-12 44 minutes |
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Productivity 2022-Mar-29 49 minutes |
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Rage (feat. Myisha Cherry) 2022-Mar-15 59 minutes |
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Anti-Natalism 2022-Mar-01 59 minutes |
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Trees 2022-Feb-15 56 minutes |
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Heteropessimism 2022-Feb-01 58 minutes |
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Walking 2022-Jan-18 59 minutes |
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Science Fiction (feat. Helen de Cruz) 2022-Jan-04 55 minutes |
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Intoxication 2021-Dec-21 59 minutes |
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Christmas-Industrial Complex 2021-Dec-07 54 minutes |
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Secrets 2021-Nov-23 59 minutes |
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Disgust 2021-Nov-09 59 minutes |
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Living Your Truth (feat. Tamsin Kimoto) 2021-Oct-26 59 minutes |
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Art as Commodity 2021-Oct-12 57 minutes |
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Hooking Up 2021-Sep-28 59 minutes |
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Paradox 2021-Sep-14 55 minutes |
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Synesthesia 2021-Aug-31 53 minutes |
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Astrology 2021-Aug-17 57 minutes |
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Genomics (feat. Joel Michael Reynolds) 2021-Aug-03 58 minutes |
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Brain in a Vat 2021-Jul-20 52 minutes |
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Alienation 2021-Jul-06 52 minutes |
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Cancel Culture 2021-Jun-22 56 minutes |
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Body Positivity to Fat Feminism (feat. Dr. Amelia Hruby) 2021-Jun-08 59 minutes |
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Living Together During Covid 2021-May-25 52 minutes |
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Dating During Covid 2021-May-11 55 minutes |
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Friendship During Covid (feat. Anna Koppelman) 2021-Apr-27 57 minutes |
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Games and Gamification (feat. C. Thi Nguyen) 2021-Apr-13 54 minutes |
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Free Britney! Conservatorship and Disability 2021-Mar-30 57 minutes |
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Gaslighting 2021-Mar-16 47 minutes |
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Reparations (feat. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò) 2021-Mar-09 54 minutes |
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Genius 2021-Mar-02 48 minutes |
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Polyamory 2021-Feb-23 52 minutes |
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Open Relationships 2021-Feb-16 54 minutes |
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Monogamy 2021-Feb-09 50 minutes |
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Marriage 2021-Feb-02 49 minutes |
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Buddhist Practice and Anti-Racism (feat. Jessica Locke) 2021-Jan-26 51 minutes |
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Performativity 2021-Jan-19 39 minutes |
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Conspiracy Theories (feat. Brian Keeley) 2021-Jan-12 54 minutes |
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Me, Myself, and Zoom 2021-Jan-05 54 minutes |
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New Year's Resolutions 2020-Dec-29 45 minutes |
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Parrhesia - Speaking Truth to Power 2020-Dec-16 51 minutes |
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Ghosting 2020-Dec-08 50 minutes |
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Empathy 2020-Dec-01 47 minutes |
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Why Millennials Love Homemaking 2020-Nov-15 50 minutes |
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Nostalgia 2020-Nov-15 55 minutes |
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Anti-Maskers and American Individualism 2020-Oct-31 49 minutes |
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Existential Anxiety 2020-Oct-31 53 minutes |
How Capitalism Commodifies Time2020-Oct-31 44 minutes |
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Welcome to Overthink! 2020-Oct-31 7 minutes |