170 – The Welshcast Part Six

When we left off last time, we were talking about how we have a limited understanding of this area of history due to a combination of scarce resources and the victorians building a mythology of englishness. We also covered the early middle ages and the turn that was occurring in ... Show More

Today we’re beginning the process of creating a singular British history podcast. The side casts made sense when the story was first beginning, but now (rather than helping you understand the story better) they’re confusing it) and so today we are merging the Scotcast and Welshca ... Show More

I’m continuing my quest to organize and bring all the stories back together and so today we’re going to move the timeline forward (to get us closer to the Vikings) and we will also be talking more about the kingdoms that were active in the region that would later become scotland. ... Show More

It's almost been five years since we sat down behind a couple of microphones and started sharing our conversations with the world. Two babies have been born, weddings have been had, shows have been done, moves have happened and other recent events have occurred...It is safe to sa ... Show More

<p class="">A couple of weeks ago, Jack took part in a debate at Oriel College, University of Oxford, with Stephen Law on the evil-god challenge. It was a fantastic discussion, full of thought-provoking arguments and brilliant questions from the audience. It was also set to be ou ... Show More

every once in a while i get intense déjà vu about a podcast topic, and i convince myself that i've done it before even though there's no record of it. that's happening with this topic. so if i‘ve talked about this before, i'm sorry, but we're going to do it anyway because i think ... Show More

Si vous suivez ce podcast depuis longtemps, vous savez que notre préoccupation première est de tenter de définir ce qu’est l’amour, le vrai. Et ce qu'on peut remarquer au travers de nos témoignages EX…traordinaires, c’est qu’il ne se jamais niche là où on l’attend, qu’il n’arrive ... Show More

"C'était mieux avant..." : cette phrase ultra représentative de la nostalgie, qu'on a (trop) tendance à prononcer ou à entendre. Son gros problème : elle nous empêche de vivre l'instant présent et de véritablement faire face à nos problématiques actuelles. Considérée comme une vr ... Show More

The United States is experiencing an epidemic of anti-intellectualism. We discuss that and a whole lot more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/thethinkingatheist--3270347/support. 

When Morley Safer traveled to West Virginia in 1975 to report on a fight over books in schools, he couldn't have known how that conflict would help lay the blueprint for many contemporary challenges over what students are allowed to read. In our first "second look," we revisit a ... Show More