This year’s Summer Reading special (our 18th!) was a relatively orderly one, with a trio of interviews that shared some common ground in pop culture, exploring philosophical issues in popular TV series, fictional movie universes, and semi-obscure sci-fi stories.
For those of you following along at home, here are the slides from our 20th Anniversary Quiz Night, held November 9, 2023 at KALW’s popup event space in downtown in San Francisco.
We’re most most eager for you to listen to the edited broadcast and podcast, but there’s always good stuff from the conversations we record for these multi-guest episodes that had to be left on the cutting-room floor.
Following up on last year’s not-so-new experiment, here’s a little behind-the-scenes look into the brief audio montages (produced by yours truly) that we included in this year’s episode in lieu of the usual Roving Philosophical Report.
Every once in a while I like to step out from behind the mixing board to give a behind-the-scenes look at some aspect of the program. For our annual end-of-year special, we tried something a bit different, though not unprecedented.
Every once in a while, I sneak out from behind the mixing board to offer some insights into the process of producing the program. This week, however, I’m chiming in as part of our annual Summer Reading special to let you in on some of my own reading plans.
Happy new year from your senior producer, here to offer a look behind the scenes…
What’s a producer to say about love? I’ll leave the heavy philosophical lifting to John…
On February 5, John and Ken will talk to Michael Dawson from the University of Chicago about Reparations. February is, of course, Black History Month, and we often try to schedule programs in that month that question our assumptions about African-American history, politics, and culture.
Today is Barack Obama’s last full day in office as the 44th President of the United States. As Producer I’ll leave the philosophical implications of that to John an Ken, and instead offer a sample of one of my favorites parts of working on Philosophy Talk, the one-minute billboard that opens each program.
Last fall, we took the show just up the road to De Anza High School in…
The eminent British philosopher Derek Parfit passed away earlier this week. Although he had never joined…
Happy Labor Day from your friendly neighboorhood producer. This weekend we present our first Election Special, a pre-produced…
Happy new year from your friendly neighborhood producer. With John and Ken taking a well-deserved…
This Sunday we kick off another series of live recordings at the Marsh theater with…