Stuck in the car with Steve
After years of musing, thinking, dreaming, and exploring I’ve ended up with a head full of thoughts, questions, ideas, and philosophy that might be of interest to others. On a solo road-trip from North QLD to Victoria and back again, I took the opportunity to record an exploration of some of the things that bounce around in my head and underpin the work that I do. This is what you get when you’re stuck in a car with me. BYO snacks! The episodes were released in the order they were recorded, so although each episode explores a separate idea, and it is not essential to listen to them in order they DO follow a line of thought, as it were, from start to finish. There are callbacks and references to prior episodes throughout all of it and what I personally thought was a really satisfying conclusion to it all. Up to you how you listen to it! *** Important Disclaimer *** These thoughts are in no way fact-checked or reference cited. None of this should be taken as advice, inspiration, or truth. This podcast is purely for entertainment purposes only. The musings of a lonely person at the wheel after too many coffees and too many days on the road should NEVER be taken seriously.
Episodes
This isn't an episode, just a song that I recorded one time when I was bored. It ended up becoming a really meaningful song for me, and I've used it in shows and all sorts of things. I thought it deserved to be up here just for good measure.
In this final episode of the series, many of the ideas explored come together somewhat synergistically, to offer something of a moment of clarity. When I started recording these explorations of my own ideas I thought it would be a simple re-treading of my own well-explored philosophical musings, but this final day of driving and recording offered me a new way of combining these thoughts and a reinvigorated approach to my thoughts a...
This second part of exploring our relationship with death deals predominantly with thoughts around social attitudes toward the loss of others in our lives.
A longer episode, and the first of three (it was a long stretch of road!) exploring our complicated relationship with death. Primarily this episode explores ideas around the personal death of an individual, and where that sits in modern society...
As a father with a daughter, I've spent more time in the last five years questioning the idea of the patriarchy than ever before. I never thought it was a good idea, but there's so many more layers to it now that I'm trying to raise a strong, healthy young woman.
Having a kid wasn't an easy decision for me, and I think it's becoming more complicated for many others too, but this is why I came around...
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics. They don't always present as directly related to reproduction but often influence reproductive selection or behaviour in some way. What might the differences between the sexes teach us about ourselves?
A bit of an exploration into the similarities we share with the natural world...
I have a tendency to not believe in myself. Sometimes it sucks and sometimes it hurts, but maybe it's also a good thing?
Another introspective personal ramble, this time musing over my internal philosophy, and how it has changed over time.
This one is a little long, and rambly, and personal, but that seems to be well within the wheelhouse for a discussion about the idea of love and what it can mean to a person. There's no answers here, of course, only questions and a bit of personal reflection.
Storytelling has been essential to human history. The quest of a hero, the besting of a challenge, the happy ever after... Has our love for stories given us a false understanding of how life is supposed to work?
Perspective, opinion, experience, memory... they're a complicated and unreliable platform to build an identity on...
It's a complicated one, this one. The core idea here is one of polarizing complicated issues and believing they can be solved with simple solutions, but this short rant runs through a mess of complicated issues to look at it.
A tangled mix of thoughts about pollination, food production, and a very human unwillingness to accept change...
As nervous as it makes me putting up a podcast about something that's been so vigorously denied by so many for so long, I'm not claiming to be a climate scientist here. This is more about the idea of change, especially as it relates to shifting environmental conditions...
Environmental issues often raise the same discussion as many others... centred around hope and despair and whether or not it's worth fighting at all.
A thought about human behaviour and the subconscious urges that drive it. Are those urges good for us? Can we change them?
After a thoughtful question about why the wealthy don't do much to alleviate social suffering, I had a couple of ideas bouncing around in my head to share...
Attrition within a given set of circumstances will eventually favour things that are designed for success within those conditions... what kind of contributing factors can impact on that?
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