“Stayin’ Inside, Stayin’ Inside (Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh… Stayin’ Inside)” I don’t often feel the need to explain how an episode fits into the semester’s […] Read More

Guest: Dr. Aaron Cobb, Ph.D. – Wake Forest University In this episode, we welcome Dr. Aaron Cobb for a conversation about hope—not just as a […] Read More

Episode #90 Guest: Dr. Clark Lunberry, Ph.D. The French poet Charles Baudelaire famously wrote: “You have to be always drunk… But on what? Wine, poetry, […] Read More

Some say boredom is the heart and soul of philosophy—and they’re right, but not in the way they think they’re right! Brandon Underwood joins HTRD […] Read More

Our first guest , Dr. Mitchell Haney has ruined dinner before, in episode  58 of HTRD, we discussed the state of our ethical climate – […] Read More

How to Ruin Dinner: Conversations from the University In this bonus episode, Hudson and I discuss why we podcast and how we make go about […] Read More

As a wrap-up episode for the semester, we’ve chosen two undergraduate students to lead a discussion on AI within the student body. We’re delighted that […] Read More

Scholars seem to fall into two camps of AI critics: those who see AI as a stealing machine and those who see it as a […] Read More

This is a critical conversation on the applications of and the incentive structures behind Artificial Intelligence. Is this large language model really intelligent? Who is […] Read More

The dinner-ruining moment of this conversation must be John Zoltner’s unblinking assessment of AI and the internet’s harm to children. Despite his clear-eyed considerations, John […] Read More