Ponderland

By David Kelly

Join David on Ponderland, the podcast where a curious mind tackles the vast spectrum of life – from the deeply personal to global complexities. Each episode offers a unique blend of candid reflection,... more

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The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.

Ponderland episodes:

September 02, 2023Pondering Organ Donation, New Humans and an Ancient Human Bottleneck
David, having taken August off to enjoy the summer, ponders organ donation, a new human and a cave of bones - welcome Homo Naledi, and wonders whether humans are on a repeating loop based on a recently discovered ancient human bottleneck.

Dedicated to Shane Devlin, Rest in Peace
Connect with Ponderland:
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Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
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email: [email protected]
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July 27, 2023Pondering Climate Change, a trip to the Netherlands, and a conversation with Bard
This goes from the bizarre to the surreal. While David acknowledges the current climate crisis, his attention turns to a school trip to Amsterdam, a NSFW pen, and then he engages Google Bard in a strange conversation around simulation theory and a super intelligent duck who wears a T-Shirt and waves a spoon!
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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July 12, 2023Pondering E.T.'s Revenge
David goes out on more than a limb on this one. One chapter of the book Sapiens, the one where the question is asked, "Did Sapiens domesticate Wheat or did Wheat domesticate Sapiens?", David sees a distant tangent of an explanation and goes all in on a rogue bacteria from a galaxy far far away!
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
Subscribe and leave a review! Your feedback helps us reach more curious minds.
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17min
July 05, 2023Pondering Buckfast Tonic Wine
The less said about David's accents the better but he does share a funny anecdote about a very familiar drink from his youth, an ungodly concoction seemingly made by godly men.
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
Subscribe and leave a review! Your feedback helps us reach more curious minds.
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8min
July 03, 2023Pondering Gaelic Football, Suffering & Thoughts Themselves
On this episode of the podcast, David contemplates County Armagh's failure, the value of suffering (if any), and the origin of thoughts themselves, with a little bit of hope around a green industrial revolution
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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16min
June 22, 2023Pondering the sub, migrants, Brexit and a cage fight
On this short, and somewhat downbeat episode of Ponderland, David thinks about the missing sub, and ponders the fate of thousands of migrants, in the context of Brexit and how that's impacting the economy of the UK. He also ponders a certain social media cage fight that could be in the offing
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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10min
June 13, 2023Pondering Fasting & Food
David talks about the health benefits of fasting but the thought of food makes him fixated upon pasties, both Cornish and those of a more local Northern Ireland origin
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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17min
June 06, 2023Pondering UFOs and UAPs
David devotes all of his thinking to UFOs and UAPs. After NASA's recent press conference, Patrick Jackson claims to be able to link UAPs to Poltergeist activity, and as recording was coming to an end, a whistleblower claims to have evidence that the US has recovered intact and partially intact vehicles of non-human origin.
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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21min
May 30, 2023Pondering Grief Bots!
David couldn't not create a new episode when he saw a headline about how the dead are being resurrected in China, using AI
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
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10min
May 29, 2023Pondering Matriphagy, Milk Drinking, and Magic Carpets
On the show today, David shares his guilt at having moved that box, pondering who thought it was a good idea to drink milk from a cow and reveals how he wouldn't be a fan of magic carpets, not the flying kind anyhow.
Connect with Ponderland:
Visit David's Substack for more insights & writing: The Ponderings | David Kelly | Substack
Follow David on X (Twitter): @PonderlandLife
Join the conversation on Instagram: @PonderlandLife
Catch the visual ponderings on TikTok: @ponderlandlife
email: [email protected]
Support Ponderland:
Subscribe and leave a review! Your feedback helps us reach more curious minds.
Share this episode with a friend who loves to ponder!
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FAQs about Ponderland:

How many episodes does Ponderland have?

The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.