In this episode, Simon & Tony talk about old primary school brawls, mildly traumatising things they went through in their younger days, the merits of political anger, police brutality, Hessy & the problem of vigilantism in crime-ridden Nairobi, the latent tribalism deep within the Kenyan psyche, the link between poverty & violent crime, the link between violence & democratisation, speculations about possible violence in 2022, corruption as the bane of economic progress in Kenya, graft in pre- & post-colonial Kenya, the 2016 biopic Snowden, privacy & mass surveillance, internet pornography, the (de)merits of living in the information age, social media & groupthink, Twitter & the death of conversation, rape & responsibility, and many other topics. 

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In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about Westworld: The New World, free will, artificial intelligence, what the 2070s might look like, the possibility of human extinction, time & the inadequacy of language to define what it is really, the illusion of the present, the long wait for Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Russell's 5-minute hypothesis, the hubris inherent in human intelligence, sentience & the problem of evil, Fermi's paradox, and many other topics. 

*Recorded in June 2020

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In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about the long wait for a Coronavirus vaccine, implications of post-infection immunity, the symptomatic sweet spot occupied by COVID-19, comparisons with the ordinary flu--both valid and invalid, zoonotic origins of Ebola, their first few months in quarantine, access to online learning as an economic privilege, new things Simon is learning about space, Voyager 1, gravity as the glue that holds together the solar system, time dilation as portrayed in the movie Interstellar, the possibility of time travel & the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms, the Netflix documentary Have A Good Trip, profound questions that are made urgent while under the influence of mild psychedelics, bad trips & what they might entail, the origin of the universe, our self-assigned life-purposes & whether we ought to question them, living righteously, the innateness of greed to the human condition, frugality as a necessary tool for self-transcendence, asceticism & willpower in Eastern cultures, wealth & happiness, Seneca's stoicism, and many other topics. 

*Recorded in May 2020

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In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface Gitaua about the concept of original sin, grace in everyday life, selflessness in a selfish world, the moral case for following Jesus' teachings, whether we need religion to act morally, love & freedom as core Christian concepts, Jesus as a figure of moral perfection, the pseudoscientific claims made by faith-based religions, supernaturalism, and many other topics.

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In this episode, Tony speaks with Bonface Gitaua about Andy Stanley's definition of grace, common misunderstandings about God's will for humanity, how to contextualize the mayhem in the Old Testament, Jesus Christ's role in revising (improving?) Mosaic law, grace as an effective antidote to resentment, the pardoning of the penitent thief & the story of the adulterous woman as two major grace events, the implications of a grace-oriented lifestyle on moral responsibility, incarceration & capital punishment, and many other topics. 

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In this episode, Simon debuts 2.E's latest single, "Nachanganyikiwa".

Check out Tui's music here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwEGgS4ShD7LATlhyhbe4RA/videos

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In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about the origins and appeal of soukous, Konshens's 2019 HYPE Fest concert, Kenya as a hub for dancehall music, the origins and evolution of gengetone, Tony's top 5 favorite Kenyan rappers, whether there is indeed *a* Kenyan sound, and many other topics.

In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about their experiences with death & grief, cancer, air travel, the belief in an afterlife as a psychological imperative, life purposes & how we ought to live, wealth & happiness, how to deal with negative states of mind, what it means to live in the moment, and many other topics. 

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In this episode, Simon and Tony talk about the movie Joker, millenials & their coddling (in relation to this tweet: twitter.com/davidndii/status/1214799849595555840), the psychological differences between altruists and psychopaths, various recreational drugs & their phenomenological effects, addiction, drunk driving, psychedelic experiences, drugs & spirituality, the season finale of Mr. Robot, Mindhunter Season 1, repressed emotions, and many other topics. 

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In this episode, Simon and Tony are once again joined by their friend, Brian Sagini. They talk about the season finale of Game of Thrones, Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Blacklist, the multiverse theory, Westworld, free will, moral responsibility, consciousness in animals, the notion of the soul, human rights, artificial intelligence & the rights of humanoid robots, the nature of pain, experience, memory & human emotion, brain replication & mind uploading, identity & the self, the ship of Theseus, the (de)merits of human intelligence, morality, religion & spirituality, Eastern meditation, ego death, happiness, regret, the brevity of life, and many other topics. 

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