Behind The Bravado of Modern British Football - Peter Crouch - #1018
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11/10/25
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Peter Crouch is a former professional footballer, sports pundit, and podcaster.
What was it like playing in the Premier League alongside some of football’s most intense personalities? In an era where a goal celebration, whether it was the robot or a knee slide, showed your confidence as much as your skill, what was life like for Peter Crouch back then, and what’s he up to now
Expect to learn why so many ex-footballers started doing podcasts, what the common psychological archetype of top flight football players are, what being inside Premier League dressing rooms taught Peter about masculinity, why there are still no publicly gay premier league players, how Peter dealt with anxiety and the adrenaline whilst being a footballer, what worst part of the job that the general public don’t understand and much more...
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(0:00) Why Do Ex-Footballers Turn to Podcasting? (8:39) What Archetype Shapes Most Footballers? (18:37) The ‘Man-Up’ Mentality of Changing Rooms (24:25) Why Don’t Players Want to Come Out? (35:40) Does Success Breed Toxicity in Elite Sport? (43:21) The Importance of Enjoying the Journey (01:00:55) How Peter Used Nerves and Anxiety as Fuel (01:09:48) Why Do Ex-Footballers Go Bankrupt? (01:13:16) The Silent Cost of Heading the Ball: What is it Doing to Players Long-Term? (01:21:19) How British Football Became a Religion (01:25:38) The Key to a Thriving Relationship in the Spotlight (01:34:06) Where to Find Peter
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What Embryo Selection Means for Humanity - Jonathan Anomaly - #1017
November 8, 2025
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Dr Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher, professor and an author.
What if you could design your own “super baby”? Imagine erasing genetic diseases, removing inherited conditions, and even selecting traits for beauty or intelligence. How close are we to making this possible, and what unintended consequences could this unleash?
Expect to learn why embryo selection will be the next frontier of fertility planning, why screening for traits beyond disease is a slippery slope toward eugenics, what the moral, ethical and realistic arguments are for embryo selection and how big of a societal gap this will create, if you can return the super baby if it didn’t yield desired results, if there were regulations in this space, what red lines would be drawn and what would be left to the market and much more...
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(0:00) When Does Health Screening Turn Into Human Engineering? (7:08) Does Embyro Selection Risk Deepening Inequality? (14:30) How Can We Soften the Conversation on Genetic Selection? (21:13) Inside Herasight: The Algorithm Powering Polygenic Selection (26:56) Should Parents Drive Embryo Selection During IVF? (33:09) How Can We Tell If Genetic Screening Companies Actually Know What They’re Doing? (46:45) Does Herasight’s Algorithm Work? (51:38) Is Buyer’s Remorse a Risk of Embryo Selection? (01:01:20) Where Do We Draw the Line with Trait Selection? (01:05:15) Could Genetic Selection Lead to Wrongful Life Lawsuits? (01:13:07) How Genetic Selection Impacts Personhood and Identity (01:25:36) Are Genetics Blueprints of Our Lives? (01:36:57) Does Embryo Screening Increase Stigma? (01:45:22) Will Embryo Selection Become a Marketing Race? (01:53:15) What Does the Next Five Years Look Like? (01:58:29) Where to Find Jonathan
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History is a Freakshow - Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould - #1019
November 13, 2025
•92m
Fin Taylor is an English comedian, writer and podcaster.
Horatio Gould is also an English comedian, writer, and podcaster.
History is basically one long reminder that no matter how bad your day is, someone in the past was probably getting catapulted off a castle wall. Feel better? Good. Humanity may be a litany of disasters, but the past is packed with lessons, even some dark humor, if you look closely enough.
Expect to learn what makes the Japanese unique and why so many Japanese people practiced Seppuku, why post-war Europe was the funniest time in modern history, wether life was better in the past or just way, way worse than we imagined, why there is a rise of pro-Hitler media across social media, if too much irony is a bad thing, why racism is so ingrained in modern science, if fertility and embryo science has gone too far and much more...
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(0:00) What Makes Japanese Culture So Distinct? (9:44) Was Post-War Britain the Funniest Time in History? (18:15) The Unlikely Heroes of Post-War Britain (22:30) Life Has Been Much Worse (27:12) How Would Historical Leaders Cope in Today’s World? (32:10) The Shocking Rise of Pro-Hilter Media (42:01) Were the Aztecs as Brutal as We Think? (46:33) Will Bryan Johnson Actually Live to 120? (53:58) Is Too Much Irony a Bad Thing? (01:07:38) Why Was Racism So Ingrained in Science? (01:21:08) When Does Embryo Selection Go Too Far? (01:31:12) What’s Next for Fin and Horatio?
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