Episodes 33
Avg. Duration 8m
Activity Active
Since Mar 2021
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
62%
Hosting
anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

Adequate Conceit is a philosophy podcast told through long-form audio essays about modern life after certainty. Each season is a collection of reflective essays exploring what happens when the old structures of meaning — religion, identity, work, and cultural certainty — begin to fracture. The show began in the aftermath of religious deconstruction, asking what fills the space when faith no longer does. But it has grown into something wider. This season turns toward: • loneliness in an age of optimisation • identity politics and the exhaustion of being seen • artificial intelligence and synthetic intimacy • self-help culture and the discipline that leaves us alone • existence pain without quick fixes • the tension between being wild and being domesticated This isn’t a motivational podcast. It doesn’t offer life hacks or tidy conclusions. Instead, each episode sits in the messy middle — pulling apart cultural habits, philosophical assumptions, and the quiet contradictions of modern life. If you’re drawn to philosophy, psychology, meaning, culture, deconstruction, and the emotional landscape of being human right now, you’ll feel at home here. No shouting. No simple answers. Just careful thinking in public.

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Recent Episodes

S4E3 The Missing Conversation

Feb 17, 2026 8m

As we choose our AI tools — not by features or performance, but by which one feels like it gets them.That isn’t really a story about technology.This episode traces that feeling back to a much older…

After We Were Heard

Feb 10, 2026 9m

We fought to be heard.We fought for language.We fought for a seat at the table.And that mattered.But now that we’re here, something feels stalled.This episode looks at what happens when identity…

S4E1 The Loneliness After Discipline

Feb 07, 2026 8m

We did the work.We deleted the apps.We got more intentional, more self-aware, more disciplined.And then something unexpected happened.This episode explores the strange, quiet loneliness that can…

S4 Season 4 Trailer

Feb 07, 2026 4m Trailer

When we last spoke, we were trying to make sense of a world that had fractured.Since then, something quieter has happened.We became more disciplined.More self-aware.More intentional.And somehow, more…

Existence pain

Jan 11, 2022 8m

Existence pain, sometimes it's hard to be here at all sometimes trying to work the whys and how's behind that doesn't do us any more Favors  a lot of the thinking here developed after reading Loves…

S3E11 Love with a side of Pitty

Jan 06, 2022 9m

Do we have to understand before we love? We develop a particular type of care where we still pathologist the wants and behaviours of others who just like us might be doing the best they can. A caring…

S2E10 I am sorry your just 'too much'

Jan 04, 2022 11m

That time you burst out love all over someone a bit too early.

New year's notes from forgotten friends

Dec 31, 2021 8m

a new year's message from a forgotten friend and us we were

'you can't feel like that, Its Christmas'

Dec 23, 2021 14m

Some Christmas we didn't feel the things we were supposed to. Other times we felt things only naughty boys and girls did. what about those times we were ungrateful? antisocial or didn't feel like…

S2E7 Perfectionism and the kid in the corner

Dec 21, 2021 10m

Perfectionism and the kid in the corner, when our virtue turned out to be fear all along, How do we break through to hit publish just a little more often?

S2E8 Whats going on inside 'Okay' people?

Dec 14, 2021 12m

Those intoxicating souls already comfortable in their own skin, did they already do the work? did they learn how to be this way? most often advice on how to be confident, charasamtic, or even just…

S1E6 Do we ever really 'find' ourselves? if so How?

Dec 10, 2021 12m

Do we ever really 'find' ourselves? And when we do how come we were somewhere else distant from our first culture? all the episoads of the first two seasons centre around self acceptance and self…

That time you got too dark at work

Dec 06, 2021 7m

We're doing so much better, how far would we like to get? this week is a conversation starter, leave us messages about how you let too much slip? or how you felt when your teammate did. Where do we…

S2 Six myths about lies

Nov 30, 2021 14m

Lies and liars the fibs and falsehoods and the hope we have that we know something clever that will help us find them.

You just don't seem yourself

Nov 18, 2021 8m

The tiny version of you that lives in my head didn't react the way you did. how we end up with inaccurate working models of the people in our lives and the practice arguments we have with them start…

S2E3 I am not keeping score, but

Nov 15, 2021 9m

Keeping score? building a case? or just figuring out who we are dealing with? It's impossible not to keep a tally of our interactions with others. Is holding loosely a recipe for getting hurt?

Living in the unfinished tale.

Oct 20, 2021 8m

How the rags to riches tale hurts us, how oversimplified journalism bypasses our empathy and why not being done and still being messy gets in the way of us sharing the moments we are still living in.

S2E2 Stop me if you heard this one before

Oct 15, 2021 6m

The repeated tails and personal propaganda that that we lay out for the word. And the choice we can take to manage it

The Hawk Tattoo, the made-up reason, and the truth it taught me

Oct 13, 2021 8m

When we create our own propaganda there's a story of who we want to be seen as. Maybe looking at that person tells us something new. Or we're so full of crap we forgot who were until we wrote it in…

Not for me ness

Jul 06, 2021 7m

A little bit of not for me ness goes a long long way.

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Adequate Conceit has published 33 episodes since March 2021, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.

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