Episodes 13
Avg. Duration 9m
Activity Dormant
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

An existential advice column by a priest on a break. This podcast offers audio versions of written posts, and follow-up episodes with a laid back vibe. Ask me anything: [email protected]

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A Bedtime Story

Oct 16, 2025 11m

Dear Stu, I am exhausted this week from work and dealing with a sinus infection that won’t seem to go away. Tired as I am, when I go to bed I can’t seem to really wind down and stop thinking. You’d…

Dear Stu is Also a Podcast Now?

Oct 06, 2025 1m

Dear Fergus and Friends,I share with you the happy news that:(1) All Dear Stu posts will soon include voiceover audio at the top of each article.(2) These audio versions of posts will be available in…

My New BFF is Not Real

Sep 18, 2025 11m

Dear Stu,I have been dipping my toes into the vast pool of knowledge that is ChatGPT, and I'm wondering if I've gone too far. A little context: I use my AI bot (I've named her "Chatty Patty") A LOT…

Meet the Parents (and confront them about your childhood)

Sep 11, 2025 11m

Spoiler warning: this letter references events and personalities in Welcome to Plathville Seasons 1-4. Dear Fergus,Thank you for sharing the tea with me about the hit reality show Welcome to…

So You Want to Baptize an Alien

Sep 07, 2025 9m

Dear Stu,I am a person of christian faith and I am fascinated by aliens. I don’t see any problem or conflict between faith and science but I do wonder about cases we haven’t encountered yet.…

A Cure for Meanness?

Aug 26, 2025 10m

Dear Stu,I had a question come up and I thought about a conversation I had with you some years ago at the Wendy’s tomato protest in Columbus. I had a supervisor once who was nice and normal to me and…

When They Talk About Our Weight

Aug 20, 2025 10m

Content Warning: discussion of body shaming, food consumption shaming. Dear Stu,I have lived on my own for almost 20 years now. My town is about 7 hours away from my mother’s house (which I grew up…

Descartes, Media Literacy, and You

Aug 19, 2025 6m

Dear Fergus,(A reminder that letters addressed to Fergus are actually to everybody)Thanks for drawing my attention to that spurious article about the Dalai Lama and Paul McCartney serenading a…

Summer Blues

Aug 09, 2025 11m

Dear Stu,A friend of a friend of a friend told me you might be able to empathize with this. A lot of people seem to get down or depressed when winter arrives. I get it. It’s cold and the days start…

Work to Live or Live to Work

Aug 06, 2025 8m

Dear Stu,I don’t hate my job, but I am unmotivated by it. I am less than 3 years out of college and I didn’t expect to feel as jaded as this already. I was looking forward to work life, having my own…

People make fun of how much I dote on my pets. Am I crazy?

Aug 02, 2025 7m

Dear Stu,I am not married and don’t have any children. I do, however, share my apartment with a dog named Angus and an elderly cat, Ferbie. I love these two creatures and as much work as they can be…

Is writing an AI sermon ethical?

Jul 29, 2025 6m

Dear Stu,I have been able to listen to a wide variety of sermons (homilies?) in my lifetime as a Catholic. Some are good, some are dry or difficult to follow. In either case, I appreciate it when the…

From Here

Jul 24, 2025 5m

Welcome: Part IDear Reader,Welcome to Dear Stu, a place to reflect on life’s deepest questions with the facilitation of a man named Stu. That is me. Creating a Substack has been a dream of mine since…

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Dear Stu Podcast has published 13 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality.

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