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Episode 16: Is It Impossible to Be Cool by Trying?

Episode 16: Is It Impossible to Be Cool by Trying?

FromTerrifying Questions


Episode 16: Is It Impossible to Be Cool by Trying?

FromTerrifying Questions

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Can we try to become cool, or is trying to be cool by definition like totally uncool man? Is it like keeping yourself up trying to fall asleep? Maybe it’s impossible, like trying to look at the edge of your visual field. If you make a deliberate effort to be happy, or to be a loving person, are you doomed to fail? Join Eric and Taylor as they (try to) confront these unsettling questions head on. 
Released:
Jun 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.