Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the history of philosophy podcast brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich online at history of philosophy.net.

Today's episode is a special one to celebrate reaching 400 episodes. And if I may take the liberty of quoting one of my favorite television shows black at her. I'm as excited as a terribly excited person who has a really good reason for being terribly excited.

Because I have three other podcasters with me, three of my favorite podcasters, who shows I listen to. And these are all people who host their own philosophy podcasts. So I have Misha Cherry of the unmute podcast Barry Lamb of high fine nation and that tightman of elucidations. So hi everyone.

Hello, it's great to have you here on the show. So I thought maybe we should start since we can't assume that everyone who's listening to this knows all your podcasts, although they certainly should.

I thought we could start by having each of you just say something quickly about your show. So Misha, do you want to go first?

Sure, the unmute podcast is the podcast where I talk to, I'm going to do my tagline here, diverse philosophers from the content of tradition, from the analyst tradition, black, white, transist, et cetera, et cetera, about social political issues of our day. And so I try to kind of look at their work and see how we can talk about that in ways that is relevant to our social and political lives.

I'm Barry Lamb, the producer and host of high fine nation. I'm also a professor at Vassar College, high fine nation. I would say it's a documentary type show. Our tagline is philosophy and story form.

So every episode we have a story from science, the arts, law, history, maybe, and parrot with a piece of philosophy. It's produced in a documentary format. So it's soundtrack.

And it's a seasonal show. So there's about 10 episodes a year and there's been four seasons. So there's about 40 episodes.

Okay, Matt. Hi, I'm Matt Teichman, and I host the illustrations podcast along with my many and sundry undergraduate interns. And it's a long form interview podcast about philosophy.

One of the driving goals behind it, I think has always been to try to represent philosophy and its full breadth. So to try to really get out there.

How many different topics can all fall under the kind of umbrella heading of philosophy, really give people a sense of how it draws so many different areas of inquiry together. And you can listen to it wherever you find podcasts and also the websites at elucidations.now.sh.

Okay, great. Something I often tell people about my podcast is that it was inspired not by a philosophy podcast, but by a history podcast, namely the history of Rome by Mike Duncan.

And I think that's probably true for a lot of podcasters that the reason that they got into it was because they were listening to podcasts, maybe on a similar topic or a different one.

And they thought, I really like that. I'm going to do something like that, but for my topic.

So one thing I wanted to ask all three of you is what kind of inspirations you drew on. And maybe I'll start with Barry here, because I think maybe it's in a way the most obvious.

Like you already said that it's a documentary form podcast. So you must be thinking of other models there.

Yeah, absolutely. So this American lives your radio labs or invisibilias, the tradition that came out of public radio in the United States.

And to some extent, BBC, the idea of having a stylized news or where news isn't necessarily just news of the day, but ordinary people's lives or off the beaten path stories about weird things that happen.

The goal of storytelling in that form is to have what we call in that industry driveway moments, right, when you're driving home, and you stop the car, but you can't get out because you want to finish this little section of the radio piece.

And that's the inspiration for my show to make a version of that for philosophy, right, philosophy that has driveway moments.

Yeah, I was saying before we started the recording that when I'm describing your podcast to people, I always say that it's, you should imagine this American life, but it's about philosophy.

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