Part two, further analysis, discussion and the man behind the podcast. So this feels much more

safe and at home for me because I'm used to asking the guests about their philosophical positions rather than the podcast. So this feels much more safe and at home for me because I'm used to asking the

guests about their philosophical positions rather than the history or other people's philosophical

positions. We wanted to hear a little bit more about the podcast because it's an invaluable resource

for anyone listening. I've been listening to it for about three or four years now.

The level of depth and the quality of the episodes, there must be an incredible amount of

work that's gone into that. I'm not joking when I say it's unrivaled. It's a project that,

I guess, next to it, Bertrand Russell's book sat on the shelf here, history of Western

philosophy. That's very detailed, but you're putting people like Russell to shame with the amount of detail you're going to here. Could you expand on, I guess, the story, the adventure you've been on over the last six years? Eight years? Over the last eight years? What inspired you to do it? And what are some of the biggest challenges, I guess, you faced over that period of time?

Well, first of all, since listeners can't see me, I should say that I'm blushing.

Thank you very much for your kind words.

Yeah, I mean, like I say, I had a more narrow conception of it when it started, but because I didn't plan on doing, you know, global philosophy.

I planned on doing basically European philosophy plus philosophy in the Islamic world, and I've

broadened it since then. But even if I hadn't broadened it like that, and actually the

broadening it makes it easier to some extent because it means that I've got co-authors helping me,

and they write some of the scripts as first drafts, and we kind of go back and forth. But even if we left that aside, you know,

if someone had come up to me and said, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to put out a

weekly podcast in which I start at the beginning of the history of philosophy and I cover the entire thing without leaving anything out, I would have just laughed in their

face. And so I guess the question is, why did I not laugh in my own face when I thought

of doing it apart from the anatomical impossibility? And the answer is really that I was listening to podcasts myself, and I noticed that there

wasn't anything like this.

And I thought, you know, if there was one podcast that I wished existed that I would

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