Best Geoff Lloyd Podcasts (2025)

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EPISODE 350 - The three hundred-and-fiftieth-episode 44:02

1d ago44:02

44:02

Guys! We did it! We made it to three hundred-and-fifty episodes! Let the celebrations commence... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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INTRATERRESTRIALS: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth with KAREN G. LLOYD 41:55

1d ago41:55

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“It's really changed my view of what life is. So many of the things that we attribute to the trappings of life look like requirements, like oxygen and sunlight. All the things that humans would absolutely die without — they’re not really necessary for life. Studying these things sort of breaks down what is necessary; what are the things that life h…

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Gen X Gentle 51:32

1d ago51:32

51:32

Hello babies, come suckle on our pod-teat. Here's this week's nutrition... A birthday debrief for Sara (including a romantic graveyard stroll), before we get into this week's viewing, which includes: 1. Dicky piccies. 2. If Denmark was gone, would you miss it? 3. Tina Fey's new thing. And your darling contributions, which elevate the whole affair. …

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Exploring Trauma, Healing & the Creative Process with Author LIZ MOORE - Highlights 12:13

8d ago12:13

12:13

“I think income inequality really greatly contributes to the rage that people might feel, even as some Americans won't. What don't recognize that a more communal society might benefit them. What they see instead is, why don't I have what that person has? Something's getting in my way. And it's not a lack of, of community, it's: somebody else is kee…

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EPISODE 349 - The three hundred-and-forty-ninth episode 1:00:16

8d ago1:00:16

1:00:16

It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School say…

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Family, Addiction & Overcoming Trauma - LIZ MOORE on Long Bright River starring AMANDA SEYFRIED 49:08

9d ago49:08

49:08

“ I've lived in Philadelphia for about 16 years. The book itself was inspired by my time spent in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia interviewing a lot of the people that I met there, both longtime residents of the neighborhood and also people who were transient, a lot of people struggling with addiction and a lot of women doing sex work…

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Strong Like Bull, But Dainty 53:44

8d ago53:44

53:44

Sara was stuck in Spain during the power outage. Get ready. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A Plausible Welder? 43:37

14d ago43:37

43:37

Geoff has had a birthday AND sulphuric burps! What a week! We go deep on - into? - Black Mirror, plus Sara's Everst fixation returns, and Geoff betrays his wife with his love of Ramy Youssef. Geoff loves Ramy! Jesse D. Armstrong loves Ramy! EVERYONE LOVES RAMY, WE GET IT! Write to us with messages of love, Sara needs it hundy p after her difficult …

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PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights 18:19

15d ago18:19

18:19

"The country spoke Irish largely before it spoke English. Grammatically, the structure of Irish is different from English. As Ireland adopted the English language, this sort of hybridization started to occur, where the English language was placed on top of Irish grammatical constructions. You get this slipperiness, this ability to move sentences, t…

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On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH 48:39

16d ago48:39

48:39

“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we do. And if you give the brain a story, a prepackaged story, you're giving a cheesecake. That's what it wants. That's why it loves stories. That's why o…

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This Week's Episode Coming Thursday 2:05

16d ago2:05

2:05

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OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories 18:34

17d ago18:34

18:34

We are privileged to present the voices of individuals dedicated to effecting change and mitigating the harm inflicted upon our precious planet. These are individuals deeply committed to the core values that drive positive transformation. Thank you for tuning in to our episodes and for your ongoing dedication to stewarding our planet, not just on E…

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Performance, Politics, Art & Society w/ Sociologist RICHARD SENNETT - Highlights 12:43

21d ago12:43

12:43

“I'm really interested in the relation between performance and ritual. Where do those two separate?” Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, attended the Juilliard School in New York, and then studied social relations at Harvard. Over the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labo…

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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics with RICHARD SENNETT, Sociologist & Author 31:57

22d ago31:57

31:57

“We look at creative work as though the very creative process itself is something good. These are tools of expression, and like any tool, you can use them to damage something or to make something. They can be turned to very malign purposes, for instance, in the operas of Wagner. So I wanted to do this set of books, I want to show what is kind of th…

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EPISODE 348 - The three hundred-and-forty-eighth episode 41:53

23d ago41:53

41:53

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Exploring the Extremes of the Human Experience with Neurologist DR. GUY LESCHZINER - Highlights 14:14

23d ago14:14

14:14

“One of the things that hopefully my books illustrate is that everybody's mind is different. And one of the amazing things about the human experience–and indeed that manifests in terms of art and creativity–is that when we have such different minds, that is why all this creativity, all this art is possible.” Dr. Guy Leschziner is the author of The …

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Sleep, The Nocturnal Brain & The Biology of Being Human w/ DR. GUY LESCHZINER, Neurologist 50:39

23d ago50:39

50:39

“ I'm fascinated by the extremes of the human experience, partly because it is so far removed from our own experience of life. In another way, when you look at people who have neurological disorders or diseases, these are really nature's experiments. They are ways of trying to understand how the brain works for all of us. By extrapolation from look…

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Classic Moguls v Gentle Moguls 49:06

23d ago49:06

49:06

This week, Sara's acolytes defend her honour, plus a lone wolf speaks out - speaks truth - to power. To the power. Of a butt. We watch Seth Rogen's new show The Studio, and we open our chakras to the feedback on our feedback on The White Lotus. Write to us: [email protected] Help Sara buy new Birkenstocks and enjoy our show ad free!…

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ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process - Highlights 14:23

25d ago14:23

14:23

“When I was working at the Times and the Times Magazine, on one Tuesday morning, the towers fell. September 11, 2001. The magazine had a 10-day lead time, so it was a weekly that was essentially 10 days old by the time it came out. We came to work and realized the world had changed, and the entire process, the magazine had been made for over a hund…

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On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights 10:13

28d ago10:13

10:13

“So, post-activism is not ‘post-activism’ in the sense of being after activism. It is not supposed to be a through line to results or resolutions or solutions.” Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, writer, public intellectual, and the founder of the Emergence Network. His work, which he names post-activism, marks an earth-wide effort …

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The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE 41:30

28d ago41:30

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“I learn more than anything else from my children. My son, he's seven, he's autistic, and I call him my prophet for a reason. He teaches me to meet myself in ways that are usually very stunning. I can get information from other people; I can read a book here and there, but it's very rare to come across such an embodiment of grace, possibility, and …

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EPISODE 347 - The three hundred-and-forty-seventh episode 59:03

29d ago59:03

59:03

Geoff and Annabel paint the town red Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Dirty Blender 47:40

1M ago47:40

47:40

We're baaaaack! What a pleasure for you, for the larger galaxy. Us? We're just happy to be at the table. SPOILER ALERT: We go *big* on finale of The White Lotus, the return of the Quick-Watch, and Sara stumbles upon one of life's big questions in a crowded coffee shop near Angel tube station. Tell us about the time you had to sleep in a tiny box wi…

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KATIE KITAMURA on Language, Identity & the Search for Agency - Highlights 10:04

1M ago10:04

10:04

“This novel is the third in what I see as a little set of books that all feature unnamed female protagonists who have experienced varying degrees of passivity and agency in their lives. They're all women who speak the words of other people.” Katie Kitamura is the author five novels, most recently Audition and Intimacies, which was named one of the …

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Art, Performance & the Illusion of Agency - KATIE KITAMURA on her new novel AUDITION 32:31

1M ago32:31

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“I'm really interested in the formal aspect of characters who are channeling language, who are speaking the words of other people, and in characters who are aware of how little agency they actually have, who have passivity forced upon them, who perhaps even embrace their passivity to a certain extent but eventually seek out where they can enact the…

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JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights 13:29

1M ago13:29

13:29

“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we confuse ourselves too easily. This goes back to Alan Turing, the main founder of computer science, who had this idea of the Turing test. In the test, you can't tell whether the …

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AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, Father of VR, Musician, Author 49:13

1M ago49:13

49:13

“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I love finding new proteins for medicine and so on. I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we're really getting a little …