Overthink offers fresh takes on age-old questions. While this is a philosophy podcast, the two hosts, Professors Ellie Anderson and David Pena-Guzman, make the content accessible to everyone, no background needed. By making it entertaining, you wouldn’t even realize that they’re weaving in Plato’s The Republic or the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and even authors like Kate Chopin.

What they do is address topics people have been debating and pondering over for centuries, in texts that are often very lengthy and hard to follow, from a modern angle and apply it to day to day feelings and experiences. That way, any listener can relate, but also learn, about philosophical theory in easily digestible episodes that usually run for about an hour.

In one of their recent episodes, the pair discuss how western philosophy intersected with exercise(Plato was a wrestler at some point). We also learn that the Greeks, creators of the Olympics, were in the habit of “building bodies and training souls,” whatever that means. But then the hosts use this to segue into a discussion on modern cravings for health and beauty, that we know sometimes go too far, and how different philosophies throughout history have incorporated exercise into their theories and ways of life.

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can listen in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Patreon (where you can be a paid subscriber for added perks and episodes).

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