Rala & Baby: The Big Idea

Welcome back to Rala and Baby: The Big Idea. Thanks for being here! If you're in the mood for some big ideas, you're in luck. Because this week, we get into some seriously big topics. We discuss contemplation, meaning and curiosity. But also stuff like... whether people should be allowed to Google things immediately, and why some questions are worth getting a little bit pissed off about. Also: - W...

Hey, welcome back to Rala and Baby: The Big Idea. Thanks again for being here. Today's big idea is Rules vs Rituals - but it's also people. We discuss generosity, artists, flight anxiety, hearing aids, Parkinson's, movie theatre red tape, and what happens when someone you love breaks the rules in exactly the way you needed them to. Also: - Peter Hamburger - Soul soup - The puzzle store discount -...

Hello. I am Rala. And I am Baby. And we are bringing you yet another Big Idea. Today's big idea is kind of about love. Which means we also end up talking about all the other big things around it, like respect, parents, friendship, responsibility, dish towels, and how relationships are mostly just trying to teach us stuff. Also, on today's action-packed agenda: - Plato's Symposium (this time for re...

Hello again! It's Rala & Baby with yet another jumbo bag of expertly roasted (and lightly salted) Big Ideas. For this one we sat down to try and talk a little bit more about Plato's Symposium, but that may or may not have happened.  We definitely did discuss socks, Quaker meetings, Jack Kerouac, artistic practice, relevance, and a bag of pistachios. Also: - Wool - Eye boogers - Halitosis - Han...

It's Rala. It's Baby. It's another Big Idea. Now, today's big idea is Plato's Symposium (up to a point). We also discuss the value of education, politics groups, books we finish, books we abandon, and how pink polo shirt guy is out there changing lives. Also: - Losing two passports - Nora Ephron - Air quotes - Octavia Butler - Lonesome Dove - "You didn't tell him how long to make it" - What the he...

Hey! It's Rala and Baby, coming through with another piping hot episode of The Big Idea. If you think you heard us say this is episode 1 a few times, I'm afraid you are mistaken. This is NOT episode 1. This is of course, episode 3. And we're talking about being alone, being understood, being misunderstood, being judged, judging other people and FaceTiming your relatives too much (or maybe exactly...

Welcome to the first episode of Rala & Baby: The Big Idea. This episode is mostly us trying to explain what this podcast is, but also, so much more! We talk about some pretty BIG things, like a weekend where we made up our own reality, all the games we invented, what it feels like when people are genuinely trying to understand each other, and why asking a stranger a weird question is almost al...

Welcome back to another episode of Rala & Baby: The Big Idea. In this episode, we get into friendship, spirituality, strangers on trains, the feeling of "clicking in," and do we actually know what's good for us? Find out! Also: - Quaker meetings - A man who couldn't sleep - Rats in the wall - Being at each other's disposal - Ribena - Escorting two lost gym-goers to safety - Elevator games - Th...

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