Learn today what you will ask yourself tomorrow.

"About Something" Podcast

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This podcast reads, explores, and occasionally debates the essays from the "About Something" Substack in a conversational, thoughtful way. About Something is a podcast for people who like their big ideas served with a side of lateral thinking. Each episode takes a cultural myth, historical misunderstanding, or linguistic accident and pulls the thread until the whole thing unravels, revealing what happens when humans confidently build meaning on top of shaky foundations. And in the end, every episode is, quite literally, about something — maybe not something you expected, maybe not something yo...

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Learn today what you will ask yourself tomorrow.

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Society

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aboutsomething.substack.com

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9 sty 2026

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