Something Interesting is an audio essay anthology that explores the philosophical, the political, and the personal.

I’m Steve, your host. My background is eclectic. I headed to university to study Applied Physics but wound up doing a PhD on Holocaust memoirs. I've been programming computers since I was a kid, and when I escaped the academic world, I worked for years as a web developer. More recently I’ve been a digital writer and producer working in climate change, human rights, and public history.

So I’ve always appreciated and used both sides of my brain. I love statistics, science and code but also words, ideas, and interpretation.

I'm fascinated by how we construct our selves and our stories to make meaning out of the unlikely enigma that is our shared existence.

In each episode I address a topic that intrigues me and matters to me in some more or less intimate way. In the first season I explore things including body image and masculinity, confidence and uncertainty, aphantasia - or thinking without images-, and birds.

I'm not presenting academic research here but these aren't just hot takes. I play with ideas, make connections, and generally explore the complexities involved in the perplexing, brief, and beautiful experience of being a person.

I’d be honoured if you’d join me.

Credits

Written, recorded, and produced by Steve McCullough.

The music is “Dirt Rhodes" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 4.0.

The cover art features “Concentric squares forming a geometric maze pattern” by Cansu Sarp.