Sean Carroll

So if anyone out there in podcast land knows how I can get in touch with the Pope to invite him on the podcast, I would love to do that.

As long as he's willing to talk for an hour over the internet then or in person for that matter.

I think we would have a wonderful conversation about philosophy and religion and science and a whole bunch of interesting things.

As always, you know, I do like to have people on the podcast.

I very often do that I don't completely agree with.

But I want people who I respect.

I want people who have something interesting to say that we can learn from.

That's the criterion.

Yeah.

You know, so people are always suggesting podcast guests to me, and I do think that I'm always open to that.

I've had many guests on the podcast who were first suggested by random people emailing me or leaving comments on the podcast.

the podcast page etc or on patreon saying oh you should invite this person so that can work i get many too many of them to be honest so i can't even accept a good fraction of them but i welcome them because i want to be nudged out of the usual circles that i would tend to move in and so forth but just to reiterate because it's been a while since i have you know what i'm looking for is intellectually respectable people who have something interesting to say

And I think that the two failure modes that I get most often from people making suggestions are either they pick someone who is just very diametrically opposed to me who I wouldn't respect and you want to have a debate.

And we're just not about having debates here on Mindscape.

I want to have someone on the podcast who I want to let you listen to.

I don't want to debate them.

I don't think that each individual podcast episode, well, for my podcast, everyone should have their own podcast.

But on my podcast, each individual episode is not a clash of views.

It's an articulation of one view.

I'll ask questions and I'll register my skepticism from point to point.