Episode 1: Solipsism for One

So… what if it really is just you in here? And if it is, why on earth did you populate your private universe with MAGA rallies, property prices, and Descartes?

In this episode, we start somewhere perfectly normal – kids moving back home, off‑grid living, and the old “school–uni–job–marriage–mortgage–2.4 kids” life script – and somehow end up knee‑deep in solipsism, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, virtual reality, The Matrix, and that bloke in the park who swears he’s got a pill for immortality. (Spoiler: he hasn’t. It’s mostly rat poison.)

Along the way we ask:

How do you talk to people whose world seems to run on completely different rules?
Is solipsism just a daft thought experiment, or a sneaky way a lot of us actually live?
Can you even have a private world if language itself is a social thing?
What happens to morality, empathy, and politics if everyone retreats into their own reality bubble?
And is extreme wealth just another kind of solipsistic fantasy—with better catering?
From babies playing peekaboo to Elon Musk as a sort of tech‑bro Sauron with the One Ring, we poke at the thin line between “my perspective” and “my universe”, and ask whether democracy, empathy, and a bit of Wittgensteinian common sense can pull us back into the same shared world.

Tune in, turn on, and try not to drink anything handed to you by a stranger in the park.