About Us

The MADness Podcast, also known as the Musing About Doubts Podcast, is an intellectual show hosted by Aurélien Saphy, a student at the one and only Leiden University College (LUC) based in The Hague, Netherlands. 

The aim of the podcast is to explore various deep and fascinating questions that range from common everyday reflections, to current relevant challenges human societies are facing, to fundamental philosophical mysteries that strike at the core of human existence. What does it mean to live a fulfilling life? What defines optimal experience? How can understanding our mental selves lead to better decision-making? How can humanity better address issues of global significance, including climate change, the spread of new viruses and anti-bacterial resistant diseases, nuclear proliferation, the development of AI, fake news and misinformation campaigns, and many more developments? These are the sort of questions we wish to give serious consideration to on the podcast, as they are concerns that a large number of us share.

Hopefully, by reflecting on such intricate, but inherently captivating topics, we can start to get a better understanding of the world around us and what we can do to improve it.

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Guests are the lifeblood of our podcast discussions. We therefore try to invite passionate and knowledgeable people for each new episode, with which we can have interesting and insightful conversations, rather than a simple interview-style dialogue. After the release of our episodes, we wish the discussion to continue through your comments on the forum here on madpod.org/forum, where you can share your thoughts on the discussed topic with us.

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We also have a wonderful blog, which is an open forum to insightful pieces including from the public. If there is a piece of writing that you'd like to share with us, please send it to us at madness.luc@gmail.com, and we will try our best to publish it, as long as it is insightful, respectful and not advertisement nor propaganda. 

All of our released episodes can be found on our website, or on Spotify. 

For more information on upcoming guests, topics and events, please visit our Facebook page.