Good Is In The Details

By Gwendolyn Dolske, PhD & Rudy Salo | Philosophy & Education Podcast

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Good Is In The Details is an engaging philosophy and education podcast hosted by Gwendolyn Dolske, Ph.D., and Rudy Salo, exploring the ideas that shape how we think, learn, and live. Blending philosophy, higher education, books, ethics, culture, and critical thinking, the show invites listeners into thoughtful conversations with scholars, authors, and experts from a wide range of disciplines. Each episode makes complex ideas accessible, connecting philosophy to everyday life, current events, human behavior, and the pursuit of meaning. From ethics and epistemology to history, sociology, and the philosophy of culture, Good Is In The Details helps listeners learn what they didn't know they didn't know while encouraging curiosity, intellectual growth, and deeper understanding. Ideal for lifelong learners, students, educators, and anyone seeking a fun, engaging, and thoughtful learning experience, this podcast combines academic insight, real-world relevance, and lively conversation. Whether you're interested in philosophy, books, higher education, or developing critical thinking skills, Good Is In The Details offers meaningful dialogue, fresh perspectives, and wisdom you can carry into everyday life.

Episode Date
How To Navigate The Homeless Crisis With Humanity and Reason
May 25, 2026
The Good in Getting There: Thinking Critically About Your Career/Skills and The Meaning of Your Life's Work
May 15, 2026
Encore: The Philosophy of Star Wars. Eastern Wisdom, Attachment, and the Search for Happiness
Apr 30, 2026
The Slow Death of Local News and Its Impact on Critical Thinking
Apr 15, 2026
The Sex Recession Is Real: A Sex Coach Explains How to Find Your Way Back to Intimacy
Mar 31, 2026
Your Phone Is Watching You: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Law with Prof. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Mar 21, 2026
How To Be Mindful about our Brains: Brain Surgery, Free Will, and the Illusion of Mind?
Mar 01, 2026
Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking: Bill Tomlinson on Reasoning, Paradox, and AI as a Tool for Thinking
Feb 20, 2026
Thinking Clearly When Everything Feels Heavy: A Conversation on Media, Bias, and Context
Feb 02, 2026
Revisiting The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster
Jan 28, 2026
Everyday Philosophy and Wisdom from the Aztecs
Jan 15, 2026
Socrates, Wisdom, and Thinking Critically: Philosophy for Everyday Life
Dec 29, 2025
Arts Education, Community, and Creativity
Dec 16, 2025
The Problem With Self-Help: Critical Psychology, Philosophy, and the Real Causes of Distress
Nov 30, 2025
Biography, History, and Philosophy: Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, & Mary Midgley
Nov 13, 2025
Encore: The Ethics of Sexbots
Oct 28, 2025
Artificial Intelligence, Free Will, and Consciousness
Oct 16, 2025
The Human Experience and AI
Sep 29, 2025
Individual Choices, Challenges, and Social Changes
Sep 17, 2025
Masculinity, Red Pill, & The Anger Economy
Aug 30, 2025
Health, Influencers, and The Truth
Aug 21, 2025
The Paranormal, Ghosts, and Aliens
Jul 30, 2025
Hidden History of Los Angeles: Mexican Repatriation, Immigration, and Forgotten Stories
Jul 10, 2025
Confidence and Presence
Jun 26, 2025
Fatherhood, Masculinity, Generational Shifts
Jun 16, 2025
Discretion, Laws, and Moral Questions
May 29, 2025
Romantic Love, Attraction, and Asexuality
May 13, 2025
Memoir, History, and the Ambiguity of Color
Apr 30, 2025
Existentialism, Myth, and Film with Dr. Lewis Gordon
Apr 15, 2025
Murder, Politics, and The Law with Matt Murphy
Mar 27, 2025
Natural Disasters & Recovery with George Siegal
Mar 06, 2025
Justice, Tradition, and the FBI
Feb 24, 2025
God, Eternity, and Spinoza
Feb 08, 2025
Ethics, Action, and Intention
Jan 25, 2025
2024 Moments and Behind the Scenes
Jan 11, 2025
Truth vs Conspiracy with Jason Cavanagh
Dec 27, 2024
Infrastructure Details: The History of Traffic, Car Dependency, and the Ethics of Urban Design
Dec 09, 2024
The Philosophy of Star Wars: Eastern Wisdom, Attachment, and the Search for Happiness
Nov 21, 2024
How to Advocate for Yourself at Work: Negotiation, Career Growth, and Finding Meaning
Nov 08, 2024
The Public Square Post Covid
Oct 18, 2024
Encore: The Climate is Above Politics
Oct 11, 2024
Why Post-Punk Is the Most Philosophical Music Ever Made: Two Philosophy Professors Explain
Oct 02, 2024
Critical Thinking Details: Beware of Con Women
Sep 16, 2024
Business Details: The Story Behind Success
Sep 05, 2024
Life Lessons from "The Dude": Philosophy in The Big Lebowski
Aug 17, 2024
What Do We Learn From Reality TV?
Aug 06, 2024
How to be Philosophical About Romance
Jul 23, 2024
What We Learn About Virtue From Captain America
Jul 06, 2024
Engineering Ethics: Lessons from The Challenger Disaster
Jun 20, 2024
What Makes Decisions Difficult?
Jun 09, 2024
Self Actualization and Relationships
May 21, 2024
Encore: On Women Serial Killers
May 11, 2024
Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Is That Still True? A Constitutional Law Professor on Equal Justice in America
May 01, 2024
A Dialogue about Consent
Apr 20, 2024
Rhetoric Is Not a Dirty Word: How an Ancient Art Can Help You Think for Yourself in a Polarized World
Apr 10, 2024
To Envy is Human: The Philosophy of Our Most Misunderstood Emotion with Dr. Sara Protasi
Mar 27, 2024
Who Are You Becoming? Kierkegaard, Faithfulness, and the Philosophy of Living Well
Mar 09, 2024
Daredevil, Ethics, and Romance
Feb 27, 2024
What Your Worst Date Reveals About You: The Philosophy of Modern Dating Culture
Feb 15, 2024
The WHY of Podcasting
Jan 31, 2024
How We Speak About Morality
Jan 22, 2024
Wisdom Is Knowing What to Embrace and What to Release: The World's Happiest Philosopher on Living Well
Jan 12, 2024
Inside the Alcohol Marketing Machine: An Industry Insider Reveals How Your Drinking Habits Were Designed
Dec 30, 2023
Philosophy of Punk Rock
Dec 12, 2023
Embrace the New: Ideas, Career Shifts, and Happiness
Dec 01, 2023
BMI, Health, and the Holidays
Nov 19, 2023
Writing, Divesting, and Questioning with Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
Nov 05, 2023
The Hidden Resume: Why Caregiving Is the Most Undervalued Skill Set in the American Workforce
Oct 21, 2023
Medical Ethics and The Retrievals
Oct 03, 2023
Honor your Talent
Sep 27, 2023
Encore: How to Recover Creativity and Empathy in Work Life
Sep 15, 2023
True Crime and Society: The Black Dahlia, Media, and Human Curiosity
Aug 31, 2023
Does Free Will Exist?
Aug 14, 2023
Leave the Gun, Take the Philosophy: What The Godfather Teaches Us About Moral Corruption, Power, and Who We're Becoming
Jul 31, 2023
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Jul 13, 2023
Encore: The Virtue of Captain America with Mark D White
Jul 04, 2023
The Wisdom of Women Entrepreneurs
Jun 30, 2023
Is the "Good Husband" a Myth? What Philosophy and Data Say About Modern Marriage
Jun 23, 2023
The WHY of True Crime
Jun 07, 2023
The Philosophy and Future of Journalism
May 30, 2023
Know Your Goals: Job Search & Happiness for 2023
May 16, 2023
Does the Universe Have a Moral Status? Drew Dalton on Evil, Entropy, and the Fire Worth Walking Into
Apr 25, 2023
The Climate is Above Politics
Apr 13, 2023
The Magnetism of True Crime with Matthew Kraig Kelly
Mar 29, 2023
The Rockstar Educator: Breaking Rules with Rich Balling
Mar 17, 2023
The Power of Creativity in Education
Mar 01, 2023
Is Roy Batty Human? The Philosophy of Blade Runner: What the Greatest Sci-Fi Film Ever Made Teaches Us About Being Alive
Feb 18, 2023
What Does Inclusion Mean in the Work Place?
Jan 23, 2023
Happy New Year
Jan 04, 2023
Faith, The Meaning of Life, and Great Expectations
Dec 31, 2022
The Invisible Labor Killing Your Relationship — And What to Do About It
Dec 16, 2022
Money and Morality: A Philosophical Approach
Dec 08, 2022
100 Episodes!
Nov 28, 2022
How To Be Worthy: Thor and Philosophy
Nov 13, 2022
Tapping into Creativity Through Screenwriting
Oct 28, 2022
Lady Killers: The Deadly Women History Forgot — and the Sexist Myths That Let Them Get Away With It
Oct 09, 2022
The Science of Movement
Sep 23, 2022
When Philosophy and Psychology Meet
Sep 04, 2022
It IS Sexy: More on Infrastructure with Liz Farmer
Aug 11, 2022
How Do You Maternity? Part VI
Aug 03, 2022
The City of Angels Has a Dark Side: Film Noir, L.A. Private Eyes, and What They Reveal About Power and Corruption
Jul 26, 2022
What is Corruption?
Jul 05, 2022
Praise for A Good Kind of Trouble
Jun 15, 2022
Book Banning Culture: A Discussion with Mari Naomi
Jun 01, 2022
What Makes A Villain? Analyzing Black Panther's Killmonger
May 15, 2022
Monthly Monster or Miracle? What is PMS?
May 01, 2022
A Cardiologist, A Lawyer, and A Philosopher Walk Into A Podcast
Apr 21, 2022
How Do You Maternity?
Apr 07, 2022
An incredible search: Finding Uncle Dave, a WWII Paratrooper
Mar 30, 2022
What Do Haunted Home Films Reveal About American Culture?
Mar 18, 2022
How Do You Maternity? Part IV
Mar 02, 2022
Some Pop and Spiracy
Feb 23, 2022
How To Recover Creativity and Empathy in Work Life
Feb 09, 2022
How Does Genetic Engineering Reflect Our Humanity?
Jan 30, 2022
Season 3 Teaser
Jan 21, 2022
It's A Wrap!
Nov 24, 2021
On Otherness and Filmmaking: More with The Philosopher-Documentarian
Nov 08, 2021
The Philosopher-Documentarian on Race
Oct 28, 2021
How To Be Philosophical About Grief
Oct 16, 2021
What is Time Hacking?
Oct 06, 2021
What is Philosophy of Science?
Sep 23, 2021
How Do You Maternity? Part III
Sep 12, 2021
Social Epistemology, Arguments, and the Internet
Sep 02, 2021
Bringing Sexy Infrastructure Back
Aug 22, 2021
For the Love of Poetry
Aug 13, 2021
Answering Your Personal Finance Questions
Aug 01, 2021
The Ethics of Sexbots
Jul 15, 2021
Let's Overthink
Jun 30, 2021
Podcast in Review
Jun 21, 2021
The Creative Process: Comedy, Film, and Storytelling
Jun 13, 2021
A Lesson in Asian American History: What Every American Should Know
May 16, 2021
Understanding Anxiety
May 04, 2021
Make Me A Match
Apr 24, 2021
To Infinity and Beyond
Mar 28, 2021
From We to Me
Mar 16, 2021
Examining the Social Media Landscape
Feb 28, 2021
Don't Spoil That!
Feb 12, 2021
Too young and Too Early: On the Hyper-sexualization of Girls in Media
Jan 29, 2021
About January 6th 2021
Jan 16, 2021
New Year New You: Talking Finance and Real Estate
Jan 08, 2021
The Value of Sex Education
Dec 28, 2020
How to Learn from Heartbreak
Dec 21, 2020
Let's Be Objective
Dec 17, 2020
Gig Economy and the Fate of Cities
Nov 28, 2020
Swiping For Romance
Nov 18, 2020
The Gravity of Joy: A Theologian on Finding Joy in the Midst of Grief, Loss, and Suffering
Nov 08, 2020
Her Phil-Life-Sophy
Oct 27, 2020
How to Navigate Social Media
Oct 15, 2020
It's a Men's Issue
Oct 04, 2020
The Psychology of Social Distancing
Sep 21, 2020
What is Existential Sociology?
Sep 10, 2020
Ancient Ideas Everyday Life
Sep 01, 2020
Season 2 Teaser
Aug 18, 2020
Politics, meet Science
Jul 31, 2020
Examining Ex Machina
Jul 19, 2020
Desire, Communication, and Sex Therapy
Jul 11, 2020
Captain America and the Virtuous Life
Jul 05, 2020
The Crossroads of Literature and Politics
Jun 28, 2020
Naming Parts, Reproductive Health, and Sex Positive
Jun 20, 2020
Tasteless Jokes and the State of Comedy
Jun 13, 2020
Working From Home-Life Balance
Jun 07, 2020
Corruption in the Time of Coronavirus
May 29, 2020
Fitness as Process
May 20, 2020
The Morality of Batman
May 15, 2020
What Is Bully Culture?
May 04, 2020
When Pandemic Life Imitates Art: Part II
Apr 24, 2020
When Pandemic Life Imitates Art: Part I
Apr 17, 2020
Podcast in the time of Coronavirus: Part IV
Apr 11, 2020
What is Existential Ethics?
Apr 06, 2020
Podcast in the Time of Coronavirus: Part III
Mar 30, 2020
Podcast in the Time of Coronavirus: Part II
Mar 24, 2020
Podcast in the time of Coronavirus
Mar 20, 2020
What Can Comedy Do?
Mar 13, 2020
Love and the Graphic Memoir with Mari Naomi
Mar 03, 2020
Reflections on Blackness
Feb 24, 2020
Masculinity and Gender Roles
Feb 12, 2020
An FBI agent, a Lawyer, and a Philosopher walk into a podcast. Part II
Feb 03, 2020
An FBI agent, a Lawyer, and a Philosopher walk into a podcast. Part I
Jan 29, 2020
How Do You Maternity? Part II
Jan 20, 2020
CRISPR Me This
Jan 14, 2020
This Is Your Brain on Love
Jan 06, 2020
How Do You Maternity? Part I
Dec 31, 2019
Beauty, Self Love, and Comedy
Dec 13, 2019
All About The Funny
Dec 01, 2019
Moody Responsibility
Nov 19, 2019
How To Be A FemDom
Oct 22, 2019
How We Speak About Madness
Aug 29, 2019
Lessons from Outbreak and Zombie Narratives
Aug 02, 2019
Ancient Philosophical Therapy
Jul 14, 2019
A Plastic Surgeon's Notes on Beauty
Jul 09, 2019
Dentistry: Truths, Ethics, & General Health
Jun 23, 2019
What's It Like To Meet Beauvoir?
Jun 16, 2019
All About LA Infrastructure
Jun 09, 2019
On Writing
Jun 03, 2019