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What happens when AI becomes smarter than the humans who created it? Are we building the future, or putting our own humanity at risk? Tune in to 404: Humanity Not Found, as we explore the future of AI, its risks, and how much control we're willing to give away.

Ghosts, zombies, and spirit possessions. Folklores and tales of the paranormal, often shaped with and encountered by religion. What makes one’s experiences spooky or comfortable?Join us as we attempt to discover the interactions between religion and the paranormal on Ex(o)rcise Caution!

From the freedom of the wild to the harsh realities of captivity, and finally, the hope of rescue. 🐘 The Elephant in the Room is a story of loss, resilience, and second chances—and a reminder that the power to change a life comes with the responsibility to protect it.

DCEU versus DCU. James Gunn's inherent style of making misfits into heroes that are extremely iconic versus Snyder's style of making movies a bit darker. We discuss tonal shifts and how different movies should connect to each other to form a coherent universe.

One was adored by millions, the other trusted by a whole city, and both were hiding something far darker behind the smile.

Chirps. Trills. Calls. We've always known them as "background noise." But songbirds learn their songs, pass them down, and shift them depending on where they live. Different regions, different dialects. If bird communication runs this deep, with geography and generations of culture behind it, what exactly have we been tuning out? Tune in to know whether the birds are just singing, or are they actually talking?

Some rooms weren’t built with us in mind.We walked in anyway, did the work, and stayed.Not to prove a point, but because the work is ours too.

Behind the pastel silks and powdered wigs of 18th century France, a few lived in excess while many went hungry.Beauty was the display, and the gap was the story.We’ll be talking about all of this, so tune in.

Fathers. Sons. Husbands. Surnames.We inherited the rules before we were old enough to question them.But inheritance can run through daughters. Homes can follow mothers. Families can exist without marriage at the centre.Khasi. Mosuo. Nair.

Your trust means the world to you. They promised to guard it. Then you gave your donations, service, the cards of your faith.But who’s holding the deck?Tune in as we ask what happens when belief passes through institutions, and whether the custodians of your trust are really keeping it, or just shuffling it.

"Tonight’s the night” is the catchphrase of the famous serial killer, Dexter Morgan. Find out how the public turned a serial killer into a relatable character, what a meme means and how people end up perceiving certain media.

Long before glass and steel, faith was shaped by hand, in stone, brick, and fire. From the sun-drenched carvings of the Solanki dynasty to the rock-cut shrines rising from the Pallava shores, Indic temple architecture is a living record of devotion, power, and craft. This is Religion in India: stories through brick and kiln.Every temple you’ve walked past has a story about its walls.

Every culture has feared colour, controlled colour, or weaponised colour, just differently. Rome made purple treason. India built caste rules around who could wear what. The West built a whole design philosophy around avoiding it. Who gets to decide what a colour means everywhere?

War doesn't just cost lives and money…it costs land. Military bases, border walls, testing ranges: built without environmental review, impossible to challenge, and left behind long after the mission ends. Forests cleared, water poisoned, migration routes severed—all filed under "national security," where nobody's allowed to ask questions. We call it defense. The ecosystems footing the bill don't get a say.

Story of Earth captured through a Golden record. Images, sounds, music and greetings to something, we don’t even know truly exists. Floating in space, we don’t know when it will reach it’s destination but it still carries an essence of humanity so far away.