Blog: Philosophy Playdate
A couple of weeks ago I travelled across London's fashionable LONDON area of London to University College London, in London, to take part in an episode of Philosophy Playdate. This is a podcast where Christabel Cane and Steve Cross take a question proposed by an Actual Child (e.g. "What's it like to be a dog?" or "Who looks after Outer Space?") and try to answer it with PHILOSOPHY.
I've talked about Doctor Doom and superhero stuff at numerous LIVE gigs put on by Steve in the past, so when the current question "Is Lego Batman real Batman?" was asked he thought of ME to help them answer. I was, as you can probably imagine, RUDDY DELIGHTED as I do very much know the answer to this question, and so I did some REVISION i.e. re-read the relevant bits in MY BOOK (which is still very much available) and printed out some NOTES.
My preparation also included some revision on the show itself, which had made me rather nervous as both Christabel and Steve are GIANT BRANES who know lots of STUFF and can not only quote things but also tell you who SAID them and what they MEAN. I was also highly aware of certain issues what arose with me while recording The Funny Comics Fan Club where I would say "yeah" ALL THE TIME and also basically repeat whatever John had just said (if you think this happens a lot on the shows themselves, you should hear what it was like BEFORE I did the edit!), and so when we sat down in a rather large room in the basement of UCL to start recording I was a little TREPIDATIOUS.
However, Christabel and Steve were DELIGHTFUL and I think I managed to rein in MOST of the above tendencies, so ended up thoroughly enjoying our lengthy conversation about multiverse theory and transmedia and all sorts of other items. OBVIOUSLY once I got home after the recording I spent approx 48 hours worrying about it, but listening back now I Think I Did OK. You can have a listen below (or wherever you get yr podcasts) and see whether you agree!
posted 15/6/2026 by MJ Hibbett