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Meaning Making Machines connects the deep past with the imminent future through the search for the eternal, enduring, and essential. Join host Simone Leon as she discusses how we find and define meaning through art, religion, and technology. She'll be speaking to artists, technologists, technophobes, religious thinkers, and philosophers. Exploring the deep questions with a curious mind, and questioning everything. simoneleon.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchMeaning Making Machines connects the deep past with the imminent future through the search for the eternal, enduring, and essential. Join host Simone Leon as she discusses how we find and define meaning through art, religion, and technology. She'll be speaking to artists, technologists, technophobes, religious thinkers, and philosophers. Exploring the deep questions with a curious mind, and questioning everything.
Meaning Making Machines is hosted by Simone Leon. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Composing with Soul in the Age of AI | JoAnne Harris | Episode 7" (12 December 2025, 97 minutes), "An Autobiography by the Trees" (6 December 2025, 12 minutes), and "The Hypocrisy of Political Certainty" (18 October 2025, 12 minutes).
Meaning Making Machines publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Meaning Making Machines is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Meaning Making Machines requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Meaning Making Machines's contact route on record: verified email.
Simone Leon hosts Meaning Making Machines, a society podcast with 13 episodes published.
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<p>Welcome to my conversation with composer JoAnne Harris. JoAnne has conducted and recorded film scores at Abbey Road, East West, The Village, and Avatar with artists such as grammy winning Kurt Elling and members of...
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<p>I knew things as a child that are hidden to me now. I knew them, but I didn’t have the intellectual skills to speak of them. I simply lived them.</p><p>Read full essay here: https://simoneleon.substack.com</p><p></p>...
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<p>Cultures and people trade one type of conformity for another and rarely think for themselves without being told what to think. An essay on how we can learn to free ourselves from hypocrisy.</p><p></p><p>Read full...
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<p>Welcome to my episode with medieval scholar, writer, and speaker Dr. Grace Hamman. She is the author of the book Jesus through Medieval Eyes, a fascinating and accessible introduction to the bizarre, profound, and...
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<p>It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that the role of the unseen in our lives is undeniable and essential. These “things” that are nonmaterial – things like God, love, courage, morality, truth, justice, joy...
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<p>Alissa Hessler is a writer and photographer, most well-known for her now decade old project, Urban Exodus. Through countless podcasts, stunning atmospheric photography, and candid interviews, Alissa has documented...
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<p>Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Sylvia Linsteadt! If you haven’t seen part 1 of our conversation, you can do so HERE.</p><p>If you don’t know her work already, Sylvia is an author, a scholar of ancient...
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<p>Kyle is a crypto millionaire and a futurist. As a young adult, he was a part of the punk/anarchist scene in New Orleans. He squatted in a communal house, dumpster-dived, and made his best efforts to reject...
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<p>Death limits life, disease limits health, loss limits love, and scarcity limits abundance. And as any economist will tell you, limitation drives value. The gods had none. And so, with every whim fulfilled, with the...
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<p>Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is an author, a scholar of ancient history and myth, and a certified wildlife tracker. Her work - both fiction & non-fiction is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism, and bioregionalism.</p><p>In...
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<p>This past Christmas night I dreamt of divine terror. The night after Christmas, I dreamt of demonic pleasure. An essay about my own Christmas Carol.</p><p>Read full piece here...
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<p>Connecting the deep past with the imminent future through art, religion, and technology. Subscribe on simoneleon.substack.com or wherever you get your podcasts!</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would...
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<p>Despite not being Catholic, or raised any sort of Christian, recently I have begun praying the rosary. I find the circularity of it, the repetition, the endlessness of the practice soothing. I feel it aligns me with...
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