Stupid Questions with Seth Hill

Asking smart people stupid questions.

Stupid Questions with Seth Hill is a society podcast hosted by Seth Hill, with 253 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Seth Hill hosts Stupid Questions with Seth Hill, a society show with 253 episodes published.

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  Episode #241

  #241 - Luke Tasker: 59 Days at Sea and a Life Built on Family

  Sep 27, 20261h 20mS3

  Luke Tasker is a full-time Vancouver firefighter, a former Team GB modern pentathlete, and one of the newest names in pro triathlon. He won Ironman Victoria in his debut and took fifth at IRONMAN 70.3 NorCal against a stacked field. But his real story isn't about how fast he's climbed. It's about a man who knows exactly what he's living for, and isn't shy about saying it. We talk about leaving the UK for one ski season and never going back, and the 59 days he spent on a four-man rowing boat around Britain. He shares the psychologist's exercise that kept that crew from falling apart. He opens up about a father he's no longer close to but refuses to resent, and about why he tells his best friend he loves him. We also get into the 12 seconds that cost him a Worlds slot, and his unapologetic atheism, which leads to a candid, respectful back-and-forth on faith, meaning, and what happens when it's all over. This is a conversation about conviction: what it looks like to build a life around love and family when you believe this one is all you get, and what two people who see the world very differently can learn just by listening. Luke’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/taskertri/ Ways to Support the Show Newsletter: ⁠ https://stupidquestions.show/pages/newsletter-signup

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  Episode #240

  Episode #240 - Cole Kynoch: Learning to Ask for Help After Years Alone

  Sep 20, 20261h 7mS3

  Cole Kynoch is a first-year professional triathlete racing for Roka Standard Racing and an after-sales area manager for Lamborghini's Americas region — one of the more unusual day-job-and-side-hustle combinations on the pro circuit. But his real story isn't about supercars or race splits; it's about a self-described "jack of all trades, master of none" learning, later than he'd like, that figuring everything out alone isn't the same as thriving. We talk about what pushed him to turn pro after years of finishing races alone off the front of the amateur field, how growing up as the oldest with twin younger sisters shaped his instinct toward self-sufficiency, why asking for help still doesn't come naturally to him, what mutual respect and loyalty mean to him as guiding principles, his path from Volkswagen to Lamborghini and what climbing that corporate ladder actually looks like, and his evolving, agnostic relationship with faith — including why he walked away from a checklist version of religion in favor of just trying to live with integrity. This is a conversation about the quiet cost of always being the one who figures it out — in sport, at work, and in marriage — and what changes when you finally let people, and maybe something bigger than yourself, in. I've saved this one (episode number, title, description, and a few candidate takeaways) so it's ready whenever you build the next newsletter — even if that's a different session down the road. Cole’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/cole_tries_tris/ Ways to Support the Show Nothing Novel: https://nothingnovel.life Socks: https://stupidquestions.show/pages/sq-merch Newsletter: ⁠ https://stupidquestions.show/pages/newsletter-signup

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  Episode #239

  #239 – Benjamin Randall: Recovery, Identity, and Learning to Run Off Feel

  Sep 13, 20261h 19mS3

  Benjamin Randall — known to most of the internet as Triathlete Benny — is a professional triathlete and a staff writer at Colorado State University. But his real story isn't the run splits people argue about in the comments; it's the shy only child who just wanted friends, and the years he spent training close to 40 hours a week trying to outrun something he couldn't name. What he's built since is less about fitness than about finally being a whole person. We talk about being labeled "just a runner who does triathlon," the strange math of having your worth measured in three sports, the high school journalism teacher who lit the fire that still drives his writing, and the coaches who found him at his lowest and asked what he was actually doing. Ben opens up about his eating disorder and the inpatient treatment that followed, grapples honestly with what recovery looks like when your sport rewards the same obsessiveness that nearly broke you, and shares the mental reframe that pulled him out of black-or-white thinking — plus why shoving his watch in his pocket made him faster. This is a conversation about what happens when you stop performing your identity and start living it. If who you are depends entirely on what you did last Saturday, what's left on the days you don't race? Benny’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/triathletebenny/ Ways to Support the Show Nothing Novel: https://nothingnovel.life Socks: https://stupidquestions.show/pages/sq-merch Newsletter: ⁠ https://stupidquestions.show/pages/newsletter-signup

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  Episode #238

  #238 - Tegan Phillips: The Cartoonist Who Learned to Run a Business

  Sep 6, 20261h 30mS3

  Tegan Phillips is a South African cartoonist, adventure writer, and creator known for her women's cycling comedy — and for riding 11,000 kilometers across Africa with her family. But her real story isn't the big adventures. It's the quieter, less glamorous choice to stay put and build something sustainable when running away would have looked braver. We talk about growing up in Cape Town and what inequality teaches a kid early, the boxes families and social media put us in, the eating disorders and comparison that shaped her teenage years, what it took to learn how to be honest in a friendship, and the gap between her chaotic online persona and the methodical business owner behind it. She opens up about the book she's been dragging her feet on for five years, and shares the most practical advice we've had on the show: if you want to make a living from your art, you have to learn how business actually works. This is a conversation about the difference between following your heart and running from discomfort — and how hard it is to tell them apart without time alone to figure out which voice is which. Tegan’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/teganphillipscomics/ Ways to Support the Show Nothing Novel: https://nothingnovel.life Socks: https://stupidquestions.show/pages/sq-merch Newsletter: ⁠ https://stupidquestions.show/pages/newsletter-signup

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  Episode #237

  Episode #237 - Mike Reilly: The Voice of IRONMAN on Finding Your Finish Line Beyond the Race

  Aug 30, 20261h 17mS3

  Mike Reilly is the legendary voice of IRONMAN finish lines—the man who has called thousands of athletes across the finish line with four iconic words: "You are an Iron Man." But after decades of defining his life around announcing races and chasing the next event, Mike grapples with what it means to step away from the role that made him a household name in endurance sports. His real story isn't about the accomplishments or the voice—it's about learning, finally, where his actual finish lines really are. We talk about his parents' example of perseverance without preaching, what it truly means to be yourself in public, why sharing your goals with loved ones changes everything, the cost of missing anniversaries and birthdays for races, finding balance across mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions, staying sharp as you age, caregiving when you can't fix what's broken, and why your real finish lines aren't at races. Mike also opens up about his second book—a 15-month project that taught him more about writing and purpose than he expected—and why stepping away from Ironman felt like crossing the finish line he'd been training for all along. This is a conversation about finding your real finish line when the world has already built a monument to a different one. It's about presence over performance, legacy over accolades, and learning that what you do every day at home matters infinitely more than any achievement on a stage. Mike’s Book - Finding your Finishline: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFG73C6H Mike’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/ironmanvoice/ Ways to Support the Show Nothing Novel: https://nothingnovel.life Socks: https://stupidquestions.show/pages/sq-merch Newsletter: ⁠ https://stupidquestions.show/pages/newsletter-signup

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