The Beyond Podcast

About The Beyond Podcast

The Beyond Podcast explores meta-topics and concepts. Note: this has nothing to do with Meta - the corporation. We will focus on mind-twisting subjects like recursion, self-similarity, self-reference, various paradoxes, and other fun puzzles and problems. We will discuss meta references in art and entertainment. And we will try to make these discussions fun and entertaining! Check out The Beyond Podcast at thebeyondpod.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Publisher

Vadim Yushprakh

Category

leisure · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Oct 2022

Latest episode

3 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Jan 2026

   This Episode Was Randomly Selected From The Set Of All Possible Episodes

   This episode looks at probability theory, statistics, epistemology, and thought experiments involving the Self Sampling Assumption.

2. 

   19 Sept 2025

   This Episode Halts

   In this episode we discuss paradigms for naming very large numbers, and how this connects to the power of algorithms, programming languages, and the machines they run on.

3. 

   8 Jul 2025

   This Episode’s Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

   This episode explores the concept of metaness within the field of physics, offering insights into its theoretical implications.

4. 

   14 Apr 2025

   This Episode’s Title Exists Somewhere In the Digits of Pi

   This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.

5. 

   2 Jun 2024

   This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency

   This episode discusses the work of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel, drawing parallels between the Halting Problem and the Incompleteness Theorems. We also review a fun book of puzzles!

6. 

   29 Jan 2024

   This Episode’s Title Has Thirty Eight Letters

   In this episode we discuss the metaness of maps, and Schelling Points.

7. 

   22 May 2023

   This Episode Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Creation

   In this episode we discuss Von Neumann probes, and also review Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge..." as well as “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)” by Dennis E. Taylor.

8. 

   13 Mar 2023

   This Episode Is Coming From Inside Your Headphones

   In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.

9. 

   3 Jan 2023

   The Following Episode Is False

   This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.

10. 

    5 Dec 2022

    This Episode Contains a Hapax Legomenon

    In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.

11. 

    13 Nov 2022

    This Episode’s Transcript is a 89742 Byte PDF Document

    In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.

12. 

    30 Oct 2022

    This Episode is 2580 Seconds Long

    In this episode we will discuss quines - computer programs that can reproduce their own code. We will also talk about Exhalation - a sci-fi short story by Ted Chiang.

13. 

    21 Oct 2022

    This Episode Has 6650 Words

    Our first episode introduces the podcast and explores the idea of self-describing messages to send information far into the future.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

76,759

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

27

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