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"If you were God," asked Alan Watts, "what kind of universe would you create? A perfect one free of suffering and drama? Or one filled with surprise and delight?" With Just So, the celebrated philosopher and self-described "spiritual entertainer" invites us to explore the hidden dimensions that shape both the cosmos and our personal experience of it.

Two guys, worlds apart, having found common interests. Their love for sport and music and everything in between. Discussing all our differences, and all our common interests in the two countries we call home -South Africa and America

Sometime in the summer of 1933, a couple in Trinidad – it's unclear if they were ever married – went through a particularly nasty breakup. The woman, Caroline, believed her partner to be less-than-faithful; his reputation for philandering and carousing was more than she could handle, especially given that she had just given birth to twin boys six months prior. Caroline decided to return to Germany, where she – a practicing Roman Catholic – had grown up.

What does the world look like from another angle? What are the true semi-hidden mysteries of who and how and why we are? Why do the things happening around us even happen in the first place? Well here on the Just About Now podcast, storyteller Chidi-ebere Onwuka uses mildly adjusted facts and a little sprinkle of imagination to answer all of the above and so much much more…