The Makers Rage Podcast

The Engineered Man: Styles of Victorian Masculinity

In this episode, I explore how Victorian masculinity was not a fixed ideal, but a fragmented, competing set of identities forged in a time of social upheaval. From Sherlock Holmes to Oscar Wilde to Eugen Sandow, I trace how men attempted to redefine themselves in response to shifting gender roles, scientific doubt, and cultural anxiety. What emerges is not a single model of manhood, but a spectrum—intellectual, aesthetic, physical—each striving for dominance. Ultimately, I ask what this tells us about masculinity today, and whether, after decades of deconstruction, it’s time to build something new.  https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/ [https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/] https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/ [https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/] Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

Thought Experiments: Relativity and the Quantum

In this episode of The Maker’s Rage, I follow a simple but dangerous question: what happens when we trust our imagination enough to let it challenge reality? Starting with a 16-year-old Einstein riding a beam of light, I explore how thought experiments—humble acts of imagination bound by physical law—reshaped our understanding of space, time, and ultimately reality itself. Along the way, I revisit the great intellectual duels of 20th-century physics: Einstein versus Bohr, relativity versus quantum mechanics, clarity versus strangeness. This isn’t a technical lecture, and it isn’t a victory lap for genius. It’s a human story—of curiosity, doubt, stubbornness, and wonder. I reflect on the communicators who first opened these ideas to me, from Jacob Bronowski to Carl Sagan, and on why scientists kept arguing long after the experiments seemed settled. If you’ve ever felt both thrilled and unsettled by ideas like time dilation, Schrödinger’s cat, or “spooky action at a distance,” this episode is for you. I don’t promise easy answers—only an invitation to think alongside some of the greatest minds who ever tried to understand what kind of universe we’re actually living in. https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/ [https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/] https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/ [https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/] Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

Amadeus (2025): Artistic Licence or Cultural Gaslighting?

Amadeus (2025) reignites a cultural fault line: who gets to rewrite history, and who doesn’t. Using the new miniseries as a starting point, I challenge the claim that race-swapping white historical figures is “harmless artistic licence” while similar changes elsewhere are branded as propaganda.  https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/ [https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/] https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/ [https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/] Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

The Muses: Terpsichore or Dance

In this episode, I turn to Terpsichore, the Muse who delights in dance, to ask a deceptively simple question: what is dance, really? Is it ritual, seduction, discipline, freedom—or something far older than language itself? I trace dance from the ancient Greek chorus and mythic sirens to nightclub chaos at 2 a.m., from courtship rituals in birds to the whirling transcendence of Sufis. Along the way, dance becomes my lens for exploring imitation, sexuality, ritual, power, leisure, and culture itself—how movement encodes who we are long before we can explain it. Drawing on mythology, anthropology, poetry, and music history, I reflect on why dance resists capture, why it survives prohibition, and why it may be the most democratic of all the arts—requiring no instrument other than the body. From cave paintings to TikTok, from metallurgy to choreography, from Yeats to Nietzsche, Terpsichore reveals dance as both primal impulse and refined discipline: the soul clapping its hands and singing. https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/ [https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/] https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/ [https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/] Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay

New Years Resolutions: Why We Fail

In this episode, I explore why most New Year’s resolutions fail. Happy New Year! :D #NewYearsResolutions #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Motivation #Mindfulness #Habits #MakersRagePodcast https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/ [https://www.facebook.com/TheMakersRage/] https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/ [https://www.instagram.com/themakersrage/] Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay