Welcome to Why Do I Love This? A podcast where we examine how concepts, objects, activities and ideologies become foundational to the human experience.

I'm posting this whole first episode as a trailer of sorts.

In the main episodes of the show, I will be speaking to a guest, maybe subject, who has a concept, object, activity or ideology that is deeply important to them across two interviews. The first will be fact finding, learning about them and their topic in as much detail as possible. Then I will go away and do as much research into the psychology and philosophy of why they have come to love that topic.

But as I've never made anything like this before, I've done this first episode about me, and something that I love. Something that has been important to me since childhood, and that really might have helped to save my life. I'm really grateful to have you here as we try to work out, Why Do I Love Luke Skywalker?

Huge thank you to Ben Rogers, Assistant Professor of Management & Organization at the Carroll School of Management of Boston College, for his generosity and taking the time to talk through his recently published study on The Hero's Journey.

Drew Toynbee

I am a freelance creative from the UK, using my skills developed as an actor in another life to create video and audio content either for myself, like this, or for clients ranging from the wedding industry to Space Lawyers (I'm not kidding, it's wild).

Contact

I would be thrilled to hear from you if you have any feedback on the show, or just want to say hello! In the social media space I'm most active on Threads, but you can also find me on Instagram, less and less on Twitter, or even on my poor, neglected website.

Guest Enquiries

If you have a concept, object, activity or ideology that is deeply important to you, and you'd be interested in appearing on a future episode of this show, then you can fill in this form. I will do my best to get back to everyone, although I will only make an episode on something that I'm confident I can do deep enough research on to do it justice.

Credits

This show and its music are all written, performed, edited and produced by me, Drew Toynbee, with support from Expanded Universe.

The show is also kindly supported and hosted by the wonderful people at Captivate.fm, and if you're serious about producing a podcast as an independent, you should check them out immediately.

Supporting the show

If you really enjoyed the show enough to be reading this deep in the show notes, if you want and are able to, you can leave me a tip!Support Why Do I Love This?

Research Links

Below are links to most of the sources that I used in researching this episode