The themes of Matt and Femi's discussion for this episode are 'starters' and 'the starts of lessons'. The conversation is equal parts philosophical and pragmatic, and many aspects of starters are covered in great depth. The conversation covers the importance of starters, their utility for orientating students towards this subject as they arrive from elsewhere around the school, as a device for recap, building confidence, to facilitate a calm and effective start to the lesson, to guide thinking towards today's topic and many more elements.