Welcome to this weekend’s Pod Ponder. I’m Ginni Saraswati, [echo sound effect] expanding your mind and [possible cave/spelunking sound effect? along these lines] exploring your brain.

It’s Saturday once again my friends, which can only mean one thing: it’s time to challenge your perceptions, think outside the box and—well… ask you a really offbeat question!

Picture it: You’ve just awoken on a beautiful spring morning, the sun is shining, and it’s time for you to go off to your office job… where you’ll spend the next 8 hours behind a computer, inside a cubicle.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had this exact experience many times over. In fact, maybe you’re having it right now.

But imagine: instead of experiencing a bland 9-5, you enter the building at 9 only to find yourself immediately back in the parking lot at 5—with seemingly no time having passed at all. [record scratch] Somehow, you’ve skipped the actual work experience. 

For our ponder this week, we’re drawing inspiration from Apple TV’s new dark comedy Severance, which lampoons modern corporate culture.

On the show, workers undergo a voluntary procedure in order to surgically sever their brains into two sections: one for personal life and one for work life, allowing the employee’s outside brain to live a blissfully work free life, while subjecting the inside brain to an endless cycle of drudgery without respite. 

So, what say you, ponderers? If you could, would you undergo this so-called “severance” if you never had to experience work again?

Well, that does it for this week. Remember to tune in next Saturday and join me for another round!

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