We've never lived in a time where you can get paid so much to do so little.In this episode, I rant about how Machiavelli would grift a modern tech company. I cover the "Fabian Strategy" of avoiding work, weaponizing the word "kiddo," and using the Three C's (Calendars, Children, and COVID) to shield yourself from accountability.Also, I talk about HBO's Rome at the end because I miss historical fiction.Timestamps:0:00 - The laptop class1:33 - The two-sub sandwich incident3:54 - The Machiavelli Playbook7:29 - Failing fast & sports metaphors10:00 - Weaponized collaboration15:00 - The "Next Quarter" trap19:17 - The Three C's: Calendars23:13 - The Three C's: Children ("Kiddo")25:11 - The Three C's: COVID30:30 - The cost to your soul32:28 - Why we need more shows like HBO's Rome

Today I discuss why politics has infected every aspect of our lives and why we are worse off for it. Also, why movies like Mickey17 and Conclave sucked when they could have been great.

Today I explore what's so frustrating about modern health trends. Plus, why Francis Fukuyama may have been right about the end of history and why our extreme comfort has created a crisis of meaning. We’re evolved apes trying to run a digital program on crude meat servers, and the results are getting weird.Chapters00:00 – The 24-Month Health Hype Cycle02:34 – The High Cost of "Proprietary Sawdust"04:22 – Biohacking as Procrastination06:14 – Aging and "Japanese Paper" Skin08:29 – Fukuyama and The End of History09:59 – The Last Man: Stagnation in a Massage Chair11:02 – Plato’s Thymus and the Need for Recognition13:57 – "Victory Has Defeated Us": The Curse of Abundance16:39 – Struggling Against a Just Cause23:43 – Finding Individual Meaning (Without the Metamucil)

In this episode of Pray for Rain, I audit one of the most grating cliches in modern media and look at exactly what James Cameron gets wrong about the Na’vi

0:00 — The IMAX Hallucination

5:28 — James Cameron and the "Noble Savage" Trope

10:39 — Braveheart & Amadeus: Killing the Record

14:24 — Why the Wild West was actually safer than you think

18:25 — The Nuance of Colonialism

31:22 — The 3,000 Statues of Arthur Cotton

37:19 — The Problem with "Presentism" in Film

Today I explore why all my hobbies run through Youtube and why it's so enticing to the male brain. Plus, re-watching the Green Mile for the first time in 15 years wasn't what I remembered.

Sick of not knowing if someone used ChatGPT? You’re not alone. I ruminate on how to spot the fakes, what we lose with AI, and why modern homes are starting to feel like no place at all.