Pod fav Vic is back on to unpack PrEP, the patriarchy, porn, and sexuality.

Erin asks Stephen the hard-hitting questions about his beliefs, love language, and self-love (and in true Realizing Stuff interview style, also answers the questions herself).

Relevant Material:

American Beauty, Sam Mendes

We brought on OG Realizing Stuff family member Benson to talk about his spiritual thesis/meaning of life, why the polls don’t work, and live out his life dream of calling us pretentious douchebags.

And be sure to check out Erin’s guest episode on Benson’s podcast Purity Wing!

Relevant materials:

The Social Network

Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher

Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze

We’re going war-on-drugs about social media! Kicking it off by exercising our theatre kid muscles, we share our spiritual healing experiences with acupuncture and dream therapy, and discuss our personal experiences with social media and how we could imagine a better future.

Relevant Material:

The Social Dilemma, Netflix doc

Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze

How to do Nothing, Jenny Odell

We're back discussing Trump's COVID diagnosis, Claudia Conway's TikTok leaks, and graphic design's role in shaping our democracy.

We’re back for another round of 2020 astrological predictions. Caroline explains her block world / omega point hypothesis, we review the triumphs and failures of our previous 2020 predictions, and forecast 2020 election astrology.

The first Realizing Stuff live pod, held on zoom. Stephen gives an artist talk and Erin leads the Q&A.

Discussing the weather in California, the Alex Morse / Aaron Coleman progressive congressional candidate hit pieces, and whether or not we as a society are stuck repeating cycles and patterns over and over again in a narrative arch that’s too long to comprehend in a human lifespan.

We discuss the K-Hive’s ascendence to political power and then Stephen interviews Erin about onlyfans, invasive plants, and life in the pandemic.

We’re psychoanalyzing Kanye: his latest meltdown and society’s response, the evolution of Kimye, and where he goes from here. Opening up with a discussion of who would win in a stan war tournament, and what the deal is with QAnon psyop KW Miller.