It’s Realizing Stuff’s first birthday! We celebrate by answering questions from the Realizing Stuff fam, and introduce our official intro song. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions, and anyone who has tuned in to our psychotic little podcast during the past year. Love you all <3

Stephen shares about his spiritually depleting experience trying to buy a donkey in Trump Country, Erin presents the story arc of the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and how it is manipulated to fit a wide variety of political aims, ending with a discussion of cancel culture and the Karen Industrial Complex.

Galaxy braining about Stephen’s proposition of extraction and exploitation as the greatest human evil. Discussing the karmic debt of humanity and how it defines the anthropocene, whether or not extraction and exploitation are inherent human impulses, and how they have played out over human history.

Discussing the evolution and impact of the current Black Lives Matter / Abolish the Police protests. We touch on the flip flopping of public health officials on coronavirus stay at home orders, how the protest movement has or has not been able to organize and mobilize political action, and the limitations of social media activism.

Relevant material:

Yuval Levin, Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science

Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation

Telling our origin story of growing up in State College, PA through the lens of the scandal that radicalized us: The Sandusky Child Sex Abuse Scandal. Also addressing Lana Del Rey’s infamous typewriter critique of feminism.

Fatima’s back for part 2 of our space conspiracy discussion, but this time she’s turning the tables and questioning the hostesses. Discussing Middle East countries as regions of the United States, Kardashian Konspiracy theories, and why the CIA purposely feeds into conspiracy theories.

Local science expert Fatima joins the pod for a two part series about all things space related. We talk Fatima's personal history, zoo hypothesis, UFOs, and throw our hats in the ring to figure out why tf we're seemingly alone in our vast universe. 

Send us comments, thots, questions, and we'll address in Part 2.

Discussing 2020 celebrity queen archetypes, the rise of federalism from the left, and how we feel about the fall of the empire. Culminating in the introduction of the Realizing Stuff Party Coronavirus Recovery Plan.

Vic comes back on the pod to discuss TikTok, the politics of going viral, and the Matrix.

Shooting the shit on holding grudges, the lessons we learned growing up in theatre, what the deal is with Burning Man people, and why anti-vaxxer Pinterest moms are the heart of our great American nation.