Your lawn is a lie. That quiet cul-de-sac isn’t the American Dream—it’s a financial time bomb. 💣

In this episode, we uncover the “Suburban Ponzi Scheme” secretly bankrupting your city. Why are taxes rising while roads crumble? What is a “Stroad” and why is it killing your town’s budget?

We run the terrifying math that proves your neighborhood is insolvent and reveal the one solution your HOA will hate. 🏘️📉

Tune in to see if your town is doomed.

Will is still off-grid (probably wise), leaving Joshua to tackle the lighthearted topic of mind control.

We discuss how corporations are literally commercializing your sleep to sell you watery lager, why Chile is the only country with enough common sense to ban brain-scraping, and how the CIA’s MKUltra experiments were just the beta test for Silicon Valley’s business model.

If you think your thoughts are private, you clearly haven’t read the Terms of Service. Tune in to find out why the most rebellious thing you can do in 2026 is be bored.

Will is still on hiatus (presumably bartering podcast gear for freeze-dried stroganoff in the Ozarks), so the guardrails are off. In this solo episode, Joshua tackles the most misunderstood word in the American political lexicon: Anarchy.

Forget what you learned in high school history or saw in The Purge. We are stripping the paint off the philosophy to reveal what it actually is: order without rulers.

With Will out for the holidays, Joshua flies solo to dismantle the world’s most expensive practical joke: the American Healthcare System. From dental plans that haven’t updated their payout limits since the Nixon administration to algorithms that deny life-saving care in literally 1.2 seconds, this episode explores how the system isn’t actually broken—it’s working exactly as designed to vacuum money out of your pocket.

Does holiday stress feel like a feature, not a bug? On The Overlap, Joshua autopsies the Christmas Industrial Complex. From Santa as a surveillance asset to charity as a “carbon offset for the soul,” we discuss swapping vertical charity for horizontal solidarity. #TheOverlap

Welcome to the wild ride of “The Overlap,” where Joshua takes the mic solo, and the guardrails are off! With co-host Will allegedly at the dentist (or is he?), Joshua dives into the tangled web of conspiracy theories, evolutionary psychology, and why your brain insists on seeing tigers in the bushes. From the mystery of fast-food ice cream machines to the dopamine-fueled rabbit holes of the internet, this episode is a snarky exploration of why we love a good conspiracy. So, buckle up, and remember: if you see a face in your toast, just eat it. It’s probably sourdough. 🍞

Joshua flies solo to dismantle the biggest lie of the modern world: that you actually own your devices. From John Deere tractors that require Ukrainian hacker firmware to operate to BMWs that charge monthly subscriptions for heated seats, we explore the shift from ownership to usership. This episode breaks down how corporations turned us into digital serfs and how you can fight back through “digital homesteading” and the Right to Repair.

Forget the myths. The Maya didn’t disappear, and Easter Island didn’t starve. Collapse is never simple.

In Part 2, we ditch the simplistic cautionary tales and reveal the three radical paths history shows a civilization can take to pull out of a nosedive.

We analyze which of these models—if any—applies to our current global crisis. Is our ruling class on the path to self-sacrifice, or are we heading for a total systemic reset? We ask the ultimate question: What is the radical change required for survival?

This week on The Overlap, Joshua goes solo to navigate the “hellscape” of the 2025 government shutdown. This isn’t a story about closed national parks or airport delays. It is an urgent look at a calculated, three-pronged attack on American survival: the expiration of ACA subsidies, a Supreme Court freeze on food aid, and a political narrative designed to blame the working class. Joshua dissects the “welfare queen” myth with hard data and argues that what Washington calls “fiscal responsibility” is actually just violence committed with a spreadsheet. Tune in for a raw, honest breakdown of the “Hunger Games legislative edition” and what we can do to look out for each other when the systems fail.

We all feel it: a sense that things are both progressing and decaying at the exact same time. This feeling of ‘overlap’ is a classic sign of a civilization in transition… or perhaps, one in decline.

In the first part of a sweeping two-part episode, Joshua and Will move past the Mad Max fantasies to explore the academic study of collapse. They introduce Joseph Tainter’s groundbreaking theory that societies don’t get conquered; they simply buckle under the weight of their own complexity when it stops providing benefits.