The Warrior Poet

Sri uses infectious disease as a metaphor for dealing with colleagues of toxic people. Justin Timberlake and Home Depot do a collaboration.

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Show Notes

• Sexy back-Home Depot mashup
• 'In a World' trailer: 
• Home Depot video montage from Tik Tok 

Intro music by Paul Sridhar (Spotify).

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Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Humans have a visceral need to mold their environment, even if it means mindlessly mowing the lawn. Sri introduces the concept of Hobbit problems and wages an internal battle over strongly worded letters to the gym. Radiohead’s “Little By Little” serves as a warning to us all. Plus, Sri rants about fruit and Ross from Friends.

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So… who actually *is* Nestor Carbonell? Like Jeff Fahey, he played an interesting character on Lost. Top 42 Lost characters (IMDB)  

Meet Chris Kattan if you haven’t already.  

Radiohead’s performance of “Little By Little" on From the Basement: Youtube

Stephen King’s suit against New Line Cinema over Lawnmower Man 

Rid yourself of Gollum like Smiegel did in this scene from Lord of the Rings.  

You must read Sapiens by Yuval Hariri.  

The best car phone mount I’ve been able to find: MPOW (Amazon)

Errata: The Bush song “Little Things” is actually on their first studio album, Sixteen Stone, not on Razorblade Suitcase as Sri speculated.  

Bananas are actually berries!  Wikipedia 

Are almonds not if not what are they [sic] 

More on fruit abortions to make them seedless: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenospermocarpy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetative_reproduction

(One of the above mentions the term “banana pups” lol.)  

Circular paleontology logic in Nat Geo:  

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/t-rex-bite-could-have-crushed-a-car-thanks-to-its-stiff-skull/#close
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/2/120228-t-rex-bite-bates-science-biology-letters-dinosaurs/
• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/what-made-t-rex-s-bite-so-ferocious

Intro music by Paul Sridhar (Spotify).

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Connect on Instagram: @andrewsridhar  + @sri_actually 

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Sri talks about the inability of many organizations to make decisions -- and to stick to them. And also about how annoying metalcore covers of 90s-era protest hits are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancy

Brooklyn Duo's cover of the Cranberries' "Zombie"

The classic "It's alive!" scene from the 1931 Frankenstein movie.

Intro music by Paul Sridhar (Spotify).

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Connect on Instagram: @andrewsridhar  + @sri_actually 

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.

Sri has been around the block, so to speak. 

Episode 0 is an aural appetizer where Sri talks about alt-J and gets fired from his first product management job. Meanwhile, a Wall Street saleswoman talks about ripping people's eyeballs out.

Intro music by Paul Sridhar (Spotify).

📌 Want to crush 2026? Book a free clarity call with Sri to get your priorities in order and start getting unstuck. 

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Follow Sri for elite leadership tips: 
➡️  LinkedIn.com/in/andrewsridhar

Connect on Instagram: @andrewsridhar  + @sri_actually 

Intro and/or outro music in most episodes is by Paul Sridhar. 🎧

Disclaimer: Any audio clips are included with every intent and steps taken to abide by Fair Use and serve the purpose(s) of illustration, education, augmentation, or promotion of source content.