Uncontained Multitudes

This week, the burnouts discuss the latest film starring America's sweetheart, Timothee Chalamet. The one, the only, Marty Supreme. We share our opinions and personal interpretations of the movie's events, explore how and why such a frantically anxious movie got made, and what it has to say about our frantically anxious modern times. Furthermore, we explore its themes of hustle culture, desperation, the falsehood of the American dream, and Jewish pride shortly after World War II.

The burnouts once again welcome in the new year! This week's sprawling episode features discussions of our favorite media of the year, our large event predictions, our Ins and Outs, and our detailed thoughts regarding how everything we mention, both the good and the bad, connects to a looming economic recession. We here at Uncontained Multitudes are praying that 2026 treats us all well.

This week, the burnouts celebrate one full glorious year of Meg's abstention from the dating pool and commitment to celibacy!!! Besides continuing some of the thoughts we discussed in our first "relationship centric society" episode (a full year ago!), Meg answered questions regarding what she learned and experienced during this time, and detailed her vision board for her life going forward. Here's to another year of celibacy everyone!

This week, the burnouts discuss The Most Video Essayed Movie Ever. Fight Club. We explore the film's homosexual undertones and overtones, its overarching themes, our takes on these themes, and how we relate to the story and characters. Meg watched it for the first time very recently (for a reason). But Jeremy, like every man, has had a special relationship with the movie since he was young.

This week, the burnouts dig deep into Western society's beauty standards. Beginning with the history of modeling and size restrictions, and connecting this to how bourgeois ideas of labor and status symbols have left us with plastic surgeries, like buccal fat removal, that leave the elites looking strange to us commoners.

This week, the burnouts delve into the lurid world of commercial surrogacy. Exploring how, through the simple option to pay someone to carry your pregnancy to term for you, we have created a "going market rate" for women's bodies. We discuss several cases where surrogacy has gone wrong throughout the world. And detail how with commercial surrogacy, what you eat, where you work, who you're with, and everything you do is subject to the realities of contract law.

This episode, we are joined once again by friend of the pod Connor, this time to discuss minimum wage! We spend some time citing numbers, effects, and histories of minimum wages across the world, but only to provide context to the central conversation of dialectics versus ideology. The vital question this episode: if we want to achieve the "correct" answer to questions of social welfare, such as minimum wage, what philosophies should we use to even create the questions we're answering? How much importance should we place on numbers such as GDP, unemployment, and other matters of profit and productivity? Sometimes, economists should just shut up.

This week, in the wake of several incidents that have occurred in the United States, the burnouts discuss the history and ethics of political violence throughout the world, from civil rights leaders to the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. We attempt to understand what ethical justifications an individual (or individuals) might use to bring themselves to commit their lives to political violence.

This week, the burnouts explore the different ways pseudoscience has infiltrated our society. From personality tests used in Fortune 500 hiring practices developed from literal astrology, to pedagogical philosophies that also developed from... astrology. We delve into the conspiracy that no one is truly in charge of their own fate, and there are plenty of people who want to sell you courses to help you "predict" your fate written in the stars.

This week, the burnouts have on friend of the pod Olivier to discuss the nascent economic turmoil leaving us all paying too much in rent, without the option to buy a house, and many others homeless while real estate sits empty. We extrapolate on how we got here, and attempt to discuss, with the help of advanced economic simulators (like the video game City Skylines 2), what could be done to make this better.