1. How to be a Villain

The show is a conversational podcast where we talk about all the things that are fucked up about the status quo in America, with the perspective of the villain (Isabel) and hero (Meronne). In our first episode, we talk about the hero-villain complex, what making an impact means when you were brainwashed to have a very narrow definition of "doing good" in college, and why the world we are moving towards is going to be increasingly built by teams instead of gloried individuals, whether heroes or villains.

Note: A loyal listener of the podcast, Josh Palay, pointed out to Isabel that the story about Mozart and Salieri is, in fact, not true at all: according to Wikipedia, "However, even with Mozart and Salieri's rivalry for certain jobs, there is virtually no evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after around 1785, when Mozart had become established in Vienna. Rather, they appeared to usually see each other as friends and colleagues, and supported each other's work." Nevertheless, Isabel feels that the value of the story as it stands to highlight the false dichotomy of success which is still so commonly peddled by our universities, the Olympics, the Nobel Prize Committee, and so many other institutions, still holds water.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri