Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

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Join comedian and author Matt Ruby for smartfunnyTM️ deep dives on technology, art, pop culture, spirituality, mindfulness, and more. Matt offers up unique comedic perspectives based on his life as a creator, joke-teller, world traveller, and seeker. Learn more at mattrubycomedy.com.

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Ep 28 // A few of the best paragraphs of the year (so far): successful people, naughty hands, and fake news…

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

09/08/23 • 22 min

From time to time, Matt shares some of his favorite paragraphs of writing he’s come across. In this episode, he and producer J. McVay discuss a few of those paragraphs and the ideas behind them.

Featuring passages from the following:

“Vicious Traps” by Morgan Housel (Collab Fund)
“Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Great ‘Indiana Jones’ Adventure” by David Marchese (The New York Times Magazine)
“How Stewart Made Tucker” by Jon Askonas (The New Atlantis)

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Ep 11 // In defense of night owls…

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

04/01/23 • 16 min

Morning people propaganda is everywhere. Billionaires, star athletes, and other world conquerors are seemingly all evangelists for the tired cliché, “the early bird gets the worm.” But Matt is sick of it, because who wants worms, anyway? Some people just thrive in darkness and are tired of being night-shamed for it. So open your heart to night owls – they’re people, too!

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Ep 14 // Screens, filters, and the land of lies…

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

04/20/23 • 18 min

“Time on screen” has become the metric that tech companies use to measure success. But “time on screen” seems to really be doing something to our brains – and our society for that matter. Matt suggests there’s a different metric of success for your soul: How long has it been since you last looked at a screen?

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Ep 18 // In the End, They Were All Fredo: 10 Thoughts on 'Succession'

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

06/01/23 • 36 min

With the series finale of 'Succession' recently aired, Matt is breaking format to share some of thoughts on the show, in conversation with producer J. McVay. Together they review the under-appreciated players of the show, the depiction of the rich and supposedly business-savvy, references to classic cinema, and plenty more.

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Ep 13 // The worse the road, the better the destination…

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04/13/23 • 19 min

Matt evangelizes on behalf of the power of ferries, sculpture gardens, shoulder season, and why agendas are for suckers as he offers up 10 travel secrets he’s learned from years of backpacking around the world, all while avoiding the most well-worn roads.

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Ep 32 // How to criticize Israel without sounding like a moron (or an anti-semite)

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

11/19/23 • 60 min

A lot of the conversation around the Israel/Palestine conflict goes off the rails when people start confuse the people for the government or anti-semitism for anti-zionism. So with that in mind, Matt offers some tips to keep in mind if you want to mindfully criticize Israel without coming off as either uninformed or potentially bigoted.

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Ep 2 // RIP "Always leave ‘em wanting more"

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01/19/23 • 14 min

Now it’s hold onto ‘em for as long as you can – and it sucks. On the relative brevity of World Cup matches versus the bloat of Beatles reissues, Art Basel, and Coachella. Whatever happened to the lost art of finding the sweet spot?

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Ep 3 // How standup comedy converted me from atheist to Jew…

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

01/26/23 • 17 min

My journey from hardcore atheist to torah-studying Jew, and how my career in comedy helped get me there...

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Ep 4 // What Tom Petty taught me about songwriting and life…

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

02/02/23 • 29 min

Tom Petty understood America and that's why he could reach hipsters/hicks, north/south, and coastal elites/NASCAR rednecks alike. Matt gets into his deep love of Petty's music and how it's been a constant in his life.

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Ep 31 // The Truth About What Your Jewish Friends May Be Thinking...

Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby

10/25/23 • 25 min

Matt's father was an Israeli who grew up in Palestine back before the state of Israel even existed. He was also reluctantly a tank commander in the Israeli army because he had to serve. Now, Matt brings the perspective of his father, along with his own as he tries to explain how many Jewish people may be feeling in the wake of events in Israel and Gaza this month, which have added yet another chapter to the long cycle of violence in which brutality is disproportionately countered with further brutality.

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