Ep 29 // As the saying goes, “a family is a dictatorship ruled over by its sickest member.”

10/05/23 • 15 min

As the saying goes, “a family is a dictatorship ruled over by its sickest member.” Matt describes his first hand experience with this idea by way of his own mother, but also parallels the concept with other organizational structures, from the armed forces to society itself. What lessons can we all learn from the both simple and complicated circumstance of having a loved one that needs special attention.

Produced by Stereoactive Media

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

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 30 // U2 at Sphere is the Nightmare Future of Music

Have you ever gone to a rock (or pop) show and wondered why people pull out their phones to record it instead of just experiencing it? Well, now there's a place seemingly built just for those people. U2, once a band that explicitly criticized big commercialized theatrics (admittedly while exploiting big commercialized theatrics), recently played at the latestLas Vegas mecca of opulence. And if you were online as it was happening, you could have easily seen footage from it from many of the people in attendance. So, what does this new way of "elevating" live music mean for the future of music, live shows, and the communal experience?

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