We talk Peter Attia's book "Outlive," the strange state of nutritional guidelines, ancestral diets, seed oils, and the absurdity of trying to get enough protein when you're between the rock and a hard place of a tight budget and torture meat. Which somehow leads into a discussion of integrating traumatic experiences and figuring out how to not be that guy everyone is glad to see leave a room.

People who are smarter than us who seem to have a solid grip on the way the world turns are VERY comforting. But ideas aren't created and spread within a vacuum, and no matter what social media might feel like, the people with huge platforms aren't JuSt LiKe Me!!!11! They're part of large, unseen structures that pay for and promote certain ideas, downplay others, and seek influence at all costs. We talk dark enlightenment, the state of science, the Peter Thiel crew, and the arc of dreaming something into reality

Is it possible to opt out of the system? And if you do manage to leave the world of the 9-5 treadmill, what obligations do you have to the rest of the world? Is it even possible to be successful in any real measure if the work you're doing is completely disconnected from the rest of the world? Seems like it might not be, given that the most popular shows - from Rogan to Mr Beast to Mark Rober to Vlog Brothers are all deeply intertwined with some kind of community action.

Is it possible to define male and female outside the paradigm of reproduction? If not reproduction, then are we forced to consider our experience through the lens of productivity, enternally cursed to trade our most limited resource (time) for a flimsy collection of experiences, curated through by what is easily accessible along the circuitous paths of tourism? We talk escape, the hollows of experiential spending, and start trying to figure out where obligation lives

Brentan and Stas are ten years out from college, on parallel but divergent paths. Grown ass adults with projects instead of children, trying to carve out a meaningful existence with this podcast as the place where we can play with the ideas from which we'll build the next ten years

Processing the endless FUCK of having a theater degree, learning to not look at yourself during a zoom meeting, what it's like growing up in a house of mirrors (literally), gratuitious nudity in family friendly television, the lack of peen, and the endless transgression of boundaries.