Hosted by Jess and Johnny · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 40 episodes
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Everything’s on fire — and everyone’s yelling. Hot takes. Bad faith. Outrage as a business model.But here’s the thing: when everyone’s losing their mind… keeping yours is a radical act. This is Cooler Heads — where we cut through the noise, torch the BS, and talk like adults. No panic. No propaganda. Just cooler heads prevailing.
Jess and Johnny hosts Cooler Heads, a society show with 40 episodes published.
It’s June 16th — Bloomsday — and Johnny just finished one of the most legendary challenges in all of literature. In this episode, the crew celebrates his completion of James Joyce’s Ulysses, unpacking who Leopold Bloom r
This week, Jess emerges from the strange and exhausting world of California politics after helping run a campaign for Nancy Pelosi’s open congressional seat. We unpack the consultants, cash, dirty tricks, viral moments,
This week, friend of the show Ilya joins us as we explore the strange world of dinosaur denialism and the history of early paleontology. Rather than dismissing skeptics out of hand, we try to steelman some of their argum
From Vatican roundtables on AI ethics to rabbis revisiting the legend of the golem to AI-generated fatwas in the Islamic world, the world’s major religions are confronting a strange new question: what happens when humani
This week, we descend into the occult stacks with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky as our guide. Special guest Dr Marina Alexandrova of The University of Texas at Austin joins us to unpack the strange, sprawling world of Theoso
This week, we speak with Johnny’s sister, Kristie, about the excitement of living abroad—the adventure of new places, fresh connections, and building a life somewhere new. We also touch on the feeling of being a stranger
This week: chaos in the Middle East — the Iran war, ceasefires, and Strait of Hormuz brinkmanship — plus a blunt look at what Donald Trump’s foreign policy even is (if anything). Then we pivot to something far more human
This week, we unpack Louis Theroux’s newest documentary, “Inside the Manosphere” alongside a heated Jubilee face-off featuring Jillian Michaels and body positivity activists—two equal and opposite extremes in the ongoing
This week we walk through how a “contained” war somehow managed to squeeze the Strait of Hormuz, rattle global markets, and drift into the familiar “no boots on the ground…unless” phase. None of it is surprising—every es
This week, a State of the Union with the tenor of a wrestling match: jeers, applause lines, and red-meat rhetoric set the tone for a country already on edge. We break down the drama in the chamber (Ilhan Omar vs Trump, “
What shapes music — the artist, the audience, or the architecture? This week, we dive into How Music Works by David Byrne and explore the deeper currents behind sound itself. From cathedral ceilings to village drum circl
This week: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show—loved, loathed, endlessly litigated. Then we crack open the latest Epstein file drop. What’s new, what’s noise, and what does our fixation on the abyss say about us?
Aliens, awkward cosmic silence, and a cult that thought salvation came on a spaceship. We hop from global UFO sightings to the Fermi Paradox to the bizarre legacy of the Heaven’s Gate cult.
This week we dive into Greenland—its history and growing geopolitical importance—then unpack the emerging “Donroe Doctrine” of the Trump admin and how it compares to past administrations’ views of power.
This week, we welcome another friend of the show, Ilya, for a wide-ranging conversation on the evergreen subject of AI. We explore the origins of thought and language, and how early, habitual engagement with AI may atrop
This week, friend of the show Evan Barker joins us to discuss the recent ICE-involved shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and the subsequent fallout. Evan also fills us in on the details of her new book. Preorder Evan
While America invades Venezuela, Johnny and Jess discuss looksmaxxing and one of its biggest proponents, an influencer named Clavicular. What’s the nature of beauty? Is Clavicular some modern result of our image-obsessed
This week we discuss the series of tragedies that shocked the world, all in one weekend: the mysterious shooting at Brown University, the antisemitic terrorist attack on Bondi Beach in Australia, and the horrific murder
This week we have a wide-ranging conversation on the malaise of modern relationships, the nature of commitment, happiness vs immediate satisfaction, and how luck plays a role in all of this.
This week we discuss the decline of deviance and what it means for cultural stagnation. Are the kids even cool anymore? Inspired by Adam Mastroianni’s piece here.
Ilya
renowned comics creator · ICV Express
2 appearances on this show
Kristie
speaker · Jasper Hinton Air
1 appearance on this show
Ben Sasse
former US senator from Nebraska, president of two universities · SouthState Bank
1 appearance on this show
Ross Douthat
New York Times columnist
1 appearance on this show
Jillian Michaels
1 appearance on this show
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