So I was Told

With a new album on the way, we take the long route through his career, his timing, and why his trajectory matters in hip-hop and pop culture. This isn’t a review or a reaction, but history. We talk about where J. Cole...

American Christianity insists it’s being attacked, but the real crisis is credibility. In this episode I walk directly through Scripture, history, and real-world data to confront an uncomfortable truth: when you take...

What do you do when nothing feels like it’s blooming, but nothing feels broken either? In this solo episode, I talk about tending to the garden of the heart. About seasons of stillness and growth that happens beneath...

What happens when people demand that mental health stay “apolitical”? In this solo episode I unpack a real time online confrontation that exposed something deeper than an argument: the belief that comfort should come...

What starts as a nostalgic question about middle school lunches, video games, and the usual playground chaos slowly opens into something much bigger: how social rules form, why they stick, and which ones actually keep...

On this episode we revisit a time when housing was temporary, holidays were shared, and everyone was just trying to figure things out. Through mismatched memories and a lot of hindsight we talk about what it’s like to...

In this episode, we unpack what happens when the holidays stop feeling magical and start feeling heavy. From childhood nostalgia and midnight Christmases to fractured families, financial pressure, and the erosion of...

In this episode we revisit our most played early release and use it as a jumping off point to talk honestly about what being “chronically online” actually means now. We trace the evolution from channel surfing and...

We hit play on our past selves and perform a full audio autopsy of year one. We revisit an unreleased pilot and a long early episode filled with Domino’s tracker updates, local Chinese takeout with a surprise fly, free...

In this solo episode, I talk about shedding the pressure to deliver a polished year end character arc and why real growth rarely waits for a calendar to give permission. I get into the psychology of “temporal...

We're taking a week break to be with our friends and family, but in the meantime...Kirbs is breaking down the mess and meaning of Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the retail blackout because nothing exposes our...

What happens when the internet flattens every subculture into an “aesthetic”? And what does it mean to build identity through music when the dance floor is no longer neutral if it ever was? In this episode, we sit down...

This week, I’m sitting down with a guest whose life looks nothing like the script most of us were handed. Melanie AyLin (_melanie.aylin) first gen kid, fulltime nomad, community builder, festival worker, and desert...

When artist and writer Eva (@birdlets) asked their therapist for help, they ended up locked in a psych ward. In this one-year anniversary episode, we talk about surviving childhood abuse, an eating disorder that nearly...

Why are this year’s costumes mid while horror cafés and niche coffee shops are thriving? We get into men flopping photo poses (sorry, Travis), Eric André winning, Sabrina-core, the Xbox → Sega pipeline, and how third...