177: MINISODE #56: How to Avoid Becoming a Cynical Mess

Kristi Noem and her puppy murder, college campus protests, and why it's fine if you take a little time to text someone back. 

Self-reflection is important. But like all things it requires balance. Also the bad take brigade is back. So... yeah. 

Writer/Director Weston Razooli talks about the process for creating his first feature length film Riddle of Fire. 

Breaking down attachment theories and attachment styles with someone who literally wrote a book on the subject. 

Doing some optimistic projections of what a post-capitalist utopia could look like with Lia. Follow her @socialistsloots on IG and @ptite_lia on TikTok

This week I'll be discussing what the movie "Poor Things" taught me about avoiding the magnetic pull of cynicism.

Sometimes finding the desire to forgive and to enter the process of reconciliation is one of the hardest things imaginable. But it is precisely that difficulty that makes it one of the most transformative and healing things in the human experience. 

When I was 9 years old my big sister was hospitalized as the result of a manic episode. This was how I first learned about mental illness and the ways an untreated brain can turn on a person and distort their reality. Today my sister is a beautiful success story and she shares her journey with us!

A subjective year-end recap, People Pleaser style.

It's about to be an election year. We need to have a tough chat about that.