Realizing Stuff

Discussing Caitlyn Jenner’s run in the Gavin Newsom recall election, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, and shadow work.

In a very special episode of the podcast, Stephen and Erin interview Erin’s mom. Asking the hard-hitting questions: why does she still stand by Barack Obama? What was it like to live through 9/11? And what was Erin like as a child?

Review of episodes 5 & 6 of Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head. Erin reads entries from her old diaries, discussing Khloe Kardashian and Meghan McCain, whether or not we should go through a science fiction phase, nihilistic thought as the subjugation of the nineties kids, and what possible options we have for our collective future.

Review of episode 4 of Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head. Erin describes her past life meditation experience, we discuss whether or not there’s such a thing as having an original personality, popping off about the internet and anonymity, and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.

Review of episode 3 of Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of My Head. Discussing possible apocalypses, consumption as addiction, and our clown economy - including a plea for someone to come mansplain Modern Monetary Theory to us.

Join us for a giddy discussion of episode 2 of the new Adam Curtis docuseries. Praying for the celebrities on Cameo, Erin’s lukewarm takes about our exploration of Mars, whether or not colonizing space is inevitable, what a non-violent society would look like, and literally what is communism.

First episode of our review series for Adam Curtis’ BBC docuseries “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World”. We touch on individualism vs. collectivism, pattern recognition and logical reasoning in conspiratorial thinking, maps and personality quizzes as forms of control, and whether or not exaggerating is lying.

Addressing the Kimye divorce rumors - when things started to fall apart and what's next for Kim and Ye. Erin also presents some investigative reporting on the Trump protests.

Opening up our 2020 holiday special episode with a performance of rape culture classic "Baby It's Cold Outside". Discussing the emotional void of the holiday season, our roses and thorns of 2020, the meaning of life, and who is the enemy.

Discussing online anonymity and the Jordan Peterson phenomenon — why the left hates him, why psychologists hate him, and why Realizing Stuff loves him

Relevant Material:

Opening scene from A Dangerous Method

Modern Times: Camille Paglia & Jordan Peterson

The Intellectual We Deserve, Nathan J. Robinson

Erin asks Stephen the hard-hitting questions about his beliefs, love language, and self-love (and in true Realizing Stuff interview style, also answers the questions herself).

Relevant Material:

American Beauty, Sam Mendes

We brought on OG Realizing Stuff family member Benson to talk about his spiritual thesis/meaning of life, why the polls don’t work, and live out his life dream of calling us pretentious douchebags.

And be sure to check out Erin’s guest episode on Benson’s podcast Purity Wing!

Relevant materials:

The Social Network

Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher

Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze

We’re going war-on-drugs about social media! Kicking it off by exercising our theatre kid muscles, we share our spiritual healing experiences with acupuncture and dream therapy, and discuss our personal experiences with social media and how we could imagine a better future.

Relevant Material:

The Social Dilemma, Netflix doc

Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze

How to do Nothing, Jenny Odell

We're back discussing Trump's COVID diagnosis, Claudia Conway's TikTok leaks, and graphic design's role in shaping our democracy.

We’re back for another round of 2020 astrological predictions. Caroline explains her block world / omega point hypothesis, we review the triumphs and failures of our previous 2020 predictions, and forecast 2020 election astrology.

The first Realizing Stuff live pod, held on zoom. Stephen gives an artist talk and Erin leads the Q&A.

Discussing the weather in California, the Alex Morse / Aaron Coleman progressive congressional candidate hit pieces, and whether or not we as a society are stuck repeating cycles and patterns over and over again in a narrative arch that’s too long to comprehend in a human lifespan.

We discuss the K-Hive’s ascendence to political power and then Stephen interviews Erin about onlyfans, invasive plants, and life in the pandemic.

We’re psychoanalyzing Kanye: his latest meltdown and society’s response, the evolution of Kimye, and where he goes from here. Opening up with a discussion of who would win in a stan war tournament, and what the deal is with QAnon psyop KW Miller.

It’s Realizing Stuff’s first birthday! We celebrate by answering questions from the Realizing Stuff fam, and introduce our official intro song. Thank you to everyone who submitted questions, and anyone who has tuned in to our psychotic little podcast during the past year. Love you all

Stephen shares about his spiritually depleting experience trying to buy a donkey in Trump Country, Erin presents the story arc of the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) and how it is manipulated to fit a wide variety of political aims, ending with a discussion of cancel culture and the Karen Industrial Complex.

Galaxy braining about Stephen’s proposition of extraction and exploitation as the greatest human evil. Discussing the karmic debt of humanity and how it defines the anthropocene, whether or not extraction and exploitation are inherent human impulses, and how they have played out over human history.

Telling our origin story of growing up in State College, PA through the lens of the scandal that radicalized us: The Sandusky Child Sex Abuse Scandal. Also addressing Lana Del Rey’s infamous typewriter critique of feminism.

Fatima’s back for part 2 of our space conspiracy discussion, but this time she’s turning the tables and questioning the hostesses. Discussing Middle East countries as regions of the United States, Kardashian Konspiracy theories, and why the CIA purposely feeds into conspiracy theories.

Local science expert Fatima joins the pod for a two part series about all things space related. We talk Fatima's personal history, zoo hypothesis, UFOs, and throw our hats in the ring to figure out why tf we're seemingly alone in our vast universe. 

Send us comments, thots, questions, and we'll address in Part 2.

Discussing 2020 celebrity queen archetypes, the rise of federalism from the left, and how we feel about the fall of the empire. Culminating in the introduction of the Realizing Stuff Party Coronavirus Recovery Plan.

Shooting the shit on holding grudges, the lessons we learned growing up in theatre, what the deal is with Burning Man people, and why anti-vaxxer Pinterest moms are the heart of our great American nation.

Getting radicalized during the coronavirus quarantine by discussing Melancholia’s relevance to the current state of impending doom and deep diving into the latest iteration of QAnon. A storm is coming…

An episode of all things Rupaul’s Drag Race - discussing our fav queens and seasons, season 12 first impressions, and the Sherry Pie tea.

Discussing COVID-19 through the lens of Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism by god-tier queen Naomi Klein. We touch on the Biden v Sanders Democratic Debate, interfacing with the void during self-quarantine, and how we can reimagine our world (for better or worse) post-disaster.

We reconvene post-super Tuesday to discuss the political coup against Bernard Sanders staged by the American political elite, coronavirus conspiracy theories and how they support the corporate agenda of the neoliberal New World Order, and Gaga’s Stupid Love music video.

Discussing the theory of the noosphere and how it relates to the most recent Dem debate, Mayor Pete editing his own Wikipedia page, and whether your Smart House should be a boy or a girl.

We welcome back bff of the pod Aya to chat Munchausen syndrome, queer identity politics, and cucked neoliberal boyfriends through the lens of Jameela Jamil.

Stephen returns to the states and we chat coronavirus, Mayo Pete's time at McKinsey, Elon Musk’s new single, and Azealia Banks' decadal predictions.

Superfan of the pod Neeraj joins us to make the case for Bernie Sanders in the lead up to the Iowa Caucuses. 

Erin and Stephen return to their roles as tired old radio showgirls and discuss the Bernie-Liz controversy, Australian fires, Iran, and post-colonial state morality.

Shooting the shit on the Mandela Effect, Randonauting, and the rules of our simulation with our first recurring guest: @_victor_car

Chatting 2020 astrology with the only bitch in this house we ever respected

The girls hanging out and recording in person for the first time ever.

Kicking off the first episode of our decadal review series with the family who defined the 2010s: the Kardashian/Jenner Clan. From Kimye and Caitlyn Jenner to Kendall’s Pepsi commercial and Kylie’s crowning as youngest self made billionaire, let us take you on a 2010s journey through the lens of Kardashian ascension.

Your fav girl bosses come together to chat about pink washing by Amazon in the Seattle city council races, Mayor Pete’s flash mob, and a future Realizing Stuff political party.

We invite problematic fav Haley Blazer to chat Mormons in Mexico, zoo hypothesis, the dying planet, and neoliberal pagan idol Big Structural Bailey

Review of the new Kanye album and analysis of his interview with Zane Lowe

Reviewing the October Democratic Debate and the current Dem frontrunners, including the impeachment inquiry & the Biden family, the differences between Bernie & Liz, and finally nailing down what makes Mayor Pete so fucking creepy.

We chat about the Liz Warren BDSM conspiracy theory, consider Pitchfork’s 200 best songs of the decade, and unpack mukbang sensation Trisha Paytas’s youtube gender reveal (and subsequent apology).

The ladies discuss the new child star of climate activism and muse on the superficiality of the American mental health dialogue.

Your kweens chat geopolitics. Forest fire or targeted ads in the global south? Organ harvesting or QAnon conspiracy in the Far East? We unpack the facts and they’re mad buzzy. Tweet us your thoughts and beliefs @realizingstuff

All things Lana Del Rey: her new album, how and why the culture finally caught up to her genius, and why we stan.