People Pleaser with Austin Archer

We're back!! Maintaining a specific brand or niche as a content creator can be difficult. If speaking up on social or political issues might go outside of your carefully cultivated niche is it okay to opt out of saying anything when shit hits the fan? Do we even need creators to speak up at all? Is it even useful? Or is it just preaching to the choir?

Austin is going on a brief hiatus for mental health and will be back soon!

Delving into one of the most famous fictional characters of the last hundred years. A discussion on cinema, story-telling, acting, and the philosophy behind what attracts us to certain archetypes. 

Parker is back and we are breaking down CRT. What is it? What do people think it is? Why do they think that? Why should we care?

Just a pontification on the way life is never about just one thing, but always about many, many things in a cataclysmic concert with one another. Also an update on my personal life. 

Should it be illegal to be a certain amount of stupid? Well... not illegal, but like... could we make it so that if you can't meet a certain standard of intelligence you lose certain societal privileges? Is that really that removed from the system we already have?

One of TikTok's fastest growing accounts @londonlaz (8.4M and counting) cruises in to the blanket fort to chat about the importance of leaning into abundance and unapologetically owning and celebrating success.

Actor Kyle Gallner stops by the blanket fort to talk about his role in the new Scream movie, his history of acting in the horror genre, and the life of the modern actor in general. 

Eve Parker Finley zooms into the blanket fort from Canada to chat about the dizzying, frustrating, and often embarrassing process of trying to promote your own work on the internet.

Ever since I heard it said that anxiety is the intolerance of uncertainty I've been trying to focus on accepting and embracing uncertainty. Because the simple reality fo existence is that I genuinely am certain of nothing. So why would I spend so much energy fighting against that fundamental truth?

2 years into the global pandemic that has fundamentally re-shaped the lives of every person on Earth Emily Walton and I take a look at the psychological weight of it all as this latest wave rages on.

I freak out about shaving my mustache. It's really dramatic. And I also talk about the current state of the movie industry. 

Playwright and actor Jeff Talbott talks about his writing process and his latest play The Messenger which is receiving its world premier at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT this month!

Kind of a grab bag of topics and end of year thoughts. Enjoy!

Live on location in the studio where they just recorded their debut album "Loserville" Chase Ramsey and Willy Eklof discuss the process of forming a band and making a record!

Taking a moment to celebrate and look back over the last 2 years and the first hundred episodes!

Broadway actor and songwriter Emily Walton zooms in to talk about the legacy of the greatest composer of American musical theatre ever in the wake of his death last week at the age of 91. 

A chat with a legitimate food scientist about what goes into the food we eat and the popular scare tactics employed on social media to scare you off of perfectly safe foods.

What's your favorite defeatist argument designed to absolve you from taking a firm stance an a given issue? I'll be breaking down some of the most popular recurring stories I see regularly in my comments and in the public online discourse and trying to see if they hold water. 

My new favorite singer/songwriter Grant Davidson or Slow Leaves as he's known in the music scene zooms in from Winnipeg, Canada to talk about his decision to commit fully to his passion and to discuss the idea of living a life filled with meaning and purpose. 

Blythe Landry has written a book on different forms of trauma and how to heal from them. We discuss what she's learned in her career working with people who are trying to recover from various forms of personal trauma.

Offering my thoughts on a few recent headlines and how it all pertains to the ideological divide in America.

Wracked with physical pain from several current ailments I pontificate on the meaning of pain and the possible purpose it serves in our lives and in the universe.

Long-time friend William Richardson zooms into the blanket fort to share his insight and expertise on astrology in hopes of demystifying this ancient practice.

Tim Blakaj, host of the podcast "How's it Going To End?" Zooms in from New York to talk about the particular brand of toxic masculinity in the fast films and the state of action movies in general.