Ride Along Podcast

Happy Holidays y'all

I’ve got a problem: it's a clear night, the stars are out, and I can't pull over to take pictures. This is a topic I think we can all relate to. Well.. kinda. I mean, having a hobby we love that conflicts with the job we need to do. In this video, I ramble about the relationship between hobbies and work, and the reasons behind why I’ve decided to make these videos and record audiobooks. It's not j...

I'm making some big changes to the channel! In this video, I share the new microphone I'm using (a DJI Mic Mini) and my new, easier editing method that will make future episodes shorter and more to the point. I also go back to my childhood to share a personal story about my stutter and being in special education that has a lot to do with my conversational style today. I'm starting a new chapter fo...

Death is the one universal human experience, yet in America, it’s one of the biggest taboos. We don't talk about it, and that silence can make the inevitable experience of loss unbearably traumatic. In this episode, I share the intensely personal story of losing my cat, my father, and my grandmother all in one year. More importantly, I talk about the pressure to be the "tough guy" an...

I used to genuinely love my job. I mean, I was happy to go to work, which is a huge deal for a lot of people. But over the last year, watching a good thing fall apart due to corporate decisions—specifically a disastrous merger—has been heartbreaking. In this episode, I pull back the curtain on the entire chaotic ordeal, starting with the two company acquisitions that turned everything upside down....

I realized there was a huge gap between how often I record new episodes and how often they actually make it onto the show. I'm recording 5 out of 7 days a week, trying to build that backlog for security, but the actual episodes just aren't coming out! In this episode, I pull back the curtain on the real struggle of creating a podcast. It comes down to a few things: The Process Problem: Dea...

My biggest fear isn't spiders or failure—it's losing the memory of who I am . This leads us down a rabbit hole into one of physics' strangest thought experiments: The Boltzmann Brain . We explore the unsettling idea that, given infinite time, it's mathematically more probable for a random collection of molecules to spontaneously coalesce into a brain with a full set of fake memorie...

When the daily weather seems confusing, how do we grasp the reality of climate change? We break down the crucial difference between weather (your mood) and climate (your personality) , using analogies that finally make the long-term data click. More importantly, we shift the focus away from the exhaustion of individual guilt (recycling that single bottle) and onto the monumental, necessary changes...

This episode is for anyone curious about life on the road, considering a career change, or just wondering what the view from the cab is really like. I'm pulling back the curtain on the things I learned the hard way—the unspoken realities of being a truck driver. We dive into the surprises, the challenges, and the essential truths about the industry that no recruiter, friend, or YouTube video e...

We all live in the space between what we expect and what we actually get. In this episode, we dive into the messy reality of the perception gap : how we see ourselves, the ‘masks’ we choose to wear for the world, and the difference between those layers and how other people see us. Join me in the cab of the semi as we explore why our own assumptions are often our biggest challenge, and how understa...

Every October we put on costumes, but what about the masks we wear the rest of the year? We dive into the philosophy of everyday masking: it’s not about lying, it's a social survival tool driven by our primal fear of rejection. We explore the high-stakes moment when your different "masks" (the professional you, the family you, the friend you) collide, and what happens when you realize you've been...

In this critical early update, I dive into why my long-planned Egil's Saga project became a total failure. I explain the chaotic events—starting with my computer dying (twice!)—that led to losing a massive amount of finished work and left me restarting with almost nothing. This episode is a transparent look at the state of my youtube channel, my commitment to making this project work, and the new...