TOO MANY AR$EHOLE$

Season 1 Episode 21 It’s a Wrap Overview The season 1 wrap up is a good opportunity to step back from the heaviness of this project and podcast’s topics and hopefully give you a chance to take the 30,000ft view and see why we have taken this approach. To give you a glimpse of what’s in store for season 2. and with a little luck, also provide you some of the glue that holds all these jigsaw pieces...

Season 1 Episode 20 Plumbum pt.2 - Effect Overview In today’s episode we’re looking at the cascading effects of lead poisoning across all of our societies. How this silent social destroyer accumulates, as it does in our bodies, across our social structures. The lifelong brain-damage our affected children will need continual support with. The correlation and now causation lead poisoning has with na...

Season 1 Episode 19 Plumbum pt.1 - Cause Overview Over the next 2 episodes we are looking at lead, what is it, what have been its toxic impacts on humans, what drove the 20th Century global poisoning and what are we finally doing about it. There is so much literature and so many studies have been done on this moment in our very recent history, that we are going to reference and just read for many...

Season 1 Episode 18 The Never-Ending Story Overview Today we are going to tell you a story about telling stories. Story telling is universal across all cultures, and as we will see, there are many repetitive sub themes we see constantly across all forms of story telling. And as you can probably guess, they’ve got something to do with humanity. Sources: http://dreamtime.net.au Dreamtime Stories: Th...

Season 1 Episode 16 (pt2/2) A Greater Humanity Overview Today’s episode’s title couldn’t be more direct, A Greater Humanity. It’s just not a word, a thing that just exists. It’s something much, much more. We are going to go a little philosophical on you and look deep inside ourselves so we can fully understand our individual connection to humanity, our contribution. We also go into our social cont...

Season 1 Episode 16 The Right Human (pt1/2) Overview In today's episode we put the spotlight on human rights and the right human behaviours. From how we interact face-to-face and in group environments, to how we make decisions for others and adhere to decisions being made for us. How to disagree and allow everyone to save face when interactions escalate and what can be done in a world of eroding s...

Season 1 Episode 15 Curious Jordan Overview Today we chat with Jordan Harbinger. Jordan was generous with his time and brought some more colour and light to his high school years and also to the conversations he had with James Fallon and Kevin Dutton which we have featured in previous episodes. We also go deeper into why psych/sociopathy should be seen as a medical condition and not a human trait,...

Show Notes Mr Major part 2 Overview Today we bring you the 2nd half of our conversation with the host of the podcast ‘Our Fake History’, Sebastian Major. Today we go a little deeper on how new media has always been a fertile ground for hoaxes, hucksters and pathological people. The impacts of releasing new tech without restraint and how AI has pulled the rug out of education across the board and p...

Show Notes Mr Major part 1 Overview Today is a first, it’s our first of many better conversations we want to share with you, and Sebastian Major has been kind enough to give us some of his time, deep knowledge of our past and a little wisdom to help us with our collective future. *This conversation was recorded in mid January 2026. Recommended reading and listening Our Fake History – Historical My...

Season 1 Episode 12 You Gotta Have Faith Overview In today’s episode we are taking a risk, but we have faith that we are approaching this delicate subject with all the care and respect it needs. Today we are focusing on religions and where they fit in this thing we all call humanity, the collective us. To set the stage we are going over the commonalities across religions and look back at how they...

Season 1 Episode 11 Evolution of the Ape Overview In today’s episode we are going to pick up from where we left off in the early chapters of episode 3 ‘How the Fuck did we Get Here’. We are going to go back to where it all began and have a closer look at the earliest of humans. Gain a better understanding of how it all kicked off and how intrinsic trust was to getting our first few uniquely human...

Season 1 Episode 10 (pt.10/10) Why? Overview To wrap up this initial 10-part series of monologues, we are taking a look at how bad this could all actually get. We look at how pathological decisions and behaviours can get past all our policies and regulations and inflict catastrophic consequences on humankind. So, no biggy really. But don’t lose hope, we will end this all on a good note…kinda? Reco...

Season 1 Episode 9 (pt.9/10) More Than Words Overview Today we are putting it all together and we will start to practise having better conversations. As with the social project, we are going to need to set some ground rules, or maybe we’ll just call them guidelines, around how to approach having these better conversations. Then, we’ll have a play in a sandpit before switching views to the darker s...

Season 1 Episode 8 (pt.8/10) Refocusing Our Eyes Overview Today we start to apply all this new knowledge and develop these new perspectives. We start with approaching this new view from a place of empathy and we dive into authentic and inauthentic people. With these new insights we reflect on ourselves and the wider world around us. It’s this new perspective that will underpin these better convers...

Season 1 Episode 7 (pt.7/10) Lost for Words Overview Today's episode is an English lesson, but not one you ever had at school. We are going to go on a word hunt, and look at how word definitions can be changed and weaponised. We unpack our current word usage and open the floor for improvements. We review some recent political rhetoric and then explore how we can move this better conversation forwa...

Season 1 Episode 6 (pt.6/10) Have We Forgotten Something? Overview In today’s episode we challenge our social memory and explore the progression and regression of our social maturity through our past. We take some insights from the people of the !Kung tribes from the Kalahari Desert and find other modern-day examples. We also draw correlations between the great men of the past and the great men of...

Season 1 Episode 5 (pt.5/10) What's the science behind all this? Overview In today’s episode we start to build an understanding of what is the science behind all this? We have a quick look at the history and the early interpretations of what our brains do. We get a better understanding of mirror and Von Economo neurons. How technology has aided in scanning the brain and identifying pathological pa...

Season 1 Episode 4 (pt.4/10) Why Are There Too Many AR$EHOLE$? Overview In today’s episode we attempt to make the assertion ‘Why are there too many arseholes?’ We look a bit closer at social trust and the complications that arise for how we prioritize different levels of trust. We then take a long walk-through modern day trust associations from personal through to global. Highlighting why, in toda...

Season 1 Episode 3 (pt.3/10) How the Fuck Did We Get Here? Overview In today’s episode we are taking a brief look at the human civilisation journey, how we created societies and the genetic and social evolutions behind this. We also look at the social leadership experiments and how nations rose and fell. And finally ask a few questions regarding what has happened to us since the advent of the indu...

Season 1 Episode 2 (pt.2/10) Who Are These AR$EHOLE$? Overview In today’s episode we are taking a good look at who these arseholes are. After having a quick look at the statistics, the history of the terms psychopath and sociopath and going through a behavioural checklist, we’ll tackle the question ‘Is an arsehole a person or a behaviour? What does a spectrum of pathological behaviours look like?...

Season 1 Episode 1 (pt.1/10) Let's Have a Better Conversation Overview In today’s episode we are looking at... What’s the underlying premise of the project? What is social trust and pathological behaviours? We are also going to identify who are these arseholes? And ask the questions why are there too many? We will explore what events and cultural changes have occurred over recent history that has...