Uncontained Multitudes

This week, Jeremy uses his newly acquired degree to mansplain the economy!!! Specifically, the burnouts dive into how our economy handles people who provide no labor, and how we plan for a period of our life where we ourselves provide no labor. We discuss retirement accounts, the stock market, and why if you weren't born rich, you're likely never going to retire.

This week, the burnouts pop our Valiums and talk about the history of mommy's little helpers. The pills that allowed housewives of the mid to late 20th century to be content with their horrible, depressing lives, and the culture of capitulation that enabled and surrounded them. 

This week, the burnouts have a chatty episode about our favorite reality TV. Delving into how absolutely insane you have to be to find yourself on a TV show wherein you're encouraged to cheat (Jersey Shore), forced to cheat (The Ultimatum), or simply made into a person with a personality disorder, whether or not you had one to begin with (every single reality TV show). 

This week, the burnouts explore the dark corners of our minds, asking the question "why might someone want to get worse on purpose?" We closely examine Meg's favorite movie, Girl, Interrupted, to help us articulate the sinister things our minds get addicted to. From lurid online communities, to literature, to the friends you've made in school, everyone's known a girl, interrupted. 

This week, the burnouts discuss the not-so-secret conservative themes of the classic American historical picaresque film Forrest Gump. Using this film as a point of reference, we illustrate how most other Hollywood films are also a bit more right-wing than you would have thought. Have you ever thought about how those seemingly anti-war films still experience broad Grand Ole Party appeal? It goes a...

This week, the burnouts question the nature of the rise of traditional living as an aesthetic that is shown mostly on social media for the unwashed masses to yearn for. We examine the conservative undertones of everything from makeup, baking cookies, having a wife and kids, and gender roles. Afterward, we take a close look at raw milk's role in everything, its popularity obviously a sign of the ti...

Uncontained Multitudes turns one year old today! What started out as a joke between the two most annoying people you know has turned into a long-standing hobby we couldn't be prouder of. To celebrate this achievement, the burnouts day drink and discuss the Grammys award ceremony. We examine the rightful winners, the wrongful losers, everyone's fugly outfits, and other controversies within the bigg...

This week, the burnouts ask why, in our relationship-centric society, we feel as if we're "unemployed" if we aren't given or receiving attention from a significant other. Covering angles such as misogyny, capitalism, and simple plain loneliness to explain why being in between relationships is treated like being in between jobs.

The burnouts explore the contentious topic of veganism in our most philosophical episode yet. Beginning with a simple question: if it's so good, should we all be vegan? And spiraling out into topics of alienation from the production of our food, economics, and the suffering of humans and animals alike.

The burnouts usher in the new year with their extensive judgemental mean girl lists of predictions of what will be "In" and "Out" in the great big year of 2025. We also take some time to ponder our New Year's resolutions and reminisce on our favorite cultural moments of 2024. Let's hope 2025 is a good one folks.

Mom, Dad, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend, Sakura Haruno from Naruto. This week, the burnouts explore the lurid world of AI girlfriends. We speculate on the psychology of those who engage with AI chatbots with the purposive intention of forming an emotional connection, like say, a therapist or a romantic partner - as well as what such a one-sided connection might do to you. Jeremy tries out his...

This week, the burnouts investigate the immanence of compulsory heterosexuality in our culture. From performing straightness even when you're not straight, to wishing you were a lesbian because men are so terrible, and finally, consulting the Lesbian Masterdoc about whether or not we like girls.

The burnouts bring you their takes on the election, the present state of America, and our outlooks for the future. We attempt to determine what actually wins an election, who the Democrats need to nominate, and who they need to add to their propaganda machine if they ever want to win again. Finally, we ask why on earth Elon Musk wants to control all three branches of the US government and one of t...

This week, the burnouts tackle the sprawling, horrifying, Kafkaesque concept of the Digital Footprint. We discuss how everything you do online is haunted by the possibility of consequences in the offline world, and vice versa. We also contemplate the reality of data tracking and psychological targeting, is it really so bad that Facebook knows you like cheeseburgers?

This episode, featuring friend of the pod Sophie, delves into the dark underbelly of meninism, the manosphere, and incels. We discuss how men first take the redpill, deconstruct the societal notions encompassing it, and finally end on Jeremy's story of his incel past - and eventual redemption.

The Burnouts get philosophical when they're let loose... Episode 16 is a freeform yap sesh in which they chat about recent life experiences and answer questions that would please woke-redditors, all of which mostly lead back to theories on free will. The audio quality on this episode sucks guys we're sorry. Jeremy forgot to plug in the mic, we think we fixed this about 30 minutes in when Jeremy no...

This week, the burnouts discuss hookup culture as a social institution and epidemic. The psychological facets of how 1% of sex havers ruin intimacy for the rest of us. And how this could all be better for the rest of us if we all had more sex, but that will never happen.... So Sex Should Be Illegal.

In this weeks episode, the burnouts delve into the ethics of porn and its associated brainrot. How it twists the relationships you form with women, society, violence, and yourself. We talk about what porn even is, and are forced to have an opinion on whether it's ethical or not. 

This week's episode explores the consistently poor quality of modern cartoons, compared to the generationally defining cartoons of the burnouts youth, and how such a change in quality came to be. We also attempt to define the consequences of the motifs of modern cartoon entertainment, exploring the childhood narcissistic brainrot that these cartoons seem to enable. P.S. We experienced some audio i...

This week's episode, featuring a very special guest all the way from Mexico - close friend of the pod Connor, goes in-depth on the question "why didn't Bernie win the presidency?" To better understand and answer this question, we'll be examining the history and contemporary politics of other countries, namely Mexico, that have succeeded in electing progressive-leaning politicians. 

This week, the burnouts question why every hot girl on Instagram seemingly can't keep their bowels in order, not feel dizzy when they stand up, or find anything to eat that won't ruin their entire life forever. We take a deep dive into the causes of IBS, examining the lifestyles that seem most common among those who suffer from it in order to determine what might be at fault. (Spoiler: It's never...

In this weeks episode, the burnouts tackle the tangentially relatable yet curiously followed idea of a "celebrity persona". Centered mostly around Lana Del Rey and other musicians that curated a "sad girl aesthetic". We discuss the effects these personas have on the parasocial relationships the audience forms with the celebrity, and the abusive facets of fame that might inform the decision and cur...

This week the burnouts discuss Challangers, the newest movie about the sexiest sport ever invented. We review, critique, and analyze the feminist undertones of what a 13 year long situationship does to a mf. 

This week, the burnouts discuss the exponentially growing cultural rally around weed. We examine its apparent passive use among just about every single person you know, its looming appearance in the dating world, and its use as a political MacGuffin.

This week we explore the horrifically Cormac Mccarthy-esque history and exciting contemporary socioeconomic presence of trains! Featuring special guest, in-house train luvr, and friend of the pod Keegan!