HeyJaredGoodLiving Podcast
Thoughts, opinions and perspectives of the average young Nigerian adult
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Our best people for their worse jobs❓How⁉️🤷♂️ (opens the original)
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BRAIN DROPPINGS DISCUSSION GROUP Why does a bank manager have to drive a truck for 18 months after moving abroad — and why do we call that resilience instead of asking why it's happening at all? Koke traces a pattern from migration and labor to advertising and self-image: how systems are built to extract a country's best minds for its worst jobs, and how that same logic shows up in something as small as a soap commercial. He brings in a striking real-world story from journalist David Hundeyin ab
You believe you have free will?🎭 (opens the original)
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Show Notes The philosophical case that free will is mostly an illusion — shaped by choices your parents and environment made before you ever had a say What propaganda actually is, and why the people most confident they can't be manipulated are often the easiest targets How propaganda operated in Nigeria historically — through news coverage and even entertainment like Super Story The claim that today's social media algorithms function as a modern, more precise version of the same thing — engineer
Negotiating Sexual Contracts (opens the original)
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It's Koke's case for teaching people — starting from adolescence — how to actually understand and negotiate consent, rather than leaving it as something nobody ever explains clearly. He opens by breaking down consent as a spectrum rather than a single line: outright force is obviously rape, but he argues coercion — wearing someone down through persistent pressure until they give in just to escape the situation — is also a form of it, and that this gray area is almost never taught to young people
God help me -- Because I Can't Fake Believing (opens the original)
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Koke grew up Anglican — Sunday church, good clothes, a bottle of Mineral with lunch. Then at 10, three years after losing his mother, he was sent to a boarding school that worshipped on Saturdays instead of Sunday — and everything he thought was settled about faith started to unravel. In this episode, he traces that unraveling honestly: the questions that never got resolved, the argument it caused with his father, and where he's landed now — caught between an environment that keeps pulling him b
Peter Obi cannot change Nigeria (opens the original)
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Nigeria got independence in 1960 — but did it actually get freedom? In this episode, Koke breaks down geopolitics in plain terms: how loans from the IMF and World Bank come with hidden strings attached, how the Nigerian Civil War was shaped by foreign interference, and why countries like Burkina Faso are only now starting to break free of decades-old colonial arrangements. He also shares a personal story from watching Gaddafi's death unfold on TV as a teenager in Kaduna — and what it taught him
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