HeyJaredSorta Sophisticated
A podcast rooted in becoming more cultured and curious. Where we endeavor to suspend judgment, expand our worldview and explore new topics that will help us learn to appreciate varying perspectives and values.But really it's a show where we hope to enlighten anyone who cares…
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Episode 121 - How Much Bullshit Should You Put Up With At Work? (opens the original)
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This week we're asking the question every person with a job has wondered: how much bullshit is actually normal? Not venting - drawing the real lines. When does paying your dues turn into just being used? Which bad bosses are worth riding out, and which mean you should already be planning your exit? Is office politics selling out, or just knowing how people work? And how do you tell quitting too soon from staying so long the job stopped being worth it. Plus: the lunch that kicked this whole thing
Episode 120 - Everything You See Tonight Already Happened (opens the original)
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This week we're asking the question every person who's ever looked up at night has wondered: what am I actually looking at? Not the constellations — the deeper thing underneath them. Why does everything in the sky show up already out of date, some of it by centuries? How do you tell a star from a planet without an app? Why does the same patch of sky vanish for half the year and come back like nothing happened? Plus: the moment that kicked this off — realizing you can point at more objects in the
Episode 119 - You Had To Be There: Why 9/11 Just Turned Into History (25 Years Later) (opens the original)
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This week we're marking 25 years since 9/11 - but not with another play-by-play of that morning. We're asking a stranger question: when does something you lived through stop being a memory and become a history lesson? We compare how 9/11 is starting to age the way Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, and the Challenger explosion already have — what gets remembered, what gets smoothed over, and what myths take root once the people who were actually there start to disappear from the room. Plus: a
Episode 118 - The Pope Forced Him to Paint: He Never Forgave Him (opens the original)
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In today’s episode we’re talking all things Michelangelo. Spoiler - the guy who painted the ceiling never actually wanted to paint it. He was a sculptor strong-armed into it by a pope who didn't take no for an answer, spent four miserable years resenting every brushstroke, and somehow ended up inventing the entire cultural idea of the tortured genius. Every difficult, uncompromising creative type since is following his template. We'll give you the cheat code for understanding the guy even if you
Episode 117 - Your Attention Is The One Thing That You Actually Own (opens the original)
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In today’s episode we're asking a question that sounds simple but really isn't: how much should you actually care? We dig into why your brain treats a stranger's divorce the same way it treats an actual emergency, break down a dead-simple way to sort what's worth your energy from what's just noise wearing a costume, and expose the uncomfortable truth that basically every industry out there - news, social media, politics, streaming - is competing for the exact same scarce resource: your attention
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