People Pleaser with Austin Archer

Jake Szymanski zooms in to talk about his career making people laugh from behind the camera.

Patrick is back for the third time, this time he is celebrating two years of continuous sobriety and we are taking a look at the perplexing topic of relapse.

Rain Phoenix shares the vision behind LaunchLeft and her mission to connect well-known artists with up and comers in order to give emerging voices some much needed exposure. 

Is blocking people who make your blood boil on social media a healthy thing or will it deprive you of being exposed to a diversity of thought? In this minisode I'll be arguing that there are certain viewpoints that simply don't need to be engaged with in order for one to retain a diverse intellectual pallet. 

Stevie McFly zooms in to break down the history of America's police force including it's white supremacist roots and to talk about what people actually mean when they talk about defunding or abolishing the police and why it isn't nearly as scary or as radical a thing as most talking heads would have you believe. 

Kelsie Jepsen zooms in to chat about Embody Love Workshop and to talk about the all too common but rarely discussed problem of fatphobia, its effects on our personal lives, and on society at large.

The viral guru Londonlaz zooms in to talk about making your own way in the new media landscape. Last time he was on the show he had 650k followers on TikTok, this time he's up to 2.6M and steadily climbing. 

Charla shares the story of losing her daughter to this common ailment, and her desire to end the stigma around it so that we can begin to treat it with compassion and empathy rather than shame and fear.

Friend of the show Cooper Howell zooms in to talk about one of the darkest days in the history of American democracy, how it happened, and where we go from here. 

The conclusion of my two-part conversation with Adam about the epic year that was.