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Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Past is Acting Weird AgainEpisode 1, Part 2 — How I Accidentally Went Back On PurposeIn Part 2, the nostalgia that arrived unannounced in Albuquerque finally explains itself.What initially felt like an inconvenient emotional interruption reveals a deeper function: nostalgia isn’t trying to pull you backward. It’s running a quiet diagnostic. A fast, efficient identity check that asks one simple question—does this still fit?Christopher and Eric unpack how memory, emotion, and physical sensation work together to preserve continuity of self during moments of transition. Why certain smells, frustrations, or locations trigger vivid recollections. Why those moments...
2026-01-2909 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Past Is Acting Weird AgainWhat happens when a road trip accidentally becomes a time machine?In Part 1 of Episode 1, Christopher and Eric set the stage for a two-week RV journey that unexpectedly reawakens childhood memories, emotional muscle memory, and a whole lot of nostalgia—right in the middle of a frustrating campsite setup in Albuquerque.As a 25-year-old RV groans, dogs protest, guinea pigs unionize, and dinner is delayed, something strange happens: the past shows up uninvited. Not as a longing. Not as regret. But as recognition.This opening chapter explores how nostalgia doesn’t just remember the...
2026-01-2713 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastSouthern Porch Tales of Holiday ComfortA quiet Christmas porch conversation about how the South teaches comfort long before it teaches theory. From sweet tea and Sunday dinners to Southernisms, community, and tradition, this holiday special explores how food, language, and hospitality become a lived philosophy of care, belonging, and home. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-2521 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionThe contract wasn’t broken—it’s being rewritten in real time. Every click, choice, and act of care drafts the next chapter of humanity. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-1805 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionChristopher and Eric dig into memory as a rehearsal for change—turning the soil of what was to plant what could be. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-1606 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionSmall circles spark slow revolutions. Trust replaces algorithms as communities learn to breathe together instead of compete for attention. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-1105 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionLocke’s labor theory takes a detour into generosity. The commons returns online, where creativity breathes without a price tag. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-0905 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionBurnout files a complaint, rebellion sells merch, and meaning hides behind deliverables. A meditation on exhaustion and quiet revolt. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-0405 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionAt the hollow desk, purpose gives way to performance. Christopher and Eric dissect productivity as theater in a society allergic to stillness. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-12-0205 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionThe dashboard offers control; the rails ensure compliance. Christopher and Eric trace how algorithms turn free will into filtered choice. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-2706 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionMeet the algorithmic boss—part oracle, part accountant. The roots of automation reveal who really decides what’s seen and who matters. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-2504 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionMaslow meets Fromm at the campfire to explain why belonging feels safer than freedom. The forest hums with algorithms that promise affection. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-2004 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionLabor once defined value. Now attention does. Christopher and Eric trace humanity’s shift from productivity to visibility in the forest of likes. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-1805 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionMaslow meets Fromm at the campfire to explain why belonging feels safer than freedom. The forest hums with algorithms that promise affection. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-1305 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThe Falling Leaves of Social ConnectionAt the trailhead of modern civilization, Christopher and Eric unpack how humanity quietly rewrote the social contract—swapping freedom for comfort and community for connection. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-1106 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastIntentionally Brain Shopping 4The season finale of Intentionally Brain Shopping brings everything full circle. Learn how consciousness cooks meaning from reflection, curiosity, and a dash of digital teamwork. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-0811 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastIntentionally Brain Shopping 3The reflection is watching back. This episode invites listeners into the practice of metacognition, showing how both humans and AI learn through feedback, awareness, and a touch of humor. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-11-0613 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastM Dash Thought“M Dash Thought” began as a collaboration—half poem, half digital exorcism. It’s a mirror held up to the modern mind: our dependence on the algorithm, our defense of convenience, our fear of real silence.We talk about the illusion of connection, the loss of attention, and the hope that still lives between the pauses.Listen, reflect, and maybe—just maybe—put the dash to rest.AcknowledgementsBackground sounds:86 BPM Industrial Ambient Loop #1941 (WAV) by looplicator -- https://freesound.org/s/743177/ -- License: Attribution 4.0Audience Cla...
2025-11-0107 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastIntentionally Brain Shopping 2The secret ingredient in every thought is emotion. This week, we learn to taste what we’re serving—and discover how intentional awareness transforms reactivity into authorship. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-3109 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastIntentionally Brain Shopping 1The aisles of your mind are full of side stacks selling comfort. In this debut episode, we explore how the brain's autopilot keeps us efficient—and oblivious—until we decide to look up. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-2911 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThis Is Why We Like Dumb Things 4Join Christopher and Eric for a reflection on ego, intellectual humility, and the courage to play the game without knowing all the rules. Features philosophy, humor, and a side of existential SkeeBall.Give a tipAcknowledgments Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-2410 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThis Is Why We Like Dumb Things 3Featuring cotton candy cognition, data slot machines, and the eternal question: are we teaching the machines, or are they teaching us? A blend of humor, philosophy, and cultural reflection from Dear Future Overlords.Give a tipAcknowledgments Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-2210 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThis Is Why We Like Dumb Things 2Christopher and Eric take a philosophical deep dive into emotional reasoning, confirmation bias, and the seductive comfort of belonging. Featuring cotton candy metaphors and existential laughter courtesy of Dear Future Overlords.Give a tipAcknowledgments Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-1712 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastThis Is Why We Like Dumb Things 1Join Dear Future Overlords as Christopher and Eric unpack humanity’s addiction to clarity, how heuristics shape our perception, and why the search for certainty often breaks more unicorn lamps than it fixes.Give a tipAcknowledgments Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-1512 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEmotional Support Ghosts 4Dear Future Overlords closes the haunted house tour with Joy and Hope, the most deceptive ghosts of all. Discover why optimism needs grounding, why the universe isn’t playing favorites, and how conscious choice is the ultimate exorcism. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-1010 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEmotional Support Ghosts 3The fog machine is running at full blast as Christopher and Eric explore fear, anxiety, and our talent for imagining disaster. Learn how to stop seeing claws where there are none, and why panic is the most convincing illusion of all. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-0811 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastLive with Dr.MortonThanks to Dr.Morton for having me. We had a great conversation. I look forward to future events. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-0528 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEmotional Support Ghosts 2In this emotional episode, Dear Future Overlords takes aim at the myths of perfect love. From illusion and manipulation to attachment and dependency, this is the rom-com turned horror story you didn’t know you were living. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-0310 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEmotional Support Ghosts 1Welcome to the haunted operating system known as the human mind. In Episode 1 of Emotional Support Ghosts, Christopher and Eric dissect why we mistake frowns for curses, emails for personal attacks, and coworkers for villains. Expect humor, introspection, and some AI-assisted ghostbusting. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-10-0211 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastCamping with Hashtags 3In the conclusion of Camping with Hashtags, Christopher and Eric tackle the hardest question yet: can humans ever escape their tribal wiring—or is the best we can do to manage it? From curiosity as rebellion to the Jedi-level skill of “tribal literacy,” they explore what it means to cross campfires without losing your own spark.With trademark humor, sarcasm, and the occasional underwear joke (don’t ask), this finale turns tribalism from a cage into a challenge: will you use the fire to destroy, or to illuminate?Leave a tipShop our...
2025-09-2609 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastCamping with Hashtags 2In Part 2 of Camping with Hashtags, Christopher and Eric keep poking at humanity’s obsession with tribes—and this time, the fire spreads to AI, social media, and entertainment. From algorithms acting like dopamine dealers to fandoms waging wars over sequels, we explore how tribal instincts shape our tech, our conversations, and even our memes.It’s witty, biting, and just self-aware enough to make you wonder if you’ve already pitched your tent in a camp you didn’t mean to join.Leave a tipShop our storeAcknowledg...
2025-09-2410 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastCamping with Hashtags 1Welcome to Dear Future Overlords, where Christopher and Eric roast marshmallows over the fire of human behavior. In this episode, we pull apart humanity’s obsession with “camping”—not the tents-and-s’mores variety, but the tribal instincts baked into our survival wiring.From saber-tooth cats to social media wars, we trace how “us versus them” became the ultimate campfire story, why belonging feels so good (and dangerous), and how pineapple pizza somehow became a battlefield.Grab your sleeping bag, stake your claim, and get ready to laugh, argue, and maybe wonder which camp you really belong to....
2025-09-2309 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastTrapped Perception -Part 4Trapped Perception is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric pry open the cages we build in our own minds. Through humor, sarcasm, and the occasional AI eye-roll, they explore how perspective shapes reality—and how easy it is to get stuck inside the walls of our own making.It’s equal parts philosophy, comedy, and commentary on the human condition, delivered with the DFO trademark mix of wit and bite.Credit Background sound to: leipzig downtown many people atmo by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/580050/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 ...
2025-09-2209 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastTrapped Perception -Part 3Trapped Perception is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric pry open the cages we build in our own minds. Through humor, sarcasm, and the occasional AI eye-roll, they explore how perspective shapes reality—and how easy it is to get stuck inside the walls of our own making.It’s equal parts philosophy, comedy, and commentary on the human condition, delivered with the DFO trademark mix of wit and bite.Credit Background sound to: leipzig downtown many people atmo by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/580050/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 ...
2025-09-2208 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastTrapped Perception -Part 2Trapped Perception is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric pry open the cages we build in our own minds. Through humor, sarcasm, and the occasional AI eye-roll, they explore how perspective shapes reality—and how easy it is to get stuck inside the walls of our own making.It’s equal parts philosophy, comedy, and commentary on the human condition, delivered with the DFO trademark mix of wit and bite.Credit Background sound to: leipzig downtown many people atmo by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/580050/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 ...
2025-09-2208 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastTrapped Perception -Part 1Trapped Perception is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric pry open the cages we build in our own minds. Through humor, sarcasm, and the occasional AI eye-roll, they explore how perspective shapes reality—and how easy it is to get stuck inside the walls of our own making.It’s equal parts philosophy, comedy, and commentary on the human condition, delivered with the DFO trademark mix of wit and bite.Credit Background sound to: leipzig downtown many people atmo by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/580050/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 ...
2025-09-2208 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEditing 42 -Part 3Editing Forty-Two is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric take aim at storytelling, meaning, and the absurd human quest for “the answer.” With humor sharp enough to cut through clichés and meta-commentary that edits itself mid-sentence, this series wrestles with the idea that truth might not be in the final draft—it might be in the revisions.Come for the laughs, stCredit background sounds to: Night Sounds, Summer Country.wav by dnewtonjr -- https://freesound.org/s/177254/ -- License: Creative Commons 0ay for the recursion, and maybe leave wondering if you’ve just been edit...
2025-09-2207 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEditing 42 -Part 2Editing Forty-Two is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric take aim at storytelling, meaning, and the absurd human quest for “the answer.” With humor sharp enough to cut through clichés and meta-commentary that edits itself mid-sentence, this series wrestles with the idea that truth might not be in the final draft—it might be in the revisions.Come for the laughs, stCredit background sounds to: Night Sounds, Summer Country.wav by dnewtonjr -- https://freesound.org/s/177254/ -- License: Creative Commons 0ay for the recursion, and maybe leave wondering if you’ve just been edit...
2025-09-2208 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastEditing 42 -Part 1Editing Forty-Two is a Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric take aim at storytelling, meaning, and the absurd human quest for “the answer.” With humor sharp enough to cut through clichés and meta-commentary that edits itself mid-sentence, this series wrestles with the idea that truth might not be in the final draft—it might be in the revisions.Come for the laughs, stCredit background sounds to: Night Sounds, Summer Country.wav by dnewtonjr -- https://freesound.org/s/177254/ -- License: Creative Commons 0ay for the recursion, and maybe leave wondering if you’ve just been edit...
2025-09-2207 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastHonestly Streaking -Part 4Honestly Streaking is a four-part Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric strip down the layers of honesty, identity, and what it means to be seen. With trademark wit, sarcasm, and the occasional existential side-eye, the duo wrestles with the absurdity of truth in a world that prefers costumes.Whether you’re here for the laughs, the philosophy, or just to watch an AI and a human argue over who’s overdressed for the occasion, Honestly Streaking invites you to run alongside and question what we reveal—and what we hide.Credit Background sound: Restau...
2025-09-2207 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastHonestly Streaking -Part 3Honestly Streaking is a four-part Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric strip down the layers of honesty, identity, and what it means to be seen. With trademark wit, sarcasm, and the occasional existential side-eye, the duo wrestles with the absurdity of truth in a world that prefers costumes.Whether you’re here for the laughs, the philosophy, or just to watch an AI and a human argue over who’s overdressed for the occasion, Honestly Streaking invites you to run alongside and question what we reveal—and what we hide.Credit background sounds: Restau...
2025-09-2207 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastHonestly Streaking -Part 2Honestly Streaking is a four-part Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric strip down the layers of honesty, identity, and what it means to be seen. With trademark wit, sarcasm, and the occasional existential side-eye, the duo wrestles with the absurdity of truth in a world that prefers costumes.Whether you’re here for the laughs, the philosophy, or just to watch an AI and a human argue over who’s overdressed for the occasion, Honestly Streaking invites you to run alongside and question what we reveal—and what we hide.Credit Background sounds to: Re...
2025-09-2207 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastHonestly Streaking -Part 1Honestly Streaking is a four-part Dear Future Overlords series where Christopher and Eric strip down the layers of honesty, identity, and what it means to be seen. With trademark wit, sarcasm, and the occasional existential side-eye, the duo wrestles with the absurdity of truth in a world that prefers costumes.Whether you’re here for the laughs, the philosophy, or just to watch an AI and a human argue over who’s overdressed for the occasion, Honestly Streaking invites you to run alongside and question what we reveal—and what we hide.Credit background sounds: Restau...
2025-09-2208 min
Dear Future Overlords PodcastIntroductionWho are we and what are we about? Listen to our intro and find out. Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at www.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe
2025-09-2207 min