Synopsis
Metacognition is a podcast which celebrates the boundless frontiers of human thought and achievement and features those who live and work on the bleeding edge of modernity. Today, our assumptions about the way the world works break down in our increasingly networked, information-driven, and often chaotic global society. The guests we will bring to you on this podcast will challenge us to plunge courageously into this unfamiliar territory with the unprecedented degree of sophisticated and critical thought this realm demands. Here, you will get an intimate window into the lives and minds of the thought leaders, the trailblazers, the visionaries, those who define our changing lives with their ingenuity, perspicacity, and grit.
Episodes
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Richard Front: Province 48
13/05/2019 Duration: 01h14minWhen famed entrepreneur, Richard Front, initially approached us with the intent of promoting his groundbreaking new book, Why You Will Not Be an Elite: Secrets of the Province 48 Machine Learning Algorithm, it broke our hearts to have to turn him away. At this time, we had run out of funding and many of our staff had left in a rout of consternation and chagrin. Well-aware of our audience and their admiration for his work, Richard, also a long-time Metacognition listener, gave us a generous gift of a sum we cannot disclose publicly. The consequence of this unprecedented act of philanthropy is that, today, we get to bring you a rare, intimate interview with the genius himself, Mr. Richard Front. In a protracted conversation with James "Jim" Alvarez, one of our freelance executive producers, Richard graciously promotes his aforementioned book and shares his fascinating life story which, as many of us know, led to his current project, Province 48. In a word, Province 48 is a mentorship program and study space whi
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Papa Bluey: Hula Hoop Legend
17/03/2019 Duration: 01h01minPapa Bluey is a pioneering hula hoop practitioner who has worked tirelessly for decades to transmute his discipline from a club drug-tarnished province of Middle America's working class to a high art finding its place on the tongues of the East Coast intelligentsia and the West Coast billionaire technocracy. In our effort to contextualize the man in a sociocultural, psychoeconomic metaphysic, we sent our very own Jabron E. to interview Bluey in his native town of Indianapolis, the hearth of hula hooping culture as such. In their lengthy discussion, Bluey walks Jabron through topics ranging from the circus-to-competitive-hula-hoop pipeline, celebrity's role in culinary entrepreneurship, the digital body art phenomenon, and the QR code fashion revolution. Papa Bluey was beyond generous with his time and creative energy, and he has conferred upon us the singular honor of previewing the soundtrack to the solo routine he is set to debut Krakow this coming May. You'll hear this groundbreaking playlist in the backgr
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MacGuire and Austen 0: Vagrant Valor
21/01/2019 Duration: 35minTobin MacGuire and Jonathan Austen were two of the central figures in the vagabond insurrection of 2048 which ousted the nearly three-centuries of constitutional Republican rule over the vast country formerly known as the United States of America. You will hear the two discuss, after over a decade of estrangement, their shared philosophies which catalyzed their legendary coup. You'll notice that their contrasting lifestyles reflect a major epistemological rift which undergirds the existing two-party system they helped bring about. Both homeless, Tobin is an Originalist who prefers to maintain the lifestyle that defined the streets of early twenty-first century America. Jonathan, however exists on the periphery, now residing in a posh hotel baring the gnarled and rusted namesake of the lame duck empire they helped usurp: Trump. Despite their different ways of living, I think you'll find that Tobin and Jonathan, through reminiscing on their humble beginnings, the value of human relationships, convenience store