The Undecided Podcast: Recent Episodes
David, Daniel and Jonathan
In this new season of The Undecided Podcast, David, Daniel and Jonathan give life updates, debate the existence of an "optimal life", and consider the case for pre-determinism.
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In this long-awaited episode, we come back and reflect on what we've been up to circa late July - early August 2021. We also discuss the concept of habituation in the context of our hobbies as well as in our relationships and how it can relate to burnout.
(NOTE: The audio in this episode was a bit corrupted so the introduction is a little rough and might be hard to listen to. Please bear through it as it doesn't last the whole episode)
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Music: Welcome Back - Mase (Instrumental)
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Join us in this week's episode where we talk about why we find interesting things, interesting and the merits of existential nihilism.
Inspiration for this week's topic: The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition) by John Green: 9780525555216 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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Instrumental: The Kid LAROI - WRONG (BEST INSTRUMENTAL) ft. Lil Mosey - YouTube
After a two week long hiatus, tune in to listen to our wide-ranging conversation on the effect of choice in social interaction, the ethics of eating meat in relation to animal consciousness, and the science of cute.
In this episode, we question the value of having an online persona, how context factors into one's online persona over time, and whether or not the desire to have an online persona is internally or externally motivated.
On this episode of The Undecided Podcast, we share pet peeves of ours, look at them from a rationale standpoint, and try to make sense of why we have them.
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Instrumental: Hot Shower - Chance the Rapper
With a special guest and friend of The Undecided Podcast, we talk about the importance of financial literacy and our attitudes towards being financially independent in our current life stages.
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Song: Pick Up the Phone - Yong Thug, Travis Scott
In this week's episode, we'll be exploring the topic of confronting others that we have issues with. We identify specific factors that come into play when confronting others and share some of our personal experiences with confrontation
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Music: Drake - Controlla
Joined by a very special guest (and good friend of the podcast), we review the "honeymoon phase" in our relationships, hobbies, interests, and prospective careers. We identify certain people or activities in our lives and analyze how they have changed over time after the initial "honeymoon phase". Why do we stick with certain things, but lose motivation and interest for others? Tune in to find out!
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Music: Doja Cat - Kiss Me More feat. SZA
In this episode, we will be chatting about the importance of context when talking about ethics. We'll take a look at some ethical issues that we've encountered in our academic/professional paths as well as aspects of our everyday lives in 2021 that we might look back at when we're older and question its morality.
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Music: We Don't Care - Kanye West
In this episode, we take a trip down memory lane and attempt to understand reasons why certain classes in high school were memorable to us.
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Intro & Outro: Passionfruit - Drake
In this episode, we try to reframe the idea of confidence and when it's applied to social interactions. We also try to identify and make sense of when to use "overconfidence" and "underconfidence"
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Music: Freaky Friday - Lil Dicky
In this episode, we address some comments made by some of our listeners about the current state of our podcast. We also have a brief conversation about our fig tree analogy that we referenced in earlier episodes.
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Music: I Love College (Asher Roth)
In this episode, we attempt to define the "Friendship Hierarchy" and use this model in addressing the problem of prioritizing social interactions.
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Music: (1) Drake - Fake Love Instrumental - YouTube
In this episode, we invite a very special guest and a good friend of the podcast, Trevor, to talk about our plans in how we can make friends after college. We discuss qualities to look for when making friends, social batteries and its accuracy, and 'posing' versus authenticity.
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In this second episode of the "Designing Your Life" series, we reflect on our interactions from the previous week, and try to figure out what was engaging and what wasn't. We also discuss the concept of flow-state, and how that can be a good indicator of what activities we find engaging.
In part 1 of the multi-episode series entitled "Designing Your Life," we attempt to come up with a game plan for our lives. We attempt to understand the reason for why we like the things we do, our priorities and what we want them to be, and defining our "work/life" compass.
Intro/Outro song: Sing About Me - Kendrick Lamar
Inspired by the Ted Talk "Inside the mind of a master procrastinator" by Tim Urban, we try to gain a better understanding of procrastination and how to combat it by thinking within the context of 3 players: the "Instant Gratification Monkey" the "Panic Monster" and the "Rational Decision Maker."
In this reaction episode to Donald Miller's "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" , we try to frame our lives as a story. What audience do we have in mind for our life story? How should we capture our life story? When would it be better to "live in the moment?"
In this in between episode, we list out our goals for the podcast, and how we can improve going forward.
Music: Just Like Heaven - The Cure
In this episode, we unpack Jonathan's feelings of regret towards a major life decision. We attempt to categorize different types of regret, understand regret on different timescales, and try to find where regret is acceptable at this point in our lives.
In this episode, we talk about our anxieties regarding time, the different ways to feel time, and how we can deal with time speeding up as we get older.