The world is broken right now

THE WORLD IS INSANE RIGHT NOW.

I think I broke my brain.

Ai is prevalent, social media is sucking up our attention and I can't walk down a street without thinking "OH MAN, the you can do this in real life?"

Maybe I'm the one who is broken, or maybe it is just the internet.

Chapters:

00:00 Podcast Rebrand Announcement  
01:34 Recording Setup and Microphone Dreams  
02:25 AI Content and Diminishing Human Connection  
05:45 My Failed AI Therapy Experiment  
08:23 Digital vs Physical: The Coming Renaissance  
12:09 Final Thoughts and Future Goals

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The rebranding journey of "Sharam's Insane Podcast" reflects my evolving identity as a comedian who happens to podcast rather than a dedicated podcaster. Our digital world is creating a bizarre disconnection where walking down streets feels surreal because we're so accustomed to experiencing life through screens.

• Experimenting with multiple podcast names before settling on "Sharam's Insane Podcast"
• Planning to transition to a stage microphone to better reflect my comedy identity
• Recognising how AI-generated content is replacing human connection online
• Sharing my failed experiment with AI therapy (4-5 sessions daily for 1.5 months)
• Discovering real meditation was more effective than AI therapy sessions
• Predicting a coming renaissance where people will drastically shift back to real-world experiences
• Noticing how COVID weakened our "muscle" for physical social connection
• Questioning whether our current balance between digital and physical worlds is making us happy

If you like this podcast, let me know. If you have any suggestions for improvement or topics, I'd love to hear those too.

Send me Fan Mail! It could be anything, we are desperate at this point.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to Sharam's Insane Podcast, the
only podcast where something,something, something something,
if you're listening along, andyou've been listening along for
a while now.
Basically, we have had anotherrebrand.
We the collective entity thatis me has had another rebrand
for this particular podcast.
So originally it was called theSharam Namdarian Podcast.

(00:22):
Wow, what japes, what jestsamazing.
Originally it was called theSharam Namdarian podcast.
Wow, what japes, what jestsamazing.
Then I changed it to SharamNamdarian Starts a Revolution.
A fun thing.
That was a podcast premisewhere I thought that one day I
was going to start a revolution,but about nothing, basically.
So I was like, hey, let's getthis idea out there, let's try
and rally the troops for noparticular purpose.

(00:44):
And I actually thought thepodcast premise was going to
inspire me to create moreepisodes and just to keep doing
crazy stuff.
Realistically, do you knowwhat's more better than that?
Just having something to say?
And the more I meditate, themore I process my stuff around
comedy and the blocks and allthat stuff towards it.
I realized I literally shouldjust have something to say.

(01:06):
Now, that would be cool if Idid.
Unfortunately, I only have somethings to say, so let's see
what happens with that.
So I'm currently recording onthis.
It's the Rode podcasting micfrom the Good Old Days that I
have.
In the future I want to have acondenser microphone.
I want to have like a stagemicrophone, which I've been

(01:27):
working on how to get all thatto work Realistically.
The reason why I want to dothat is because I want, if I
make clips, for it to feel likestand-up comedy clips.
Right now this probably feelslike a podcast, which is good
and that's great.
But I want people to see it andgo, oh, he's a, he's a comedy

(01:47):
guy, and so that way when I dodo clips, they'll see it and
it's.
I'm not a podcast guy, I'm acomedy guy doing a podcast.
You gotta have the rightmicrophone.
So if you're watching alongcurrently in my car recording it
, um and uh, I'm on a busystreet, so I probably will have
to wave off people trying totake my spot waiting for me to

(02:08):
move, because they'll see me inthe car and they'll be like, oh,
this guy, he's about to leave.
And guess what?
I'm not about to leave.
I'm trying to record the nextfamous episode of Sharm's Insane
Podcast, which is whatever thisis Now.
I wanted to talk about shockhorror.
I wanted to talk about ai andstuff like that and the
prevalence of it.

(02:29):
There is some moving happening,like people are just moving
couches, like soft things,couches and mattresses so
whatever.
It's insane.
Uh, in in my, in one of my lastepisodes I did an episode of um
a, my ai therapy.
Basically, I did a pot anepisode.
Oh jesus, they just landed.

(02:50):
Hey guys, just letting themknow I'm in the car recording a
podcast episode.
It's really important.
They just dropped the mattresson the car.
I mean, it's better thandropping the mattress on a car
than a couch.
All right, all right.
I think that AI no, fuck AI it'snot to do with AI, it's to do

(03:22):
with humans.
I think we're going to have inthe future, a gigantic
renaissance where people movetowards real life things more
and more and more, because rightnow we're in an economic crisis

(03:44):
.
We're in Melbourne, where it'swinter, so things are cold.
People aren't going out to buythings anymore, businesses and
hospitality are probablyshutting down more than ever, so
people are more particularabout what they do, but when
they spend less time going out,they spend more time online and

(04:06):
AI videos, I think one in three,one in four, one in five videos
on my current Instagramalgorithm is just AI content,
and so that is weird, becausewe're micro dososing connection

(04:27):
through the internet, unlike youright now, who is macrodosing
connection.
We're microdosing connectionthrough the internet, but now
those microdosed connections arebeing replaced with things that
have less human consciousnesspoured into it.
So we're officially, we've been.

(04:48):
You know the phrase boil thefrog.
It's like how do you boil afrog?
You put it in cold water andyou slowly turn up the heat.
Well, we've done the opposite,but with human connection, and
it's going to reach a criticalmass where I think people
explode and we just need toconnect with people because
we're going crazy.

(05:09):
Like I, literally I went for awalk with my partner down the
down to a restaurant and I spentthe time looking around
thinking this is crazy.
Did you know?
There's like a thing here,there's a restaurant there, and
I've and I've been there before.
Like my brain is so fucked upfrom being chronically online

(05:36):
all the time that when I walkdown a new street that I'm
unfamiliar with, my brain goesthis is crazy.
Did you know that stuff existedin real life?
And I bet you I'm not the onlyone whose brain is fucked from

(05:57):
the sheer, relentless crap Icram into it, unlike what you
are doing now, because you arecramming the good stuff in your
brain.
It is crazy, it's insane, it'sso just just like I don't know
how to even put it into words,which I'm trying so like I did

(06:17):
this episode maybe two episodesepisodes ago of will ai therapy
fix me?
Now, what you don't know, unlessyou've seen me perform, is I
was trying to get a bit to workabout how much I did ai therapy.
Since that episode.
I did four to five sessions aday for a month and a half solid

(06:46):
and let me tell you this therewas diminishing returns.
There was.
It wasn't all good, it wasn'tall emotional healing.
I got attached to the processand I started telling myself it
was working when, realistically,one out of 30 sessions I did

(07:06):
actually had some benefit.
But I was addicted to thepossibility that I could
streamline and outsource andspeed up the process of my
meditation.
And you know what's crazy.
Actually, sitting andmeditating was far more
effective than all the sessionsI'd done, because the
foundations and the growth thatI created on an internal basis

(07:31):
is real.
Like you know what I mean, likeI'm the one digesting.
I had a shout out to AshFilzamine, who was in an early
episode of when it was, I think,the first or second episode of
Shunrim Darren starts arevolution.
Uh, after a gig which I bombedat um Ash, this was the breaking

(07:52):
point of the AI therapy I droveAsh to the comics lounge and he
broke down my bomb faster, morepowerfully than what I had done
, and I was like I want to bethat guy.
I don't want to be the guy whoexternalizes my thought.

(08:15):
I want to be that guy who canthink so powerfully that I
literally juice the essence oflife in every moment, and I can
see it and feel it because Imyself am the engine.
And so, ironically, hey, here Iam putting a podcast out,
because you gotta make a podcast, you gotta have the right

(08:38):
microphone.
But it's insane.
I think we are in a phase wheretechnology is moving faster than
ever and we don't know how tohandle it, and so there is going
to be a a thing where peoplewill eventually, spontaneously,

(09:01):
almost all at once, like a fakeroaring 20s, shift to real world
things over a preference ofdigital things, and so stuff
like this is good, because itstill will.
There still will be a purposefor it but we won't put so much
pressure on it.
Like there is a a I saw ahipster cinema.
I saw a hipster cinema thatplays movies from the 1930s and

(09:26):
I was like this is crazy,because you could easily stream
these movies.
But you know what's better thanstreaming the movies?
Go into it where it's separatefrom you and actually like
having a time and a place and apresence and an experience and a
memory.
We're microdosing connectionwithout the keyest part, which

(09:47):
is presence and locations.
Here I am in my car, there wego.
I'm trying whatever.
Oh man, this is crazy.
We're in a weird world.
We're in a weird world like Iwalked past the piano bar and
everyone was going crazy in thepiano bar, like, absolutely like
they were having the best timeof their lives and the street
was dead.

(10:07):
Like what is that and why was Inot in the piano bar?
Why was I so brain fucked thatI'm like I gotta get home so I
can sit on my phone and pretendI'm connecting with the wider
world.
What is that and why am Itrying to start a podcast in a

(10:34):
world where I'm like I don'tknow if, like, we need more
in-world things.
It's an arms race between thedigital and the physical, and
the digital is winning.
I'm not saying no digital.
What I'm saying is morephysical, more physical things.

(10:54):
It's hard.
We've lost the muscle, we'veweakened.
Covid hit, at least inmelbourne.
We lost that muscle.
I think some of the stuff issome of the reasons why we have
a preference for digitalconnection these days.
And I could be, I could just beshouting this out into the
universe and being the only onewho has this.
I don't know, I don't know, Idon't know.

(11:17):
Please let me know.
Like, but I could be the onlyone who is like like people.
You could be listening to thisand think, oh, he is fucked.
He does need more like touchgrass bro, like he does need
more time out and I do spend alot of time out.

(11:40):
I do comedy, I'm out all thetime Family, friends, stuff like
that but the time I have tojust be blank out and stare and
look at my phone is so intensethat I myself am like this is
crazy.
Did you know?
You can walk down a street andthere's restaurants you've never

(12:00):
been to before.
What is this?
What is this?
What is the world we've created?
Are we happy with this?
Is this what we want?
I don't know if this is what wewant.
Anyway, this is Sharm's InsanePodcast.

(12:20):
Let me know if you like thetitle.
If you have any othersuggestions, let me know.
At this point I'm not even sureit counts or matters Like I can
just do it over and over again,change it Like you're going to
be in your Spotify and be likeoh, I don't remember subscribing
to this, but I know that guy,that's just, it's just me.

(12:41):
I want the podcast to befunnier, but that will happen as
I get funnier.
I want, I want you to be likethis is insane and I want to
just sort of capture thezeitgeist of the moment and
stuff like that.
But if you like this podcast,let me know, and if you didn't

(13:07):
hear any suggestions, let meknow.
I'm now going to do on video aquick thing like a quick pose
for the thumbnail.
Alright, thank you forlistening.