Buckle up and get set for some serious bloviating. Your bald host, Mookie Spitz reconnects with coiffed musician, psychologist, and desert van-dweller Reza Ziai for a wild ride full of paywalls, pop stars in space, and why Elon Musk might be the messiah—or a Bond villain with ASD and excellent connectivity. They unpack why Iran still doesn’t have nukes and what should and shouldn't be done about it, whether AI will wipe us out or simply ignore us, and why cultural appropriation might actually save humanity.
Along the way:
– Was Beck right in that taco stand when he equated art and money?
– Can space travel solve existential dread or at the very least make Oprah cry?
– Might porn, pokemon, pizza, and Palantir targeting bring peace to the Middle East?
This one’s got it all: geopolitics, space dicks, Nietzschean game theory, and quarter-tone Iranian Beatles covers. No script. No mercy. No hair! And yes, great wifi from Reza's van...
The Guest
Reza Ziai is a musician (over 35 years of experience), a recording artist, and a psychology professor (over fifteen years of experience in higher education).
He recently quit his full-time position and has been living in his mobile home recording studio writing music deeply influenced by his Iranian-American background and his passion for free expression.
As a deep thinker and an artist, Reza has devoted his life to the relentless pursuit of creating music and making meaning in a sometimes seemingly meaningless world.
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