Podcasting the Shit Out of Each Other (ft. Tai Lopez, Mob Deep, and the Death of Radio Shack)

Two Gen X dudes sit down to catch up and immediately derail into corded headphones, record stores, why your daughter is buying CDs in 2026, and the uncomfortable truth that everybody wants to be Gen X now.

Then we drop a Tai Lopez deep dive — the SEC just hit him with a $112 million Ponzi scheme lawsuit and the FBI is circling. Jared wants to search the Epstein files for their names. Nobody finds anything. Counting Crows get their flowers. Mob Deep gets respected. Radio Shack gets eulogized. And somewhere in the middle, they accidentally invent the most unhinged relationship metaphor in podcast history: catching your co-host podcasting with someone else behind a bush at the park.

Topics: Gen X nostalgia, vinyl and CD revival, the participation trophy debate, Tai Lopez and the SEC, the Epstein files, Counting Crows HBO documentary, Mob Deep's The Infamous, Idiocracy, Grant Cardone, the Grammys, Ice-T playing a cop, Radio Shack in Queens, NPC theory, and podcast infidelity.

Chapters
[00:00:00] Sound Check and the Intern Who Disappeared
[00:01:15] Corded Headphones, Vinyl Revival, and Why Your Daughter Buys CDs Now
[00:02:45] Everyone Wants to Be Gen X — Mall Rats, Lunchbox Records, and 90s Nostalgia
[00:05:05] Trapper Keepers vs. Minimalist Millennials: A Tale of Two Meetings
[00:06:15] Gen X Doesn't Talk About Being Gen X (Except on TikTok Now)
[00:07:45] Jared Doesn't Want to Be a TikTok Prostitute
[00:08:15] The Trophy Question: Who Really Wanted Them — Boomers or Millennials?
[00:09:30] Steven Tyler, Always Sunny, Rob Thomas, Sinbad, and Puff Daddy Walk Into a Bar
[00:10:30] The Epstein Files: Jared Wants to Search Their Names in Real Time
[00:11:30] Tai Lopez: The Final Boss of Hustle Culture Gets Raided by the SEC
[00:14:15] Peter Attia, Epstein's Global Network, and Stuff We're Not Ready to Unpack
[00:17:15] Grant Cardone, Hustle Bros, and How They Ruined the Word "Hustle"
[00:18:45] Idiocracy: The Mike Judge Movie That Predicted Everything
[00:19:45] The Gen X Music Divide — Classic Rock to NWA to Grunge
[00:21:00] The Grammys Are Unwatchable and Ice-T Plays a Cop Now
[00:21:45] Counting Crows Get Their Flowers — The HBO Doc and Adam Duritz's Dreads
[00:23:15] Mob Deep, The Infamous, and Jared's Fake Sabbatical to Queensbridge
[00:25:45] Radio Shack in Queens: A Tai Lopez Full-Circle Moment
[00:27:00] Best Buy, Dick's, and San Francisco's Poop Index
[00:28:15] Podcasting the Shit Out of Each Other: The Best Relationship Metaphor Ever Made

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