

People Pleaser with Austin Archer
People Pleaser with Austin Archer
Austin Archer invites friends into his blanket fort recording studio in his North Hollywood apartment to discuss a new topic each week.
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Jun 9, 2022 • 58min
117: MINISODE #29: the Homogenization of Art
Exploring the capitalistic causes for the homogenized nature of our stories, our music, and our art, while also looking at the role we play in that process as the consumers or the market.

Jun 2, 2022 • 53min
116: MINISODE #28 the Cult Nation
Exploring the idea that America was founded for the specific freedom to start and operate radical white supremacist christian cults under the banner of unfettered capitalistic greed.

May 26, 2022 • 53min
115: MINISODE #27 Exploring the Ethics of Responsible Platform Usage
We're back!! Maintaining a specific brand or niche as a content creator can be difficult. If speaking up on social or political issues might go outside of your carefully cultivated niche is it okay to opt out of saying anything when shit hits the fan? Do we even need creators to speak up at all? Is it even useful? Or is it just preaching to the choir?

Mar 24, 2022 • 10min
114: TAKING A BREAK
Austin is going on a brief hiatus for mental health and will be back soon!

Mar 17, 2022 • 1h 37min
113: BATMAN with Tim Blakaj aka @comedianofcinema
Delving into one of the most famous fictional characters of the last hundred years. A discussion on cinema, story-telling, acting, and the philosophy behind what attracts us to certain archetypes.

Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 10min
112: CRITICAL RACE THEORY with Parker McMullen Bushman
Parker is back and we are breaking down CRT. What is it? What do people think it is? Why do they think that? Why should we care?

Mar 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
111: Minisode #26: everything all at once
Just a pontification on the way life is never about just one thing, but always about many, many things in a cataclysmic concert with one another. Also an update on my personal life.

Feb 24, 2022 • 1h 3min
110: MINISODE #25: Luck and a thought experiment about intelligence
Should it be illegal to be a certain amount of stupid? Well... not illegal, but like... could we make it so that if you can't meet a certain standard of intelligence you lose certain societal privileges? Is that really that removed from the system we already have?

Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 14min
109: KILLIN IT with London Lazerson @londonlaz
One of TikTok's fastest growing accounts @londonlaz (8.4M and counting) cruises in to the blanket fort to chat about the importance of leaning into abundance and unapologetically owning and celebrating success.

Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 37min
108: ACTING with Kyle Gallner
Actor Kyle Gallner stops by the blanket fort to talk about his role in the new Scream movie, his history of acting in the horror genre, and the life of the modern actor in general.