We live in a culture obsessed with optimization, planning and control. We track everything, analyze everything and want to know exactly how things are going to turn out. But faith doesn’t always work that way.
Oct 8
33 min
This week, we’re talking about what happens when the things we use to escape, cope or prove ourselves stop delivering what we thought they would.
Oct 1
53 min
This is a conversation about beer. But it's really about where sports, culture, business, and performance are headed next. Shane Ramer takes a curious, funny, and sometimes skeptical look at Athletic Brewing, Dak Prescott, Drake Maye, non-alcoholic beer, masculinity, performance culture, and the rapidly changing relationship between athletes and alcohol.
Sep 17
42 min
A look at how 9/11 changed America forever, from security and surveillance to war, media and technology, while exploring the $2.3 trillion question, Tony Romo, Trump and AI, and the personal significance of September 11 as the day I gave up drinking 13 years ago.
Sep 9
59 min
In this episode, Shane gets into why we’re so good at explaining our decisions, defending our behavior, and convincing ourselves that maybe the thing we did wasn’t really that bad.
Sep 3
35 min
Former guitarist for Snot, Sevendust, Hed PE, Amen, and the Exies, Sonny Mayo joins Shane for a wild, deeply personal conversation about surviving a heart attack, leaning on God, mysterious signs and angels, sobriety, leaving California, retiring from music, and what it really means to start over.
Sep 2
1 hr 11 min
This week, Shane dives into the bizarre arrest of 49ers CEO Jed York, Deshaun Watson getting booed by Cleveland fans, Katey Sagal celebrating 40 years of sobriety, Trump’s IndyCar spectacle in Washington, D.C., and the latest U.S.-Canada political beef.
Aug 26
37 min
In this episode, Shane Ramer takes a sarcastic look at the strange world we're living in, and asks why we've become so obsessed with everything, all the time.
Aug 19
49 min
In this episode, Shane takes a sarcastic look at Brad’s decision to drink after seven years sober, the obsession with celebrity recovery, the social media rabbit hole, and why we seem to care more about what famous people are doing than what’s happening in our own lives.
Aug 13
56 min
Real change has less to do with finding the perfect hack and more to do with doing the hard things we've been avoiding.
Aug 7
19 min
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