So I was Told

What starts as a conversation about the show, New Girl turns into a reflection on the kind of TV culture we grew up with, what it meant to wait for a new episode every week, and why so much media now feels disposable the second we finish it. We talk about sitcoms as time capsules, the slow death of shared cultural viewing, and how streaming, overstimulation, and algorithm-driven entertainment have changed the way we connect to stories.Also: dopamine, nostalgia, burnout, books, gaming, attention spans, money stress, and the weird intimacy of putting a mic in front of two people who are usually much more normal when nobody’s recording.

WW3 or nah? This episode is about what it does to your brain to live through one global emergency after another and still be expected to clock in, pay rent, answer texts, and act normal. We get into the fear around “World War III,” the confusion and misinformation spreading online, the way propaganda muddies everything, and why so many of us feel too burnt out to even panic properly anymore. More than anything, this is a conversation about crisis fatigue, political distrust, and what it means to try to think clearly while the horrors persist.

This episode picks up where we left off: the internet didn’t just “change,” it got redesigned around attention, anxiety, and endless consumption. We break down the difference between the old internet and the new internet. From there, we get into the “Amazonification” of everything i.e. platforms trying to become the one-stop shop, removing friction with autoplay, infinite scroll, and convenience that never lets you feel done. We end with the real question: if we’re not trying to time travel, what are we actually trying to get back and what would a human-sized internet look like (verified spaces, smaller circles, better design, and yes…better parenting)?

Remember when the internet had a bottom? In this episode Kirbs and Crispy talk Vine, the never-ending “MySpace comeback” rumors, and why nostalgia keeps lying to people who weren’t even there. We get into why Instagram/TikTok aren’t really “social” anymore and how infinite scroll turned every app into an attention casino.

Time for a fun episode! For the first time on So I Was Told, we step into the internet’s courtroom and start reading Reddit’s Am I The Asshole? We get into a birthday party blowup over a nut allergy cake (boundaries vs entitlement), a bride who tries to bench a 98 year old grandma from the reception (ageism), a sister who sells concert tickets for coke money (addiction, resentment), and a gym situation where a woman keeps filming and then flips the script with weaponized therapy language when she’s called out.We also talk consent, accountability, group chat literacy, and why some people will do anything except simply adjust the tripod.