About this episode
The episode discusses the phenomenon of outsourced opinions in modern discourse, using examples from music and sports.
I think we are officially living in the era of outsourced opinions. People don’t experience things anymore… they inherit opinions about things. This episode starts with my continued obsession with Drake’s ICEMAN and why I genuinely believe it may be his best overall body of work. Songs like “Shabang,” “2 HARD 4 THE RADIO,” “National Treasures,” “Janice STFU” and especially “Make Them Remember” somehow keep getting BETTER the more I listen to them. But what confuses me is how many people — even self-proclaimed Drake fans — already decided: “Drake fell off.” Which led me into a much bigger conversation about how modern discourse works. Because the same thing is happening to SGA. Back-to-back MVP. Three straight years as the one seed in the Western Conference. Elite consistency. And somehow the dominant narrative is still: “free throw merchant.” Which naturally brings me back to Steph Curry discourse, Luka contradictions, and eventually James Harden — whose “playoff choker” label may have started under completely flawed logic considering he was mostly losing to the SAME Warriors dynasty people say nobody could beat. This episode is really about: groupthink narrative culture…
People in this episode
Host: Michael Roberson
Topics covered
- outsourced opinions
- groupthink
- narrative culture
- independent thinking
- modern discourse
- music analysis
- sports commentary
Keywords
- outsourced opinions
- Drake
- ICEMAN
- groupthink
- narrative culture
- SGA
- Steph Curry
- James Harden
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: ICEMAN, Shabang, 2 HARD 4 THE RADIO, National Treasures, Janice STFU, Make Them Remember
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