** Content note: Before you hit play: this episode goes to some real places. There's a brief mention of a childhood suicide attempt. It's handled honestly, not dramatically. You're not ambushed by it. But you deserve to know it's there. **---I did the viral thing. I let ChatGPT roast this channel. The feedback was fair, thorough, and a little bit hilarious, and it led to some real changes in how this show operates.
In this behind the scenes episode I'm walking through what the roast said, why I'm keeping the scripted format (ADHD is not a punchline, it's the actual reason), and going all the way back to the origin story of this podcast. We're talking about the book that blew my mind on a dog walk, a depressive episode that got very dark, and a brother who casually said the thing that changed how I saw my entire childhood.
This is the most candid I've been about why Rage Against the Audacity exists and where it's going.
This isn't therapy. This is validation. For people tired of being everyone's emotional janitor.