Being Super

Being Super is life advice delivered as a comedic monologue, from a speaker who goes by Anthony in one episode and talks directly to the people listening. The register is a pep talk, not a lecture. Several openings follow a familiar pattern: a hope that the listener's Monday is going well, sometimes a note on the weather, a quick catch-up. Then comes the point, and it is usually a plain one. In 'Patience is what you need!' he argues that no one will love a life more than the person living it, and that a glamorous post from Rome reveals nothing about how its poster feels once the picture is down. In 'Check your surroundings!' he describes stepping away from coworkers who complained constantly and falling in with a friendlier group that made the best of the job. Who a person spends the workday with, he suggests, decides how long it feels. 'What's your passion?' offers something close to a method. For anyone unsure of a next move, he recommends asking what their childhood self liked to do, and he pictures building a life as something rolled down a hill: wobbly, slow to gain traction, then growing bigger and bigger. He places the present squarely in what he calls the 'packing phase'. The advice often wanders. In 'Emotional Timelines!' a warning against gloating over something like a raise becomes a seasoning analogy, which becomes an unresolved question about whether cakes take salt, which ends with him admitting he does not bake. Sign-offs share that looseness; one closes on a joke about getting into beach shape and a Brad Pitt comparison he concedes makes no sense. 'Midweek Checkin #1' is presented as a different kind of episode, a looser talk about what is going on in his life rather than a single subject. It includes a story about failing to notice a woman flirting with him until someone else pointed it out, plus some bafflement at how subtle hints are meant to be read. 'Dealing with Judgment' includes a riff on Valentine's Day landing on a Monday, reframed as a day for loving oneself, with a pointed request that critics just let people have it. He mentions working at a coffee shop, and elsewhere declares coffee amazing and worth getting anyway. Closings invite feedback and direct messages, and one asks listeners what they wanted to do as kids and whether they will do it now. Strong language turns up regularly, so it is not a pick for a clean listen. What it offers instead is sincere encouragement without polish, from a speaker who admits he is still working on things himself.