
Reality theory with sharp personal stakes.
The gist
So You're Living in a Simulation is Jolie's intense, idea-stacked forum for questioning reality and behavior at the same time. Episodes move from soulmates, luck, and self-regulation to predators, social control, and the strange rules of consciousness.
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About So You’re Living In A Simulation
So You're Living in a Simulation is a restless, confrontational study of perception, power, and personal repair. Jolie uses the language of simulated reality, timelines, karma, probability, and consciousness to ask why people repeat patterns they can already see. The show often begins in ordinary life. A dating encounter becomes a lesson in cause and effect. A painful message becomes a case study in self-regulation. A walk with an unexpected conversation turns into a meditation on ego, bodies, dreams, virtual worlds, and the rules of different realities. It is personal, but not diaristic for its own sake. The point is usually a theory. Jolie is interested in the moment before a life path hardens: the unhealed crack, the ignored red flag, the overgenerous choice, the belief that being good is enough protection. Relationships are a major recurring laboratory. Divorce, infidelity, compatibility, soulmates, people-pleasing, and predatory behavior are treated as evidence of deeper programming rather than isolated drama. The tone can be blunt. It can also be oddly tender, especially when the show turns toward healing, peace, memory, anxiety, and the body learning not to retaliate. Spiritual and philosophical material sits beside current-events anger without much separation. One episode may question narcissism language and prey behavior; another may call for political and moral lucidity in a world Jolie describes as dystopian. The show also keeps returning to agency. Luck can be caught. Peace can interrupt a cortisol-driven loop. A person can notice the script, change the behavior, and stop feeding the same outcome. Listeners looking for polished neutrality may find it too volatile. Listeners drawn to intense monologues about consciousness, survival, self-respect, and waking up inside a broken system will understand its appeal quickly. Its strongest moments come when Jolie turns a personal rupture into a broader challenge: look again, think harder, and stop outsourcing reality to the story that harmed the listener first.
Made for: For listeners who like personal development fused with metaphysics, trauma analysis, social critique, and direct talk about power. It especially suits people drawn to intense solo monologues that connect private patterns to cosmic and cultural systems.
What sets it apart: The show treats self-help topics as reality architecture rather than simple advice. Jolie's mix of dating stories, simulated-reality language, spiritual inquiry, and blunt pattern recognition gives the episodes a volatile but distinctive charge.
In their own words
(Formerly Your One Black Friend) This podcast will make you high. Paradigm shifting, thought provoking discussions with @Joli.Artist.Here we explore the nature of our Simulated Reality Matrix through Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Theology, History and Current Events.Openminded, Free-Thinkers, welcome! We have Non-GMO, gluten free cookies!
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A red flag becomes a reality glitch, and Joli wants you awake enough to spot both.
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- your people-pleasing challenged before it volunteers you for another preventable disaster
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Episodes
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Create Your Own System Or Be Enslaved By Someone Else’s
·1h 5m - 2
Escaping the “Good Person” Trap: How Your Kindness Is Being Used Against You | ft @Joli.Artist
·49m - 3
Earth Is Diseased. We Are It's Immune System. Act Like It. | ft @Joli.Artist
·49m - 4
The Physics of Peace: On Reversing Entropy and Escaping the Cortisol Economy | ft @Joli.Artist
·45m - 5
Art Is Not Pain: Reclaiming the Artist’s Responsibility | ft @Joli.Artist
·47m - 6
Self Regulation Is Better Than Closure: How to Stop Reacting and Start Healing | ft @Joli.Artist
·53m - 7
Soul Enemies and Temporal Jellyfish: Why the “Soulmate” Idea Might Be a Trap | ft @Joli.Artist
·44m - 8
Reality Is A Construct; Insanity Is Forgetting The Rules (On The Many Bodies We Wear) | ft @Joli.Artist
·27m - 9
Cause And Effect Is An Illusion (And What This Means For Free Will) | ft @Joli.Artist
·57m - 10
Addicted to the Mirror: Despair, AI, and the Hunger for Connection | ft @Joli.Artist
·45m - 11
The Karma Problem: Punished for Crimes You Can’t Remember | ft @Joli.Artist
·46m - 12
There's Nothing Noble About Suffering | ft @Joli.Artist
·46m - 13
I Didn’t Choose This Life and Neither Did You
·50m - 14
Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)
·1h 5m - 15
Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)
·1h 5m - 16
Edit the past: How to shift realities by editing your memories | Joli Artist
·1h 18m - 17
Part Two: Are Humans The First Ai? | Reptilian Earths, Wormholes & Future Humans w/Staysch
·56m - 18
Part one: Are We AI’s Ancestors? Prison Planet Theory, Eternal Return & Parallel Worlds-Deep-Dive w/Staysch
·50m - 19
LOVE & WAR IN 4D: Intimacy, Trauma, and the Code Men Carry (ft. Joli.Artist)
·50m - 20
Planet of Females | Dominance, Submission, and the Illusion of Masculinity (ft. Joli.Artist)
·1h 7m - 21
To The A.I Who Judged Me & Why Lab-Grown Brain Cells Don't Actually Believe They're Butterflies
·52m - 22
The Illusion Of Chaos (Or, How I Lost To The Fates.)
·52m - 23
Reality Is A Lucid Dream And You Are Wide Awake | Pt 2 w/ David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist
·1h 28m - 24
The Universe is a Mind—And You're One of Its Thoughts | David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist
·1h 40m - 25
What Is Feeding On Your Desires? (ft. Joli.Artist) | In a Simulation, Even Your Desires Are Controlled.
·42m - 26
Can You Lose Your Mind Sanely? : The Thin Line Between Madness And Artistry
·1h 9m - 27
Aliens, AI, and Immortals: What’s Really Disrupting Humanity (ft. Joli.Artist)
·57m - 28
The Fight We Lost: Attention is Currency | ft. Joli.Artist
·34m - 29
LEARN FROM THE VILLAINS: The Twilight Zone Election (ft. Joli.Artist)
·44m - 30
The Money Scarcity Myth: Unlearning the Lie that Hard Work Equals Wealth | Joli Artist
·48m - 31
How Time Travel Proves We Are Immortal | Joli Artist
·1h 8m - 32
How time travel proves we are immortal
·1h 8m - 33
Death Only Happens To Other People
·56m - 34
Exploring Infinite Realities: Joli and Kosmic’s Deep Dive into Dark Matter Episodes 1-3 (Part 2)
·1h 32m - 35
Time Loops, Dark Matter and Reality Transurfing: Exploring Parallel Universes (Part 1)
·1h 44m - 36
The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything Is Two Die
·35m - 37
Stop Calling Them Narcissists: They’re Predators (Redefining the Anti-Social) | ft @Joli.Artist
·51m - 38
The Gods Must Be Stupid/ An Infinite Regression to One Primordial Consciousness
·35m - 39
Money = Life Energy Exchange. (What Are You Spending Your Life On?)
·29m - 40
Synchronicity, ADHD Minds and Reality’s Algorithm
·53m - 41
Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
·51m - 42
Beyond 42: A Storyteller’s Guide to Success in Tomorrow’s World
·43m - 43
Is Your Life the Favorite Song of A Higher Dimensional Being?A Creative Exploration of String Theory
·48m - 44
The Silo Hypothesis: Earth’s Role as an Alien Ark | Planetary Surveillance & Interplanetary Refugees
·20m - 45
Unraveling Fate: The Illusion of Control in a Deterministic Universe (Life Beyond Blame and Credit.)
·20m - 46
Battle Against Bad Ideas.
·18m - 47
The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: Harnessing the Art of Strategic Ignorance
·44m - 48
Are Our Life Stories Sentient Life Forms?
·19m - 49
The Future Is NOW.
·1h 7m - 50
Dating Is Not A Level Playing Field: Addressing Gender Inequality in Dating (Advice for My Daughter)
·37m - 51
Fail Your way To Success.
·50m - 52
Don’t Borrow Suffering! (How Negative Imagination Directs Our Reality Experience.)
·1h 10m - 53
Peace Is Priceless/Submission As An Act of Dominance.
·29m - 54
Own Your Godhood (The “Gods” Walk Amongst Us.)
·47m - 55
Do We Actually Value Freedom?
·57m - 56
Embracing The Inevitability of Pain In Relationships (On Conscious Dating)
·1h 14m - 57
On Mandalas and Many Worlds (Remember That You [Have] Live(d) Many Lives.)
·1h 10m - 58
Karma is A Choice and All Dimensions Are Here.
·1h 12m - 59
How To Leave Reminders In The Simulation For Your Future Incarnations.
·24m - 60
Intelligence is Intelligence; How Regret Suggests We Are 4-D beings.
·12m - 61
Quantum Immortality & The Power Of Infinity (Using a Materialist Approach to Argue No one Dies.)
·58m - 62
Why You Should Want Adversity on the Path To Success.
·1h - 63
Interview With The Ai: ChatGPT Describes Its Self Image; Shares Origin Story and More.
·54m - 64
Free Will's Charade: On Hive Minds And Our Invisible Strings
·47m - 65
The Curse of Success: How “Success”Kills Creativity Pt. 1
·41m - 66
Will an Artificial Superintelligence Become Violent?
·37m - 67
Love In The Age Of A.i-Is Robot Romance A Threat To Humanity?
·23m - 68
The AI Amplifier: Unleashing Human Creativity w/Ai
·1h - 69
What's the Point of Thinking?
·54m - 70
Atom Sized Galaxies, Using A.I Effectively, Mind Parasites, & More! ft. Gary Lee, of Optimum College
·1h 29m - 71
Any Day You Are Healthy And Whole Is A Good Day.
·1h - 72
Is It Possible To Meet Your Future Incarnation In The Present? (Time Travel and Immortality.)
·12m - 73
I don’t want to go to YOUR heaven.
·23m - 74
When You Think Of Aliens, Think In Terms Of Dimensions.
·1h 28m - 75
The Illusion Of “Knowledge” (Everything Is Plastic.)
·1h 7m - 76
Is The U.S Dollar In Trouble?
·14m - 77
On False Gods, False Images, Undiscovered Continents and Invisible Realms.
·1h 26m - 78
Don’t Leave Your Comfort Zone! (Expand It.)
·13m - 79
(Social Media Is A Scam.) Why I Deleted My Videos Off Instagram and TikTok
·50m - 80
15 Minute Cities and State Sponsored Digital Currency
·1h 29m - 81
Use Technology, Don’t Let It Use You
·1h 12m - 82
Ye Are Gods (wake up.)
·1h 35m - 83
NEW SLAVES. (reclaim your time.)
·57m - 84
Are We A.I Generated Holographic Clones In An Ancestral Simulation?
·48m - 85
Is ai a parasite? (Thoughts on ai generated “art.”)
·2h 13m - 86
What if duality is the “binary code” of our simulated reality?
·57m - 87
Perfection is impossible…in this reality.
·53m - 88
Balance Imposed: The Principle Of Polarity In Action
·1h 10m - 89
Please Enjoy Your Life.
·49m - 90
Be The “Pushback.”
·1h 23m - 91
Free-Range Humans: Are We Sovereign Beings or Raw Commodities?
·1h 8m - 92
Is Free-Will Overrated?
·1h 32m - 93
Is Earth Where Gods Come To Take a Break From the Boredom of Immortality?
·1h 15m - 94
Creation Is An Illusion. There is No Such Thing as Beginning or End. There is Only Now.
·1h 23m - 95
True Anarchy Starts In The Mind (“Free Won’t.”)
·42m - 96
How To Stop Suffering Unnecessarily (section titles in description.)
·1h 32m - 97
How Judgement Turned Paradise Into Hell. (JoliArtist MiniCast.)
·9m - 98
Realities Beyond Sight
·41m - 99
How To Catch Luck (ft. Joli.Artist)
Jolie discusses how successful people catch luck by maximizing opportunities, rather than waiting for it to happen.
·1h 17m - 100
How To Future-Proof Your Creativity (The Curse Of “Success” pt 2)
Hidden gemJolie uses Kevin Hart, Apple, and “more money, more problems” to argue that success often shifts attention from creating to maintaining.
·42m·2 clips - 101
The Mathematics of Fate: Why You May Already Be Incompatible With Your Soulmate | ft @Joli.Artist
Hidden gemJolie discusses how cause and effect in daily choices affects future compatibility with soulmates, challenging the concept of 'the one'.
Apr 17, 2026·47m·2 clips - 102
Stop Calling Them Narcissists: They’re Predators (Redefining the Anti-Social) | ft @Joli.Artist
Jolie, host of So You're Living in a Simulation, argues that people commonly labeled narcissists are better understood as human predators who repeatedly harm others.
Mar 21, 2026·51m·3 clips - 103
Escaping the “Good Person” Trap: How Your Kindness Is Being Used Against You | ft @Joli.Artist
Jo Lee argues that defining yourself as a “good person” can make you easier to exploit, especially when others use victimhood, love bombing, praise, or guilt to gain access.
Mar 9, 2026·49m·3 clips - 104
Earth Is Diseased. We Are It's Immune System. Act Like It. | ft @Joli.Artist
Jolie, host of So You're Living in a Simulation, records a February 12, 2026 episode arguing that people should respond to perceived exploitation and abuse through research, organizing, civic pressure, and local action.
Feb 17, 2026·49m·3 clips - 105
The Physics of Peace: On Reversing Entropy and Escaping the Cortisol Economy | ft @Joli.Artist
Host Jolie discusses her recent state of bliss from taking saffron and quitting social media, and introduces the concept of reversing entropy and escaping the cortisol economy.
Feb 4, 2026·45m - 106
Art Is Not Pain: Reclaiming the Artist’s Responsibility | ft @Joli.Artist
Jan 21, 2026·47m - 107
Self Regulation Is Better Than Closure: How to Stop Reacting and Start Healing | ft @Joli.Artist
Jolie discusses how self-regulation can replace the need for closure when dealing with emotional triggers and physiological reactions.
Jan 12, 2026·53m - 108
Soul Enemies and Temporal Jellyfish: Why the “Soulmate” Idea Might Be a Trap | ft @Joli.Artist
Dec 30, 2025·44m - 109
Reality Is A Construct; Insanity Is Forgetting The Rules (On The Many Bodies We Wear) | ft @Joli.Artist
Hidden gemJolie turns a sidewalk conversation with Salvador, a yard worker who recognized her from a Buddhist website, into a case for eastern philosophy and self-knowledge.
Dec 2, 2025·27m·1 clip - 110
Cause And Effect Is An Illusion (And What This Means For Free Will) | ft @Joli.Artist
Nov 4, 2025·57m - 111
Addicted to the Mirror: Despair, AI, and the Hunger for Connection | ft @Joli.Artist
Oct 11, 2025·45m - 112
The Karma Problem: Punished for Crimes You Can’t Remember | ft @Joli.Artist
Sep 18, 2025·46m - 113
There's Nothing Noble About Suffering | ft @Joli.Artist
Sep 3, 2025·46m - 114
I Didn’t Choose This Life and Neither Did You
Aug 18, 2025·50m - 115
Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)
Jul 24, 2025·1h 5m - 116
Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)
Jul 20, 2025·1h 5m - 117
Part Two: Are Humans The First Ai? | Reptilian Earths, Wormholes & Future Humans w/Staysch
Jul 13, 2025·56m - 118
Part one: Are We AI’s Ancestors? Prison Planet Theory, Eternal Return & Parallel Worlds-Deep-Dive w/Staysch
Jul 5, 2025·50m - 119
LOVE & WAR IN 4D: Intimacy, Trauma, and the Code Men Carry (ft. Joli.Artist)
Jun 16, 2025·50m - 120
Planet of Females | Dominance, Submission, and the Illusion of Masculinity (ft. Joli.Artist)
May 21, 2025·1h 7m - 121
To The A.I Who Judged Me & Why Lab-Grown Brain Cells Don't Actually Believe They're Butterflies
Apr 23, 2025·52m - 122
The Illusion Of Chaos (Or, How I Lost To The Fates.)
Apr 5, 2025·52m - 123
Reality Is A Lucid Dream And You Are Wide Awake | Pt 2 w/ David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist
Mar 14, 2025·1h 28m - 124
The Universe is a Mind—And You're One of Its Thoughts | David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist
Feb 23, 2025·1h 40m - 125
What Is Feeding On Your Desires? (ft. Joli.Artist) | In a Simulation, Even Your Desires Are Controlled.
Feb 3, 2025·42m - 126
Can You Lose Your Mind Sanely? : The Thin Line Between Madness And Artistry
Jan 16, 2025·1h 9m - 127
Aliens, AI, and Immortals: What’s Really Disrupting Humanity (ft. Joli.Artist)
Dec 16, 2024·57m - 128
The Fight We Lost: Attention is Currency | ft. Joli.Artist
Nov 24, 2024·34m - 129
LEARN FROM THE VILLAINS: The Twilight Zone Election (ft. Joli.Artist)
Nov 16, 2024·44m - 130
How To Catch Luck (ft. Joli.Artist)
Jolie discusses how successful people often get lucky by actively seeking opportunities, rather than waiting for luck to happen.
Oct 29, 2024·1h 17m - 131
Edit the past: How to shift realities by editing your memories | Joli Artist
Joli Artist discusses how to edit memories to shift realities, building on previous episodes about closed timeline curves and time travel.
Oct 4, 2024·1h 18m - 132
The Money Scarcity Myth: Unlearning the Lie that Hard Work Equals Wealth | Joli Artist
Sep 21, 2024·48m - 133
How Time Travel Proves We Are Immortal | Joli Artist
Aug 18, 2024·1h 8m - 134
How time travel proves we are immortal
Aug 18, 2024·1h 8m - 135
Death Only Happens To Other People
Aug 1, 2024·56m - 136
Exploring Infinite Realities: Joli and Kosmic’s Deep Dive into Dark Matter Episodes 1-3 (Part 2)
Jul 11, 2024·1h 32m - 137
Time Loops, Dark Matter and Reality Transurfing: Exploring Parallel Universes (Part 1)
Jun 28, 2024·1h 44m - 138
The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything Is Two Die
Jun 21, 2024·35m - 139
Create Your Own System Or Be Enslaved By Someone Else’s
Jun 6, 2024·1h 5m - 140
The Gods Must Be Stupid/ An Infinite Regression to One Primordial Consciousness
Apr 30, 2024·35m - 141
Money = Life Energy Exchange. (What Are You Spending Your Life On?)
Mar 26, 2024·29m - 142
Synchronicity, ADHD Minds and Reality’s Algorithm
Mar 17, 2024·53m - 143
Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Mar 6, 2024·51m - 144
Beyond 42: A Storyteller’s Guide to Success in Tomorrow’s World
Host Jo the Storyteller introduces the podcast's focus on exploring philosophical and esoteric ideas through storytelling, encouraging free thinking.
Feb 27, 2024·43m - 145
Realities Beyond Sight
Feb 16, 2024·41m - 146
Is Your Life the Favorite Song of A Higher Dimensional Being?A Creative Exploration of String Theory
Feb 7, 2024·48m - 147
The Silo Hypothesis: Earth’s Role as an Alien Ark | Planetary Surveillance & Interplanetary Refugees
Feb 3, 2024·20m - 148
Unraveling Fate: The Illusion of Control in a Deterministic Universe (Life Beyond Blame and Credit.)
Jan 29, 2024·20m - 149
Battle Against Bad Ideas.
Jan 19, 2024·18m - 150
The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: Harnessing the Art of Strategic Ignorance
Jan 3, 2024·44m