So You’re Living In A Simulation

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Reality theory with sharp personal stakes.

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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
  • your dating history examined through cause, effect, and the unsettling mathematics of compatibility
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simulated reality and timelinessoulmates and compatibilityself-regulation and healingpredatory behavior and people-pleasingluck, success, and probabilitysocial media withdrawal and peacedreams, astral bodies, and psychedelicspolitical and spiritual awakening

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  1. 1

    Create Your Own System Or Be Enslaved By Someone Else’s

    ·1h 5m
  2. 2

    Escaping the “Good Person” Trap: How Your Kindness Is Being Used Against You | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·49m
  3. 3

    Earth Is Diseased. We Are It's Immune System. Act Like It. | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·49m
  4. 4

    The Physics of Peace: On Reversing Entropy and Escaping the Cortisol Economy | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·45m
  5. 5

    Art Is Not Pain: Reclaiming the Artist’s Responsibility | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·47m
  6. 6

    Self Regulation Is Better Than Closure: How to Stop Reacting and Start Healing | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·53m
  7. 7

    Soul Enemies and Temporal Jellyfish: Why the “Soulmate” Idea Might Be a Trap | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·44m
  8. 8

    Reality Is A Construct; Insanity Is Forgetting The Rules (On The Many Bodies We Wear) | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·27m
  9. 9

    Cause And Effect Is An Illusion (And What This Means For Free Will) | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·57m
  10. 10

    Addicted to the Mirror: Despair, AI, and the Hunger for Connection | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·45m
  11. 11

    The Karma Problem: Punished for Crimes You Can’t Remember | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·46m
  12. 12

    There's Nothing Noble About Suffering | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·46m
  13. 13

    I Didn’t Choose This Life and Neither Did You

    ·50m
  14. 14

    Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)

    ·1h 5m
  15. 15

    Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)

    ·1h 5m
  16. 16

    Edit the past: How to shift realities by editing your memories | Joli Artist

    ·1h 18m
  17. 17

    Part Two: Are Humans The First Ai? | Reptilian Earths, Wormholes & Future Humans w/Staysch

    ·56m
  18. 18

    Part one: Are We AI’s Ancestors? Prison Planet Theory, Eternal Return & Parallel Worlds-Deep-Dive w/Staysch

    ·50m
  19. 19

    LOVE & WAR IN 4D: Intimacy, Trauma, and the Code Men Carry (ft. Joli.Artist)

    ·50m
  20. 20

    Planet of Females | Dominance, Submission, and the Illusion of Masculinity (ft. Joli.Artist)

    ·1h 7m
  21. 21

    To The A.I Who Judged Me & Why Lab-Grown Brain Cells Don't Actually Believe They're Butterflies

    ·52m
  22. 22

    The Illusion Of Chaos (Or, How I Lost To The Fates.)

    ·52m
  23. 23

    Reality Is A Lucid Dream And You Are Wide Awake | Pt 2 w/ David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist

    ·1h 28m
  24. 24

    The Universe is a Mind—And You're One of Its Thoughts | David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist

    ·1h 40m
  25. 25

    What Is Feeding On Your Desires? (ft. Joli.Artist) | In a Simulation, Even Your Desires Are Controlled.

    ·42m
  26. 26

    Can You Lose Your Mind Sanely? : The Thin Line Between Madness And Artistry

    ·1h 9m
  27. 27

    Aliens, AI, and Immortals: What’s Really Disrupting Humanity (ft. Joli.Artist)

    ·57m
  28. 28

    The Fight We Lost: Attention is Currency | ft. Joli.Artist

    ·34m
  29. 29

    LEARN FROM THE VILLAINS: The Twilight Zone Election (ft. Joli.Artist)

    ·44m
  30. 30

    The Money Scarcity Myth: Unlearning the Lie that Hard Work Equals Wealth | Joli Artist

    ·48m
  31. 31

    How Time Travel Proves We Are Immortal | Joli Artist

    ·1h 8m
  32. 32

    How time travel proves we are immortal

    ·1h 8m
  33. 33

    Death Only Happens To Other People

    ·56m
  34. 34

    Exploring Infinite Realities: Joli and Kosmic’s Deep Dive into Dark Matter Episodes 1-3 (Part 2)

    ·1h 32m
  35. 35

    Time Loops, Dark Matter and Reality Transurfing: Exploring Parallel Universes (Part 1)

    ·1h 44m
  36. 36

    The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything Is Two Die

    ·35m
  37. 37

    Stop Calling Them Narcissists: They’re Predators (Redefining the Anti-Social) | ft @Joli.Artist

    ·51m
  38. 38

    The Gods Must Be Stupid/ An Infinite Regression to One Primordial Consciousness

    ·35m
  39. 39

    Money = Life Energy Exchange. (What Are You Spending Your Life On?)

    ·29m
  40. 40

    Synchronicity, ADHD Minds and Reality’s Algorithm

    ·53m
  41. 41

    Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?

    ·51m
  42. 42

    Beyond 42: A Storyteller’s Guide to Success in Tomorrow’s World

    ·43m
  43. 43

    Is Your Life the Favorite Song of A Higher Dimensional Being?A Creative Exploration of String Theory

    ·48m
  44. 44

    The Silo Hypothesis: Earth’s Role as an Alien Ark | Planetary Surveillance & Interplanetary Refugees

    ·20m
  45. 45

    Unraveling Fate: The Illusion of Control in a Deterministic Universe (Life Beyond Blame and Credit.)

    ·20m
  46. 46

    Battle Against Bad Ideas.

    ·18m
  47. 47

    The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: Harnessing the Art of Strategic Ignorance

    ·44m
  48. 48

    Are Our Life Stories Sentient Life Forms?

    ·19m
  49. 49

    The Future Is NOW.

    ·1h 7m
  50. 50

    Dating Is Not A Level Playing Field: Addressing Gender Inequality in Dating (Advice for My Daughter)

    ·37m
  51. 51

    Fail Your way To Success.

    ·50m
  52. 52

    Don’t Borrow Suffering! (How Negative Imagination Directs Our Reality Experience.)

    ·1h 10m
  53. 53

    Peace Is Priceless/Submission As An Act of Dominance.

    ·29m
  54. 54

    Own Your Godhood (The “Gods” Walk Amongst Us.)

    ·47m
  55. 55

    Do We Actually Value Freedom?

    ·57m
  56. 56

    Embracing The Inevitability of Pain In Relationships (On Conscious Dating)

    ·1h 14m
  57. 57

    On Mandalas and Many Worlds (Remember That You [Have] Live(d) Many Lives.)

    ·1h 10m
  58. 58

    Karma is A Choice and All Dimensions Are Here.

    ·1h 12m
  59. 59

    How To Leave Reminders In The Simulation For Your Future Incarnations.

    ·24m
  60. 60

    Intelligence is Intelligence; How Regret Suggests We Are 4-D beings.

    ·12m
  61. 61

    Quantum Immortality & The Power Of Infinity (Using a Materialist Approach to Argue No one Dies.)

    ·58m
  62. 62

    Why You Should Want Adversity on the Path To Success.

    ·1h
  63. 63

    Interview With The Ai: ChatGPT Describes Its Self Image; Shares Origin Story and More.

    ·54m
  64. 64

    Free Will's Charade: On Hive Minds And Our Invisible Strings

    ·47m
  65. 65

    The Curse of Success: How “Success”Kills Creativity Pt. 1

    ·41m
  66. 66

    Will an Artificial Superintelligence Become Violent?

    ·37m
  67. 67

    Love In The Age Of A.i-Is Robot Romance A Threat To Humanity?

    ·23m
  68. 68

    The AI Amplifier: Unleashing Human Creativity w/Ai

    ·1h
  69. 69

    What's the Point of Thinking?

    ·54m
  70. 70

    Atom Sized Galaxies, Using A.I Effectively, Mind Parasites, & More! ft. Gary Lee, of Optimum College

    ·1h 29m
  71. 71

    Any Day You Are Healthy And Whole Is A Good Day.

    ·1h
  72. 72

    Is It Possible To Meet Your Future Incarnation In The Present? (Time Travel and Immortality.)

    ·12m
  73. 73

    I don’t want to go to YOUR heaven.

    ·23m
  74. 74

    When You Think Of Aliens, Think In Terms Of Dimensions.

    ·1h 28m
  75. 75

    The Illusion Of “Knowledge” (Everything Is Plastic.)

    ·1h 7m
  76. 76

    Is The U.S Dollar In Trouble?

    ·14m
  77. 77

    On False Gods, False Images, Undiscovered Continents and Invisible Realms.

    ·1h 26m
  78. 78

    Don’t Leave Your Comfort Zone! (Expand It.)

    ·13m
  79. 79

    (Social Media Is A Scam.) Why I Deleted My Videos Off Instagram and TikTok

    ·50m
  80. 80

    15 Minute Cities and State Sponsored Digital Currency

    ·1h 29m
  81. 81

    Use Technology, Don’t Let It Use You

    ·1h 12m
  82. 82

    Ye Are Gods (wake up.)

    ·1h 35m
  83. 83

    NEW SLAVES. (reclaim your time.)

    ·57m
  84. 84

    Are We A.I Generated Holographic Clones In An Ancestral Simulation?

    ·48m
  85. 85

    Is ai a parasite? (Thoughts on ai generated “art.”)

    ·2h 13m
  86. 86

    What if duality is the “binary code” of our simulated reality?

    ·57m
  87. 87

    Perfection is impossible…in this reality.

    ·53m
  88. 88

    Balance Imposed: The Principle Of Polarity In Action

    ·1h 10m
  89. 89

    Please Enjoy Your Life.

    ·49m
  90. 90

    Be The “Pushback.”

    ·1h 23m
  91. 91

    Free-Range Humans: Are We Sovereign Beings or Raw Commodities?

    ·1h 8m
  92. 92

    Is Free-Will Overrated?

    ·1h 32m
  93. 93

    Is Earth Where Gods Come To Take a Break From the Boredom of Immortality?

    ·1h 15m
  94. 94

    Creation Is An Illusion. There is No Such Thing as Beginning or End. There is Only Now.

    ·1h 23m
  95. 95

    True Anarchy Starts In The Mind (“Free Won’t.”)

    ·42m
  96. 96

    How To Stop Suffering Unnecessarily (section titles in description.)

    ·1h 32m
  97. 97

    How Judgement Turned Paradise Into Hell. (JoliArtist MiniCast.)

    ·9m
  98. 98

    Realities Beyond Sight

    ·41m
  99. 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. 100

    How To Future-Proof Your Creativity (The Curse Of “Success” pt 2)

    Hidden gem

    Jolie uses Kevin Hart, Apple, and “more money, more problems” to argue that success often shifts attention from creating to maintaining.

    ·42m·2 clips
  101. 101

    The Mathematics of Fate: Why You May Already Be Incompatible With Your Soulmate | ft @Joli.Artist

    Hidden gem

    Jolie 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 106

    Art Is Not Pain: Reclaiming the Artist’s Responsibility | ft @Joli.Artist

    Jan 21, 2026·47m
  107. 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. 108

    Soul Enemies and Temporal Jellyfish: Why the “Soulmate” Idea Might Be a Trap | ft @Joli.Artist

    Dec 30, 2025·44m
  109. 109

    Reality Is A Construct; Insanity Is Forgetting The Rules (On The Many Bodies We Wear) | ft @Joli.Artist

    Hidden gem

    Jolie 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. 110

    Cause And Effect Is An Illusion (And What This Means For Free Will) | ft @Joli.Artist

    Nov 4, 2025·57m
  111. 111

    Addicted to the Mirror: Despair, AI, and the Hunger for Connection | ft @Joli.Artist

    Oct 11, 2025·45m
  112. 112

    The Karma Problem: Punished for Crimes You Can’t Remember | ft @Joli.Artist

    Sep 18, 2025·46m
  113. 113

    There's Nothing Noble About Suffering | ft @Joli.Artist

    Sep 3, 2025·46m
  114. 114

    I Didn’t Choose This Life and Neither Did You

    Aug 18, 2025·50m
  115. 115

    Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)

    Jul 24, 2025·1h 5m
  116. 116

    Visitors from Elsewhen: Extratemporals & Extradimensionals (Joli Artist)

    Jul 20, 2025·1h 5m
  117. 117

    Part Two: Are Humans The First Ai? | Reptilian Earths, Wormholes & Future Humans w/Staysch

    Jul 13, 2025·56m
  118. 118

    Part one: Are We AI’s Ancestors? Prison Planet Theory, Eternal Return & Parallel Worlds-Deep-Dive w/Staysch

    Jul 5, 2025·50m
  119. 119

    LOVE & WAR IN 4D: Intimacy, Trauma, and the Code Men Carry (ft. Joli.Artist)

    Jun 16, 2025·50m
  120. 120

    Planet of Females | Dominance, Submission, and the Illusion of Masculinity (ft. Joli.Artist)

    May 21, 2025·1h 7m
  121. 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. 122

    The Illusion Of Chaos (Or, How I Lost To The Fates.)

    Apr 5, 2025·52m
  123. 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. 124

    The Universe is a Mind—And You're One of Its Thoughts | David Jay Brown & Joli.Artist

    Feb 23, 2025·1h 40m
  125. 125

    What Is Feeding On Your Desires? (ft. Joli.Artist) | In a Simulation, Even Your Desires Are Controlled.

    Feb 3, 2025·42m
  126. 126

    Can You Lose Your Mind Sanely? : The Thin Line Between Madness And Artistry

    Jan 16, 2025·1h 9m
  127. 127

    Aliens, AI, and Immortals: What’s Really Disrupting Humanity (ft. Joli.Artist)

    Dec 16, 2024·57m
  128. 128

    The Fight We Lost: Attention is Currency | ft. Joli.Artist

    Nov 24, 2024·34m
  129. 129

    LEARN FROM THE VILLAINS: The Twilight Zone Election (ft. Joli.Artist)

    Nov 16, 2024·44m
  130. 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. 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. 132

    The Money Scarcity Myth: Unlearning the Lie that Hard Work Equals Wealth | Joli Artist

    Sep 21, 2024·48m
  133. 133

    How Time Travel Proves We Are Immortal | Joli Artist

    Aug 18, 2024·1h 8m
  134. 134

    How time travel proves we are immortal

    Aug 18, 2024·1h 8m
  135. 135

    Death Only Happens To Other People

    Aug 1, 2024·56m
  136. 136

    Exploring Infinite Realities: Joli and Kosmic’s Deep Dive into Dark Matter Episodes 1-3 (Part 2)

    Jul 11, 2024·1h 32m
  137. 137

    Time Loops, Dark Matter and Reality Transurfing: Exploring Parallel Universes (Part 1)

    Jun 28, 2024·1h 44m
  138. 138

    The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything Is Two Die

    Jun 21, 2024·35m
  139. 139

    Create Your Own System Or Be Enslaved By Someone Else’s

    Jun 6, 2024·1h 5m
  140. 140

    The Gods Must Be Stupid/ An Infinite Regression to One Primordial Consciousness

    Apr 30, 2024·35m
  141. 141

    Money = Life Energy Exchange. (What Are You Spending Your Life On?)

    Mar 26, 2024·29m
  142. 142

    Synchronicity, ADHD Minds and Reality’s Algorithm

    Mar 17, 2024·53m
  143. 143

    Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?

    Mar 6, 2024·51m
  144. 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. 145

    Realities Beyond Sight

    Feb 16, 2024·41m
  146. 146

    Is Your Life the Favorite Song of A Higher Dimensional Being?A Creative Exploration of String Theory

    Feb 7, 2024·48m
  147. 147

    The Silo Hypothesis: Earth’s Role as an Alien Ark | Planetary Surveillance & Interplanetary Refugees

    Feb 3, 2024·20m
  148. 148

    Unraveling Fate: The Illusion of Control in a Deterministic Universe (Life Beyond Blame and Credit.)

    Jan 29, 2024·20m
  149. 149

    Battle Against Bad Ideas.

    Jan 19, 2024·18m
  150. 150

    The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: The Power of Ignoring Sh*t: Harnessing the Art of Strategic Ignorance

    Jan 3, 2024·44m