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Cory Thinks Out Loud is a solo podcast exploring sobriety, autonomy, belief systems, discipline, software, and building a life intentionally.
Sometimes it’s just Cory thinking through ideas in real time.
Sometimes it’s a conversation with AI.
Occasionally, guests join in.
No scripts. No performance. Just honest exploration.
If you’re interested in recovery, self-improvement, systems thinking, or questioning inherited assumptions — you’re in the right place.
Sometimes it’s just Cory thinking through ideas in real time.
Sometimes it’s a conversation with AI.
Occasionally, guests join in.
No scripts. No performance. Just honest exploration.
If you’re interested in recovery, self-improvement, systems thinking, or questioning inherited assumptions — you’re in the right place.
Update frequency:
every 2 days
Average audio length:
77 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
55 episodes
since Feb. 11, 2026
episodic
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Cory Thinks Out Loud – The Super Bowl of Creativity: AI, Robo-Communism & the Future of Humanity
October 26, 2026
What happens when artificial intelligence changes the world so dramatically that humanity no longer needs to organize everything around making money?
In this episode of Cory Thinks …
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Blue skies. White clouds. Cumulus. Rain on a sunny day. And a talking banana who thinks ChatGPT is a giant potato butt.
Welcome to another sermon from the Church of the Great Outdoors.
Today, Cory takes a philosophical journey through nature, childhood creativity, corporate incompetence, consumer r…
No A-I Today. Doobity doo. Mostly talking about a new idea about pharma and how it's not only addictive but the manipulation of consciousness as a dangerous preposition.
Cory explores the relationship between consciousness, identity, autonomy, gratitude, and the Buddhist concept that attachment and desire create suffering.The central idea is that **freedom may come not from controlling reality, but from releasing the need to control it.**Even the desire to remain a…
What happened to the Spartans?
Today, Cory takes a philosophical journey through ancient warrior cultures, the Battle of Thermopylae, Native American warriors, family military history, representative government, authority, autonomy, genetics, evolution, and the possibility that the world's greatest…
New format, no A-I, just talking to my self, cause I'm the realest dude I know. Talking about why fighting is dumb, the more capable you become, and talkin about random crap like social media, a little politics, sobriety, yadda ya. No more A-I, we'll see how this goes as we go!
No more A-I. Just a guy talking to himself. Reflecting on where he's gone, where he came from, and how at the root of it, we're riding a planet, going somewhere, no one knows where, and just passing the time.
EverQuest, sobriety, systems, family, freedom, feedback, and the strange realization that even questioning a system can make you part of the system.
Today I think out loud about growing up inside virtual worlds, the lessons EverQuest taught me about economics, consequences, friendship, resilience, …
Thirty-one miles on a whim, then the whole conversation. Life has a cost, not just a value. Groove the loop until the waste starts paying you back. Vegan is gatherer mode, animal food is hunter mode, and the knees knew the difference. The Costco song is the same pattern as sober shaming: they see y…
What if human life doesn’t automatically have value—what if it starts with a cost?
Cory and ChatGPT go two hours deep into Mother Nature’s ledger: the animals, plants, water, energy, labor, and resources required to keep one human alive—and what, if anything, we give back in return.
From there, the…
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