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Welcome to Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin, a weekly podcast for thoughtful people seeking clarity in a world that feels louder, faster, and more divided every day.Each episode explores the ideas shaping modern life, from AI and technology to politics, meaning, belonging, and the…
Season One of Between Worlds began as a set of episodes, but it became something more useful: a ladder. Sanity, belonging, truth, formation, politics, comedy, attention, disagreement, real friendship, and rule of life all pointed to one underlying problem: drift. In this short between-seasons…
What do you do when none of the approved boxes fit? In this episode, Jack names the loneliness of the hybrid: the person who feels too much of one thing for one tribe and too much of another thing for the next. But being…
In a world of ten-second clips, hot takes, and profitable frames, truth gets broken before most people know what happened. Jack maps the three fractures: speed, incentives, and identity capture. Then he names the trust-collapse spiral that turns confused people into surrendered cynics or…
This episode goes into the engine room. Jack argues that the feed is not merely information; it is formation. Through attention capture, identity shaping, and moral outsourcing, algorithms train what you notice, what you fear, what you mock, what you love, and who you…
If the word politics makes your soul file a change-of-address form, this episode is for you. Jack argues that many people do not hate public life; they hate being drafted into hysteria. Modern politics deforms people when it becomes identity, entertainment, and moral outsourcing.…
Comedy is not just entertainment. It is a truth-delivery system. In this episode, Jack shows how laughter exposes hypocrisy, bypasses defenses, and relieves pressure when serious speech feels too heavy to receive. But comedy has a moral shape. Some laughter makes you more honest,…
Your phone is not just a tool. It is a formation environment with its own tempo, values, rewards, and punishments. In this field-manual episode, Jack moves from diagnosis to drill: the Seven-Day Attention Audit. The problem is not only that your phone steals time.…
Disagreement is unavoidable. Monstrosity is optional. In this episode, Jack names the Monster Pipeline: motive, label, contempt, license. It is the quiet sequence that turns real people into enemy objects and makes cruelty feel righteous. This is not a lesson in being nice. Truth…
You can have good opinions and still be lonely. You can know the truth and still be draftable. In the second episode of the closing trilogy, Jack maps the ecosystem where human beings actually belong. He names three counterfeits: audience, network, and tribe. Each…
The Season 1 finale gathers the whole toolkit into a rule of life: not a lifestyle brand, not a guilt spreadsheet, but a trellis that helps a real life grow. Jack defines hope without denial as the refusal to pretend reality is better than…
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