This episode of The Sidebar Podcast moves fluidly between humor, reflection, and sharp cultural critique.

The conversation starts light before expanding into what adulthood really looks like — from making friends after 30 to navigating social spaces that feel increasingly hollow. The episode interrogates pretty privilege, empty packaging, and the ways society keeps people distracted from what’s actually connected beneath the surface.

As the tone deepens, the discussion turns to state power, violence, and collective blind spots — asking why certain realities are harder for some people to recognize. From creative exploitation to disagreement being mislabeled as hate, the episode challenges listeners to sit with discomfort rather than scroll past it.

It’s layered, unfiltered, and very Sidebar.

0:00 — Intro (speaking Spanish)
2:00 — Making friends over 30
5:20 — Optionally chopped
10:52 — Pretty privilege, no personality, empty package
12:40 — Society is a distraction
18:54 — Pretti killed by ICE
24:36 — It’s all connected — why don’t white people get that?
33:30 — Close run-ins with the toilet
47:54 — Why can’t we disagree without it being called hating?
51:00 — Creativity gets exploited
1:04:03 — Why didn’t we call them out? (Stomp the Yard)
1:10:00 — Outro