Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:03 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2625254 en-us © 2026 Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin yes e8d92546-5869-585d-ba4b-4faf69f17922 jack@jacksorrin.com Jack Sorrin episodic false Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin is a weekly podcast for thoughtful people trying to stay sane, clear, and human in a world that feels louder, faster, stranger, and more divided by the day.

Jack Sorrin explores the forces shaping modern life — attention, technology, AI, politics, trust, status, meaning, beauty, belonging, and the quiet ache of not fitting the script.

This is not rage-bait. It is not recruiting. It is not self-help fluff. It is cultural diagnosis with human warmth: a weekly map and a weekly move for people who want intellectual depth, practical clarity, and language for the things they feel but cannot quite name.

If you are overwhelmed by the noise, suspicious of easy answers, and still stubbornly interested in truth, hope, and a more humane way to live, you are in the right place.

No yelling. No recruiting. Just clarity with teeth.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Jack Sorrin jack@jacksorrin.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/nybcb26ab6nklf4hhc8u1jiy5gth?.jpg Between Worlds with Jack Sorrin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2625254 BS03: Season 2 Preview: Install the OS for a Life That Holds BS03: Season 2 Preview: Install the OS for a Life That Holds Season 2 of Between Worlds is where the show shifts from diagnosis to construction. This preview gives listeners ten windows into the season ahead: agency, meaning, status, money, strength, trust, desire, repair, beauty, and rule of life. The core idea is self-governance, not self-optimization. Jack is not inviting listeners to manifest, hack, or guilt-project their way out of chaos. He is helping them install an operating system for life in 2026: one that makes them harder to draft, harder to herd, and harder to emotionally kidnap. Each episode will offer a scene, a carry line, and a move, because agreement is not transformation. The season culminates in a rule of life built around reality first, direction chosen, dignity protected, and love practiced.

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]]> Season 2 of Between Worlds is where the show shifts from diagnosis to construction. This preview gives listeners ten windows into the season ahead: agency, meaning, status, money, strength, trust, desire, repair, beauty, and rule of life. The core idea is self-governance, not self-optimization. Jack is not inviting listeners to manifest, hack, or guilt-project their way out of chaos. He is helping them install an operating system for life in 2026: one that makes them harder to draft, harder to herd, and harder to emotionally kidnap. Each episode will offer a scene, a carry line, and a move, because agreement is not transformation. The season culminates in a rule of life built around reality first, direction chosen, dignity protected, and love practiced.

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]]> Buzzsprout-19735259 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0400 916 full false BS02: Jackisms: A Field Guide to Between Worlds Vocabulary BS02: Jackisms: A Field Guide to Between Worlds Vocabulary This between-seasons mini-episode is a palate cleanser, field guide, and small act of linguistic housekeeping. Jack walks through the phrases that keep showing up in Between Worlds: clarity with teeth, drafted, approved boxes, Reality Check, The Move, no screens until you’ve touched the real, tool, not tutor, and a life that holds. The goal is not to create a private vocabulary club or, heaven preserve us, a cult with better typography. The goal is to give listeners language that works under pressure. These phrases are handles: ways to notice when attention has been hijacked, when the feed is setting the emotional temperature, when truth is becoming cruelty, or when love is becoming mush. Use the tools. Toss what does not help. Stay human.


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]]> This between-seasons mini-episode is a palate cleanser, field guide, and small act of linguistic housekeeping. Jack walks through the phrases that keep showing up in Between Worlds: clarity with teeth, drafted, approved boxes, Reality Check, The Move, no screens until you’ve touched the real, tool, not tutor, and a life that holds. The goal is not to create a private vocabulary club or, heaven preserve us, a cult with better typography. The goal is to give listeners language that works under pressure. These phrases are handles: ways to notice when attention has been hijacked, when the feed is setting the emotional temperature, when truth is becoming cruelty, or when love is becoming mush. Use the tools. Toss what does not help. Stay human.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19735254 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0400 462 1 12 bonus false BS01: Season One: What I Learned (And What I Didn't): Drift, Attention, and a Life That Holds BS01: Season One: What I Learned (And What I Didn't): Drift, Attention, and a Life That Holds 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 episode, Jack reflects on what Season One revealed about modern life, attention, and the need for a structure that protects what we love. The world is not merely distracting; it is designed to make us draftable. The answer is not panic, guilt, or another heroic self-improvement plan. It is a trellis: small anchors that keep us available for love, truth, responsibility, and the people actually in front of us. This week’s move is the Drift Check: notice where you drifted, then add one small anchor.


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]]> 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 episode, Jack reflects on what Season One revealed about modern life, attention, and the need for a structure that protects what we love. The world is not merely distracting; it is designed to make us draftable. The answer is not panic, guilt, or another heroic self-improvement plan. It is a trellis: small anchors that keep us available for love, truth, responsibility, and the people actually in front of us. This week’s move is the Drift Check: notice where you drifted, then add one small anchor.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19735240 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 418 1 11 bonus false S1E10: Hope Without Denial: A Rule of Life for 2026 S1E10: Hope Without Denial: A Rule of Life for 2026 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 it is or worse than it is. Hope is not a mood. Hope is a rhythm. This episode integrates the season's core practices into daily anchors, weekly rhythms, and seasonal resets. You will hear how attention, truth, relationships, repair, embodiment, tables, audits, and retreats work together as self-governance. The goal is not to become impressive. The goal is to become grounded, present, less draftable, and more fully yourself.

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]]> 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 it is or worse than it is. Hope is not a mood. Hope is a rhythm. This episode integrates the season's core practices into daily anchors, weekly rhythms, and seasonal resets. You will hear how attention, truth, relationships, repair, embodiment, tables, audits, and retreats work together as self-governance. The goal is not to become impressive. The goal is to become grounded, present, less draftable, and more fully yourself.

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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19434427 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1415 1 10 full false S1E09: Belonging Without a Tribe: Third Places and Real Friends S1E09: Belonging Without a Tribe: Third Places and Real Friends 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 can feel like community, but each can leave you hollow. Real belonging is slower, smaller, and built from place, repetition, and responsibility. Jack explains the difference between a third place and a third space, then shows how real community holds truth and love together without collapsing into sameness or contempt. The result is practical: become a regular, ritualize friendship, and join or build a thick community.


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]]> 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 can feel like community, but each can leave you hollow. Real belonging is slower, smaller, and built from place, repetition, and responsibility. Jack explains the difference between a third place and a third space, then shows how real community holds truth and love together without collapsing into sameness or contempt. The result is practical: become a regular, ritualize friendship, and join or build a thick community.


www.jacksorrin.com

]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19434380 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1864 1 9 full false S1E08: How to Disagree Without Becoming a Monster S1E08: How to Disagree Without Becoming a Monster 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 matters. Convictions matter. But being right is not the same as being formed. Jack gives you three rules of engagement for staying human under pressure: lower the heat, Mirror First, and name the goal line. You will also get one temperature-changing sentence for real conversations: 'Okay, pause. Help me understand what you are protecting.' Agreement is not transformation, so the episode ends with Anti-Monster Week.


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]]> 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 matters. Convictions matter. But being right is not the same as being formed. Jack gives you three rules of engagement for staying human under pressure: lower the heat, Mirror First, and name the goal line. You will also get one temperature-changing sentence for real conversations: 'Okay, pause. Help me understand what you are protecting.' Agreement is not transformation, so the episode ends with Anti-Monster Week.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19434403 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400 1795 1 8 full false S1E07: Attention Theft: The Seven-Day Attention Audit S1E07: Attention Theft: The Seven-Day Attention Audit 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. It steals capacity: presence, patience, kindness, boredom, thought, prayer, and depth. The audit walks you through four moves: track, remove, replace, and sustain. You will learn how to notice your pickups, add friction, kill nonhuman pings, replace transition scrolling, practice boredom reps, create deep work islands, and build a relapse plan. This is not self-optimization. This is self-governance.


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]]> 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. It steals capacity: presence, patience, kindness, boredom, thought, prayer, and depth. The audit walks you through four moves: track, remove, replace, and sustain. You will learn how to notice your pickups, add friction, kill nonhuman pings, replace transition scrolling, practice boredom reps, create deep work islands, and build a relapse plan. This is not self-optimization. This is self-governance.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19434377 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0400 2214 1 7 full false S1E06: Jokes Tell the Truth: Comedy as Moral X-Ray S1E06: Jokes Tell the Truth: Comedy as Moral X-Ray 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, lighter, and more human. Some laughter makes you harder, meaner, and more contemptuous. Jack gives you a way to listen to what you laugh at without becoming a scold, a cynic, or a walking comment section. The episode's pocket line is simple: do not just laugh, listen. Your laughter is telling you what you love, what you fear, and what you may be avoiding.

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]]> 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, lighter, and more human. Some laughter makes you harder, meaner, and more contemptuous. Jack gives you a way to listen to what you laugh at without becoming a scold, a cynic, or a walking comment section. The episode's pocket line is simple: do not just laugh, listen. Your laughter is telling you what you love, what you fear, and what you may be avoiding.

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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19434367 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:00:00 -0400 1842 1 6 full false S1E05: Politics for People Who Hate Politics: Staying Human in the Public Square S1E05: Politics for People Who Hate Politics: Staying Human in the Public Square 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. Instead of becoming a gladiator, Jack invites you to become a citizen again. The move is threefold: shrink the battlefield, separate speaking from performing, and vote like a neighbor. Politics still matters, but it cannot carry the weight of your soul. This episode offers a calmer, clearer way to care, speak, vote, and act without becoming a caricature.


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]]> 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. Instead of becoming a gladiator, Jack invites you to become a citizen again. The move is threefold: shrink the battlefield, separate speaking from performing, and vote like a neighbor. Politics still matters, but it cannot carry the weight of your soul. This episode offers a calmer, clearer way to care, speak, vote, and act without becoming a caricature.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19428363 Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400 1643 1 5 full false S1E04: Algorithms vs Your Soul: How You're Being Formed by the Feed S1E04: Algorithms vs Your Soul: How You're Being Formed by the Feed 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 think you are. The algorithm does not need to understand you. It only needs to predict you. But prediction is power, and power needs boundaries. Instead of deleting your phone and moving to a decorative cabin, Jack offers practical counter-moves: add friction, choose your formation diet, and re-embody your life. The goal is simple: treat the feed like a tool, not a tutor.


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]]> 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 think you are. The algorithm does not need to understand you. It only needs to predict you. But prediction is power, and power needs boundaries. Instead of deleting your phone and moving to a decorative cabin, Jack offers practical counter-moves: add friction, choose your formation diet, and re-embody your life. The goal is simple: treat the feed like a tool, not a tutor.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19428341 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0400 1589 1 4 full false S1E01: You're Not Crazy, It's Just 2026: How to Stay Sane in a Machine-Tempo World S1E01: You're Not Crazy, It's Just 2026: How to Stay Sane in a Machine-Tempo World 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 episode, Jack reflects on what Season One revealed about modern life, attention, and the need for a structure that protects what we love. The world is not merely distracting; it is designed to make us draftable. The answer is not panic, guilt, or another heroic self-improvement plan. It is a trellis: small anchors that keep us available for love, truth, responsibility, and the people actually in front of us. This week’s move is the Drift Check: notice where you drifted, then add one small anchor.

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]]> 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 episode, Jack reflects on what Season One revealed about modern life, attention, and the need for a structure that protects what we love. The world is not merely distracting; it is designed to make us draftable. The answer is not panic, guilt, or another heroic self-improvement plan. It is a trellis: small anchors that keep us available for love, truth, responsibility, and the people actually in front of us. This week’s move is the Drift Check: notice where you drifted, then add one small anchor.

www.jacksorrin.com

]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19462456 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1708 1 1 full false S1E03: Truth Without a Tribe: How to Think When Reality Is Fractured S1E03: Truth Without a Tribe: How to Think When Reality Is Fractured 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 hardened threat-detectors with Wi-Fi. This episode offers a third way: disciplined clarity. Not perfect certainty. Not a tribe to tell you what to think. A protocol. You will learn how to slow your inputs, audit incentives, go to primary sources, use levels of certainty, and talk to real people before the internet turns your nervous system into a courtroom.


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]]> 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 hardened threat-detectors with Wi-Fi. This episode offers a third way: disciplined clarity. Not perfect certainty. Not a tribe to tell you what to think. A protocol. You will learn how to slow your inputs, audit incentives, go to primary sources, use levels of certainty, and talk to real people before the internet turns your nervous system into a courtroom.


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]]> Buzzsprout-19428308 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1752 1 3 full false S1E02: Hybrids: How to Belong When You Don't Fit Anywhere S1E02: Hybrids: How to Belong When You Don't Fit Anywhere 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-between is not always a defect. Sometimes it means the categories are too small for a whole human being. Jack maps three kinds of hybrids: Exiles, who drift; Translators, who bend; and Builders, who turn their in-between life into a calling. This episode is an invitation to stop performing for belonging, choose an anchor, and build a third space where whole humans can breathe.


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]]> 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-between is not always a defect. Sometimes it means the categories are too small for a whole human being. Jack maps three kinds of hybrids: Exiles, who drift; Translators, who bend; and Builders, who turn their in-between life into a calling. This episode is an invitation to stop performing for belonging, choose an anchor, and build a third space where whole humans can breathe.


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]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19428266 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:00 -0400 1599 1 2 full false S1 Trailer Episode S1 Trailer Episode 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 search for truth, with intellectual depth, practical insight, and genuine human warmth.

No rage bait. No recruiting. No self help fluff. Just clarity with teeth.

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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 search for truth, with intellectual depth, practical insight, and genuine human warmth.

No rage bait. No recruiting. No self help fluff. Just clarity with teeth.

www.jacksorrin.com

]]> Jack Sorrin Buzzsprout-19443086 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:00:00 -0400 250 1 1 trailer false