Categories & segments

Avoid returning to personal hell; distrust cryosleep

Work the problem

Luck runs out; guts only get you so far

Two explicit lessons are offered: “it’s not finished until you type it up,” likened to movies being abandoned rather than finished, and a sarcastic instruction to keep investigating even at the cost of family and sanity because Fincher may adapt it.

When a homicidal maniac is loose, find your children, check in, and organize a phone chain.

The hosts split between “speculation becomes fact” and “not till you have a kid of your own.”

Never help a creepy stranger move furniture into a van.

Life is both destiny and floating-on-the-wind chance; you cannot know which until the experience unfolds.

Get a capable lawyer; kindness while on the run

“Don’t underestimate the cook” was the lesson.

Do not let your drug dealer upsell you; the claim that bongs filter addiction is exposed as false within Saul’s own joint-heavy behavior.

Oil defeats religion and unchecked competition can poison the self and the world.