Episode 6 | Sasha Stone
Born in Southern California towards the end of the hippy era, Sasha had a bit of a cliched life growing up in Topanga Canyon in the 1970's. Free sex, free drugs, and a single mother with a revolving door of boyfriends.
Sasha found her salvation in movies, eventually leading to a self-started career begun in the early days of the internet, with the popular Academy Award prediction site 'Oscar Watch' (now Awards Daily), a successful site valued by Hollywood studios and publicists.
A lifelong liberal, Sasha grew up like so many children of baby boomers, assuming and KNOWING that the Republicans were the bad guys. Full of bad people and bad policies. All bad.
Until the summer of 2020.
The hypocrisy of the covid panic - so strangely discarded when the George Floyd protest riots were deemed more important than safety during a global pandemic - was her Red-Pill moment. You can hear the full story in many of her great podcasts (link below).
Sasha and I both found solace during the pandemic via the 1997 prophetic book The Fourth Turning by Strauss & Howe. Although I'm a lifetime center-right independent I soon found that neither political party could be counted on for the truth, a very unsettling realization.
Our shared California backgrounds and love of movies led to many online conversations and we decided it was finally time to meet, if only by audio.
Hope you enjoy this casual interview.
Follow Sasha at https://substack.com/@sashastone
Watch Sasha's early life on Netflix by David Fincher:
https://www.netflix.com/title/80990130
Alden on Substack at https://substack.com/@aldeno?
Watch Alden's BMX Doc on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/30-Bikes-Story-Homestead-Bicycles/dp/B09J2PJXRT
