The No Sugar Podcast

• archive
• 2021

The No Sugar Podcast was a show hosted on YouTube by myself and Janice McAfee, wife of the late John McAfee. The purpose of the show was to highlight people who were out in the world doing things, rather than just giving opinions and talking on social media. It is sometimes said that opinions are like assholes - everybody has one. I wish opinions were exactly like assholes, for it would mean that everybody only had one. Somehow, I have to believe that world would be a better place to live in.

The show ran one season and featured several very interesting guests, each with a story to tell. It also featured a unique format in that the show was VR-first, but designed so that it would be watchable in regular flatscreen format. This allowed us to share one link for the show, regardless of how a person chose to watch. For those watching in headsets, our show would fill the entire space around them, and people could look around at the scene while we chatted.

No Sugar stopped production for several reasons. The main of these were increased logistical difficulties due to Janice's situation in Spain as she worked to retrieve her husband's body and the extremely time consuming nature of production. Producing one episode start to finish took many hours beyond the time it took to film. This was mainly due to the VR component, which creates very large files that are difficult to work with and slow to upload and process on YouTube.

The entire season of the No Sugar Podcast can be watched at the Desadium Entertainment YouTube channel in either flatscreen or VR format.