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The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace m ...
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Living Room Logic asks Irish experts about the pressing issues and latest science news including Neuroscience, Evolution, the Future of Medicine, AI, Mankind and the Climate. The show is hosted by two scientists working in Ireland: Andrew McGovern, a neuroscientist best known as @scientistireland on TikTok & Dr Aidan Long, a climate expert and seafarer. Together we want to help you keep informed and up to date. This work is solely supported by our listeners on Patreon (https://www.patreon.co ...
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The Co-Living Show

Craig Curelop and Miller McSwain

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Co-living is one of the most misunderstood, and highest-potential, strategies in residential real estate investing. Most investors hear the buzzwords, see the cash-flow claims, and immediately assume it’s either too risky, too operationally intense, or too complicated to scale. The truth is simpler: co-living and coliving work exceptionally well when built on systems, governed by operational clarity, and executed like a real business, not a side hustle. The Co-Living Show exists to make that ...
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This week marks fifty-one years since humanity’s most enthusiastic “Hello” to the cosmos — a three-minute binary broadcast known as the Arecibo Message. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook explores what happens when a species armed with optimism, megawatts, and q…
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November 15th, 2025 marks forty-eight years since the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film that turned alien contact into a musical duet and made communication itself the star of the show. In this special bonus episode, The Multiverse Employee Handbook celebrates Spielberg’s luminous masterpiece — the five-note conversation that …
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In "Your Quantum Startup Kit Has Arrived," we explore quantum mechanics—the operating system running everything from atoms to stars—starting with superposition, where particles genuinely exist in multiple states simultaneously until measured, with probabilities fundamental to nature rather than gaps in knowledge. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in…
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When an interstellar comet drifts through our Solar System, the scientists study it—and the Square-Haired Boss throws it a welcome party with no cake, no funding, and no guest. From the desks of Quantum Improbability Solutions, we explore what 3I/ATLAS revealed to the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it accidentally taught us about the galaxy, …
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After over five years and more than 260 episodes, host Craig Curelop, known as The FI Guy and a leading voice in real estate investing and financial independence, announces the bittersweet farewell of the Invest2FI Podcast. In this short but heartfelt episode, Craig reflects on the podcast’s incredible journey, lessons learned from scaling and focu…
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Explore the Alpha Centauri system—our nearest stellar neighbors at 4.37 light-years—and discover why "nearby" in cosmic terms still means impossibly far away. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We examine a triple-star system humanity has emotionally invested in as Plan B, despite knowing roughly as much about …
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What if real estate could rebuild lives while building lasting wealth? In this 45-minute episode of Invest2FI, host Craig Curelop welcomes back real estate investor Jim Boad for an in-depth conversation about scaling success through trust, discipline, and purpose. Jim shares how he pivoted during COVID from struggling rentals to sober-living group …
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Another rewind. This time, 'Oumuamua! AI Transparency: In a universe of AI-generated content, we believe in being transparent about what's human and what's not. Your time is valuable, and you deserve to know what you're experiencing. The narrator, David, is a professional voice actor who has digitized his voice through ElevenLabs' voice cloning tec…
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Ever wondered how to invest in one of the most expensive housing markets in America and still make it profitable? In this inspiring episode of Invest2FI, host Craig Curelop is with Yoni Kaszynski, a scrappy real estate investor who turned a high-cost Seattle market into a powerful cash-flow machine. Yoni reveals how he financed his projects with a …
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In this rewind episode from season one, we dive into Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, which suggests there are only three possibilities: advanced civilizations never develop simulation capability, they have no interest in running simulations, or we're almost certainly living in one. We'll explore how quantum mechanics looks suspiciously like eff…
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What if one “smelly” condo became the springboard to financial independence, luxury short-term rentals, and a reverse 1031 into a waterfront Arizona home? In this Invest2FI episode, Craig is with Maui-based investor and former firefighter Mike Neubauer about turning creative strategy into real results. You’ll hear how Mike and his wife Caroline tar…
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What if your “safe” job was the very thing keeping you from true financial independence? In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop interviews Dustin Heiner, founder of Master Passive Income and REWBCON. Dustin shares how he left his county IT job in California in 2006 and built a real estate portfolio in Phoenix, Arizona, that generated enough ca…
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This week we examine the rather optimistic notion that one might construct a room capable of becoming anywhere in the universe, provided one doesn't mind the minor inconvenience of rewriting several fundamental laws of physics. The holodeck represents humanity's most ambitious attempt to make reality optional—a project that has proven marginally mo…
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What does it take to leave the Army Infantry and build a 25-year real estate career across Arizona and beyond? In this episode, Craig sits down with Jim Boad, a seasoned investor who has seen every cycle of the housing market. Jim shares his journey from serving in the U.S. Army to navigating his first deal with just $15,000, tackling properties wi…
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This week we tackle nothing—not the Seinfeld variety, but the rather more complicated scientific sort that refuses to behave properly despite centuries of reasonable requests. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Our investigation reveals that achieving true emptiness requires more paperwork than a government dep…
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What does it take to survive a market crash, build a real estate business in seven cities, and close 700+ deals, all starting from a CPA background? In this high-impact episode of Invest2FI, Craig welcomes Brian Gubernick, who is the Chief Real Estate Officer at PLACE and is widely recognized as an experienced leader in the real estate industry. Wh…
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Discover cosmic measurement scales that make ant farms look like thriving metropolises as we dive into humanity's hilariously insignificant position in the universe. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the Kardashev Scale and other cosmic humbling d…
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What if your teenage side hustle grew into a real estate empire? In this episode of Invest2FI, guest Sam Wegert shares how he started his first martial arts studio, scaling it into multiple schools before pivoting into real estate. Today, Sam manages over $10 million in co-living and short-term rental properties across markets like Richmond, Austin…
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This week, we examine China's approach to space exploration, which bears a striking resemblance to that employee who arrives fashionably late to the group project but somehow ends up with their own functioning rocket program while everyone else is still arguing about meeting schedules. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so…
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What if the future of real estate wasn’t just about commissions, but about building lifelong wealth and client loyalty? In this episode of the Invest2FI Podcast, host Craig sits down with Ramon Casaus. He is a powerhouse real estate leader who built an independent brokerage in Albuquerque, expanded virtually across New Mexico, and later scaled his …
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Stargazing, if we’re honest, is just flipping through the universe’s backlog of outdated correspondence. Every speck of light is a cosmic memo delivered with the urgency of a sleepy postal clerk who’s just discovered black holes and lost interest in everything else. The night sky isn't showing you what's happening now—it's showing you what happened…
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What if you could solve the housing crisis and build wealth at the same time? In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig is joined by Phil Daughton, a general contractor with extensive experience in ADU (Additional Dwelling Unit) builds. Together, they discuss the exciting potential of ADUs as a solution to the affordable housing crisis. Phil shares his i…
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Season 3 drops on September 2nd! The multiverse of employment expands once again! Season 3 of The Multiverse Employee Handbook arrives with more science history, astronomy, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics than the universe strictly requires, all delivered with our trademark cosmic indifference. We're treating the profound mysteries of existence…
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In keeping with the ancient corporate rite of pretending time is a measurable thing, The Multiverse Employee Handbook presents its inaugural performance review — a dignified audit conducted over quantum tea and biscuits that are, frankly, not keeping their quantum states to themselves. We sift through a year in which reality once again outperformed…
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What if you could turn one rented apartment into a thriving 2,000-room co-living empire? In this episode of Invest2FI, Sergii Starostin shares his journey from working in healthcare in Ukraine to pioneering co-living operations in New York City. Discover how Sergii turned a single 6-bedroom rental into a scalable business model. He shares how he at…
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Join us for our last episode of season 2 as we explore how MIT's groundbreaking 2025 experiment finally settled the century-old Einstein-Bohr debate about quantum mechanics. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Using ultracold atoms as both slits and measurement devices, Wolfgang Ketterle's team proved that wave-…
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How do you turn a seemingly bad investment into a profitable real estate venture? In this episode, Craig sits down with David Edwards, a Houston-based co-living operator, investor, and founder of CoLiving Operations. Dave shares how he left a shaky data analyst job to pursue real estate full time. From his first $65K house in January 2020 (turned p…
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Join us as we explore humanity's 70-year quest to harness controlled nuclear fusion for space propulsion, where the gap between science fiction's convenient Epstein Drive and Princeton's actual plasma physics laboratory represents the difference between cosmic elevator rides and heating deuterium to disappointment for 300 milliseconds. 🎧 Love the s…
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What if you could live rent-free and build over a million dollars in equity within just a few years? In this powerful solo episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop breaks down his real estate investing journey from his very first duplex in Denver in 2017 to building a portfolio of five house hacks that now generate over $10,000 per month in cash flow an…
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Welcome to the ultimate cosmic real estate disaster! Join us as we explore how 65 years of space exploration accidentally turned the Moon into humanity's most expensive storage unit, complete with over 200 tons of abandoned equipment, crashed spacecraft, and yes—96 bags of astronaut waste. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tall…
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What happens when you start with a 10-year prison sentence—and end up managing over $50 million in real estate assets? In this powerful episode of the Invest2FI, Craig Curelop welcomes Alex Donnolo: a real estate expert, public speaker, and former inmate with a story that defies the odds. Alex Donnolo’s life wasn’t always destined for success. Lear…
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Scientists have discovered Earth may be floating in a 2-billion-light-year-wide bubble of cosmic nothingness—the universe's equivalent of premium rural real estate that nobody wanted. This cosmic isolation might solve physics' biggest headache (the Hubble tension) while making us statistically improbable cosmic lottery winners. Meanwhile, Quantum I…
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Are you wondering how real estate can fast-track your journey to financial freedom? In this episode of Invest2FI, host Craig Curelop sits down with Scott Trench, a real estate investor, author, and former CEO of BiggerPockets to talk about why he walked away after 7 years at the helm. Scott opens up about leadership, burnout, identity, and what’s n…
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Are we about to make first contact… or have aliens left us on hold for the last 50,000 years with a playlist titled “Symphony for Quasar and Dark Matter in B-flat Minor”? 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM This week, we uncover the universe’s most sophisticated hold music, decode messages about our planet’s ext…
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What would you do if you had no money, no job, and no local connections—but wanted to build a real estate portfolio? In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop sits down with Fernando Corona, a real estate investor and private money expert who leveraged out-of-state co-living properties to build wealth from scratch. Fernando reveals how he went fr…
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Discover how trained astronauts, assembled rockets, and planned lunar bases fell victim to the most destructive force in the universe: bureaucratic entropy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM In this episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we explore the cosmic tragedy of Apollo missions 18 through 20, com…
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What do soccer and real estate investing have in common? Grit. In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop is with former professional soccer player turned house hacker, Eric Lafon. Eric shares his remarkable transition from a European soccer league to climbing the property ladder in Denver—while cash flowing $1,500/month in 2024’s high-rate market…
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Ever wondered how to achieve perfect work-life balance in the vacuum of space? Join us for humanity's most successful example of building infrastructure before knowing what it's for! 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM Join us as we explore gravitational equilibrium through the lens of corporate facilities manag…
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In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop, shares his personal and professional journey in 2025. Reflecting on his goals for the year, Craig provides updates on his progress in key areas such as health, spirituality, personal growth, and real estate investing. From intentional health choices and improving posture to deepening his faith and planni…
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Discover the most audacious Cold War experiment ever launched: America's plan to solve communication vulnerabilities by gift-wrapping Earth in 480 million copper needles. Explore how Project West Ford's spectacular failure accidentally created modern space law, international cooperation protocols, and the template for every space debris controversy…
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Perpetual motion machines that actually work? Welcome to the impossible physics of time crystals! https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore the bizarre world of temporal physics through the lens of academic accidents and quantum corporate bureaucracy. In this special bonus episode of The Multiverse Employee Handbook, we witness N…
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Chad Rocke’s Real Estate Flip Journey: Key Lessons on Budgeting, Permits, and Project Management Are you considering flipping a house but unsure about the risks and rewards? In this episode Chad Rocke, the lead agent at The Five Team, returns to share his firsthand experience from a recent real estate flip. He discusses the challenges and key lesso…
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Ever wondered why time flies when you're having fun but crawls during team meetings? Scientists now think your subjective experience might be revealing profound truths about quantum reality itself. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop doing—take our 2-minute listener survey: https://tally.so/r/nr1e…
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What if your first real estate deal could pay your mortgage and fast-track financial independence? In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig sits down with Tony Cruz, a first-time house hacker who purchased a $650,000 single-family home in Lakewood, Colorado—all while living abroad in Peru. Tony shares how he saved $60,000 over three years, worked with a…
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The most expensive dirt delivery service in the solar system meets the universe's most unforgiving schedule. https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore Mars Sample Return through the lens of interplanetary project management gone beautifully wrong. In this episode, we present "The Interdimensional Logistics Catastrophe" - a tale o…
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What if financial independence was simpler than you think? In this powerful episode Craig Curelop reconnects with a prominent figure in the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement J.L Collins, whose best-selling book The Simple Path to Wealth has helped millions unlock freedom through frugality and investing in index funds. This is not…
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From the Atacama Desert at the foot of the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we explore the universe's greatest cosmic mystery: why most of reality has been playing hide-and-seek for 13.8 billion years. Tell us what you love, what you tolerate, and what our HR department should really stop doing—take our 2-minute listener survey: https://tal…
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Are you ready to discover how short-term rentals and co-living properties can transform your real estate investment returns? In this episode of Invest2FI, Craig Curelop is with Cliff Johnson, co-founder of Vakasa and current president of PadSplit, the leader in co-living rentals. Cliff shares his inspiring journey from attorney to real estate entre…
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Discover why humanity's greatest intellectual achievement involves strategic symbol arrangement and existential confusion about whether "nothing" can be "something." https://multiverseemployeehandbook.com Join us as we explore humanity's 5,000-year mathematical journey through the lens of Dr. Isabella Fibonacci's corporate crisis. In this episode, …
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