I spent twenty years in insurance. That’s a long time to sit inside a system and watch it work.
What I noticed was that the system worked — just not for the people it was supposed to work for. It worked for the shareholders. It worked for the executives. It worked for the lobbyists who made sure the regulations stayed friendly. But for the people actually paying premiums, actually filing claims, actually counting on the promise they’d bought? They were ingredients, not customers.
That’s where the name comes from.
A soup has a lot of ingredients. Flavors that don’t obviously go together. Some of them good for you, some of them not. The honest thing to do with a soup is to taste all of it — not just the broth, not just the vegetables you recognize. All of it.
That’s what this show is. Honest conversations about the ingredients in the pot. The financial system. The media. The insurance industry. The government. The stories people tell themselves and the stories they’re told.
No agenda. No sponsor that controls what I can say. No guest who’s here because they bought a table.
Just the ingredients.
— Tom