Every week I'll be here to reveal and review some of my favorite moments from the internet. Whether it be bingeing television shows, streaming sports, or simply getting lost in a YouTube rabbit hole, I'm here to give you my top picks every Friday, as well as the perfect paring to get into an optimal headspace for them. This week, we're acknowledging that we are nothing but simulations in someone else's video games and make peace with it.

Futurology & Elon Musk's Assumption About Our Existence

Recommended Pairing: A pillow full of a heavy sativa out of a Volcano vaporizer.

A lot of us spent our formative years getting high as fuck in hot tubs talking through philosophical nonsense and blowing each others' minds. Do any of these sound familiar?

"How do I know the color you see as red is the same thing I call red."
"What if we're just bits of data in someone's computer simulation?"
"What if the International House of Pancakes was actually made of pancakes?"

After our skin de-wrinkled, our hair dried and our minds cleared, we would put away such silly thoughts and go back to more important questions, like "Wanna split a pizza with me?"

Yesterday I watched clips of Elon Musk answering a series of questions about the future and was blown away by his absolute acceptance of something we all considered but filed away a long time ago. (Note: Be prepared to be annoyed by the guy asking the question, but don't let that deter you from watching all of these video clips from Recode's recent Code Conference.)

For the last two days I have been muttering, "There's a one in billions chance that we are in base-reality." 

I think my girlfriend is legitimately concerned that I have finally snapped. I'm currently in a head space somewhere between the Double Rainbow Guy and David After Dentist and it's not getting better. Elon Musk is blowing my mind right now.

Did you watch the one about a Neural Lace?

Jesus Christ. We are literally about to jump into a hyper reality as corporate cyborgs.

And if that isn't a depressing enough glimpse into our future, perhaps this little short will cheer you up. I leave you with "Dawn of the Planet of the Zombies and the Giant Killer Plants on Some Serious Acid."

Okay now that we know our lives are meaningless and spiraling into a dystopian future consisting of the corporatization of our daily lives, lets take a moment to try and enjoy the second half of 2016. 

'Peaky Blinders' Season Three

Recommended Pairing: Strong scotch and unfiltered cigarettes.

Well, we're halfway through 2016 and I for one have done little more than watch television and piddle about on the internet. So far so good! Let me set you up with a queue of material to get you through 2017. You're welcome.

Peaky Blinders is a casualty of the glut of quality content Netflix provides. Though not a Netflix Original, it lives alongside their exclusive programming begging to be watched. It's smart, hip, beautiful to watch and a treat to listen to while milling about the house. It's also one of those shows that leaves you almost immediately upon watching it. The show's probably too cool for it's own good. It's as if the creators from the BBC wrote a list of things they thought would be cool for a show then mashed it all together.

• Villains from the Dark Knight trilogy
• A family of outlaws from a post WWI England that wear dope-ass suits
• Dark and brooding modern music juxtaposed over a period piece
• Modern cinematography and blockbuster action movie style editing
• Tarantino-inspired steady cam slo-mo shots of people walking through town.
• Bareknuckle brawls
• Capers galore!
  
  

The BBC just confirmed that there will be a fourth and fifth season to come, so it's certainly worth the investment. So sidle up to the bar and get into it.

'Chef's Table' Season Two

Recommended Pairing: A glass of cheap wine and an assortment of soft cheeses.

Any regular reader of this column knows I'm a sucker for programming featuring top chefs, mystery baskets and Anthony Bourdain. I don't aspire to ever cook in any capacity other than inventive takes on comfort food to shove into my own mouth. There's just something fascinating about food that keeps me captivated.

There's an art to cooking I can appreciate, as well as a very clear science to the way we perceive and taste what's been prepared. I enjoy watching everything from the terrible recipes, but well done short videos from Buzzfeed's Tasty channel...

..to classic video's of Jacques Pepin making an omelette. I'll watch just about any video of someone preparing food.

(Wait a second. A chili cheese dog casserole? Jesus Christ, I gotta stop watching those things. They are officially out of ideas. Gross.)

The Chef's Table franchise from Netflix is unique in its delivery of food from the screen to your brain. Each episode is a beautiful glimpse into the soul of a world renowned chef full of expertly crafted documentary editing, music, and story telling. You get caught up in the pretense or the lack thereof in each chef and then when the dishes start rolling out you simply can't believe there are people in the world that can transform ingredients into such delicious looking pieces of art.

Chefs are very clearly insane people. It takes a massive ego and a very precise sense of perfectionism to rise above the ranks of an ordinary line cook, and even most line cooks I know are borderline crazy. This show really captures the essence of the cult of personality deeply ingrained in each chef as they share their life's story and work.