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Ep54 -- Intrinsic Accounting
Dec 17, 2025
24m 10s
Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken
Nov 6, 2025
38m 38s
Ep52 -- The Extreme Center
Sep 25, 2025
25m 17s
Ep51 -- Believing Is Seeing
Jul 23, 2025
27m 08s
Ep50 -- Excuses, Excuses
Jun 5, 2025
22m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/17/25 |  Ep54 -- Intrinsic Accounting✨ | positive thinkingcultural commentary+3 | — | Tesla | — | positivecultural commentary+5 | — | 24m 10s | |
| 11/6/25 |  Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken✨ | alternate realitiesinternet history+3 | — | Pluralistic.netGoogle+2 | — | alternate realitiesinternet+3 | — | 38m 38s | |
| 9/25/25 |  Ep52 -- The Extreme Center✨ | politicsmoderate Democrats+3 | — | LennarSubstack+1 | — | Extreme Centermoderate Democrats+3 | — | 25m 17s | |
| 7/23/25 |  Ep51 -- Believing Is Seeing✨ | antitrustconsumer welfare+3 | — | GoogleEast India Company+5 | — | antitrustmonopoly law+3 | — | 27m 08s | |
| 6/5/25 |  Ep50 -- Excuses, Excuses✨ | belief systemseconomic status+4 | — | CNBCDoctorow+3 | — | NBA GOATeconomic status+4 | — | 22m 51s | |
| 5/7/25 |  Ep49 -- Learning the Wrong Lesson✨ | learningchildhood experiences+3 | — | — | — | experiencewrong lesson+5 | — | 17m 36s | |
| 4/2/25 |  Ep48 -- Blame the Burrito✨ | blamefood coma+3 | — | The BIG NewsletterNew Yorker Cartoon | — | burritofood coma+3 | — | 17m 06s | |
| 3/18/25 |  Ep47 -- The Finger Butt Fallacy✨ | NSFW photo trickhigh egg prices+4 | — | The BIG NewsletterCrush Your Head | — | finger butthigh egg prices+5 | — | 18m 06s | |
| 2/26/25 |  Ep46 -- The Upside of Falling Down✨ | truthAmerica+3 | — | — | — | truthAmerica+5 | — | 18m 37s | |
| 12/17/24 |  Ep45 -- Unhealthy Assumptions✨ | healthcare systemflaws in healthcare+5 | — | The LeverAARP+3 | — | healthcarereform+7 | — | 16m 08s | |
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| 12/3/24 |  Ep44 -- Of Mind Sounds | There's been a line from a movie stuck in my head since election day, and it has forced me to re-examine everything my previous reaction to and understanding of so many things that led to the outcome of November 5, 2024. And I think it provides a path forward for the political party that came up short on that fateful day. Referenced in this episode: The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch and Artists Aligning in AI Fight Bluesky: Daniel Kibblesmith on Abominable AI Payoff Offer The Guardian:&n... | 20m 05s | ||||||
| 11/20/24 |  Ep43 -- Breathtaking Failures | The people of Libby, Montana have been left barely able to breathe by industrial pollution, and the company that Medicare contracted to provide breathing machines has been screwing them over for decades. Why should they believe any politicians' promises to fight for regular people? And can you really blame them for wanting to blow up the whole system? Mentioned this week: ProPublica: "How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw" | 16m 38s | ||||||
| 11/5/24 |  Ep42 -- A Kindness Reminder | On this election day, to remind everyone that most people are mostly decent, I'm re-playing the poem that inspired this podcast: "Small Kindnesses" by Danusha Laméris. | 2m 56s | ||||||
| 10/30/24 |  Ep41 -- Not-So-Great Expectations | This week, I'm reminding everyone that our brains don't just record reality, but interpret it based on prompts and expectations. This is especially relevant given we're near the end of an election cycle where candidates seem to be inhabiting totally different realities. Mentioned this week: Instagram for my tattoo artist, Alex Prop 34 Analysis from LAist Prop 33 Analysis from LAist Heather Cox Richardson's "Letter from an American" 10/28/24 | 12m 32s | ||||||
| 10/22/24 |  Ep40 -- Elf Delusions | This week, we explore how one writer's habit of imagining that magical elves are making her morning yogurt just for her pleasure can help us all find a little more security and comfort in the dangerous, scary outside world. Mentioned this week: MIT Study Shows Tailgating Causes Phantom Traffic Jams On "Friends," Chandler Tries to Quit the Gym Inadvertent Subscription Payments Increase Seller Revenue 14-200% Jenny Slate's Graduation Speech About Yogurt-Making Elves "The American Bystande... | 14m 14s | ||||||
| 10/15/24 |  Ep39 -- Time Band-Aids | This week, we look at how we use our understanding of the variability of time to take some control over how we experience time, and use that sense of control to build up our resistance to the gaslighters of the world. Mentioned this week: The Guardian: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli The American Prospect: Epic Dystopia Pluralistic: Epic Systems, a Lethal Health Record Monopolist Office of The HHS Inspector General: Trend Toward More Expensive Inpatient Hospital Stays Journal of... | 16m 26s | ||||||
| 10/8/24 |  Ep38 -- Alien Evasion | This week, we take a quick look at immigration, taking a moment to acknowledge the actual real human beings involved, and to push back on the anti-immigrant arguments that hold sway these days. Mentioned this week: Wikipedia: What is Dividend Recapitalization? The BIG Newsletter: Safelite is a PBM The Atlantic: The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker Northwestern Now: Immigrants Less Likely to Commit Crimes MIT News: Immigrants More Likely to Start Businesses | 15m 37s | ||||||
| 10/2/24 |  Ep37 -- The Messenger Is the Message | This week, we're reminded to heed Maya Angelou's warning, especially when it comes to politicians: "When people show you who they are, believe them." Mentioned this week: The Guardian: The Housing Crisis That Thatcher Built The BIG Newsletter: Rental Inflation Due to Price Fixing Bureau of Labor Statistics: August 2024 Consumer Price Index Cory Doctorow: Wall Street's Internet of Shit Landlords Housing Is a Human Right: Ken Rosen Deceiving CA Voters | 18m 30s | ||||||
| 9/24/24 |  Ep36 -- The Education of a Good Value | There are lots of things in life that we only notice when things go wrong. This week, we'll look at some public institutions that fit that description and remind ourselves not to take them for granted when things are boringly normal. Mentioned in this episode: Matt Stoller's BIG Newsletter: Monopoly Round-Up Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic.net: What the F%&$ are PBMs? HuffPost: Keep Your Goddam Government Hands Off My Medicare! | 14m 51s | ||||||
| 9/17/24 |  Ep35 -- The Meanings of Success | Are humans the most successful species in the history of the world, or is it too soon to tell? After all, we've only been around for 300,000 years or so, and our long-term prospects aren't looking too great. This week, I look at how we define success and the benefits of looking at that definition differently. Mentioned this week: The American Prospect: "U.S. Steel Threatens to Go Rogue" NYT: "Born This Way? Born Which Way" by Lydia Polgreen | 12m 52s | ||||||
| 9/10/24 |  Ep34 -- No More Pizzaburgers! | This week, I share a few of my very minor, totally reasonable pet peeves, including one that I've recently come to discover occurs more because of other people's ignorance rather than they're trying to piss me off. And that got me thinking about how we all should test our beliefs and assumptions and make sure they're well founded, and also closely interrogate the politicians we support for the same reasons. And when I did that, I found that for my entire life, Democratic politicia... | 23m 48s | ||||||
| 9/3/24 |  Ep33 -- Laudable Reliability | This week, I look at how the key to healthy, happy relationships could be something as simple as reliably showing up. Mentioned in this episode: The CA Chamber of Commerce's Deceptive Poll The Marginalian on Donald Winnicott | 14m 04s | ||||||
| 8/27/24 |  Ep 32 -- Your Patriotic Duty to Get Screwed | This week, I consider why it's so difficult to get Americans to fight back against getting screwed at airports, movie theaters, ballparks, etc. Since it feels almost un-American to push back against corporate gouging, does that mean it's our patriotic duty to get screwed? Mentioned this week: Popular Information: Major Corporations Sponsor "Anti-Woke" Event Calvin Coolidge's Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence Speech The Intercep... | 17m 30s | ||||||
| 8/20/24 |  Ep31 -- The Implication of A-holes | This week, I try to figure out what the originators of neoliberal economics were thinking at the time, as well as the mindsets of those who ascribe and benefit from that thinking today, and ask, does their behavior tell us anything about humanity in general? | 15m 51s | ||||||
| 8/13/24 |  Ep30 -- What's It All About? | This week, I explore some strategies for noticing the completely normal, usually invisible part of your reality, and asking yourself, as Walt Whitman suggested: Does it insult your soul? | 17m 27s | ||||||
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