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This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill predicts how the traditionally unifying event of an alien invasion would go down in present-day America.

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This episode features a clip from Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast where he explains why Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden. His description here mirrors much of my own take and was a big part of why I felt so compelled to escape from post-Trump America.

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This episode features a clip from a recent Al Franken Podcast wherein he interviews journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe who explains why negotiating with Putin about Ukraine is ill-advised.

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This episode features a clip of Coleman Hughes from his podcast Conversations with Coleman where in his discussion with Jonathan Haidt he discusses the pros and cons of the social fragmentation allowed by the internet. Seems like most people I know focus only on the benefits or the downsides, but to me it seems worth observing both.

This episode features a clip from The Local’s Sweden In Focus podcast where they interviewed Carlos Velasco from Honduras about what led him to a life in Sweden. The thing I’ve been most surprised by living in Sweden is how few of my fellow ex-pats came here not for work or love, but for the same kinds of reasons I did: that by the numbers it’s among the best places in the world you can live. Carlos knows what’s up!

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This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra is setting up the context for his interview with legal expert Dahlia Lithwick about just how extremist and anti-democratic the SCOTUS is at the moment. As well as a clip from NYT’s The Daily where Sabrina Tavernise interviews abortion-rights lawyer Nancy Stearns about whether or not her stronger, pre-Roe legal case could have changed the course of history for women’s rights.

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This episode features a montage of clips assembled to sound like one thought by Ezra Klein from a recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show where he talks about "The End of 'The Everything Bubble'" with Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. She was fine, but I thought the questions Ezra asked throughout the course of the interview told the story better than she did.