Podcast Episodes

Will Minorities Actually Vote for Trump?

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Today, we talked about a topic that we’ve been circling around for a while — the minority vote. We now have months of polls all pointing toward…

2 years, 3 months ago

What It's Like to Work at a Hedge Fund -- a talk with Carrie Sun, author of the new memoir PRIVATE EQUITY

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Today’s episode is an interview with Carrie Sun, whose memoir PRIVATE EQUITY came out yesterday. (Buy it here!) The book is a memoir about the …

2 years, 3 months ago

Virtual Insanity and Heavy Ass Ski Goggles

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Today, we talk about the Apple Vision Pro and its grim vision for how you should be spending your time. Also, we talk a lot about Jaron Lanier’…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Kids Are Not the Problem! A talk with Musa Al-Gharbi

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This week we have on Musa Al-Gharbi, a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. We talk a lot about “kids these days” and the tendenc…

2 years, 4 months ago

Polyamory is Not Political, Solarpunk, and Fishing at Night in a Wetsuit

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This week, we talk about the big Polyamory article in New York Magazine and the proposition that breaking the bonds of monogamy might be a poli…

2 years, 4 months ago

Octavia Butler's Grim Vision of a Post Climate Change World, Apocalypse Cliches, and Black Quarterbacks

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In today’s episode, we talk about Octavia Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower,” a science fiction novel from 1992 that unexpectedly found itsel…

2 years, 4 months ago

A New Co-Host, the True Crime podcast wave, and a Final Word on All That Harvard Crap

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I’m very excited to announce that Tyler Austin Harper will be our co-host for the next month or so.

Tyler was on the show last month and introd…

2 years, 5 months ago

Housing, Homelessness, and the L.A. Political Machine with L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman

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Today we have a great interview with Nithya Raman, the City Councilmember for Los Angeles’s District 4. We talk about housing, the despair aro…

2 years, 5 months ago

Does politics have a place in sports anymore with Bradford William Davis

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In our Discord server, which you can access by subscribing to the show for a measly $5 a month, a user asked me to not do shows about sports. I…

2 years, 5 months ago

Extinction Talk and All That College Stuff with Tyler Austin Harper

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Today on the show, we have Tyler Austin Harper, a literary scholar and an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. We tal…

2 years, 5 months ago