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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality
Episode 27
Air Date: 11-10-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
Ch. 1 - "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps"
Ch. 2 - "Politically correct"
Ch. 3 - "Ethnic cleansing"
Ch. 4 - "Meritocracy"
…Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump
Episode 1752
Air Date 11/7/2025
The most dangerous part of nuclear weapons has always been the people in charge of them. As we potentially enter a new arms race, some of the worst people in the world are in charg…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises
Episode 1751
Air Date: 11/11/25
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we examine how power is being quietly consolidated across institutions, how …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
#1750 "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs
Episode 1750
Air Date 11/7/2025
The United States claiming a divine (and imperialist) right to tamper in the politics of South American countries is nothing new. As is so often the case with Trump, the biggest di…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Transgressive Thoughts in a Villain Era" (Original Air Date: 1-6-25)
Re-Air Date: 11–6-25
Unless you were a member in January of 2025, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production process…
Published on 2 months ago
Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat
Episode 1749
Air Date 11/4/2025
Elections are always coming up, some sooner than others, so we thought we would take a look at the state of our democracy and what we must do to maintain it in the face of the grea…
Published on 2 months ago
Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, and the Fight Over What America Means
Episode 1748
Air Date 11/02/2025
A lot of people on the left aren't feeling the love for their country right now and that's understandable but we have some thoughts on more productive ways to channel those confli…
Published on 2 months ago
Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem
Episode 1747
Air Date 10/28/2025
As we were looking for episode topics, I came across an article making the case that racism is a real problem in the country and that there were lots of recent examples that prove…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
What an actual attack on free speech looks like
Episode 1746
Air Date 10/25/2025
Trump's attacks on free speech, particularly with the use of the Federal Communications Commission, goes far beyond the Jimmy Kimmel story. We're in the middle of an all-out assau…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Throwback)
Episode 1374
Original Air Date: 10/13/2020
Today we take a look at the myths of Columbus and American Exceptionalism™ that we cling to and turn our gaze to some of the less-understood but more accurate and import…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago