Why It Seems Like So Many Countries Are Falling Apart
The world is kind of a mess right now. There is a big, bloody, awful war between Russia and Ukraine, which has hugely disrupted global trade, especially in commodities like oil, wheat, and natural gas...
22 Jul 202253min
The World Is on Fire. Here’s a Realistic Plan to Save Humanity.
The world is on fire. In southern Europe, wildfires are streaking from Portugal to Greece. In the U.K., airport runways melted as temperatures exceeded 103 degrees for the first time on record. In the...
19 Jul 20221h 2min
Three Ways the Elon Musk–Twitter Showdown Could End
Well, that escalated quickly. Let's review, shall we? In January, Elon Musk started buying a bunch of Twitter stock. In February, he kept buying. In March, he owned about 5 percent of the company. In ...
14 Jul 202241min
Burning Questions About the Future of Media: Netflix vs. Disney, TikTok vs. Everyone, and the Metaverse
Will Netflix be the king of streaming in five years? What's the biggest threat to dethrone it: Apple, Disney, or HBO? Are movie theaters back for real? How has the pandemic changed the film industry? ...
12 Jul 20221h 12min
Musk Meltdown: Elon’s Breakup With Twitter Is Going to Be Very Messy
Derek has so many thoughts on Elon Musk's bizarre attempted breakup with Twitter—and what comes next—that he has to enumerate them. In this episode, he goes through five reasons Elon is trying to wrig...
10 Jul 202217min
The Biggest Economic Question of the Moment: Is This Peak Inflation?
The question everybody's asking on cable news right now is whether we're in a recession. I think there's an even more important question to ask: Are we at peak inflation? If inflation U-turns, it mean...
8 Jul 202232min
Why Are the Police So Bad at Solving Murders?
Today’s episode is about the story of the moment—gun violence. There’s been a surge of violent shootings, mass shootings, and gun-related murders in the last few years. Today, Derek investigates a mys...
6 Jul 202247min
Abortion Pills Are a Game Changer, Plus Our Next Big Culture War
In last week's instant reaction pod, Derek said he thought abortion pills were one of the most fascinating and important aspects of the end of the era of Roe. In this episode, he goes deeper into how ...
1 Jul 202237min
