Episode 36: Is a Virus Alive?
Send us Fan Mail In all the thinking you’ve done about viruses lately, whether it be COVID or the flu or just the common cold, did you ever wonder whether they’re alive? Mark has puzzled over that qu...
5 Des 202137min
Episode 35: Music Streaming and Me
Send us Fan Mail Joe started his first Spotify playlist nearly ten years ago and never looked back. It completely changed the way he consumed music, and now he fervently hopes it doesn’t go the way o...
14 Nov 202144min
Episode 34: The Rent Is Too Damn High
Send us Fan Mail Mark and his wife want to find a larger apartment in Seattle, but the rents are ridiculous. Joe owns an apartment in New York only because of the legacy of dead in-laws. Housing cos...
31 Okt 202147min
Episode 33: Are We Ever Gonna See Self-Driving Cars?
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been told, seemingly forever, that driverless cars were just around the corner, but we never seem to turn that corner, leading one to wonder: is this really happening? Mark an...
18 Okt 202140min
Episode 32: TERF Battles
Send us Fan Mail JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter novels, has been labeled a TERF — a "trans-exclusionary radical feminist" — by trans activists who object to her gender critical views. Joe...
3 Okt 202146min
Episode 31: Politicians and Harassers Are Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Send us Fan Mail Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York is the latest in a long line of politicians to be sent packing due to sexual misconduct. Joe suspects the Venn diagram of politicians and sexual ...
19 Sep 202136min
Episode 30: The Wave Theory of Populism
Send us Fan Mail In the past decade or two, a seeming populist wave ushered in right-wing governments clear across the world. For some, at least, it was reminiscent of the rise of fascism in Italy, Ge...
6 Sep 202149min
Episode 29: Jury Nullification
Send us Fan Mail What if the Derek Chauvin jury had done the same thing as the jury in the trial of the four L.A. cops accused of beating Rodney King - ignored both the law and the video evidence and...
22 Aug 202135min
