132: Sleep with One Eye Open
This week we are tackling The Odyssey, both the ancient Greek epic and the recent adaptation directed by Christopher Nolan. We go over the context of the poem's composition and dissemination, its sign...
4 Elo 55min
131: The End of Laughter and Soft Lies
This week we have a two pronged episode. We open up discussing the suit four states have brought against Meta, alleging the company has knowingly caused irreparable damage to millions of teens in prom...
28 Heinä 1h
130: When You Wish Upon a Star
We're going back to where it all began; that's right, it's aliens, this time those friendly aliens from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We talk about the general optimism and la...
21 Heinä 59min
129: With the Tolling Tolling Bells' Perpetual Clang
In honor of America's 250th birthday we are covering one of the landmark events in the nation's history, namely the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We discuss why the assassination was so significan...
14 Heinä 1h 18min
128: Everybody Won't Be Treated All the Same
This week we are using a novel format to explore recent Supreme Court decisions. Stu presents Michael with a brief sketch of the case, Michael decides how he would rule, and Stu then reveals the actua...
7 Heinä 47min
127: Nothing Gold Can Stay
This week we are discussing the recent New York congressional primaries which have announced Zohran Mamdani's arrival as a new political "kingmaker" in the Democratic Party. We discuss the three candi...
30 Kesä 45min
126: We're on the Highway to Hell
This week we are talking about the so-called utopian promise of the internet, the "information superhighway" as it was once known, and how it has, over the last thirty years, transformed into an infor...
23 Kesä 59min
125: The Sky was the Limit
This week we are discussing the Challenger space shuttle disaster, looking at what caused the shuttle to explode and how the aftermath specifically affected the psyche of the United States in the late...
16 Kesä 1h 5min
