Ep 17 | How Harry Potter Teaches Empathy
DO PROGRESSIVES THINK THEY'RE LIVING IN A HARRY POTTER NOVEL? AND IF THEY DID, WOULD THAT BE SO BAD? WE EXPLORE THE MUGGLE PROBLEM.
SHOW NOTES:
- Harry Potter's opening line [link]
- Ross Douthat, "The Muggle Problem" [column]
- Meet Ross Douthat [twitter]
- Why Everyone Should Ready Harry Potter [link]
- The science behind why Harry Potter reduces prejudice [paper]
- Say no to death eaters, but yes to Slytherin [article]
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Ep 16 | The Worst President Ever (TM)
WHEN THE COUNTRY NEEDED HIM THE MOST, THIS MAN DID NOTHING. NOT THE WORST HUMAN BEING WHO EVER LIVED, BUT MAYBE THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER.
SHOW NOTES:
- Meet Herbert Hoover [Wiki]
- The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum [link]
- Have a Jucy Lucy [video]
- The Hoover Dam [link]
- Al Smith, the Catholic candidate for president [wiki]
- Hoover loses re-election to FDR [link]
- Divergent [trailer]
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Ep 15 | Responding to the Majority...When They're Wrong
AUTHOR JULIA SERANO JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER ARTICLE, "REFUSING TO TOLERATE INTOLERANCE" IN THE WAKE OF A NATIONALIST UPRISING IN AMERICA.
SHOW NOTES:
- Wait, the Nazis are back? [Vice doc]
- Captain Aldo is here to kill Nazis [Inglourious Basterds scene]
- Meet Julia [personal site]
- Connect with Julia on Twitter [Twitter feed]
- Julia's article, "Refusing to Tolerate Intolerance" [article]
- Why Political Correctness is a Meaningless Frame [article]
- More on the "Political Correctness" debate [article]
- Serrano is not a region in Spain, but rather the Spanish word for "the mountains" [Wiki]
- Idiocracy [trailer]
- Trump as the Republican Id [article]
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Ep 14 | The Opioid Crisis
MICHAEL SHARES HIS VERY PERSONAL STRUGGLE WITH HIGH-DOSE OPIOIDS DURING HIS TIME IN THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING A PELVIC FRACTURE.
SHOW NOTES:
- The scale of the opioid crisis is greater than Vietnam [link]
- Back pain and opioid use [link]
- On using the word addict and who is an addict [link]
- The drug industry's involvement with the epidemic [link]
- Everyone in The Giver does drugs in the morning [trailer]
- Resources for opioid addiction [link]
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Ep 13 | A Brief History of Healthcare in America
WE REVIEW HOW THE NURTURANT PARENT MORAL VALUE SYSTEM NOW DOMINATES THE DISCUSSION ON HEALTHCARE, TO THE POINT THAT EVEN CONSERVATIVES HAVE CONCEDED DEFEAT.
SHOW NOTES:
Elysium, starring Matt Damon and his biceps [trailer]
- Paul Ryan on healthcare as a choice [link]
- The Ross Douthat Iron Law of Health Policy [tweet]
- The reduction of bankruptcies since Obamacare became law [article]
- Conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer predicts single-payer healthcare [link]
- A brief history of healthcare in America [timeline]
- Atul Gawande on testing what will work like we did with farming [article]
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Ep 12 | Framing 201 with George Lakoff
THE INSPIRATION FOR "WE CAN TALK ABOUT", DR GEORGE LAKOFF HIMSELF, JOINS US TO TALK FRAMING 201.
SHOW NOTES:
- Don't Think of an Elephant [book]
- Systemic causes of natural disasters [article]
- Meet George Lakoff [personal site] [Twitter] [Facebook]
- Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra at his finest [video]
- KellyAnne Conway and alternative facts [link]
- Cersei Lannister, matriarch of in-group care [wiki]
- A primer on mirror neurons [link]
- Citizens Communication Network [article]
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Ep 11 | The Foundation of a Nurturant Society
MATT BRUENIG OF THE PEOPLE'S POLICY PROJECT JOINS US TO DISCUSS ESTABLISHING A FOUNDATION FOR LIBERAL SOCIETY.
SHOW NOTES:
- How the "social safety net" got its name [link]
- "A Foundation, Not A Safety Net" [article]
- Meet Matt Bruenig [Twitter]
- The People's Policy Project in all its glory [site]
- Support the People's Policy Project [Patreon]
- The Acropolis and the Parthenon [link]
- The Walking Dead on AMC [link]
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Ep 10 | The Road to Single-Payer Healthcare
CHARLES GABA OF ACASIGNUPS.NET JOINS US TO DISCUSS PRACTICAL MEASURES TO GET AMERICA MARCHING TOWARDS AFFORDABLE, COMPREHENSIVE, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
SHOW NOTES:
- We brought Denmark to a culture war [link]
- Single-payer as the cavalry. [Pulp Fiction scene]
- The practical challenges of implementing single-payer [California case-study]
- Meet Charles Gaba [Twitter profile]
- "If I Ran the Zoo: 20 Repairs/Improvements for Obamacare 2.0" [article]
- Support Charles Gaba's work [Patreon]
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Ep 9 | Democrats in Coal Country
THE YOUNGEST DEMOCRATIC STATE-WIDE ELECTED OFFICIAL IN WEST VIRGINIA JOINS US TO DISCUSS THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF DEMOCRATS IN COAL COUNTRY.
SHOW NOTES:
- Dan Savage on Bill Maher's show urging Democrats to become an urban party [video]
- Meet John Williams, West Virginia, House of Delegates 51st District (Monongalia County) [Facebook page]
- Visit beautiful West Virginia [tourism page]
- Minimum wage by state [link]
- Jim Justice goes back to being a Republican [link]
- The Pursuit of Happyness [trailer]