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CURRENT EVENTS/NEws

• Hysteria | Crooked Media (CURRENT EVENTS/FEMINISM)

• The Daily Beans | (NEWS/PROGRESSIVE/WOMAN-OWNED)

• Lovett or Leave It | Crooked Media (COMEDY SHOW/CULTURE)

• What a Day | Crooked Media (MORNING NEWS)

• Without a Country | (CURRENT EVENTS/POLTICS/POP CULTURE)

• ON With Kara Swisher | VOX (JOURNALISM: BUSINESS/TECH/MEDIA/POLITICS)
  
  

POLiTICS

• Cognitive Dissonance | (NEWS/POLITICS/LEFTIST)

• The Skepticrat | (NEWS/POLITICS/FAR CENTER)

• Pod Save America | Crooked Media (POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE-CENTER) 

• The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller | (POLITICS/CENTER RIGHT)

• 538 Politics | (POLITICS/POLLING)

• The Lincoln Project | (POLITICS/CENTER RIGHT)

• The New Abnormal | The Daily Beast (US POLITICS/COMEDY/LEFTIST)

• Political Gabfest | Slate Magazine (US POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE CENTER)

• Left, Right & Center | KCRW (US POLITICS/CENTER)

• Pod Save The World | Crooked Media (WORLD POLITICS/FOREIGN POLICY)

• The Majority 54 | (POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE)

• Hacks on Tap | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)

• The Home Front with Reed Galen | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)

• The Rest Is Politics: US | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)

• Politicology | (POLITICS/LEFT)
  
  

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Guys We F*cked | (COMEDY/FEMINISM/NSFW)

• Flightless Bird | Armchair Expert (CULTURAL & SOCIAL COMMENTARY)

• Strict Scrutiny | Crooked Media (LAW/SCOTUS COVERAGE)

• Offline with Jon Favreau | Crooked Media (ONLINE CULTURE/SOCIAL COMMENTARY)

• Armchair Expert (POP CULTURE/PHILOSOPHY/BEING HUMAN)

• America Dissected | Crooked Media (SOCIETY/CULTURE)

• Citations Needed | (MEDIA/PR/POWER)

• The Scathing Atheist | (RELIGION/POLITCS/CURRENT EVENTS/PHILOSOPHY)

• Flightless Bird with David Farrier | (PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICA FROM A KIWI)

• GastroPod | (FOOD/COOKING/FOOD CULTURE)

• Better Offline | (TECHNOLOGY)

• The Economics of Everyday Things | Freakonomics | (ECONOMICS/SOCIETY)

• The Future Of Everything | The Wall Street Journal | (SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY) 

• No Stupid Questions | Freakonomics | (RANDOM)

• Speaking of Psychology | American Psychology Association | (PSYCHOLOGY)

• Behind the Bastards | (HISTORY)

• a16z Podcast | (TECHNOLOGY)

• Hard Fork | (TECHNOLOGY)

• Smartless | A Test Pattern Media | (COMEDY/POPCULTURE)

• The Weekly Show with John Stewart | (COMEDY/POLITICS)

• The Wirecutter Show | New York Times | (Product Reviews)

• Kill List | Wondery | (True Crime, Dark Web)

• The Jordan Harbinger Show |  (Society)
  
  

under review

The Best of Politics US | (American Politics)
Trashfuture | (Anti-Capitalist)

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🌟NEW CATAGORY

🆕 CURRENT EVENTS/IMMEDIATELY RELEVANT 🆕

• 2024 In Review: Would You Die For MrBeast? | WHAT NEXT (December 23, 2024)

• Andrew McCabe on the Potential "Kash Damages" | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (December 23, 2024)

• At Best It's Just a Grift Fest | THE JOHN FUGELSANG (December 18, 2014)

• Breaking Up With Your Parents | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 22, 2024)

• Buyer Beware | DAILY BEANS (November 25, 2024)

• David French: We Are in the Bad Multiverse | THE BULWARK PODCAST with TIM MILLER (December 5, 2024)

• Elon's Company Town | TODAY, EXPLAINED (January 2, 2024)

• Highest of Low Regard (feat. Wajhat Ali) | THE DAILY BEANS (December 3, 2024)

• How To Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 1 - Encore | HOW TO (December 24, 2024)

• How To Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 2 - Encore | HOW TO (December 31, 2024)

• Inside Donald Trump's Mass-Deportation Plans | THE POLITICAL SCENE (December 9, 2024)

• Know Your Rights (feat. Monica Hopkins) | THE DAILY BEANS (December 26, 2024)

• Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical | THE BULWARK PODCAST with TIM MILLER (December 3, 2024)

• RFK's Band of Bros. H5N1 Drives Egg Prices. A Big Conversation About Smallpox | AMERICAN DISSECTED (December 5, 2024)

• RFK to HHS. H5N1 in Canada. And Why You Should Be #Resistance Training | AMERICA DISSECTED (November 21, 2024)

• The Reality Showification of the Government: Heather Cox Richardson | THE BULWARK PODCAST (December 19, 2024)

• Which Comes First, The Bird Flu or the Egg? | WHAT NEXT (November 27, 2024)

• Why Does Trump Love Tariffs | THE BRIEFING ROOM (BBC) (January 9, 2025)

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ARTIFICAL INTELEGENCE & TECH

• A Flood of A.I. Slop | Hard Fork (October 11, 2024) 

• Algorithms Are Everywhere. How You Can Take Back Control | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (JANUARY 23, 2023) 

• Being Human in the Age of AI | THE GRAY AREA (May 8, 2023)

• Can AI Be Regulated? | ON POINT (May 1, 2023)

• Ghosts in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, & Capitalism | REVLEFT RADIO (April 10, 2024)

• How The Internet Is Radicalizing Young Men | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (April 23, 2023)

• Legal Consequences Of Generated Content | PRACTICAL AI: MACHGINE LEARNING, DATA SCIENCE (July 18, 2023)

• 🆕Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (January 12, 2025)

• 🆕Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (January 16, 2025)

• Real or AI? The Tech Giants Racing to Stop the Spread of Fake Images | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (September 15, 2023)

• Robocab | TODAY, EXPLAINED (August 17, 2023)

• 🆕Black Box of Doom | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (January 7, 2025)

• The Communication Epidemic Pt 1 | CHAMPAGNE SHARKS (April 30, 2023)

• The Deepfake Dilemma: The Technology, Policy, and Economy | a16z PODCAST (October 11, 2024)

• The Man That Destroyed Google Search | BETTER OFFLINE (April 25, 2024)

• The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born | CYBER (December 13, 2023)

• 🆕The Rot Society | BETTER OFFLINE (NOVEMBER 20, 2024)

• Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (January 15, 2023)

• Using AI As A Tool For Creativity | LIFE AND ART (May 9, 2024)

• What's Eating The Economy | WHAT NEXT (June 17, 2024)

• When AI Hears A Problems | IN MACHINES WE TRUST (May 16, 2023)

• When AI Watches the Streets | IN MACHINES WE TRUST {May 19, 2023)

• 🆕When Your Flight's GPS Gets Spoofed | WHAT NEXT (December 1, 2024)

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FOOD - HEALTH

• All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood | GASTROPOD (April 16, 2024)

• America's Toxic Food System | SOME MORE NEWS (August 10, 2023)

• 🆕A Nutritionist Clarifies Some Common Health Claims | SCIENCE FRIDAY (November 27, 2024)

• Are We All Addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (March 12, 2023)

• 🆕Butchers | THE ECONOMY OF EVERYDAY THINGS (January 5, 2025)

• Cocktail Recipes, Ancient Beers, Forever Chemicals | GOOD FOOD (September 13, 2024)

• Controlling The Chatter In Your Head | ALL IN THE MIND (February 5, 2022)

  • What's Controlling Your Inner Voice? Controlling "Chatter" Part Two | ALL IN YOUR HEAD (March 16, 2024)

• Counterfeit Foods | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (December 8, 2024)

• Death Doulas | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (November 19, 2024)

• Fat Free Foods | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (August 18, 2024)

• Fighting For The Right To Die | WHAT NEXT (April 27, 2023)

• Food Contamination Is On The Rise. Here's What History Can Teach Us About How To Stop It | AMERICA DISSECTED (November 21, 2023)

• 🆕Food Packaging | JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (November 23, 2024)

• Hidden Health Risk? The Truth About Emulsifiers With DR Federica Amati | ZOE SCIENCE & NUTRITION (July 11, 2024)

• How Can You Be Kinder To Yourself | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (September 10, 2023)

• How Do You Identify A Narcissist? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (November 9, 2024)

• Let's Go To Butter School | THE WIRECUTTER SHOW | (November 20, 2024)

• Life After Death? | THE GRAY AREA with SEAN ILLING (May 20, 2024) 

• Meet The Most Famous American You've Never Heard of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fried and Monsanto | GASTROPOD (April 30, 2024)

• Menopause: The Myths and the Madness | SCIENCE VS (October 17, 2024)

• 🆕Michael Pollan's Long, Strange Trip From Food To Psychedelics  | GOOD FOOD (January 3, 2024)

• Microplastics: How Worried Should We Be? | SCIENCE VS (October 3, 2024)

• The Abortion Pill: How Dangerous Is It Really? | SCIENCE VS (May 23, 2024)

• The Anxious Generation w/Jonathan Haidt | THE PSYCHOLOGY PODCAST (July 4, 2024)

• The End of the Calorie (Encore) | GASTROPOD (January 17, 2023)

• The Failures of 'Organic" Farming | TBD (April 28, 2024)

• The Hidden Battle over Grocery Store Shelves | THE SPORKFUL (January 15, 2024)

• The Inflammation Theory of Disease | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (May 16, 2023)

• The Pill: Is It Messing Up Our Bodies | SCIENCE VS (November 21, 2024)

• The Real Anti-Inflammatory Diet  | SCIENCE VS (December 12, 2024)

• The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition: Eat This, Not That | GASTROPOD (June 10, 2019)

• Is America Switching From Booze to Weed? | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (October 16, 2024)

• Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)

• Is Ultra-Processed Food...Even Food | AMERICA DISSECTED (October 21, 2023)

• Not Medically Necessary | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (November 14, 2024)

• Sugar's Dark Shadow | GASTROPOD | (May 28, 2024)

• Understanding The Mind Of A Serial Killer, With Louis Schlesinger, PhD | SPEAKING OF PSYCHOLOGY (April 10, 2024)

• Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America's Broken Public-Health Discourse | PLAIN ENGLISH WITH DEREK THOMPSON (November 22, 2024)

• 🆕Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself | HIDDEN BRAIN (December 30, 2024)

• Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me with Prof. Harriet Brown | AMERICA DISSECTED (January 24, 2023)

• What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (February 13, 2024)

• What's The Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save The World? | GASTROPOD (August 20, 2024)

• 🆕When Vaginas Attack! | SCIENCE VS (December 5, 2024)

• Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu | GASTROPOD (July 11, 2023)

• Why the Future of Mental Health Care Could Be in Your Gut | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING

• Why Volunteering Is Worth It | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 27, 2024) (February 17, 2023)

• Your Arm Position Can Make Blood Pressure Reading Inaccurate | SCIENCE FRIDAY (November 12, 2024)

• Your New Menopause Toolkit with Dr Mary Claire Haver & Dr. Sarah Berry | ZOE SCIENCE & NUTRITION (May 9, 2024)

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SCIENCE - ENVIRONMENT

• Aliens From Earth? | UNEXPLAINABLE (March 6, 2024)

• Are Animals Conscious | ALL IN THE MIND  (March 30, 2024)

• Compost Yourself | TODAY, EXPLAINED (January 17, 2023)

• How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live | FIVETHIRTYEIGHT POLITICS (May 4, 2023)

• How NASA Sees Climate Change From Space | WSJ's THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (June 21, 2024)

• How We're Learning to Talk to Animals | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (August 15, 2023)

• Is It Okay To Go To The Zoo? | THE WEEDS (October 2, 2024)

• Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)

• Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (March 26, 2024)

• Max Bennett (on the history of intelligence) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (October 2, 2024)

• NASA Plans to Bring Bits of Marks to Earth. It May Change How We See Space | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (May 12, 2023)

• Unraveling Mysteries in the Ocean's Darkest Depth with Susan Casey | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (April 30, 2024)

• Who's The Daddy? There Isn't One | UNEXPLAINABLE (May 8, 2024)

• Why Do We Cry | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (January 22, 2023)

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POLITICS - SOCIETY - LAW

• America Keeps Me Up at Night with Dr. Richard Haass | OPEN BOOK WITH ANOTHONY SCARAMUCCI (April 2, 2023)

• America’s Midlife Crisis with Tom Nichols | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (March 23, 2023)

• Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids? | SOME MORE NEWS (June 21, 2023)

• A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 12, 2023)

• A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money | DEATH. SEX & MONEY (April 16, 2024)

• A Surgeon General Warning = Is Disinformation Winning? = The CryptoPACs Are Coming | HARD FORK (June 21, 2024)

• Blame Capitalism (3 Parts) | TODAY, EXPLAINED - VOX

  • Blame Capitalism: Profit Over Everything (September 15, 2023)

  • Blame Capitalism: The 99% (September 22, 2023)

  • Blame Capitalism: Degrowing Pains (September 29, 2023)

• Can America Survive Another Season of the Trump Show? Variety's Ramin Setoodeh Tells Us | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHOMNY SCARAMUCCI (July 24, 2024)

• Capital Punishment | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (October 6, 2024)

• China, Russia, and America: Where Do We Go From Here? | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (June 12, 2024)

• Citizenship | FLGHTLESS BIRD (April 30, 2024)

• 🆕Could Ranked Choice Voting Fix Our Elections? | EXPLAIN IT TO ME (November 20, 2024

• Cults and Coercive Control | ALL IN THE MIND (March 23, 2024)

• Defending Socialism: A Logical Critique of Capitalism | REVLEFTRADIO (May 28, 2024)

• Don't Fall For Mark Zuckerberg's Rebrand w/Karl Bode | TECH WON'T SAVE US (October 3, 2024)

• Election 2024: How Secure Is Your Vote? | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (October 10, 2024)

• Elon Musk Unmasked | TECH WON'T SAVE US (November 17, 2023)

  • Origins of an Oligarch (Part 1) 

  • Creating the Genius Myth (Part 2) 

  • Building An Empire (Part 3)

  • Shaping The Future (Part 4)

• Escaping America | CANADALAND (April 24, 2023)

• Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain) |  BAD FAITH (May 9, 2024)

• 🆕George Will: Democracy Rests on Persuasion | THE BULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (November 26, 2024)

• Greedflation Is Real | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (April 2, 2024)

• How Big Was The Hammer SCOTUS Just Took to Government As We Know It | AMERICA DISSECTED (July 23, 2024)

• How Peter Thiel Became the Right's Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (August 25, 2024)

• How To Get Under a Strongman's Skin, With George Conway | THE POLITICAL SCENE (September 13, 2024)

• How To Read Polls in 2024 | 538 POLITICS (September 26, 2024)

• How We Got Here | POLITIX (January 3, 2024)

• Inflation Frustration as Fed Cuts Rates | THE WEEKLY SHOW W JON STEWART (September 19, 2024)

• "Is Trump Insane?" with Anthony Scaramucci | UNCOMFRORTABLE CONVERSATIONS W JOSH SZEPS (April 11, 2023)

• It's Only 13 Scaramucci's Until Election Day | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (June 13, 2024)

• J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt 1 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW | (May 21, 2024)

• J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt 2 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW | (May 23, 2024)

• 🆕John Avlon's Four F's | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (December 2, 2024)

• Made In America | ON THE MEDIA (April 7, 2023)

• Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (March 12, 2023)

• 🆕Mass Deportation How? | What Next (November 21, 2024)

• Matthew Desmond (on poverty) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (January 11, 2024)

• Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy  | ON THE MEDIA (April 19, 2024)

• News Brief: Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes | CITATIONS NEEDED (September 18, 2024)

• Panic! At The Drugstore | THE WEEDS (May 15, 2024)

• Polling, Parties, and Polarization with Alexander Theodoridis | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (JANUARY 26, 2023)

• PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex | CITATIONS NEEDED (September 27, 2023)

• 🆕Prison Labor  | THE ECONOMOICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS (November 10, 2024)

• Project 2025 | STRICT SCRUTINY 

  • 900 Pages and 100% Deranged (July 29, 2024)

  • DEI for Men With Terrible Personalities (August 5, 2024)

  • How To Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School with Meredith Marks (August 19, 2024)

  • The Fascist Plan to Plunder the Government (August 26, 2024)

• Putting The Ouch in Voucher Edition | THE SCATHING ATHIEST (June 13, 2024)

• Republicans Are Getting Raunchy | TODAY, EXPLAINED (September 19, 2024)

• Saving Democracy with David Pepper | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (May 25, 2023)

• SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity | STRICT SCRUTINY (July 1, 2024)

• Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots' | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (July 27, 2024)

• Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation""Conspiracies" | CITATIONS NEEDED (October 16, 2024)

• Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (June 19, 2024)

• Start The Steal? | TODAY EXPLAINED (September 23, 2024)

• State of Play: The RNC Cultish Clown Show, Continued Calls for Violence, and Biden Bows Out | BEST OF THE LEFT (July 26, 2024)

• Steven Hassan on the Cult of Trump  | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (September 19, 2024)

• 🆕Stop Treating the Government Like It's A Business with Ron Insana | THE HOME FRONT (December 21, 2024)

• The Agents of Chaos with Ron Insana | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (January 24, 2023)

• The Cult of Tradwives | SOUNDS LIKE A CULT (May 28, 2024)

• The Explosion of Antisemitism with Mike Rothschild | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (December 6, 2023)

• The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security | CITATIONS NEEDED (December 2, 2023)

• 🆕The Kids Aren't Reading All Right | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 20,2024)

• The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (September 5, 2024)

• 🆕The Most Important "Most Important Election" | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 5, 2024)

• The Principles of Communism: Friedrich Engles & Communist Political Theory | REVLEFT RADIO (September 27, 2023)

• 🆕The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power | STRICT SCUTINY (November 6, 2025)

• The Return of Easy Money | TODAY, EXAPLINED (September 17, 2024)

• The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped | THIS IS HELL (April 16, 2024)

• 🆕There's A New Tariff In Town | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 14, 2024)

• There's Nothing Conservative About Today's GOP with Adam Kinzinger | THE HOME FRONT (October 8, 2024)

• Three Part Series on America's Immigration System | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (March 20, 2024)

  • The True Story of America's Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System 

  • What Parties Get Wrong About Immigration

  • Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?

• The Resurgence of QAnon with Will Sommer | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 6, 2023)

• The Threat of White Christian Nationalism | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (Febraury 7, 2024)

  • Piety Not Required with Jeff Sharlet (Part 1)

  • The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory with Tim Alberta (Part 2)

  • The Power Worshipers with Katherine Stewart (Part 3)

• The Week The World Changed with DW Gibson | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (June 19, 2024)

• TOP SECRET: Our Classified Documents System Is [Redacted] | THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART (January 24, 2023)

• To Understand JD Vance, You Need Top Meet The "TheoBros" | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (October 10, 2024)

• Trump AKA The Lucky Loser | OPEN BOOK WITH ANOTHOINY SCARAMUCCI (October 2, 2024)

• Trump's Legacy: Violence in American Elections | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (September 13, 2024)

• Trump’s Potential Trials Are a One-Man “Stress Test of the Legal System” | THE POLITICAL SCENE (March 24, 2023)

• 🆕Trump's Shadow Cabinet | WHAT NEXT (November 20, 2024)

• Trump, The Russians, And Elon Musk with Abigail Tracy | THE HOME FRONT (October 9, 2024)

• We Read Josh Hawley's Book So You Don't Have To | STRICT SCRUTINY (July 15, 2024)

• What Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did the Term Become So Powerful? | THE POLITICAL SCENE (January 30, 2023)

• What's Eating The Economy | WHAT NEXT (June 17, 2024)

• What Do We Know About How The World Might End?  | THE POLITICAL SCENE (June 5, 2024)

• When A Miscarriage Becomes A Crime | WHAT NEXT (December 20, 2023)

• Who Should Be More Worries About Robert F Kennedy  | THE POLITICAL SCENE (May 3, 2024)

• Why Iran Attacked Israel | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 15, 2024)

• Why Is Child Labor Making a Comeback? | THE WEEDS (May 17, 2023)

• Why Is Jill Stein Trying To Get Trump Elected? | WHAT A DAY (October 12, 2024)

• Why Is The SAT Back (Again)? | WHAT A DAY (June 8, 2024)

• Why We Can't Give up on Persuasion | THE GRAY AREA (April 17, 2023)

• Why Millennials Dread Motherhood | TODAY, EXPLAINED (December 15, 2023)

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MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS

• A Duty To Warn Ft Cult Expert Dr Steven Hassan | WITHOUT A COUNTRY (August 1, 2024)

• Anthony Comstock | CITATIONS NEEDED (July 24, 2024)

• Jeff Bridges | WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME (September 24, 2024)

• Mobile Home Parks | THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS  (September 27, 2023) 

• Mythbusting Bedsheets | THE WIRECUTTER SHOW (September 11, 2024)

• Obsolete Occupations | CITATIONS NEEDED (May 1, 2024)

• 🆕Operation Ajax: The CIA's Secret War in Iran | REDACTED: DECLASSFIED MYSTERIES with LUKE AMANA (November 12, 2024)

• 🆕Operation Paperclip: America's Secret Nazi Scientists | REDACTED: DECLASSIFIED MYSERIES with LUKE LAMANA (November 12, 2024)

• Pigeons | THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS (August 25, 2024

• Poisoned Booze | CITATIONS NEEDED (December 27, 2023)

• Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (June 19, 2024)

• Sushi Fish | THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS (September 22, 2024)

• The Cult of Preppers | SOUNDS LIKE A CULT (January 24, 2023)

• The Puritans In America | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (July 26, 2024)

• Title Insurance | THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS (September 8, 2024)

• The Strange Story of Lysol | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (October 3, 2024)

• What Is Evil? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (September 28, 2024)

• 🆕Why Are We So Pessimistic | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (November 23, 2024)

• Why You Should Make Silly Things  (ft Simone Giertz) |  OFFLINEWITH JON FAVERAU (June 18, 2023)

I spend a lot of time trying to find interesting, fun, engaging, and high quality content on YouTube. This is what I've found:

• Answers With Joe [science]

• Big Tugg [entertainment]

• Chain Baker [food]

• Climate Town [environment]

• Dark Matter 2525 [religious philosophy]

• Doctor Mike [health]

• Epic Gardening [gardening]

• Ethan Chlebowski [food]

• Evan and Katelyn [creativity]

• Food Wars - Insider Food [food]

• Home RenoVision DIY [home DIY]

• Honest Ads [humor]

• How to Cook That [food & science]

• Jazza: Fun with Art & Creativity [creativity]

• Kendra Gaylord [architecture]

• Kurtis Conner [entertainment/comedy]

• Last Week Tonight [comedy docuseries]

• Laura Kamph [creativity]

• Legal Eagle [law]

• Nick Lewis [interior design]

• North of the Border [creativity - clay]

• Not Just Bikes [environment]

• Philosophy Tube [philosophy]

• Project Farm [product testing]

• Simone Giertz [creativity]

• Sorted Food [food]

• The Stitchery [sewing]

• Technology Connections [technology]

• Viva La Dirt League [gaming]

• Weird History [history]

• You Suck At Cooking [food]

• zefrank1 [animal science]

Internet & Culture Youth Commentary
Drew Gooden
Eddy Burback
Funky Frog Bait
Jacob Sharpe
Jarvis Johnson
Jarvis Johnson! GOLD

I spend a lot of time trying to find interesting, fun, engaging, and high quality content on YouTube. This is what I've found:

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 1 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKp4yWGTfXo

• 10 Changes To The Bible (Part 2 of 2) | TREY the Explainer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX62bRIG-OI

• 100 Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants | Joshua Weissman
  https://youtu.be/H_erG7HSK0A?si=ZJPqdAqVtUiry_-g

• Activities That Can Be Traced to Paganism | Weird History
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mm6aWTip7o

• AI Is Here. Now What? | Eddy Burback
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4HOCld5nY&list=WL&index=85 

• 🆕All The Science Things That Happened in 2024 | Joe Scott
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV01H02288 

• America is ADDICTED to Self Storage | Future Proof
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgFLw3QVPk

• 🆕Biomedical Scientist Answers New Pseudoscience Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7WlWV-8h0&list=WL&index=31 

• Cult Deprogrammer Answers Cult Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYjLMJ4z3E&t=2s

• Homesteading in a Changing World | Little Mountain Ranch
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Sy7DtixIk 

• How Communist Propaganda Changed America | Epic Economics
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDU_MWsD98

• How To Steal An Elections | Climate Town
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucDFrO89Ko&list=WL&index=30

• Inside Africa's Billion Dollar Bushmeat Industry!!  | Best Ever Food Review Show
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqGJaobxyWk&list=WL&index=88 

• I Took a Real Jim Crow Literacy Test: Here's What Happened | NYTN
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUct-62nUo 

• Microbiologist Answers Microbiology Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhpcxpeyLM&list=WL&index=67&t=6s 

• Plagiarism and You(Tube) | hbomberguy
  https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=P5grJ41FntwrY130 

• Primatologist Answers Ape Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4BmXSBXz-c 

• Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal - Chapter 1 - American Experience | PBS
  https://youtu.be/zT0S5aMqLyY?si=LtNTD041slWjoTyz 

• School Lunch | Last Week Tonight
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YypArYDcjA&list=WL&index=75 

• The Online Gambling Epidemic | Drew Gooden
  https://youtu.be/DlMLfxxvKD8?si=0la4BtyprH0r4eVl

• The Problem with Fast Fashion...& why everything you buy seems cheap now | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKH633Qo0Y

• 🆕Trump Says He Will Save American Jobs. John Deere Is Calling His Bluff | More Perfect Union
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Pbylomcdc&list=WL&index=13 

• What Sex Was Like In Ancient Greece | Weird History
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpmIaBDU8g&list=WL&index=53 

• Who Broke Gas Prices? | Climate Town
  https://youtu.be/QnBqAzJXVGo

• World Religion Family Tree | Useful Charts
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8Uqve9HoU

• We Went On 7 Dates in 7 Decades | Safiya Nygaard
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKqIQ2lBMBA 

• Why King James I Was Obsessed With Burning Witches | Weird History
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jvr1Vk61i4 

• Why No One Is Having Kids Anymore...The Childfree Movement | Shelby Church
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAeCCdwZCs

• Your Stress Is A Political Problem | Wisecrack
  https://youtu.be/WP64_s4qBBA?si=vX3N9SRhbCtsOaFz 

PRODUCT REVIEWS

• Do Stop Leaks Products Work | Project Farm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqD4Ha766w8

• Most New Tire Pressure Gauges are Not Accurate! | Project Farm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHfv9FoPQnY&list=WL&index=71 

• Wow! Cheap Stain Remover Dominates the Expensive Brands! | Project Farm
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re8zil9Gc7s&list=WL&index=38 

All links directed to IMBD (Internet Movie Database)

FILM

• The Holdovers (2023) | Comedy/Drama

• Barbie (2023) | Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy

• Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) | Action/Comedy/Thriller

• The Menu (2022) | Psychological Thriller

• Armageddon Time - TRIGGER WARNING (2022) | Drama/Coming-of-Age

• Don't Worry Darling (2022) | Thriller/Mystery

• Vengeance (2022) | Thriller/Mystery

• Violent Night (2022) | Action/Dark Comedy

• The Adam Project (2022) | Sci-Fi/Drama

• Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) | Action/Thriller

• Free Guy (2021) | Action/Sci-Fi

• Don't Look Up (2021) | Comedy/Disaster

• Dinner In America (2020) | Comedy/Drama/Music

• Enola Holmes (2020) | Action/Adventure/Crime

• The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Horror/Comedy

• The Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019) | Comedy

• Best of Enemies (2019) | Drama/History

• JoJoRabbit (2019) | Comedy/Drama/War

• Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) | Thriller/Mystery

• A Simple Favor (2018) | Thriller/Mystery

• Hotel Artemis (2018) | Action/Crime

• Ingrid Goes West (2017) | Drama/Comedy

• Deadpool (2016) | Action/Adventure

• Look Who's Back (2015) | Comedy/Drama/Satire - TIGGER WARNING - German Language

• Her (2013) | SciFi/Drama/Romance

• Troll Hunter (2010) | Drama/History/Horror Norwegian Language

• Inglorious Bastards (2009) | War/Drama

• Lars and the Real Girl (2007) | Comedy/Drama/Romance

• 13 Going on 30 (2004) | Comedy/Fantasy/Romance

• Collateral (2004 ) | Thriller/Crime

• High Fidelity (2000) | Romance Comedy

• Plunkett & Macleane (1999 | Drama/Comedy/Action

• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Romance/Comedy

• House of Yes (1997) | Comedy/Drama

• Box of Moonlight (1996) | Comedy/Drama

• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) | Comedy/Drama

• Natural Born Killers (1994) | Action/Crime/Romance

• Schindler's List (1993) | War/Drama

• Man Bites Dog - TIGGER WARNING (1992) | Comedy/Crime/Drama French Language

• School Ties (1992) | Drama

• Newsies (1992) | Musical/Family

• Frankie and Johnny (1991) | Comedy/Drama/Romance

• Mermaids (1990) | Comedy/Drama

• Say Anything (1989) | Romance/Comedy

• Beetlejuice (1988) | Comedy/Fantasy

• Big (1988) | Comedy/Fantasy

• Gorillas in the Midst (1988) | Biography/Drama

• Dirty Dancing (1987) | Drama/Music/Romance

• Project X (1987) | SciFi/Comedy/Drama

• A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) | Comedy/Family

• The Princess Bride (1987) | Romance/Adventure

• The Sound of Music (1965) | Musical/Romance

• The Wizard of Oz (1939) | Fantasy/Musical

All links directed to IMBD (Internet Movie Database)

SERIES/TV

• Brand New Cherry Flavor | NETFLIX

• Doom Patrol | MAX

• Fallout | Amazon Prime

• Fargo | HULU

• Ghosts | PARAMOUNT +

• GLOW | NETFLIX

• Good Omens | Amazon Prime

• Hunters | Prime Video

• iZombie | CW

• Justified | HULU

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | HBO/YouTube

• Minx | STARZ NSFW Nudity

• Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes | Norwegian Language

• Poker Face | PEACOCK

• Resident Alien | PEACOCK

• Russian Doll | NETFLIX

• Sliders | FOX

• Stan Against Evil | HULU

• Star Trek: Lower Desks | PARAMOUNT +

• Stranger Things | NETFLIX

• Ted Lasso | Apple+

• The Americans | HULU

• The Diplomat | NETFLIX

• The Good Place | NETFLIX

• The Last of Us | MAX

• The Orville | HULU

• The Righteous Gemstones | MAX

• Quantum Leap (1989) | PEACOCK

• Quantum Leap (2023) | PEACOCK

• United States of Tara | Varies

• Why Women Kill | PARAMOUNT+

• Yellowjackets | PARAMOUNT +

Links direct to The Story Graph (not affiliate links)

• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic - Wann, de Graaf, Naylor | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• Democracy in American - Alexis de Tocqueville | NONFICTION

• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal  - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/SCIENCE

• How Fascism Works: The POLITICS of US and THEM - Jason S Stanley | NONFICTION/POLITICS, HISTORY

• Impossible Vacation - Spalding Gray | FICTION/NOVEL

• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• It Can't Happen Here -  Sinclair Lewis | FICTION/CLASSIC

• Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• 🆕Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia - Natasha Lance Rogoff | NONFICTION

• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences - John R Hibbing | NONFICTION/POLITICS

• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Michael Moss | NONFICTION/HEALTH

• Spanking Watson - Kinky Friedman | FICTION/MYSTERY/COMEDY

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/SCIENCE

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon | FICTION/MYSTERY/YA

• The Glass Castle A Memoir - Jeannette Walls | NONFICTION/BIOGRAPHY

• The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn - Mary Roach | NONFICTION/EDUCATION/POLITICS

• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - Douglas Preston | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism - Steve Kornacki | NONFICTION/POLITICS

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History -  Elizabeth  Kolbert | NONFICTION/HISTORY

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• True to Life: Why Truth Matters - Michael Patrick Lynch | NONFICTION/PHILOSOPHY

• You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation - Deborah Tannen | NONFICTION/SOCIOLOGY

• Borderlands

• BioShock

• Fallout 4

• Fallout 76

• Fallout New Vegas

• Far Cry 5

• SIMS 4

• Painting Soundtrack (on YoutUbe Music)

• Chillin' Tracks (on YouTubeMusic]