Episodios

  • Public Health Just Got Personal

    Public Health Just Got Personal
    Mar 30 2026
    The CDC issued six health alerts in all of 2025, down from dozens in a normal year (whatever that means anymore). Measles, a disease we basically eliminated 26 years ago, is closing in on 1000 cases, with children hospitalized for brain swelling. And t...
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    43 m
  • Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

    Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx
    Mar 23 2026
    This week, we're dropping an episode from our other show, Not Right Now, in the feed, where Quinn and Claire have community organizer and dad, Garrett Bucks, on the show to chat about parenting, of course, but also how he answered the most important qu...
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    1 h y 12 m
  • Public Health In A Post-Evidence World

    Public Health In A Post-Evidence World
    Mar 16 2026
    Just because we're done caring about an outbreak doesn't mean the outbreak is done with us. Over the last year, we have watched something unsettling happen in plain sight. The quiet, active dismantling of the systems built to catch outbreaks early, coo...
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    52 m
  • The Plastic Crisis Isn't On You, Actually

    The Plastic Crisis Isn't On You, Actually
    Mar 9 2026
    Plastic. It is the miracle material that has quietly become the infrastructure of modern life over the past 63 years and the almost undefeated business model that's continuing climate change and keeping fossil fuel companies alive and reshaping our bod...
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    1 h y 4 m
  • What's The Purpose of Your Wealth?

    What's The Purpose of Your Wealth?
    Jan 19 2026
    If our mission is to help people, everyone, answer the most important question, what can I do? Then at some point we need to talk to the people who help really wealthy people, help people. So today's question, what can I do about high net worth philant...
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    1 h y 20 m
  • We need your help

    We need your help
    Dec 22 2025
    Hi! It's Quinn. We have huge plans for 2026, and we need your help. So we're running the biggest discount on an Important Membership that we've ever run, and will ever run, probably. Right now it's $30/year. On January 1st, it'll be $50/year, and it's ...
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    3 m
  • Pods Fight Poverty: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?

    Pods Fight Poverty: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?
    Dec 15 2025
    Hey friends, I want to talk about something big. Change the actual world big, because the world won't unfuck itself, as we all know. We are joining podcasts across the planet for Pods Fight Poverty, a campaign directly supporting our good friends at Gi...
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    1 h y 24 m
  • Let's Talk About Menopause

    Let's Talk About Menopause
    Dec 1 2025
    What if talking about menopause out loud was as normal as talking about sports scores or school pickup? Imagine it in movie plots, in your group chat, at the clinic, and on the campaign trail because when we name what's happening in our bodies, three t...
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    1 h y 3 m