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How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda

Last Christmas we teamed up with about 40 other big podcasts to support our dear friends at Give Directly with a very special campaign called Pods Fight Poverty . The goal was to raise $1 million to send to families in extrem...

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How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda
May 4, 2026

How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda

Last Christmas we teamed up with about 40 other big podcasts to support our dear friends at Give Directly with a very special campaign called Pods Fight Poverty . The goal was to raise $1 million to send to families in extrem...
A Calm Voice In A Loud World
April 27, 2026

A Calm Voice In A Loud World

Your kids are hearing about the news whether you are ready or they're ready or not. One study said two-thirds of kids aged 8 to 14 are absorbing current events at least every few days, and almost none of it was made for them....
What's In Your Water
April 20, 2026

What's In Your Water

Whoever said this country can't come together about anything anymore in the year of our Lord twenty twenty-six was wrong because PFAS, or forever chemicals, are in the blood of ninety-seven percent of Americans right now. The...
Life Under A Microscope
April 13, 2026

Life Under A Microscope

Since the dawn of recorded history, our living earth has been changed by everyone who spends time on it or in it from the smallest bacteria to the largest animals. But like the brain-gut axis inside of us that we still barely...
Public Health Just Got Personal
March 30, 2026

Public Health Just Got Personal

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...
Public Health Just Got Personal
March 29, 2026

Public Health Just Got Personal

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 hospitalize...
Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx
March 23, 2026

Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

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 ans...
Public Health In A Post-Evidence World
March 16, 2026

Public Health In A Post-Evidence World

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...
The Plastic Crisis Isn't On You, Actually
March 9, 2026

The Plastic Crisis Isn't On You, Actually

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 ...
What's The Purpose of Your Wealth?
Jan. 19, 2026

What's The Purpose of Your Wealth?

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 a...