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Dec. 19, 2025

Essay: The Story of Not Right Now

This week: Not. Right. Now. I hope you enjoy our new show. It’s super, super informal, and fun, and full of profanity, and personal, and — I hope — something you or a parent in your life can identify with, and maybe get some relief from. It’s intentionally and decidedly…

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Dec. 16, 2025

The Sun Machines Cometh

Please enjoy this hopeful ditty on how we have finally harnessed the sun ☀️ — and how we’re just getting started. Get more: • Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com (https://www.importantnotimportant.com/) • Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade (https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade) • Get our merch (https://important-not-important.myshopify.com/)…

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Dec. 15, 2025

Pods Fight Poverty: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?

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 Give Directly. Now, if you've been with…

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Dec. 12, 2025

The Inevitable Future

Is the future inevitable? Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/ Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Subscribe to our YouTube channel Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors

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Dec. 11, 2025

What's The New Fresh Hell In Public Health?

This week, we have another guest! Dr. Devika Bhushan, a pediatrician, public health leader, former acting Surgeon General in California, and mom, chats with Quinn and Claire about the breastfeeding data nobody tells you about, why sleep protection is literally life-saving for some moms, vaccine hesitancy, raw milk, and all…

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Dec. 9, 2025

Farm to Table

How can we better protect farmworkers? Here's What You Can Do: • Donate to the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a coalition dedicated to improving working conditions (https://foodchainworkers.org/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) s for workers in every stage of food production, and to the Native CDFI Network (https://nativecdfi.net/donate/?utm_source=importantnotimportant.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=farm-to-table) to improve access to capital and credit…

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Dec. 4, 2025

Why ADHD In Girls Gets Overlooked

This week, we have author and journalist Nefertiti Austin on the show to talk about her new book She's Just Spirited: Parenting a Neurodivergent Child and The Diagnosis that Changes Everything. Nefertiti gets real about raising a daughter with ADHD, why ADHD in girls often gets overlooked, glass children, mean…

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Dec. 2, 2025

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

This week: Can Apple help improve mental health? Get more: • Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/ • Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com (mailto:questions@importantnotimportant.com) • Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp (https://twitter.com/importantnotimp) • Subscribe to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUwIVGwYxsZHEgL2fstz9Q) • Take a nap you deserve it…

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Dec. 1, 2025

Let's Talk About Menopause

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 things can follow: better care,…

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Nov. 24, 2025

The American Revolution's Unfinished Promise

If the American Revolution was, as Ken Burns put it, the biggest event since the birth of Christ, then there's probably never been a better time to explore and drastically expand on why it happened, who was involved, and what it set us up for than right now. My guest…

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Nov. 18, 2025

Are Car Dealers The Devil?

Are car dealers the devil? And why? Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/ Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Subscribe to our YouTube channel Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors

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Nov. 17, 2025

History Is A Story We're Told

I've recorded hundreds of conversations with incredible people working on the front lines of the future. People who've asked the most important question: what can I do? Who found their answer and followed it. But for today's conversation, we're going back to the front lines of the past because the…

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Nov. 16, 2025

We don't have to let Long Covid happen. #whatcanido

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Nov. 15, 2025

What we've learned and what we refuse to learn in the aftermath. #whatcanido

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Nov. 14, 2025

Why we keep failing at public health. #whatcanido

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Nov. 14, 2025

How To Be Excited About the Future

How to be excited about the future, explained. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/ Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Subscribe to our YouTube channel Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors

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Nov. 13, 2025

The best way to not get Long Covid, is to not get Covid. #whatcanido

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Nov. 13, 2025

Go to Bed Angry

This week, Claire and Quinn chat Halloween logistics, the rear-facing car seat as the ultimate deterrent to having another baby, Claire's solo cabin getaway where doing absolutely nothing is worth every penny, and why it's better to just go to bed angry instead of drag out a fight when you're…

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Nov. 12, 2025

Local civic participation is the ultimate high. #whatcanido

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Nov. 10, 2025

Bridget Jones and Winston Churchill have a shocking amount in common.#whatcanido

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Nov. 7, 2025

The Next Big Test

Are you ready for the next big test? Get more: • Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/ • Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com (mailto:questions@importantnotimportant.com) • Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp (https://twitter.com/importantnotimp) • Subscribe to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUwIVGwYxsZHEgL2fstz9Q) • Take a nap you deserve it…

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Nov. 4, 2025

The Long Defeat

Tolkien described life (and often, his stories) as a "long defeat", where evil frequently, inevitably wins. But he allowed for "eucatastrophe" - sudden joyous turns, just like breakthroughs in voting rights. We must keep fighting, to hold off the darkness. Get more: • Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps…

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Nov. 3, 2025

Running for Water (Because Shutoffs Are Immoral)

Chronically parched is not something anyone in this country or anywhere should ever have to feel, but here we are. So how are towns and states making clean water more affordable, reliable, and less controversial? 'cause remember, it's fucking water. Look, you might feel like you're giving it all you…

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Oct. 31, 2025

Running on School Meals (Because Learning Requires Eating)

I think we can all agree that kids shouldn't go hungry ever really, but especially at school. You might feel right now like you are giving it everything you got, but when you look around, things feel kind of dark out there. So you, our listeners and readers and viewers…

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