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Talking About The Big Stuff — 180 episodes

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1

Um... Are We Buying Spirit Air?

2

Reacting Correctly in Crisis and Tragedy

3

A Very Special Episode for 4/20

4

Is the AI in the Room with Us Right Now?

5

Willfully Misunderstanding Consent and Victim Blaming

6

Content by Children

7

We Go Into the Manosphere

8

Politics at The Oscars

9

...And I Ran, I Ran So Far Away

10

Nuance and Vote Blue No Matter Who

11

Reacting Correctly in Crisis and Tragedy

12

The Fight Against the Freedom of Speech

13

America's First Language

14

Lessons in Critical Thinking and Critical Reading

15

Don't Be Such an Idiom

16

Breaking the Law for Good

17

Disrespect is Earned not Given

18

Does Venezuela Count as a Sequel, a Spin-Off, or a Reboot?

19

Kibitzing About the Small Stuff

20

Exasperating Age Gaps

21

Anti-Semitism as a Political Force in 2025

22

The Blue Wave 3 Weeks Later

23

Late Stage Capitalism and Black Friday

24

The Shutdown is Over and We Have Thoughts

25

What Happens When the Dog Catches the Car

26

Is Therapy 'Speak' Ruining Our Social/Emotional Discourse?

27

We're So Proud of You

28

We Are What We Perform We Are

29

Talking About the Small Stuff: Pet Peeves

30

Riddle Me This

31

Stochastic Book Fair

32

How We Talk and Feel About Death in its Wake

33

What Do We Do About Money in Politics and Journalism

34

When Does the Ends Justify the Means

35

Low-Key Toxicity

36

Birthday Bashing

37

The Flip Side of Good Skepticism

38

The Fears of White Men

39

We Don't Always have to Start from Scratch

40

Mike's Mental Health Journey

41

Self Awareness and the Image We Project

42

Alex is a Free Agent

43

The Proselytize That Bind Us

44

What if Trump Loses his Support

45

Being Intelligent vs Sounding Intelligent

46

Tyranny and the World of Today

47

Irrational Anger

48

When a Theist Starts to Doubt

49

Penance and Self Flagellation

50

The Cousin Eddie's of the World

51

Funko Populism

52

Union Bustin' Makes Me Feel Good

53

Ready 2 Die

54

The Churds and the Bees

55

Advocacy in Dark Times

56

DEI is Awful?

57

Facing Your Mortality

58

That Friendship has Sailed

59

Voter Rights and the SAVE Act!

60

Nutrition vs Oldtrition

61

Local Elections have Consequences

62

Being Aware of Others' Feelings

63

When Jobs were more than Jobs

64

A Group of Lions

65

New Year Who 'Dis?

66

Talking About the Small Stuff 3: Holiday Edition

67

Moral Culpability: Where Do We Draw the Line?

68

Talking About Objectification

69

What Aboutism and Other Logical Fallacies

70

Gratitude Galore: All the Things We're Thankful For!

71

Why Should We Care? Delving Into Our Emotions For the 2024 Election

72

Exploring the Intriguing Connection Between Christianity vs Paganism

73

Battle of the Arts: Good vs Enjoyable

74

Moral Panics or Genuine Trouble: Unraveling the Truth

75

The Bell Curve of High vs Low Maintenance: Where Do You Fall?

76

What Our Kids Really Think About Our Parenting Style

77

Capital Punishment: Is It Time to End the Death Penalty?

78

Unbalanced Friendships: Are You The Only One Putting In Effort?

79

Exploring the Depths of Platonic Love

80

For or Against: Which Side are You Voting On?

81

Protecting Your Mental Health During an Election

82

Fall Damage

83

5 Rings to Rule the Mall

84

Caretaking Sandwich

85

Performative Kindness

86

UBI Dooby Doo

87

Talking About Taxes

88

Talking About the Small Stuff, Part 2

89

Like a Virgin

90

Conspiracy Theory Pipeline

91

FAFO (F Around and Find Out)

92

When the Big Events Are Over

93

Sleeping With the Enemy

94

I Can Be Your Hero, Baby...

95

Corporate Pride

96

You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry

97

I'll Start Walkin' Your Way...

98

Panic Attack at the Disco

99

Just the Tip

100

AI Revisited

101

Couples and Throuples and All Kinds of Ouples

102

Fandom-onia

103

Always Look On the Bright Side of Life

104

Representation: As Performed by Cishet White Men

105

You Probably Think This Episode is About You...

106

Economics vs Humanity

107

The Need for Discomfort

108

No Regerts

109

The Meaning of Life

110

Let's Talk About Sex, Baby!

111

The Myth of the Nobility of Hardship

112

They're Dead to Me!

113

Ever Evolving English

114

The Family We Found Along the Way

115

Silver Linings Playbill

116

The Unsinkable Allyship

117

Sole Soul Mates from Seoul

118

Expressing Love and Appreciation

119

Image Not Found

120

Talking About Debate

121

Consistency is Key

122

Oh My God, Becky Look at that Art

123

My Father Cries at the Fortnite Song

124

Finding a Happy Place

125

Bad Faith from Good Atheists

126

A Town in New Mexico

127

Intoxication Nation

128

Anniversaries and Commemorations: Part 2

129

Anniversaries and Commemorations: Part 1

130

Upon Death, of the Artist

131

Suicide Prevention Month

132

Act Now, While Supplies Last

133

Talking About Secular Communities

134

Internet Culture

135

Boyz in the Victimhood

136

Talking about the Small Stuff (Part 1)

137

Ahead of their time, morally speaking

138

Episode 41: Wholesome Yogurt

139

Please remove your hats...

140

This is the episode where we finally get busted!

141

Is it right to be on the left?

142

Happiness in Your Household

143

Talking About Nepotism

144

Minding Your Change

145

Ancient Mist and Mythicism

146

Mid-Life (I Hope) Crisis

147

Thoughts Vs Feelings

148

Crimeless Victims

149

Leave Those Kids Alone!

150

I’d Buy You a Green Dress, but Not a Real Green Dress

151

Post Mortem Planning and Other Positive News!

152

This episode is Pointless

153

Listeners, Come Out and Play!

154

AI, and Sometimes Y

155

Hypocrisy in Democracy

156

Guns and Advocacy

157

A Kind of Nice Episode

158

Tragedy Plus Timing

159

The Mandela Conspiracy (Attempt 2)

160

The Mandella Conspiracy

161

Morality Policing, and Shaming

162

Adam and Eve and Other Conspiracy Theories!

163

Mike Can’t Really Picture This Episode Coming Together

164

Don’t Worry This Podcast isn’t Canceled!

165

A Bad Banana with a Greasy Black Peel

166

The Fallen One

167

Theoretical Woke-ism 101

168

A couple of Ask-holes!

169

This episode killed the cat!

170

Something Wicked This Way Comes

171

Health and Fitness Episode into the Podcast

172

No Episode this week...

173

This Episode is not a Destination, but a Process.

174

As is Tradition

175

Marriage is What Brings Us Together, Today

176

Bigfoot, a ghost, and an alien walk into a bar...

177

Identity Crisis on Infinite Podcasts

178

Tok (sic) Masculinity

179

Atheism Shmatheism...

180

Friendship is Rare