Episodes

  • *Actually* Pro Life: The Design

    *Actually* Pro Life: The Design
    May 18 2026
    If the name Actually Pro Life is deliberate, then so is the logo. Because like I said in our intro post, we’re reclaiming "pro-life" from the same people who blame kindergartners for getting shot at school, and we’re grounding it in evidence. Evidence ...
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    14 mins
  • Introducing: *Actually* Pro Life

    Introducing: *Actually* Pro Life
    May 12 2026
    250 years after a group of slaveowners wrote that "all men are created equal", we're done letting hypocrites own the language of life.Introducing Actually Pro Life: a reframe, a research platform, and a direct challenge to anyone willing to be held acc...
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    14 mins
  • How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda

    How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda
    May 4 2026
    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 extreme poverty in Bwakira, Rwanda...
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    9 mins
  • A Calm Voice In A Loud World

    A Calm Voice In A Loud World
    Apr 27 2026
    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. They're getting the fear w...
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    52 mins
  • What's In Your Water

    What's In Your Water
    Apr 20 2026
    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. They're in our water, our cook...
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    46 mins
  • Life Under A Microscope

    Life Under A Microscope
    Apr 13 2026
    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 understand, we've really n...
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    44 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 hr and 12 mins