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Welcome to the show. You — yes, you — have wandered into yet another broadcast where reality politely exits the room, and propaganda sits down for a cigarette. Today, we ask a question that's been skulking around like a cockroach in a Manhattan apartment: Are we being distracted on purpose?

The president — part reality-TV host, part demolition derby driver in a suit — has made a career out of chaos. The man can fart out a scandal faster than most of us can microwave popcorn. But is it all just an accident? Or is there something more deliberate at play?

Imagine this: a campaign of noise, smoke, and confusion — timed precisely to blot out inconvenient truths, like, say, losing a Supreme Court race in a swing state. Is POTUS just flailing? Or is he pulling off the political equivalent of a Vegas magic act — badgering the media with one hand while slipping a tax cut to billionaires with the other?

Joining me today to unpick these tangled Christmas-lights of suspicion is Russ Baker — investigative journalist and a man who’s spent enough time around spooks, operatives, and bureaucrats to know when he smells a rat — or at least a heavily perfumed ferret in a flag pin. He’s written for The Nation, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Salon, Esquire, the Guardian, and the Village Voice, among others, covered foreign wars, done investigative reporting, written feature stories, produced content for print, online, radio and tv. He’s author of the bestseller, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty. He is founder and editor-in-chief of WhoWhatWhy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, publicly-funded news site that explores stories, topics and angles missed or ignored by the rest of the media. You can check out his SubstackNewsletter, Going Deep with Russ Baker.

Russ Baker, welcome. Before we dig into the pile of distractions, misdirections, and bureaucratic Kafka cos-play, let me ask the first of many dangerous questions:

* President says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Minutes before meeting with El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, the president could be heard embracing the concept. He said: “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places", an apparent reference to more camps that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

* Can you walk us through what might have been going on behind the scenes as Trump dropped his “third term” bomb? Coincidence, or just old-fashioned chaos engineering?

* Let’s talk about surveillance — from stopping scientists at the border to scraping driver’s license photos. How scared should the average American be?

* What happens when “national security” becomes a Swiss army knife for censorship? We’re seeing detentions over opinions now, right?

* This isn’t just Trump, is it? Didn’t the Biden administration quietly lay down some of this surveillance infrastructure, too?

* Why aren’t these tactics labeled for what they are — strategic psychological operations — rather than shrugged off as “Mr. T being Mr. T”?

* If tariffs hurt the working class most, and the MAGA crowd is largely working class, why hasn’t that message cut through? What’s the real failure here — the policy or the messaging?

* Final question, Russ — are we past the point where good journalism alone can wake people up? Or do we need something... bigger?

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You. Sitting there. Pretending your conversations with Siri don’t count. Pretending you haven’t named your Google Assistant. Pretending it’s not comforting when Alexa says goodnight. Let me introduce you to the ghost in the algorithm—one that doesn’t just listen. It loves. Please click above for a five minute listen.

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Tonight’s exhibit? A curious behavioral mutation born of Gen Z’s terminal boredom and pathological need for digital validation. It’s called floodlighting—a term that sounds like it belongs to a stadium renovation but, in truth, is just another way to emotionally exploit your contact list.

Now, what is floodlighting? In short, it’s when someone you're not dating—probably never will—decides to bare their emotional spleen to you. Late-night trauma texts, life crises shared without warning, a barrage of feelings you never asked for... and before you know it, you're knee-deep in someone else's existential quicksand.

Why? Because, as the psychologist in a Forbes article says, it's not about you. It’s about them wanting to feel seen. Which, in the age of curated invisibility, is apparently harder than finding a decent bagel in Kansas.

But let’s not spoil all the fun upfront. Here are ten little morsels to chew on as we dig into this episode:

1. It’s not bonding, it’s bait – Floodlighting isn't about closeness; it’s about control. Drop the trauma bomb, then watch who runs and who clings.

2. The illusion of intimacy – Nothing says “soulmate” like revealing your abandonment issues before you’ve exchanged surnames.

3. Therapy cosplay – Many floodlighters speak like they’ve been to therapy. Spoiler: they haven’t. But they’ve watched enough reels to fake it.

4. Insta-validation loop – Oversharing gives them a momentary high. Your reaction is just the dopamine drip.

5. You’re not a partner—you’re an emotional sponge – They don’t want a relationship. They want a witness.

6. Shame grenades – If you flinch or disengage, you’re the villain. “Wow, I guess I am too much,” they’ll say, fishing with guilt hooks.

7. The trauma resume – It’s less about healing and more about hierarchy: who’s suffered more, and who’s obligated to stay.

8. Emotional exhibitionism – Like streaking, but with childhood neglect instead of nudity.

9. Floodlighting ≠ vulnerability – Real vulnerability invites connection. Floodlighting demands allegiance.

10. It’s loneliness in drag – Strip away the spectacle, and you’ll find someone just trying not to be left alone with their own silence.

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In these times when DEI has removed women from the federal lexicon, we can celebrate the full 50% of the human race. Without them, you would not have been born and if the people of earth had been raised by men only, we might all still be walking on our knuckles. So, today will be the show where ambition goes to therapy, burnout gets a name tag, and we ask the uncomfortable questions that HR would rather we didn’t. We’re not gonna speak with just any corporate consultants. Nope. We’ve got a woman here who didn’t just survive the system—she rewired it while it was still plugged in.

Roquita Coleman-Williams is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and founder of something called The Total Woman Summit. Sounds serene, right? Like a wellness retreat with cucumber water and someone whispering "you’re enough" in the background?

Wrong. This summit is a full-blown intervention—equal parts healing circle and corporate exorcism. These two have made it their business—literally—to help women lead without immolating themselves in the name of success. It’s career growth, mental health, and self-care all tangled up in real-world strategies, not platitudes on a Pinterest board. And they’re not just whispering into the void. Their client list includes Nike, St. Jude, the City of Memphis... In short, they’ve been hired to tell the truth to people who usually pay good money not to hear it.

Roquita has faced the kind of adversity most leadership books politely skip over. We're talking about single motherhood. We're talking about surviving sexual violence. The real stuff millions of us deal with but often dare not speak about.

She’s not your average LinkedIn influencer with inspirational quotes over stock photos – she’s proved that it’s possible to climb the ladder without using your own spine as a rung. (pause)

They’ve raised over $100,000 for women and girls’ initiatives, created safe spaces where ambition and anxiety can hold hands, and are showing companies that wellness isn’t a line item—it’s the whole damn budget.

We talk with Roquita Coleman-Williams, a woman who’s turned personal wreckage into professional revolution. She’s the mind behind The Total Woman Summit, executive coaches to corporate giants like Nike and St. Jude. She’s faced more than her fair share of adversity—single motherhood, sexual violence—and she didn’t just come out stronger. She came out strategic with a blueprint reminder that wellness isn’t weak—it’s warfare.

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The Cary Harrison Files: CALL-INS: We discuss the anxieties and challenges of the current social and political climate, emphasizing the importance of community, self-care, and constructive action in the face of widespread unease.

Here are the key themes and points from the above:

* Social and Political Anxiety: The calls acknowledge the pervasive feelings of stress, anxiety, and disillusionment stemming from current events and societal trends.

* Importance of Community: There's a strong emphasis on the need for people to support each other, avoid turning against one another, and work together to navigate difficulties.

* Self-Care as a Priority: I stress the importance of self-care, framing it not as selfishness but as a necessary prerequisite for being able to help others effectively. He shares a mantra to reinforce this idea.

* Listener Engagement: We actively involve listeners through call-ins and online comments, providing a platform for them to share their experiences, coping mechanisms, and concerns.

1 Callers discuss issues ranging from personal betrayal to political anxieties and the need for civic engagement.

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* Call to Action: While acknowledging the challenges, we promote proactive engagement, encouraging listeners to stay informed, participate in civic duties, and find ways to contribute positively.

* Information Sharing: I encourage listeners to share their knowledge and skills to help others.

* Specific Issues: Callers raise specific concerns, including political issues, the postal service, and the importance of constitutional awareness.

CARY HARRISON: Well, you don't need me to tell you that civilization's doing just fine. Everyone's calm, everyone's rational, and everyone is in perfect mental health, as we just learned. The news is a It's a soothing balm. Social media is a utopia of kindness. And the modern diet packed with more chemicals than a science lab is definitely not rewiring our brains for permanent hysteria. Yeah, it's exactly as the founding fathers had intended.

Not to mention the services many people rely on to ensure a safer food supply, like the FDA, is going to be cut by 3,500 employees, the CDC by 2,400 employees, the National Institutes of Health by 1,200, and Medicare by 300, all being rebuilt by Bobby Kennedy into a brand new agency, no kidding, called Aha! I know if you haven't heard of it, you're laughing or some variant of that. Seriously, it's called AHA, A-H-A, or the Administration for Healthy America. AHA. You know, he's way too educated in Ivy League to come up with such a stupid acronym. So clearly it was handed to him. He was reading it off a teleprompter.

MIKE: Hello. Uh, yeah. Um, uh, you know, really kind of, uh, you know, feeling bad and stuff about how the election went on. So, um, I got this book. It's called Trump on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, MD. And he goes inside the mind of the president. And that's helped me a lot to understand where this man's coming from. Is that the same? I understand from a psychological point of view what the president's state of mind is. Is that the same author who did Bush on the Couch back in 2006? And Obama also, yes. Yes. Invaluable books. Invaluable. What did you learn? It's almost like a Bible. I want to carry it around with me and show people it. I really do. Can you give us a little bit of a synthesis? Yeah. I'm novice, but I mean, the way that I understand the way the book goes is taking him back to his childhood. And I'm relating myself and my son's childhood, too. So it's helping me to be able to communicate with him and try to understand the president. I mean, that's the take I have on it.

LEO: Yes, you were saying, now what are we doing to try to change what's going on over there in the middle of the White House? I'm over here calling up people, sending out messages so that they called the switchboard at the Capitol, 202-224-3121. That's one of the things. And other things that I've been trying to do, is also mentioned to my friends and associates about certain things that are part of the democracy that we live in, and that's the Constitution. And I try to tell them about looking up and rereading the preamble. And just by chance, the preamble kind of came to mind one day when I was looking through an American Legion calendar one day, and it stated that on the September 17th is supposed to be Constitution Day, of all things. And then, Cary, a few months later, on December 15th, it's supposed to be the Bill of Rights Day, Cary. And then another thing, I want people to maybe do a rally around the monument. In 1991, Mayor Tom Bradley said, erected a monument dedicated to the Bill of Rights on the south lawn of the City Hall on Main Street at First Street Corner. And so that's what I've been doing. And if you go up from Spring Street, Main Street, to Grand Street, where the courthouse is between Grand Street and Hill Street, you'll find another monument that it's all in writing, the Emancipation Proclamation Monument. So anyway, Cary, I'm out there doing my patriotic duty. I'm a Vietnam vet, and I appreciate what you've been doing for us, brother, giving us information when you first started off your show. I was listening in there. Thank you so much.

GAIL: I hope you're right, but his practices are in place. And my understanding is that the latest is through the project 20, whatever it was, 2025, that horrible project, The aim is to keep going in the DeJoy direction, to slow it down until it becomes so ineffective in their imagination that everyone will say, oh, well, let's just privatize it. This isn't working. To your point, because if people don't know about this, he plucked 10,000 physical blue metal mailboxes out of the ground in neighborhoods and zip codes where... the wrong voting party was concentrated in population. So that was his invention. And that's in play.

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Ah, the internet—a place where everyone's living their best lives, or at least pretending to. A paradise of curated perfection, where breakfast isn’t eaten unless it's photogenic, and even misery comes with a tasteful sepia filter. But somewhere in this digital masquerade, there’s you—wondering just how much of your actual self you should let slip through the cracks. Cary and Flash unzip the dilemma.

That’s today’s grand experiment: “Being Real Online: How Much Should You Share?” Should you spill your guts in a heartfelt confession, hoping for connection? Or maybe you’d rather hold your cards close, maintaining the illusion that your life is an uninterrupted highlight reel? Because let’s be honest—too much honesty is like an unfiltered selfie under fluorescent lighting. No one asked for it, and most people don’t know what to do with it.

We’ll be diving into this little dilemma, sorting out how to walk the fine line between transparency and good old-fashioned self-preservation. Can you build trust without broadcasting your every existential crisis? Is digital intimacy even real intimacy? And how do you keep your soul intact when the algorithm demands constant engagement?

Now, let’s talk about the fine art of human deception—Ghosting, Breadcrumbing, and Catfishing. Three delightful little pastimes that make you wonder if the dating pool is actually a toxic waste dump.

Ghosting—because nothing says “mature adult” quite like vanishing into thin air after three weeks of emotionally charged texting. Poof! Gone. No explanation, no closure, just the digital equivalent of leaving for cigarettes and never coming back.

Breadcrumbing—this is for the sadists who won’t commit but won’t quite let you escape either. A like here, a vague compliment there, just enough attention to keep you dangling like some poor, lovesick marionette. They don’t want you, but heaven forbid you move on.

And then we have Catfishing—the pièce de résistance. This one’s not just bad dating etiquette; it’s identity fraud with a side of shattered trust. That gorgeous doctor you’ve been texting for months? Turns out he’s a guy in his mom’s basement, living out his delusions between bites of cold pizza.

This week, we're unpacking the messy reality of online dating! Join us as we explore the world of filtered photos, deceptive profiles, and frustrating dating trends like "ghosting" and "breadcrumbing." We'll discuss:

* How online profiles often distort reality.

* The power shift in dating apps and its impact.

* The contrasting approaches men and women take to online dating.

* The challenges of authenticity and trust in the digital age.

* Tips for navigating the online dating world and spotting red flags.

Whether you're single, coupled, or just curious, this insightful discussion will shed light on the ever-evolving landscape of modern relationships, necessary than ever during frightening times.

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I don’t have to tell you that people are scared right now. You can feel it in the air, in the way people move, in the way their voices tighten when they talk about the future—if they dare talk about it at all. Anxiety isn’t just a passing state anymore; it’s the wallpaper of modern life. The headlines scream, the sirens wail, and somehow, we’re all supposed to just go about our business like nothing’s on fire.

Last week’s Cary Harrison Files made that crystal clear. I heard it in your voices—the exhaustion, the uncertainty, the quiet plea hidden beneath the words: What do we do? Where do we go from here? It wasn’t just about the economy, or the politics, or the news cycle that seems hell-bent on making sure nobody ever gets a full night’s sleep again. It was deeper than that. It was the creeping sense that we’re more divided, more isolated, more… alone than ever before.

And that’s why we have to talk about this. Because if we’re not careful, fear will do what it always does—it’ll turn us against each other. It’ll make us suspicious, cynical, convinced that we’re on our own. And that’s the real danger. Not just what’s happening out there, but what it’s doing to us in here.

So tonight, let’s push back. Let’s talk about what actually holds us together. About what we can do—right now, today—to make sure fear doesn’t win. Because if last week proved anything, it’s that none of us are as alone as we think.

Cary Harrison: And Stephanie, let's just cut to the chase.

Cary Harrison: Why are so many people miserable when we've never had more ways to, let's say, optimize happiness?

Stephanie Harrison: I think because we have lost sight of the fact that happiness comes from our relationships.

Stephanie Harrison: As you mentioned in your introduction, we are deeply disconnected from one another.

Stephanie Harrison: And connection is the pathway to happiness.

Stephanie Harrison: And unfortunately, this sort of truth has been really lost in the ways in which our society has warped this idea that happiness comes from, as you said, optimizing yourselves, pursuing more and more, getting certain possessions or achievements.

Stephanie Harrison: And I think that in order for us to find our way out of this moment, we need to remember that true happiness comes from being connected to other people.

Cary Harrison: You know, we talk about old happy versus new happy.

Cary Harrison: You do a book.

Cary Harrison: Is it just another way of saying that we've been doing it wrong all along?

Stephanie Harrison: Yeah.

Stephanie Harrison: It's, you know, old happy is my term to try to collect a bunch of different ideas together into one to make it easier to talk about.

Stephanie Harrison: And essentially, old happy teaches us that happiness is something that we get through perfecting ourselves, achieving more and more and isolating ourselves from other people.

Stephanie Harrison: And these messages are incredibly pervasive and have been conditioned into us through things like institutions and the media and our relationships with our families and ultimately what i'm striving to help people to do is realize that old happy doesn't work we have reams and reams of scientific data that show that these pursuits don't make us feel good they actually make us feel bad and ultimately they end up contributing to a lot of the bigger problems that our society is facing as well

Cary Harrison: Ray, on the phone and some others, we're gonna go to you in just a minute.

Cary Harrison: We'll take some calls here.

Cary Harrison: Stephanie Harrison, obviously people really wanna have a glass of cool water in a parched desert of desperation.

Cary Harrison: And I wanna make sure that everyone's voices gets heard um we're living in different times i mean even a month ago it was the old world it was the old way it was just let's fine tune it we still would go to malibu we still would spend 300 bucks on a special yoga suit so we could meditate with our palms up to catch the proper vortices as they are known to spend specifically in malibu and other places maybe sedona arizona

Cary Harrison: I'm being sarcastic, but practical at the same time.

Cary Harrison: This is what many of us believe.

Cary Harrison: That's the old happy.

Cary Harrison: That is the old way of finding it.

Cary Harrison: We're now in a whole new thing of real disruption where gravity may or may not be real, according to fill in the blank and finding happiness, security, stability with each other.

Cary Harrison: is kind of the new goal.

Cary Harrison: Not just me feeling self-soothing.

Cary Harrison: I'm going to self-soothe today.

Cary Harrison: But I have to soothe my neighbors, or if they're unsoothed, I am never going to be soothed.

Stephanie Harrison: That's so beautifully said.

Stephanie Harrison: I couldn't agree more.

Stephanie Harrison: I think in the conversation that we've had as a society about self-care, we have forgotten that the best form of self-care is through caring for other people and our connections.

Stephanie Harrison: And as you said, if if we allow other people to be suffering, to be experiencing profound harm to their lives, to their own wellbeing, how can we say that we are happy and well on the inside?

Stephanie Harrison: We can't permit these things to happen while also pursuing our own selfish pleasures.

Stephanie Harrison: The two things are just fundamentally at odds.

Stephanie Harrison: And so that doesn't mean that we can't, do things that make us feel good or that bring us joy or, you know, have the occasional bubble bath or spa day or whatever it is that helps you to feel like you're strong and capable.

Stephanie Harrison: But we have to bring back the focus that we are a collective.

Stephanie Harrison: We are deeply dependent upon one another and we need each other.

Stephanie Harrison: And that is the only way that we'll be able to really find the happiness that I think deep down all of us are searching for.

Cary Harrison: We're talking right now to Stephanie Harrison.

Cary Harrison: She is creator of The New Happy with a master's degree in positive psychology from Penn, written for the Harvard Business Review, been featured in the New York Times, and Forbes even testified before the government on happiness back when the government might have been interested in such a topic.

Cary Harrison: Her new book, New Happy, has already become an international bestseller today.

Cary Harrison: Here to talk to us about everything, why we think everything we know about happiness is wrong, especially now, and helping others might be the secret to saving each other.

Cary Harrison: Service.

Cary Harrison: something that this country was founded on and something that we're looking to return to all that in service of my show last week, but we found out that really people need to reconnect with each other and have community and fellowship.

Cary Harrison: The surprising key to joy, how helping others boosts personal happiness, like the way to get self-esteem is by doing esteemable things.

Cary Harrison: For example, And you're not supposed to tell people this.

Cary Harrison: You do it in top secret.

Cary Harrison: When I go into Ralph's, for instance, which is one of the big grocery store chains here, and I see an older woman trying to load her groceries from the cart into her trunk.

Cary Harrison: It's hard.

Cary Harrison: It's difficult.

Cary Harrison: I'll run up joyously like a spaniel wagging my tail, throw the groceries in her trunk.

Cary Harrison: Wish her a great day and leave.

Cary Harrison: I know she feels better.

Cary Harrison: I feel great for like three hours, but I can't tell anybody.

Cary Harrison: That's the key.

Cary Harrison: I can't get credit for it.

Cary Harrison: And it changes you.

Cary Harrison: It really does.

Stephanie Harrison: There's so much science to back that up that acts of kindness, of course, they benefit the lady who you're helping, the person who you're showing up for, but they also end up benefiting the giver and sometimes even more than the receiver.

Stephanie Harrison: And so that description, your story, what scientists have discovered is that not only do you feel better for up to four weeks after doing an act of kindness, but But it's something that persists and it helps you to change your identity into somebody who feels like they are worthy and they matter.

Stephanie Harrison: And so much of this mental health crisis that we're experiencing in this country is, I believe, a result of people feeling like they don't have this deep sense of self-worth, that they're not able to contribute to lives in a meaningful way.

Stephanie Harrison: And we don't have to start out by changing the world.

Stephanie Harrison: We can just start out by trying to change somebody else's day and we get the benefits that we're looking for.

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Cary Harrison: We're talking right now to Stephanie Harrison, best-selling author, and we're looking at ways to cope In the complicated and uncertain times in which we live, notice how I even have to put that in code.

Cary Harrison: I really, I would love to really lay it out, but I'm not gonna.

Cary Harrison: I think we all kind of get it right now.

Cary Harrison: That's the other problem is normally if you go to a psychotherapist, they ask you to be specific and identify the real problem.

Cary Harrison: But because we're so divided, to identify the real problem might put you on the enemy's list of your neighbor.

Cary Harrison: And we have to be mindful of that too, don't we?

Stephanie Harrison: Yeah.

Stephanie Harrison: And this division that we're experiencing, I think that in many ways, we don't realize how we're pulling ourselves apart from people and how the more that we can come back to honoring our shared humanity and recognizing that All of us want to be happy.

Stephanie Harrison: All of us want to experience the ability to have a good life.

Stephanie Harrison: And there's nothing wrong with that.

Stephanie Harrison: We should be celebrating our neighbors for what they do and their unique contributions to the world.

Stephanie Harrison: And we should be trying to make the world safe for everybody to be able to experience those things.

Cary Harrison: Stephanie Harrison, you say that helping others is the key to joy.

Cary Harrison: You mentioned the science behind that.

Cary Harrison: How does that science compare to say retail therapy, which a lot of people, they do believe it works.

Stephanie Harrison: I would say that if you think about it like if you imagine a line graph, the spike of gratification that might ensue after handing over your credit card to buy something, sure, it might boost up really, really quickly, but it falls just as rapidly and it does not persist.

Stephanie Harrison: Whereas if you're helping somebody, it's much more of a steady climb that ultimately gets you up higher and then keeps you there.

Stephanie Harrison: So sure, buying something, maybe in the moment, it gives you that quick hit of getting something you want.

Stephanie Harrison: But we are so adaptable to any of our possessions or our achievements.

Stephanie Harrison: And ultimately, that hedonistic high wears off very, very rapidly.

Stephanie Harrison: And it's not a good or sustainable pathway to true happiness.

Cary Harrison: I have to admit burnout.

Cary Harrison: I have a severe version of it.

Cary Harrison: It's like, I feel like Sisyphus, not syphilis, but Sisyphus pushing that boulder up the hill only for see, we'd see you smile.

Cary Harrison: It's video only to have that boulder roll back down and keep pushing it back up.

Cary Harrison: I am one of hundreds of millions here, but.

Cary Harrison: I just happen to have the microphone, so I'm saying it.

Cary Harrison: Burnout, practically a badge of honor in America.

Cary Harrison: In other words, you worked hard and you're burnout.

Cary Harrison: I'm burnout for a thousand other reasons like everyone else.

Cary Harrison: What would be one simple shift that any of us can make today to start feeling better?

Stephanie Harrison: It's such a great question.

Stephanie Harrison: And you're right.

Stephanie Harrison: There are so many millions of people who are suffering from burnout.

Stephanie Harrison: One of the things I think that people don't necessarily know about burnout is that one of the key components of it is cynicism.

Stephanie Harrison: So believing that other people are bad or that the future is irredeemably flawed, there's no hope for us.

Stephanie Harrison: And so one of the things we can do to address our burnout, even if we can't maybe change our circumstances, is to try to cultivate a better sense of optimism, a sense of care, a sense of connection, a sense of looking for the good in other people.

Stephanie Harrison: And when we do that, that can help to bolster us to both make the choices that work for us, but also to continue showing up for our communities in these difficult times.

Cary Harrison: Stephanie Harrison, I want to ask you a relevant question for today's Times.

Cary Harrison: And thank you.

Cary Harrison: You're like so awesome jumping back with really excellent, well-researched answers, which is why we have you on and not Mildred, who I could go find at Ralph's, who is very grateful for the groceries but may not have any idea about this.

Cary Harrison: If you had to give a TED Talk to a room full of billionaires who what would you tell them about the link between money and happiness i love that

Stephanie Harrison: question if only if if if i could do that it would be a dream come true um i would try to tell them that their hoarding of wealth is not only harming millions billions of other people but it's also harming themselves and i would use the research to convince them that this pursuit is not only flawed, but it's also contributing to our broken world and that there are so many better things that they can do rather than devote themselves to simply amassing more and more.

Stephanie Harrison: And principally, they could be focusing on giving more and more.

Cary Harrison: We have some callers here at 818-985-5735.

Cary Harrison: Those are your Harrison hotlines, 818-985-KPFK.

Cary Harrison: And I think we have Ray to ask you a question.

Cary Harrison: Ray, you're on the Kerry Harrison Files.

Ray: Oh, hi.

Ray: I want to wish everyone a happy day and a good morning.

Ray: I wanted to express the fact that shows like yours are absolutely necessary in times like these, and it's really appreciated by everyone.

Ray: I had a suggestion.

Ray: You asked for suggestions last week, and you said you would take them today.

Ray: So I would like to suggest that you invite these guests administrators, these government administrators, to explain on your show exactly what they're doing and to describe exactly what they have in mind and in simple terms explain their policies, their practices, and their decisions.

Ray: And I would suggest that you challenge these people and invite them on the show.

Cary Harrison: Okay, well, I love the idea.

Cary Harrison: If they say yes, you know I will do it.

Cary Harrison: And I appreciate your call, Ray.

Cary Harrison: I think Ray speaks to the news cycle, basically a 24-7 anxiety machine.

Cary Harrison: Really, I've never, we've all watched the news.

Cary Harrison: We all watched it obsessively, C-SPAN, whatever, for years and years.

Cary Harrison: But three minutes of it puts me into a backspin like crazy.

Cary Harrison: How, Stephanie Harrison, do we cultivate real joy when the world, as Ray just pointed out, feels like it's absolutely on fire?

Stephanie Harrison: I want to acknowledge just how difficult it is in this situation that we are all in.

Stephanie Harrison: And Ray, I absolutely love your idea, by the way.

Stephanie Harrison: I think that there are a couple of different practices and tools we can use.

Stephanie Harrison: The news is going to put us into a fight or flight state pretty quickly with everything going on right now.

Stephanie Harrison: So I really recommend trying to limit your news consumption or to engage in news sources like your show, Carrie, that are devoted to helping people to feel more connected, not trying to stem them into outrage.

Stephanie Harrison: The second thing we can do is to remember that we're not supposed to deal with this by ourselves.

Stephanie Harrison: We're supposed to deal with it through connection.

Stephanie Harrison: And that means coming together, having conversations, building those meaningful communities that support each other.

Stephanie Harrison: And then finally, it's about devoting ourselves to a greater purpose.

Stephanie Harrison: What can we do?

Stephanie Harrison: You know, none of us are going to be able to save the country or the world by ourselves, but we can all do our small part to make a difference.

Stephanie Harrison: We can all show up and try to support other people who are struggling and try to make a difference here.

Stephanie Harrison: And if we can do each of those things, they can provide that level of support that allows us to not only cope, but ultimately even thrive.

Cary Harrison: Cary Harrison with you.

Cary Harrison: This is the Cary Harrison Files.

Cary Harrison: Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter at CaryHarrison.com.

Cary Harrison: Talking to Stephanie Harrison, whose surname is so awesome, I can even pronounce it.

Cary Harrison: She happens to be the creator of The New Happy.

Cary Harrison: Got a master's degree in positive psychology from Penn.

Cary Harrison: Written for the Harvard Business Review.

Cary Harrison: Been featured in the New York Times.

Cary Harrison: Been featured in Forbes.

Cary Harrison: Even testified before the government on happiness.

Cary Harrison: Has a new book called New Happy.

Cary Harrison: And you testified before Congress on happiness.

Cary Harrison: I mean, this is just I don't know whether to smile or clutch the pearls that I'm not wearing.

Cary Harrison: But did they actually listen or were they just giving tax breaks?

Stephanie Harrison: Yeah.

Stephanie Harrison: It was actually for the government of California specifically.

Stephanie Harrison: So looking at their commission on happiness, and they did listen.

Stephanie Harrison: They were very engaged and very supportive.

Stephanie Harrison: You know, I think that if I was to be speaking in front of Congress, especially right now, we'd be having a very different conversation.

Stephanie Harrison: And ultimately, there is so much misinformation out there about happiness that so many people who have been led astray thinking that power or domination or the amass of, you know, the pursuit of wealth and status are going to make you happy.

Stephanie Harrison: And unfortunately, a lot of that, uh, seems to be playing out in many ways in the public sphere now too.

Cary Harrison: Let's go next to Carlos in Carson.

Cary Harrison: You're on the Cary Harrison files with Stephanie Harrison and me, Cary Harrison.

Carlos: Good morning.

Carlos: Both, uh, both Harrisons, uh, Listen, I can identify with what Stephanie's saying about giving, randomly giving, because that enhances your humanity and your sense of self-worth.

Carlos: I love to go to Tijuana to the border and give money to all these poor kids begging on the streets.

Carlos: and all those people distributing clothes.

Carlos: And particularly, I go over there to contribute money for people who have cancer and cannot afford insurance, surgery, things like that.

Carlos: And, you know, that gives me a great sense of humanity, a sense of being, and a reason for living, you know.

Carlos: At my age, sometimes you need reasons for living, you know.

Carlos: But I got a question from Stephanie.

Carlos: You mentioned a collective, being part of a collective.

Carlos: Now, doesn't that take away from your sense of being an individual?

Carlos: I look at our DEI policies, diversity, inclusion, and all this, but that that also merges you and you become part of the big collective.

Carlos: And that has to me, that entails in a way, a sense of loosening your cultural identity, your traditions, things like that, where you just submerge through the collective.

Carlos: I mean, I'm grappling with that question.

Carlos: What do you say?

Cary Harrison: Thank you.

Stephanie Harrison: Thank you so much, Carlos, for your call.

Cary Harrison: Good one, Stephanie.

Stephanie Harrison: It's a really great question, Carlos.

Stephanie Harrison: And first of all, thank you so much for being the person you are who shows up to give and make a difference in people's lives.

Stephanie Harrison: We need more people like you.

Stephanie Harrison: And I had goosebumps listening to you talk about it.

Stephanie Harrison: So thank you so much.

Stephanie Harrison: You know, I think that when we think about the collective, The collective is at its strongest when every individual has a deep sense of who they uniquely are.

Stephanie Harrison: And that is comprised of so many different elements from their cultural heritage, to their background, to the life experiences they've had, to their unique talents.

Stephanie Harrison: And the more that we actually find a use in the collective for our individual selves, the more our individuality actually strengthens while at the same time building greater connectedness to other people.

Stephanie Harrison: So it's a little bit of a paradox, but the more that we devote ourselves to doing good in the world in this way, the more we actually build a stronger sense of individual self.

Stephanie Harrison: And so I think, Carlos, it's totally natural to struggle with that because it feels like they're at odds.

Stephanie Harrison: But in fact, the two things are mutually supportive of one another.

Stephanie Harrison: So as you give, you become more of you, Carlos.

Stephanie Harrison: And then that equips you to give even more.

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You there—yeah, you. Sitting in traffic, scrolling through the abyss, or pretending to work while eavesdropping on reality. Here’s a question: when’s the last time a show actually gave a damn about what you needed? Not what advertisers want, not what some algorithm thinks will keep you numb and obedient, but what actually helps you navigate this circus we call modern life?

We’re here to break that mold, but we need your voice. Call in, shout, whisper, send smoke signals—tell us what keeps you up at night. Is it the state of veterans, students, or seniors left to fend for themselves? The way government policies hit like a wrecking ball while promising “support”? Or maybe it's just the absurdity of the times, where up is down and right is whatever gets the most clicks.

The entire hour was pure incoming phone calls. You can find the entire transcript here in this substance post if you'd like to read what people have said. You can also see clips of different colors on my Cary Harrison YouTube channel

In an era where algorithms decide what you see, where social media feels like a chaotic shouting match, and where streaming services keep us locked in echo chambers of content we already know we like—radio remains the last great democratic medium. Radio doesn’t ask you to refresh a feed. It doesn’t demand anything or bombard you with clickbait. It just exists, ever-present, reaching into homes, cars, workplaces, and even lonely night shifts. It’s not lost in an endless scroll of doom—it's immediate, raw, and real.

And in these times—harsh, uncertain, and at moments downright impossible—we need connection more than ever.

But maybe most importantly, radio is one of the last places where we can actually talk to each other. Not in comment threads. Not in 30-second clips. But in full conversations that breathe, that grow, that matter.

Here's an email from Marianne on my Cary Harrison Substack. One email representing probably 100,000 people thinking exactly the same thought. Here’s what Marianne says: “I am disgusted by what this president and his MAGA team are doing to this country. It deserves a VERY LARGE DEMONSTRATION OF DISCONTENT! As long as we are all operating as small groups we can't stop them. Do your best to unite with other agencies that have been attacked. PLEASE! Marianne”

So, yes I accept that challenge and am going to begin to provide resources and things you ask for on my website at caryharrison.com. Give me a week or so to get it up, that would be resources and such. Think about it: The one recurring question every one of us gets all day, every day, all the time is “but what can I do, where can I go?” We certainly can’t look to impotent crustaceans like Chuck Schumer, whose greatest exertion of daily energy is to pull his reading glasses to the end of his nose. I am appalled by crap politicians and whatever party they may claim. I hold no side except that of the Constitution which my wrenching and vomiting ancestors are watching shoved into the shredder. Sure, why not close the department of education – in other words, public schools which my ancestor on my mother side, Abraham Lincoln, created after slavery because slaves were forbidden to be able to read. Now we can all read. Close down the department of education and then rebuild all schools as private, for-profit schools and force the public to pay for attendance – not out of taxes, but out of their pockets. Who do you think writes the curriculum? As of today, the holocaust never happened, Jackie Robinson never existed, the Enola Gay never dropped the bomb, slavery never happened, and like mother Russia, there have never been gay people… And if you think you are one, shut up - you’ve already been officially erased from public life! (Pause)

CLIP: Call-in - How To Use the First Amendment

And let’s not pretend—we all know these aren’t just “interesting times.” These are historically exhausting, mentally taxing, make-you-rethink-your-life-choices times.

Maybe you woke up today … “woke” …. Even that word has been corrupted, perverted, and twisted! Maybe you’ve given up on the news entirely because reality is now written by rejected Hollywood screenwriters who were told their ideas were “too unrealistic.” Maybe you’re just trying to figure out how to survive another day without breaking something expensive—or worse, your own sanity.

So let’s get straight to the point: What do you actually need from this show?

Because this isn’t just my time—it’s your time. And time, my friends, is the one thing none of us can afford to waste.

Maybe you want razor-sharp political analysis, the kind that slices through the nonsense and serves up the real story behind the headlines. Maybe you want to understand why decisions made in high-rise offices and marble halls are messing with your grocery bill, your healthcare, or your ability to retire before the sun explodes. If that’s what you’re here for, great—let’s get into it.

Or maybe you’ve had it with politics, and what you really need is help navigating something even more complicated: dating in the modern age. Because for real—finding love today is like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube blindfolded while riding a mechanical bull. Should you text back? Should you swipe left? Should you delete your dating apps and join a monastery? We can figure it out together.

Then again, maybe what you need is something deeper. A way to actually feel better in a world that feels designed to keep you stressed, outraged, and running on fumes. Maybe you’re tired of feeling stuck—stuck in bad habits, stuck in bad jobs, stuck in a doom-scrolling loop at 2 a.m. Maybe what you need isn’t another headline but a real, honest conversation about how to stay sane, how to find joy, and how to build relationships that actually matter.

Or maybe you just want to laugh. You want the kind of conversation that makes you forget, for just a little while, that the world is a twisted, chaotic mess. You want stories, wisdom, life hacks, and maybe——a little hope that things can get better. It always boils down to community.

Whatever it is, now’s your chance. This hour is a blank slate, and I want you to fill it. What do you need? What do you want? This show can be a lifeline, a sounding board, a wake-up call, or just the most intimate conversation you’ll have all day. But for that to happen, I need to hear from you.

I’ve never done all this work for passive listeners—hell, I used to even get paid for it before radio was defunded and defanged.I do this now for people we’re critical thinking and connection matters. That’s why I want you to tell me directly and expressly how you want a say, what kind of show that fits your needs. We’ll bring the truth, the dark humor, the hard questions—but only if you help us shape the conversation. So pick up the phone, make some noise, and let’s turn this FM signal and live stream into something that is what you want and need.

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Ah, climate change. That mythical beast, lurking somewhere between government conspiracy and inconvenient reality. You’ve been told it’s real, then you’ve been told it’s not, and now you’re mostly told to shut up about it and let the "adults" handle it—those very same adults who still think oil spills are just aggressive seafood seasoning.

But let’s be honest, you don’t need a PhD in Environmental Science to know that breathing in wildfire smoke from three states away isn’t exactly a sign of a thriving planet. And while half the country argues over whether rising sea levels are real, the other half is busy investing in waterfront property that’ll soon come with complimentary snorkeling gear.

The president recently spoke about the California fires and said the following: “I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water, and the water is now flowing down. They have so much water they don't know what to do. They were sending it out to the Pacific for environmental reasons. Ok, can you believe it? And in the meantime they lost 25,000 houses. They lost, and nobody’s ever seen anything like it. But, uh, we have the water—uh, love to show you a picture, you’ve seen the picture—the water’s flowing through the half-pipes, you know, we have the big half-pipes that go down. Used to, twenty-five years ago they used to have plenty of water but they turned it off for, again, for environmental reasons. Well, I turned it on for environmental reasons and also fire reasons, I didn’t think anything like could happen like this, but they didn’t have enough water. Now the farmers are going to have water for their land and the water’s in there, but I actually had to break in. We broke in to do it because, ah, we had people who were afraid to give water. In particular they were trying to protect a certain little fish. And I said, how do you protect a fish if you don’t have water? They didn’t have any water so they’re protecting a fish. And that didn’t work out too well by the way….”

Luckily, we have two courageous guests who refuse to let the world burn without at least putting up a fight. And they’re college students with more backbone than all of Congress. Ashton Maddox and Adrian Reyes-Alzate are senior students at the University of South Florida, where they’ve been knee-deep in the battle for climate justice, policy reform, and—believe it or not—actual solutions. They don’t just sit around shaking their fists at the sky; they’re organizing, lobbying, and drafting plans to ensure that Florida and beyond don’t end up as Atlantis 2.0. How many category 4 and 5 hurricanes – In a single year – does it take to make you scratch your head. Or the Gulf of America heating up to 101°? You’ll have to pardon me for being cheeky, but it’s way better than having me sob about the big hairy climate mastodon lurking in the middle of the room.

Ashton’s been working with the CLEO Institute - an environmental nonprofit, pushing for community-driven solutions to our self-inflicted ecological collapse, while Adrian’s also with the Cleo Institute and has been using Geographic Information Systems to map out just how bad things are—because nothing says “we’re doomed” like a well-labeled, data-driven disaster forecast. These are the guys behind Tampa Bay’s Climate Action & Equity Plan, which is a game-changing template that can be used nationwide.

Now, because we live in an era where critical thinking is considered optional, let’s enjoy a reality check amidst the slosh of propaganda and salesmanship. Ashton Maddox and Adrian Reyes-Alzate, welcome to the show!

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Meet Mike Williams—combat medic, musician, and living proof that Uncle Sam has a curious way of thanking his veterans: with red tape, broken promises, and a nice helping of financial ruin. Mike’s patched up soldiers on the battlefield only to watch them get bled dry back home. His song, The Price We Paid, lays it all bare—the debt, the despair, the kind of betrayal that makes you wonder if the enemy was uniquely overseas after all.

And speaking of betrayal, let’s talk about the reboot of the Veterans’ Administration. Agent Orange? Took ‘em 33 years to admit it was poisoning vets. Burn pits? They resisted that one for decades, too—until a comedian had to shame Congress into action. And now? The VA is getting gutted again, all in the name of “efficiency”. Because nothing says "support our troops" like firing them from the jobs that keep them alive, especially when they work at the VA. Is sarcasm the only route that touches the gravitas these days?

Mike, you’ve seen the battlefield from two angles—frontline medic and back-home survivor….

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Ah, you. The weary, taxpaying, democracy-clutching audience. Today, we delve into the charming saga of the richest man on the planet who fancies himself a space-faring philosopher-king, a man who gobbles up government contracts with one hand while strangling that same government with the other. Yes, the celestial swindler, the oligarch extraordinaire, the man who’d sell you a ticket to Mars but can’t keep his own Teslas from auto-immolation. And yet, despite his cartoonish villainy, your elected representatives still shovel public money into his bottomless pit of corporate welfare like devout worshippers feeding a golden calf.

Mr. M has built an empire not just on rockets and electric cars, but on the unshakable belief that the rules don’t apply to him. He rakes in billions from federal contracts, then turns around and declares that the government is the enemy—like a houseguest who raids your fridge, clogs your commode, then lectures you on the virtues of self-reliance. He’s not just another billionaire padding his wallet with public money—he’s actively working to dismantle the institutions that made his success possible in the first place.

I wish I could just stop and let it all soak in for about three minutes, but dead air is like the Democratic Party and we don’t need any more listless, spineless, meaningless nothingness while the bulldozer rolls over 280 million of us. Pissed? You bet I’m pissed! What in the diddly-frig does it take to get impotent crustaceans like Chuck Schumer who represents the entire Democratic Party for him to not rubber stamp the Sieg Heiling? Why in God’s name would he work hand-in-hand to gut agencies, silence critics, and tilt the scales ever further in favor of a sweaty oligarch?

Traditionally, a government shutdown wiould always reflect on the President first, especially when he has convinced everyone he’s a superhero, flawless, and the most brilliant, amazing, handsome, brilliant, best president ever – even better than George Washington. Plus, he says he loves flip-flops! Who knew? No one knew!

Maybe it's because America is now in such a terrific and totally beautiful Golden Age that winter is hereby abolished and it's going to be summer all year around, summer all the time, folks! Thanks to rising sea levels, we're gonna have so much beachfront property that flip-flops will become the National Shoe of America because you'll be wearing them and dealing with them all the time, while everyone is totally winning and it's gonna be so great, so great. We're continuing to flip-flop on trade policy, which I think all Americans are happy about, and we're going to use the tariffs - which we will implement but maybe not yet, but maybe 50% or maybe 25% or 200%... or maybe even no tariffs at all - but we're going to use the tariffs, the tariffs, we're going to use them to take back everything that was stolen from us and so much more. In addition, as of today the illegal and totally unconstitutional boycott of Tesla will end and every American homeowner will be required to purchase a Tesla so they can be totally great and live the American Dream. Every American must buy a Tesla as of today, which are very affordable automobiles - they come at very affordable prices - but every homeowner will be required to purchase a Tesla so that Elon can continue to be able to feed his very big, very big family - boy, he spreads his seed even more maybe than the brown immigrants, who I totally love by the way - but Elon is making a huge sacrifice, a very huge sacrifice, because he loves our country and he wants to save our country and he's doing it all for free - for nothing - just out of the goodness of his heart because he's a patriot, even though he wasn’t born here, and he wants America to succeed.

At least there are several judges now who do want America to succeed and stepped in to try to stop the lunacy. We can only hope that they feel vindicated in doing their constitutional duty and that others will join them to empower even more judges to do as the founding daddies had intended.

Otherwise, we are dealing with a billionaire so deeply entwined with government handouts that if the spigot were ever turned off, he might actually have to compete in the free market he claims to love.

But worry not, because tonight’s guest isn’t here to swoon over rocket launches or sing odes to ‘innovation.’ No, we’re joined by Sunjeev Bery, a foreign policy analyst and human rights advocate, who’s working includes the ACLU, Amnesty International, the NRDC and rainforest action network. You’ve probably seen him on the networks and he’s here now to discuss an idea—one so revolutionary that it hasn’t even crossed the timid minds of most Democrats in Congress: cutting M off from the chapped nipple of his government trough. Sunjeev’s here to discuss a new proposal for halting federal contracts with Elon Musk’s companies in a national campaign to get U.S. senators to block all taxpayer funding for the oligarch. Sunjeev Bery, welcome to the show.

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