Whitney preps for Super Bowl ad season, she and Allen talk a little "micro"-economics, they discuss kids' story component recognition skills, grown-ups doing what they want (or not!), and try to come up with some ideas about "what to do".

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Hunter is back. A little New Year's talk followed by a lot of WTF.

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Kicking off 2026, we welcome our friend, Kelly Garrett, LMHC to the Known Issue Podcast to discuss why we’re all “so busy" and what, if anything, we can do to slow it down and take a dadgum breath. Kelly drills down on a concept he calls the “Demand of Participation" -- or the cost of simply signing up to do any given thing.

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Welcome to the first episode of Diminishing Return! Friends from youth, Allen Rogers and Alex Brownstein, share a tale about a high school guidance counselor they never knew and a teen poem penned for the golden sibling of Pearland, Texas.

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Allen and Whitney talk a year after their first episode and catch up on the process of completing Mabee at the Market. They also discuss balancing work work, creative work, and creative parenting as well as the foibles of large trucks and the perpetual state of getting the gimmies.

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Allen Rogers & Whitney Hill (author & illustrator of the Mabee children's book series), briefly lament the results of our "Democratic" process before turning the conversation to the question on everyone's mind--how to basically survive adulthood re: getting & keeping work while raising littles and doing anything else (creative) at all.

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Originally recorded in 2019, this episode of Known Issue explored what caused and drove the anti-vax movement for years.

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Allen & Hunter debate the merits of college and what’s to come.

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Known Issue welcomes guest, Donald Boone--a corporate leader and Black entrepreneur who founded the on-demand rental company, BoxedUp. Allen interviews Donald, who shares thoughts on his upbringing, education, and life as a Black man navigating corporate America and the modern start-up environment. They discuss their perspectives on some root causes of institutional racism and the nuances of being the beneficiary of privilege. They also share some laughs. It's a refreshing dialogue between friends trying to be as honest as they can in a 70 minute phone call.

After a long month+, Allen and Hunter reunite to discuss the last five weeks of quarantine. Hunter gets a test, Allen struggles to juggle home life and starting a new business, and they both are glum about presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden. They wrap up with a few Elizabeth jokes, so feel free to skip to the last 10 minutes.