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Joe and Mark consider the epic wildfires currently ravaging the western United States and try to parse the role that climate change plays in these intensifying conflagrations. (Taped September 25, 2020.)

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Mark and Joe review the surprisingly long and checkered history of American sports boycotts that started with racists boycotting athletes of color and led, most recently, to athletes of color protesting racist cops. Taped September 11, 2020.

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No, folks, it’s not a death metal band.  Joe and Mark “follow the white rabbit” down the dark hole of QAnon conspiracy theories, why they’ve become so popular, and what that says about all of us. Taped August 29, 2020.

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Mark and Joe review America’s reaction to the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918-1919 and how it was similar to, and different from, the way we’re currently responding to COVID-19. Taped August 15, 2020.

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Joe and Mark discuss the standoff between BLM demonstrators and Federal agents in Portland, OR and examine whether the same rules and restrictions apply for the Feds as for local police. Taped July 31, 2020.