Ghost Forests creep up the Eastern Seaboard (00:33), Congress rollback flood insurance subsidies (9:00), we have another wolf update (35:00), and autonomous artificial intelligence takes the battlefield (45:00). Join us for another episode of Retraction!

For our Thanksgiving episode Jaime deep dives on the Iroquois Confederacy and how they sparked the fire that led to the creation of the United States of America (24:24). So grab a hot totty, sit by the fire and listen to another episode of Retraction!

The voters of New Jersey legalized marijuana, and yet a year later little progress has been made (5:44), and then we listen to Jaime tell a Finnish tale of methamphetamines, and high speed ski chases against the backdrop of World War 2 (38:30). Come on in and listen to another episode of Retraction!

We dish about Zuckerberg’s version of the Metaverse (1:30), Maine voters cement “the right to food” (31:00), and the history and future of segmented sleep (49:50). All this and more on this week’s episode of Retraction!

It’s a very special guest episode with our good friend and hiker extraordinaire Maxine. It’s part one of a discussion on the modern hiking experience in the shadow of the climate crisis (29:45). But first, we talk artificial turf and how in one Jersey town it’s become a hot button issue ahead of the November 2nd elections (6:50).

The episode ended but we kept on chatting about Andrew Yang and the Forward Party. Enjoy this short on the back of the episode ‘Andrew Yang Pushes Forward with a Brand New Party.’

Yang and the Forward Party (1:40), and Texas Republicans paint the town red with more gerrymandering (33:00). Join us for another bumpy ride on Retraction!

What if our role in a Galactic Federation was to be damage control (3:40), Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, big words bigger dinosaur (16:00), Apple TV does Foundation (19:46), apologies back to Dinos, but now without feathers (33:00), and the My Pillow guy publishes the code behind some of our election software and somehow that leads to Interplanetary Nationalism, go figure(49:38). All this and more on Retraction!

Farewell to Norm Macdonald (1:30), and we discuss the outcome of the Stockton, California UBI program (21:00). Come on in and listen to another episode of Retraction!!!

New theories abound about dinosaurs and NASA sends slime mold into space, have they ever seen The Blob? In the comments, let us know how you like these Shorts and thanks for listening to Retraction!