So, how 'bout them politics goin' on? This week, hosts Summer, Jesse and Jonathan discuss the electoral college vote, the abnormality of Trump, and the case for hope. Authoritarian scholar Dr. Sarah Kendzior joins to talk about the dangers of rising autocracy, and California Congressman Eric Swalwell explains his bill to investigate Russian hacking of the 2016 election. (Artax is the name of the horse who dies in the Swamps of Sadness in the 1984 fantasy film The NeverEnding Story.)