People who live in small towns are part of modern culture too! But how do they fit in?

Devon is just back from spending the summer in a tiny town in Montana. He gives us a window into the mindset of the the modern American small-town dweller. More broadly, we get into issues such as the growing urban/rural divide in America.

Peter chats with "real" artist Mark Dwyer about the future of artists given the advances in AI art, such as Dall-e 2.

This is an interview with Naum Milyavskiy about his new documentary, "Hear, Falcon." In the documentary, Naum makes fascinating parallels between the ways humans relate to animals (specifically falcons) and artificial intelligence.

Topics in the discussion include: how to solve human loneliness, the future of human and non-human relationships, and the question of whether we humans are basically machines ourselves.

Russia's war with Ukraine is not a modern war, we argue. It's antiquated and dumb. What is the future of war?

We're not big fans of Andrew Tate, to put it lightly. Not a hard hill to on. But what about the tech censorship question? Should he have been deplatformed?

Andrew Yang's recent messaging about the Forward Party has disappointed a lot of people. We talk about this and the future of the Forward Party and political centrism generally.