Who Has Time For This?

We're all so busy trying to hack and individualize every aspect of our lives that we forgot what it means to be good neighbors! Caitlin and Katie examine the societal and political fallout of this shift and how we can get back into that Mr. Rogers mindset. Resources: ⁠The Anti-Social Century⁠ by Derek Thompson

We're all so busy trying to hack and individualize every aspect of our lives that we forgot what it means to be good neighbors! Caitlin and Katie examine the societal and political fallout of this shift and how we can get back into that Mr. Rogers mindset.

Resources:

The Anti-Social Century by Derek Thompson

Late-stage individualism. Hyper individualism. Toxic individualism. Whatever you want to call it, individualism has gone off the rails, and it's a problem we need to talk about.

Sources:

Why Individualism Makes it Hard to Be a Villager by Ayushi Thakkar

Personal Branding is the Enshittifcation of Humans by Joan Westenberg

This question is apparently a touchy one for a lot of people. Caitlin and Katie explore the topic, complete with a dramatic reading of Facebook comments left on a local brewery's post about its family-friendly policies.

Sources:

A Child-Free Life, Not a Child-Free World by Ellen Fitzgerald

The Kids Are All Right (Just Not at a Brewery) The New York Times

How do you cope with the world around you? Katie and Caitlin get into it again!

How do you keep yourself grounded while the world burns?

In the words of U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware), we're in a slingshot moment in history. How do we, the regular folk, make an impact? These two eternally optimistic millennials show you the way.

Featuring:

• Leslie Knope, "Parks & Recreation"
• Amanda's Mild Takes
• Emily in Your Phone & "Democracy in Retrograde"
• Ben Sheehan & "What Does the Constitution Actually Say?"
• Undue Medical Debt

And more!

Get to know your Who Has Time For This? hosts Caitlin and Katie: where they came from, what they stand for today, and how their upbringing, education, media consumption, and more have come to shape their political beliefs. Normalize having these kinds of conversations with YOUR friends and family!

Well, for better for for worse, Stranger Things has ended. Join us as we delve into the faults of its ending and how they tie in to bigger societal issues, such as:

• Capitalism’s war on authentic art, and how this has led to the general acceptance of slop media

• Casual misogyny, and how viewing women and girls as objects rather than complex individuals leads to their dehumanization by boys and men

• Liberal homophobia, and how performative activism does not equal good representation

• How our society allows people with certain levels of privilege to easily avoid responsibility for their actions

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  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:

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  National Domestic Violence Hotline (USA):

  https://www.thehotline.org/

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  Sources:

  https://youtu.be/bqVlyU5X9bU?si=wpj7GnMWgWt0slr6

  Stranger Things ruined its legacy: everything everywhere

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBq_FWPiRo&list=LL&index=12

  Explaining why everyone hates stranger things now if you’re employed and wanna know the tea: Amanda Todhunter

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXzMZfTUqk&t=4625s

  Stranger Things Finale: Rewatch Room Podcast

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIA1jeOyZKY

  Stranger Things 5 Was A Complete Mess: loser sits by herself

  https://www.tumblr.com/bylerse10/804577247767969792/hi-duffers-i-have-some-questions-for-you?source=share

  List of 130 plot holes after the finale: bylerse10

  https://writtenbyellis.substack.com/p/how-capitalism-ruined-the-arts

  How Capitalism Ruined the Arts: Ellis J. Sutton

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRalWMsngS8

  How Capitalism Rots Art- Krysis

  https://granta.com/the-woman-dies/

  The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

  https://www.tumblr.com/buckleybeat/805211136061472768/when-the-writers-botch-the-protagonists-internal?source=share

  When writers botch the protagonists internal conflicts: Buckleybeat

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXEB3Fqg88&list=LL&index=2

  Stranger Things' homophobic humiliation of Will Byers and the Byler fandom (queerbaiting + more): Ronald Off The Record

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXi_3YdQNM

  “He was my BEST friend, and that was the worst part” In Defense of Byler: Alieann

  https://www.tumblr.com/chocolatemilkbear/804583952894558208/here-is-a-large-compilation-of-netflix-stranger?source=share

  Evidence of queerbait marketing: chocolatemilkbear

  https://www.tumblr.com/rhiannonwinterphoenix/804505743491465216/hi-byler-fans-i-dont-usually-post-here-but-i?source=share

  100 year old story about being tolerated, not accepted: Rhianonwinterphoenix

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEDImJpBy38&list=LL&index=7

  ONE LAST ADVENTURE- A quick crashout: Van the Vicious

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2skM4Nz_ABQ

  The Stranger Things Finale Interviews are Worse Than The Ending: Emily Butler

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IeufUdJqyk

  They Sabotaged Their Own Show...(Stranger Things Documentary): MarinaMinus1

We're back for the second season of the Who Has Time For This? Podcast! In this episode, we unpack how American media became an attention economy built on clicks, conflict, and constant stimulation – and how that shift changed not just journalism, but us.

Why you’re being fed political content on social media even when you’re not looking for it.

Why outrage travels faster than context. Why livestreaming the Epstein files isn’t the same thing as investigative reporting the Epstein files.

And how the far left and far right can end up sounding eerily similar online: not because they agree, but because the algorithm rewards the same emotional extremes.

Our attention is the product. Our outrage is the fuel. And our politics are downstream of both.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the news but unable to look away, this episode helps explain why.

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SOURCES: 

The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes 

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sirens-call-how-attention-became-the-world-s-most-endangered-resource-chris-hayes/4df976eea7b35f6a8?ean=9780593653111&next=t

Charlie Kirk’s letter to Benjamin Netanyahu 

https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1972763775377064136

Antisemitism/No-Win Dynamic 

https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/p/the-no-win-dynamic-understanding

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semitism-youth/685261/

How young Americans get their news 

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/12/03/young-adults-and-the-future-of-news/

Wise words from Terry Moran 

https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/reality-bites

Max Read’s Platform Temperance 

https://substack.com/home/post/p-176764384

On Leftists Thread (@heyjohnnathan)

https://www.threads.com/@heyjohnnathan/post/DU0njCWkfQG?xmt=AQF0Zqc63JEoSWvdvmGj78KTTvZ4N53XsqPq6LSRkSCVXA

On Politicians vs Freedom Fighters Thread (@ahbeeolah) 

https://www.threads.com/@ahbeeolah/post/DU8oGgrDWfI?xmt=AQF0Zqc63JEoSWvdvmGj78KTTvZ4N53XsqPq6LSRkSCVXA