As a college student with an interest in space exploration, Paul once admired Elon Musk. Here was a deep-pocketed individual determined to return Americans to space without the bloat and bureaucracy of government. 

Then Musk found Twitter. And would not shut up on Twitter. And tried to buy Twitter. And may now destroy Twitter. While his rockets keep blowing up, and his self-driving Teslas keep killing beta testers.

It's hard to keep a hero in the 21st century.

Paul endures a way-too-personal life lesson from Tom, shared in the hopes that he won't make the same mistakes when his time comes. In the year 2042.

Older listeners, however, will be well advised to listen in. This probing conversation will make you flinch, but (spoiler alert) everything is fine in the end.

Our first cultural exchange episode has us looking back at “The West Wing,” one of the last great TV series of the 20th century.

The expertly made drama portrayed a presidential administration far nobler and accomplished than any actual administration we have seen since then.

Now rendered a wistful fantasy, its honest portrayal of the sometimes-ugly business of running a country can still impress when viewed through a Millennial lens.

With a seemingly endless string of fatal encounters between the police and people of color, followed by increasingly furious protests, can we no longer look to cops to protect and to serve? It’s a complex issue that puts into conflict some deep seeded generational perspectives.

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The truth will set you free... but the truth is now whatever we decide it is. Or whatever the sources we trust tell us it is.

Where do we go for the facts we need on critical issues of the day, while making sure we're not being seduced by "truths" that tell us what we want to hear?

Tom stands up for the veracity of what remains of "dead tree journalism," while Paul shares the digital sources he relies on when he wants a deep dive into world events.

J.K. Rowling. Louis C.K. John Cleese. Dave Chappelle. Whether it's cultural ignorance, a taste for vile/criminal behavior, or a career built on courting controversy, the ways an artist can blowup their career by saying the wrong thing are many. What to do when one such artist has done masterful work that can no longer be viewed without the repulsion caused by their bad behavior? 

It's trickier when your relationship with such artists goes back decades. 

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In 2007, “60 Minutes” did one of the first stories on the rise of the Millennials. The bafflement and derision of Boomers expressed for this next generation was already at hysterical levels.

Fifteen years later we revisit that piece to debate where its predictions missed the mark, and what it got right.

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Paul notes that coming out of past pandemics, companies were met by returning workers who would no longer accept low pay and lousy working conditions to keep production flowing.

Amazon, Starbucks, John Deere, Frito-Lay and a growing number of other employers are now staring down the barrel of aggressive unionization movements, the likes of which haven't been seen in decades.

Tom, product of an abandoned GM town, and his Labor-friendly kid talk it out.

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