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We need new insults for people with coronavirus

We need new insults for people with coronavirus.

Grand statements about solidarity can only take you so far. You’ve said all the clever things about policy and public health. You’ve frowned at the profiteers and bought some Chinese take-out. That’s great, but it won’t last. With a bunch of sick people dragging down the economy and putting your life at risk, it’s time to fight back. We need new insults for people with coronavirus. I have some early suggestions....

YCW Newsletter - Don’s Note - August

As someone who was in my 20’s by the time social media was a thing, I’ve never really gotten over being able to talk to someone in the north of Sweden with another friend in Chicago. I think that’s one thing we’ve been able to get across on our little show - different types of people and ideas from all over. After six months of working on the podcast the whole is coming into focus after mostly being disconnected talks about things that interest us. Lots of stuff to disagree with from ...

You Can’t Win Newsletter - Don’s Note - Mid-June

Upcoming Episodes

Our next Monday episode is probably our most “out there” one, with a special guest denouncing podcasts as a medium. I expect it to be divisive. This is fine - one of the goals we’ve had is to have our friends with different viewpoints on to discuss things. And by different viewpoints I mean people like our friend who is a walking encyclopedia about Albanian socialism. Love that guy. We’ve also had some fun bonus episodes about Tom’s life over...

You Can’t Win Newsletter - Don’s Note - Late May

More blood for the blood god. Not a lot of great news coming out lately but I’m trying to remain upbeat. My terrible rural Internet was down for a few days so just getting around to typing this up for y’all.

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Upcoming Episodes

Starting with this week, a few of our Monday episodes include notorious poster “Agile Tablet” as co-host on topics like getting older and academia. The crew has a lot of opinions but no PhDs...

You Can’t Win Newsletter: Don’s Note 1: Early May

Welcome my new content vector. Tom and I are happy with how many people are checking out the ol’ pod. Dozens of people have sent us nice encouraging messages. The first episodes have been a bit of a journey of working through some basic ideas through pleasant chats, and now we’re getting into some nice discussions with friends from online. I expect things will get a bit more punchy and hot-takey over time but the chill conversations have been a lot of fun for us. Thank yo...

YCW content bonanza

I hope you've enjoyed the Monday episode about drugs and the Thursday guest episode with Big Dave about gambling. We've got a new episode on Monday about losing time. After that is a Monday episode about organized religion versus new age movements. We've also got some others recorded for you with guests like our friend Mike about climate change and Big Keven about comedy and life in Alaska. Just so much great content.

In early May we intend to launch a new Patreon tier for people who wa...

Episode 6 - Unemployment and UBI

Greetings friends. Your new Monday episode is up on the old RSS and all that. We also recorded guest episodes with "Big Dave" @malwaex and "Keven" (Brian) @BrianJWooster that we will roll out over the next month. A special thank you to our moral supporters. We used the money mainly to pay for hosting/startup costs and to pay auntie004 for our lovely new theme. We will launch a bigger tier once we have the content to warrant it but we wanted the first few guest episodes at least to be availabl...

First guest episode with our friend Andy!

Greetings friends,

We've got a new episode up with Andy on the public RSS, which I think you will enjoy. Andy shares some stories from life in the north of Sweden. We also recorded one with our friend Big Dave this week... exciting times.

Episode 5 - and a Guest Ep later this week

Greetings... your Monday episode is up on the old RSS. On Thursday we will post our first bonus episode as well, which is going to be public on the RSS. It's with our Swedish friend Andy! He's cool and you will enjoy getting to know him better. Thank you to the moral supporters for your contributions for April. Over the next few weeks we will have enough content rolling out to justify offering a bonus tier for those interested. Also the next few main episodes are still in the "learning and gr...

Episode 3 - Politic's

Greetings You Can't Winners... I would say the third episode is where we start to get a bit better and things cohere more as an episode. Why didn't we just release that first? Well because we're on a mystical journey here and we want all the ugly parts on view as well. Anyway we have a good number "in the can" now and are going to start working on guest episodes with some of our friends.

Episode 3 tries to get at our worry that people often use politics as a way of constructing a quest ...

Greetings You Can't Winners

Thank you! Over a 1,000 people downloaded the first episode! If each of these downloads represents a family of five listening to it together, that's five thousand listens. The second episode is now up on the RSS feed. We have submitted for review to a few different pod listening apps so we will keep an eye on that.

Public episodes will continue to post every Monday morning for the foreseeable future. We are starting to work on new features which will ro...