Scooping Sanity
If you care about others, want to leave things better for future generations, and wouldn’t mind making your own life a bit easier, this is where you belong. Welcome to a community where facts, logic, and empathy are still important. Welcome to Scooping Sanity. If we have one core belief here it is: When life pushes us down, society should have mechanisms to pick us back up rather than smashing our heads deeper into the gutter.
Episodes
We’re both from deep red states that weren’t until fairly recently. We reflect on that, which takes us into topics like our childhoods, religion, family, political shifts, hate, and fascism. What does it mean to live around a whole bunch of pretty good people whose voting patterns nonetheless perpetuate horror after horror? For mysterious reasons, the audio for this episode isn’t awesome, but it’s not terrible either. We blame the ...
What is the role of comedy, if any, in highlighting political hypocrisy, immorality, and evil? Should political comedy aim to unsettle us rather than make us laugh? We attempt to answer these questions by discussing two people — Jon Stewart and Barack Obama — that made a lot of lefties feel good for a while but we wonder if they really did anything more than that.
Chapters
- Brain Freeze, 0:00 - 14:03 — Socio-political mindloc...
What is the role of comedy, if any, in highlighting political hypocrisy, immorality, and evil? Should political comedy aim to unsettle us rather than make us laugh? We attempt to answer these questions by discussing two people — Jon Stewart and Barack Obama — that made a lot of lefties feel good for a while but we wonder if they really did anything more than that.
Chapters
Brain Freeze, 0:00 - 14:03 — Socio-political mindloc...
Actor, ally, and accomplice? What do these terms mean and can they help us understand the roles white people (or, more accurately, people racialized as white) could and should play in disrupting systems of oppression and privilege? Naturally, the discussion veers into a lot of other terrain but Jørn does a pretty good job of keeping us on track and we have a few solid film recommendations to share.
Chapters:
Brain Freeze, 0:0...
After three episodes, we thought we’d take a crack at explaining why we created Scooping Sanity. Did we succeed? Probably not, but we do talk about a lot of interesting stuff including a certain world famous musician. So, yeah, everyone who likes Taylor Swift will be super pissed when they realize you didn’t tell them to listen to Scooping Sanity. Don’t be a bad friend. We think we have some pretty insightful stuff to say about the...
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. probably isn’t who you believe he was. And non-violence almost certainly isn’t what you think it is. We do something people almost never do when they talk about Dr. King. We read what he actually wrote. By listening to this episode, you’ll take a small but important step toward pulling MLK’s image off the garbage heap of saccharine white hagiography.
FYI, the combination of West Virginia interne...
Demonstrating once again that identity politics is bankrupt, we introduce you to some media darling girl bosses for fascism. Meet some moms who may not be moms who want to turn their schools that might not be theirs into right-wing indoctrination camps. Naturally, this is a tale of hypocrisy, big money, censorship, and good old fashioned hate. BTW, we still have a lot of work to do on losing our verbal crutches.
Chapters:
Br...
The healthcare system in the United States is inhuman. And a scam. How do you approach the rational economic choice to continue living or not? We discuss this and a lot of other fucked up shit. As always, we try to stay sane while being continually battered with life’s absurd realities. Only a few minutes of this episode are hopelessly lost to technical ineptitude and we promise to work on losing our verbal crutches.
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