A world without advertising? Wishful thinking. Or is it? Omar’s interrogating how and why ads weave through our lives, and if a world without them is conceivable. Today's episode features two conversations: Ryan Lough discusses his background making ads and his new film You Need This, which interrogates consumerism and hyper-capitalism, and Andrew Oswald shares his perspective as a professor of economics and behavioral science. 

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What does the one percent really mean? What do people get wrong when they think about their own wealth? And what the world could look like without billionaires? Omar’s asking these questions in conversation with Rachel Sherman.

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Is having a gun an expression of some sort of freedom? The ubiquity of guns in the United States certainly suggests so. Today, Omar talks with David Yamane about his changing relationship to firearms, and if a world without them is conceivable.

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What does the world look like without … us? This week, Omar speaks with David Farrier and imagines what the future could look like for, and perhaps without, humans.

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E.R. Fightmaster, Tien Tran, and Katie Kershaw are talking sports. Namely all things queer and woman-forward in the world of sports. From buzzer beater moments during March Madness to weekly-crowned sports MILFs. Basketball, soccer, Power Slapping, and more. Every week, they're taking one for the team and scoring all the 3-pointers...

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Today, Omar speaks with Alicia Kennedy about the food-industrial complex, the massive climate footprint of our eating habits, and what the world could look like without meat.

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Resources we use to power our lives aren’t going to be employed in the same way in the very near future. In part-two of our fossil fuel series, we’re speaking with planetary futurist Alex Steffen about what the world could look like without these non-renewable resources.

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Omar sits down with Adam McKay to discuss the state of our environment and society. This is part-one of our series imaging a world without fossil fuels.

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All over the United States, more and more communities are losing their most important source of  information: local newspapers. At the same time, a small group of hedge funds and investors are swooping in to buy these businesses, strip them for parts and make a quick profit.

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Mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry are a public health crisis. Today, thanks to climate change, they're even starting to show up in parts of the world where they'd never existed previously.

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Social security has provided relief for millions of elderly, bereaved, and disabled Americans, but just about everyone on all sides of the ideological spectrum agrees that if nothing is done, the whole system is going to collapse.

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