01:00 Doing the right thing isn’t always cheap and easy
04:00 NYT: A Reporter Investigated Sexual Misconduct. Then the Attacks Began., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/business/media/eric-spofford-new-hampshire-public-radio.html
12:00 How to connect by saying it with feeling, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Vzr7mnQJ0
24:00 News never pays, https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/06/news-never-pays/
26:00 Elliott Blatt shares a poem
28:00 Elliott’s been raped by car mechanics
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39:00 Podcasts that are junk food for the soul
44:00 Parafisting relationships
46:00 Parasocial relationships, https://youtu.be/7og2_48D6FQ?t=77
1:07:00 When has a free state invaded a police state? A dozen times, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjK9U-ZVvGo
1:15:30 New Yorker: Daniel Bard Made an Improbable Comeback. Then He Had to Do It Again, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/daniel-bard-made-an-improbable-comeback-then-he-had-to-do-it-again
1:36:15 DTG: Interview with Mick West on UFOs and Conspiracy Psychology, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
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