• Episode 107: Searching for the The Common Good?
    Jun 4 2023

    Colette, Sue, and Dan debate the pitfalls and promises of self-interest and the Common Good.


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 106: BioPolitcs?
    Apr 30 2023

    Please be advised that this episode contains language that some may find upsetting starting at 37 minutes. 
     

    The Vaya con Muñoz team takes over Collateral Banter on this special episode. They cover Joe Biden's reelection announcement, the recent Supreme Court decisions (and scandals), and the brouhaha engulfing Easthampton's (MA) Schools. A spirited debate breaks out on trans rights in female sports among progressives.  Complex questions are raised but few answers are provided.              
     
     

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 105: The A.I. Dictatorship?
    Apr 15 2023

    Sue, Col, and Danny on the "ladies" controversy out of Easthampton, MA. The panel then tackles the urgent questions of artificial intelligence--should we fear it or respect it? Will it destroy jobs? Which jobs? Is A.I. making us smarter or stupid? The conversation ends bring up Tarfdigrades! If you start this episode, you must listen until the end.      

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 104: The End of Free Speech Online?
    Mar 12 2023

    Will SCOTUS obliterate Section 230? Danny T fears for the future of free speech online with Sue T. and Matt Szafranski, from Western Mass Politics and Insight

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    47 mins
  • Episode 103: Free Speech in the Valley?
    Mar 6 2023

    Danny T asks Sue and Colette to share their stories about the decline of free speech in the western Massachusetts.      

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    59 mins
  • Episode 102: BoJo Said What?
    Nov 21 2022

    In recaping the latest stories, Danny T reacts to the mid-term election results, Trump's presidential announcement, Boris Johnson's speech to Asian business leaders, and Iranian protests. 

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    31 mins
  • Episode 101: It's All About Class?
    Sep 18 2022

    Danny continues the conversation with public anthropologist Jon Zibbell, discussing how material relations is at the core of our understanding of race, gender, and the revanchist politics found in America today.      

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    58 mins
  • Episode 100: Our Modern Revanchist Politics
    Aug 16 2022

    For the 100th episode, Danny T. chats with Jon Zibbell, a behavior scientist trained in anthropology.  He is one of the foremost urban and rural anthropologists in America who worked under President Obama's drug czar, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and is a researcher at RTI.   

    Their conversation connects the current opioid crisis to urban and rural deindustrialization in America.       

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    1 hr and 1 min