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Welcome to Mansplaining, a podcast about the interesting things you can discover if you just take the time to learn. Mansplaining is brought to you by Mark, Joe, and so far nobody else. Join us as we try to learn a thing or two about a thing or two.
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Mansplain Yourself is a podcast that tries to answer the question "what does it mean to be a man?" with interviews and discussions about the triumphs and failures of trying to conform or reject cultural, spiritual, and social expectations of masculinity.
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Mansplainers: The Podcast

Mansplainers: The Podcast

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Mansplainers: The Podcast. You know, a couple of dudes talking waaaaay too long about stuff that's probably obvious anyway. Every week the mansplaining masters, Scotty Mac, Chase Maser and Keith Zielinski talk pop culture, current events, and other aimless babble for which we'd like to apologize for in advance. Email: mansplainersthepodcast@gmail.com
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Mansplaining Done Right

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A weekly show where we discuss large ideas on life, sports, hip hop, and anything else we want to discuss. We sometimes have interesting guests that come onto the show and tell us about themselves and give their perspectives. The title itself is satire about myself, if you listen then you'll understand it. Stay blessed!
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Send us a text You’ve probably used a map app like Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze to help you get from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible. But did you ever wonder how they work? Did you ever wonder whether we should slavishly follow their directions or be skeptical and consider external factors like our own prior driving experience? Well, w…
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Send us a text The year 2024 brought more than its share of misfortune to your Mansplaining co-hosts, what with the double whammy of layoffs and a terrible election result. But in the spirit of turning the page to the New Year, Mark asked Joe what he’s feeling good about in 2025 and beyond, from multiple perspectives (personally, locally, nationall…
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Send us a text In continuation of a Mansplaining tradition of holiday-themed conversations, Mark and Joe consider how we might heal our deepening political rupture and bring peace to a divided nation. It’s a daunting task that may take years, if it happens at all. Making it happen involves redressing the loneliness and isolation wrought by a decade…
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Send us a text Those of us above a certain age remember that flying didn’t used to be such an ordeal. Once upon a time, people enjoyed flights that had comfortable seating, decent food, and no extra fees for checked bags. Might the coming technological innovations restore some of the fun in flying? In a special bonus segment and addendum to Episode…
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Send us a text The bankruptcy filing of Spirit Airlines underscores the existential problem for air carriers. After driving many of its competitors out of business with its no-frills model of below-cost fares, bare-bones service, and nuisance fees, Spirit still couldn’t make a profit. How did we get to a place where the only thing shrinking faster …
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Send us a text After considering why companies run out of ideas in our last episode, Joe put the same question to Mark about why so many of our favorite pop and rock music artists seem to run out of ideas. Mark and Joe ponder whether this is a real phenomenon, and if so, what might cause it. Turns out that early-career creativity is a complicated a…
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Send us a text Google had quite a run, from its market-leading search engine to Gmail to the Android operating system. For the longest time, it seemed like a veritable fount of innovation. But in recent years, dogged by antitrust lawsuits, it looks less like a forward-thinking innovator and more like a tired dinosaur trying desperately to hold onto…
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Send us a text When the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious affirmative action programs, it conveniently left standing the legacy preferences employed by colleges and universities that are described by some as affirmative action for rich, white people. Is it fair that schools are now forced to ignore the race of their applicants but are still …
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Send us a text Every time the power goes out in Seattle, Mark wonders whether his city fell victim to malicious hackers. It’s a legitimate concern, since bad actors have been messing with America’s energy systems for years. But how credible is the threat of foreign hackers causing catastrophic damage to critical civilian infrastructure like our ele…
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Send us a text The CDC and Surgeon General recently released reports highlighting twin epidemics that are plaguing young people in our country. For boys, it’s loneliness and social isolation; for girls, it’s persistent sadness and hopelessness. Why are young people so sad and lonely? Mark and Joe discuss whether loneliness is inheritable, how much …
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Send us a text It’s been said that fusion power is 20 years away, and always will be. Why is it taking so long? Well, it turns out that generating temperatures as hot as the sun is hard to do here on Earth, as is controlling the fusion reaction so it doesn’t vaporize everything it touches. Joe and Mark ponder these and other challenges to producing…
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Send us a text Who knew the Democratic Party was run by "childless cat ladies"? JD Vance's rant has already garnered more than its share of well-deserved opprobrium. But in Mansplaining's first-ever White-Hot Take, Joe takes aim at the right's weird obsession with fertility, what it means for American women, and why, like so many of the right's oth…
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Send us a text The Supreme Court’s recent controversial ruling about presidential immunity appears to rely on a shadowy notion of executive branch power called the unitary executive theory. After gaining currency in conservative circles for decades, the unitary executive may now be poised to go from theory to reality, thanks to the right-wing SCOTU…
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Send us a text It wasn’t so long ago that human fertility was likened to a ticking time bomb, with overpopulation leading to famine and ecological collapse. More recently, we’ve heard that declining fertility rates are the real problem, bringing forth a shrinking workforce and economic ruin. Is negative population growth something to worry about? J…
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Send us a text For decades, Americans have moved south chasing cheaper homes and better weather. But after years of unremitting heat and more frequent hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods that have disproportionately devastated those destinations, you might wonder whether people start moving back whence they came. In a follow-up to Episode 74 (The Wea…
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Send us a text Just as colleges are finally being forced to pay their long-exploited student-athletes commensurate with the revenue they generate for their schools, we’re beginning to hear about private equity firms investing in college sports programs. Joe and Mark give it the old college try in analyzing the implications of this development on co…
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Send us a text Over the past several years, bail reform laws—changes to the criminal legal system to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention, especially for non-violent offenses—were implemented in jurisdictions throughout the country, and many advocates for criminal justice reform welcomed these changes as long overdue. There ensued a backlash, howe…
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Send us a text Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology startup, recently live-streamed footage of a paralyzed man with a brain implant playing video chess using only his mind. According to Musk, that’s just one of many medical applications for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). But it is BCI’s non-medical applications that are generating controversy …
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Send us a text A common argument among sports fans is whether coming through “in the clutch” — where an athlete is said to raise his or her level of performance in the most important moments of the game — truly exists. Some cite chapter and verse of their favorite players doing spectacular things under intense pressure to bolster their argument for…
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Send us a text "Inflation will be with us for years to come." "You can’t lower inflation without raising unemployment." "Supply chain disruptions will cause a recession." These are some of the fables told in recent years by economic forecasters. Their job is to use empirical methods to explain why certain things happen in the economy but they’re no…
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Send us a text Electric vehicle charging stations were recently installed in the parking lot of Joe’s apartment complex, and that got him thinking about how our country’s transition to EVs is going. Have Americans been sufficiently incentivized to go electric? Are there enough public charging stations to accommodate growing demand? And what are the…
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Send us a text In recent decades, the Democratic Party has hemorrhaged support from the working-class white voters who once formed the backbone of its New Deal coalition. While Dems have maintained a slight electoral majority over the last three decades, they’ve struggled to enact their agenda in a minoritarian political system. What might it take …
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Send us a text This podcast has spent a lot of time on AI, whether in connection with its effect on the workplace, its application in products like drones and cars, its ability to create art, or how it’s changing robotics. But it hasn’t addressed the inevitable idea raised by all those breakthroughs, which is how humanity will reckon with machines …
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Send us a text January always seems to bring a spate of articles about how the new year will be “The Year of This” or “The Year of That.” 2024 has already been christened by some as “The Year of Robots.” It sure seems like we’ve heard that refrain before, and yet robots are still not part of our daily lives. Why not? Joe and Mark discuss the histor…
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Send us a text Mansplaining continues a tradition with its 4th annual holiday-themed episode, though this time it's with a more personal question than we usually tackle on this podcast. What are you thankful for? Mark shares a story about an event from his childhood that changed the trajectory of his life, while Joe offers a short list consisting b…
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Send us a text The proponents of effective altruism believe that, when it comes to charitable giving, we should use reason and evidence to make the greatest positive impact. The recently convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried proclaimed himself an adherent of EA. Should his exposure as a crook make us think twice about it? Joe and Mark appraise whet…
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Send us a text One of the most intractable issues in contemporary U.S. politics is immigration. Politicians in both parties have talked about comprehensive immigration reform for decades, yet no legislation is forthcoming. Is that because there’s no good compromise to be had, or is it because one party (guess which one) has turned its back on all i…
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Send us a text What if our entire reality—everyone and everything we see and experience—is an elaborate simulation, a virtual reality app designed by a technologically advanced civilization? (Yes, just like in The Matrix.) That’s what simulation theory posits, and Mark asked Joe whether there’s any “truth” to it (a fool’s errand, if indeed we’re li…
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Send us a text The annual commemoration of the “heroes of 9/11” got Joe thinking about the concept of heroism. What does it take to be a hero? Why do we anoint certain qualities as heroic? And what better person to answer these questions than Mark, with his PhD in mythology? Mark and Joe trace the origin of the idea of the hero in ancient literatur…
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Send us a text All the fuss about the new generation of AI products based on large language models, with their ability both to ghost-write term papers and spew out occasional misinformation in so doing, makes you wonder whether artificial intelligence will ever live up to the second part of its name. Joe and Mark discuss what it means to be intelli…
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Send us a text Mark and Joe briefly played organized football as kids; for both, it didn’t end well. Today, Joe is a parent of a son who didn’t play football and wouldn’t have been allowed to, even if he had wanted to play. Given the enduring uber-popularity of football, Joe asked Mark, who doesn’t have children, whether he would let his hypothetic…
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Send us a text In recent years, the media has been rife with stories about prominent scientists and labs manipulating research data. Such behavior recently cost the president of Stanford University his job, and headline-grabbing findings in several disciplines have been discredited. Is this the canary in the coal mine signaling a much larger proble…
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Send us a text In a summer plagued by heatwaves, wildfire smoke, and biblical rainfall, it’s natural to wonder whether this is the new normal for our weather. Scientists warned about many of these particulars, but even they’ve been stunned at how quickly they’re coming to pass. Mark and Joe contemplate whether climate calamity will render vast swat…
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Send us a text The core idea of universal basic income (UBI) is to reduce poverty by providing people with periodic cash payments sufficient to get by. Guaranteed minimum income programs for the needy have been around forever, but unconditional cash payments to every citizen have been tested only on a limited basis thus far. Joe and Mark examine th…
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Send us a text Politicians love to pay lip service to taming the deficit, but when they’re in power, they invariably do the opposite, cutting taxes and/or increasing spending. And yet, despite all that seeming fiscal recklessness, the U.S. economy remains strong. It makes you wonder: maybe deficits aren’t such a big deal after all. In the second of…
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Send us a text Every couple of years, our elected representatives play a game of chicken that’s the subject of breathless headlines predicting dire consequences. Will we or won’t we avert financial disaster? We’re talking about the debt ceiling, of course. All that hysteria makes you wonder what would happen to ordinary Americans if the United Stat…
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Send us a text It’s getting more and more difficult to live one’s life without owning a smartphone. After holding out for years, Joe finally broke down and got one after both his employer and his favorite baseball team made it a requirement to have a mobile device to do business with them. Joe asked Mark whether it will someday be impossible to be …
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Send us a text It appears we’ve been sold a bill of goods. For the longest time, workers have been told that innovative new technology is going to improve productivity and lead to shorter work weeks and more free time. This story has been told since the advent of the assembly line more than a century ago, through the rise of computers and the inter…
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Send us a text Though not strictly a partisan phenomenon, the knee-jerk NIMBY ("not in my backyard") reaction is an impulse that wealthy liberals and progressives employ in many different contexts, whether to protect their coastline views from offshore wind farms or to shut down the siting of a homeless shelter or high-density housing in their urba…
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Send us a text For the first time, Mansplaining tackles a question posed by one of its listeners! This particular question doesn’t have a single correct answer, but it does lend itself to spirited discussion about what is and is not a pop song, and the elements that make a pop song great. Joe and Mark delve into that and much more before each discl…
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Send us a text The recent bankruptcy of a large regional sports network that carries the games of nearly half the teams in MLB, the NBA and NHL has some people wondering what happens when the old economic model that enriched everybody in professional sports doesn’t work anymore. Mark is one of those people, so he asked Joe to look into the matter a…
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Send us a text Conservative politicians love their bogeymen, and you can make a good argument that the bogeyman du jour in American politics is critical race theory. It’s a constant topic in conservative media and the target of legislative bans in red states all over the country. But do its critics actually know what the term means? Joe doesn’t thi…
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