Mansplaining

By Mark and Joe

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Episodes: 138

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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.

Episode Date
Episode 138: Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster
Aug 02, 2026
Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?
Jul 13, 2026
Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life
Jun 27, 2026
Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption
Jun 14, 2026
Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday
May 31, 2026
Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?
May 10, 2026
Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?
Apr 26, 2026
Episode 131: The Next Pandemic
Apr 12, 2026
Episode 130: Flat Earthers Are Still Around
Mar 29, 2026
Episode 129: Mansplaining Mailbag
Mar 08, 2026
Episode 128: We’ve Got a Gambling Problem
Feb 22, 2026
Episode 127: The Proper Retirement Age
Feb 08, 2026
Episode 126: The Decline and Fall of Expertise
Jan 25, 2026
Episode 125: Darkness Over Light in Film and TV
Jan 12, 2026
Episode 124: The Best (and Worst) Holiday Music
Dec 22, 2025
Episode 123: Tripping Your Way Out of Trauma
Dec 06, 2025
Episode 122: Why Gas Stoves Stink
Nov 09, 2025
Episode 121: Halloween: A Singularly American Stew
Oct 27, 2025
Episode 120: Potatoes and Tomatoes: Hardy Migrants
Oct 04, 2025
Episode 119: Flag Fetish
Sep 14, 2025
Episode 118: The Pros and Cons of Gerontocracy
Aug 31, 2025
Episode 117: What Rousseau Might Say About the USA
Aug 18, 2025
Episode 116: The Cemetery Industry is Not Dead Yet
Aug 04, 2025
Episode 115: Will There Be Enough Water?
Jul 20, 2025
Episode 114: About Those Expiration Dates…
Jul 05, 2025
Episode 113: Green Lawn Origin Story
Jun 15, 2025
Episode 112: We’re Dawdling on High-Speed Rail
May 31, 2025
Episode 111: We Best Not Nuke Nuclear
May 13, 2025
Episode 110: Housing and the Land-Value Tax
Apr 20, 2025
Episode 109: A Quantum Leap in Computing
Mar 30, 2025
Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes
Mar 16, 2025
Episode 107: The Skinny on GLP-1 Drugs
Mar 02, 2025
Episode 106: Are Lotteries Justifiable?
Feb 16, 2025
Episode 105: An Appalling Lack of Savings
Feb 02, 2025
Episode 104: The Rap on Map Apps
Jan 19, 2025
Episode 103: Things Are Looking Up (We Hope)
Jan 04, 2025
Episode 102: In Search of Peace and Healing
Dec 21, 2024
Episode 101: Will Air Travel Crash and Burn?
Dec 08, 2024
Episode 101 Bonus Content: The Past and Future of Air Travel
Dec 08, 2024
Episode 100: What Makes Pop Music Artists Run Out of Ideas?
Nov 17, 2024
Episode 99: What Makes a Company Run Out of Ideas?
Oct 26, 2024
Episode 98: The Checkered Legacy of Legacy Admissions
Oct 05, 2024
Episode 97: The Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Sep 26, 2024
Episode 96: All the Lonely People
Sep 08, 2024
Episode 95: Fusion Is (Still) Just Around the Corner
Aug 18, 2024
White-Hot Take: Childless Cat Ladies?
Aug 10, 2024
Episode 94: Decoding the Unitary Executive Theory
Jul 27, 2024
Episode 93: Fertility and the Elusive Sweet Spot
Jul 14, 2024
Episode 92: American Climate Refugees?
Jun 30, 2024
Episode 91: The Vultures Are Circling Around College Athletics
Jun 17, 2024
Episode 90: The (Non-Existent) Connection Between Bail Reform and Crime
May 26, 2024
Episode 89: Reckoning with the Brain-Computer Interface
May 12, 2024
Episode 88: Does “Clutch” Performance Exist?
Apr 13, 2024
Episode 87: Economic Forecasting is a Joke
Mar 23, 2024
Episode 86: The Future is Now for Electric Vehicles
Mar 12, 2024
Episode 85: Does John Fetterman Herald the Return of Blue-Collar Liberalism?
Feb 25, 2024
Episode 84: When Machines Become Smarter Than Humans
Feb 04, 2024
Episode 83: The Robotics Revolution That Wasn’t
Jan 14, 2024
Episode 82: What We’re Thankful For
Dec 23, 2023
Episode 81: Understanding Effective Altruism
Dec 03, 2023
Episode 80: How to Solve Immigration (in 40 Minutes)
Nov 18, 2023
Episode 79: Nothing Is Real, Not Even this Podcast
Oct 21, 2023
Episode 78: What Makes a Hero?
Oct 09, 2023
Episode 77: Can a Machine Be Intelligent?
Sep 17, 2023
Episode 76: To Play Or Not To Play Football
Sep 10, 2023
Episode 75: Bad Data ≠ Good Science
Aug 13, 2023
Episode 74: The Weather Report Is Calamitous
Jul 30, 2023
Episode 73: The Cases For and Against Universal Basic Income
Jul 17, 2023
Episode 72: Do Deficits Really Matter?
Jul 02, 2023
Episode 71: The Debt Ceiling Disaster Scenario
Jun 18, 2023
Episode 70: Must We All Have Smartphones?
Jun 04, 2023
Episode 69: Why Increased Productivity Doesn’t Create More Leisure
May 21, 2023
Episode 68: : Those Namby-Pamby NIMBYs
Apr 30, 2023
Episode 67: The Best Pop Song Ever Written?
Apr 16, 2023
Is Cord-Cutting a Looming Apocalypse for Pro Sports?
Mar 25, 2023
Episode 65: What Critical Race Theory Is (and Is Not)
Mar 05, 2023
Episode 64: Is Aging a Disease?
Feb 18, 2023
Episode 63: The State of Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
Feb 05, 2023
Episode 62: Rumors of Religion’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Jan 22, 2023
Episode 61: The Origin of New Year's Day
Jan 07, 2023
Episode 60: The Artist is a Bot
Dec 19, 2022
Episode 58: Welcome to the Metaverse!
Nov 19, 2022
Episode 57: The Ups and (Mostly) Downs of Vaping
Nov 05, 2022
Episode 56: Whither the Russian Military?
Oct 23, 2022
Episode 55: Boob Tube Bests Big Screen
Oct 09, 2022
Episode 54: The Hullabaloo Over Charter Schools
Sep 25, 2022
Episode 53: I’m Scared, Therefore I’m Armed
Sep 05, 2022
Episode 52: Wrapping Our Brains Around Love
Aug 14, 2022
Episode 51: Is There a Link Between Abortion and Crime?
Jul 24, 2022
Episode 50: Why We Laugh
Jul 10, 2022
Episode 49: Are Cities In Trouble?
Jun 18, 2022
Episode 48: I Own It, Now You Pay For It
May 29, 2022
Episode 47: College Is For Girls
May 14, 2022
Episode 46: What We Get From Watching Sports
May 01, 2022
Episode 45: Spring Forward or Fall Back - Pick One
Apr 17, 2022
Episode 44: Charity Begins Where, Exactly?
Apr 03, 2022
Episode 43: Making Sense of Anti-Vaxxers
Mar 20, 2022
Episode 42: What To Do About Homelessness
Mar 06, 2022
Episode 41: A Second American Civil War?
Feb 20, 2022
Episode 40: The Skinny on Crime Statistics
Feb 07, 2022
Episode 39: What’s Causing Havana Syndrome?
Jan 23, 2022
Episode 38: The Myth of the Myth of Altruism
Jan 09, 2022
Episode 37: Finally, Some Good News
Dec 21, 2021
Episode 36: Is a Virus Alive?
Dec 05, 2021
Episode 35: Music Streaming and Me
Nov 14, 2021
Episode 34: The Rent Is Too Damn High
Oct 31, 2021
Episode 33: Are We Ever Gonna See Self-Driving Cars?
Oct 18, 2021
Episode 32: TERF Battles
Oct 03, 2021
Episode 31: Politicians and Harassers Are Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Sep 19, 2021
Episode 30: The Wave Theory of Populism
Sep 06, 2021
Episode 29: Jury Nullification
Aug 22, 2021
Episode 28: Space: The Final Public-Private Partnership
Aug 09, 2021
Episode 27: Filiflustered
Jul 26, 2021
Episode 26: Replaced by a Machine
Jul 10, 2021
Episode 25: UFOs Are Real!
Jun 20, 2021
Episode 24: Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
Jun 13, 2021
Episode 23: Demystifying NFTs and the Blockchain
May 23, 2021
Episode 22: Attack of the Killer Robots
May 09, 2021
Episode 21: Deepfakes and the Warping of Reality
Apr 25, 2021
Episode Twenty: Pondering A Meatless Future
Apr 12, 2021
Episode Nineteen: No News Is Not Necessarily Good News
Mar 28, 2021
Episode Eighteen: Unpacking the Green New Deal
Mar 14, 2021
Episode Seventeen: ERA Maybe
Feb 28, 2021
Episode Sixteen: Are We the Sum Total of Our Memories?
Feb 14, 2021
Episode Fifteen: Breaking Up (Big Tech) Is Hard to Do
Feb 01, 2021
Episode Fourteen: Here’s the Dope on Drug Legalization
Jan 17, 2021
Episode Thirteen: Whitewashing the Negro Leagues
Jan 03, 2021
Episode Twelve: The Thing About Christmas
Dec 20, 2020
Episode Eleven: To Defund the Police, or Not to Defund the Police, That is the Question
Dec 06, 2020
Episode Ten: ¿Qué Pasa con the Hispanic Vote?
Nov 22, 2020
Episode Nine: The Dodo Bird. The Passenger Pigeon. Movie Theaters?
Nov 09, 2020
Episode Eight: Flunking the Electoral College
Oct 25, 2020
Episode Seven: What Would Yeezus Do?
Oct 12, 2020
Episode Six: Do Western Wildfires = Climate Change?
Sep 28, 2020
Episode Five: Just (Don’t) Do It – Political Boycotts in Sports
Sep 20, 2020
Episode Two: When The Feds Come A-Knockin’ (On Your Head)
Sep 20, 2020
Episode Three: The Good Old Days of Deadly Flu Pandemics
Sep 20, 2020
Episode Four: The Cannibalistic Pedophiles Are Coming!
Sep 20, 2020