Late-stage individualism. Hyper individualism. Toxic individualism. Whatever you want to call it, individualism has gone off the rails, and it's a problem we need to talk about.

Sources:

Why Individualism Makes it Hard to Be a Villager by Ayushi Thakkar

Personal Branding is the Enshittifcation of Humans by Joan Westenberg

This question is apparently a touchy one for a lot of people. Caitlin and Katie explore the topic, complete with a dramatic reading of Facebook comments left on a local brewery's post about its family-friendly policies.

Sources:

A Child-Free Life, Not a Child-Free World by Ellen Fitzgerald

The Kids Are All Right (Just Not at a Brewery) The New York Times

How do you cope with the world around you? Katie and Caitlin get into it again!

How do you keep yourself grounded while the world burns?

In the words of U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware), we're in a slingshot moment in history. How do we, the regular folk, make an impact? These two eternally optimistic millennials show you the way.

Featuring:

• Leslie Knope, "Parks & Recreation"
• Amanda's Mild Takes
• Emily in Your Phone & "Democracy in Retrograde"
• Ben Sheehan & "What Does the Constitution Actually Say?"
• Undue Medical Debt

And more!

Get to know your Who Has Time For This? hosts Caitlin and Katie: where they came from, what they stand for today, and how their upbringing, education, media consumption, and more have come to shape their political beliefs. Normalize having these kinds of conversations with YOUR friends and family!

We're back for the second season of the Who Has Time For This? Podcast! In this episode, we unpack how American media became an attention economy built on clicks, conflict, and constant stimulation – and how that shift changed not just journalism, but us.

Why you’re being fed political content on social media even when you’re not looking for it.

Why outrage travels faster than context. Why livestreaming the Epstein files isn’t the same thing as investigative reporting the Epstein files.

And how the far left and far right can end up sounding eerily similar online: not because they agree, but because the algorithm rewards the same emotional extremes.

Our attention is the product. Our outrage is the fuel. And our politics are downstream of both.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the news but unable to look away, this episode helps explain why.

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SOURCES:

The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sirens-call-how-attention-became-the-world-s-most-endangered-resource-chris-hayes/4df976eea7b35f6a8?ean=9780593653111&next=t

Charlie Kirk’s letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1972763775377064136

Antisemitism/No-Win Dynamic

https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/p/the-no-win-dynamic-understanding

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semitism-youth/685261/

How young Americans get their news

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/12/03/young-adults-and-the-future-of-news/

Wise words from Terry Moran

https://terrymoran.substack.com/p/reality-bites

Max Read’s Platform Temperance

https://substack.com/home/post/p-176764384

On Leftists Thread (@heyjohnnathan)

https://www.threads.com/@heyjohnnathan/post/DU0njCWkfQG?xmt=AQF0Zqc63JEoSWvdvmGj78KTTvZ4N53XsqPq6LSRkSCVXA

On Politicians vs Freedom Fighters Thread (@ahbeeolah)

https://www.threads.com/@ahbeeolah/post/DU8oGgrDWfI?xmt=AQF0Zqc63JEoSWvdvmGj78KTTvZ4N53XsqPq6LSRkSCVXA