Episodes

  • Episode 6: AI Versus the People

    Episode 6: AI Versus the People
    Aug 25 2025
    In today's episode, we tackle AI in an admittedly existential way by asking ourselves, how does this technology affect our humanity? Follow Who Has Time for This? on social media for more:-Instagram: @whohastimeforthispodcast-Youtube: @whohastimeforthispodcast--------------------------------Sources:https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0AI Chatbot Pushed Teen to Kill Himself, a Lawsuit Against its Creator Allegeshttps://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbotsAI Is a Lot of Workhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/10/507Artificial Intelligence and the Black Hole of Capitalism: A More-than-Human Political Ethologyhttps://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropicBehind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbathhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd605e48q1voChatbot Encouraged Teen to Kill Parents Over Screentime Limithttps://youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?si=kOzRqZ4eCStn-9qnChat GPT is Becoming a Religionhttps://www.theverge.com/news/682737/china-shuts-down-ai-chatbots-exam-seasonChina shuts down AI tools during nationwide college examshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11239631/Does using artificial intelligence assistance accelerate skill decay and hinder skill development without performers’ awareness?https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says/He would still be here. Man Dies by Suicide after talking with AI chatbot, Widow Sayshttps://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/the-hidden-risk-of-letting-ai-decide/The Hidden Risk of letting AI Decide- Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselveshttps://www.popsci.com/health/ai-therapy-mental-health/Illinois’ ban on AI therapy won’t stop people from asking chatbots for helphttps://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked-eroding-critical-skills.htmlIncreased AI use linked to Eroding Critical Thinking Skillshttps://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/eating-disorder-chatbot/index.htmlNational Eating Disorders Association takes its AI Chatbot Offline After Complaints of Harmful Advicehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work‘Nobody Wants a Robot to Read Them a Story!’ The Creatives and Acedemics Rejecting AI- at Work and at Homehttps://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-changes-nice-openai-overly-complimentary-model-tweak-supportive-personality-2025-4No more Mr. Nice Guy: Say goodbye to the sycophantic ChatGPThttps://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosisPeople are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed after Spiraling into “ChatGPT Psychosis”https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/People are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasieshttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-art-chatgpt-jobs-capitalismThe Problem with AI is the Problem with Capitalismhttps://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120576Rethinking of Marxist perspectives on big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and capitalist economic developmenthttps://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-methTherapy Chatbot Tells recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treathttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/26/uk-universities-warned-to-stress-test-assessments-as-92-of-students-use-aiUK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 5: Harry Potter and the Problem with Problematic Faves

    Episode 5: Harry Potter and the Problem with Problematic Faves
    Aug 11 2025

    What do you do when your favorite artist/writer/celebrity turns out to be… problematic? We dig into the messy gray areas of separating art from the artist, with J.K. Rowling, her role in the trans rights debate, and "Harry Potter" as our central case study. From social media outrage cycles to purity politics, activism to empathy, we explore who gets to decide what’s “problematic” – and how to hold onto the values that matter most.

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      Vox: Why So Much Obama-Era Culture Feels Cringe Right Now

      Constance Grady, Vox

      Dec. 27, 2021

      https://www.vox.com/22641501/hamilton-parks-rec-harry-potter-cringe-obama-era-pop-culture

      Your Fave is Problematic Tumblr

      https://yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/list

      My Year of Grief and Cancellation

      Liat Kaplan, New York Times

      Feb. 25, 2021

      https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/style/your-fave-is-problematic-tumblr.html

      Owl Post Edition: J.K. Rowling and Transphobia with Jackson Bird

      Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

      July 16, 2020

      https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/episodes/owl-post-edition-jk-rowling-and-transphobia-with-jackson-bird/

      What Happened to J.K. Rowling?

      Panic World

      July 16, 2025

      https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/what-happened-to-jk-rowling/id1740187810?i=1000717484579

      The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints

      ContraPoints

      April 17, 2023

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg

      The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

      The Free Press

      February - March, 2023

      https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1671691064

      It’s Time to Talk About J.K. Rowling

      Pantsuit Politics

      May 2, 2023

      https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/p/202351its-time-to-talk-about-jk-rowling?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Episode 4: What Citizenship Means to Us

    Episode 4: What Citizenship Means to Us
    Jul 28 2025

    What does it mean to really be a citizen? In this episode, we unpack the idea of citizenship – not just as a legal status, but as a shared responsibility, a way of thinking, and a form of belonging. From protesting injustice to pushing back on consumer-first solutions, we explore how citizenship can become a more inclusive, collective, and powerful force for change.


    Featured in this episode:

    • Citizenship Definition for Immigrants: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/citizenship-and-naturalization

    • The Preamble of the Constitution: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/preamble

    • Reimagining Citizenship: https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/

    • Ben Sheehan, (Instagram), Civics Made Easy

    • Sharon McMahon (SharonSaysSo IG, The Preamble Substack)

    • Dr. Jessica Knurck (IG, Substack)

    • Money with Katie: The Truth about “Government Waste,” Privatizing Public Goods, & Turning Citizens into Customers - https://moneywithkatie.com/privatization

    • Donald Cohen’s “The Privatization of Everything”

    • Blueland Cleaning Products

    • Pantsuit Politics

    • Art Therapy Metal Skull T-Shirt
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    50 mins
  • Episode 3: Bodies Bodies Bodies

    Episode 3: Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Jul 14 2025
    In today’s Episode, we are tackling bodies. Is the body positivity movement done for? Thin is back in- is this just a simple changing of beauty trends or is there something deeper going on? What can bodies tell us about fascism and oppression? Quite a bit, as it turns out!Follow Who Has Time for This? on social media for more: Instagram: @whohastimeforthispodast Sources:The background and career of Casey Means, Trump’s pick for surgeon general PBS News, 2025Ali Rogin, Doug Adams, Taylor Bowiehttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-background-and-career-of-casey-means-trumps-pick-for-surgeon-generalBody Fascism in Britain: Building the Blackshirt in the Inter-War PeriodJulie GottliebContemporary European History, 2011https://www.jstor.org/stable/41238349Body image and notions of nationalism and modernitySimon WhiffinBrighton Journal of Research in Health Sciences, 2016https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/bjrhs/2016/02/09/body-image-and-notions-of-nationalism-and-modernity/Fascism Thrives on Women’s Self-DoubtSisipho MbuliSubstack, March 2025https://substack.com/home/post/p-158423615Fat bodies, discipline and the politics of sizeThe Link, 2025Safa Hachi https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/fat-bodies-discipline-and-the-politics-of-sizeGym FascismSociety for Cultural Anthropology, 2021Aspen Vera Mulveyhttps://culanth.org/fieldsights/gym-fascismHealth education’s Fascist tendencies-Critical Public Health 2014Katie Fitzpatrick & Richard Tinninghttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2013.836590How the far right is using thinness to radicalize women and teen girlsOpen Democracy, April 2025Lois Shearinghttps://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-radicalise-thin-skinny-fat-shame-women-girls-social-media-tiktok/The inside story of Evie, the US conservative women’s magazine with big ambitions, and sex tips for wivesThe Irish Times, 2025Katie JM Bakerhttps://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/24/the-inside-story-of-evie-the-us-conservative-womens-magazine-with-big-ambitions-and-sex-tips-for-wives/" Making America great again?" The fascist body politics of Donald TrumpSara Smith, Banu GokarikselPolitical Geography, 2016https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629816300506?via%3DihubOld debates, new perspectives: Exploring understandings of women under fascism.Chariot Journal, 2022Grace Vanderkolkhttps://chariotjournal.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/old-debates-new-perspectives-exploring-understandings-of-women-under-fascism/OP-ED: The People’s Ozempic: Thinness, White Supremacy, and FascismAfro-Punk, Dec 2024Leslie Vargashttps://afropunk.com/2024/12/op-ed-the-peoples-ozempic-thinness-white-supremacy-and-fascism/Secularism and Sanctity: The Body and the Body Politic under Fascism in the Third ReichOlivia SerranoAleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021https://escholarship.org/content/qt9jm169dc/qt9jm169dc_noSplash_87a4612ad432e254a2ccb0844233598d.pdfThe Vogue Business AW24 size inclusivity reportVogue Business, 2024Lucy Maguire, Maliha Shoaib and Madeleine Schulzhttps://www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashion/the-vogue-business-aw24-size-inclusivity-report
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    55 mins
  • Ep. 2: [Girl] Everything

    Ep. 2: [Girl] Everything
    Apr 20 2025

    In today’s video, we explore the rise of gendered trends in social media like girl dinner and girl math, and ask the question- are these simply harmless little jokes, or is there something deeper afoot?


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    Sources

    Why Do Chinese adolescent girls outperform boys in achievement tests?

    Xiaorong Gu et al.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2057150X211006586

    From “Girl Dinner” to the “Sassy Man Apocalypse,” 2023 Was Full of Cringey Gendered Memes

    By James Factora and Samantha Allen

    https://www.them.us/story/gendered-memes-2023-discussion

    Donald Trump Ran For President Because of Gwen Stefani, Michael Moore Says

    By Janice Williams

    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gwen-stefani-president-1109402

    'Girl math' is toxic and it could be holding women back from growing wealth, says a financial specialist

    By Zoe Burt

    https://www.businessinsider.com/why-girl-math-toxic-tiktok-trend-2023-10

    What Was the Girlboss? And how did she become feminism's problem?

    By Moira Donnegan

    https://moiradonegan.substack.com/p/what-was-the-girlboss

    How MAGA’s Playbook Went From Joe Rogan to Candace OwensBy Emily Amick

    https://emilyinyourphone.substack.com/p/how-magas-playbook-went-from-joe
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    45 mins
  • Ep. 1: The Death of Nuance

    Ep. 1: The Death of Nuance
    Apr 20 2025

    Welcome to the Who Has Time For This? Podcast! In our first episode, Caitlin and Katie take on the lost art of nuance. From the news cycle to political debates to heated social media discourse, we’re losing the ability to sit and think in the gray areas. Why is everything so black and white these days – and what toll is this dynamic taking on our conversations (and our sanity)? The two best friends unpack the rise of outrage bait, the fall of thoughtful dialogue, and share some practical ways to bring complexity, compassion, and clarity back to how we consume and communicate information.


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    SOURCES:

    • The Real Story of the US Economy - Money with Katie Podcast: https://moneywithkatie.com/real-story-economy

    • Nuance is Out, It Needs to Come Back - Paul Oestreicher: https://paul-oestreicher.medium.com/nuance-is-out-it-needs-to-come-back-82e03d58c093

    • Biden’s Oil Boom: How fossil fuels thrived despite the White House's climate policies - Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/OIL/lgpdngrgkpo/

    • Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2024 Update - Council on Criminal Justice: https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2024-update/

    • Jessica Yellin - News Not Noise: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/

    • News Literacy Project: https://newslit.org/

    • What Happened to Nuance in Political Debates? Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/change-your-mind/202406/what-happened-to-nuance-in-political-debates

    • Coronavirus Y-Axis Fox News chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/fv0fpz/the_yaxis_on_this_fox_news_graph_of_coronavirus/?rdt=46171

    • How to Practice Nuanced Thinking Anne-Laure Le Cunff: https://nesslabs.com/nuanced-thinking-versus-polarized-thinking
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    48 mins
  • Who Has Time For This? Trailer

    Who Has Time For This? Trailer
    Apr 16 2025

    Welcome to the Who Has Time for This? podcast! Join best friends Caitlin and Katie as we delve into complex topics through the lens of our own unique perspectives.
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    2 mins