EP: 82 The Corner, the Altar, and the Comments

The Sense and Senseless Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 1h 16m · transcript

This episode pulls apart the habit of judging intelligence by clothes and polish, then moves to addiction, cheap kindness, and why comparison doesn’t make you better. From there: online anger, excuse culture, fake lives, and a simpler take on why we can’t cooperate even though we need each other. The host explains why a small circle beat a gossip-heavy social life, then reacts to a road-rage clip, reporting on youth gun violence in Bloomington, Minnesota, and body-cam footage from the January 2023 school shooting involving a 6-year-old. Email the show at…