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Episode 278, April 18, 2026 -- “Was all that money I made last year For whitey on the moon?”
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This week’s title comes from Gil Scott-Heron’s cutting question: “Was all that money I made last year, for whitey on the moon?” It is the kind of line that survives because the contradiction it names never really dies. It forces us to ask a hard question about priorities, power, and progress. Who gets the glory? Who gets the investment? And who is still down here waiting for basic human needs to matter?
That tension runs through this entire episode. We live in a society that can produce astonishing technological achievement, stage grand performances of patriotism and…
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