Ep: 74 “If It’s Always the Most Important Election, Who Is Winning While We Fight?”

The Sense and Senseless Podcast · Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 6m · transcript

On this episode of The Sense and Senseless Podcast, Bryan and Jason pick up last week’s Gen X “brainwashing” conversation and widen it: we are all conditioned. Algorithms, targeted ads, and confirmation bias keep us inside a feedback loop where our side is always right and the other side is always evil. They talk about what that does to real life. Politics is treated like religion. People will torch family and friends—weddings, holidays, years of shared history—over a politician they have never met. Pew and other polling put numbers on it: a sizable slice of adults have cut someone off over…