Before We Were Opponents

Infinite Threads with Bob Barnett · Oct 12, 2026 · 11m · transcript

Welcome back to Infinite Threads. I’m your host Bob.

This week, we’re beginning something new.

I’m calling it The Human Things.

For the next few episodes, I want to look underneath all the noise around us and ask a question that feels especially important right now:

What is still human here?

And I want to begin with an image I’ve come back to many times.

A baby.

Every person you have ever loved started that way.

So did every person who has ever irritated you.

And so did the person whose beliefs may be so different from yours that you have trouble understanding how they could possibly see the…