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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot going on right now. |
| 0:02.9 | Mounting economic inequality, threats to democracy, environmental disaster, the sour stench of chaos in the air. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media. |
| 0:15.0 | Want to understand the reasons and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe how to head them off at the |
| 0:22.4 | pass. |
| 0:23.5 | That's on the media's specialty. |
| 0:25.4 | Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm trying to get people to stop shooting each other. |
| 0:38.3 | That's it. |
| 0:40.3 | Not many knew Utah's governor before the assassination of Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:46.3 | Our nation is broken. |
| 0:49.3 | But Spencer Cox has been on a years-long crusade to heal American politics. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the future of our country is at stake. |
| 1:05.2 | We cut across the Baltic in this small Navy dinghy, |
| 1:09.5 | looking for clues to a nautical whodunit. |
| 1:12.6 | Undersea cables that carry electricity, gas, digital communications have been severed in the |
| 1:18.6 | waters off the coast of Finland. |
| 1:20.6 | So I have to ask what seems to be the obvious question. |
| 1:25.6 | Is this Russia? |
| 1:35.9 | The most prominent fighter in the UFC? |
| 1:38.8 | Hint, he doesn't wear gloves. |
| 1:40.2 | Good fight, thank you very much. |
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