Bonus: SchadenFriday: Portland Puts A Frog On It

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

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As troops continue to roll in, unwelcome, to American cities, you can be forgiven for calling the national picture “pretty bleak.” But even now, the news will occasionally let you get off a chuckle or guffaw, even if it isn’t always from your better nature. It’s SchadenFriday; go ahead and indulge. Guest: Alex Sammon, Slate feature writer. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive episodes of What Next —you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Friday Slater's Laitsters, it's Mary, and this is our every so often Slate Plus segment where we are going to try something a little bit new.
0:11.0	Basically because things have been kind of grim recently.
0:14.4	I'm not going to shock you when I say it's a little depressing to look at the daily news and I may be having to like tempt you to come look in
0:21.2	our feed. Yeah, we want to fix that for you. Sometimes you need a little pick me up. You need to like
0:28.0	spark joy in yourself, take what you can get. And the way that I sometimes do that is by embracing
0:36.5	the shout and Freud moments as they come.
0:40.0	The moments where you can look around and just say, yeah, that person I really don't like,
0:46.9	just got a full rake to the face. So we're going to call this segment Shoutin Friday.
0:53.5	And I've invited one of my favorite people here to do it with me, Alex Salad Staff writer.
0:58.0	Hello, Alex.
0:59.6	Hey, Mary.
1:00.5	Okay, how are you healing yourself in this moment of grim news?
1:05.5	Troops being called out to American cities.
1:08.8	Yeah, I don't know.
1:10.4	Maybe this is the answer. This is it.'t know. Maybe this is the answer.
1:13.0	This is it.
1:13.1	This and drinking.
1:14.2	This is the thing.
1:17.5	Yeah, exactly.
1:19.1	Okay.
1:19.7	So here's the deal.
1:22.4	Alex and I have both chosen events from this week that filled us with that, like, smiling devil emoji energy.
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