The World According to Jen & Carolyn
The World According to Jen & Carolyn is a podcast where history, politics, psychology, and humor collide in unexpected yet brilliant ways. Hosted by Jen, a community servant with a sharp wit and a knack for digging up the historical receipts, and Carolyn, a licensed marriage and family therapist who expertly unpacks the psychological layers behind it all, our show offers listeners a smart, hilarious, and refreshingly real conversation between two friends with 25 years of stories and opinions to share.
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Podcasting since 2022 • 104 episodes
The World According to Jen & Carolyn
Latest Episodes
The Lonely Path to Violence — Understanding the Loneliness Epidemic and Political Radicalization
Today, Jen & Carolyn are diving into something that is often framed as a private pain but may actually be one of the most significant public health and political threats of our time: loneliness. And not loneliness as a vibe. Not “I wish I h...
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Power, Bodies, and Blood: When Politicians Kill
We tend to talk about violence in politics as something abstract. Policy violence. Structural violence. Metaphorical violence. But today, Jen & Carolyn are talking about literal violence. As in: people who ran for office, held office, advis...
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
On this episode, Jen & Carolyn ask the question on everyone’s mind: Is AI coming for your job? With rapid advances in artificial intelligence — from automated text tools to industrial robots — many workers are wondering if their livelihoods...
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Red Flags, Blue States: Dating Across America’s Political Divide.
On today’s episode, Jen & Carolyn explore a topic that hits home for many: how intense political and ideological divisions in the United States are shaping the modern dating landscape. We’ll talk about how politics influences who we date, h...
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The United States Today and the Lessons of Nazi Germany
The United States in 2026 is not Nazi Germany…yet. But history doesn’t only warn us through identical repetition. It warns us through patterns—through early signals, institutional stress, and social dynamics that recur under different condition...
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