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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Latest Episodes
Fair and Unbalanced: The Fox News Story, the 24-Hour News Cycle, and the Business of Fear
It's hard to overstate the impact Fox News has had on American politics and media. When it launched in 1996, it wasn't just another cable news channel—it introduced a completely different model that would reshape how millions of Americans consu...
Ghosts of the Invisible Empire: The History of the KKK, Memory Wars, and the Psychology of Extremism
In 1925, forty thousand robed Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in broad daylight. By then, the Klan wasn't a fringe movement—it was mainstream. It elected governors and mayors, and for many Americans, membership was a sign of status, n...
The Dark Enlightenment: Silicon Valley, Anti-Democracy, and the Future of Power
*Sorry about the audio on this one, folks! Things got a little wonky! Today’s episode is… heavy. We’re diving into something that sounds like a sci-fi dystopia, but is very real: The Dark Enlightenment. Also known as NRx, o...
The Masculinist Revival: Christian Nationalism, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Regression
Today’s episode is about a movement that has spent years operating on the political and cultural fringe, but is increasingly influencing mainstream conservative politics, religious institutions, online radicalization spaces, and even parts of t...
Caught on Camera: Cheaters, Surveillance, and the Spectacle of Betrayal
If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you know we usually live in the deep end of… everything. Politics, policy, democracy on fire, institutions crumbling—you know, light, breezy stuff. And look—we’re not abandoning tha...