Well, that in particular has yet to happen. I like to think that there are themes within out show that we return to. If you were to binge watch the whole first season you would see recurring themes that we return to a couple of times. I’m a car hater, for instance. I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don’t like driving them. I think they’re a very bad way to design a transportation system. So we return to that theme a bunch of times. We did a whole episode on cars. We did a thing about electric cars and why they’re not the ultimate solution to climate change. We also have an episode coming up about the suburbs that also touches on similar territory. So we’ll try to look at a single topic from a bunch of different angles. This is a show that is often in conversation with itself and there are definitely topics that I wish we had more time to get into.

Our episode on immigration is on the reality of people going over the Mexican border. I learned about those migration patterns, but then after we did the episode I did a podcast where I interviewed our experts from the episode. Our researcher who’s been going down to the US-Mexican border and just doing field research. You know, stuff like, how many people are crossing the border. He does interviews, standard data collection–the same methods that anyone would use–and so he has this data that goes back 40 years, and the things that he told me about the migration patterns and how they work made me go, “Man, I wish we could have done another segment on this!” There’s just so much more interesting information on all of this. And it’s stuff that will make you think about the whole issue totally differently. So there was that. We did another segment on why buying a house isn’t a perfect investment. That’s one that was really aimed at people who are told to buy houses; that that’s the main goal in life and the best investment ever. So we wanted to touch on that and explode that a little and show that it’s not always a great investment. There’s a lot of ways that it can go south. It’s not so clear cut.

Now, we’re also doing another episode, our suburbs episode, about redlining and how African Americans or minorities are prevented from buying homes and getting home loans after World War II. That really led to a huge wealth disparity in American society. It’s a big part of why there’s an income inequality between different groups. African Americans and other minorities missed out on this huge chance to generate wealth by buying homes. Now, those two topics are kind of in dialogue with each other. One is saying don’t buy a home, and the other is saying this is an issue of wealth inequality, and both things are true. When we were approaching both of these topics, I kept thinking that I wished that we had a way to show those connections because one of those episodes came out a year after the other one. So we don’t really have a way to put those ideas together and talk about how they inter-relate. So that’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, and how we can further connect those disparate dots.

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