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Reprise: How We Frame the World
Happy week after No Kings Day #3!Travel, family visits, protests, and holiday prep held our focus this week- plus Lisa is fighting a rough cold. So, we’re bringing back a previous episode in which we…
Be Loud. Be Seen. Be There.
We recorded this as a kind of pep talk for this coming Saturday’s No Kings Day (on March 28). It’s your reminder that showing up always matters.Momentum is building. Not just from one event to the…
Let's Get Local
In this week’s episode of A Couple Thinks, we talk about something that’s been surprisingly energizing for us lately: hyperlocal organizing.Not giant movements.Not national organizations.Just…
War and (Keeping Your) Peace
The escalation of the U.S.–Israel war against Iran has made for a heavy and chaotic news cycle. Between breaking updates, speculation, and viral social media posts, it can be hard to know what’s…
California’s Primary Conundrum
Before we dove into California politics this week, we acknowledged something much bigger: the beginning of the U.S.–Israel war against the Iranian regime.It’s possible to hold more than one truth at…
Last Week Was A Lot
Some weeks feel like one big headline.This one felt like ten.In this episode of A Couple Thinks, we unpack a week that revealed multiple fissures inside the MAGA coalition.The Supreme Court delivered…
Let’s Talk About Voting
This week we’re talking about elections and voting rights because a lot is swirling right now.We focused mainly on the proposed SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act), which would…
Washington Post Mortem
This week on A Couple Thinks, we found ourselves talking about something that feels both personal and civic: the unraveling of one of America’s most important newspapers.Lisa was in her last two…
Let’s Respect the Constitution
This week on A Couple Thinks, we did something both sobering and clarifying: we went through our Constitution’s amendments.And then we asked a simple but unsettling question: Which of these…
Processing the Unspeakable
This week’s episode is different.Usually, we come to the microphone with an outline and some scripting to help us make sense of the moment we’re living in. But on Saturday, January 24th, that didn’t…
Thinking About a Post-Trump America
This week on A Couple Thinks, we spent some time sitting with a question that’s been hovering in the background for a while now: what is going to happen between now and the post-Trump era?Our…
The Ups and the Downs
It’s been a heavy start to the year.Between the destabilization of Venezuela and the murder of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis, the cruelty and chaos of this moment feels sharper, more frightening,…
What To Do Next
Happy New Year.In our first episode of the year, we decided to do something a little different: we zoomed out and asked the question, “What’s our political action plan for the whole year?”Because…
Is it time to say f*ck it?
This episode is not safe for work—or for young ears—because sometimes polite language just doesn’t cut it.In this week’s episode of A Couple Thinks, we unpack an essay, posted in August, by John…
Where It Started
We’ve been producing this podcast for a year now, and we wanted to take a moment to reflect back on our first episode that we recorded on Sunday, December 8, 2024. It was released on January 7 of…
50 Weeks in Your Ears
Woo woo! 🎉 This week marks Episode 50 of A Couple Thinks—50 straight Tuesdays in your ears. For our “golden episode,” we wanted to share 50 good things from 2025… and while we didn’t quite get to 50,…
When a Loss is a Win
Last week brought one of those quietly important election nights that doesn’t change who controls Congress, but does change how we read the map.In this week’s episode of A Couple Thinks, we dig into…
Staying Grounded and Keeping the Faith
As we approach the one-year mark of A Couple Thinks, this week’s episode is a reflective one. We recorded our very first conversation on December 8th last year, before we even knew exactly what this…
Gratitude
It’s Thanksgiving week, so we decided to dedicate this episode of A Couple Thinks to gratitude, the kind you hold onto while we’re living through Trump’s second term.We organized our gratitude into…
The Times They Are a-Changin'
We recorded this episode on Wednesday, November 12th, just before the big tranche of Epstein documents were released. Our focus was on the end of the shutdown and the way that happened even if this…
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