Remember those ‘80s VSEs (“Very Special Episodes”) where a show like Facts of Life or Diff’rent Strokes would delve into some serious, dark territory? The first half of DXP #245 is kind of like that. After discussing death and loss, we turn our attention in the second half to celebrity comeuppance, fair wage policy, and whether the history of America is really just the history of various forms of fundamentalism. Biebers involve stop signs and T-shirts.

Podcast #136: Piano, the Holocaust, and Twitter
Podcast #224: Parenting and Personality Tests
Podcast #560: Cabo Cruises, Sacramentalism, and the Liberal Experiment
Podcast #142: Does God Want Us to be Atheists?