We Don't Have the Black Death But We Do Have iPhones
Episode 298 · September 22nd, 2026 · 1 hr 5 mins
About this Episode
In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk relational losses, medieval mental health, and robot apocalypses. Also, Sarah holds onto a worthless heirloom, while RJ comes clean about the desert fathers.
- Click here to watch the video of the statistic reported by Nick and Robin Gough
- Click here for more infomation, or to pre-register for Mockingbird's upcoming conference in Minnesota (Oct 2&3)
- Click here to read Katherine Harvey's article about Medieval Mental Health on Aeon
- Click here to read "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart" by Jay Caspian Kang in The New Yorker
- Click here to read the poem "Things Artificial Intelligence Can't Do" by Aaron Belz
- Click here to read "How To Resist the Robot Apocalypse" by Bryan Jarrell on Mbird