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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