Humanize Me

It's been a hard week for Bart! Episode 509 of this podcast featured his conversation with Michael Dowd, a fellow 'apocalyoptimist' who shares Bart's belief that a great societal collapse is inevitable, and that the current pandemic represents the beginning of a difficult time for humanity. Bart's son Roman Campolo listened, and hated the episode. Not only did Roman have strong criticisms of Dowd, collapse-thinking, and the tone and content of the conversation itself, but he feels that Bart is wasting his unique skill set and intellect on apocalyptic thinking at a time when he could be applying himself to this moment more effectively. In this episode, Roman lets Bart have it, firing on all cylinders. We thought about some different titles for this episode: "Roman v Bart" "An on-mic intervention" "About last week..." "A podcast massacre" "Roman on a rampage" "Bart gets taken to the woodshed" "Roman takes no prisoners" Ultimately, Bart acknowledges the validity of much of the criticism, and admits to feeling so