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Do you know your neighbors? Kanika Mehra is the Gen Z. creator behind Airplane Mode - an Aspen Institute project bringing young people back to third spaces and offline connection. She came up with the idea after thinking

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Do you know your neighbors? Kanika Mehra is the Gen Z. creator behind Airplane Mode - an Aspen Institute project bringing young people back to third spaces and offline connection. She came up with the idea after thinking

Here's something nobody tells you about making friends as an adult: it's not that you've forgotten how. It's that nobody told you where to go. Maggie Arai spent years answering that question. As founder of happier - a To

Was it always this hard to make friends? In school, connection felt effortless. Then we graduated - and suddenly it wasn't as straightforward as it used to be. Adele Bloch says our increasing sense of isolation can't sim

How many times have you promised yourself you'd put your phone down more - only to find yourself doom-scrolling at midnight again? Peter Schmidt wants you to know it's not a personal failing, that our ever increasing lev

If you want to figure out someone votes Republican or Democrat, one of the best questions you can ask is: Do you eat at Arby's? Many of us feel as if America is fracturing - liberals and conservatives living in completel

A parent trying imperfectly to look at his kids instead of his screen. Instagram eating into reading time. Everything seeming urgent when it's not. The simple act of listening to the world go by. This week, no expert int

When you scroll through news online, can you tell what's fact and what's opinion? If you're struggling, you're not alone - and it's not your fault. Lynn Walsh is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, former nat

There was a time when half of America sat down at the same hour and watched the same tv show. When a moonwalk or a moon landing or a series finale wasn't just an event — it was a shared experience, a cultural reference p

Wanjiku Kamau was laid off from Google — during one of the biggest AI investment booms in history — and realized she'd barely used the technology her own company was betting everything on. So she taught herself and wrote

What happens when love comes with upgrades, your best matches are behind a paywall, and a chatbot that never disagrees with you starts to feel like the safer option? Myisha Battle is a certified clinical sexologist, dati

Fabio Bin couldn't find anyone to travel with. So he co-founded WeRoad — a company that puts 15 strangers together on 10-day trips with no algorithm, no matching, no profiles. Just people who don't know each other, shari

When was the last time you lingered somewhere that wasn't home and wasn't work? A coffee shop, a park bench, a barbershop, a library — a place where you could just be around other people? Those places are disappearing. A

When did we stop talking to each other — and what is it costing us? Dr. Maryellen MacDonald is a psycholinguist and professor emerita of psychology and language sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author

When did we stop trusting the news? Was there ever really a golden age — or have we been romanticizing something that was always more complicated? Dr. Aimee Edmondson, Associate Dean of the Scripps College of Communicati

Episode 2 — You're Not Stuck in the Past — You're Mining It: The Science of Nostalgia with Dr. Clay Routledge Nostalgia, loneliness, and the shared experiences we've lost — an existential psychologist explains why missin

When was the last time someone called you and you didn't immediately assume something terrible had happened? In the debut episode of The Analog Hour, host Michelle Henery sits down with Dr. Phil Higgins, a licensed clini

Welcome to The Analog Hour - where we explore our increasingly divided society, the erosion of trust in institutions from government to media, and the isolation we feel from each other... and how we find our way back to
Peter Schmidt
Strother School of Radical Attention
1 appearance on this show
Bob Thompson
Retired Fox Sports Networks President · Southern University
1 appearance on this show
Myisha Battle
Clinical Sexologist, Dating Coach & Author of "This is Supposed to be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between"
1 appearance on this show
Clay Routledge
Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab · Human Flourishing Lab
1 appearance on this show
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