The Same, but Worse
Election Mixdown
Jan 19, 20251h 15m
Andrew, Marshall, and Jerry get together for a Thanksgiving chat about the election.
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A podcast about politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and, ultimately, whether anything can be known and if so, how. Featuring Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, and Jerry Vinokurov.
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What is The Same, but Worse about?
A podcast about politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and, ultimately, whether anything can be known and if so, how. Featuring Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, and Jerry Vinokurov.
What has The Same, but Worse covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Election Mixdown" (19 January 2025, 75 minutes), "The Same, But Worse - Higher Ed" (13 April 2024, 57 minutes), and "Election Watch" (28 May 2023, 120 minutes).
How often does The Same, but Worse publish?
The Same, but Worse publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 84 minutes across 37 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Same, but Worse?
Booking probability for The Same, but Worse is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Same, but Worse requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Same, but Worse's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Same, but Worse is a news podcast with 37 episodes published.
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The Same, But Worse - Higher Ed
Apr 13, 202457 minMarshall and Andrew got together to chat about Marshall's piece on the LPE blog about higher education: https://lpeproject.org/blog/should-higher-education-ratify-privilege-or-public-service/.
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Election Watch
May 28, 20232 hourAndrew and a couple of special guests go deep on the Turkish election. Sorry for the lack of content lately, it's been a busy spring for all of us.
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High Plains Billionaire Drifter
Dec 14, 20221h 31mWith Marshall sidelined by actual work, Andrew and Jerry discuss the recent FTX meltdown, Musk's acquisition of Twitter, and develop a typology of billionaires. Along the way we also discuss the repudiation of expertise...
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Planet of Scams
Sep 20, 20222h 8mWe discuss the proliferation of scams of all kinds in late capitalism and the failure of regulators to come to grips with this problem. After Marshall departs, Andrew and Jerry talk about the shortcomings of localism...
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Abortions for None, and Miniature American Flags for All
Sep 20, 20222h 5mMarshall, Andrew, and Jerry discuss the Dobbs decision, how we got here over the decades, and the ultimate failure of Democratic centrism to protect abortion rights. In the second half, we sketch an outline of the...
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On Elite Capture
Jun 15, 20221h 22mAndrew, Marshall, and Jerry take a dive into Olufemi Taiwo's book "Elite Capture" and try to figure out what diagnostic as well as prescriptive lessons it can teach us.
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Podcasting as Allocation of Coordination Rights
Apr 29, 20221h 45mWe welcome to the podcast Sanjukta Paul to talk about her work in untangling the ball of twine that is modern antitrust. Come for the detailed history of trucking deregulation in the 90s, stay for the debate over how...
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The Vibes Doctors
Apr 19, 20221h 30mIn the absence of Marshall, Andrew and Jerry set about performing discourse surgery (spoiler: the patient died), trying to figure out why the vibes are fucked, and deploying our most sophisticated numerological tools to...
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Episode 5 - Postwar Sitcoms as Engines of Citizen Formation
Mar 11, 20222h 10mWe're joined by Mike Cheyne, a genuine doctor of suburban studies, to walk us through the way that postwar sitcoms functioned as loci of formation of ideas about civic participation and citizenship, and how the TV...
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Episode 4 - Midwestern Populism, with Cory Haala
Jan 21, 20221h 49mWe welcome our first guest, Cory Haala, to talk about the populist tradition in the Midwest. We discuss its roots and legacy and whether any lessons for our present moment can be gleaned from it.
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Episode 3 - Second Time as Farce
Jan 7, 20221h 21mWith Marshall luxuriating in the Utah mountains (probably) and thus unavailable, Andrew and Jerry formulate a programmatic and try to dig out why it is that everything feels like a shittier retread all the time.
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Irrational Expectations - Part 2
Dec 10, 202152 minAndrew and Jerry kibbitz about the Volcker shock, how to get from here to utopia, and whether solidarity is possible in the age of neoliberal atomization. Fun!
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Irrational Expectations
Dec 6, 20211h 12mMarshall, Andrew, and Jerry become the dads of the entire economics profession. We discuss the mystificatory nature of economic ideology, cast a side-eye on expertise, and attempt to sow discord between Friedmannians...
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Got My Mind on My Mannheim and My Mannheim on My Mind
Nov 11, 202156 minGot My Mind on My Mannheim and My Mannheim on My Mind by Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, Jerry Vinokurov
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This Is Fine - Episode 3.1
Nov 30, 201853 minNot quite in time for a Thanksgiving argument with your Facebook uncle, but well ahead of schedule for a Christmas argument with the same, we're pleased to bring you a breakdown of the November elections.
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Episode 2.2 - The World Only Spins... Forward?
Mar 14, 20181h 8mOn this episode, we speak with writer and theater director Isaac Butler, who is the author, with Dan Kois, of a new oral history of Tony Kushner's "Angels In America," titled "The World Only Spins Forward." As always...
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Episode 2.1 - That Was The Year That Was
Nov 12, 20171h 21mWelcome back, Finers! We've returned after a long, child-induced hiatus, just in time to fire up Season 2: Everything Is Still Fine, There's Nothing To Worry About, Really. On this episode, intrepid reporter Sam...
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This Is Fine - Episode 1.16 - Part 2
Aug 8, 201754 minPart 2 of our conversation with Alex Wellerstein. This is a re-upload because the initial version was missing non-Alex tracks.
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Episode 1.16 - No Nukes is Good Nukes... Or Is It? - Part 1
Jul 30, 201759 minWelcome to Episode 1.16: No Nukes Is Good Nukes, or Is It? Thanks for listening, Finers; please subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and make sure to keep a copy of this episode in...
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