HeyJaredCooler Heads
Everything’s on fire — and everyone’s yelling. Hot takes. Bad faith. Outrage as a business model.But here’s the thing: when everyone’s losing their mind… keeping yours is a radical act. This is Cooler Heads — where we cut through the noise, torch the BS, and talk like adults.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 22, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest episodes
Who's a Good Boy (Philosophically Speaking) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Rats will free a trapped cagemate even when chocolate is the alternative — no reward, just relief for another's distress. Elephants mourn their dead. But chimps, oddly, don't punish other chimps for stealing from someone else — only when they're the ones robbed. This episode digs into what these mixed results actually tell us about the roots of empathy, fairness, and revenge across species. Is morality a human invention, or a patchwork that evolved wherever cooperation mattered? And what does it
Florida Man, Primary Edition (opens the original)
Read excerpt
This week we discuss the recent Florida primaries, from the "carpetbagger" scramble in FL-19 after Byron Donalds left to run for governor, to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's contested win in a redrawn, majority-minority FL-20, to Jared Moskowitz fending off a hard-left challenge from Oliver Larkin in FL-25. A state where redistricting, partisanship, and outsider ambition collided in nearly every major race.
The Odd-yssey (opens the original)
Read excerpt
We watched the entirety of Christopher Nolan’s 3.5 hour “The Odyssey” and lived to tell the tale!
Post-Literacy and its Discontents (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Word on the street is that people don’t and increasingly can’t read. What does this mean for education, for society, for entertainment, for the schism between the read and unread? We’re on it.
“Nothing Left” with Evan Barker (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Friend of the show and author Evan Barker joins us to discuss her new book (and New York Times Bestseller!) “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative.” Buy the book here: #evanbarker #nothingleft #woke #newyorktimes #dei
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.