Episode 298: We Don't Have the Black Death But We Do Have iPhones

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