Your Neighbor on the Left Podcast

Back Porch Files: The People Who Know Too Much

1 h 11 min · 19. Juni 2026
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This episode, we look at why expertise becomes a threat the moment it challenges money, power, propaganda, or a preferred political fantasy. From corporate attacks on climate science and health care oversight to right-wing contempt for universities, public servants, journalists, and medical experts, this episode argues that the problem was never knowledge itself. The problem is independent knowledge that can’t be controlled. It’s not about worshiping experts or pretending institutions never fail. It’s about understanding the difference between healthy skepticism and a political machine that teaches people to distrust anyone who knows enough to say no. Visit the podcast website at https://www.neighborontheleft.com [https://www.neighborontheleft.com]

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When my college-age son was bitten by a dog while making a food delivery, the emergency-room visit generated a bill of more than $58,000. The insurer may negotiate it down, the hospital may accept far less, and somehow that is supposed to make the system sound reasonable. In this episode, I break down what Medicare for All actually means, why Americans are already paying enormous amounts through premiums, deductibles, taxes, employer contributions, medical debt, and administrative waste, and why the real question is not whether universal healthcare costs money, but why we keep routing so much of that money through a maze of private middlemen. Visit the podcast website at https://www.neighborontheleft.com [https://www.neighborontheleft.com]

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