We explore topics related to finding a way to a safer, saner, stabler world through respectful dialogue and finding common ground. <br/><br/><a href="https://wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com</a>
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We explore topics related to finding a way to a safer, saner, stabler world through respectful dialogue and finding common ground. <br/><br/><a href="https://wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com</a>
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May 8, 2026
Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 9 - Mike Long - The Evolution of Democracy
<p><strong>What Does Democracy Actually Feel Like From the Inside?</strong></p><p>Most conversations about democracy right now feel like arguments — volleys of talking points launched from entrenched positions, designed to win rather than illuminate. This episode is something different.</p><p>This week, Wendy sits down with her partner, Mike Long, a lifelong student of history and human psychology, and, together with Harvey, the three of them do something that feels almost radical in 2026: they just... think out loud together. About where we came from, what we might be losing, and whether the thing we call democracy has ever actually delivered on its promise — and for whom.</p><p>Mike brings 2,000 years of context to a moment that desperately needs it. Harvey brings the psychological reckoning. Wendy brings the land, the women, the wolves, and the uncomfortable questions that refuse to stay politely in the margins. What emerges isn’t a debate or a lecture — it’s the kind of conversation that used to happen in forums and on front porches and at dinner tables before we all retreated into our separate information ecosystems.</p><p>There’s grief in this episode, and there’s also genuine hope — not the performative kind, but the kind that comes from actually knowing history well enough to recognize that we’ve pulled ourselves back from the brink before.</p><p>Come think with us.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com</a>
April 3, 2026
Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 8 - Gary Salyer - Attachment Styles
<p><strong>What if the way you love was shaped before you could even speak — and what if that same pattern is running our institutions, our politics, our planet?</strong></p><p>In this episode, Wendy and Harvey sit down with transformational relationship mentor Dr. Gary Salyer to explore the hidden architecture of attachment — the early patterns that wire us for connection, conflict, or shutdown long before we have words for any of it.</p><p>But this conversation doesn't stop at the personal. Anxious clinging, avoidant walls, the compulsive need to dominate or disappear — these aren't just relationship dynamics. They're the operating system behind our most intractable social fractures. What does a society organized around insecure attachment actually look like? (Spoiler: look around.)</p><p>Dr. Salyer makes the case that interdependence — real, secure, practiced interdependence — isn't just a relationship goal. It might be the missing variable in every system we're trying to fix.</p><p>Wickedly Smart: The neuroscience and attachment theory behind why we love, fight, and organize the way we do. Woefully Stupid: That we keep trying to solve collective problems without ever examining the relational wiring underneath them.</p><p>The personal isn't just political. It's ecological, institutional, and civilizational.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com</a>
March 27, 2026
Wickedly Smart and Woefully Stupid Episode 7 - Nature As Board Member
<p><strong>What if nature had a seat at the table — not as a resource to be managed, but as a voice to be heard?</strong></p><p>In this episode, Wendy and Harvey dig into Alexandra Pimor's Nature on Board movement — a radical, quietly spreading idea that nature deserves representation in the very boardrooms and decision-making bodies shaping its future.</p><p>From Ecuador writing the rights of Pachamama into its constitution, to New Zealand granting legal personhood to a forest and a river, to Patagonia transferring its ownership entirely to the earth — something is shifting. The question is whether it's shifting fast enough, and whether it can reach the places that matter most: corporate boards, legislative chambers, and the governance structures that set the rules everyone else follows.</p><p>Wendy knows what it's like to stand inside a real ecosystem and speak for it. Harvey knows what it costs when no one does. Together, they ask the uncomfortable question: how many catastrophically expensive, planet-damaging mistakes could we have avoided if nature had simply had someone in the room?</p><p>Wickedly Smart: Nature-conscious governance — from legal personhood for rivers to nature proxies on corporate boards. Woefully Stupid: That we gave corporations personhood centuries ago and are only now thinking to extend the same courtesy to the living world.</p><p>The FY2026 EPA budget is $8.8B. Cumulatively (1970-2025), it's estimated budget is $350.6B. Imagine what else we could have achieved if we'd just had Nature at the center of our institutions.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">wickedlysmartwoefullystupid.substack.com</a>
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