PREVAIL by Greg Olear

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Resound: Looking—Or, Rather, Listening—Back
ICYMI: An index of recent PREVAIL podcasts.
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Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is Plunder and Blasphemy
It's not a 1.8 billion dollar slush fund for traitors. It's a *1,776* billion dollar slush fund for traitors.
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Sunday Pages: "Heart of Darkness"
A novel by Joseph Conrad
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Ramble On: A Survey of the Stupid Cabinet
"So fucking preposterously stupid that I can’t even."
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16:22
The Decline and Fall of Jeffrey Epstein
It's one...two...three strikes, you're out.
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Sunday Pages: The LOOM
An unfinished sci-fi novel
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Historical Parallels: The End of Valerian's War
A lesson from third-century Rome that Donald Trump didn't bother to learn—to our collective peril.
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An Empire Problem: On the Ground in Southern Lebanon
An interview with photojournalist Courtney Bonneau
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10:00
Sunday Pages: The Five 8 Songbook
A compilation video + liner notes to 34 song parodies, one original track, and six fake ads
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53:38
Ramble On: Crossing the Rubicon of Stupid
Morning thoughts on seashells, Kid Rocks, thick bricks, and new levels of dumb.
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14:37

April 2026

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