There’s doom and gloom in the ether, and many people aren't feeling too great about the world. What to do?

Bart thinks the best move is to swing to the stoics, with a sense of separating what we can control versus what we can’t. Simply 'doing the next right thing'. Some things we can control: our next moves, our vote, our transactions, the ways we communicate, the protections we give our children, and what we pay attention to.

To the point of what we pay attention to, Bart has a list of recommendations for some content on the theme of doing the next right thing, along the lines of some of the lists often shared in the media around this time of year. These are the podcasts, TV shows, movies and songs mentioned in this episode:

1. Invisibilia: 'An Unlikely Superpower'
2. Radiolab: 'From tree to shining tree'
3. The Last of Us: 'Long, Long Time'
4. This is Actually Happening: 'What if you witnessed a thousand deaths?'
5. The Bear: 'Forks'
6. Reservation Dogs: 'Frankfurter Sandwich'
7. Kristen Bell: '⁠The Next Right Thing⁠'

We'll have one more episode this year for patrons of the show at Patreon.com/HumanizeMe. And with that, from us, a happy new year! See you in 2024.