Intelligent, interesting, insightful

I have been listening to SRB for a while now. I’ve heard pretty much every episode. I listen to it especially while cooking. Sean interviews smart folks each week. There’s so many interesting stories. A lot of the guests are writers who have spent a lot of time investigating some piece of Eastern European or Russian history. I love it because Russian history is so epic, Sean and his guests talk about topics so energetically and with so much detail, and the subject matter is so far from the political and other normal day to day craziness of the United States. Instead you have the craziness of some far away place, so it’s an escape. I feel free to analyze them because they’re not the US (which I feel we over analyze on a superficial level here to where I don’t like doing it any more), but in doing so I guess I learn about the humanity of people in general as well as the relationship of that distant region and the US.