What does the state of the world ask of us? In a time of meta-crisis, living in the shadow of so much threat, what can we honestly hope to do? What kind of conversations are worth having now?

In this introductory episode, host Andy Wildman takes a tour of the podcast's intentions, and lays out a few promises and commitments—as a compass bearing for how to relate to you, the listener—and thinks out loud about emergent possibilities for this time in history.