Episode 77 plays calls to action from all over America, fights with Dan Savage over how to share urban truth with rural voters, and argues about how to fix Facebook's fake news problem. Credit: Richard Wayne Collens/Shutterstock.com
Episode 77 plays calls to action from all over America, fights with Dan Savage over how to share urban truth with rural voters, and argues about how to fix Facebooks fake news problem.
Episode 77 plays calls to action from all over America, fights with Dan Savage over how to share urban truth with rural voters, and argues about how to fix Facebook’s fake news problem. Richard Wayne Collens/Shutterstock.com

We received calls to action from all over the country in response to last week’s show. Thank you! We’re playing a bunch of your action items right off the bat.

After that: Dan Savage has returned from the world’s largest democracy, India, and is ready to fight with rural-America-raised Rich Smith about how we should talk to the Trump-supporting, democracy-rattling voters in the American hinterlands.

Then: the tech-savviest guy I know, Anthony Hecht, is on to absorb my doom and gloom feelings about fake news and explain how everything might someday be okay—or might not.

Plus, as always…

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...