This week on The Stakes: Part 1: Our podcast czar Michael Catano speaks with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney Mitch Stoltz, and learns why wireless earbuds are also a clever way to stop music piracy. Part 2: Jane Coaston sits down with Adam Holz, senior associate editor for a conservative Christian entertainment blog, about how he studies pop culture. Part 3: Teo Bugbee explores the America first ideology in movies like the upcoming Snowden, with film critic Matt Zoller Seitz. Part 4: Our poet-in-residence Marcus Ellsworth shares a piece about the pitfalls of having a savior complex when you genuinely want to help others.