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This episode features a clip from the Al Franken Podcast where The Fifth Risk author Michael Lewis talks about how weird it is that people accept roles for which they are obviously unfit in Trump’s orbit, and also a clip from NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross where New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer describes Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump’s Plutocrat Populism pact.
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This episode features a brief clip of Louis CK’s new comedy special: Sincerely, Louis CK. I know he’s polarizing, but I am not remotely conflicted. I think he’s still got it. I laughed hard all the way through.
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This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where he describes Trump as a golem of everything bad about America.
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To avoid making this episode any longer I didn't add any sound clips. Also, it seems like Spotify removed my show from their listings. They didn't alert me to this, it just vanished. Hmm. Maybe this happened a while ago and I only just noticed, or maybe Air was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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This episode features a clip of Ezra Klein on Real Time with Bill Maher’s Overtime talking about what ails news in the US, and his theory which is also mine, which is that “fake news” and facebook misinformation campaigns by Russia or anyone else had a marginal effect at best on the 2016. The real problem is how the legitimate media covers “real” stories.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher’s New Rules where Bill talks about how people think authoritarianism begins vs how it really does. I don’t quite share the fear, but I’d say he makes a good case for that view.
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This episode features a clip from Real Time with Bill Maher where Rick Wilson explains the perils of leading a policy-oriented campaign vs a bumper sticker slogan one, and Radio Sweden reports on what Brits in Sweden are thinking in a post-Brexit world.
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