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This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn’t include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I’m 100% with him on all of it.
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A clip from NPR’s Fresh Air where Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and a clip of Taffy Nivert talking about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy. And don't miss Mr. Jones, the intense drama about the holodomor where close to 5 million people died in the early 1930s.
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This episode features a clip from CBS Sunday Morning where Lee Cowan interviews Molly Lewis about what it's like to be a musician who whistles.
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This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.
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This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit from his Live in Houston album, about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.
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This episode features a brief clip from The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.
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This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes (also on Nebula). His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.
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