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This episode features a couple of clips from a really fun episode of Tyler Cowan’s podcast Conversations with Tyler. The guest is a favorite of mine, Paul Bloom, a psychologist who specializes in moral psychology, particularly in children. I pulled clips of them discussing at what age a child can truly believe in God, and another where they discuss the relative value of dogs, cats, pigs, and humans. The whole hour is great.
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This episode features a clip from Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech at the DNC followed by Steven “Destiny” Bonnell on how effectively the Democrats usurped the Republican's historic talking points (cause they have forfeited them in favor of lunacy). Later he describes why it’s harder for MAGA to break free from their idiocy than for leftist to do the same.
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This episode features a clip from The New York Times podcast The Interview where host Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and he mentioned one of the most-compelling potential promises of a Kamala Harris presidency: Wresting control of the Republican Party back to some kind of normalcy and away from the MAGA clown car of conspiracy theorist know-nothings.
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This episode features two clips from the David Pakman Show. First, from 8 months ago, here he lays out a partial list of Joe Biden’s accomplishments, observing that he was the most effective and consequential president of the last 50 years. Then a clip of Joe Biden’s address where he bows out of the presidential race for the good of the country.
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This episode features a clip of Bill Hicks' in 1988 talking about how all the good people always get murdered, but mediocre hacks live forever no matter what. I was reminded of this routine over the weekend when Trump was shot at but they just grazed him. This isn't the version I remember listening to, but I couldn't find the version from my memory.
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This episode features a clip of an essay by John Cleese about The Advantages of Extremism. It’s an old clip from the late 1980s and targeted a British audience but it feels tailor-made for contemporary America.
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This episode features a clip of TikToker Handren Seavey talking about how the track record of college aged kids being right about things is, um, mixed. It’s not their fault, they’re just the dumbest adults. Also, commentator Destiny talks about the problem of letting groups like Hamas leverage asymmetric warfare and human shields to gain support from the international community and the risk that giving into that poses for a world order based on international law.
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