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This episode features a clip from The David Pakman Show where he talks about the moral panics around book censorship on the right. Wait, are they for or against book bans? It can be hard to keep track.
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This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra talks to the Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko about how the west views Ukraine, how Ukraine views the west, and how Russia views them both. It was a great hour-long conversation. My two-minute clip is heavily edited, so go listen to the whole thing!
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This episode features a clip from Dan Olson’s epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who’ve earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.
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This episode features a clip from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher where he laments the American trend of things entirely changing but keeping their old name, regardless of how little it still applies.
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This episode features clips from Wes Anderson’s best film The Grand Budapest Hotel related to Boy with Apple. And also from the HBO series Silicon Valley.
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This episode features a clip from The New York Times’ podcast The Daily, where Sabrina Tavernise translates the message Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave to Russian citizens on the eve of Putin’s invasion to try to inform them of what what was actually going on since they really only have access to state propaganda. There’s also a clip from The David Pakman Show where he addresses the alt-left and contrasts their wrongness with the spot-on record of the Biden Administration.
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This episode features a promo for Jon Ronson’s new podcast miniseries, Things Fell Apart, from BBC. He investigates the surprising origins of different elements of today's culture wars featuring interviews with many people who, however pivotal, you've probably never heard of, and who rarely give interviews. It's topics like anti-abortion activism among evangelicals, publicly shaming people for things they said online, different waves of feminism and contemporary trans activists, racism, anti-racism, teaching sex ed, and on and on. A common theme among many of the episodes is activists becoming, in a sense, victims of their own success. It's terrifically well done and strikes a nearly impossible to achieve note of nuanced even-handedness. I think everyone who was featured in the show would say they got a perfectly fair hearing and that listeners will feel similarly about how their views are represented, regardless of which side of any given issue they are on. It's just fantastic.
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