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A New Novel about the Space Race, Drugs, and Cults with Joshua Wheeler
On today’s episode, Tyler talks to Joshua Wheeler about his brilliant debut novel, The High Heaven. Focusing on a UFO cult survivor who is obsessed w…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Future of the Media with Maxwell Tani
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Today we’re talking the media business, the news that Bari Weiss will now be the Editor in Chief of CBS News, and what we think will happen dur…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Why are Hobbies So Damn Expensive Now?
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Today we take a break from politics and talk about hobbies and a thing that Tyler coined “hobby inflation” where everything from clay pigeons …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Kimmel, Free Speech, and the University as the New Church with Zena Hitz
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Today, we have back on one of our favorite guests, Zena Hitz, a philosopher who teaches at St. John’s College. We talk about Kimmel’s cancelin…
5 months ago
Charlie Kirk and Do We Need Better Debates with John Ganz
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This week we talk about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, what he meant to the GOP and the right, in general, and the space he occupied within…
5 months, 1 week ago
Trump Raids His Own Hyundai Plant, Chicago, and the Return of the NFL
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This week we talk about the ICE raid of the Hyundai plant under construction in Georgia, the incoherence of the Trump agenda, the threat of nat…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
What Can RFK Actually Do and the History of Anti-Vaccine Movements with Jonathan Berman
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Today, we have on a promised guest, Jonathan M Berman, an assistant professor in Basic Sciences at New York Institute of Technology, Arkansas, …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump Seizes the Means of Production and Zohran's Bench Press
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Today we talk about Trump’s bid to create a sovereign wealth fund by investing in private companies, the parallels these actions have to his s…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Has AI Sold Out? with Jessica Dai and Ben Recht
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Today, we have on Jessica Dai and Ben Recht to talk about AI culture, Jessica’s prescient article from 2 years ago about alignment and the prio…
6 months ago
Four Years of New York City that Changed the World with Jonathan Mahler
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This week, we have a long talk with an author we both have admired for a while, Jonathan Mahler. His new book, The Gods of New York: Egoists, I…
6 months, 1 week ago