Bedste Goodbye TO-podcasts (2024)

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A History of Trans Activism with Jamie Lauren Keiles 1:20:42

4d ago1:20:42

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Hello! Today we have Jamie Lauren Keiles, the author of an upcoming book about the rise of nonbinary identity in America, back on the show. We talk about the thinly veiled post mortems by some within the Democratic coalition to abandon 'the whole trans thing,' the history of how trans rights became such a large part of the country's political conve…

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How to Develop a Winning Mindset: 3 Simple Habits to Beat Negativity and Boost Motivation 17:20

17d ago17:20

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Ever feel overwhelmed by negative thoughts? You’re not alone. Research shows the average person has around 60,000 thoughts a day, and most are repetitive—and even negative. I’m Emmanuel, I help small businesses get more customers and sales using online advertising. But to get there, I’ve had to train my own mindset. In this video, I’ll share three …

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Can We Ever Trust the Polls Again? 1:18:09

11d ago1:18:09

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Hello! Today we brought back our polling experts Ben Recht, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and Leif Weatherby, a professor of German and the founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at NYU. We set out to really talk about one question: Can we trust these polls and were they right or wrong? Then we talked a lot about how campaigns…

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Do we really need polls? 1:18:09

11d ago1:18:09

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Hello! Today we brought back our polling experts Ben Recht, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and Leif Weatherby, a professor of German and the founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at NYU. We set out to really talk about one question: Can we trust these polls and were they right or wrong? Then we talked a lot about how campaigns…

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Emergency Pod: Oh No What Just Happened 1:05:05

18d ago1:05:05

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Tyler and Jay talk about the distressing results with Trump at 92% to win on the needle, what might happen for the Democrats in the future, and spend a whole lot of time talking about the "minority vote" and what went wrong. We promise we do very little "I told you so" in this episode. Honestly, it's about as morose as you'll ever hear us as we bot…

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I guess fear is holding me back from taking the leap... 11:26

25d ago11:26

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In this episode I answer a question from someone within my coaching community. "Hey Emmanuel, this is Mr A. I hope you're doing great! I've been watching your Youtube channel and it resonates with me. I've been struggling with my transition from 9-5 'order taker' (as our coach would say) as a web designer to full-time business owner. I guess fear i…

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Six Days until The Election Special! 1:10:20

25d ago1:10:20

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Hello! We talk about the Trump rally in New York City, Kamala’s closing statements and why, despite months of criticizing the Harris/Walz campaign and living in deep blue states, we both ended up voting for it. We also try to tee up what the next four years might look like for the Democrats whether Harris wins or loses. As always, this show is fund…

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Why Can't Kids Read Anymore with Susannah Grossman 1:21:34

1M ago1:21:34

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Hello! This week we are discussing the state of reading in America and the big Atlantic article that said that college kids can’t really make it through difficult books anymore and blamed woke or something. Our guest is Susannah Grossman, a veteran teacher who has been on both sides of this debate. Really good episode this week imho — lotta lively …

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Kamala's Plan for Black Men and We Try to Be Positive 1:11:22

1M ago1:11:22

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Hello! Today we’re talking about Kamala Harris’s plan for Black men, crypto, one million loans for $20,000, and Trump’s 30 minute spotify playlist party which included his favorite song (Time to Say Goodbye). We also give our best case for the Harris campaign’s strategy and its endless tacks to the right. The LEAST toxic TTSG in months! As always, …

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Black Quarterbacks and the Meritocracy with Louis Moore 1:00:01

2M ago1:00:01

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Hello! Today’s episode is about THE GREAT BLACK HOPE, a new book by the historian Louis Moore. We talk about the history of Black quarterbacks, both in college and the NFL, the financial and societal pressures that have both led to change and kept some things the same. On a larger scale, we talk about how sports serves both as a testing ground for …

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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates and What Writing is For with Jazmine Hughes 1:10:27

2M ago1:10:27

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Hello! Apologies for the slight delay in getting this episode out but we have a great show today with the writer Jazmine Hughes. We talk about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book about writing, the West Bank and his travels, the writer-as-activist-celebrity, and the strange and tangled relationship that we, as minority writers, have with prestige media out…

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RIP Fredric Jameson and some takes on the whole RFK - Nuzzi thing 1:01:37

2M ago1:01:37

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Hello! This week Tyler pays tribute to the great literary critic Fredric Jameson who tragically passed away recently. We talk about the importance of his work and why it will be hard to find someone like him given the state of the academy and literary culture. And then we dive into what happened between RFK and Olivia Nuzzi and how journalism ethic…

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Trump's Horrible Lies about Haitian Residents in Springfield, Ohio and More Assassination Talk 1:03:41

2M ago1:03:41

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Hello! A quick note before we start: We recorded this as we always do on Tuesday for an early Wednesday release. The last part of the show focuses on what at the time was a wishy-washy and evasive response from Kamala Harris when asked about what Trump and Vance were doing to Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio. Since then, Harris has come out a…

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Do We Like Living in DataWorld and iPhones and the End of History with Ben Recht and Leif Weatherby 1:22:54

2M ago1:22:54

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Hello! Today we have a fun conversation with recurring guest Ben Recht, a professor of computer science and machine learning at UC Berkeley and Leif Weatherby, an associate professor of German at NYU. We talk about the article they wrote about Nate Silver’s latest book, the world of Big Data, and then we start talking about how maybe the inability …

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BACK TO SCHOOL: MIT's disappearing Black student population, Affirmative Action, and sea changes in higher ed 1:11:28

3M ago1:11:28

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Hello! Welcome back to school everyone. This week, we talk about an article in the New York Times that asks whether we infantilize students and whether we should start treating 18 year old college kids like adults. We also get into the admissions numbers out of MIT after the Affirmative Action Supreme Court and whether we might be seeing a sea chan…

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Kamala's Big Speech, RFK as Shadow Veep, and Panic at Pomona 1:21:25

3M ago1:21:25

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Hello! Today, we talk about Kamala’s big speech at the DNC, the cat-and-mouse game her campaign is playing with the media, why we’re probably fine with it in the end, and RFK’s 45 minute speech that outlined his new role as Trump’s new attack dog. (Mostly because JD Vance is not doing so well.) We also talked about scandal in the English Department…

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AOC, Convention Night 1, and the Future of the Left with Matt Karp 1:27:35

3M ago1:27:35

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Hello! We’re joined today by Matt Karp, a columnist for Harper’s, a professor of History at Princeton and one of the most intelligent and incisive writers on the left. We talk about AOC’s big night at the DNC, the somewhat moribund state of the left after Bernie’s big win in the 2020 Nevada primary, and whether the future for the left is bright or …

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Can Harris and Walz Capture the Rural Vote? A conversation with Paolo Cremidis. 1:00:43

3M ago1:00:43

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Hello! Today, we talk about the rural vote and the positioning of Tim Walz as the rural whisperer. Will it work? Is there such a thing as a “rural identity” that might look at Walz and gravitate towards him? What’s the thinking behind all that? To help us through it, we talked to Paolo Cremidis, the organizer of the recent Rural Americans for Harri…

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Walz Time, RFK's Bear Episode, and what Solidarity Means with Astra Taylor 1:21:12

4M ago1:21:12

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Hello! This week we’re extremely excited to have on Astra Taylor, a filmmaker, author, and organizer with the Debt Collective. We talk about Walz, whether VP picks matter, good vibes and joy for once, and also what the hell was RFK Jr. thinking when he dumped that dead bear cub in Central Park. Astra also talks to us about the book she co-authored …

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Two Black Dudes and a Korean Dude on White Dudes for Harris 1:12:17

4M ago1:12:17

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Hello! We brought back repeat guest and esteemed journalist Bradford William Davis to talk about White Dudes for Harris, “weird,” and Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference this week in Chicago. Also discussed: good cringe, Cocomentum, and whether the left should just kinda let the liberals and the identity politic…

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Joe Rogan for Veep and What's Going on with JD Vance 1:03:19

4M ago1:03:19

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HELLO! Today we talk about the Kamala campaign, who she should pick as VP, speculate on where Joe Biden might be, and offer a spirited defense of AOC doing politics. Gets a bit unhinged in the middle tbh but we at least had a good time with this one. If you’d like to see Trump play the theme song, click here (Substack won’t let us embed tweets bc E…

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The Trump Assassination Attempt: Five scenarios for what might happen now 55:24

4M ago55:24

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Hello! Today, we talk about what exactly is going to happen to the country just a few days after the assassination attempt of Donald Trump and whether this will go down as a turning point in the country’s history or if it might just be quickly forgotten as everyone goes deep into RNC and JD Vance talk. Jay shares his very stupid thoughts on whether…

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Should Biden stay or should he go? Jay and Tyler DEBATE 1:26:28

5M ago1:26:28

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Hello! This week, we are back from vacation and catching up on the only story in America, which is the mental fitness of the President. Jay is on Team “The Democrats are probably too incompetent and divided to actually run a difference candidate in time and so it might actually make sense for them to just get behind Biden and hope everything breaks…

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The misunderstood 1990s, LA Riots, and the triumph of the Paleoconservatives with John Ganz 1:50:50

5M ago1:50:50

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Hello! Today, we are extremely excited to have on John Ganz, author of the new book When the Clock Broke, a retelling of the 1990s that touches on politics, music, television, and the history of right wing cranks who ultimately would become a prelude for Trumpism. There’s a ton that we discuss: The LA riots, Pat Buchanan, Murray Rothbard, Sister So…

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Dimension Apple, Biden's Age, and Modern Tiger Parenting 1:03:36

5M ago1:03:36

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Hello! Today we’re doing a Pardon The Interruption-styled show in which we go down a list of topics. We’re experimenting a bit with format these days and so please let us know if this more rapid fire version works for you! Today’s topics: Hobby Horsing as a sport? Dimension Apple from a great post from the Read Max Substack. Tiger parenting in 2024…

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VICTIM, a hilarious new novel by Andrew Boryga. Plus Caitlin Clark takes and James by Percival Everett 1:23:27

5M ago1:23:27

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Hello! Today, we have a great conversation with Andrew Boryga, the author of VICTIM, a truly subversive and funny novel about a young writer who hustles his way through the media world by just giving it what it wants from him: oppression stories, identity trauma tales, and a lot of embellishment. We also talk about Caitlin Clark (Jay tries to do a …

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What are Children For? A talk with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman about their new book 1:23:22

6M ago1:23:22

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Hello! Today’s show is a talk about an exciting new book by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman titled “What are Children For?” (Release date: June 11) We talked about “slow love,” the common complaint from millennials that they do not have enough financial stability to start families, the ambivalent mother narrative, and something right in Tyler’s w…

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Biden's Disappointing Black Voter Agenda and RIP Bill Walton 1:05:45

6M ago1:05:45

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Hello! Today, we talk about Biden’s speech at Morehouse College which should be seen as a preview for his message to Black voters amidst polling results that show he has lost a significant percentage of both the Black and Latino vote. We also talk about the passing of Bill Walton, activism in the NBA and sports, in general, and what we should think…

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The Coddling of the Far Right. A Conversation with David Austin Walsh 1:03:21

6M ago1:03:21

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Hello! This week, we have on David Austin Walsh, author of “Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right,” a new book that tracks the development and coddling of far right political figures and their co-dependent relationship with mainstream Republicans. Lotta good history here and David asks Kang whether he thinks “Rich Men Nor…

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Macklemore and Biden's polling problems 1:15:04

6M ago1:15:04

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Hello! This week we talk about something we meant to discuss last week — Macklemore’s new song “Hind’s Hall,” and politics in music and literature. There’s some Immortal Technique, the Coup, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young thrown in there too. We also talk about the pretty bad polls that came out for the Biden campaign, which showed him losing …

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How the media has handled the protests and the lessons of the 2010s with Vincent Bevins 1:07:30

7M ago1:07:30

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Hello! This week we are happy to present one of our most requested guests, Vincent Bevins. He is a longtime foreign correspondent and the author of two books, The Jakarta Method and If We Burn. We talked about the lessons of the mass protests of the 2010s around the world, the allure and some of the downsides to leaderless/horizontal protest moveme…

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MAILBAG TIME! Momala, Extreme fishing, the SATs, the protests and much more. 1:15:22

7M ago1:15:22

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Hello! This week we revived a TTSG tradition of answering your questions on the air. Topics covered range from why Tyler puts on a wetsuit and swims out to rocks to fish for striped bass, the rise in extreme sports, why standardized tests are actually good, the state of the student protests going forward and our worries about state repression, and …

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Campus Crackdown and an Assessment of Leaderless Activism post Occupy 1:08:20

7M ago1:08:20

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Hello! Today, we talk about everything that’s happening on campus from Columbia to NYU to Berkeley. Tyler talks about the responsibilities of faculty in these moments and what he thinks is driving a surprisingly strong faculty response to the arrests in New York City. We also talk about how to process the instances of antisemitism at these protests…

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A Trauma Surgeon's Account of a Hospital in Gaza. Our conversation with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. 29:27

7M ago29:27

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Hello, Today’s episode is our conversation with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who traveled to European Hospital in Gaza in late March. He talks to us about what he saw there and the massive humanitarian toll, particularly on children. We talked about the conditions at the hospital and the role of the doctor as truth teller in a conflict that …

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Rural Rage Debunked and the other side of the fascism debate w Danny Bessner 1:31:41

8M ago1:31:41

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Hello! Today, we have a packed show with our guest Danny Bessner of the American Prestige podcast. Danny argued the other side of the fascism debate and expressed why he and others believe the word is not appropriate to describe what’s happened to the American right. And Danny stuck around while we discussed Tyler’s debunking of the book “White Rur…

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In Defense of Normie Liberals and the F Word Debate with John Ganz 1:02:29

8M ago1:02:29

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Hello! Today’s guest is the John Ganz, author of the Unpopular Front substack and the upcoming book “When The Clock Broke.” We talk about the now years-long debate about whether what’s happening among the right wing in American should be called “fascism” and how such definitions should and should not be used in a political manner. We also talk abou…

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The Kang School for Luddite Teens and Yelling about Kate Middleton 1:03:49

8M ago1:03:49

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Hello! Tyler is back for today’s episode in which we talk about open container laws in New Jersey, the discourse about the discourse on Kate Middleton and the Royals, and some thoughts on how to get children off their phones and the Internet, more broadly. Jay reveals that his takes are aging at a more rapid rate than he is and Tyler proves his Mar…

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Why Can't Women's Coaches Also be Bad People? with Jane Coaston 1:01:21

8M ago1:01:21

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Hello! Today a very special March Madness episode with New York Times and CNN contributor Jane Coaston. We talk about the recent ascent of women’s basketball, the gendered ways in which we always expect good, progressive behavior from women’s coaches and athletes, Caitlin Clark-as-Larry Bird and Caitlin Clark-as-baller, and a bit about NIL and the …

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS -- TTSG legend Vinson Cunningham talks about Obama, Paul Pierce, and his new novel 1:10:27

9M ago1:10:27

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Hello! Today’s episode is a talk with Vinson Cunningham about his new novel GREAT EXPECTATIONS which came out yesterday and is in bookstores everywhere. It’s everything you would expect from Vinson: beautiful sentences, long meditations on hoops, the church, and love, and a engrossing storyline that follows a young man who goes to work on the campa…

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AI is still a bit disappointing but at least it uses a lot of energy. A talk with Karen Hao and Ben Recht 1:55:31

9M ago1:55:31

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Hello! Today, we talk to two people who have been thinking about reporting about AI for quite a long time: Repeat guest Ben Recht, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley and Karen Hao, a journalist who has written an excellent series of pieces for the Atlantic. We talk to Ben about SORA, OpenAI’s video generator that…

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How We Talk about Self Immolation 1:13:44

9M ago1:13:44

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Hello! On today’s episode, we talk about Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty Air Force twenty-five year old who self-immolated in Washington, D.C., the history of the act and how it has been seen in different eras and different contexts. We compare, for example, how Barack Obama talked about the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street ve…

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Will Minorities Actually Vote for Trump? 1:15:23

9M ago1:15:23

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Hello! Today, we talked about a topic that we’ve been circling around for a while — the minority vote. We now have months of polls all pointing towards the same trends in terms of Black, Latino and Asian voters all moving towards the right for a variety of reasons, most of which are left unexamined by many in the mainstream presses. That, of course…

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What It's Like to Work at a Hedge Fund -- a talk with Carrie Sun, author of the new memoir PRIVATE EQUITY 1:25:20

9M ago1:25:20

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Hello! Today’s episode is an interview with Carrie Sun, whose memoir PRIVATE EQUITY came out yesterday. (Buy it here!) The book is a memoir about the time Carrie spent working as the right hand for one of the country’s most famous billionaire hedge fund managers. We talk about the allure of finance and Wall Street, Ishiguro and restraint in writing…

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Virtual Insanity and Heavy Ass Ski Goggles 1:10:16

10M ago1:10:16

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Hello! Today, we talk about the Apple Vision Pro and its grim vision for how you should be spending your time. Also, we talk a lot about Jaron Lanier’s most recent essay about the Virtual Reality in the New Yorker, specifically the question he poses about how technology should fit into our lives and whether tech can just create things because they’…

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The Kids Are Not the Problem! A talk with Musa Al-Gharbi 1:36:41

10M ago1:36:41

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Hello! This week we have on Musa Al-Gharbi, a professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. We talk a lot about “kids these days” and the tendency for all sorts of reactionaries to blame them for everything that’s wrong with this country. Don’t like illiberal attitudes on campuses? Blame the kids. Do you think free expression is at risk? Blame …

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Polyamory is Not Political, Solarpunk, and Fishing at Night in a Wetsuit 1:02:21

10M ago1:02:21

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Hello! This week, we talk about the big Polyamory article in New York Magazine and the proposition that breaking the bonds of monogamy might be a political statement, one that frees both sides from the constraints of marriage. Are we just reinventing ways to justify selfish behavior? And why does every personal decision in the lives of upper middle…

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Octavia Butler's Grim Vision of a Post Climate Change World, Apocalypse Cliches, and Black Quarterbacks 1:06:47

10M ago1:06:47

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Hello! In today’s episode, we talk about Octavia Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower,” a science fiction novel from 1992 that unexpectedly found itself on the best seller’s list in 2020. The novel imagines a violent and grim future in which the world has warmed beyond safe inhabitation, the lucky get to live in walled off communities while the poor …

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A New Co-Host, the True Crime podcast wave, and a Final Word on All That Harvard Crap 1:11:40

11M ago1:11:40

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Hello! I’m very excited to announce that Tyler Austin Harper will be our co-host for the next month or so. Tyler was on the show last month and introduced himself then, but for those who missed it, he’s a writer at the Atlantic and a professor of literature in the environmental studies department at Bates College. He specializes in extinction liter…

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Housing, Homelessness, and the L.A. Political Machine with L.A. Councilmember Nithya Raman 1:00:17

11M ago1:00:17

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Hello! Today we have a great interview with Nithya Raman, the City Councilmember for Los Angeles’s District 4. We talk about housing, the despair around the homelessness problem in California’s biggest cities, and whether there might be a different future for the city’s political machine. My interest in Councilmember Raman started back when I was w…

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Does politics have a place in sports anymore with Bradford William Davis 1:05:53

11M ago1:05:53

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Hello! In our Discord server, which you can access by subscribing to the show for a measly $5 a month, a user asked me to not do shows about sports. I took this request seriously as I generally aim to please, but am sad to announce that after much deliberation, I do think it’s worth having a conversation about a very distinct phenomenon I’ve observ…

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