What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?
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Sam Harris is talking to Douglas Murray in a live event for subscribers Monday. I assume it’ll drop as a podcast in a week or two.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/anatopod-the-anatomy-podcast/id1543510165
this is a podcast by a very dear friend of mine from Australia. now i don't expect anyone here, not even George, will sit down and listen to a podcast on anatomy for medical students, but he intersperses between episodes of pure anatomy some episodes on the history of dissection, and the connection between Classical Art and Anatomy.
now im listening to this episode on the genderization of anatomy
which i recommend, although it is quite off beat, but i can listen to him talk for hours. I like his style. very academic but quite approachable.
aslo recommended are his series of episodes entitled the anatomy cupboard-these are all episodes for the general listener and not on pure anatomy
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I have really liked most of the Podcasts from the CBC (Canada Broadcast Company). I am currently listening to the various seasons of "Uncover". Some true crime, but other interesting topics as well. Most "seasons" are 6-7 episodes or so, all focusing on the same subject.
Recent one I listened to was about "Satanic Panic", where there was supposedly Satanic Cults that were going around abusing, murdering, injuring little kids. Resulted in a lot of trauma, but there is evidence that most of the stories of abuse, etc. never happened.
(https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/187-uncover)
The first season was interesting story about that cult - NXIVM, which has been discussed on this forum board before.
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Midnight Miracle is freaking great. It's on Luminary, but some of the episodes are free and available to nonsubscribers.
Content-wise, you're only going to like it if you like Dave Chappelle and Mos Def. Production-wise, they're doing shit with podcasts as a medium that I haven't heard from anyone else.
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Catching up on The Glenn Show recently, a podcast hosted by Glenn Loury and frequently co-hosted by John McWhorter. They are both Black academics of notable achievement and insight, who reject the prevailing race narrative as destructive to the communities it purports to sympathize with.
McWhorter told a story on a recent episode about a time, as a young academic with ideas about the Black experience not entirely in line with the narrative, he gave a talk at a small book store. A 50 year old white progressive woman, an employee at the store, came up to him afterwards with a look of pity and gave him a book to read which she hoped would teach him about the hardships of those who look like he does. He was so offended by this well meaning woman, that he intentionally didn't read anything from that author for decades after. Finally he did, and found him to be a great writer, but of course he learned nothing he did not already know about looking like he does. What he learned of on the day that woman took pity on him for being so wrong about his own experiences and thoughts, was the pervasive mindset of the indoctrinated white progressive female. Sadly, it is founded on a profound sense of superiority over people who look like he does.
This anecdote is 55 minutes into the May 23 episode of The Glenn Show, for anybody who'd like to listen. The writer the woman recommended was Walter Mosley.
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I heard Bret Weinstein on a podcast recently. He is aware that some people expect him to do a mea culpa over Ivermectin, but he doesn't think he's wrong. It's just that nobody has interpreted that data correctly, other than him. Ivermectin is effective. The podcast host asked him why no country in the world has adopted it as a widespread treatment, and he handwaved a particularly weak narrative about how scientists' jobs are at risk if they demonstrate the effectiveness.
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Latest Making Sense podcast has Sam Harris talking to Marc Andreesen. Wide ranging and extremely interesting.
It held my interest even though I just heard Marc on Tyler Cowen’s pod a few weeks ago.
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Latest Making Sense podcast has Sam Harris talking to Marc Andreesen. Wide ranging and extremely interesting.
It held my interest even though I just heard Marc on Tyler Cowen’s pod a few weeks ago.
@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Latest Making Sense podcast has Sam Harris talking to Marc Andreesen. Wide ranging and extremely interesting.
It held my interest even though I just heard Marc on Tyler Cowen’s pod a few weeks ago.
I listened to that one too. Man does that guy talk fast. The most striking moment came towards the end where he accused high status philanthropists of participating in a destructive culture of supporting pro crime DAs. The line between fringe right conspiracy wackiness and the reasonable observations of intelligent people can become blurry.
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Sarah Isgur and David French do a “crossover” podcast on the MaL warrant. It’s basically one of their Advisory Opinion podcasts but they do it on The Dispatch podcast since it’s their flagship pod.
Sarah was the spokesperson for DOJ under Jeff Sessions and goes into interesting detail about how this would have been handled internally.
There’s a little bit of speculation and commentary about other commentary going around the internet.
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Sarah Isgur and David French do a “crossover” podcast on the MaL warrant. It’s basically one of their Advisory Opinion podcasts but they do it on The Dispatch podcast since it’s their flagship pod.
Sarah was the spokesperson for DOJ under Jeff Sessions and goes into interesting detail about how this would have been handled internally.
There’s a little bit of speculation and commentary about other commentary going around the internet.
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Michael Shermer has James Doyle (the British comedian behind the Titania McGrath parody account) on his latest podcast episode. James is very educated and insightful and smart, his book is similar to McWhorter’s latest, discussing the religion of social justice. Great discussion, I highly recommend it.
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/listen-a-death-in-cryptoland-1.6035764
"Gerald Cotten was the founder of Quadriga CX, which launched in 2013, a cryptocurrency company and money exchange platform.
He unfortunately died in India recently while trying to open an orphanage for kids. What's doubly unfortunate is he was the only one who knew the password that holds $190 million of customer money locked in cryptocurrency."
Questions over whether he really died, etc. Interesting.
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Ooh, the latest Ezra Klein show is titled “A Powerful Theory About Why the Far Right is Thriving Across the Globe”. This should be good.
Ezra’s podcast is the top shelf attempt, across all of America, to intellectualize the tribal left viewpoint. There are no more intelligent or reasonable lefties in the country than the ones who participate in these conversations. I’m excited to once again get a gauge of righteous tribalists, out to help the world be better through an attempt at understanding the opposition. That’s the left’s Achilles heel. Empathy for the political enemy. Most of them just call us evil with a shrug and be done with it, but these people expect more of themselves. I love it when they reach for this impossibly high intellectual bar of humanizing members of the opposition tribe.
But “far right” might be a convenient escape hatch. Maybe they’ll just talk about the evil people in the other tribe. Not that they’re all evil. That would be boring. We will see.
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Ooh, the latest Ezra Klein show is titled “A Powerful Theory About Why the Far Right is Thriving Across the Globe”. This should be good.
Ezra’s podcast is the top shelf attempt, across all of America, to intellectualize the tribal left viewpoint. There are no more intelligent or reasonable lefties in the country than the ones who participate in these conversations. I’m excited to once again get a gauge of righteous tribalists, out to help the world be better through an attempt at understanding the opposition. That’s the left’s Achilles heel. Empathy for the political enemy. Most of them just call us evil with a shrug and be done with it, but these people expect more of themselves. I love it when they reach for this impossibly high intellectual bar of humanizing members of the opposition tribe.
But “far right” might be a convenient escape hatch. Maybe they’ll just talk about the evil people in the other tribe. Not that they’re all evil. That would be boring. We will see.
@Horace I'm disappointed that Klein didn't use scare quotes.
Actually, I'm not, because the scare quotes would have made it look fringey. Keeping it the way he did it "normalizes" the "far right" and makes it look like it's, if not mainstream, at least something to worry about and contend with.
Well done, Mr Klein.
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@Horace I'm disappointed that Klein didn't use scare quotes.
Actually, I'm not, because the scare quotes would have made it look fringey. Keeping it the way he did it "normalizes" the "far right" and makes it look like it's, if not mainstream, at least something to worry about and contend with.
Well done, Mr Klein.
@George-K said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
@Horace I'm disappointed that Klein didn't use scare quotes.
Actually, I'm not, because the scare quotes would have made it look fringey. Keeping it the way he did it "normalizes" the "far right" and makes it look like it's, if not mainstream, at least something to worry about and contend with.
Well done, Mr Klein.
The podcast was a big disappointment. He was talking to Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris, whose powerful theory about why the far right is thriving is, wait for it, because they hate immigrants and people who don't look like them. Exactly what Ezra's crowd has been saying forever. Shocking. Ezra's one piece of data in this nearly entirely hand-waved discussion was that BLM support was so predictive of party affiliation. Republicans don't support BLM, Democrats do. To Ezra, that seals the deal that Republicans are racist. This is, seriously, the best of the best thinking in the intellectual leftist community. I'm not making up how dumb these people are. They overtly politicize BLM and make it about, eh, everything but a true concern about black lives, and then they call anybody not on board with their politicized nonsense, a racist.
One interesting thing I notice in these conversations is the use of the word "populist". I think it was used 100 times in this one. Inevitably, the far right mobs they are afraid of, are informed with populist ideas. So let's go back to the definition of populism.
relating to or characteristic of a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
Fair enough, that describes Trump, if not standard conservativism before him or hopefully after him.
But let's compare that definition to the foundational idea of the progressive left, which is the race narrative. Of course, the race narrative, where disadvantaged people must be protected against established elite white supremacy, is by definition a populist ideology. Which is what I've been saying forever, but you will rarely hear progressive politics described as "populist". Because "populist", in common parlance, is a word dumb people use, to describe ideas they hate, held by large numbers of people they hate. The word "populist" is, in practice, only a signal to self-identify one's tribal affiliation.
