What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 16:29 last edited by
The latest Sam Harris guest is Tim Urban, the guy behind “Wait But Why”. He wrote a book that touches on why our politics are broken. Definitely worth the 90m.
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 20:20 last edited by
Listening to a lot of Lex Fridman podcasts recently. He's a young AI researcher who is like a more intelligent and science-oriented version of Joe Rogan. Same open mindedness and gift for interesting questions. Longest conversations in the podcast game, with the longest I've seen over eight hours. Most are over three. First time I've ever heard Robin Hanson interviewed, so that was a treat. He's talked to almost everybody in the public intellectual game, many several times. Just got done with his conversation with Jordan Peterson, 3.5 hours long. Jordan made himself cry twice. Good stuff.
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Listening to a lot of Lex Fridman podcasts recently. He's a young AI researcher who is like a more intelligent and science-oriented version of Joe Rogan. Same open mindedness and gift for interesting questions. Longest conversations in the podcast game, with the longest I've seen over eight hours. Most are over three. First time I've ever heard Robin Hanson interviewed, so that was a treat. He's talked to almost everybody in the public intellectual game, many several times. Just got done with his conversation with Jordan Peterson, 3.5 hours long. Jordan made himself cry twice. Good stuff.
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 20:33 last edited by
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 20:48 last edited by
How the hell do you two have the time to listen to all of this crap? There’s only so much time in the day…
Sleep 6
Work 10
Family time - 2-3
Wife time - 2-3
Chores - 1-2
TNCR - 1Where do have any time for this?
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How the hell do you two have the time to listen to all of this crap? There’s only so much time in the day…
Sleep 6
Work 10
Family time - 2-3
Wife time - 2-3
Chores - 1-2
TNCR - 1Where do have any time for this?
wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 21:10 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
How the hell do you two have the time to listen to all of this crap? There’s only so much time in the day…
Sleep 6
Work 10
Family time - 2-3
Wife time - 2-3
Chores - 1-2
TNCR - 1Where do have any time for this?
Lots of tasks can be multitasked with audio only stuff.
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 22:26 last edited by
Just tell us you don’t listen to Jordan Peterson during “wife time”…
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wrote on 8 Apr 2023, 23:15 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Just tell us you don’t listen to Jordan Peterson during “wife time”…
My current podcast binge has a lot to do with her being in China for a few weeks.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2023, 13:13 last edited by Horace
Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
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Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
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Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Link to videoI think it's easy to lose sight of how lucky we all are to be privy to such conversations. When I was a kid, I thought there were ivory tower intellectuals who were so much smarter than me. But here they are, presenting themselves, intentionally, talking about the leading edge of their thoughts, and lo and behold they are people just like you.
Not just like you, if you're a progressive. So sad, too bad. But there are literally no public intellectual conversations on the 'progressive' side of the cultural conversation. You can have your Jon Stewarts. He's as close as you'll get.
wrote on 16 Apr 2023, 17:50 last edited by@Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Here's Mr Peterson and Andrew Huberman discussing human and mammal brain stuff.
Here's your bit of medical trivia. This podcast, at least in the early parts, talks about anxiety and the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve (cranial nerve #10) is the farthest reaching nerve from the brainstem (the medulla). In fact, the etymology of the name, "vagus", has as its root, the same basis as "vagrant," or wanderer. Unique among the nerves exiting the brainstem, the vagus goes all the way down to the GI tract.
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wrote on 16 Apr 2023, 17:52 last edited by
Also, where does Peterson buy his clothes???
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wrote on 3 May 2023, 13:48 last edited by
Very good conversation with Peter Thiel today on Bari Weiss' podcast Honestly.
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wrote on 3 May 2023, 16:06 last edited by
Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
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wrote on 3 May 2023, 16:45 last edited by
@Jolly said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
I have been exposing myself to the ideas of the world's most intelligent, thoughtful, and well-studied people, since the advent of the podcasts. At least my personal feed, is entirely devoted to that. It's just reality, and astonishing, and rather disheartening, that this is how humans can sound. They're actually almost all Jewish. It is what it is.
But I am not your average person. Most podcasts are garbage.
But the internet, which is the abstract of my podcast feed, allows for this.
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wrote on 4 May 2023, 00:58 last edited by
@Jolly said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:
Just as a dumb question...How much impact on the general public do podcasts have?
I think pretty small effect. I use for an example the forum thread about the Fox News hosts. Tucker Carlson replaced person B who replaced person A, who I think were very very popular when they were on Fox News. Both person A and B have podcasts? They may be quite popular, but do not have the same overall recognition or impact as they did before when they were on TV.
A lot of the people you mention here, I have never hear of before.
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wrote on 13 May 2023, 15:10 last edited by
This is an amazing conversation. I'd never heard of this guy, Balaji Srinivisan. He's a general partner at Mark Andreesen's venture capital business. Actually they remind me of each other, listening to them. He's got fascinating things to say about so many things. Health care, the FDA, crypto and its applications and importance, the future and past of humanity, too many to remember after one listen. It's an over 7 hour conversation. Among other things, the guy is clearly tireless. It did convince me that I should probably get off my butt and invest in bitcoin.
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wrote on 13 May 2023, 23:36 last edited by jon-nyc
On the latest Dishcast, a very interesting conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Chris Stirewalt, who was fired from Fox News for “committing journalism” on election night of 2020 and calling AZ for Biden.
They barely mention that, though. It’s mostly a long and informed lament about the deterioration of US media over the last 25 years, left and right, and what the myriad causes have been.
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wrote on 21 May 2023, 13:47 last edited by
Haven't started this yet, but it looks interesting.
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