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    Horace
    wrote on 30 May 2025, 14:37 last edited by
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    Good reddit thread regarding Sam. This guy unsubscribed at about the same time I did, with about the same reasoning.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1kv5unv/why_i_just_canceled_my_subscription/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 30 May 2025, 15:17 last edited by
      #277

      Just a day after listening to Zohran Mamdani on Odd Lots, Andrew Cuomo was on Bari Weiss' podcast. He has well rehearsed and plausible answers for the Covid/nursing home scandal and was pretty good on his feet with distancing himself from the more lefty views.

      When I first heard he was running for Mayor I figured it was his last job, as it would take him out to his mid 70s. Now I suspect he wants the mayoral job as a platform for a presidential run in 2028.

      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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        30 May 2025, 14:37

        Good reddit thread regarding Sam. This guy unsubscribed at about the same time I did, with about the same reasoning.

        https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1kv5unv/why_i_just_canceled_my_subscription/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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        Horace
        wrote on 30 May 2025, 20:23 last edited by Horace
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        @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

        Good reddit thread regarding Sam. This guy unsubscribed at about the same time I did, with about the same reasoning.

        https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1kv5unv/why_i_just_canceled_my_subscription/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

        I liked this response. It's something I've been thinking about lately. The economy of subscriptions to individual public commentators. Their price is often the same as a subscription to a top-tier commentary magazine or service.

        For $60 a year you can get a subscription to The Atlantic, which publishes new content everyday, some by Pulitzer Prize winners. Sam asking $150 a year is ridiculous in comparison

        Patreon tends to be saner, where creators request subscriptions on the order of $1 or $3 per month. But the substack crowd tends to start at $10/month or more.

        As for Sam, his pursuit of money is too obvious, compared to his professed higher motivations. I still recall how he was charging separately for his Substack writings and for his podcast. When he consolidated everything at a higher price, he attributed that to an oversight. What you can know about Sam is that he is compelled to maximize his revenue, and he is ashamed of admitting that, and will never admit that.

        Education is extremely important.

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 11:21 last edited by
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          Depressing but important.

          How Qatar Bought America.

          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415?i=1000710987124

          Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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            30 May 2025, 20:23

            @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

            Good reddit thread regarding Sam. This guy unsubscribed at about the same time I did, with about the same reasoning.

            https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1kv5unv/why_i_just_canceled_my_subscription/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

            I liked this response. It's something I've been thinking about lately. The economy of subscriptions to individual public commentators. Their price is often the same as a subscription to a top-tier commentary magazine or service.

            For $60 a year you can get a subscription to The Atlantic, which publishes new content everyday, some by Pulitzer Prize winners. Sam asking $150 a year is ridiculous in comparison

            Patreon tends to be saner, where creators request subscriptions on the order of $1 or $3 per month. But the substack crowd tends to start at $10/month or more.

            As for Sam, his pursuit of money is too obvious, compared to his professed higher motivations. I still recall how he was charging separately for his Substack writings and for his podcast. When he consolidated everything at a higher price, he attributed that to an oversight. What you can know about Sam is that he is compelled to maximize his revenue, and he is ashamed of admitting that, and will never admit that.

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            Horace
            wrote on 9 Jun 2025, 14:44 last edited by
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            @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

            As for Sam, his pursuit of money is too obvious, compared to his professed higher motivations.

            Rather than write a book, this is how Sam attempts to monetize himself anymore. Subscriptions and live events.

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            Education is extremely important.

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 15 Jun 2025, 22:25 last edited by
              #281

              What is Israel’s end game?

              A Dispatch podcast interview with an Israeli journalist who has family roots in Iran. Worth your time.

              https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dispatch-podcast/id1493229344?i=1000712890294

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 17 Jun 2025, 12:12 last edited by jon-nyc
                #282

                Latest Andrew Sullivan is an absolutely delightful conversation with Chris Matthews. I was never a big fan of his and wasn’t expecting to enjoy it.

                But the vast majority of the conversation was about old times. Johnson, Kennedy, and an awful lot about Tip O’Neil and Reagan.

                I think the second half is paywalled but the most delightful parts about Tip and Reagan’s relationship is in the first half. Highly recommended.

                Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on 17 Jun 2025, 12:53 last edited by
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                  Latest Bari Weiss interview is Niall Ferguson and Dexter Filkins on how the war might shake out. Definitely worth your time.

                  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                    Horace
                    wrote on 17 Jun 2025, 13:04 last edited by
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                    I haven't found any juicy Israel dunking. Not that I've looked too hard. But the people who are happy to call them genocidal maniacs regarding Gaza don't seem to be going as hard on them over Iran. For that matter, the TDS set hasn't been going nuts over whatever Trump is doing. It's like the pundit class is less punditry and more explanation so far. I need to check Bluesky.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 18 Jun 2025, 22:36 last edited by
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                      Jordan Peterson has Sam Harris on his podcast. Interesting conversation as they always have.

                      Here’s the description Peterson gave it:

                      Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris explore the breakdown of institutions in the digital age, and how difficult it’s become to identify what’s true and what’s not. Harris voices deep concern over the role independent media and social platforms play in amplifying misinformation, especially post-October 7th. They discuss the addictive, fragmenting nature of platforms like X, the erosion of trust in institutions, the dangers of AI-generated identity theft — and possible solutions. The result is a sobering analysis of epistemic collapse, digital psychopathy, and the urgent need for institutional structure in a world where mass information fails us.

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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 19 Jun 2025, 00:23 last edited by
                        #286

                        Jonah Goldberg hosts Ken Pollock, who he refers to as ‘the most knowledgeable person he knows who is against American involvement in the Iran war’.

                        He’s the real deal, former CIA, later Iran/Iraq desk lead for NSA, wrote a book on their nuclear program. Currently at AEI.

                        Definitely recommend. @Mik - I think you in particular would enjoy this.

                        Link here.

                        https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-remnant-with-jonah-goldberg/id1291144720?i=1000713382139

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                          Horace
                          wrote 11 days ago last edited by Horace
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                          Tucker is leaning into the Darrel Cooper hysteria. Smart. My guess is that the people who screamed loudest about what a nightmare Cooper is, won't bother to listen, or at least won't admit to listening. My other guess is that Cooper won't say anything quite so trollish as the Churchill comment, this time.

                          Link to video

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                            Horace
                            wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                            Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              Doctor Phibes
                              wrote 10 days ago last edited by Doctor Phibes
                              #289

                              I don't listen to topical political podcasts, but have a roughly random selection coming in for my drive into work. My last few were:

                              Botham's Ashes (British cricket, with a story that you wouldn't believe in a movie)
                              The best and worst of after-dinner speeches
                              The life and fate of Vasily Grossman, the Soviet writer
                              "The red bits are British" - on the teaching of history in English schools

                              I much prefer this whimsical stuff to all "commentators" such as Tucker etc. that seem to feature so heavily in this thread. Admittedly, there's a huge British bias to my listening, but what the heck.

                              I was only joking

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                                10 days ago

                                Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

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                                jon-nyc
                                wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                                @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

                                I’m curious how much of your podcast time is hate-listening.

                                Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                                  10 days ago

                                  @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                  Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

                                  I’m curious how much of your podcast time is hate-listening.

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                                  Horace
                                  wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                                  @jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                  @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                  Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

                                  I’m curious how much of your podcast time is hate-listening.

                                  I like to hear the best rhetorical arguments on any side of politics. I get plenty of leftward perspectives in my media diet, but it's not motivated to find stuff to laugh at or ridicule. As a decent person, I don't really make ridicule a focus.

                                  Rubin is a special case of who I might enjoy listening to, I admit that one is a morbid curiosity about how far off the deep end an elderly white female progressive can go, while still taking themselves deadly seriously.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    Horace
                                    wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                                    Speaking of elderly white female progressive figures who take themselves deadly seriously, Joyce Carol Oates is fully invested in various conspiracy theories now:

                                    https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5403898-conspiracy-theories-blueanons/

                                    Many people on the right are also all-in on a Butler coverup theory, by the other side of course.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                      10 days ago

                                      @jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                      @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                      Jen Rubin hasn’t released an episode of her Green Room podcast since January. It was peak TDS hilarity. Hopefully she will return soon. The country needs her voice, now more than ever.

                                      I’m curious how much of your podcast time is hate-listening.

                                      I like to hear the best rhetorical arguments on any side of politics. I get plenty of leftward perspectives in my media diet, but it's not motivated to find stuff to laugh at or ridicule. As a decent person, I don't really make ridicule a focus.

                                      Rubin is a special case of who I might enjoy listening to, I admit that one is a morbid curiosity about how far off the deep end an elderly white female progressive can go, while still taking themselves deadly seriously.

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                                      Doctor Phibes
                                      wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                                      @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                      As a decent person, I don't really make ridicule a focus.

                                      I've noticed that.

                                      Similarly, I'm rarely sarcastic.

                                      I was only joking

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                                        10 days ago

                                        Speaking of elderly white female progressive figures who take themselves deadly seriously, Joyce Carol Oates is fully invested in various conspiracy theories now:

                                        https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5403898-conspiracy-theories-blueanons/

                                        Many people on the right are also all-in on a Butler coverup theory, by the other side of course.

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                                        jon-nyc
                                        wrote 10 days ago last edited by
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                                        @Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?:

                                        Speaking of elderly white female progressive figures who take themselves deadly seriously, Joyce Carol Oates is fully invested in various conspiracy theories now:

                                        This:

                                        “While anyone from a shy child to a Green Beret veteran would duck down immediately in a panic, shrink away from having been struck in the head (by a pebble, let alone a bullet), instead [Trump] stood up proudly & raised his fist for photographers, without hesitation,” she wrote.

                                        Is also just false. He stood up about two minutes later. They just don’t show those two minutes on the air.

                                        Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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