What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?

[jon-nyc]

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.

[jon-nyc]

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

[Horace]

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

[Horace]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[Horace]

@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.

[Horace]

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.

[Doctor Phibes]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

@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.