I was invited to join my very good friend @LadyAnCap on her show Whiskey & Tea to discuss the compromises and other legislation that lead up to the Civil War, and to discuss our thoughts on the possibility of compromises in modern era politics.
I got an opportunity to meet Tommy at Renegade University Texas, and then he asked me to come on to talk about our spiritual journeys and the weird ways of the world. Head over to the Libertarian Institute and check out all of Tommy's excellent interviews on Year Zero
https://libertarianinstitute.org/year-zero/
Today I take a little time to review the Anne Applebaum article "Autocracy Is Winning" from the December edition of The Atlantic magazine, as well as cross that with a review of that article from The Week entitled "The Outdated Thinking Confusing Our Talk About Autocracy." Links to both included and highly recommended!
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
https://theweek.com/foreign-affairs/1007188/the-outdated-thinking-confusing-our-talk-about-autocracy
Jose Galison of the show No Way Jose joins me today with the intent of talking about shitposting and generally silly stuff...but somehow we still managed to go big-brain a couple times and have some deep thoughts as well. Overall it's a good mix and was a lot of fun!
Sports can be a mindless endeavor, and that's a good thing! They're good for team building, friendships, competition, and all sorts of other things. Which I discuss in this episode while looking at an article from The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/sustaining-friendship-shared-interests/629555/
Today I talk about the Mississippi Abortion Ban...though I don't look at the bill itself, but a Business Insider article that talks about the impoverished state that is Mississippi, and give some context for why Mississippi is in such a state and some of the environment that exists.
Today I play a clip from an Alan Watts lecture, and then piggyback off of that to look at different forms of government. If you stick around to the end I take a minute to talk about the changing direction I'll be going with the show over the next few months.
Today I take a look at several articles covering my least favorite topic, COVID.
But this looks at it from the endemic perspective. Maybe we really are nearing the end of this insanity!