Episodes
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Leave Him Alone
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
This week, we discuss Masterpiece Cakeshop, the right to free association, the need for a civil truce, realism, and why we are Replacement Level Morality to begin with!
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Replacement Level Document Theft
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
We can't avoid some inevitable conversation about two major current events - the sudden influx of classified documents seemingly everywhere Joe Biden has ever gone, combined with the upcoming debt ceiling struggle. We talk over how these stories both are and are not the big deal the media has framed them as before we meander into Joseph's favorite business school memory.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
How Inflation, California, and Florida Define 2024
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
The hidden story of this year is the competing political interests of the nation's two most powerful governors. How does fate, timing, and geography define the shadow war between Newsom and DeSantis? Then we get into the economic theories of inflation, and how each can tell us something important about the way forward.
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Disposing of the ’Bad People’ Solves Nothing
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Andrew poses a question this week about the failure of 'Year Zero' movements. No matter if it is a French Revolution, a Russian Civil War, or the fever dreams of weirdo NatCons, there is belief that simply disposing of all the 'bad people' and institutions they inhabit will being utopia. And yet, history has shown it a failure each time. Your hosts discuss the why and how of this phenomenon. Give it a listen!
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
The World of Post-COVID
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Your hosts have a sprawling conversation on the biggest news event of our lives, and discuss a range of topics on the lingering effects of the choices made by the expert class. From the lab leak theory , to investigations into the vaccines, to the state of 'public health' writ large, your hosts survey the landscape and try and determine what the impact of all this will be in the years to come.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
How to Break the Healthcare Cartel
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
After a brief ode to one Robert Francis O'Rourke and the coming crisis of millennial generational leadership, we slip into a bunch bigger and better topic - the right-wing case for fixing the US healthcare system. With Democrats unlikely to ever offer anything but a big-government solution, what does the free market, price transparent case for healthcare reform look like?
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
The Armed Man is Governed, Not Ruled
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Your hosts have a big conversation about rights this week as we discuss the first revelations of the Twitter Files and the consequences of suppressed speech before shifting gears into talking about recent protest movements. With Iranian and Chinese citizens willing to risk it all to speak, we reflect on how much harder it is to oppress a population with wide access to lethal force themselves.
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Fuentes, China, and Other Horrors
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
As the consequences of 'Zero COVID' come home to roost, your hosts discuss not only China's oppressive response to protests, but the consequences of COVID hawkishness overall. Then we shift gears to Joseph telling the grand tale of the extreme right's biggest clowns, and how they somehow wound up at dinner with Donald Trump.