Podcast thread

CaffeineNeeded · July 7, 2023, 4:21pm

A direct result of the fbi and art losing their nerve after waco. McVeigh likely had multiple more accomplices and support, and the fbi knew about it. They chose the simple case however

LouisCyphre · July 7, 2023, 5:02pm

art?

SensiblePerson · July 7, 2023, 6:02pm

Probably autocorrected from ATF.

LouisCyphre · July 9, 2023, 10:54pm

riverman · July 17, 2023, 1:56am

Man the 5-4 episode on student loans was so good. Truly enraging.

goofy · July 24, 2023, 6:26am

The 5-4 hosts were on C-SPAN early Saturday morning, getting interviewed and then taking classic C-SPAN listener calls:

I think they did a really good job.

McTrollson · July 24, 2023, 1:15pm

If Peter retires from podcasting, he should be a CSPAN host. Just let him goof around with the cranks.

McTrollson · July 25, 2023, 1:42pm

OK, some of you CK3 players might like the new Weird Medieval Dudes podcast.

goofy · July 26, 2023, 5:51am

This is going to be a banger:

https://twitter.com/IfBooksPod/status/1684009976224956416

pvn · July 26, 2023, 11:00am

ah yes, making me treat other people as equal human beings is the REAL fascism

McTrollson · July 27, 2023, 3:42am

You guys, the Weird Medieval Guys podcast is very good.

pvn · July 28, 2023, 7:51pm

latest Why Is This Happening is unintentionally hilarious, Chris Hayes has his wife on along with the other Strict Scrutiny podcasters, they spend the whole time showing that the law is a fucking joke but they all are sure to occasionally remind the listeners that the law is real and holy and sacred and is absolutely not calvinball despite everything they are discussing

goofy · July 28, 2023, 7:58pm

I listened to this ep as well and didn’t totally get that vibe? I may not have been paying close enough attention.

pvn · July 28, 2023, 8:03pm

One of them even explicitly said something like “no no, the law is REAL”

pvn · July 28, 2023, 8:04pm

Right after they finished explaining how alito pulled the “major question doctrine” out of his asshole

pvn · August 10, 2023, 9:14pm

I think Paul Graham is a fucking 100-IQ at-best dipshit and probably the most overrated shithead out of the current pile of VCs, this interview really made him look like a normal moron at times and wow there was some really wild dogwhistling

goofy · August 10, 2023, 10:56pm

I ain’t gonna listen to this but what’s the dogwhistling?

pvn · August 10, 2023, 11:08pm

Oh they were talking about how low UK’s per capita GDP is relative to the US, and Paul G was like “so much untapped potential, they have a gear they haven’t shifted into,” and Cowan observes that the UK’s per capita GDP aid about the same as Mississippi, and Paul G said something about how they’re maxed out.

CaffeineNeeded · August 11, 2023, 12:54am

It really is surprising to me how the ROW underestimates the american economic machine. Sure our GDP isn’t fairly distributed, but the only countries ahead of us are either super small (Switzerland for example) or dependent on some natural resource (Norway, Qatar). Ain’t nobody works on the scale America does since WW2.

goofy · August 11, 2023, 1:28am

Ah, that’s in the transcript:

GRAHAM: Okay, the reason I’m optimistic about Britain — I was just thinking about this this morning — is because people here are not slack. They’re not lazy, and they’re not stupid, and that’s the most important thing. Eventually, non-lazy, non-stupid people will prevail.

I’ve funded a couple of start-ups here. You can see, when you introduce these people to the idea of trying to make something grow really fast and have these really big ambitions, it’s like teaching them a foreign language, but they do learn it. They do learn it. It’s not like English people are somehow genetically inferior to Americans. I think they have all that potential still to go. I’m astonished when I see statistics. I think GDP per capita in the UK is only two-thirds of what it is in America.

COWEN: It’s about the same as Mississippi.

GRAHAM: It’s preposterous, I know. Imagine the potential there. Imagine the potential.

COWEN: You don’t feel that way about Mississippi, necessarily?

[laughter]

GRAHAM: No, I think Mississippi’s probably already up close to its full potential. I don’t know. I’ve never actually been there. I shouldn’t say things like that.

Right below this is his take on San Francisco which is exactly what you would expect from an idiot VC:

GRAHAM: The problems with San Francisco are entirely due to a small number of terrible politicians. It’s all because Ed Lee died. The mayor, Ed Lee, was a reasonable person. Up till the point where Ed Lee died, San Francisco seemed like a utopia. It was like when Gates left Microsoft, and things rapidly reverted to the mean. Although in San Francisco’s case, way below the mean, and so it’s not that it didn’t take that much to ruin San Francisco. It’s really, if you just replaced about five supervisors, San Francisco would be instantly a fabulously better city.

COWEN: Isn’t it the voters you need to replace? Those people got elected, reelected.

GRAHAM: Well, the reason San Francisco fundamentally is so broken is that the supervisors have so much power, and supervisor elections, you can win by a couple hundred votes. All you need to do is have this hard core of crazy left-wing supporters who will absolutely support you, no matter what, and turn out to vote.

It’s the crazy left-wingers of course! Just absolute tourist shit here, where the guy’s opinions on when SF was and wasn’t a great city are directly proportional to how much media coverage about it has shown up in his Twitter feed and not based on spending real time there.