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Decoding The Greatest Motivational Speakers (12-12-23)

01:00 New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15355853:00 Criticizing Israel on American campuses, https://www.unz.com/isteve/president-of-penn-shoved-out/55: Putting the con in conservative: https://rumble.com/v2nqqwe-putting-the-con-in-conservative-5-14-23.html56:00 Conservative cons, … Continue reading

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New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top

You don’t become a great motivational speaker ala Oprah and Tony Robbins by telling the truth. There are too many other people and institutions doing that. You become special by relaying something special, but few people have a trove of … Continue reading

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What Makes A Great Pundit?

My friend Ricardo posts on Twitter: “I’ve come back around on Richard [Spencer]. Not sure I ever really left. Truly the greatest pundit of his generation.” What makes a great pundit? What type of person seeks out a pundit? What’s … Continue reading

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Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two (8-2-23)

01:00 Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14954510:20 The Valley Exposed: Luke Ford, the outsider, https://www.dailynews.com/2007/06/06/the-valley-exposed-luke-ford-the-outsider/16:00 Column: A Democratic and Republican battled for Congress. They became unlikely friends, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14961319:00 Chris Mooney Discusses “The Republican Brain” with Jonathan Haidt and Chris … Continue reading

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Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two

Part one. This decoding is a hard job because the podcast Decoding the Gurus (DTG) by academics Matt Browne and Chris Kavanagh is objectively impressive. Matt and Chris, however, seem unaware that they have their own subjective partisan left-wing hero … Continue reading

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