00:00 Big Tech censorship
12:00 10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters, https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/08/10-times-democrats-urged-violence-against-trump-and-his-supporters/
39:20 Richard Spencer’s rant vs Luke’s Friday rant
46:15 Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House on the Capitol Hill riot and reactions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateerfqHbr0
50:20 ICED EARTH’S JON SCHAFFER IS WANTED BY THE FBI AFTER U.S. CAPITOL RIOTS, https://www.altpress.com/news/iced-earth-jon-schaffer-wanted-by-fbi/
52:00 How the major religions confronted modernity
53:00 Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History, https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Immutable-Orthodox-Judaism-Rewrites/dp/1904113605
54:00 Early History of the University of Oxford, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiXwLUf8lj4
56:00 A (very) brief history of Oxford Uni!!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnU7usnZR_k
1:00:00 Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Martin_Leberecht_de_Wette
1:02:00 David Friedrich Strauss, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Strauss
1:38:45 Christine Hayes: Lecture 5. Critical Approaches to the Bible: Introduction to Genesis 12-50, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSOn0MSrk8
1:49:45 Spiritual Mamzer joins from Holland
1:55:00 Islam confronts modernity
2:04:00 Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133478
2:42:30 RS & HW on MAGA’s Joker moment, https://www.spreaker.com/user/altright/magas-joker-moment
2:45:00 The moment Officer Brian Sicknick was dragged into a mob and beaten
3:14:00 Nick Fuentes says “invade the capitol” was only ironic
3:19:00 The weaknesses of livestreaming your life ala Baked Alaska
3:20:00 When the hyper-real digital world bites back
3:22:00 Baked’s cry: Content!
3:24:00 When the chase for content lands you in prison
3:32:00 Trump doesn’t protect his supporters even when they die for him
3:34:00 Lin Wood says Ashli Babbitt was an Antifa plant, and her timeline was filled with her retweeting Lin Wood
3:34:40 The Daily Stormer went Q-Anon
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