00:00 My new Norelco electric shaver (scratchy audio first six minutes)
02:00 Amazon’s nut chocolate harvest
04:00 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142846
What Is The Role Of The State? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142828
23:00 Hans Freyer’s journey from church to Nazism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136532
30:00 Nobody is permanently woke
32:30 What Are The Implications Of the Ukraine War For Taiwan?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylaC0MUleZs&t=2391s
36:00 Will Russia cut undersea cables and end the world as we know it?
45:30 John Mearsheimer says the Ukraine War is the West fault, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc
48:00 Why John Mearsheimer blames the West, https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
56:30 Elliott Blatt joins the show
1:05:00 Portable Power Bank with Solar Charging, Hand Crank & Battery Operated, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FKYHTWP/
1:07:00 Disaster looms for West Coast, https://www.usatoday.com/web-stories/earthquake-disaster-looms-on-west-coast/
1:09:20 Elliott’s communist phase
1:17:00 I didn’t sleep with a girl who ordered a bacon salad
1:22:00 Russia put its nukes on high alert
1:23:50 Why Russia will win
1:26:50 Russia Could Threaten Internet Cables in Underwater Attacks, https://www.newsweek.com/russia-threaten-internet-cables-underwater-attacks-navy-admiral-tony-radakin-1667210
1:28:00 Cord-cutting, Russian style: Could the Kremlin sever global internet cables?, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/cord-cutting-russian-style-could-the-kremlin-sever-global-internet-cables/
1:57:00 El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzmán, https://www.amazon.com/El-Jefe-Alan-Feuer/dp/1250254507
2:03:50 So sorry. I was wrong… (Ukraine Russia War), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9nm97xuII0
2:08:20 Yale Historian Samuel Moyn on “How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlH30iPckHg
2:21:00 Europe is showing that it could lead its own defense, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/03/europe-defense-nato-ukraine-war/
2:33:00 The keys to good Youtube videos
2:39:00 Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Harvard University: Where do human rights come from?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGu6T1Qe48
2:44:00 By Jerry Z. Muller – Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present, https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Muller-Conservatism-Anthology-Political/dp/B008VR2FZC
2:49:00 Eye exercises, https://twitter.com/mythoughtfood/status/1499535875402780674
2:54:30 New Cold War: Russia Has “Permanently” Broken Relations With EU & US, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8vmGg_zFXQ
3:03:00 Elliott Blatt’s mountain of drudgery
3:11:00 Screenwriting for a living
3:17:00 Elliott’s 9-11
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