01:00 Who is Kamala Harris? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156656
12:00 Robin Hanson, Professor & Author of “The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives In Everyday Life”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTf97SCyVQg
12:30 Medicine doesn’t matter much for length and quality of life
14:00 Body language and dominance
21:00 Carnal Knowledge (1971), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnal_Knowledge_(film)
23:50 Kip joins the show
30:00 What a nervous flier fears, https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/what-a-nervous-flier-hears
40:00 The Paranoid Style Of Adam Curtis, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/05/08/the-paranoid-style-in-adam-curtis/
42:00 Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130046
46:00 The Producers: Profiles in Frustration, https://www.amazon.com/Producers-Profiles-Frustration-Luke-Ford/dp/0595664636
52:00 Will Trump keep listening to Suzy Wiles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC4R-vTW20U
Israel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0ewmNlFc8
59:00 The rhetoric of political flip-flopping, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=156714
1:04:00 Israel’s infuriating rule by judges, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0ewmNlFc8
1:10:00 Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155888
1:31:00 Secret Service in Crisis: Inflexible Protocols, Security Lapses in Spotlight, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/15/secret_service_in_crisis_inflexible_protocols_security_lapses_in_spotlight_151265.html
1:35:00 New Video Surfaces In The Secret Service Scandal (Ep 2297) – 07/30/2024, https://rumble.com/v591qb9-new-video-surfaces-in-the-secret-service-scandal-ep-2297-07302024.html
1:39:30 Ted Cruz grills head of Secret Service, https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1818325313467842949
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