01:00 I’m livestreaming to feel better about myself by conveying what I think is useful information about the wider world and by serving you, I serve myself
05:00 Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158142
16:00 STEP 3 BIG BOOK STUDY~JOE MCDONALD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw-BxBl0UM
36:00 Israel’s Year of Dangerous Living, Part 3: On Ballots and Bullets, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZLx9mK2r8
52:00 Kip joins to be a friend
57:00 My journey into 12-step
1:02:00 Jews invented talk therapy
1:07:00 If you listen to the whispers, you won’t have to hear the screams
1:12:00 She made me feel like a winner aka that part of me that feels like a loser calms down
1:20:00 Defining hero systems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146534
1:33:00 Dan Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness exercise, https://drdansiegel.com/wheel-of-awareness/
1:40:00 Luigi Magione – assassin, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-2c23b33b?mod=trending_now_news_2
1:50:00 Does Kamala have a drinking problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZJwnaxo8A
2:06:00 Dennis Prager Can Now Mouth Words, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158099
2:09:50 WEHT to Matt Gaetz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZJwnaxo8A
2:12:00 America’s Syria policy (Biden v Trump)
2:14:00 Biden’s disastrous Middle East policies
2:19:00 How Mike Gallagher and Hugh Hewitt Filled In On A Cruise Filled with Dennis Prager Listeners, https://barrettmedia.com/2024/12/10/how-mike-gallagher-and-hugh-hewitt-filled-in-on-a-cruise-filled-with-dennis-prager-listeners/
2:20:45 Unhappy Dennis Prager cruise customer, https://x.com/nalepa0302/status/1865503876935549288
2:22:00 The Biden economy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZJwnaxo8A
2:28:00 X: BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome calls for “Black vigilantes” to hunt down and kill White New Yorkers after Daniel Penny acquittal.
2:31:50 NYT: Suspect in C.E.O. Killing Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyregion/united-healthcare-ceo-shooting-luigi-mangione.html
2:38:00 My right hamstring much tighter than left, https://www.reddit.com/r/flexibility/comments/1agabh0/right_hamstring_much_tighter_than_left/?rdt=56491
2:43:00 Chiropractic is a scam, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=118480
2:51:00 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss our crazy week
2:52:00 Elliott discusses our broken health insurance system, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-2c23b33b?mod=trending_now_news_2
3:03:00 Richard Spencer’s new religion
3:09:00 Elliott Blatt’s dopamine fasts
3:10:00 The Long Goodbye, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(film)
3:25:00 Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=118480
3:41:00 Why socialists are cheering the death of an insurance CEO | Reason Roundtable | December 9, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnftm9Gqg0
3:47:10 John Podhoretz’s empathy for Trump’s desire to jail politicians who tried to jail him, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1tr3LCRqgk
3:50:00 Democratic consultant Dan Turrentine on the humiliation of Joe Biden’s obvious senility, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lnf4r8XFA
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
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* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
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