01:00 Racial identity & Yacht Rock – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34280353/
11:30 Commentary magazine podcast on the criminal violence that liberals say we should have sympathy for the perpetrators, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbLFcHEvGw
15:00 The February 1963 Norman Podhoretz essay that dare not speak its name
30:00 Why Did Many Conservatives Rebel Against Covid Lockdowns & Vaccines?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158175
40:00 Zebra murders, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_murders
1:04:00 Kip joins to talk about truth & harm reduction
1:11:00 The close relationship between an Orthodox Jew and his rabbi
1:21:00 Why Sam Harris types despise Donald Trump
1:24:00 GameStop short squeeze, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze
1:28:00 The View tv show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_View_(talk_show)
1:35:50 Mysterious drones over New Jersey
1:40:50 The Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOHRqCP_kY
2:06:00 The Antipsychiatry Movement’s Long Shadow, https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-antipsychiatry-movements-long-shadow/
2:14:45 Jay-Z sued for raping 13 yo girl with P Diddy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z
2:15:00 Jay-Z’s Wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z
2:21:00 Why socialists are cheering the death of an insurance CEO | Reason Roundtable, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnftm9Gqg0
2:24:50 Is Wokeness An Elite Boondoggle?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFSFUjtNDA
2:27:40 Symbolic capital
2:34:00 Stay inside during covid unless you are protesting the death of George Floyd, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4lxJKj0I0
2:43:40 CHIPS Act not working out, https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1866616382487495049
2:47:00 Why Judaism reveres beards, https://www.commentary.org/articles/meir-soloveichik/why-beards/
2:58:00 Amy Wax says a second Trump term should overhaul our education, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ5F4Sl0VzQ
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