The James Comey Indictment (9-28-25)

02:00 Trump’s former insurance lawyer, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/the-former-insurance-lawyer-trump-picked-to-take-on-comey-54c4261d?mod=hp_lead_pos11
04:00 Media mocks Trump’s lawyers
18:20 Rodney Martin joins the show
48:00 To host a livestream, you usually feel like you know something valuable that you want to share, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163993
54:00 Everything is BS, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163991
56:00 This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t – David Pinsof, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3uLVeSGnEU
1:03:00 Deprogramming Democrats & unEducating the Elites: How I Escaped the Progressive Cult by Lisa Ekman, https://www.amazon.com/Deprogramming-Democrats-unEducating-Elites-Progressive/dp/1662895313/
1:44:00 The evolutionary origins of morality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5JlZjcFWug
1:46:00 Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition
1:48:00 Arguments for the sake of heaven, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163981
1:54:00 Happiness is a status signal
1:56:00 The philosophical principles underlying the Trump Doctrine, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163977
2:02:00 ‘More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt [& Freakanomics]’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163968
2:14:00 Michael joins: Megyn Kelly getting blowback for tiptoing up to edgy comments on Israel
2:16:00 Charlie Kirk was a polemicist
2:23:00 Tucker Carlson, the Jews & Jesus
2:40:00 Analyzing Charlie Kirk’s debating style, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/27/us/politics/charlie-kirk-debate.html
3:12:00 What is a deepity?
3:14:30 Religion vs LOL Nothing Matters, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163966
3:16:30 What Are The New Status Games?
3:19:00 Virtue games are status games, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rn1eNoUhAQ
3:20:00 David Pinsof: The Psychology of Incentives and Opinions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rn1eNoUhAQ
3:28:45 What Are The Highest Status TV Shows Now?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163959
3:30:00 Dennis Prager’s First Public Appearance! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWY2ZnVqYUc
3:38:00 Demons Are Interesting, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163948
3:44:00 The James Comey Indictment, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163934
3:46:45 Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0jvjssTG8
4:07:00 The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion
4:09:00 Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology
4:19:50 David Pinsof: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems
4:27:00 What Do We Find Interesting?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163923
4:29:00 Why Do We Argue? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163918
4:30:00 Eat, Pray, Profit, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163916
4:34:00 Understanding the illusion of understanding, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163914
4:39:00 ‘Status Is a Four-Letter Word: Self Versus Other Differences and Concealment of Status-Striving’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163912
4:40:20 The Status Game, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=163906
4:46:00 Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences (2024)
4:53:00 Each side is trying to capture the positive vibes of freedom