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New Video: Destiny & Richard Spencer Debate Race, Religion, Andrew Tate, Joe Biden (3-6-23)
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Would you date a podcaster? Most women say no! (3-6-23)
From the New York Times: Like many other women, she associates the form with a certain kind of man: one who is endlessly fascinated by his own opinions, loves the sound of his own voice and isn’t the least bit shy about offering unsolicited opinions on masculinity, sexuality and women. Many women have taken to social media to mock just that kind of programming and the men who make it.
On TikTok, hashtags like #menwithpodcasts gather videos of (mostly) women using a beard filter to satirize the sorts of things male podcast hosts say, such as: “Why, as a man, are you born in the month of February?” or “That’s the problem with women who read.” Others have called on them to “put down the mics” and “get a job!”
With the once-booming podcast industry currently on the back foot and hosts’ reputations for self-important mansplaining having long since caught up with them, is the “podcast bro” officially a persona non grata in today’s dating landscape?
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Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (3-5-23)
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The Best Of The Luke Ford Blog 2022-2023 (3-5-23)
02:00 LA First Impressions After Nearly Three Months Down Under (1-26-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146972
08:00 What Should You Expect From The News? (1-21-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146911
46:00 The Bright Side Of Fame (1-24-23), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146935
1:02:00 Holocaust denial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKZ732GhBTk
1:38:00 Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146097
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The Case Against Murder (3-3-23)
01:00 Manifesto podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/manifesto/id1378418322
03:00 Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-22-reluctant-prophets/id1378418322?i=1000467462455
45:00 Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-trump-voting-00084839
52:00 Fox Shadowbans Donald Trump, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/fox-news-is-reportedly-shadowbanning-donald-trump.html
54:00 Why did Japan surrender in August of 1945? The Rise of Modern Japan, https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rise-of-Modern-Japan-Audiobook/
1:00:00 Tokyo Trial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Trial_(miniseries)
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Fox News Is Not The Boss (3-2-23)
01:00 The Rise of Modern Japan, https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Rise-of-Modern-Japan-Audiobook/
05:00 Rupert Murdoch Rides the Trump Tiger — and Gets Eaten, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/01/rupert-murdoch-fox-trump-voting-00084839
49:30 Elliott Blatt joins
54:00 Our problems are not our problems
1:00:00 Feeling depressed by people in wheelchairs
1:02:00 Nicotine gum
1:06:00 Richard Spencer’s new buddy is Charles Johnson
1:08:00 When I met up with Charles Johnson
1:09:30 Chuck Johnson’s Jewish genes
1:25:00 The post Covid landscape encourages Elliott
1:30:00 Tucker Carlson on the war against Christians
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Trump As A Vehicle For National Liberation (3-1-23)
01:00 Trump and liberation, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/opinion/trump-desantis-2024-campaign.html
05:00 Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leibovich
10:00 What Active-Shooter Trainings Steal From Synagogues, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/jewish-synagogue-anti-semitism-active-shooter-training/673239/
14:00 Author Daniel Torday doesn’t want to hear from you, http://www.danieltorday.com/contact
37:30 Elliott Blatt joins the show
39:20 Inside the Louisville Police Department, where officers are reckoning with what it means to be a cop in a city that doesn’t trust them, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
42:30 The individual’s feelings rarely have wide significance
44:00 WEHT to vigorous social intercourse?
47:45 Employees want as much pay as possible for as little work as possible
53:00 The downsides of empathy
56:00 Sharing realism on Nextdoor
1:06:20 The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of White Victimhood, https://time.com/6259311/dilbert-racism-scott-adams/
1:12:00 Do masks really protect against COVID-19? Meta-analysis authors want to see more evidence, https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/do-masks-really-protect-against-covid-19-meta-analysis-authors-want-see-more-evidence
1:23:30 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE
1:26:00 What’s more important? Form, ritual, rhetoric or reality?
1:28:00 A Man Called Otto, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/
1:29:00 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Day_in_the_Neighborhood
1:34:00 Welsh boy treble Cai Thomas (12y) sings Suo Gan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKw72731L8
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The Thin Blue Line (2-28-23)
01:00 THE DOUBLE LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/02/john-le-carre-spy-came-in-from-cold-book/673227/
03:00 Codependency, Addiction and Insecure Attachment: What is the Connection?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UOVYx9_wk
12:30 Race based healthcare
19:20 PPP, Andy Warski, Nick Fuentes
21:00 NYT: Inside the Louisville Police Department, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
52:20 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE
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The Stanford Law School Connection To The Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal (2-16-23)
03:00 Sam Bankman-Fried
1:05:00 Punishment is a dirty word to liberals
1:30:00 Vengeance is a dirty word to liberal
1:33:00 The liberal delusion of global human rights
1:37:00 The liberal delusion that we have a right to our reputation
1:40:30 How do you plan to market it?
1:47:00 The psychology of 9-11 Truthers
1:48:30 Steven Pinker
1:51:35 Mein Kampf for Rationalists
1:52:10 Mikhaila Peterson
1:53:40 Is Bazball a disgrace? https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/what-is-bazball-england-test-cricket-8305181/
2:03:00 Democrats are afraid of anyone questioning their manhood
2:07:00 John Fetterman getting treated for clinical depression
2:13:00 Tupac grew up middle class but had to teach himself to be a thug
2:14:50 Horrifying world of ex-LAPD cops
2:16:20 The Temptations of Carl Schmitt, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt
2:39:00 NPR: Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled, https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
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Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
* “One of the mysteries we confronted was why Moonves would have unleashed a corporate civil war knowing (as he did) that his predatory sexual past was at great and imminent risk of being publicly revealed.
Of course, the great media moguls—from Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone himself—had never worried about such issues. They were all white men whose power and authority went unquestioned no matter how unbridled their outbursts of temper or insensitive or even bigoted their treatment of women and minorities.”
Where do the authors get the idea that Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone were never questioned or challenged? Even Hitler and Stalin and Mao got questioned and challenged.
“Their boards of directors, charged with protecting all shareholders, were little more than window dressing for their autocratic control. Sumner boasted that the Viacom board had never defied his wishes.
In their world, sexual indiscretions were as routine as deals cut on the eighteenth tee at the Bel Air Country Club. Though hardly confined to the business of media and entertainment, the notion of the “casting couch”—sex in return for a job or a part—got its name in Hollywood.”
And non-white men are less likely to engage in this behavior? On what basis would you argue that?
“The veteran Hollywood producer and CBS board member Arnold Kopelson seemed baffled by concerns over Moonves’s alleged sexual advances in the workplace. “ We all did that,” he said dismissively.”
If men did not make sexual advances on women, the human race would go extinct. Why would you think that the one place where most people of working age spend most of their time would be exempt from this evolutionary compulsion?
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