Hockey, James Bond, and Severance

Podcast with Robert Wright—and more

Robert Wright and I meet every two weeks or so to discuss the issues of the day. This is a joint production of Small Potatoes and Bob’s Non-Zero Podcast. Here’s the most recent meeting. 

0:00 Paul’s cold take on US-Canada relations
4:14 How representative is representative government, really?
11:12 Bob’s plan to end hockey fights
17:00 A worthwhile Canadian initiative to dump Musk
21:31 What makes James Bond James Bond?
31:41 Bob’s reign as TV analysis king continues (claims Bob)
36:07 Heading to Overtime—and a special discount deal!

Paid subscribers get the overtime version below, with these topics:

Grok 3’s real (and fake) take on Elon.
Is the new Claude flawed?
The incredible Hulk Hogan-Gawker saga.
Are bad actors victims of their own brains?
The anthropic argument for God vs the multiverse.
Bob defends against accusations of defensiveness.
Clarification on Elon’s OpenAI bid gets muddy.
Severance, essence, and the full-frontal assault on nudity.

But wait, there’s more!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, David Pizarro, Tamler Sommers, and I have a new series where we discuss the show Severance. This is for paid subscribers to Small Potatoes (or Patreon subscribers to Very Bad Wizards). The link to our most recent discussion—which Tamler cleverly called “R. Helly”—is available below.

And paid subscribers also get a very special discount offer for Bob’s excellent podcast and newsletter.

See you back on Monday with a more usual post.