Insomnia, Hitler, Emile the goat

Podcast with Robert Wright, Severance wrap-up, 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 Bob and Paul duel over their sleep deficits
4:52 Trump’s Tesla-friendly tariffs
12:52 Who’s favo(u)red to win the Canadian election?
19:32 Tufts and Columbia as authoritarian bellwethers
30:52 Did Bob predict MAGA in 1999?
38:25 God vs Hitler
45:57 Heading to Overtime

Also, David Pizarro, Tamler Sommers, and I just finished off a series where we discussed season 2 of the show Severance. Our previous episodes were just for paid subscribers to Small Potatoes (or Patreon subscribers to Very Bad Wizards), but our final episode, where we discuss Episode 10 and go over the whole series, is free for everyone. (We also discuss an evolutionary psychology paper on “the ick”.)

And what do paid subscribers get? Well, they can access the overtime segment of my discussion with Bob where we talk about:

Paul gets trolled (and likes it).
Jeffrey Goldberg’s checkered past.
Decoding the Signal leak scandal.
Authentic Trump secret sauce.
Quantum physics, free will, miracles, etc.
AI and the weirdness of consciousness.
Severance season 2 wrap-up.
Paul evokes—and incurs—Bob’s wrath.

And they get the Zoom link for the Small Potatoes paid-subscriber-only discussion, scheduled for Monday at 3! (If you are a subscriber, please click on the poll to tell me if you’re going to attend.)

See you back on Monday with a more usual post.