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Podcast with Robert Wright

Every two weeks or so, Robert Wright and I meet to discuss the issues of the day, a joint production of Small Potatoes and Bob’s Non-Zero Podcast. I’ve been saving these up for the “This and That” pieces, but I’ve decided it would be more fun to just send them out to subscribers the day after the recording. And the one we did yesterday was good; I was buzzed on painkillers, which gave the discussion a little bit of zip. And we got to talk a bit about humiliation—the topic of my Substack earlier this week.

Here are the topics:

0:28 Bob and Paul battle for audience sympathy
4:29 Canada as 51st state: y’eh or n’eh?
15:09 How Trump-y is Canada’s likely next leader?
19:45 The humiliation theory of American politics
27:33 Trump, Elon, and the two paths to bullying
35:59 Facebook’s free speech about-face
39:24 Heading to Overtime

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

0:00 Correcting the record on free speech
20:28 Severance season two (among lesser shows)
30:05 Inside the Elon-Sam Harris falling out
33:23 Bob’s dangerous debate with Sam Harris
36:06 More on Elon

I will be back on Monday with a more usual post.