A Bari Special Bonus Episode [TEASER]
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Our first premium episode is a deep dive into the blog of the infamously (and dubiously) "canceled" Bari Weiss.
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| 0:00.0 | Michael. Peter. What do you know about Substack? Uh, I know that it's where I go when I'm tired of getting the free race science. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the first bonus episode of If Books Could Kill. Pleasure to be here. You know, |
| 0:28.1 | it wasn't a given that we were going to that we were going to be meeting you today. I don't think |
| 0:32.3 | did either of us thought that the show was going to be quite so successful. Jesus Christ. |
| 0:37.8 | Would we start talking about like doing this? It was like, okay, we're going to record a couple |
| 0:41.1 | episodes and then we're going to release them and we'll get like, I don't know, maybe 10,000 |
| 0:46.0 | downloads or something. It's going to be a really slow build. Yeah. And then we released the first |
| 0:51.4 | episode and we were like number one on iTunes within a couple hours. Yeah, we thought maybe we would |
| 0:57.7 | eventually launch a Patreon if people liked it. Yeah. We did not expect it to be so clear that |
| 1:03.1 | people wanted to hear a little bit more so quickly. Yeah. And I certainly did not expect to be |
| 1:07.9 | above Rachel Maddow on the Apple podcast chart. Your idol, you're finally surpassing |
| 1:14.4 | person you think of the most. Yeah, you know, you're crushing it when you're above her and like |
| 1:18.6 | true crime podcasts. Yeah. You know, if we're beating the true crimes, we made it. |
| 1:23.6 | All right. So obviously the premise of the show is that we like discuss a book in each regular |
| 1:31.2 | episode. And for the bonus episodes, I don't think we're trying to lock ourselves into any particular |
| 1:37.1 | format. But I do think it's often going to be a good opportunity to discuss op-eds and think |
| 1:44.6 | pieces. Yes. The short form versions of airport book, schlock. I guess the idea is like where are |
| 1:52.3 | the other engines of American beddumming happening? There's the Times op-ed pages, the Atlantic. |
| 2:01.4 | But I thought it would be fun to start off the beaten path in a little place called Substack. |
| 2:08.0 | Yeah, it's just blogs. It's subscription blogs, right? It's just a platform where writers can |
| 2:13.1 | post their work. And the only difference between it and the old school blogs is that you can |
| 2:19.6 | subscribe to certain writers, which allows them to build a financially valuable career off of it. |
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