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🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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We're finally discussing a good book! Naomi Klein's "Doppelgänger" chronicles the long, steady descent of another Naomi — Wolf (buddy oof) — from feminist icon to crank conspiracist.
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0:00.0 | The wedding I was just at the groom is a decade younger than me. He doesn't even have the same type of glasses and or the same type of beard. We have only two things in common. He wears glasses. I wear glasses. He has a beard. I have a beard. |
0:14.0 | And people would just be looking at this and be like, you guys. You guys could be brother. |
0:21.0 | I like that the singers are just becoming a means for you to |
0:23.9 | complain about what happened to you this week. That's how I use the five four tops. |
0:27.6 | No, I know. It's clear, Peter. The best podcast I can make is very different from the ideal podcast in terms of what I want to make. |
0:38.7 | The podcast I want to make is just like, Peter gets on the mic and bitches about his life. |
0:44.4 | I turn it off and people for some reason pay for it. |
0:48.0 | If that could be my job, oh my God. |
0:50.0 | You're describing the Joe Rogan experience. |
0:52.0 | There are people who've made this work. All right, I'm just going to give this a world. Let's do it. |
0:56.0 | All right. Peter, Michael. What do you know about Doppelganger by Naomi Klein? I deeply empathize with being mistaken for someone else, |
1:06.0 | because everyone thinks that I look exactly like every other white man with a beard and glasses. Okay, so Peter, it's finally happening. We are talking about a good book. |
1:30.6 | This is the moment that all of our fans have been clamoring for. |
1:35.5 | I mean, I don't really know why we're covering this other than the fact that this is a book that I've been reading. |
1:41.7 | And it will be refreshing to talk about a book that I have some |
1:44.8 | quibbles with but in like a polite way I feel like a lot of the books that we talk about |
1:50.4 | on this show are we're trying to reveal the sort of conservative project or they're like |
1:54.7 | reactionary bullshit underneath them and Naomi Klein is not that person she's not like |
1:59.7 | a cryptocentrist like we're not talking about somebody who's like doing this I'm a liberal |
2:04.8 | but it's like no she's an actual liberal and she's dedicated her life to like defending |
2:09.2 | and promoting leftist causes. Yeah she wrote she wrote the shock doctrine. Yeah. |
2:13.3 | Good book. |
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