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Show Notes
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0:00 Intro
1:10 John feels Glenn’s pain
2:36 Glenn: “I’m tired of being the black guy who has to call b******t on the race narrative”
9:21 The monotonous groove of the race discourse
12:35 John: “This is the most seismic sociopolitical shift of my lifetime”
19:17 Ground News ad
21:10 The H-1B conflict on the right
26:24 The hard truths of global competition
30:09 Luigi Mangione, folk hero?
36:09 ACTA ad
38:22 Glenn and John’s 2025 status
44:52 Living on the edge of a weekly deadline
46:45 Why did Al Jolson wear blackface?
Recorded January 5, 2025
Links and Readings
Charles Sheeler’s painting, “River Rouge Plant”
Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Matt Taibbi on coverage of Luigi Mangione’s personal style
Glenn’s forthcoming book, Self-Censorship
Richard Bernstein’s book, Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
Trailer for Al Jolson’s film, Mammy
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