But her e-mails! Michael explains the non-scandal that captivated the mainstream media in 2016 while Peter attempts to sow the podcast with anti-Hillary sentiment.
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2023-09-14 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMichael and Peter dissect Harry Frankfurt's seminal essay "On Bullsh*t" and discuss the types of nonsense that are perpetually cascading through our media and politics.
NOTE: If it sounds like we're being weirdly harsh to a guy who just died, that's because we recorded this in June, before it happened. RIP Harry. Nothing will ever make us respect an author more than refusing to u...
2023-08-10 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael and Peter discuss the ways in which the paradigm shift toward online dating has damaged our brains and hardened our hearts.
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2023-07-13 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate Pride Month, we are discussing the right's coordinated assault on rainbow-colored retail displays.
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2023-06-12 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn 2021, scrappy young investors from across the world joined forces to buy GameStop stock, aiming to take down greedy hedge funds. What came next was tragedy, injustice, and a conspiratorial internet cult so stupid we had to do an episode about it.
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On the heels of our Rich Dad Poor Dad episode we're doing a deep dive into the ideology of the "success sequence," the preferred poverty alleviation strategy of the conservative intelligentsia.
Here's the clip of Ben Shapiro breaking it down. Warning: Contains Ben Shapiro.
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Get in loser, we're going to Oberlin.
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2023-03-30 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe nation's most prestigious newspaper insists on asking a very stupid question. So for this month's bonus episode, we decided to answer it.
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In December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China. In May 2021, America experienced one of the most cursed weeks of punditry we've ever seen.
This one's a doozy. You can play the episode directly through Patreon or use our RSS feed to add it to your podcast app. Here are the instructions.
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2023-01-31 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the If Books Could Kill Patreon! We're happy and grateful to have you. For our first premium episode, we're diving into the horrible depths of Bari Weiss's Substack, "Common Sense" (as a side note, we'll be inquiring with regulators about whether her use of that term is legal). Join us as we discuss three of the worst posts we've ever read.