If You Walk Without Rhythm, You Won’t Attract the Worm
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What happens when you make a pundit talk about Antifa, the Dune trailer, the Republic of Venice, and 60s Iron Man cartoons all in one go? Tune in to the weekend Ruminant to find out!
Show Notes:
-The DispatchStart a 30-day free trial of
-Jonah’s Wednesday G-File, un-paywalled due to popular demand
-RemnantThis week’s second , with Andy Ferguson
-Basically what Jonah means by “A Shoshana point.”
-Dune The little-known miniseries
-Iron Man The bizarre theme song to the 60s cartoon
-Federalist no. 39, the one that talks about Venice
-Denis Dutton’s bad writing contest
-Keeps.com/Dingo to get your first month of treatment for free
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Why do I find that when Jonah is solo on these podcasts it is infinitely more interesting? He brings clarity and understanding to the chaos. Living in NYC without a country escape bungalow and working throughout on the whole (thus out and about and not bunkered down) has meant 2020 has been a challenge.. Walking past a refrigerator unit for dead bodies outside the local hospital in Bushwick, to walking 2 hours to work each way (tried subways once and disgusting), to walking past angry protestors/rioters and broken out store fronts. Thus I have in a way a post main event apathy towards the current political news cycle and the election. If you have ever acted in a play and the feeling after it ends is similar. (Anyone else have this?) But I always have time for Jonah. He is far above his peers to me.
Regarding awful Shibbolethith (?) woke/academic writing, WS Gilbert had that type pegged back in 1880:
"And ev'ry one will say
As you walk your mystic way
'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me
Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!' "