Very Stable Geniuses

John Podhoretz, the Remnant’s self-professed Paul Lynde, returns to the program to play a game ...

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John Podhoretz, the Remnant’s self-professed Paul Lynde, returns to the program to play a game of “Name that Crank.” Throughout history, many brilliant people have also been extremely bizarre. Murray Rothbard hated elevators, Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies, and Gandhi was obsessed with bowel movements. John and Jonah dedicate today’s episode to exploring the harmless and not-so-harmless quirks of such figures, before turning to rank punditry on American power, Biden’s floundering presidency, and the awfulness of the ‘70s. Tune in for shameless GLoP-plugging, but stick around to find out which Academy Award nominees are actually worth watching.

Show Notes:

– GLoP, America’s favorite pop culture podcast

– The Commentary Podcast: Live in Palm Beach

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  1. Carter B

    This was a great episode. Part GLOP. Part Remnant. You could turn the first half about nutty brainiacs into its own podcast. I want more crazy genius stories, please!

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  2. Tony Reiter

    The bit about forgetting 1979 really hit home for me. It has seemed to me, that almost from the beginning the Biden administration has been trying to repeat the mistakes and tragedies of the '70s in as short a time as possible.

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    Ben Connelly

    Jonah, at one point you said - in the course of explaining the fallacy in “defund the police” - that you should eat fewer calories, “but not zero calories” to lose weight. Technically, you are correct. However, for a short duration or an extended period of time, you could undergo a medically supervised water-only fast. A Scottish man in the 60s did this and did not eat or drink a calorie for over 365 days (look it up!). He lost a ridiculous amount of weight. So you could actually eat zero calories for a while and lose some weight…

    I vote to have Pod on more often.

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    The Bell Tower

    I would pay ten times my subscription fee to see Jonah perform a Ruminant live, Mike Meyers style:

    https://youtu.be/HvAd33J9-po

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    Rob

    Yes to live Ruminent in Shatner Rocket Man style.

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    Mackinder

    It was like listening to a name-dropping contest in which you could not possibly compete. I kid, I kid - I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t appreciate the content, even when it prompts me to do some research to fill a knowledge gap. Seriously though, it would be super helpful if Jonah would do an episode or a written piece for those of us who are less steeped in philosophy to explain what is meant by the frequent “Burkeian, Straussian, Hegelian, etc.” references that he often uses as shorthand and usually fly over my otherwise well-educated head.

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    Kevin C. Smith

    JPodz + Jonah on The Remnant = my spirit animal.

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  8. Bill Farrand

    Another entry in the category of literary genius but crank, (in the sense of racist), was H.P. Lovecraft. He wrote some of the best fantastical horror stories ever, but was a virulent racist. Also, in the same genre, one could include Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian. Unparalleled sword and sorcery stories, but he was so attached to his mother that he killed himself shortly after her death.

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    Kurt S

    Pod truly is a fan favorite as far as I'm concerned. His encyclopedic knowledge of modern American tv & film (to say nothing of political history) is a treat, and you can really tell that their friendship manifests as rapport.

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    Jason Gibson

    Is my favorite episode of glop I mean the dispatch I mean the remnant. (It’s odd that after two years jonah has only in the last month been making this mistake pretty much every time)

    But I have to say being a glop listener I have become a commentary listener as well and seeing Jonah and pod coming together for a guest spot takes me back to the days when Jessica Fletcher had to cross over into Magnum PI to get him out of jail forcing us to watch both shows

    Now Jonah gets to appear on commentary and provide some back up to Poor Noah who has been disagreed with vehemently by pod lately

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