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11 April 2025 Friday Night Live
Watch the first 20 minutes of the debate being analysed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg&t=20s
DOUGLAS MURRAY
DAVE SMITH
JOE ROGAN
Expertise: If you freeform for 2 hours on US foreign policy, you are implicitly communicating expertise. I don't know much about Armenian history, so I can't do 2 hours, or anything close.
If someone says: You do not have the rigor of an expert, the answer is not to say: I never claimed to be an expert. The answer is: What is an EXPERT?
Credentialism is dead. Douglas Murray has an undergrad in English.
Big things experts got wrong.
"Mad in America"
A lot of podcasters come out of frustration with 'experts' - if you like your doctor, you don't go looking for a new doctor
When experts are faced with growing competition (me VS NYT or CNN) what do they do?
I come from the business world, where competition drives innovation - I wrote programs that let end users change the entire system.
You never badmouthed competitors, you positioned your strengths against their weaknesses, learned from them and would never try to get them cancelled by lying about them.
The media/political world is wild - evil compared to business
When we are at Vegas, at conferences, we would go to competitors booths and joke with them - like sports. VS Tonya Harding
Well, media/politics work to get you deplatformed
A lot of people in business had done sports - media, not so much
Murray was talking to Joe, not Dave - to deplatform competitors rather than striving to understand what gives them appeal and an audience, and work to win over their audience. We tried to win over competitors customers in the business world.
BOB IS A MEAN PODCASTER!
Hostility and contempt from Murray was fascinating - I think it comes from despair - we can't save or help people, so silencing them is the only course of action, either because I don't have a good answer, or because the other audience is too dumb and bigoted.
Anti-democratic of course, people can't choose their own podcasts but they can choose their own political leaders.
I didn't advocate for silencing other philosophers - I just tried to win over their audience.
Can you talk about places you've not visited?
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Hi Stef, hope you and the family are well.
Been over a year since our call, show 5496, (not sure what you remember so if a run-down of the call helps let me know) and I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you.
I've since cut off ties with my family, who've made no substantial effort to patch things up with me or make amends or acknowledge wrongdoing. My "et tu brute?" dad I don't think really cares about any of this, and my mum has only (rarely) contacted me to ask for specific items she doesn't know the whereabouts of, or just to tell me that I'm not contacting her because I'm being overly negative and not remembering anything positive about the past. My brother did reach out and I shared our call-in with him, he did seem to take it in somewhat but either way, no real difference, and I haven't heard back from him at all in about six months.
As for my ex: I've apologised, made restitutions where I can, and she's living with her boyfriend of around 18 months. We're on decent terms but contact is ...
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