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🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Neil and I are joined by Marg, who helped raise Neil from a young age. We talk about music, books, what it was like to come to the US in 1968, and whether it was obvious that Neil was going to be a successful writer.
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0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
0:02.4 | well this is what it looks like as the shit hits the fan lady's |
0:32.1 | in gentlemen if you've ever been wondering. It's day 45 of the Trump presidency and the collapse |
0:39.1 | continues. I personally don't think the guy's going to last another two months. I think he's |
0:47.3 | in the process of having one of the most colossal public meltdowns in human history. |
0:54.7 | I mean, look, as I've said in an earlier episodes, I get it. I understand why people voted for him. |
1:00.4 | I would have been tempted to vote for him myself just as a protest vote against the corrupt |
1:09.1 | more of the same corporate controlled Wall Street funded lobbyist infested normalcy that's |
1:17.0 | been going on in Washington for at least since 1980, I would say, which is the last time an outsider. |
1:25.3 | Well, Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976 in response to the mess of Watergate. |
1:34.3 | And of course, the sort of Washington institutions made sure that he couldn't really get much done |
1:41.3 | and his intelligence and sensitivity and thoughtfulness was used against him as often happens in |
1:49.2 | America because we're not into sissy boy thinkers, even if they happen to be nuclear physicists who |
1:58.1 | you know, served on nuclear submarines for years and really understand the way the world works. |
2:03.8 | We don't like that. We like fake cowboys like Ronald Reagan who promise us that it's morning |
2:10.2 | again in America. We don't want some faggot from Georgia telling us we have to use the metric system. |
2:17.7 | Fuck that. Let's get this fake cowboy in here to tell us that we're perfect just the way we are |
2:24.4 | and the rest of the world can adapt to us because we're America. God damn it. |
2:32.0 | Yeah, well, that's not working out so well. For those of you who are too young to remember, Ronald Reagan |
2:40.7 | was sort of the beginning of this idea that you can shape reality by just saying bullshit. |
2:49.2 | I mean, not the beginning. I'm overstating at that started long before. Obviously, people have been |
2:54.7 | bullshitings and there have been people and Edward Bernays started the whole sort of calculated |
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