Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date: 5-31-23
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Erin and Deon discuss:
- Towel Day
- Adults liking things made for kids
- What it means for something to be suitable for kids or adults
- Bronson Pinchot
- The decline in students studying the humanities
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | This is a sample of our recent bonus episode, usually only available to members. |
| 0:14.3 | These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself all getting |
| 0:18.7 | together for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting. |
| 0:22.8 | So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about. |
| 0:26.3 | We returned on to the idea of perpetual childhood. |
| 0:35.0 | It's been sort of a slow burn conversation amongst... |
| 0:39.8 | I don't know, I mean, like you can come out of from both the left or the right and come |
| 0:44.5 | to similar conclusions but for very different reasons. |
| 0:49.7 | And people on this very call probably fall somewhere on the spectrum of remaining attached |
| 0:58.4 | to childhood interests, at least beyond what right wing, curmudgeonly op-ed writers |
| 1:06.2 | would say is appropriate. |
| 1:08.7 | But we're going to kind of see if we can wade through the world of adults being interested |
| 1:16.6 | in things targeted primarily at children and see if we can come up with a definitive |
| 1:22.3 | answer of what's okay and what's not. |
| 1:25.4 | So Dion, you have a Batman symbol hanging on the wall over your shoulder. |
| 1:32.4 | Would you like to kick off this conversation? |
| 1:35.4 | Sure. |
| 1:37.2 | So there was... |
| 1:39.8 | You said at the article of Bill Marr, Trashing the idea of people hanging on to childhood |
| 1:45.6 | stuff and the clapback was a writer who pointed out that Bill Marr, part of his whole stick |
| 1:54.7 | is smoking weed and having sex with women that are way too young for him to be around. |
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