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The Bulwark Podcast

Brian Klaas: Why Everything We Do Matters

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The world feels like it's falling apart, and black swan events are on the rise. Is this the result of our unquenchable thirst for optimization and efficiency—as we try to tame an untameable world? Brian Klaas joins Charlie Sykes to discuss his new book, "Fluke."

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bull Work Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. We are almost all the way through January and we have a lot of ground to cover today.

0:15.5

We're joined once again by Brian Koss, Professor of Global Politics, the University College

0:21.2

London where he focuses on democracy,

0:23.2

authoritarianism, and American politics and foreign policy.

0:26.8

So welcome back, Brian.

0:27.8

Welcome from England.

0:29.0

Thanks for having me on the show.

0:30.6

I want to talk about your new mind-bending book, Fluke, Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters,

0:37.0

which I found a little bit alarming and scary, but you claim is uplifting.

0:40.0

We're going to get to that in a moment.

0:42.0

Also, I want to talk to you about the banality of crazy.

0:45.0

But I blame you for this because you called attention

0:48.0

to an amazing exchange that took place on a local CBS affiliate television station down in Miami.

0:56.3

And just to set the scene for this, there is a congresswoman from South Florida named Maria Salazar who on her Twitter biography

1:04.6

describes herself as a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. I'm not sure

1:08.8

what that's all about, okay? So she's sitting down with one of the local legends of journalism, a guy named Jim Defiti, and she's bragging about all the money that she's brought into South Florida.

1:22.0

She's bragging specifically about

1:24.0

I got you $40 million. What I think is interesting is listen to how the

1:29.7

reporter here, Jim Defely, does not let this go, pointing out that, wait, you voted against the bills that provided that money.

1:39.8

You voted against the infrastructure bill.

1:42.3

You voted against the CHIPS you voted against the chips act and it goes

1:45.0

back and forth but in some ways I think and I think you highlighted this Brian this is

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