E122. Nick Gillespie Thinks Hard Work Beats Being The Smartest Person In The Room

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Nick Gillespie is the host of The Reason Interview podcast and editor-at-large at Reason Magazine. He and Bridget discuss the need to create meaning in our lives and why this has driven a lot of American culture insane, how he became a libertarian, Burning Man, his time working for a teen magazine, and why we need a government that does fewer things, but does them well. He shares how attending high school graduations and zoning board meetings radicalized him, the difference between liberals and progressives, how we can build a robust culture by having more arguments, and how he learned almost anything is possible. He and Bridget cover their hope for the future, why Walter Kronkite sucked, the consequences of growing up comfortable, and the truth behind our political parties’ ideologies.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this podcast one production now available on Apple Podcasts podcast one Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts
0:08.0	This is walk-ins welcome with Bridget Fedessi and Bridget Fedessi and you are welcome
0:13.6	We know the drill please subscribe rate comment share reach out tell your friend send smoke signals whatever we love your feedback and we want to hear from you
0:35.2	This week on the podcast. I'm excited to welcome Nick Gillespie the tables have turned. He's interviewed me before
0:42.5	He's the host of the reason interview with Nick Gillespie a weekly podcast of relentlessly interesting interviews with the activist artists authors entrepreneurs
0:52.7	Newsmakers and politicians who are defining the 21st century. I have no idea why I was part of that group
0:59.6	But it was a great interview. I love Nick. We're friends
1:04.0	Nick is also the editor at large at reason the libertarian magazine of free minds and free markets
1:11.2	I'm with Nick Gillespie. Everyone overdue. I would say welcome. Thank you so much for having me
1:18.0	That you've this now the tables have turned because you interviewed me and you're a very good interviewer. Oh well, thanks. I appreciate that
1:25.6	I don't think so and so I'm always kind of amazed when people say that but
1:31.2	One of the things I've tried to do over the past couple of decades is to actually learn how to take compliments
1:38.4	And again, it's not like I get a lot
1:40.4	So that's maybe every time I'm like what is what is happening this strange thing?
1:45.1	No, you're your questions were thought provoking and it's always interesting
1:49.8	To me when someone asks me a question that I haven't either been asked or frame something in a way that forces me to think about
1:56.7	Something differently. Well one of the things as long as we're doing a kind of mutual admiration society
2:03.3	You know, I really in a way I came to know you through my younger son who's a big fan of like podcasting
2:09.8	So if he's 19 years old and I love people like you who have really taken full advantage of like new platforms
2:19.2	New media to just emerge and you know and then get like a gigantic really devoted intense and broad audience
2:28.1	Yeah, I mean, it's just and you know, I can remember going back
2:31.0	You know, they're like 20 years or so at the at the dawn of kind of blogging and stuff like that. There were people
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