E308. Bureaucracy is Crushing American Dreams
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Max Meyer joins Bridget to talk about the new tech magazine he just launched Arena. They discuss Arena's mission to be on the side of the future and the people building it, his desire to offer a tech magazine that's an alternative to the other big name tech magazines out there that seem focused on demoralizing people about the future and making them fear things, instead offering a pro-American, pro-technology perspective while acknowledging valid concerns about technology and its risks. They cover automation's future impact and why Max believes it transforms rather than eliminates jobs, comparing phones to weapons, using AI tools, the focus of education in India and China vs the US, the success of the American spirit, Trump's connection with working-class voters, Biden administration policies that have crushed entrepreneurship, why driving round America is an important thing to do, his advice for people who've experienced profound loss, and how finding strength teaches you how to do it again.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm with Max Meyer everybody welcome to walk-ins welcome |
| 0:03.4 | Thank you Bridget. Max it's a pleasure. It's my pleasure. |
| 0:07.0 | I've been I've been listening and watching you on the internet since I was in high school |
| 0:10.6 | Really? I just I always thought you were brilliant and hilarious and I'm so thrilled to be here. How did you find out about me? |
| 0:18.4 | You know it was it was it was Twitter. There were like 150 accounts that I followed and I think that you would just sort of you |
| 0:25.4 | you were in you know peak posting back in that sort of like 16 17 era yeah and I was and I was |
| 0:31.6 | and I was and I was following along. |
| 0:33.0 | When dumpster fire launched, I'd listen to that. |
| 0:36.0 | I listened to Walkins Welcome. |
| 0:38.0 | And I think the moment when I really started to appreciate all of it |
| 0:42.0 | was when you went on the Glendex show in maybe 2018 or 19. |
| 0:46.7 | And I just thought it was one of the most tremendous podcasts I'd ever listened to. |
| 0:50.4 | I was so inspired by the whole thing and I and it's one of the sort of episodes that I've that I've listened to five or six times among |
| 0:56.9 | among podcasts. Oh interesting what was inspiring about it I'm so curious. I just thought that your life story was so amazing and you know |
| 1:07.9 | the ability to translate adversity into joy for other people. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | And I just thought it was great. |
| 1:15.4 | And Glenn's admiration was palpable. |
| 1:18.7 | And it got through to me. |
| 1:20.4 | Glenn, it was funny. |
| 1:21.6 | I went on Michael Malice's podcast after that. And it was funny. I went on Michael malice's podcast after that and it was the first time |
| 1:25.8 | malice and I sat down he was still in New York and I was we were laughing about how I went |
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