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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 51: Freddie DeBoer

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

With writer Freddie DeBoer, we debate the question: Are leftists’ political programs popular enough to win?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to Crystal Kyle and friends. Today we will be speaking to how do you

0:11.8

present a Freddy DeBoer? DeBoer? DeBoer? DeBoer, Freddy DeBoer, like a boar, like the

0:16.4

animal. That's my understanding, yes. Boars are cool. Don't they look cool? See, this

0:21.6

is where it should be Joe Rogan said next to me right now. He'll be like, bro, boars

0:25.4

are awesome. You want to see a clip of a boar eating an emu? To Joe Rogan. In many ways,

0:32.7

you surpass him. Anyway, I digress. So really interested to talk to him, fascinating guy.

0:38.0

The more I read of his stuff and the more I read about him, the more I was like, oh, he's

0:41.5

an interesting thinker, for sure. Well, not just interesting thinker. He's got some interesting

0:47.0

stuff that's happened in his life that he's remarkably open in many ways about his short

0:52.5

upcoming and mental illness and all sorts of stuff. So there's plenty of stuff to talk

0:56.8

to him about with politics and plenty of stuff to talk to him about with personal life

1:00.7

stuff. It's funny. You know who's a big fan of Freddy is soccer? Really? Yeah. Interesting.

1:07.0

Soccer has kind of a soft spot for like real Marxist. He likes, he likes people who, I mean,

1:13.0

Freddy has a very strong like class. Well, he calls himself an old school Marxist. That's

1:16.9

how he defines himself. Yeah. So when I told soccer that we were having Freddy on, he's

1:20.6

like, oh, tell him I'm a big fan. Funny enough, there was one political compass test I took

1:25.0

where I was described as a classic Marxist. I believe was the phrasing. There's another

1:31.4

one where I was libertarian. Socialists, I mean, it's all over the place depending on which

1:34.5

one you take. But one, I was a classic Marxist and I was surprised myself. I was like, oh,

1:38.5

it's really? Yeah. I want to ask him about his ideologies. Parents were radical. So he came

1:43.0

up with sort of like, you know, that was in the ether around him. My parents were not. My dad

1:49.7

was a political slash semi-political weirdo who the only time you would hear anything about politics

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