5 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're going to be. So here is the thing. We had an editorial meeting recently at National Review and somehow the topic of the end of the world |
0:27.8 | came up and from this flowered a discussion about how you, we, anyone, would survive if they were alone. |
0:42.4 | If they were, as far as they knew the last person in the immediate vicinity |
0:48.3 | and perhaps anywhere, although that is not necessarily a hard and fast rule. |
0:55.0 | And let's be honest, some of us were a little more confident, |
1:00.2 | perhaps even cockier than others about their chances of survival and I thought it would be a good idea to take that conversation away from the |
1:12.0 | cloistered hush of the morning call and put it onto my podcast. That is what I am going to do and I'm joined in this pursuit by Luther Abel. |
1:25.8 | I hope you all now believe that he is a real boy. |
1:30.1 | Jack Butler who I have made up and will be voicing throughout and |
1:34.9 | Phil Klein who I don't mind divulging was I think the most confident of all of us that he would be able to make it through. |
1:46.0 | So here goes. |
1:48.2 | The world is in a state of crisis. You are alone, as far as you know. |
1:57.4 | There is no chance of you having your meals cooked for you |
2:01.9 | or your electrical device is fixed. having your |
2:03.0 | electrical devices fixed and you have to survive |
2:07.2 | what Luther Abel is the first thing you do. |
2:11.6 | Yeah, so the scenario we gave ourselves was that we returned from space and find ourselves |
2:19.5 | off the Florida coast. |
2:21.9 | And so being in Wisconsin, that's quite a shout away from home for me. |
2:27.0 | So thinking through it, my wife actually had a brilliant idea, as she's want to do. |
2:33.8 | I would go to Disneyland or actually Disney World first. |
2:37.2 | Now people really are going to think that I've made you up |
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