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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

How Sex, Drugs, and Ancient Humans Affect Today’s Politics with Chris Ryan

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview where Chris talks psychedelics, paradigm shifting experiences, and how the government is lying to us. Chris Ryan, author of Civilized to Death and Sex at Dawn, as well as host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking, wants to help you live happier. He’s studied hunter gatherers; our closest relatives in the animal kingdom; and human philosophy/history to learn why we do what we do, what makes us want to live, and what we’re doing wrong today. Of course we ask him how all this shapes media and politics, but Chris also shares practical tips for any Useful Idiot to meaningfully improve their mindset on life. These include helping others, living less alone, spending less money of stuff we think makes us happier, and saying screw it and jumping into cold rivers. He’s got the science and philosophy behind all of it. And subscribe for the full interview where Chris talks psychedelics, paradigm shifting experiences, and how the government is lying to us. It’s all this, and more, on a transformative episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Use Flitties. I'm one of your co-host Katie Halper.

0:09.0

And I'm Aaron Matek. How are you Katie? I'm good you.

0:12.0

I see you're still in your Zoom Hut slash sauna.

0:16.0

Yes, I'm in the Zoom Hut slash sauna slash outhouse.

0:20.0

It is it is only one of those three things and it is a Zoom Hut.

0:23.0

Yeah, I'm away for this week and I'm in this interesting location.

0:29.0

It makes for an interesting shot. And great awareness about the importance of sauna use.

0:34.0

It is true. Yeah. Yeah. I like sauna. So are you a sauna person or a senior person?

0:40.0

Oh, I'm a sauna person. Okay. Interesting. Love the sauna. Yeah, me too.

0:45.0

All right. Well, should we get to it? Yeah, let's just get into it for basic food groups.

0:50.0

Yeah. Well, some of the candidates is always for Democrats. I know.

0:55.0

This one, you guys have probably already seen it, but for old time's sake, let's hear it one more time.

1:00.0

Here we go. Here's Jill Biden speaking this week in Texas.

1:03.0

Diversity of this community as distinct as the bogus of the Bronx as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami.

1:13.0

And as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio.

1:20.0

So look, the controversy really around this has centered on her talking about breakfast tacos, comparing Latinos to breakfast tacos and fair enough.

1:28.0

I mean, that's a really ridiculous statement. But what has not gotten enough attention is that she also mispronounced bodegas.

1:36.0

She called them bogus does. It's pretty hilarious, which is like she, I think the saying the major city in Colombia.

1:46.0

Yeah, above it. Yeah. I think that's what she was. Yeah. Yeah.

1:51.0

But look, what Ashley Parker of the Washington Post points out in a tweet, which I think is a fair thing to bring up.

1:58.0

This is not just Dr. Jill Biden's gaff because look at what she reports worth noting that before Jill Biden made her taco gaff, her entire speech was read and signed off by the White House offices of intergovernmental affairs, legislative affairs and public liaison.

2:15.0

So this was vetted people professionals who work in communications, public relations, read this. I'm like, yep, let's compare Latinos to breakfast tacos. That's a good idea.

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