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The Glenn Show

How to Avert the Apocalypse (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Changing the narrative on race in America ... Navigating the increasingly polarized landscape ... Why Glenn takes issue with the 1619 Project ... Bob’s new Apocalypse Aversion Project ... Confronting nationalism and identity politics ... Globalization, privilege, and "meritocratic hubris" ... The evolution of Bloggingheads.tv ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from blogging heads TV Hey, they're Robert. How are you doing? Okay, Glenn. How are you?

0:12.7

I'm alright. It's pandemic time over here and you know starting to get a little bit boring after a year, but

0:19.1

Endemic get on can't complain. Yeah, and very quickly. Yeah

0:23.9

This is Glenn Lowry. We're at the glenshow blogging heads.tv and

0:28.7

patreon.com forward slash glenshow and I have the great pleasure of talking with Robert Wright

0:34.8

Who is the founder of the blogging heads enterprise and has many other credits to his credit that he will tell you about

0:44.1

As he chooses to and we're here talking. I'm not sure about exactly what but it's always good to talk to Bob

0:50.8

Yeah, thanks, Glenn. I am co founder blogging heads

0:56.3

started 15 years ago with Mickey Kous and Greg Dingell detecting us and

1:02.0

Yeah, you you were on from pretty early. I think Josh Cohen brought you on first

1:09.2

And then it was 2007 I think when I did my first blogging heads. So that's 14 years 13 and a half years ago. Yeah

1:18.3

Well, you're having a great run. I know you keep going to the next level. I don't know how long this can continue, but you keep going to to higher levels of

1:27.8

prominence air audition and so on

1:32.4

Thank you, Robert

1:34.8

It's something I never would have envisioned myself doing. I thought podcasting was for kids

1:41.8

And it turns out that

1:44.1

That it has awakened the kid in me or something

1:48.7

but

1:50.0

You know, it's it's it's an important part of my life now. I'm I look forward to the conversations

1:56.4

Mortar and I have developed a

1:59.3

Something of a brand and and and it's an extended conversation over years on race-related issues

2:05.4

But the platform before to me the chance to talk to all kinds of people

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