Into the Pandemiverse
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
At long last interracial marriage has been legalized at the federal level in the US! In reality, of course, the law Biden signed this week is more about political maneuvering around gay marriage. Concurrently, Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas on charges of fraud as it appears FTX is effectively a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Does this event shed a new light on the factions vying for power in the financial space? Plus: it’s a tripledemic—time to mask back up. Our editors contemplate the machinations of The Borg™.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Round Table. |
| 0:03.2 | You just look at the social indicators |
| 0:04.8 | coming out of COVID, you know, yeah, people died. |
| 0:07.4 | Yes, things were looking pretty rough there for a minute. |
| 0:11.0 | But a lot of it was just kind of like sitting around at home, |
| 0:14.8 | whether you liked it or not. |
| 0:16.8 | And slowly or maybe not so slowly succumbing |
| 0:20.4 | to like not particularly healthy habits and ways of life |
| 0:25.4 | where it was not very clear whether, you know, |
| 0:29.4 | is it a hardship or is it easy street? |
| 0:31.4 | Like celebrities had a lot of experience with this |
| 0:35.4 | where, you know, oh, laugh at the celebrity |
| 0:37.4 | who boards themself up in the hotel room |
| 0:39.4 | and, you know, Lindsay Lohan drops $50,000 |
| 0:42.4 | at the Chateau Marmont and living there for a month |
| 0:44.4 | and having these parties. |
| 0:45.4 | Well, it's not that glamorous. |
| 0:47.4 | It's a lot of just sort of like sitting around |
| 0:49.4 | making bad choices, watching the time go by. |
| 0:52.4 | And in a World War War and Peace have been blurred together |
| 0:55.4 | and sickness and health have been blurred together |
| 0:58.4 | and instead of clear episodic events |
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