James Damore and the Google Memo
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
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| 0:47.4 | and i am not saying which one of the brats is the worst on air okay that's i have feelings about it. I'm in gumbo. Oh, yeah. You're great. My favorite. And speaking of links, we're going to have one at the end of the show where you can donate money to us. And with that out of the way, tell us, Eli, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event? Are we going to be talking about today we'll be talking about |
| 1:11.1 | james d'more all right so you found yet another way to drag us through the grimiest and most |
| 1:17.2 | unwashed corners of the internet are you ready to remind us why our misanthropy is so justified |
| 1:22.6 | oh i'm just asking questions now all right so who just asking questions. So who is James De Moor? |
| 1:28.9 | He's an Edge Lord Tech, bro, who CC-A-old Google about how women have lady brains who can't think is good because he had to go to a diversity workshop. |
| 1:38.9 | Okay, so I only vaguely remembered this guy from 2017, so I Googled him, and I actually screamed when I saw him. |
| 1:46.9 | He's scary. He looks like a men's rights cupa trooper. |
| 1:51.0 | Like it's a great metaphor. All right. So he's got this weird lip thing going. So, |
| 1:57.1 | listener, I want you to picture a set of lips where at the end of the adventure, we're going to realize that those lips are where the key went the whole time, right? |
| 2:05.9 | That he was the treasure. |
| 2:07.8 | Yeah, he was the treasure. |
| 2:10.0 | So, look, I started this essay with the intention of writing out a bit of James' story, |
| 2:14.4 | and then I figured the meat of our episode could be us just making fun of |
| 2:18.1 | his stupid, obviously wrong memo. But then I figured I'd chuck in a little, where is he now |
| 2:23.0 | post script onto the end? And it was in search of that postcript that I found something far better |
| 2:28.6 | than a simple retelling of James's tale. An article published in March of last year in Barry Weiss's post-New York Times |
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