John McWhorter – The Best of "The Black Guys" 2021

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a big year here at The Glenn Show. So as 2021 draws to a close, I thought it would be a nice idea to round up some choice selections from the conversations I’ve had with John over the past year. This episode is a kind of “best of” compilation of segments that got a big response from viewers or that I personally thought were important or noteworthy. I couldn’t include all of the highlights, but I think these clips give a good sense of what my conversations with John were all about in 2021.

I must also offer my thanks and gratitude to everyone who read, listened, watched, and commented this year, and especially to those of you who continue to support TGS by subscribing to this newsletter. We wouldn’t be able to do it without you. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you!

I’m sure I left out things that regular viewers think were worthy of inclusion. What were some of the segments that resonated with you over the last year? What caused you to think, changed your mind, or made you laugh? Post ‘em in the comments!

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0:00 A special “thank you” from Glenn

6:23 Race and classics (June 18)

18:20 Maintaining domestic tranquility in the face of political differences (March 22)

36:06 The “badass motherfucker” problem (April 19)

46:31 An “aria” on free will and community (July 2)

51:04 Responding to “Simone” (November 19)

56:18 Glenn: “I was wrong” about Trump (January 22)

1:09:37 Reflections on Obama's legacy (October 1)

1:18:32 Finding hope amidst wokeness (November 19)

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Glenn Lowry. At the Glenn show, originally of bloggingheads.tv, now available
0:11.6	at my YouTube channel, youtube.com-forth-slash-c-forth-slash-glenn-lowry-show, and at my sub-stack account,
0:22.5	Lowry.substack.com. So, happy Christmas, Mary Hanukkah. Yes, wishes of the season to all who
0:32.2	might be tuning in. Thank you for tuning into the Glenn show. We are at the end of the year
0:38.7	2021. You have probably expected to see John McWhorter, and I talk about the stuff we talk
0:47.3	about, and you will, in fact, see us do that. Though we are taking a week off, John and I
0:53.3	talk twice a month here at the Glenn show, John McWhorter Columbia University, Distinguished
0:58.8	Language, Linguist, and author. My conversation partner here of many years at the Glenn show,
1:05.0	we talk every other week, but we're taking a week off, and we're going to offer you a montage
1:10.6	of outtakes from some of the most interesting conversations over the course of last year
1:15.0	of the John and I have joined together. You expected to see us talk live, but we are going
1:20.7	to offer you a rerun of some of our highlights. But it is the year 2021. It is coming to the
1:30.8	end. It's been a momentous year for the Glenn show, and I wanted to take this opportunity
1:35.3	to thank all of those who have supported us over the course of the last year. Your letters
1:43.3	that come into my email inbox, your comments that are posted at the newsletter and at the
1:50.0	blogging hit site and at YouTube have been very gratifying. It's been very gratifying to see the way
1:58.8	in which the show has been received. The conversation that John and I have in an ongoing way, and my
2:05.8	other guests, so thank you. It's been an interesting 14 going on 15 years of my association with
2:17.8	blogginghits.tv. Thanks very much to Robert Wright, the proprietor there, for really proposing the
2:24.6	idea that I do a regular internet conversation platform and for showing me the way. There would
2:35.4	be no Glenn show, but for Robert Wright, and I'm grateful to him or for that. For most of that
2:42.4	period until just a year or so ago, we were offering our content without asking anything from the
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