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Le Show For The Week Of June 1, 2025

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Music, Society & Culture, Tech News, Sports

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry speaks with Professor Gary Marcus about the latest advancements and obstacles in artificial intelligence. He also brings us regular features like News of Musk Love, The Side Effects of the Week, News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Warm, News of Crypto-Winter, great music, and more.

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0:00.0

Here it is!

0:02.0

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

0:07.0

Looks like Musk Love.

0:11.0

Well, hello.

0:16.0

This is LaSho, I'm Harry Shearer.

0:19.0

And we start off with News of Musk Love.

0:21.4

You probably know by now that he, Elon Musk, has bid a fond farewell son in tow to the world of Doge and the federal government, at least for the moment, amid reports that the party wasn't

0:41.3

that amiable. The TV press conference he had with President, President, convicted

0:48.9

President Trump seemed kind of palsy. But there are departures from Doge that aren't as amiable.

1:00.5

A former associate of Doge says he was removed from the, quote, department, unquote.

1:08.2

After an interview where he discussed his work was published earlier

1:12.6

this month, Sahil Lavingia. He's an engineer tech startup founder and CEO of Gumroad,

1:21.7

an e-commerce platform for content creators. He wrote in a recent personal blog that he, quote, got the boot, unquote, from Doge,

1:32.0

without warning, the day after the publication Fast Company published in an interview in which

1:38.5

he spoke about finding less inefficiencies than he expected in the government that was during his Doge assignment

1:47.0

as senior advisor to the chief of staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as reported by

1:51.8

nextgov.com. Quote, I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of

1:58.3

decisions, unquote, he said.

2:01.6

He also noted that he noticed the number of mission-driven people working in government.

2:09.1

But honestly, it's kind of fine because the government works.

2:14.6

It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more

2:19.8

easy wins, unquote. In the post, LaVinja detailed his work, which was, among other things,

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