Live from New Orleans with Walter Isaacson
The Next Level
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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This event took place on October 25, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone this is James Harkin and Anna Tashinsky two writers of the TV show |
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| 0:18.2 | whether you like sports or not. Did you know that legendary cricketer Gary Sobers scored his final century while drunk? |
| 0:25.7 | Or that games of lacrosse used to involve 100,000 players. |
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| 0:36.2 | in all bookshops and online right now. Hello and welcome to the Borks Next Level Sunday show. I'm your host Tim Miller. This week we were playing my |
| 0:54.0 | interview with Walter Isaacson live from New Orleans. It's a hometown boy. We talked |
| 0:59.2 | about his Elon Musk book, but he's talked a lot about his Elon Musk Book, let's be honest. |
| 1:03.7 | So I gave him the business a little bit about the ways in which some have thought he was a little |
| 1:11.2 | too kind, maybe, to his subject in this case I think you can judge that for |
| 1:15.3 | yourself is a lot of criticisms of e-line and I think he rightly points out a lot of the |
| 1:19.5 | positives that we all thought about e-lon before he took over X and became an insane person, |
| 1:25.9 | tweeting weird conspiracy theories about Nancy Pelosi's husband's gay lover. |
| 1:30.5 | So that part of the conversation at the start but then we have a really interesting broader conversation about what media institutions are supposed to do in the age of Trump. |
| 1:40.0 | He ran Time magazine, CNN, and the Aspen Institute. So he's you know had to make a lot of these |
| 1:46.2 | decisions and so I really enjoyed that part of the conversation. So check it out |
| 1:50.5 | if you want your politics fix. I was on over on the Bullwork flagship |
| 1:54.9 | podcast on Friday with Charlie Sykes. If you haven't listened to it yet, we have a blast. |
| 1:59.7 | We talked about Steve Bannon's cum retribution, which is a pretty grody mental image for the weekend, |
| 2:06.8 | but you know we have to give you all the news that you need even if you don't want it and that's what we did on the Bullard |
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