Pete Is Back...And He Has A Book!

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Pete returns to talk about his new book Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing. Book is here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dedicated/Pete-Davis/9781982140908 How a Surprisingly Anti-Capitalist Self-Help Book Could Help Deepen Our Democracy - Progressive.org This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Good evening, current affairs listeners. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor in chief of
0:04.3	Current Affairs Magazine, and I'm here with Mr. Pete Davis, who is the former full-time
0:10.7	current affairs podcast, host, an occasional podcast guest, well known and loved by the magazine.
0:17.8	Hello, Pete. I'm so glad to be here. I'm on this kind of podcast tour for this book,
0:22.4	and I keep referring to this interview
0:24.4	as my time where I have home field advantage.
0:27.1	Well, hang on a minute, Pete.
0:29.0	You think you have home field advantage.
0:30.4	And I resolved to counter that.
0:32.4	I'm going to grill you out.
0:35.1	Okay.
0:35.6	So, we're here because Pete is the author of his, well, your first book with a major
0:42.8	publisher, you've put out sort of long-form work before, but this is...
0:46.3	The first non-crazy book.
0:48.4	I didn't want to say that.
0:50.8	Pete is now the author of Dedicated, for commitment in an age of infinite browsing.
0:57.1	Out now, it's out now, right?
0:58.9	Yes.
0:59.3	It's out.
1:00.0	Yes, as of the time this will come out.
1:02.1	From Avid Reader Press available in bookstores everywhere.
1:07.0	And I'm excited to talk to him about it.
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