SIO211: Listener Questions, with Jamie!
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It's a great time to stay on top of some listener mail! But first, a new segment, "Feminist Yells at News!" Jamie talks about Brett Kavanaugh's latest victim complex, and Hillary Clinton opening up in recent interviews.
After that, it's listener questions! Topics include: supporting local news organizations vs. national news organizations; comedians feeling like they can't do comedy because of the PC left; is it useful to have conservatives like Ross Douthat in the NYT opinion section; are we strawmanning the Yang UBI arguments?
After that, we've got an excellent bonus 30 minutes for patrons! We talk about needing meaning in life, Jamie answers criticism on her Biden comments, and then we talk about which are our favorite musicals! (and not so favorite...)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas that's just series inquiry only this is episode 211 we're right back at it I'm |
| 0:34.0 | Thomas that's Jamie how you doing Jamie I'm alright how are you Thomas I'm great I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm especially excited I almost said ex-Specially which is a pet peeve |
| 0:42.3 | of mine but it's just because I was going to say I'm especially excited to have an express zone. |
| 0:47.6 | No, to debut your new proposed segment feminist screams at news which I think is a perfect I think |
| 0:56.9 | we already were kind of doing that here and there but that's a great way of putting |
| 1:01.2 | it we have a lot of listener questions. Well, I'll say that again. We have a rephrase it rather. We have a good amount of listener feedback. I was looking at it and I was like, hey, this is a good amount for one episode, which normally I'm like, well, that's not enough. |
| 1:15.8 | I should have too much to get to. |
| 1:17.5 | And then I remembered, wait, why not just do the amount we have in a reasonable time? |
| 1:22.1 | And then that way I don't have a bunch of stuff that I can never get to. |
| 1:25.2 | So that's where we are with that. |
| 1:26.8 | But before that, why don't we allow this feminist to scream at the news for a minute? |
| 1:31.8 | What's going on? What's got you angry today? |
| 1:34.0 | So Brett Kavanaugh has me existing in almost an eternal state of rage. |
| 1:39.0 | And every time his name pops up in the news, |
| 1:43.8 | the 14 year old girl inside of me |
| 1:45.7 | who wanted to say no and didn't know how, |
| 1:47.7 | just like screams into the void again. |
| 1:50.7 | And I just want to reaffirm that this is why attempted rapists should not be on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:55.6 | But he had made his way into my newsfeed yet again because someone was remarking about how hard it was for him to have to go out in public and hide his face. |
| 2:06.0 | Meanwhile, Dr Ford had to move, literally sort of go into hiding because of all of the death threats that she's gotten and I just want to point out that when we make these sorts of demands for civility |
| 2:20.0 | what people are really requesting is that the price of their comfort |
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