SIO260: Aaron Rabinowitz on James Lindsay and Monster Island
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
My brother from another pod-mother Aaron Rabinowitz is on to discuss the fantastic article he wrote for The Skeptic! The article is about his experience in the Facebook group Monster Island, which was a no-holds-barred debate group that some of you may have been involved with. If you weren't, Aaron will detail what happened, including a pretty scary twist (or predictable?) ending.
Before that, we talk about James Lindsay going full Trump supporter.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to not philosophers in space. This is Serious inquiries only, probably |
| 0:35.7 | episode two. But I'm joined by one Aaron Rabinowitz co-host of the famous podcast, |
| 0:44.1 | Philosophers in Space. How you doing? Really pulling against muscle memory there, huh? |
| 0:50.1 | It's all the same button I push and Mike I talk into. I really shouldn't be that hard, but oh, |
| 0:56.3 | I see how it is. It's the same no matter what. You're all the same to me. Not even special anymore. |
| 1:01.4 | That's fine. Oh, wow. Well, Aaron is on the show among many reasons. I mean, we got a lot to talk |
| 1:09.8 | about what with James Lindsay. Are you sitting down, Aaron? I just want to make sure you're sitting |
| 1:15.5 | down for this bombshell. Everybody sit down in a chair and then put that chair on another chair |
| 1:21.7 | to make sure you're just maximum sitting down because what I'm about to say is going to surprise you. |
| 1:28.0 | James Lindsay is going to vote for Trump. How did it come to this? I thought he was a staunch |
| 1:36.9 | stalwart liberal just devoted to equity but just hated, you know, critical race theory. I |
| 1:45.4 | thought it was all about being a liberal, but just, you know, you just those the noisy ones get to |
| 1:51.4 | annoying. So I never could have guessed that he would actually vote for Trump. How you taking |
| 1:56.6 | this news? I mean, I'm overjoyed in the sense that when I put down my marker back in August |
| 2:03.4 | claiming that he would endorse Trump before the election, it was, you know, I didn't think |
| 2:08.9 | that I was going to win. I'll be honest. I think I was going to win the pool because I thought |
| 2:13.1 | at the end of the day, he would be smart enough to realize that endorsing a like giant like |
| 2:21.0 | dumpster fire as it crashes down into the, you know, it from space is not the right way to |
| 2:27.3 | further one's personal projects. And so he would do the normal human being thing which would be |
| 2:33.3 | you know, implicate that he, you know, make it implicit that he was going to be |
| 2:37.8 | if not voting for Trump, then sitting out voting for Biden and encouraging others to |
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