Supplementary Material 18: The Clown Car Cometh

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Still in the land of the free and restocked with important new insights from his US travels, Matt is confronted with the Gurusphere's predictably depressing reaction to the election. And what's that we hear in the distance... is it a honking car?

Supplementary Material 18

00:00 Matt's American Ethnography

10:59 Eric Weinstein is waiting for the call

14:32 Huberman, Krauss, and MAGA Sycophancy

18:39 Boghossian and other would-be Intellectual Clerics of the MAGA regime

22:52 Sam Harris criticises Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and MAGA

32:05 The Fifth Column, The Free Press and World Weary Both Sides-ing

53:19 Election Reflections: Macro and Micro Causes

01:04:40 Longer Term Trends

01:10:08 Sarah Haider and the Hip Vibe of the New Right

01:24:00 Richard Dawkins Dual Nature

01:31:08 A Plea to Sean Carroll and our Listeners

01:33:06 An important note on Bouldering

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary material edition
0:30.4	where the psychologist Matthew Brown and the anthropologist Christopher Kavana
0:35.9	that's me are able to cut loose,
0:38.6	let our locks down, kick back and relax, and gaze upon the mysteries of the guru's
0:45.5	here as they swirl around us, swirl Matt, swirl around us. And as usual, for the coming months,
0:52.2	Matt is in good old US of A.
0:56.6	Howdy, partner?
0:58.1	Howdy, howdy, howdy?
0:59.4	I'm here in St. Louis, Chris.
1:01.2	I'm in the throbbing,
1:02.7	beating heart of the American Midwest.
1:05.0	It's a groovy town.
1:06.0	It's a groovy town.
1:06.8	I've only just got in here this evening,
1:09.0	but we went and had some food.
1:11.1	I'm going to get some...
1:12.8	Did you have some grits?
1:14.0	I've had grits elsewhere, Chris.
1:16.0	I've had grits elsewhere.
1:17.2	But I'm going to get some jazz and blues, meet up with some patrons here in St. Louis.
1:21.4	It's going to be good.
1:22.9	Everyone seems calm.
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