The Coffee Table GLoP

GLoP Culture

Ricochet

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We’ve got A.I.! (Is Jonah really worse than Pol Pot? — The answer may surprise you!) We’ve got Oscars! We’ve got best movie performances ever! And yes, we’ve got…coffee tables! Well, we have one particularly infamous coffee table. You’ll have to listen to find out what that’s all about.

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0:00.0	No, I don't want to talk about it. I've been talking about it for 10 years. Yes, it's a real thing.
0:07.0	I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
0:15.0	Someday you'll understand that.
0:19.0	Now, now.
0:22.0	There's looking at you, kid. February is coming to an end and this is the beginning of block culture.
0:37.0	I'm John Podhoritz in New York, elsewhere in New York Rob Long.
0:40.0	Hi Rob.
0:41.0	John, how are you? I'm okay and in Washington with the sign of the dispatch, his noble computer internet
0:52.0	product behind him.
0:53.2	Jonah Goldberg.
0:54.1	Hi Jonah.
0:55.2	Hey John, that sign's been there for about three years.
0:57.8	Yeah, I think yes.
0:59.6	It has.
1:00.6	And you can reach that, you can get on that on that the computer is that a
1:06.1	computer situation yeah you go to comp you serve 947 yeah so it's a piece of
1:12.2	software yes yes yes yes Yes, it's a piece of software. Yes, it's a it's a browser. I was reminded earlier today that we literally went through a trial in 1995 1996 in which a judge
1:27.9	broke up a major American company because he didn't understand what a browser
1:32.2	was and he kind of got away with it.
1:35.1	Yeah. And I was reminded also that I knew that something was up when my father
1:40.9	an extremely intelligent person could not get it into his head
1:46.0	that the browser wasn't the internet. It was sort of like, well, that's the internet.
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