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The Curse of “Interesting Times” – Epi-3724

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

The earliest known use of the saying, “may you live in interesting times” is from the early 20th century. A 1936 speech by Sir Austen Chamberlain (brother of Neville Chamberlain) is often cited. He claimed it was an old Chinese curse, but he probably picked it up secondhand. Later, during the mid-20th century, it spread widely in English writing and speeches, particularly in political and diplomatic contexts.  Well no matter the real origin as we will see today it can indeed be a curse. Today who pays for protest damages and who should, Trumps 180 on Ukraine security guarantees, republicans Continue reading →

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0:00.0

And we're a better way to do this.

0:08.8

Let me show you a better way.

0:15.7

And we are live, and I just came in from moving the sprinklers. So I'm a little sprinkled on my shirt. I'm sure it'll be dry by the time we're done. It shows have been tending to go close to two hours, if not full two hours, recently. I'm going to try to wrap this one up a little bit quicker. I got a lot of get done this week and into next week because I'm going on vacation, as I told you guys yesterday. Tons of you guys reached out when I said where I was going. If you missed yesterday's show, we are going to Alaska on a cruise ship. I am not a big cruise ship guy, but everybody reached out and said, you are going to love this. Tons of you apparently have done the same thing, and I think of all the places you

0:55.7

could take a cruise.

0:56.9

The one with the least amount of, like, the party crowd that I don't want to be around

1:00.8

is probably Alaska.

1:02.1

I don't see a lot of 20-somethings go, woo-hoo, getting drunk off their ass on a catamaran

1:07.8

trip or whatever on an Alaskan inside passage cruise so thank you for all the

1:13.5

well wishes and howdy and hey to William and Johnny you are saying hi on the chat if you are here

1:20.1

in the chat thank you for joining us remember if you want to ask a question or make a comment

1:25.6

for me to comment on or anything like that put the word question or comment in all caps followed by your question or make a comment for me to comment on or anything like that. Put the word

1:27.7

question or comment in all caps followed by your question or your comment. And I will be more

1:32.7

likely to see it than if you don't do that. I try to do it for everyone, but it doesn't always

1:39.9

happen. So what do we got today? Well, we missed something yesterday, as long as the show

1:48.6

went. I meant to do it. It was in the notes, but I never covered it. This idea I have about,

1:53.9

should the people who fund protests be responsible for the results of the protest? What's some,

1:58.5

you know, mitigation and aggravating circumstances is always within the law.

2:03.3

But might we have a lot less places burning down if, you know, your foundation paid for all of these,

2:09.6

because they're paid protesters, right, you want to believe it or not?

2:12.1

And then they come in and burn the shit down and there was a reasonable expectation that you knew that damage could occur.

2:17.1

I mean, it's true of many other things under the law, isn't it?

2:21.7

It technically is true right now for protests, but that no one has ever been sued or prosecuted

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