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The Michael Steele Podcast

The Experts vs. The Idiots - With Guest Tom Nichols

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Michael is joined by Tom Nichols to discuss why, in the era of Trump, everyone thinks they're an expert. Tom Nichols is a professor at the Naval War College and Harvard Extension AND a five-time Jeopardy! champion. His most recent book is The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters.

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0:00.0

What up, what up, what up?

0:03.0

Welcome everybody to the Man of Steel podcast. Yes, I am the Man of Steel, Michael Steele.

0:19.0

Just to remind you now you can catch this episode and all future episodes and some past ones too if you really want to go back and relive on Apple podcast

0:27.8

Did your tune in or wherever you like to get your podcast follow me on Twitter at Michael Steele

0:36.7

So we've got we've got a lot of serious stuff to talk about and we got a serious guy to help us kind of understand it. He yes he's a

0:41.7

smart one he's a professor He's the professor of National Security Affairs

0:45.3

at the U.S. Naval War College. Tom Nichols, he's adjunct professor at Harvard Extension School

0:52.1

and a former aide in the United States Senate.

0:55.6

He's also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy Champion.

0:59.6

Let me just stop right there for a second time. I have to, I'm paying homage my brother, I on

1:06.4

bended knee, I did jeopardy a couple of years ago and was scared you know what less it was

1:14.7

Man so was I yeah but you got it five times baby how you do that well you know some of it's some of it's just luck I mean that you know you're

1:25.2

there when the categories come up the right way and some of it is that you know you just

1:35.8

you're fast off that that trigger well hell I blanked on who is the quarterback for for the Patriots the Panthers on the

1:41.3

Panthers on cam new now me come on dude I'm like in 20 well

1:45.3

football leagues and completely blank if it makes you feel any better I I've

1:51.3

flamed out in the tournament of champions on a question about Greece and I am Greek American.

1:57.0

I heard about that. I couldn't go to church for like years.

2:02.0

Yeah, that would be. couldn't go to church for like years.

2:03.2

Yeah, that would be like, you know,

2:06.2

me missing the question, who's Frederick Douglas?

2:08.4

Yeah, okay?

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