Topics: Outlaw The Kentucky Derby; J.D. Vance’s phony populism; That female prison guard; Admitting you’re wrong;
Guests with time codes:
00:35 David Does the News: Infant formula shortage; Starbucks fires union organizers; Record gun deaths in America; Record drug overdoses in America; Inflation; ICE is America’s Gestapo
1:07:01 “Turtle” written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel
1:11:57 Jason Myles (co-host of “This is Revolution” podcast)
1:28:34 Professor Ben Burgis (his new book is “Canceling Comedians While The World Burns”) J.D. Vance’s Unbelievably Phony Populism: Against basic safety net programs for low-income families, and backed by libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel, the Ohio GOP Senate candidate is about as populist as Gordon Gekko. J.D. Vance is many things. He’s a bestselling author. He’s a venture capitalist. He’s the founder of an “anti-opioid” nonprofit that “spent more than 95 percent of its 2017 fundraising on staff salaries and overhead, and $0 on charitable activities or grants.” One thing he can’t be called with a straight face is a “populist.”
2:02:16 The Herschenfelds: Dr. Philip Herschenfeld (Freudian psychoanalyst), and Ethan Herschenfeld (his new comedy special “Thug, Thug Jew” is streaming on YouTube) That female prison guard who helped her lover escape; They say she suffered from Hybristophilia. What is hybristophilia and are women turned on by bad guys? Mayor Ed Koch’s bizarre tombstone
2:39:20 Jose Arroyo (Comedy writer and cartoonist. His new comic book is “Somewhere In L.A.: A Book Of Hours”) Jose Arroyo treats us to a series of cartoons rejected by The New Yorker
3:07:00 Quizmaster Dan Frankenberger questions our knowledge about The Price Is Right
3:20:26 The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) w/ Reverend Rob Schenck (founder of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington, DC, and author of “Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister’s Rediscovery of Faith, Hope and Love”)
4:21:45 The Professors And Mary Anne: Professors Mary Anne Cummings, Jonathan Bick, Ann Li, Adnan Husain PLUS: ASMR for your eyeballs – Kitchen ASMR with Joe in Norway
5:14:19 Professor Harvey J. Kaye (“FDR on Democracy”) and Alan Minsky (executive director of Progressive Democrats of America)
6:18:20 Emil Guillermo (host of the PETA Podcast, and columnist for The Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund) w/ Kathy Guillermo (PETA) The Kentucky Derby An 80-1 longshot wins. But gets punched after the race by an abusive outrider.