Interview · moment 11 of 14
LA Delusions and Dead Soldier Needles
from Living on the Edge of Death · #112
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minGuest
Tim riffs on the deep denial of unemployed people in LA who float from gig to gig, mocks going to a cold Malibu beach and doing nothing, and jokes about stepping on used needles on Skid Row.
- 37:23William Buckley wasn't William Buckley — the old conservative intellectual from the 50s-70s who debated Chomsky.
- 38:05Bannon's trying to get back to Buckley's era, but Buckley wasn't smarter than Bannon — he was defending economic colonialism and intervention in Greece and Vietnam.
- 38:55The idea that Buckley wouldn't be radical today is horseshit — back then Black people were still having trouble voting and the Civil Rights Act hadn't happened.
- 39:16Tim gets the instinct that Trump is scary, but questions whether Trump is actually going to blow up the world.
- 39:32Trump putting kids in cages on immigration is crazy, but Tim's not convinced he's the apocalyptic threat people claim.