I learned a lot listening to @nicoperrino.bsky.social on Mona Charen’s podcast. Powerful, evenhanded defense of free speech.

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I used to be a scout leader - driving 5 kids back from a weekend camping, listening to Al on a CD. The kids just talking and being kids. When Hardware Store came on I’d turn up the volume a little. Then a bit more. Then more. And more. Until it was blasting their little ear drums off. They loved it.

I’m watching Marc Maron’s special. I thought he’d been spying on my wife as he talked about fishing cat toys out from under the stove. Then I looked up from stretching on the living room floor as he talked about the old Asian lady squat. We’ve never felt so seen!

Two and a half hour podcast! C’mon!

*2.5 hours later* Fantastic - like spending the afternoon with my smartest friends chatting about how the world works.

Agreed. It’s much like president Andrew Johnson demanding the rich planter class come appeal to him personally in the aftermath of the civil war. I don’t know what gains he personally made, but it was an unbelievable opportunity for extortion.