It should be noted that Ke Huy Quan owes Spielberg his career not just for Temple Of Doom, but also in the following year's Spielberg-produced Goonies, his first two acting jobs.
Hot damn. I'm about to hop on an overnight flight to Florence, Italy, where I will be for the next 6 weeks. At least a portion of my flight just got a little more enjoyable. No spoilers!
LMAO at Moynihan being a Boomer thinking one of those spam/scam messages I get twice a day telling me I have to pay for packages I never ordered was real! 🤣
For a media literacy podcast, I am now officially questioning Moynihan's media literacy skills. A. The AI ("The Entity") in Final Reckoning is *not* the McGuffin, but the villain! There are at least three separate McGuffins throughout the course of the filme they need to possess to defeat the AI, but the AI itself is not a McGuffin. Second, the Wolf Blitzer cameo is in the beginning M:I 6 (which I just rewatched last night), and he was not being played by Tom Cruise, but by the chinless, nerdy Brit, Simon Pegg.
I listened to the episode of Smoke 'Em with Moynihan from a year ago. I enjoyed the whole thing, but I particularly appreciated the section on Buckley. After doing some digging, it sounds like the episode of Firing Line that Moynihan was referring to was with one Lester Maddox, the governor of Georgia from 67-71. Unfortunately, every attempt to find video of this episode has led me to a dead end. Does anyone have any pointers? It's possible it exists only on old VHS tapes now, which would be a shame.
Buckley's ideological evolution is a testament to the seemingly basic observation (that nonetheless appears to be acted upon only rarely nowadays) that you have the most to learn from people you *disagree* with. The ability to have civil conversations across ideological lines, and actively and in good faith engage with opposing ideas, seems to be a lost art. We desperately need another Buckley to demonstrate to a broad audience how to do this.
That will take someone who can both articulate and understand ideological positions on all sides of an issue. When Buckley died, we were mostly left with conservatives and fellow travelers who openly disdained any understanding of opposing viewpoints, which is why the GOP ultimately fell to the populists in the 2010's: ideas and serious arguments were no longer at the forefront of the movement. (Just to be clear, the left was already there, having long since rejected any attempt to understand conservative viewpoints, leveraging its institutional metastasis over the course of several decades to nearly eliminate any opposing ideas from the progressive hive mind now in charge of virtually every major institution not explicitly of the right.) Both parties as a result are now both stupid and evil.
I haven't seen the latest Mission Impossible (nor most of the previous ones), but swimming to the surface from great depth is not like swimming the same distance horizontally. Since air expands as pressure is reduced, the trick to to blow air out to avoid over pressurizing. If you blow out too much and think you've screwed up, more air will appear in your lungs like magic. Boyle's Law is basic Scientology.
Yeah, I'd never heard of the All In podcast until a couple weeks ago when some well-intentioned algorithm placed their interview with Sec. Doug Burgum in my suggestions. After listening to a couple episode further I realized it just wasn't for me, but I actually thought that particular piece was interesting and that Burgum could be on the right track. . .but there might be some serious blindspots - what the hell do I know about it, though. I was kinda hoping someone else might take a second shot at it and do better.
Wish I could put Sec. Burgum in a room with Hon. Kevin Warsh and Helen Thompson though and get deep into the weed on that topic. It would be like having the ghosts of energy policies, past, present, and future all in one place to hammer out an action plan for how to actually get from possible to plausible and ultimately arrive at abundance.
All In must be paying for eyes if they managed to catch me along with you guys. I can't imagine we have a hell of a lot of overlap in our interests. I don't see you guys dedicating your afternoons to catching up on LANPAC 2025 or Meghan McCain's national defense soiree.
It should be noted that Ke Huy Quan owes Spielberg his career not just for Temple Of Doom, but also in the following year's Spielberg-produced Goonies, his first two acting jobs.
Contras, Molly Ringwald, Pee Wee Herman! As part of the demographic that remembers this stuff I appreciate it.
Not enough Gillespie.
Hot damn. I'm about to hop on an overnight flight to Florence, Italy, where I will be for the next 6 weeks. At least a portion of my flight just got a little more enjoyable. No spoilers!
LMAO at Moynihan being a Boomer thinking one of those spam/scam messages I get twice a day telling me I have to pay for packages I never ordered was real! 🤣
For a media literacy podcast, I am now officially questioning Moynihan's media literacy skills. A. The AI ("The Entity") in Final Reckoning is *not* the McGuffin, but the villain! There are at least three separate McGuffins throughout the course of the filme they need to possess to defeat the AI, but the AI itself is not a McGuffin. Second, the Wolf Blitzer cameo is in the beginning M:I 6 (which I just rewatched last night), and he was not being played by Tom Cruise, but by the chinless, nerdy Brit, Simon Pegg.
Please forgive the typos. I'm doing this on my phone.
And daydrinking.
As you should
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I was slowing down a little with my daily energy and then I saw this title
I listened to the episode of Smoke 'Em with Moynihan from a year ago. I enjoyed the whole thing, but I particularly appreciated the section on Buckley. After doing some digging, it sounds like the episode of Firing Line that Moynihan was referring to was with one Lester Maddox, the governor of Georgia from 67-71. Unfortunately, every attempt to find video of this episode has led me to a dead end. Does anyone have any pointers? It's possible it exists only on old VHS tapes now, which would be a shame.
Buckley's ideological evolution is a testament to the seemingly basic observation (that nonetheless appears to be acted upon only rarely nowadays) that you have the most to learn from people you *disagree* with. The ability to have civil conversations across ideological lines, and actively and in good faith engage with opposing ideas, seems to be a lost art. We desperately need another Buckley to demonstrate to a broad audience how to do this.
That will take someone who can both articulate and understand ideological positions on all sides of an issue. When Buckley died, we were mostly left with conservatives and fellow travelers who openly disdained any understanding of opposing viewpoints, which is why the GOP ultimately fell to the populists in the 2010's: ideas and serious arguments were no longer at the forefront of the movement. (Just to be clear, the left was already there, having long since rejected any attempt to understand conservative viewpoints, leveraging its institutional metastasis over the course of several decades to nearly eliminate any opposing ideas from the progressive hive mind now in charge of virtually every major institution not explicitly of the right.) Both parties as a result are now both stupid and evil.
That's awesome, Moynihan got Batya a dress. Unfortunately populists always fly coach
It's called the Future Perfect and Latin totally has it, or will have had it if you will.
I haven't seen the latest Mission Impossible (nor most of the previous ones), but swimming to the surface from great depth is not like swimming the same distance horizontally. Since air expands as pressure is reduced, the trick to to blow air out to avoid over pressurizing. If you blow out too much and think you've screwed up, more air will appear in your lungs like magic. Boyle's Law is basic Scientology.
They even point that out!
Ke Huy Quan is fabulous in Loki. One of the best recent marvel offerings
Ju-coup or j'coup or however its spelled was so freaking funny. Made my day, thanks Kmele!
I’m still dying listening to Kmele’s Hillary going John Wick.
Yeah, I'd never heard of the All In podcast until a couple weeks ago when some well-intentioned algorithm placed their interview with Sec. Doug Burgum in my suggestions. After listening to a couple episode further I realized it just wasn't for me, but I actually thought that particular piece was interesting and that Burgum could be on the right track. . .but there might be some serious blindspots - what the hell do I know about it, though. I was kinda hoping someone else might take a second shot at it and do better.
Wish I could put Sec. Burgum in a room with Hon. Kevin Warsh and Helen Thompson though and get deep into the weed on that topic. It would be like having the ghosts of energy policies, past, present, and future all in one place to hammer out an action plan for how to actually get from possible to plausible and ultimately arrive at abundance.
All In must be paying for eyes if they managed to catch me along with you guys. I can't imagine we have a hell of a lot of overlap in our interests. I don't see you guys dedicating your afternoons to catching up on LANPAC 2025 or Meghan McCain's national defense soiree.