Behind the Bastards

I wrote A Choice Not an Echo. I self-published it. I went to the Republican Convention, wrote a second book, The Grave Diggers.

I wrote A Choice Not an Echo. I self-published it. I went to the Republican Convention, wrote a second book, The Grave Diggers.

So he realized that he was an unusually talented surgeon and an unusually brilliant thinker due to the incredible success of his goat testicle and ovaries, and he was able to get the results of his goat testicle and ovary implants.

So he realized that he was an unusually talented surgeon and an unusually brilliant thinker due to the incredible success of his goat testicle and ovaries, and he was able to get the results of his goat testicle and ovary implants.

The doctor half closed his eyes and considered, and then he shook his head slowly. The code of ethics his father had drilled into him forever forbade him from any conducts, especially with relation to healing, except the utterly honest and straightforward.

He actually cares a lot about stuff.

It's clearly the work of someone who cares deeply about telling a dinosaur story.

It's having fun. Really? Having a good time with it.

I am also thrilled about your memoir. Where Am I Now? Which people can buy wherever books are sold or you can buy it wherever books are sold.

So you need more red because the red makes everything.

Yeah. Red makes it go faster.

And obviously the thing that the Warhammer people are are inspired by is like the book Larian Jihad and Dune, which is the the more artful version of that story with less orcs, which makes it inferior in my mind. But I do love Dune.

His great work which is what he calls it would be to decisively identify name and sketch every single bird species in the parts of North America controlled by the US government.

There would be engraved images of 490 species each drawing the actual size of life of the bird itself.

Most experts agree that even today he has not been surpassed in depicting birds in this manner.

I feel like I read Stephen King's It when I was probably too young.

That's a fucked up book for a kid.

It's not ideal.

If you want the most, the biggest touchstone culturally for this era is Jane Austin. Jane Austin is a contemporary of Bo. She's born, I think, two and a half years before him. But they live in London basically during the same time. And she never references him directly.

I read a very detailed article by some some scholars with the Jane Austin fan club who I trust to know their shit, who argue like she didn't reference him directly. But most of the male characters in her novels were either based on him or reactions to him.

So that's that's an argument that people make. Right. I'm not a Jane Austin scholar, but these Jane Austin scholars make that argument.

Right. So Bo grows up idolizing Tom Sheridan and specifically idolizing the fact that he earns a lot of respect because he's funny and kind of a dick. He's going to learn from Tom that like that's sort of how you make a place in yourself in societies. You learn how to put people down in a way that's so funny. They don't really get angry at you.

Novels were another major place where this kind of culture spread. Jane Austen is a big part of this.

And just to give your listener some context, one of the three authors on this New York Times article is famous for writing this book, Sapiens.

God, I hate French. It's a truly terrible language.

You actually read The Second Sex and The Second Sex is talking about, literally her famous line is no one is born a woman, a woman is made, right? Because it's a social process, not a biological one.

I have lived through Nazi persecution and Soviet occupation, Soros later said. Popper's book is Karl Popper. Open Society and its enemies struck me with the force of revelation.

It showed that fascism and communism have a lot in common, that they both stand in opposition to a different principle of social organization. The principle of open society.

Open Society and its Enemies struck me with the force of revelation.

So I suspect at some point it's got that's going to be fun. We're all going to be in for a real treat when that book hits.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Can I tell one Freakonomics story?

Yeah, okay. So one of my professors at UChicago was a political science guy, or I guess he's public policy.

And there's a thing that Freakonomics guy wrote where he was trying to prove that money doesn't actually influence like doesn't actually influence elections.

You know what? My professor wrote a paper about that, which is that, you know, again, this is a perfect example of how dumb this guy is.

And so he did this whole thing where he was - he had this great - he had this great metric called like - oh, God.

It was called like the dairy cow coefficient, which is like measuring like how someone should vote versus like how many dairy cows -