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This week on the mighty GLoP podcast, we once again throw pre-agreed topics to the curb and let the Big Brains (that’s really what they make us call them) take the show where they will. So, we cover the infamous history of Rob’s NYC neighborhood, The Watchmen and The Man in The High Castle, whether or not The Irishman is trash or treasure, and are the Ferengis (characters on Star Trek: Voyager for you non-nerds) members of the Chosen People?  A GLoP investigation. Finally, fair warning: we do some Rank Punditry® on impeachment and some of you may be get triggered by what you hear. We apologize in advance to those that don’t want to hear politics, and urge you to use your fast forward button the the last five minutes where we discuss Christmas vs. Hanukkah (or is it Chanukah?)  and then do stick around for an outtake or two after the closing song. 

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  1. Kevin Inactive
    Kevin
    @JaredSturgeon

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    @kedavis — In other words, minus immigration the United States population is just breaking even.

     

    Not if only 96% of their projected increase, comes from immigration. That means 4% doesn’t.

    I thought I’d read recently that the US birthrate had fallen to 1.7 births per woman, well below the replacement rate.

    True for whites.   Other ethnicities still have babies.  The Amish still have children and can pick up the pieces after we die out from ennui.  

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  2. Kevin Inactive
    Kevin
    @JaredSturgeon

    Taras (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    @kedavis — In other words, minus immigration the United States population is just breaking even.

     

    Not if only 96% of their projected increase, comes from immigration. That means 4% doesn’t.

    I thought I’d read recently that the US birthrate had fallen to 1.7 births per woman, well below the replacement rate.

    The 4% probably represents projected improvements in longevity.

    I’ve also read recently that the life expectancy of white males is declining.

    It’s been suggested that suicide and obesity have, in a small way, reversed long-term trends for a few years.

    Actually its mostly heroin and its only one age group of white males not males overall.

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  3. Kevin Inactive
    Kevin
    @JaredSturgeon

    I found the pitch for Watchman wrong.  There is so much media to consume and so much of high quality, why waste my time on something made by people who are teaching lies ideologically and who ideologically hate me.   I don’t usually filter my media for politics but given my little time for media if I know going in its a pack of lies and false narratives, why waste my time?  There are hundreds of books, shows, movies, songs I want to experience.  No one show is so good that I should knowingly violate Platos guidance that art should be both beautiful and help people be better for a show no one is going to remember in 10 years.  

     

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
    kedavis
    @kedavis

    It’s worth noting that at the end of Deep Space Nine, the Ferengi homeworld – and Ferengi society in general – has become something of a woke paradise, with progressive income taxes, guaranteed health-care and retirement…

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