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We're a tad late in publishing this week's show, but we think it's worth it: we've got Jon Gabriel sitting in for Rob Long, the great Thomas Sowell in the first segment to discuss the reissue of his classic book Discrimination and Disparities as well as the rise of socialism, reparations, and more. Next up, the also great Andrew C. McCarthy, who stops by to discuss his famous recipe for banana pancakes. No, of course he's here to talk about the Mueller Report -- what it means, when we'll see it, how much of it we'll see, and who's going to look foolish when we do see it. Also, the media and Mueller, and no flipping -- it's another edition of What Are You Watching?
Music from this week's episode: Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley
Hosted by James Lileks, Jon Gabriel, and Peter Robinson, with guests AMAndy McCarthy and TSThomas Sowell
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And @BlueYeti this one should probably be ricochet, not smartgirl.
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@jameslileks I understand it's easy to get confused.
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also Fifth Column.
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Dr Sowell says that early-born children in general and first-born children in particular, tend to have better intellectual abilities and do better in life... I wonder if he would say that would then be an "affirmative argument" - or whatever it might be called - that black families should have fewer children, for the sake of their future generations?
Also, Peter seems to assert that because young people today can use smart-phones etc, that means THEY are smart(er). I dispute that. Lots of rather dim people do a lot of game-playing etc on their phones and home computers. And probably even the smarter ones still have no clue what's actually going on inside the phone/computer, nor do they care. Rather like being able to drive a car, versus having any idea how it works, let alone any ability to design or construct one themselves.
(The chemical engineering courses etc, often consist mostly of foreign students.)
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Peter is all excited about that show Vera, and they're on SEASON EIGHT!!!
EIGHT SEASONS????
WOW!!!
How many episodes is that, anyway?!?!?
Uh.
32.
They have FOUR episodes per "season."
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“And here’s where EJ gets in the comments...” and praises John Charles Daly.
What @jameslileks and @PeterRobinson did not mention was that Daly was a respected broadcast journalist first and foremost. During the war he was both in the field for CBS and one of the main anchors of The World Today. His voice has been used in countless documentaries as the man who informed the nation of Pearl Harbor, although that recording is a fabrication of Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly for their Hear It Now audio documentaries for Columbia Records. He was, however, the first to announce FDR’s death on CBS.
And while he was toiling away on What’s My Line on Sunday nights for CBS, he was the Vice-President of News at ABC. He anchored that network’s evening news broadcast for seven years. He actually hit the network trifecta when ABC lent him out to NBC as a fill-in host for Today.
Daly was also associated with the American Enterprise Institute as a forum moderator and in his second marriage was the son-in-law of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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