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City of Lakes

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We don't tend to do location work on this show, but when a major news event happens in the city where one of our hosts live, we get a up-close and personal view. And when that host is James Lileks and Minneapolis, the amount of detail, insight, and thoughtfulness could fill a dozen podcasts. James describes what the last few days have been like, and where he thinks his city is heading. But that's not all we've got for you. We've got the NYT's Bari Weiss on Joe Rogan, podcasting, and why our medium in now a major media platform (it's very meta conversation). Then, obscure law professor and fast food aficionado John Yoo stops by to school us on platforms versus publishers (guess what Ricochet is?), that pesky section 230, and why Twitter probably should not be fact checking the President.

Music from this week's show: My City of Ruins by Bruce Springsteen

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
Bari WeissJYJohn Yoo

Discussion (71)

  • kedavis@kedavis

    I think Bari Weiss misrepresented or at least mis-stated the conservative position - and Trump's position, for that matter - on something like Section 230. The issue is not wanting "increased (government) regulation" in a way it's just the opposite: Section 230 is in effect "regulation" that protects businesses like Twitter from being responsible for their behavior. So eliminating or at least "reforming" Section 230 is DE-regulation.

  • kedavis@kedavis

    And I think Rob mis-interprets the relative audiences of Joe Rogan and "Morning" Joe. The nearly 200 million downloads of Joe Rogan per month, are not of a single "show." And they're not 200 million different people. That number could even be multiplying people who listen to part of a "show" on their phone, another part in their car, another part at home...

    But at minimum, if Joe Rogan has X "shows" per month, then to arrive at 200 million total, that means each "show" is downloaded about 200,000,000/X times.

    Meanwhile, if "Morning" Joe has an audience of 10 million, that's 10 million PER SHOW. And the overall number could be higher, with people coming in and going out during the course of a show. If there are at least 20 weekdays per month, at 10 million per, that's also 200 million total "downloads" for "Morning" Joe, per month.

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