1090: Secret Podcast: JD Vance. Ross Douthat. 'Nuff Said.
6/20/202620 min
The Iran war deal is falling apart (already). Israel is turning on Trump. And the two most insipid trad-Cath poasters in America are podcasting together again.
Plus: JVL (finally) explains his disdain for the NYT’s DEI Trump apologist.
Read JVL's Triad newsletter: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-iran-hawks-found-a-way-to-love-surrender
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
Did you know not all batteries are the same? For example, only Duracell batteries are built different with power boost ingredients. And Duracell are the only batteries that make this sound every time you say power boost ingredients. See? Duracell batteries with power boost ingredients. You try. Duracell batteries with power boost ingredients. Told ya. Duracell batteries are built different with power boost ingredients, and they're built right here in the USA with US and global parts.
Jacob Goldstein0:28
Hey, it's Jacob Goldstein from Business History. In our new series, American Genius, we tell the stories of three great writers who changed the way business works in America. Our first episode is about Benjamin Franklin, who, among many other things, was a best-selling business writer. Take a listen. He's writing this much later in his life, consciously creating this image of himself. And I do wanna emphasize how unusual this model is at the time, this self-made man myth, because you don't wanna be self-made. It's low class to be self-made. You know, this idea that we have today is the opposite, right? And it comes from Franklin. Today there is the derisive term nepo baby.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:15
Well, exactly right, and these days if you are a billionaire, you had better have a Benjamin Franklin story about starting in a garage, coming up with the idea from nothing.
Jacob Goldstein1:26
And here is Benjamin Franklin inventing it right before our