In today’s episode, find cultural references that are old enough to be decidedly not-current, but not old enough to be classic. There’s a chance that it gets redeemed with some heavy philosophy in the end. It’s hard to avoid the feeling that Russ is just trolling Terry as he attempts to host a serious show.

20m 33s Mean-spirited former television host Bill O’Reilly is also a former mean-spirited radio host, having his Radio Factor show in syndication from 2002-2009. This happened to overlap with the time that Russ was spending hours a day in a car with only a radio to entertain (?) himself.

21m 55s The 2012 Obama presidential campaign took micro-targeting ads to a level that made it a business school case study.

29m 33s Facebook can’t read your thoughts…technically speaking.

38m 41s No discussion of modern news is truly complete without bringing up 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, which Terry has never seen and also he hates Star Wars.

46m 4s Is it out of touch to refer to 2017s Logan as “the most recent Xmen movie?” Actually, please don’t answer that.

57m 40s One book neither of the guys have ever read is “How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.” Poetic, really.

59m 40s If you’ve gotten this far, go read the wikipedia pages for Naval Ravikant and Nassim Nicholas Taleb