Pure Conjecture

By James McCarrick

Life long millennial friends talking politics. Also, occasional rants about random shit because apparently ADHD is a thing.

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Pure Conjecture episodes:

March 14, 2022 S3 Ep2 - Russian invasion of Ukraine, The right going after more rights, Will (not Jim) makes a bad analogy. Also Jim makes a bad analogy.
Hannity tries to get Trump to bash Putin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/11/sean-hannitys-remarkable-failed-attempts-get-trump-call-putin-evil/
Florida going full facist
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/florida-lt-governor-goes-facist-disney?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=57528
Texas loves attacking Minorities
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/08/paxton-transgender-child-abuse/
The pros of Nazism should be discussed
https://popular.info/p/update-indianas-anti-crt-bill-defeated?s=r
WW2 defenses revived from museums
https://www.museumnext.com/article/anti-tank-hedgehogs-from-ww2-taken-from-museum-used-as-barricade-in-kyiv/
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1h 30min
January 31, 2022 S3 Ep1 - Wheel of Time season 1 re-cap w/ special guest Mr. James Dowd
We talk about Wheel of time season 1 and James corrects all the things we remembered wrong.
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1h 22min
January 05, 2022 S2 Ep30 - The group reviews 2021
Personal moments
Resolutions
Some politics because of course
Recap some highlights from the year
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1h 38min
December 14, 2021 S2 Ep29 - The group talks about the Wheel of Time series on Amazon Prime adapted from the 15 book series.
https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/A_beginning
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1h 25min
November 01, 2021 S2 Ep28 - Biden's getting 1.7T bill is looking good. Cops trained to fear traffic stops. Milennials can't understand GenZ workforce. Facebook going meta.
Biden 1.75T bill - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/budget-reconciliation-bill-build-back-better-act/

Traffic stops - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-traffic-stops-killings.html?referringSource=articleShare

Next generation of workers - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/business/gen-z-workplace-culture.html

Antiwork Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/

Facebook going meta - https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1453844273489747972

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2h 1min
November 01, 2021 S2 Ep27 - Trump tells voters to skip the polls. Tucker feigns ignorance COVID. The pope goes (almost) full socialist. Youtube gets spotlight on misinformation.
Trump Polls - https://www.newsweek.com/maga-supporters-confused-donald-trump-vote-2024-election-qanon-midterms-1639286
Tuck

Carlson - Tucker Carlson Suddenly Clams Up When Asked About Fox News Vax Policy

Papal address - https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2021/documents/20211016-videomessaggio-movimentipopolari.html

Youtube - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/technology/distortions-youtube-policies.html
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1h 19min
October 13, 2021 S2 Ep27 - The rich are getting richer. Plot to sell submarine plans via peanut butter sandwich foiled. Trump was afraid of Pence, wanted to keep party going on Jan 6th. Jim and Will take the NYTimes
1% - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/top-1-of-u-s-earners-now-hold-more-wealth-than-all-of-the-middle-class/ar-AAPhNyL

McConnel Debt Ceiling - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/mcconnell-biden-debt-ceiling.html?referringSource=articleShare

Sub Plans - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/navy-nuclear-engineer-and-his-wife-char[…]021/10/10/c461aff2-29d9-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html

Facebook goes down - https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/when-facebook-went-down-this-week-traffic-to-news-sites-went-up/

Trump Colonoscopy -- https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/scope-ego-trump-colonoscopy-515444

Trump Jan 6th - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-boasted-crowd-size-jan-riot-book/story?id=80504801

Ivanka World Bank - https://theintercept.com/2021/10/10/ivanka-trump-steven-mnuchin-world-bank/

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1h 32min
October 04, 2021 S2 Ep26 - Brian, Will, and Jim take the NYTimes quiz again. COVID sucks, but there is some good news. Jim is confused by Sinema's obvious corruption. Fat Bear Week makes the world a better place.
NY Times Quiz - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/01/briefing/news-quiz-biden-spending-bill-british-gas-james-bond.html

Fat Bear Week - https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
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54min
September 29, 2021 S2 Ep25 - Brian, Will, and Jim take the NYTimes quiz. No more horses at the borders. Smokey was wrong, apparently goats can help too. US diplomats getting poisoned? Will knows too much about Korea
NYTimes quiz - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/24/briefing/news-quiz-evergrande-united-nations-tony-awards.html

Border Crisis - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-border-patrol-migrants-b1927166.html

Goat lawncare - https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/19/multimedia/News-quiz-goats/19weekend-brf-goats-superJumbo.jpg
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1h 17min
September 20, 2021 S2 Ep24 - End of lithium batteries? France being french. Apple/Google & Putin. California special election. Are AI helpers a good thing? Jim and Will take the NYTimes quiz.
Sodium ION batteries - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-13/the-next-best-electric-car-battery-is-here-and-it-s-sodium-ion-based?srnd=opinion&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=view&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view

French subs - https://www.npr.org/2021/09/19/1038746061/submarine-deal-us-uk-australia-france

Apple/Google/Putin - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/world/europe/russia-navalny-app-election.html

Facebook organ sales - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953

Mississippi Gov - https://twitter.com/cnnsotu/status/1439587809124360198?s=10

MTG - https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1439491101589655553

AOC - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-AOC-dress.html

California Special Election - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/larry-elder-says-detected-fraud-in-california-recall-vote-results-which-dont-yet-exist.html

Accountants in Treasury - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/business/accounting-firms-tax-loopholes-government.html

NY Times quiz - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/17/briefing/news-quiz-newsom-recall-norm-macdonald.html
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1h 35min

FAQs about Pure Conjecture:

How many episodes does Pure Conjecture have?

The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.