My friend <a href="https://daveatkinson.ca/">Dave Atkinson</a> mused that an oral history of how I learned <a href="https://ruk.ca/content/things-i-learned-today-1">the things I learned the other day</a> came to be learned.

So I recorded one.

My friend Dave Atkinson mused that an oral history of how I learned the things I learned the other day came to be learned. So I recorded one.

My friend <a href="https://daveatkinson.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dave Atkinson</a> mused that an oral history of how I learned <a href="https://ruk.ca/content/things-i-learned-today-1" rel="noopener noreferrer">the things I learned the other day</a> came to be learned.

So I recorded one.

The Oral History of a Blog Post

In the season 7 episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series)">Billions</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billions_episodes#Season_7_(2023)">Original Sin</a>, political consultant Bradford Luke walks into (billionaire and possible presidential candidate) Mike Prince&#8217;s&nbsp;office:<blockquote>Prince: How do you have Leo McGarry-like walk in privileges before you&#8217;ve even taken the&nbsp;job?&nbsp;Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops&nbsp;you.&nbsp;</blockquote>The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing">The West Wing</a>&#8212;another fictional universe&#8212;where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_McGarry">Leo McGarry</a> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Bartlet">President Bartlett</a>’s Chief of Staff, and often <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBo5cY0dO8">walked in with exactly the same demeanour</a>:<video style="height:auto;max-width:100%;width:100%;" controls=""><source src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.ruk.ca/westwing_leo.mp4" type="video/mp4"><source src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.ruk.ca/westwing_leo.webm" type="video/webm"></video>I love the fiction-to-fiction reference; Billions is rife with pop culture references, to an often absurd extend, but this one I&nbsp;love.

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In the season 7 episode of Billions, Original Sin, political consultant Bradford Luke walks into (billionaire and possible presidential candidate) Mike Prince’s office:Prince: How do you have Leo McGarry-like walk in privileges before you’ve even taken the job?  Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops you. The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to The West Wing—another fictional universe—where Leo McGarry was President Bartlett’s Chief of Staff, and often walked in with exactly the same demeanour: I love the fiction-to-fiction reference; Billions is rife with pop culture references, to an often absurd extend, but this one I love.

In the season 7 episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Billions</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billions_episodes#Season_7_(2023)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Original Sin</a>, political consultant Bradford Luke walks into (billionaire and possible presidential candidate) Mike Prince’s&nbsp;office:Prince: How do you have Leo McGarry-like walk in privileges before you’ve even taken the&nbsp;job?&nbsp;Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops&nbsp;you.&nbsp;The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing" rel="noopener noreferrer">The West Wing</a>—another fictional universe—where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_McGarry" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leo McGarry</a> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Bartlet" rel="noopener noreferrer">President Bartlett</a>’s Chief of Staff, and often <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBo5cY0dO8" rel="noopener noreferrer">walked in with exactly the same demeanour</a>:I love the fiction-to-fiction reference; Billions is rife with pop culture references, to an often absurd extend, but this one I&nbsp;love.

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