LGBT at Work: The Supreme Court has taken three LGBT discrimination cases. It’s evidence that Derrida has won: text with no context can be twisted however you want.

Easter: The Resurrection is an historical fact. Shocking claim? Hear me out. Also: Discussion about the Shroud of Turin.

Lightning Segments: Low calorie gin and tonics, Game of Porns, Staring at a Naked Woman, Staring down NOW at the Masters (Note: I don’t say “hundreds of thousands” when referring to the men’s counter-protest at the Masters . . . I say “hundreds or thousands”).

Loan Forgiveness: Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to eliminate student debt is a moral outrage. Her plan to throw even more money at the schools further compounds the problem.

All five segments about gnosticism combined into one episode.

Tiger Woods: Congratulations to Tiger and congratulations to golf.

Tiger and the Press: Tiger the Philanderer . . . covered up by the press. A small example of a much bigger problem: the press can’t be trusted.

Insurance Rates: Your credit history has nothing to do with your driving habits? Highly unlikely, the assertion of the leftist Arab congresswoman from Detroit’s assertion to the contrary.

Twitter’s Post-Modernist Narrative: Twitter has a narrative. If your narrative disagrees with theirs, you get banned. But they assure us: they’re objective and only look at context.

A Thought Experiment: What if Google et al have been taken over by the government? There’s evidence that they’re influenced heavily by government, but what if they’re actually controlled by the government? And they’re stomping on free speech, controlling the search engine results, etc. There’s evidence that they’re beholden to government (tax breaks, etc.) and, therefore, influenced by government, but not quite controlled. But if they were . . .?

The Grand Narrative: Post-modernism loves to overthrow grand narratives. It’s a related branch of revisionist history. Some of it is is a good thing, but when they want to shift the narrative from “America is great” to “America sucks and needs to be remade,” they’re ridiculous and evil.

thism and a celebration of fatness. It’s an attempt to invert the binary. Joe Rogan helps explain it.

Time: Why is everyone so stressed for time? It’s because we’re so wealthy, there’s a ton of cool stuff to do.

Lightning Segments: Spotify music recommendations, big player on Rodeo Drive, moronic sports bars, gay admissions at the University of Michigan.

Thanks a Thousand: A.J. Jacob's’ new book about tracking down the people who make his cup of morning coffee.

Boris at the Grocery Store: A Houston grocery store blew Boris Yeltsin away. I can relate.

Lightning Segments: New drinking terms, starting mindfulness now, draining interactions.

The Freakin’ Poor: Why do we treat the poor like they have no moral agency?

Dogs: Strict liability for dog owners? I think so, even though I know it’s a quixotic crusade.

Postmodernism: That’s a pretty big umbrella of thought. Please excuse my broad—sloppy—use of the term.

Standpoint Epistemology: You know why whites can’t think like blacks, and men like women, or cis like queers? Because a Soviet philosopher told them it’s so.

Act = Brahman: Think hard about the verb “act.” It might be a word that Derrida himself couldn’t deconstruct. I’m not sure it’s defined by reference to something else. It might stand on its own, like the Hindu/Buddhist Brahman. I flush it out here.

Praxeology: That Brahman stuff is my attempt to slip some von Misesian thought into the postmoderns.

Lightning Segments: Mindfulness, drinking cities, essential oils, more.

The Stylites: Living on pillars in the late Roman Empire.

Music attribution

Theme song: Skinnin’ Lynyrd by Greg Scheske, a bespoke expert. Email him here: [email protected]

Background music for Lightning Segments is courtesy of Audionautix.

Artificial Intelligence: What it is. How it is a threat . . . or how it might be a threat.

Famine and Tyranny: Courtesy of the State. Free markets merely avoid them.

Lightning Segments: Bill Burr, Going for the Snatch, Other

Cool Dudes: Cool dudes in high school stay cool, I think.

Drinking and Lent: Why would I give up booze for Lent? It’s practically a sacramental.

Zen Lent: Do you hope to make spiritual progress during Lent? Then you won’t. Your focus is wrong because you have a focus.

Tariffs: They’re a bad thing. It’s Econ 101. I explain why here.

Lightning Segments: Two funny stories, Bill Burr and the Catholic Church, Joe Rogen and the Catholic Church

David Foster Wallace: My introduction to this brilliant essayist

The Imitation of Christ. What do I think of his classic? It’s a, you know, classic. I think it hits the psychology of devotion well . . . at least as far as 15th century standards go. It was, however, the product of 200 years of bad philosophy known as “nominalism.” I flush it out here.

Miami. I went to the Capitol of Latin America for a bachelor party. I was blown away. The bulk of the podcast explains why.