It’s the return of Wet Blanket Skeptics in the new podcast called Wet Blank Skeptics Podcast Revisited: Errors Only. In the podcast, Harrison and Jake discuss:
3:09 The future of the podcast after being bought out by private equity
7:12 Social media and the democratization of art
20:32 A correlation between climate change and brain function
29:57 Breakfast propaganda and veganism
36:52 Are we still talking skepticism?
46:49 AI
51:17 Luigi Mangione innocent?
56:29: A complicated defense of CEOs that nobody asked for
1:00:27 Data centers
1:05:22 Gibberlink and MFSK
1:07:53 Cash usage
1:13:20 Government-built trains and economic cost vs. benefit
1:16:23 Countries leaving extreme poverty through capitalism
1:20:51 Great Leap Forward
1:28:40 Libertarianism vs anarchism
1:29:45 The function of billionaires and class
1:31:26 Elon Musk hacked an election?
1:39:04 Speed round
Watch this episode at youtube.com/wetblanketskeptics
Sources or plugs:
Bumpy Times substack
The correlation between high temperature and cognitive function: a CHARLS 2018 cross-sectional study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12243420/
Reduced cognitive function during a heat wave among residents of non-air-conditioned buildings: An observational study of young adults in the summer of 2016 https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002605
Carrie Poppy’s TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8yhaFd_GpM
Skeptics Guide to the Universe episode about Evan Bernstein: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-1094
Carl Sagan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
“Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan
https://xkcd.com/552/ (mouseover text: “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’”)
Jon Ronson Things Fell Apart podcast about abortions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5srMzfbh8E
Russ Roberts on Middle Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU2IT8rl6c
Snopes on Elon Musk hacking the elections: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-starlink-2024-election/
FactCheck.org on Elon Musk hacking the elections: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/musks-starlink-was-not-connected-to-vote-tabulation-contrary-to-online-claims/
“Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” by Daniel Dennett
Cowen’s First Law: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/04/tyler-cowens-three-laws.html
Political reality podcast and polarization: https://politicalrealitypodcast.com/videos/is-polarization-actually-a-problem-s01e05-teaser/
Planet Money How to Fix a Housing Shortage: https://podcasts.apple.com/sv/podcast/how-to-fix-a-housing-shortage/id290783428?i=1000666946695 Synecdoche, New York speech everything more complicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0
Harrison’s Taco Bell order: Cheesy bean and rice burrito, grilled, Fresco style, swap beans for black beans, add guacamole, red sauce, crispy fiesta strips, onions
Cheesy potato taco made fresco style, add guacamole
Nacho fries with guacamole
Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero
Credits:
Cartoon avatars by Tom Smith
Backgrounds by Garen Torikian
Music, SFX, Editing, Production, Artwork by Harrison
