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David Levine's avatar

Thanks for the temperature check- it's a feature now. So sorry about your dog Stephen.

Thank you for interviewing Ben. Been watching him plainly serve up truth for years and it's such a thrill to see MeidasTouch blowing up. Well deserved recognition.

This "gamification" is the zero sum thrust of Trump's Total Distraction Theater. "So much winning" drives the chaos. Every day new losers are eliminated. Let's call it ultrabinarianism, with the spectacle of contest keeping the divisions sharp and freshly bleeding. Ugh.

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Maddy Groves's avatar

Listening to the podcast while walking, I kept thinking you were saying "My Solace"....Anyway, I love the verbal dance you and Stephen do together. I have also envied my dogs for not having to care about the republic. As a Gen-Xer who grew up gay in Northern Virginia and was expected to go to UVA, I REMEMBER being told about the blue-jeans-day thing! I shrugged it off until I went to visit the campus as a high school junior and being warned by a sophomore from Long Island that it was a "homogeneous" campus...I didn't end up going there. Too bad! Maybe we would have been friends.

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Virginia Heffernan's avatar

We absolutely would have. Sat around smoking in jeans and not joined a sorority. Thanks for writing.

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Ken1's avatar

Excellent show, Virginia! I love Ben and his MeidasTouch YouTube channel — I've been supporting them from the beginning.

As for the 'pointy heads' being villainized, I suppose RFK Jr. is the ultimate example with his disrespect for medical doctors. This is the quality of the people we now have in the cabinet.

If we live through this, I'll never worry about our Republic again!

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