Transcribed from ep 847

“He’s doing okay… he and I hang out pretty frequently. He’s got some mobility issues and unfortunately some aphasia.”

“…But I’m over at his place every week doing readings about the Seven Years War and having fairly high level conversations with him about like the spread of global capitalism in the 18th century. Just not really in a way that is mic ready right now. We’ll see… I mean we’re working on it. We’re making a little progress every week. I see a path, I just have no idea what the timetable for any of this could be, and I don’t think he does either, so hopefully updates when we have it…”

He also said they’re putting out a book based on the Spanish Civil War episode scripts edited into a nice looking book. Limited run, with proceeds going to support Matt, his recovery, and his family. Preorder available sometime next month.

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75 points

We miss our big wet boy… and we hope he can return someday to the mic, but we understand if he can’t or doesn’t want to.

It’s incredibly sad, tragic really, that a man who relied on his speech and usage of clever words and a fast wit was struck down in this way in his prime. But, on the other hand, if you listened to Matt’s kush blogs (on YouTube btw) he talked about his health as a child and into adulthood. It sucks, but really, we got lucky to ever have this much of him. You can mourn what may never be or you can celebrate what already was. Something like that.

We got so many beautiful unhinged rants spurred on by Will’s pathological search for new and relevant reactionary opinion pieces.

Ah and who could forget the time he insisted that Iran must be given a nuke to “very serious” journalists?

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47 points

“shutupshutupSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP”

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I listened to Chapo on and off, but I’m glad I was there for that moment him and I think Virgil talked to those two liberal podcasters completely unprepared and still schooled them. That was hilarious.

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The one guy is or was an actual journalist. Not sure about the other.

Also we don’t talk about the guy from Texas 👀 memory hole memory hole memory hole

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8 points

That makes it even better lol

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSEhg-pRus

For anyone who hasn’t heard it, podcast was “Skullduggery” with Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman (Yahoo news and CBS news/Newsweek respectively)

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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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