ASK A JEW: The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

Intro - Yael manages to offend our guest by mis-introducing him.

7:35 Al literature that isn't American sucks

13:00 Nick's PhD thesis, oral defense - The Great Gatsby

20:45 Immigrants - we something something done.

25:40 Famous Jewish sports legends

27:00 Thank you Dr.Gillespie. Now tell us about the time you interviewed Jason Priestly for "Teen Machine" magazine

29:00 Nick and Yael get into a heated debate over the true meaning of BDE.

30:35 Back to Teen Machine. Nick compares interviewing Corey Haim and Corey Feldman to 9/11, or something.

35:00 Mel Gibson, the world's sexiest Anti-semite

38:35 Celebrities on social media are a libertarians dream come true, and we are the next Bill Cosby

42:40 Cancel culture, and why it's the best time to be alive.

48:40 It's the golden era of individualism

51:30 Yael says something really profound about social media

54:00 Revolt of the public

56:15 Finally, the Holocaust!

58:30 Postmodernism

1:00 The culture wars

1:07:40 The Declaration of Independents

1:10 National service, military and war

1:16:50 The Holocaust again (ok fine, WWII)

1:32 The girls give Nick an off-ramp, he doesn’t take it.

1:41 Come to Nick’s event April 4th about heroin

1:46 Kids today

Chaya Leah seems to think we have the ability to add a song at the end of the podcast. We can't, so here's a link to System of A Down's BYOB.

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