“Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.” Great perspective.
I loved the pop-up cubicle at Grand Central that Apple did for the second season of Severance.
Provocative from Tim Carmody: David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative filmmaker. “There is an assumption that great artists, especially subversive ones, live radical lives and embrace progressive politics. But Lynch…”
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons opens up the mailbag for the first time in 2025 and reads listener questions and submissions for new categories with Chris Ryan and Craig Horlbeck. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Video producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Good takes on some unpleasant current events, and one of the best brief eulogies for Jimmy Carter I’ve heard.
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We assess President Trump's promises on his first day back in office and what it means for the rest of the world. Also: who will govern Gaza after ceasefire and first study into how weight loss drugs affect the body.
Donald Trump returns as 47th US president.
Interesting selection of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes they’ve chosen for the homepage (PDF archive for posterity):
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
- “You must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”
- “We cannot preserve self without being concerned about preserving other selves.”
Read into those quotes what you will, given today’s other national significance. I think there’s an implied message here, but it’s subtle. I’ll pick a different quote from King, one that I believe better speaks to the current moment:
“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”
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Ähnlich wie Teil 2: wieder ganz gute Songs, mit einer unterhaltsamen uns sympathischen Geschichte. Vielleicht mehr was für junge Teenager, aber der Tochter hat's gefallen und somit hatte ich auch Spaß. :)
