-The social sciences are finally starting to see that authoritarianism is not a synonym for "right wing." Researchers find narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy among leftwing authoritarians. Think of groups like BLM.
-There's a difference between "formal" politeness, and substantive politeness and respect. The left and the passive aggressive fetish formal politeness to smuggle in condescension, insult, and social judgment.
-Do you know you're going to die? Well, you are. Josh talks about what he learned from 20 years of helping bereaved people figure out how to bury their dead without going bankrupt.
-We have a go at that Miller Lite Commercial. Yeah, that one.
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Really appreciate you guys putting out a show on a holiday weekend. Also, if you haven’t seen it before, here’s a link to a 1992 article in *American Heritage* by novelist John Updike called “Facing Death” (https://www.americanheritage.com/facing-death). (The link is to a reprint, which does not contain photos from the original article.) The article talks about the custom in late nineteenth, early twentieth-century America of posing and photographing deceased relatives—especially children. One of many interesting tidbits I found in the article was the following: “In rural isolation, the body had to be prepared for burial by the family. The front parlor of lower-middle-class homes was devoted to funerary rites; its association with death was so strong that a deliberate fiat of Ladies’ Home Journal around 1910 renamed it ‘the living room.’”
Thanks SO much, Josh!