Miles Taylor
speaker
458 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 May
Miles Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And unfortunately, when I say that, student groups are like, who's Jerry Seinfeld?
But Jerry Seinfeld used to make this joke.
He would open sets and he would say, you know, a survey came out of Americans top 10 fears.
And number one on the list is public speaking.
And number two is death.
So your average American would rather be sitting in the casket than delivering the eulogy.
And, you know, Jerry Seinfeld would get laughs when he would do that joke, but there's a truth.
People would rather be caught laying down in the casket than up there at the podium, speaking out, telling the truth.
That has been consistent throughout history.
And there's one way to get over it, Jennifer.
There is only one way, which is you got to increase the supply of people speaking out to lower that price of dissent.
It's
Econ 101.
In econ, anytime something's too expensive in a marketplace, so if the price of dissent is too high, if dissenting like I did means your wife and your 18 month old daughter are going to get threatened with shooting in a firing squad and hanging,
which members of my family have been threatened with, the only way to make that price lower so that doesn't happen to more people is you've got to increase the supply.
And then the price goes down.
And I will say, closing on an optimistic note, that is happening in this country.
A year ago, I would not have said there was a defiance with a backbone in the United States of America.
Left and right institutions and people were capitulating, cowering, and bowing down to the leader.
That is not happening now.
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