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Appearances
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
Right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. It started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. It involves party strategists. It involves elected officials. It involves fundraisers.
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
And they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket. And they're having conversations about what they should do about it. Some of those conversations include, should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
Other of the conversations are about, should prominent Democrats go public? with that call because they feel this debate was so terrible.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
Twist it. This is life or death. Much better. OK. They probably all hit the lowest. Our mom loved Sugar Wright.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
I'll pull Harpoon off my back and I'll look to Tyshen and I'll say, don't let it close up.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
I cannot believe how well done these are. It's so sad.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
Yeah, yeah, that's fine. You can easily do that.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
of the woman in my shell, and feel the presence, and feel present in the ocean.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
Uh, so I guess I will, yeah, what I'll attack, I'll attack four first. Okay.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
As I'm going to look at number one and I'll say, okay, no more borders!
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
I think we had a couple wolf pels from before, did we still have that? Yeah, we did.
Legends of Avantris
Icebound | Ep. 24 | Passage of Rime
I remember they said that they were one of the clans, the hammer, frost hammer clan. But they were just one clan that was under the banner.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Fake Sports Scandal Taking Over Fox News
The reality is these men can't cut it with the other male athletes, so therefore they are coming into the female sports.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I was on it, though. I was right there on ABC. Oh, I remember. I remember.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
The airline and the golf course, the thing they have in common is that you could be having a really bad day at both. If you're playing bad on the golf course and then someone hits you in the leg with their shot that went way out of bounds and didn't yell for, yeah, you might get in a little bit of a fight over that. If you're playing really well, though, I mean, you got to let that one slide.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Instead it was witty and he was like, in a world where this man's penis is pierced with a ring.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Drive to Survive introduced people to so many characters in the world of Formula One and is the reason why a lot of Americans specifically fell in love with Formula One. And part of that is learning people's personalities and getting to know them and understand them and feel with them and laugh with them. And... Swearing is part of that, right?
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Like not having to censor yourself on camera is a thing that people consider authentic and they connect with. And I think it's one of the reasons, it's not the only reason why F1 became popular. It's not like people like Daniel Ricciardo because he swears, but I think people like Daniel Ricciardo because he's funny and that's a component of his humor.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And so these things are all sort of connected, right? Like you want these athletes to be themselves and you want to feel like you know them. And when you're getting a sanitized version of who they are, it can probably, you know, turn people off and also sort of fly in the face of what's made this sport really interesting in the last five years to its newest fans.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Yeah, this show, unlike the rest of America, still believes in science, Pablo. We reached out to a linguist and a professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. His name is Dr. Ben Bergen to talk about the science behind swearing. And so we talked to Dr. Ben Bergen, who is the author of What the F? What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Our Cells, a great title of a book.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And we asked him about swearing's physical impact on the body.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
It can increase your pain tolerance. It's like they did like the Gam Jabbar test in Dune and let people swear. And the people that swore were like, we're good. And the people who were like, fear is the mind killer, they were actually not so good.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Yeah, he's saying that swearing releases adrenaline. And adrenaline is this hormone that your body releases in these types of situations. And it causes an increase of blood flow to your extremities. It increases your pupil dilations. These are things that could advantage drivers during races. And the more adrenaline you have in your body, the more you might swear.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
if you've ever been in a high stress situation, you probably are familiar with the feeling of that situation ending, but you still have like the same amount of adrenaline coursing through you. You don't just get to flip a switch and all of a sudden you're just not stressed anymore.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
When I walk out of the Levitard Show studio after four hours of stress and adrenaline and anxiety, Pablo, I don't immediately take a nap. I go for a walk for a couple hours and let it burn off me. And then I take a nap. This is the same if you're an F1 driver.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
He's too tall though. I think he's too tall. Is he too tall? George Russell is the only real tall guy.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I think he's like 5'11". 5'8".
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Ricardo's probably like 5'11".
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Yes, he is tall. So he would be on the taller end, but from a frame standpoint, like his physical frame, I do think he could be okay. I took a photo.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
These are mostly young guys in their 20s.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
The chalamet of it all is that they're young dudes and they grew up, a lot of them, sim racing, gaming, online, a traditional place where you're not really censoring yourself a lot of the time. Like... Max Verstappen is a full-time sim racer and a part-time Formula One driver. So he grew up on the internet sim racing.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
The larger gaming culture may have an impact on the amount of profanity and sort of the desensitization for some people to swear more.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I was going to say my grandma's house. My grandma's car. My grandma's phone. She actually was the first person to text me. I love that you called Levitard a p***y. Wow. To your point about why the FIA is doing this, Pablo, I still don't know.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I think that there's a larger conversation at play here between the FIA and the Formula One relationship and how much the FIA is trying to impinge itself upon that relationship and enforce rules. And declare its power. And I think there's, you know, a very obvious pushback from Formula One. There's been some really high profile FIA resignations in the last few months.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
There's been a lot of scandals around the FIA and things like this, but also things involving racing regulations and the things that actually determine the fairness and the outcomes of races that drivers really don't like. So this is really just one thing in a long string of very unpopular FIA rules that drivers are not happy about.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I would pretend I've never met this person, I don't know this person, and just, like Pablo said, drive to the nearest halfway station or whatever and pretend I have to go to the bathroom.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
That wasn't an eye roll. Yeah, it was an eye roll. It was—
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I hope they're not. I like playing by myself. It's great.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
First of all, that's trademarked. So you can't use that. Second of all... Thank you. Legendary turn for you. I mean, I guess it was Jim. So Jim and Derry turn for you.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Becoming less hated on the show. I think that it's not just the fact that, you know, it's not the dream to sit in the chair, right? The dream is to sit in the chair, but to get invited back.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
There's some several hundred comment-long Reddit threads of feedback that I could show you about my performance.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
That's a really good idea, Pablo, if someone were to do that.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
But one of them's not a playoff team.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Each other. See you there, idiot.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I was just there for the Orange Bowl. I don't need to go back.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I found out that Daniel Ricardo was saying the C word, not c**ks. Because in my notes, I had written down c**k, but he was saying a different C word.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
It was a good thing to clarify.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I was just giving him the benefit of the doubt. I was like, he was saying penises there. Like, it wasn't the super Aussie C word that we can't say on camera.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Speaking of the Orange Bowl, I did get the oranges. So just to close the loop on that.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
FIA, the governing body of Formula One, has decided recently a battle that they want to pick in Formula One is that they do not want swearing to happen, specifically in post-race interviews, but more vaguely in general around Formula One races. And they want their drivers to clean up their acts, basically, to stop swearing on camera.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
As Kevin said, swearing seems like it's part of driving, right? The famous expression is, rubbing people the wrong way is racing. That's what you always hear drivers say. So I was really surprised when the FIA, thanks for the chocolate, Kevin, decided to... No, I got what you were doing.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
He had to serve community service. And he ended up serving community service, I think, in Rwanda around the time of the F1 awards at the end of the season. Yeah.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And then a month later, Charles Leclerc, a driver for Ferrari, also drops an F-bomb in a post-race interview and immediately realizes his mistake.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
He was fined. He was killed. He was fined 10,000 euros. He was caned.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Oh, as a 10-year-old for Charlotte Clare. Right. Which is, like, Kevin can speak to this also. The FIA and the way that they hand down punishments in races, but also outside of races, it's wildly varied. Wildly varied.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
There's no chart where you can look up, like, oh, this person is getting a penalty for overtaking when they weren't supposed to, or this person gets a penalty for this thing, or for their, you know, speeding in the pit lane. This is what it equals. Like, it really is wildly varied.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And this is just another example of, like, you don't really exactly know what your punishment's going to be sometimes in F1.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
To your point, Pablo, the in race audio communications between the drivers and their race engineers is something that to me is so vital as a fan. there have been some extremely memorable moments that have come out of it, both funny, both interesting. There's been things that you've learned throughout the race.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
If a driver is concerned about their tire temperature, or they have an issue with their car, or famously, a couple of weeks ago, Charles Leclerc said to his audio engineer, the same Ferrari driver we just heard from, there's something wet on my seat. I think there's water on my seat.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And his engineer said back, must be the water.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
I don't think he thought he pissed himself, but I guess we won't really ever know. And then in March, we should clarify, the FIA was like, no, this doesn't include in race communications. But that was already after there had been such a huge reaction to people thinking it was.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
So it's again, like just apparently they're not going to be worried about that right now, but they obviously can change their minds and decide that that's not the case if they feel like it, which again, makes drivers sort of anxious and scared and confused.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
That's, I think, ultimately the question, right? It's like, why are they doing this? And to your point about the NBA dress code, there were some very pointed comments made by the head of the FIA, Mohammed bin Salayem, about not wanting drivers to be like rappers.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And Lewis Hamilton, who is the only black F1 driver, one of the best drivers of all time in Formula One, came forward and said, hey, man, it feels like you're making a pretty like obviously racially coded commentary there about not wanting your sport to seem black when you're using the term rapper. So that's ultimately the question. Why are they doing this?
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
And there was also another incident where there was an attempted jewelry ban a few years ago. And Lewis came to his press conference at the Miami Grand Prix that week with three watches on, tons of rings and all this jewelry on just to prove a point.
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Share & Swear & Tell with Jessica Smetana and Kevin Clark
Lewis Hamilton himself joked that he had a piercing because he has a nose ring, and he was saying that there was a piercing other than his nose ring that he couldn't take out, that people can't see. And it was a joke, but for a very long time, many of us believed it was not a joke.
Still My Baby
Welcome to the World, Mike Mike
There is growing outrage tonight after an unarmed African-American teenager was shot and killed by police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. Police in riot gear used tear gas and beanbag rounds to disperse crowds.
Still My Baby
Welcome to the World, Mike Mike
I've been knowing Leslie now about 17, 18 years. She's everything. She's a go-getter. She loves people and willing to help anybody. Leslie would do anything for you. We loved her. And the customers really loved her.
Still My Baby
Welcome to the World, Mike Mike
She wanted to make sure that they had what she didn't have. She juggled them, baby. She did her thing single parent. I give it to her. I got a lot of respect for her. Taking care of your kids, raising kids ain't no joke. Mike the daddy, I never knew him. It was always her. She would go out of her way. I just admired her because she tried so hard.
Still My Baby
Welcome to the World, Mike Mike
I told her, you're going to have to stop catching cats home. $25 going and $25 coming. You can't do that, Leslie. A single parent trying to make it. So I would pick her up, take her, you know, when I wasn't working, I'd go get her. She didn't want me to do that. Don't do that, Mom. I'm all right. I got a way, you know. But that was just Leslie.
Still My Baby
Welcome to the World, Mike Mike
When Louis started at the job, he was in maintenance. I never knew that, you know, they were really seeing each other. I said, uh-huh, you liking him? And I used to miss him. With Louis, how about you? You liking her, too? Mm-hmm. And they got, they hooked up.