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7 years ago, we snuck an AI conversation in the middle of this episode (which is otherwise about level-headed atheist redditors who think they've glimpsed the paranormal). though hype then was vanishingly small compared to today's radioactive levels, we think it still holds up. 41:44–1:10:38 here

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speaking of carter studies, this 1979 piece by @jfallows.bsky.social, Carter's former speechwriter, is essential.

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r.i.p. to jimmy c., whose unquestionable moral seriousness, when it collided with material realities of power, yielded a complicated legacy. we went through it here (alongside the philosophy of john dewey & some psycho-autobiographies of the american consumer)

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🚨🦃 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🦃🚨 it's thanksgiving, 1960. don abandons his family, but soon feels a telltale twinge in his heart. harry crane imagines small-handed artists travelling through time, betty works her analyst, and peggy seeks care for a bad sandwich. www.patreon.com/posts/116859...

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🚨🦃 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🦃🚨 it's thanksgiving, 1960. don abandons his family, but soon feels a telltale twinge in his heart. harry crane imagines small-handed artists travelling through time, betty works her analyst, and peggy seeks care for a bad sandwich. www.patreon.com/posts/116859...

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we're live in an hour, friends.

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so… what's worth doing? what's a trap to avoid? what are relevant sources of information? which ones just rob our attention? what are useful interventions? what are palliative distractions? what do we owe one another? join us LIVE, tonight at 8pm et www.patreon.com/posts/116251...

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🚨 POST-ELECTION LIVE SHOW 🚨 thursday 11/21 8pm ET on YouTube (link is up for our Patreon supporters). it's not gonna be another postmortem. we're trying to figure out an appropriate relationship to the future, and how to value our emotions. it'll be personal. and probably messy. please join us.

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🚨 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🚨 it's nixon vs. kennedy time, ft. lieutenant donald draper's young trenchmate, the optimism of the american corporation, a head-on moral dichotomy of "good" & "not good," and one slippery-as-hell gold zippo. let's get incantatory.

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we'd like to talk to you about an opportunity to live in frozen comfort. ft. the heat, another heart attack, the troubling interplay of moral rules + creative advice, a sensation that some women want to feel, & the value of a human life. it's the MAD MEN Project, back on schedule.

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well pull my boots on, and bet your eyes for elephants! let's do the numbers:

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at long last — and in emulation of the 2 weeks in '07 between the original airings of eps 9 & 10 — here's . . . 🚨 NEW MAD MEN PROJECT 🚨 ft. fast-approaching death, your dad's new girlfriend, the doucher twins, 🎶 kennedy kennedy kennedy 🎶, and a keen eye for the Jewish angle.

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Friends, as you know, eclipse madness involves severe time dilation. Thank you for bearing with us!

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I've been re-listening to the @relentlesspicnic.bsky.social episode No World, which among other topics covers how fundamentally incurious and unintelligent Musk is. Our boys had his number years before he became so unfortunately prominent in our bullshit society

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🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E9 🚨 ft. being told you're angry at your mother, the grotesqueries of fur coats, yankee stadium as emblem of death, wanting to be that girl again, & asking: what comes next? what if?

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🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E9 🚨 ft. being told you're angry at your mother, the grotesqueries of fur coats, yankee stadium as emblem of death, wanting to be that girl again, & asking: what comes next? what if? where's life being lived? betty's got a gun. www.patreon.com/posts/101683...

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🧨MAD MEN Project - S1 E8🧨 ft. hippies picking a fight, unexpected bonuses, what exactly we have to be afraid of, whether the stone that one sleeps like is a rolling stone, and the possibility of nomadic love www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...

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🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E7 🚨 ft. men parking in other men's garages, several ways to miss the mark on a home-cooked meal, a catastrophe in the bridal returns department, eating the M in mommy, and — stairs: they're a lot easier when you're going down.

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🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🫡

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The climax of revenge at the top of a skyscraper, organized like a Renaissance painting. The Nixon boys recoil with Republican hatred of the body, Burt sees little Peanut mess himself yet again, Pete is giddy at the humiliation, while Don simply overlooks his own craftsmanship.

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Don breaks the heart of one more father figure, or rather makes Dad break it for him. With his characteristic dark elegance, Don forces Roger to earn the heights that rich little Peanut was born to inherit.

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Don slurps his way to revenge on Roger. They suck back oysters and vodka. The frat house Mephistopheles has Roger exactly where he wants him.

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Pete's gun is finally out of reach and off screen. Reality displaces fantasy. Peggy is beginning to outgrow her sweaters with burgeoning maternal nourishment. But there is none for Pete. His growth will depend on self-knowledge, which brooks no dependency and offers no teat.

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Pete stalks the female sex with a boy's first rifle, (unloaded). Soon another sexually unfulfilled little boy with an equally undistinguished gun will ruin Jackie's pink dress and the 20th century.

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Pete is trapped in the exchange office and meets a self he wishes he could have been: the son his father wished he'd had. But there are no refunds for existence and it is impossible for him to be other than the man he is, so he gets a gun instead.

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Wearing the bluest of blue contact lenses, Helen Bishop is surrounded by food and surprised by sudden violence. Betty's road to freedom runs through assault, and she enforces her right to give parts of her body to strange children.

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The MacGuffin of this episode's B-plot. The tomato is a fruit and the newly-wedded Pete is given it by his wife. The male of the species predictably fumbles when presented with the feminine object and it's all he can do to convert the Edenic dip tray into a small-caliber phallus.

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The obligatory lamp. When you depict a world with ceilings, all lighting must have a rational source. The traditional high-key studio lights are banished. Even though virtually every interior is in fact a set there is always a gesture to practical lighting.

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Betty's ascent to full consciousness has a series of nightmarish midwives. In 'Red In the Face' Roger full of vodka crowds her into a perverse American two shot. Don counterattacks, defending not Betty's honor but his property.

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🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E6 🚨 ft. a basket of kisses, the prison you'd build for your lover, selling israel without judaism, remembering zion without israel, david rosenberg's kink, ethel rosenberg pink, & a bunch of new blondes in lower merion. l'chaim!

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🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E6 🚨 ft. a basket of kisses, the prison you'd build for your lover, selling israel without judaism, remembering zion without israel, david rosenberg's kink, ethel rosenberg pink, & a bunch of new blondes in lower merion. l'chaim!