The Way Station - with Randy and William

Your more interesting friends celebrate the release of hostages and the end of hostilities in Israel.

Your more interesting friends want to build more modest castles, inspired by the epic Hearst Castle.

Your more interesting friends laugh hard at the sec def's speech.

Your more interesting friends start to turn things around.

Your more interesting friends float a new unifying rally point: No murders!

Randy has something to say. William is too angry to broadcast at this time. I'm posting below abridged comments from a friend along with my response:Anita: I listened to the podcast because I love you and wanted to hear your thoughts. Let me start by saying I think I know you well enough to say that Vous n'êtes pas Charlie Kirk (you are NOT Charlie Kirk), which is why I can easily say I love you. What happened yesterday was horrific. It was wrong. Violence against those with whom we disagree is never the answer. NEVER! ...You and I have different views on many things political. I neither love you any less nor disrespect you for your views, and I hope you would say the same of me.One thing I found disconcerting in your comments was the hinting at the idea he was murdered by someone who was a sore loser referring to Trump's re-election (my paraphrasing of your words). As of this moment, I am not aware of the shooter having been identified and therefore it is not possible to know the motive. This kind of speculation is not helpful and only serves to further stir the pot!...I am not a follower of Charlie Kirk, ...He seems like a very likable, thoughtful and charismatic person...But he also espoused some pretty horrible ideas about race, religion, etc....I'm deeply saddened by his killing....I'm deeply saddened by the lack of outrage/upset/empathy/action for the victims of school shootings and other mass shootings, the other victims of targeted political violence/murder etc.And like it or not, the president is at the top of the list of individuals who regularly fan the flames of hate. It has to stop! ALL of it. We have to learn to talk to each other and listen to each other and respect each other. ALL of us!!Love you, my friend. Be well, be safe, be at peace.Randy: Sorry it took me a minute to see your response and I'm glad its you who responded. I count you and some others who might be reading this as dear friends. I made this pod in anger so I re-listened to it in response to your thoughts and I stand by it with a few clarifications and caveats:1. When the french satire mag Charlie Hebdo was attacked, everyone lined up and and said "I am Charlie." Doing so was not an endorsement of their content but rather a rejection of the attackers. In this way, I am Charlie and by your comments, so are you.2. The losers I'm referring to are not explicitly partisans, and losing doesn't refer to an election per se. They are people who advanced really extreme culture changes without any pushback for decades and who are just now learning that we don't want their changes, and we don't accept their changes and they are losing tremendous cultural territory. They are unfamiliar with losing (or any resistance at all) and accordingly are sore losers. I wish that their numbers were so few that they were irrelevant, but for the purposes of simplicity, I'll just direct you to the horrific ghouls who are cheering the death of Charlie on the internet. It's soooo damning and so public. They still don't know that they've lost. That's what losing ugly looks like.3. I fully reject that today any blame or stink belongs on the right. Whenever the right's bad actors do something bad, they are forced to own it and that day is not today. Today, an evil person from the left did something horrible. It is the left's to own, and fix and repent for and correct, such that it never happens again.Finally, an olive branch. I believe in my good friends on the left. I need them to teach me, and lead me when I'm astray and frankly I want them as friends irrespective of politics. I think that you are such a friend. I don't think that any political ideology has a permanent cartel on truth, and I think that in the end faith in God is the only hope for a better world. I don't think that simply being on the left makes someone a loser and I look forward to the day when the left leads us triumphantly in restoring some lost good.

Your more interesting friends watch as humanity gloriously pivots.

Your more interesting friends explain how we were chased here by a man with a bayonet.

Your more interesting friends muse about spreading sunshine.

Your more interesting friends quibble about why communists can't run anything.

Your more interesting friend argue with AI.

Your more interesting friends tell you why it will be okay.

Your more interesting friends discuss people that think they are less interesting.

Your more interesting friends talk about the necessary ingredients of being deep.

Your more interesting friends and a special guest talk dissection and other rites of passage.

Your more interesting friends laugh about big headlines.

Your more interesting friends contemplate a brightening future.

Your more interesting friends contemplate an economic turn around.

Your more interesting friends argue with AI and about AI.

The Davis' say goodbye to "the bean", the red car shuttling teens for the last ten years.

Your more interesting friends plot to succeed against the odds.

You're more interesting friends think that good days are on the way.

Your more interesting friends support our new robot overlords.

Your more interesting friends debate bullying in statecraft.

Your more interesting friends geek about bout the new unity that is emerging.

Your more interesting friends give you 20% more podcast free!

Your more interesting friends pitch to rebuild the Pacific Palisades.

Your more interesting friends exult in the insanely fast social correction that is upon us.

You're more interesting friend does a fire overview.

Your more interesting friends contemplate morning in America and realize "We're morning people!"

Your more interesting friends discuss ignoring parents...hint: we're the parents.

Your more interesting friends muse about the great political snow-globe shakeup.

Your more interesting friends try to act natural while the podcasting saves the world.

Before there was a garbage truck, there were these predictions from your more interesting friends.

Your more interesting friends talk crowd momentum.

Your more interesting friends form inconsistent arguments about chasing power and beauty.

Your more interesting friends heroically swim against the social currents.

Your more interesting friends go long on the only presidential debate.

Your more interesting men reconnect with their essential manhood.

Your more interesting friends encounter moose and experience a molcajete.

Your more interesting friends go to breakfast at Bru's Wiffle in Santa Monica.

Your more interesting friends talk about skinny Venezuelans and other world issues.

Your more interesting friends ride the roller coaster of current events. And as we wrap even MORE news drops.

You're more interesting friends luxuriate in the recent court rulings.

Just when they though they were out, your more interesting friends got pulled back in!

Your more interesting friends talk recriminations.

Your more interesting friends contemplate algorithms great and small.

Your more interesting friends talk kangaroo courts and decadence. Don't be dunces people.

Your more interesting friends are conflicted about letting kids fend for themselves.

Your more interesting friends talk bananas as a lethal weapon!

Your more interesting friends bloviate on fun films that you may or may not have heard of.