HoS: Eli Lake

04/19/24 • 27 min

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Prominent foreign policy writer Eli Lake, currently posting at The Free Press, dropped by HoS to talk basketball. I, of course, wanted to discuss Lake’s views on politics, culture and the ever fraught topic of Israel. I’m not sure which of us won the battle for topic allocation, but I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation (and I’ve made the NBA part of it free).

Subjects include, but are not limited to...

Why Eli is “my least favorite kind of intellectual”

Eli’s beloved Sixers...getting mighty intriguing?

How to fix the Warriors

Eli, much like fellow Philly Jew Spike Eskin, has issues with LeBron’s public persona.

Why LeBron vs. Daryl Morey on China turned into a crisis at my then place of work

Is Eli, post October 7th, still friendly with Glenn Greenwald?

The Zionist case for America ceasing to fund Israel’s military

Protestors who block bridges against Israeli military action...is there a logic to what they’re doing?

Are today’s protestors imitating the legend of the 60s? Or doing their own thing?

Trump at the bodega

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com

Subjects include, but are not limited to...

Why Eli is “my least favorite kind of intellectual”

Eli’s beloved Sixers...getting mighty intriguing?

How to fix the Warriors

Eli, much like fellow Philly Jew Spike Eskin, has issues with LeBron’s public persona.

Why LeBron vs. Daryl Morey on China turned into a crisis at my then place of work

Is Eli, post October 7th, still friendly with Glenn Greenwald?

The Zionist case for America ceasing to fund Israel’s military

Protestors who block bridges against Israeli military action...is there a logic to what they’re doing?

Are today’s protestors imitating the legend of the 60s? Or doing their own thing?

Trump at the bodega

Previous Episode

HoS: Andrew Bogut and Mike Procopio

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We’ve got Andrew Bogut and Mike “Pro” Procopio of the Rogue Bogues podcast to discuss the eliminated and possibly dead Golden State Warriors dynasty. Obviously we talked about a lot of other subjects with these first grade ballbusters. Topics include but aren’t limited to...

The Warriors. What should they do?

Draymond Green as player-podcaster

Did the Warriors really screw up the James Wiseman pick? Or were there just few good options?

Jontay Porter getting banned from the NBA for prop bets

The way assistant coaches scheme against one another for power

The time I got yelled at by a media member in front of Steph Curry

Players and coaches leaking secret information to reporters

Gilbert Arenas slighting Nikola Jokic

Is it an issue at all if Luka Doncic is chubby?

Pro is the King of Feminism because he was pro WNBA before it was cool

Next Episode

HoS: Jason Timpf

Jason Timpf of Hoops Tonight on the Volume Network seemingly appeared out of nowhere, thriving at the top of NBA media. Of course, like many an “overnight success story,” his rise was many years in the making. This was a great conversation wherein we discussed, among other things...

How Jason used 2020 era Twitter Spaces as the battering ram to break into media

Why Jason, as the counterpoint to Spike Eskin, loves JJ Redick

How Jason’s career was decided by Colin Cowherd’s 5 seconds of judgment

Reducing a game to a story

How much should we blame or credit luck and variance in an outcome?

Dre Greenlaw’s Super Bowl Achilles: Luck or something else?

Analytics-leaners dismiss the midrange at their peril

Steve Kerr’s secret to NBA playoff success

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