The Relentless Picnic - Ep. 8 - Fight Song

Ep. 8 - Fight Song

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02/18/17 • 67 min

The Relentless Picnic

A free-form, Saul-into-Paul hour-long lightning round. With a white-knuckle tour of Mark Zuckerberg's babyteaching, shirtshooting, A.I.-in-the-home. Plus: a deep scan of Paul Ryan's cowardice and a meditation on the Court's Snuggie addict supreme, Sam Alito.

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Art as the material excrement produced when you self-transcend, selling your self in a buyer's market, 10,001 strategies for leveraging your friendship with a reclusive poet. - “The Culture of Celebrity,” Joseph Epstein (Oct. 2005): http://tws.io/2l86EaU - “Jean Cocteau, The Art of Fiction No. 34.” Interview by Joseph Fifield (1964): http://bit.ly/2m38bOV - “What Is Art?” by Leo Tolstoy (1897): http://bit.ly/2mGLZXU - “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka (1922; tr. Ian Johnston, 2009): https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm - "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges (1941): http://hispanlit.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2011/06/Borges-Pierre-Menard.pdf