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November 18, 2025 edition
Thanksgiving has come early! A year after bidding farewell to our much-loved/occasionally-despised podcast A Special Place In Hell, Sarah Haider joins me for a catch-up. A lot has happened in the last few weeks, not to mention the last year. We discuss the killing of Charlie Kirk, the wave of anti-Indian hate on X, the phenomenon of South Asian troll farming, the uses and abuses of AI, and, of course, the discourse around “the great feminization,” which was the entire premise of A Special Place In Hell. (Who stole our idea??) We also discuss Sarah’s new baby and whether her pregnancy was worse than my house burning down.
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Housekeeping
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