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520 - We Went To A Zoo feat. Zack Kopplin (5/3/21)
🕑 Added 2021-05-04 03:38:03 +0000 UTCWill and Felix report from their trip to the zoo. We review the woke CIA ad, and discuss restaurants finding themselves hurting for employees when their lazy, entitled potential workers aren’t “economically coerced” to labor for “poverty wages”. We’re then joined by journalist Zack Kopplin to discuss his new piece on how corrupt mineral mining contracts have played a big part in our 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. Then, more zoos, animals & apes talk.
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Comments
PawngWater
On this whole animals are either dogs, cats, or people, I think there's a confusing case. The prairie dog, it has dog in the name, but I would definitely consider them people because of the way they act. Constantly socializing, and living in their communities, they have their problems but work it out. Definitely people.
Andrew Streets
Singapore night zoo is pretty rad... Dry boys travel special... One of the most intensively capitalistic places on the planet, it’s a trip
Tom Moll
Can we get a Patreon RSS feed for Matt and Felix's "time for my stories" ?
obsblk
I would appreciate more zoo content.
Bradley Patrick
hahah i was totally was freaked out by the whole brain is bleeding from LSD myth
mruskin
The discussion of service work was excellent—probably my favorite "serious" Chapo bit since the pandemic began. On an unrelated note, I wonder whether Will or Matt saw that Will Wilkinson published an excerpt from his unfinished novel about wonks in love (mentioned in the episode on the Niskanen Center). It's on his Substack, now unfortunately locked for subscribers only, but I got a peek at it beforehand and it was exactly as bad as it sounded. https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/americans-for-prosperity
I have never felt more seen
Nat Cohen
FYI there is one sad red panda at the brooklyn zoo, feels like one of these two zoos needs to step up and get these angels reunited
Jack Sorensen
Heyenas don’t melt steel beams
safetyconesavior
Baboons are people-dogs
Everett Woolsey
🌶 Chapo is so cool. 🌷
Lilith
So CIA lady has generalized anxiety disorder. This means that she feels really really anxious all the time but can't figure out why. As a mental health professional, I would suggest to her that it might be something to do with choosing to work for the organization that destroyed her parents country, and her mental health would probably improve if she got a more ethically defensible job.
