Ben Kawaller: Can We Find Common Ground?
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Ben Kawaller of The Free Press
3:26 – What are you thankful for?
6:07 – COVID, masks, and a co-op board fight
9:15 – How Lou reacted to the rejection
13:47 – Ben's interview style at The Free Press
18:25 – Drunks in recovery and getting sober
21:38 – Lou's blackout drinking years
24:38 – Drinking less in your 40s
28:20 – Psychedelics coverage and RFK Jr.
31:21 – COVID censorship, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr.
34:24 – Is X the new media?
37:45 – Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 2028?
41:10 – How Lou became a libertarian: Penn Jillette
44:26 – The non-aggression principle
47:14 – Michael Malice and anarchy as direction
50:06 – Private security in Detroit and Philadelphia
53:31 – Baseball bats and vigilantes
56:31 – Leaving team blue for The Free Press
59:51 – Does the left struggle more to talk to the right?
1:03:01 – What motivates a vote
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Ben Kawaller of The Free Press, Brooklyn Heights's finest, joins Lou to talk about whether we can find common ground, getting sober, how Lou became a libertarian, and whether the left has a harder time talking to the right.
We also get into what they're thankful for, a COVID-era co-op board fight over masks and how Lou took the rejection, Ben's interview style, Lou's blackout drinking years, drinking less in your 40s, psychedelics coverage and RFK Jr., whether X is the new media, a Kamala Harris and Tim Walz 2028 run, Penn Jillette and the non-aggression principle, private security in Detroit and Philadelphia, and what actually motivates a vote.