Boris Khaykin: My Friend, Collaborator, and Rabbi

0:00 – Intro, book news, and sponsors
1:17 – Boris Khaykin and pronouncing friends' names
3:00 – Forgetting people and a casual Memento
4:20 – Coffee, brushing your teeth, and the dentist
6:39 – Revenge fantasies and a sham Queens dentist
11:43 – Chatty dentists, conspiracies, and fluoride
14:12 – Brian Dunning versus Joe Rogan
16:34 – YouTube predator catchers and narcissism
17:40 – Lou's viral playground sketch
20:15 – People who thought it was real
23:21 – Andrew Sullivan falls for the satire
25:16 – When people miss the joke
28:11 – Filming the sketch and dark jokes in comedy
32:20 – Brandon Bassham's Troma horror movie
35:43 – Boris plays a crackhead in The First Purge
38:33 – Revenge fantasies and a social media purge
40:11 – Elon Musk buying Twitter and "free speech"
42:34 – Arguing with a real racist on Twitter
48:21 – Being called alt-right
51:11 – Boris's refugee story from Odessa
52:12 – Konstantin Kisin and context on Ukraine
53:49 – Antisemitism, corruption, and Putin's propaganda
56:00 – Fascists, nationalism, and Yuri Bezmenov
58:33 – Projecting American culture wars onto Ukraine
1:02:31 – Victory Day and why dictators are kept in the dark
1:06:22 – Russians and Ukrainians shopping at the same stores
1:08:06 – Circumcision at seven and Lou's choice for his sons
1:12:23 – Wrap-up and outro