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David Harsanyi: Eurotrash

KEY MOMENTS

0:00 – Sponsor break and Lou's book
1:17 – Intro: David Harsanyi and Eurotrash
3:38 – Joe Rogan, Spotify, and a culture of free expression
5:42 – Government pressure, censorship, and Covid failures
11:40 – Generation X and not wanting to silence anyone
14:00 – Misinformation and how to actually rebut it
16:18 – Fact-checkers and the "safe smoking kit" story
20:21 – Growing up in Queens and Long Island
22:06 – His parents' escape from communist Hungary
23:55 – Budapest's baths and anti-Semitism in Europe
27:14 – Eurotrash and America's longtime envy of Europe
29:25 – Risk-takers, assimilation, and patriotic immigrants
32:40 – Why the US is wealthier than Europe
35:40 – Europe as a museum and the lack of dynamism
37:22 – Britain, Brexit, Scotland, and the EU
40:58 – The danger of a European-style bureaucracy
43:42 – First Freedom and the cultural history of guns
45:45 – Do you own a gun? "Why do you need it?"
48:21 – Guns, self-defense, and armed bystanders
50:34 – Black Americans, the Second Amendment, and gun safety
56:12 – What's next and Lou's book on comedy
58:35 – Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Eddie Murphy
1:02:29 – Why there are so few conservative comedians
1:06:04 – The best time to be doing comedy
1:07:23 – Wrap-up

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Journalist David Harsanyi, author of Eurotrash, joins Lou to talk about why the United States is wealthier than Europe, censorship and Covid failures, his parents' escape from communist Hungary, and the cultural history of guns.

We also get into Joe Rogan and Spotify, how to actually rebut misinformation, fact-checkers and the "safe smoking kit" story, growing up in Queens and Long Island, anti-Semitism in Europe, patriotic immigrants, Europe as a museum, Brexit and the EU, his book First Freedom, Black Americans and the Second Amendment, and why there are so few conservative comedians.

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