David Marcus: Conservative Theater

0:00 – Intro: author and journalist David Marcus
1:04 – Argentina's third star and crying with your son
2:07 – Weeping over the 2014 World Cup final
3:10 – Watching the final with a baby in his arms
4:16 – Mexico's 1990 disqualification
5:19 – Watching a young Messi do the impossible
7:26 – The Dalai Lama, tongues, and cultural defenses
9:32 – The right way to feel about meeting a strange kid
10:33 – Drag story hour vs. just a clown with a book
12:41 – Raising little kids
14:48 – Is David a straight man or a comedian?
15:48 – The straight man's job in a sketch
17:57 – Bob Newhart returns a toupee
18:58 – When the whole room loses it
20:02 – Why every scene needs grounding
22:10 – Media Matters
24:21 – Pomegranate on a loofah
25:29 – Hiding the smoking
27:38 – Vape pens and the old days
29:52 – Surveys, marbles, and polling
30:58 – "Not just a democracy"
33:08 – Russia, Iran, and the informational lever of power
34:11 – Remembering Unsafe Space
35:11 – The CIA and disinformation
36:15 – Disinformation boards as abject madness
37:17 – TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party
39:18 – Borges, Spanish, and writing in English
41:24 – Latin vs. Saxon words in English
43:33 – Writing a book live during 2020
44:36 – What we actually went through is what matters
45:36 – The Masque of the Red Death and lasting damage
46:41 – Twenty years in theater telling stories
47:46 – "That's not my job"
48:50 – Malicious prosecutions and a banana republic
50:59 – Election season ahead and wrap-up