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Kirk Wilcox: A Pistons Fan in Los Angeles

KEY MOMENTS

0:00 – Intro: political satirist Kirk Wilcox
0:40 – Pistons jerseys and Scot Pollard's heart transplant
2:31 – From Detroit stand-up to YouTube and Twitch
3:57 – Lou's stand-up gigs and political satire career
6:29 – Marc Maron on hacky anti-woke comedy
8:20 – Maron's Theo Von bit and Trump-Hitler comparisons
13:50 – South Park and competing with funny people online
16:46 – Culture shock moving from Detroit to Los Angeles
20:53 – Is LA becoming the next Detroit?
22:52 – Life, fun, and crime in Los Angeles
27:49 – Going back to the Warped Tour
29:58 – Mosh pits and a failed crowd surf at Helmet
33:48 – Personalized Pistons and Tigers jerseys
37:06 – The 2004 Goin' to Work Pistons
41:17 – Homelessness and tents in LA
42:39 – Rebuilding after the LA fires
45:00 – Leaving New York after COVID
47:02 – Halifax, Peggy's Cove, and the hiking ban
48:59 – YIMBYs, Abundance, and CEQA reform
51:08 – Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man and the New Deal
54:48 – FDR, Japanese internment, and Hoover myths
57:51 – Wrap-up

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Kirk Wilcox, a Detroit Pistons fan in Los Angeles, joins Lou to talk about Warped Tour, the '04 "Going to Work" Pistons, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt via Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man.

We also get into whether it's tougher as an adult to wear a jersey with your own name on it, appropriating blue-collar costumes, Marc Maron's Doug Allen act, FDR stealing gold, killing pigs, and technocrat'ing with chickens, and why he still gets praise today, even though he reigned before "The Big Switch."

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