Okay, I don't want to do a whole 'STRAP IN YOU COCK-HOLSTERS AND TAKE A BIG SIP OF COVFEFE BECAUSE THIS IS A THREAD' thing, but the #TrumpTaxReturns, #TrumpIsBroke thing is stupid and annoying, so here it goes: (1/whatever) This is Robert Trump, Trump's younger brother who died recently. He's normal, right? Regular hair, no fake tan- oh and did you know he was on the board of the company that owns Bethesda, who published the Wolfenstein games?

NEW EPISODE: A solo episode! Langdon launches a new subseries where he works through all of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's books in chronological order starting (of course) with his debut, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982) soundcloud.com/death-sentence… this is covered in the episode proper, but our current setup has recording every other work for a variety of scheduling reasons, but the show had always been a weekly. these shorter solo episodes are a way to bridge that gap

IMPORTANT STUFF: You've probably noticed that we haven't put out any episode's lately. That's all been on me (@GarethLWatkins1) having kind of a rough time lately, but also diving deep into some new writing projects. I've spoken to Langdon and we've decided that I'll take a backseat for the time being and he'll take over the running of the show, probably with a new co-host or two.

Re: the Dominic Cummings thing, I worry that 'but he broke the ruuuuules' is going to reinforce the existing perception of the Left as busybody hall monitors when we should be emphasizing how we're the only side of the political spectrum who can talk about freedom. The postmodern right has done really well by offering people carte blanche to break rules, and if Cummings is smart he'll appeal to that impulse. "Wouldn't you do anything, even break the law, for your family? When you think about it I'm like the Taken guy" etc.

1) If you want us to guests on or help out your podcast we'll probably say yes.

2) Don't know how to start a podcast? Here's how: You'll need a microphone. Your phone will actually work surprisingly well for this, but if you're thinking of doing it regularly many people get a Blue Yeti USB mic- personally, if I was starting over I'd get a Samson Q2U: amazon.co.uk/Samson-SAQ2U-M…

Re: Gove’s bookcase. As somebody who spent a long time researching Nazis the whole ‘I read David Irving to understand the enemy’ thing rings hollow. You already understand David Irving because he believes things that a lot of people believe, but with a superficial gloss over it. Everyone’s encountered some undergrad who thought they could be interesting by being a Holocaust denier, or something equivalent, Irving just decided that there was money and clout in writing books about the cyanide in gas chambers being from paint.

Okay, so how would a large-scale quarantine work? Say if 25% of the population had to self isolate.
Some people could continue to work from home and order food to be delivered, but they'd be in the minority. If you're not a white-collar office worker then you can't work... Which means that if you don't have savings (which many people don't) then you can't pay your rent/mortgage, bills or for food. Where's that money going to come from? If it's from the government, then how can people apply for it? Should it be a universal benefit or means-tested?

I am listening to the debut novel by Bobby Hall aka also known as Logic. Ten minutes in and the protagonist has met a sassy black woman named Rhonda who called him 'chile'. Bobby Hall aka also known as Logic is reading his book and does the voice.