We want to take a moment to thank you and express our gratitude for your avid consumption of our busiest round of podcast releases this month.
We have now started to hit the top podcast charts (top 100, top 50, and even top 30 in some countries in the politics category!) after the release of our major episodes with Martin Kulldorff on his firing from Harvard, Tracy Beth Hoeg on her dismissal from UC Davis, and Kulvinder Kaur on her harsh legal judgment in Canada.
https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/thank-you-we-need-your-help
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........