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Aug 27, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Please keep writing. The only way we’re going to get out of this is by having brilliant people write about so we all know.

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My afternoon will be spent listening to the podcast. And I MUST get both of those books! Thank you!

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Aug 27, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

(Oh, another book I have to get!) Then, Amazon tells me that I bought it a few weeks after it was published. (Oh, well, then what about Evil Geniu---) Nope! You have that one too.

Kurt Anderson: another victim of my personal Kindle Black Hole! I need one of those Matrix plugs where they can just INSERT things into your brain, like how to fly a helicopter. Or maybe his books were victims of my early 2021 purge of all books having to do with politics and the United States in general. (He wrote, while in the middle of "The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.") I need help, and a team of readers!

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Oh how I enjoyed listening to this! Since the statistic of self awareness seems to be at 10-15%, we’ll need a constant reevaluation of reality…forever! You give us a generous access to your self-reflective brain 👍. The onion reference; how to we Google that? Without self-reflection, most of society can’t be aware of American selling of addiction. BUT, it’s like that latest finding that homosexuality actually strengthens the reproductive system…we can’t predict the future. Can’t believe that is reassuring to me now. I also heard the interview; w. Boehert (sp?). Am I right in kind of assuming Vanity Fair and Atlantic have assumed the NYTimes loooong, articles of the past? Full page analysis of W. Bush’s for example. That I HIGHLIGHTED and finally got my husband to be nauseated by the Republican ways? I want to subscribe to a paper copy of something but I have literally NO time. These interviews hit the mark with my questions, & energy. DYNAMITE! I think I’m over my summer collapse…. I literally could not find my “desperate to know” mode. Needed to turn it off for awhile. Thank you.

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One more comment; I don’t read for pleasure much now as I used to. Greg, what your articles and podcasts give me is a sense of that…the excitement of being able to allow a question that arises in my mind to take me somewhere in the writing or listening. I think it’s what I mean by real substance. I just finished the Great Gatsby on command from a granddaughter project. Pure pleasure. I actually look forward to your articles and interviews. There’s depth…not fakery but from your own natural curiosity. That’s what I meant by thanks for allowing us into your brain. It’s so interesting in there.

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