Podbit · We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
By 15 and a half, Rose had gone to court and legally emancipated herself — divorcing her parents to gain autonomy and the right to hold a bank account. The judge told her she'd make a fine lawyer. It was one of the very few compliments she'd ever received on her mind.
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Paul pauses the narrative to note something significant: the period Rose spent living with her mother in a small 1920s bungalow in Hollywood at 15 was, by his reckoning, the first time in her life she had experienced anything resembling a safe home. [1] — Paul C. Brunson "Felt safety for first time at 15 with mother: The first time Rose McGowan experienced a safe home environment was a 6-to-8-month period at …" 20:00 Rose agrees. She describes it as a really beautiful time — a 'brilliant' six to eight months with her mother in what was a sketchy area but a real, beautiful house. It was intimate in a way Rose had rarely experienced. Then her mother decided to return to Washington State for her youngest son and a new relationship, and the safety evaporated. There was nowhere for Rose to go back to: her father was still as he was when she had left, and she had already been exposed to the world of classic Hollywood, of fabulousness, of something that called to her. She could not return to the world she'd come from.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
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When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
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Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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